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The Victorian Age
The Reform Bill（改革法案）of 1832 gave the middle class the political power it needed to consolidate—and to hold—the economic position it had already achieved. Industry and commerce burgeoned. While the affluence of the middle class increased, the lower classes, throwing off their land and going into the cities to form the great urban working class, lived ever more wretchedly. The social changes were so swift and brutal that Godwinian utopianism rapidly gave way to attempts either to justify the new economic and urban conditions, or to change them. The intellectuals and artists of the age had to deal in some way with the upheavals in society, the obvious inequities of abundance for a few and squalor for many, and, emanating from the throne of Queen Victoria (1837–1901), an emphasis on public rectitude and moral propriety.
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The Victorian era was the great age of the English novel—realistic, thickly plotted, crowded with characters, and long. It was the ideal form to describe contemporary life and to entertain the middle class. The novels of Charles Dickens, full to overflowing with drama, humor, and an endless variety of vivid characters and plot complications, nonetheless spare nothing in their portrayal of what urban life was like for all classes. William Makepeace Thackeray is best known for Vanity Fair (1848), which wickedly satirizes hypocrisy and greed.
Emily Brontë's (see , family) single novel, Wuthering Heights (1847), is a unique masterpiece propelled by a vision of elemental passions but controlled by an uncompromising artistic sense. The fine novels of Emily's sister Charlotte Brontë, especially Jane Eyre (1847) and Villette (1853), are more rooted in convention, but daring in their own ways. The novels of George (Mary Ann Evans) appeared during the 1860s and 70s. A woman of great erudition and moral fervor, Eliot was concerned with ethical conflicts and social problems. George produced comic novels noted for their psychological perception. Another novelist of the late
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Thomas 's profoundly pessimistic novels are all set in the harsh, punishing midland county he called Wessex. Samuel produced novels satirizing the Victorian ethos, and Robert Louis , a master of his craft, wrote arresting adventure fiction and children's verse. The mathematician Charles Lutwidge Dodgson, writing under the name Lewis , produced the complex and sophisticated children's classics Alice's Adventures in Wonderland (1865) and Through the Looking Glass (1871). Lesser novelists of considerable merit include Benjamin , George , Elizabeth Gaskell, and Wilkie . By the end of the period, the novel was considered not only the premier form of entertainment but also a primary means of analyzing and offering solutions to social and political problems.
Nonfiction
Among the Victorian masters of nonfiction were the great Whig historian Thomas and Thomas , the historian, social critic, and prophet whose rhetoric thundered through the ag
e. Influential thinkers included John Stuart , the great liberal scholar and philosopher; Thomas Henry , a scientist and popularizer of Darwinian theory; and John Henry, Cardinal , who wrote earnestly of religion, philosophy, and education. The founders of Communism, Karl and Friedrich , researched and wrote their books in the free environment of England. The great art historian and critic John also concerned himself with social and economic problems. Matthew 's theories of literature and culture laid the foundations for modern literary criticism, and his poetry is also notable. Poetry
棒棰岛旅游攻略 The preeminent poet of the Victorian age was Alfred, Lord . Although romantic in subject matter, his poetry was tempered by personal melancholy; in its mixture of social certitude and religious doubt it reflected the age. The poetry of Robert and his wife, Elizabeth Barrett , was immensely popular, though Elizabeth's was more venerated during their lifetimes. Browning is best
remembered for his superb dramatic monologues. Rudyard , the poet of the empire triumphant, captured the quality of the life of the soldiers of British expansion. Some fine religious poetry was produced by Francis , Alice , Christina , and Lionel .
In the middle of the 19th cent. the so-called , led by the painter-poet Dante Gabriel , sought to revive what they judged to be the simple, natural values and techniques of medieval life and art. Their quest for a rich symbolic art led them away, however, from the mainstream. William —designer, inventor, printer, poet, and social philosopher—was the most versatile of the group, which included the poets Christina Rossetti and Coventry .
Algernon Charles began as a Pre-Raphaelite but soon developed his own classically influenced, sometimes florid style. A. E. and Thomas Hardy, Victorian figures who lived on into the 20th cent., share a pessimistic view in their poetry, but Housman's well-constructed verse is rather more superficial. The great innovator among the late Victorian poets was the Jesuit priest Gerard Manley . The concentration and originality of his imagery, as well as his jolting meter (―sprung rhythm‖), had a profound effect on 20th-century poetry.
