LITERATURE QUESTIONS
INTRODUCTION TO LITERARY STUDIES
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wanted to subvert middle class values.
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accepted middle class values.
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wrote in a hyperrealistic fashion.
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had a negative view of human nature.
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Detailed explanation-1: -The most popular novels of the Victorian age were realistic, thickly plotted, crowded with characters, and long. Describing contemporary life and entertainment for the middle class.
Detailed explanation-2: -Poets like Tennyson, the Brownings, and Rossetti frequently wrote poetry in order to create a powerful emotional effect on the reader, but some Victorian poets also wrote simply to entertain. Lewis Carroll and Edward Lear wrote nonsense or light verse, a genre that plays with sounds and rhythm in melodious ways.
Detailed explanation-3: -During this time, there were many political, societal, and cultural changes such as industrialization, reform, Darwinism, the argument over “high” and “popular” culture, and how literature was used as its own oppositional space in which concerns about loss of faith, modernity, and change in general were discussed.
Detailed explanation-4: -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.