AGES ERA PERIOD
VICTORIAN AGE
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Thomas Carlyle
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Matthew Arnold
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Charles Dickens
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all of the above.
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Detailed explanation-1: -Famous novelists from this period include Charles Dickens, William Makepeace Thackeray, the three Brontë sisters, George Eliot, Thomas Hardy and Rudyard Kipling.
Detailed explanation-2: -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.
Detailed explanation-3: -Overall, Victorian authors strove for realism in style and subject, strove to reproduce nature as it was, not as it was imagined or idealized. Literary movements in the Victorian age paralleled societal changes that occurred.
Detailed explanation-4: -The realistic Victorian novel focused on characters and themes such as the plight of the poor and social mobility that was being afforded to a new middle class and the rising middle class were eager to consume these novels.