ENGLISH LITERATURE (CBSE/UGC NET)

Detailed explanation-1: -William Makepeace Thackeray, (born July 18, 1811, Calcutta, India-died Dec. 24, 1863, London, Eng.), English novelist whose reputation rests chiefly on Vanity Fair (1847–48), a novel of the Napoleonic period in England, and The History of Henry Esmond, Esq.

Detailed explanation-2: -The preeminent satirist of the era was the playwright, novelist, poet, and essayist Oscar Wilde (b. 1854–d. 1900), whose social comedies lampooned the narrative and moral conventions of Victorian drama and morality.

Detailed explanation-3: -Dryden, Swift, Pope, Addison, Steele, and Johnson were all great satirists, and self-described heirs of the Roman poets Horace and Juvenal.

Detailed explanation-4: -Charles Dickens is the most famous Victorian novelist. With a focus on strong characterization, Dickens became extraordinarily popular in his day and remains one of the most popular and read authors of the world.

Detailed explanation-5: -Charles Dickens is easily the first of the Victorian novelists both in point of time and quality. His most important predecessors in the English novel were Richardson, Fielding, Smollett, Scott and Jane Austen.