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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this entity surface form: Victorian realism
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Money literaryMovement Victorian literature
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Owen Meredith movement Victorian literature
subject surface form: Edward Robert Bulwer-Lytton
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A Tale of Two Cities literaryMovement Victorian literature
Hard Times literaryMovement Victorian literature
Little Dorrit literaryPeriod Victorian literature
The Pickwick Papers literaryPeriod Victorian literature
Ulysses genre Victorian literature
subject surface form: Ulysses (poem)
this entity surface form: Victorian poetry
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Locksley Hall movement Victorian literature
this entity surface form: Victorian poetry
Somersby, Lincolnshire, England associatedWith Victorian literature
this entity surface form: Victorian poetry
Emily Tennyson associatedWith Victorian literature
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If— literaryMovement Victorian literature
Tom Brown's Schooldays literaryMovement Victorian literature
Two Years Ago literaryMovement Victorian literature
Rabbi Ben Ezra literaryMovement Victorian literature
this entity surface form: Victorian poetry
Men and Women literaryMovement Victorian literature
Dramatis Personae literaryPeriod Victorian literature
Dramatic Lyrics literaryPeriod Victorian literature
Dramatic Romances and Lyrics literaryMovement Victorian literature
this entity surface form: Victorian poetry
Pippa Passes literaryPeriod Victorian literature
Paracelsus literaryPeriod Victorian literature
subject surface form: Paracelsus (poem)
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Sordello literaryMovement Victorian literature
this entity surface form: Victorian poetry
Sylvie and Bruno literaryPeriod Victorian literature
Charles Tennyson Turner literaryMovement Victorian literature
this entity surface form: Victorian poetry
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Sonnets from the Portuguese movement Victorian literature
this entity surface form: Victorian poetry
Elizabeth movement Victorian literature
subject surface form: Elizabeth Barrett Browning
Tom Tulliver literaryPeriod Victorian literature
Maggie Tulliver is Tom Tulliver's sister literaryMovement Victorian literature
subject surface form: Maggie Tulliver
this entity surface form: Victorian realism
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Mary Garth literaryPeriod Victorian literature
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Tito Melema literaryPeriod Victorian literature
Gwendolen Harleth literaryMovement Victorian literature
this entity surface form: Victorian realism
Edmund Clarence Stedman movement Victorian literature
Philip Wakem literaryPeriod Victorian literature
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