Victorian literature

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Victorian literature refers to the body of English writing produced during Queen Victoria’s reign (1837–1901), characterized by social realism, moral concern, and the exploration of rapid industrial and scientific change.

All labels observed (4)

Label Occurrences
Victorian literature canonical 351
Victorian poetry 12
Victorian realism 4

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Predicate Object
instanceOf English literature movement
literary period
country United Kingdom
endTime 1901
followedBy Modernist literature
follows Romantic literature
hasCharacteristic attention to class conflict
complex narrative structures
concern with gender roles
didacticism
engagement with industrialization
engagement with scientific progress
interest in empire and colonialism
interest in social reform
melodrama
moral concern
realist description of everyday life
religious doubt and crisis of faith
sentimentalism
serial publication format
social realism
hasGenre Gothic fiction
adventure fiction
children's literature
detective fiction
drama
essay
historical novel
novel
poetry
religious tract
sensation fiction
short story
social problem novel
hasNotableAuthor Alfred, Lord Tennyson
surface form: Alfred Tennyson

Anne Brontë
Anthony Trollope
Charles Dickens
Charlotte Brontë
Christina Rossetti
Elizabeth Gaskell
Emily Brontë
George Eliot
George Meredith
Herbert George Wells
surface form: H. G. Wells

Lewis Carroll
Matthew Arnold
Oscar Wilde
Robert Browning
Robert Louis Stevenson
Rudyard Kipling
Thomas Hardy
Wilkie Collins
William Makepeace Thackeray
hasNotableMovement Aestheticism
Decadentism
surface form: Decadent movement

Anglo-Catholicism
surface form: Oxford Movement

Pre-Raphaelite art
surface form: Pre-Raphaelite movement
influenced Edwardian literature
Modernism
surface form: Modernist literature
influencedBy British Empire expansion
Darwinism
Evangelicalism
Industrial Revolution
utilitarianism
language English
namedAfter Queen Victoria
periodOf Alice’s Adventures in Wonderland
surface form: Alice's Adventures in Wonderland

Great Expectations
Jane Eyre
Middlemarch
Tess
surface form: Tess of the d'Urbervilles

The Picture of Dorian Gray
Strange Case of Dr Jekyll and Mr Hyde
surface form: The Strange Case of Dr Jekyll and Mr Hyde

The Time Machine
Vanity Fair
Wuthering Heights
startTime 1837

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The Mad Hatter literaryMovement Victorian literature
William Makepeace Thackeray movement Victorian literature
Lake Poets influenced Victorian literature
this entity surface form: Victorian poetry
Gerard Manley Hopkins movement Victorian literature
this entity surface form: Victorian poetry
Matthew Arnold movement Victorian literature
The Rime of the Ancient Mariner influenced Victorian literature
Francis Thompson (English poet) movement Victorian literature
subject surface form: Francis Thompson
Sara Coleridge movement Victorian literature
poem "Gunga Din" by Rudyard Kipling literaryPeriod Victorian literature
subject surface form: Gunga Din
Lady Glencora Palliser literaryPeriod Victorian literature
Hispaniola (ship) literaryPeriod Victorian literature
Barnaby Rudge literaryMovement Victorian literature
Carlyle movement Victorian literature
subject surface form: Thomas Carlyle
Jane Welsh Carlyle movement Victorian literature
Shelley circle influenced Victorian literature
Mr. Rochester literaryMovement Victorian literature
Frank Gresham literaryPeriod Victorian literature
Coventry Patmore movement Victorian literature
Heathcliff literaryPeriod Victorian literature
Cathy Earnshaw literaryMovement Victorian literature
Hopes and Fears for Art literaryPeriod Victorian literature
Through the Looking-Glass literaryMovement Victorian literature
Felix Graham literaryPeriod Victorian literature
Mariana in the South hasLiterarySource Victorian literature
this entity surface form: Victorian poetry
Priscilla Stanbury literaryMovement Victorian literature
Madeline Neroni literaryPeriod Victorian literature
Nora Rowley literaryPeriod Victorian literature
Madcap Violet literaryMovement Victorian literature
Sunrise literaryMovement Victorian literature
"The Lady of Shalott" (poem) literaryPeriod Victorian literature
subject surface form: The Lady of Shalott
The House of Life literaryPeriod Victorian literature
The Jungle Book by Rudyard Kipling literaryPeriod Victorian literature
subject surface form: The Jungle Book
Mowgli literaryPeriod Victorian literature
Isabella Linton literaryPeriod Victorian literature
Villette literaryPeriod Victorian literature
Branwell Brontë movement Victorian literature
St. John Rivers literaryPeriod Victorian literature
Brontë associatedWith Victorian literature
Little Lord Fauntleroy literaryPeriod Victorian literature
Anne Brontë movement Victorian literature
Dorian Gray literaryPeriod Victorian literature
Jonathan Harker literaryPeriod Victorian literature
Abraham Van Helsing literaryPeriod Victorian literature
Le Fanu movement Victorian literature
subject surface form: Sheridan Le Fanu
Uncle Silas literaryPeriod Victorian literature
Green Tea literaryMovement Victorian literature
Earl of Dorincourt literaryPeriod Victorian literature