LITERATURE QUESTIONS
EARLY BRITISH LITERATURE
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The Renaissance
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The Victorian era
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The Modern era
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The Romantic era
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Detailed explanation-1: -Victorian literature refers to English literature during the reign of Queen Victoria (1837–1901). The 19th century is considered by some to be the Golden Age of English Literature, especially for British novels. It was in the Victorian era that the novel became the leading literary genre in English.
Detailed explanation-2: -While the novel was the dominant form of literature during the Victorian era, poets continued to experiment with style and methods of story-telling in their poems. Examples of this experimentation include long narrative poems (epic poems) and the dramatic monologue as seen primarily in the writing of Robert Browning.
Detailed explanation-3: -The Victorian era of the United Kingdom and its overseas Empire spans the 63-year reign of Queen Victoria (1837-1901).
Detailed explanation-4: -David Copperfield by Charles Dickens (1849) You can’t have a list of Victorian novels without Dickens, and David Copperfield is his most humane work. At least partly autobiographical, it’s the story of a young boy’s life as he grows towards maturity, narrated by David Copperfield himself.
Detailed explanation-5: -The Victorian era is widely considered a golden age of English literature, particularly because of its novels.