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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Statements (78)

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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Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.

British literature hasPart Victorian literature
Alfred, Lord Tennyson's poem "Guinevere" literaryMovement Victorian literature
subject surface form: Guinevere (poem)
memoirs of Anna Leonowens literaryMovement Victorian literature
subject surface form: Memoirs of Anna Leonowens
Tweedledum literaryMovement Victorian literature
Charles Egremont literaryPeriod Victorian literature
Lady Marney literaryPeriod Victorian literature
Devilsdust literaryPeriod Victorian literature
Oliver Twist literaryMovement Victorian literature
Jabberwock literaryMovement Victorian literature
Uriah Heep literaryPeriod Victorian literature
Betsey Trotwood literaryPeriod Victorian literature
Marcus Clarke literaryMovement Victorian literature
Sybil Gerard literaryPeriod Victorian literature
Richard Doddridge Blackmore movement Victorian literature
Lorna Doone literaryPeriod Victorian literature
Sarah Austin movement Victorian literature
Jennifer Ehle as Christabel LaMotte literaryStyle Victorian literature
this entity surface form: Victorian poetry
Roland Michell literaryMovementContext Victorian literature
this entity surface form: Victorian literature (as field of study)
Gabriel John Utterson literaryPeriod Victorian literature
Colonel Creighton literaryPeriod Victorian literature
Daniel Dravot literaryPeriod Victorian literature
Grace Poole literaryPeriod Victorian literature
Lowood School literaryPeriod Victorian literature
Cecily Cardew literaryPeriod Victorian literature
Hester Worsley literaryPeriod Victorian literature
Lady Hunstanton literaryPeriod Victorian literature
Mr. Hiram B. Otis literaryPeriod Victorian literature
The Devoted Friend literaryPeriod Victorian literature
The Remarkable Rocket literaryPeriod Victorian literature
The Sphinx Without a Secret literaryPeriod Victorian literature
Greek Studies literaryPeriod Victorian literature
Mary Morstan literaryPeriod Victorian literature
Adèle Varens literaryPeriod Victorian literature
Doctor Thorne (character) literaryPeriod Victorian literature
subject surface form: Doctor Thorne
Mrs Cheveley literaryPeriod Victorian literature
Mariana (poem) literaryPeriod Victorian literature
The Victories of Love literaryPeriod Victorian literature
Linton Heathcliff literaryPeriod Victorian literature
Cathy literaryPeriod Victorian literature
subject surface form: Cathy Earnshaw
the wild moors literaryPeriod Victorian literature
Catherine Linton literaryPeriod Victorian literature
The Haystack in the Floods literaryPeriod Victorian literature
Golden Wings literaryPeriod Victorian literature
The Tune of Seven Towers literaryPeriod Victorian literature
The Wind literaryPeriod Victorian literature
Shameful Death literaryPeriod Victorian literature
The Chapel in Lyoness literaryPeriod Victorian literature
Summer Dawn literaryPeriod Victorian literature
Two Red Roses Across the Moon literaryPeriod Victorian literature