presentation on the Victorian age

1. History of Victorian Age
(1832-1887)
Prepared By
Vaishali Jasoliya
Nidhi Jasani (Sem-2)

2. Queen Victoria and the
Victorian Temper
• Ruled England from
1837-1901
• The Victorian period
was an age of transition
• Exemplifies Victorian
qualities:
earnestness, moral
responsibility, domestic
propriety

3. The Reform Bill of 1832
• Transformed English
class structure
• Extended the right to
vote to all males owning
property
• Second Reform Bill
passed in 1867
• Extended the right to
vote to working class

4. Major Events of the Victorian Era
• A huge growth in population.
• Improvements in technology.
• Changing world views.
• Poor conditions for the working class.

5. Literary characteristics
(1). Prose and novel
• Prose and Novel is more
popular than the other
forms in Victorian
Literature.
(2). Moral Purpose
• Moral purpose is more
important than esthetic
delight in Victorian
literature.

6. (3). Literature of
Realism
• In Victorian Literature we
found realism rather than
Romance.
• Real Character
(4). Pessimism
• Pessimism, despair runs
through Victorian Literature
and is noticed especially in
the poetry of Matthew
Arnold.

7. (5). Patriotism
• Patriotism runs through Victorian Literature. Tennyson,
Dickens and Disraeli are inspired by a national pride and a
sense of greatness in their country’s superiority over other
nations.

8. Victorian Compromise
• Compromise between the
Rich and the Poor
• Compromise between
Royalism and Democracy
• Compromise between
Science and Religion
Victorianism
means an
attitude to
life and
things.

9. Major Poetry Writers of the
Victorian Age
• Alfred Tennyson
• Robert Browning
• Elizabeth Barrett Browning
• Matthew Arnold
• Christina Rossetti
• D. G. Rossetti
• William Morris

10. Alfred Tennyson
(1809-92)
• Timbuctoo
• In Memoriam ( Elegy)
• Ulysses
• The Princess
• The Lady of Shallot and O Enone
• The Lotos Eaters
• The Palace of Art
• Tears, Idle Tears
• Dora
• Two Brother

11. Robert Browning
(1812-89)
• Pauline
• Asolando (1889)
• My Last Duches
• The Last Ride Together
• Holy Cross Day
• A Grammarian’s Funeral
• Dramatic Romances and Lyrics (1845)
• Sordello
• The Heretic’s Tragedy
• The Statue and Bust
• Pippa Passess

12. Elizabeth Browning
(1806-61)
• The Cry of the Children (1843)
• Case Guidi Windows (1851)
• Poem Before Congress (1860)
• Aurora Leigh
• Lady Geraldine’s Courtship
• Sonnets From the Portugese
• Cowper’s Grave
• Seraphim (1833) and poems

13. Cristina Rossetti
(1830-1894)
• Goblin Market (1862)
• The City of Dreadful Night
• The Prince’s Progress (1866)
• The Germ (1850)
• A pageant and other poems (1881)
• New Poems (1896)
• Time Flies (1885)
• Verses (1893)
• Sing Song (1894)
• From House to Home

14. Matthew Arnold & William Morris
(1822-1888) (1834-1896)
• The Scholar Gipsy
• Thyrsis
• The Stayed Reveller
• Last Essay on Church
and Religion (1877)
• Essays: in Criticism
• Literature and Dogma
• On Translating Homer
(1861)
• The Defernce of
Guenevere (1858)
• The Life and Death of
Jason (1867)
• The March of the Worker
• The Dream of John Ball
• All For the Cause
• Sigurd the Volsung
• Chant for Socialist (1855)

15. Major Prose Writer of age
• Thomas Carlyle
• John Ruskin
• Thomas Babington
• Walter Horatio
• Oscar Wilde

16. Thomas Carlyle & Oscar Wilde
(1795-1881) (1854-1900)
• Sartor Resartus(1833-34)
• The French Revolution
(1838)
• Heroes and Hero-worship
(1841)
• Past and Present (1843)
• Oliver Cromwell’s Letters
and Speeches
• The Life of Sterling(1851)
• History of Fredrick the
Great (1858-65)
• The Ballad of Reading
Gaol (1898)
• De profundis
• The Picture of Dorian
Gray
• A Woman of No
Importance and
• The Importance of
Being Ernest (1899)

17. John Ruskin
(1819-1900)
• Modern Painters (1843-60)
• Seven Lamps of Architecture
(1849)
• The Stones of Venice (1851-53)
• Unto This Last (1860-62)
• Munera Pulveris (1862-63)
• Time and Tide (1867)
• The Crown of Wild Olive (1866)
• Sesame and Lilies (1862)

18. Thomas Hardy
(1840-1928)
• Under the Greenwood Tree
(1872)
• Far From the Madding
Crowd(1874)
• The return of the Native (1878)
• The Trumpet Major (1880)
• The Mayor of Casterbridge (1886)
• The Woodlanders (1887)
• Tess of the D’Urbervilles (1891)
• Jude the Obscure (1896)

19. Novelist of the age
• Benjamin Disraeli
• Charles Dickens
• W. M. Thackeray
• Bronte sisters (Charlotte, Emily, Anne)
• George Meredith
• George Eliot
• Thomas Hardy
• Elizabeth Bowen

20. Charles Dickens
(1812-70)
• The Pickwick Papers
• Oliver Twist
• Bleak House
• Nicholas Nickleby
• Sketches by Boz
• Our Mutual Friend
• A Tale of Two cities
• Little Dorritt
• Old Curiosity
• Hard Times

21. W.M. Thackeray
(1811-63)
• George Meredith
(1828-1909)
• Punch
• Vanity fair
• Pendennis
• Henry Esmond
• The Virginians
• The New Comes
• The Shaving of
Shagpat (1856)
• The Ordeal of
Richard Feverel
(1859)
• Evan Harrington
(1861)
• Diana of the
Crossways (1815)

22. George Eliot
(1819-80)
• Scenes of Clerical
Life (1858)
• Adam Bede (1859)
• The Mill on the Floss
(1860)
• Silas Marner: The
Weaver of Reveloe
(1861)
• Middle March (1872)

23. Bronte Sisters • Charlotte (1816-55)
• Jane Eyre (1847)
• Shirley (1849)
• Villette (1853)
• The Professor (1857)
• Emily (1818-48)
• Wuthering Heights (1847)
• Anne
• Agnes Grey (1847)
• The Tenant of Wildfell Hall
(1848)