LITERATURE QUESTIONS
THE VICTORIAN NOVEL
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Stories of horror and myth or “old wives tales”
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Adventure stories that often included monsters of history or of mythology
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Dystopian narratives of science gone-wrong, super-strong monsters, and beings with unexplained powers
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“unexplained” phenomena, Spiritualism, communication with the dead or with the past, aspects of religion
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Detailed explanation-1: -It was a golden age of belief in supernatural forces and energies, ghost stories, weird transmissions and spooky phenomena. For a long time historians ignored these beliefs as embarrassing errors or eccentricities, signs of the perturbations produced by the speed of cultural change.
Detailed explanation-2: -Victorian spiritualists believed that women held predominance within the spiritual mediumship and that their contribution to the movement exceeded that of men.
Detailed explanation-3: -The Victorian era saw revolutionary breakthroughs in the arts and sciences, which shaped the world as we know it today. These transformations led to many social changes with the birth and spread of political movements, most notably socialism, liberalism and organised feminism.
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.