1.+Literary+Movement-+Implications



**Literary Overview ** The Victorian literature of the Victorian Era is, in a lot of ways a reflection of the time period itself. During this era, there was a lot of change, which could have possibly been the result of literary pieces. New ideas and religions become accepted in society. Women suffrage comes about and last revolutionizing literature. Writing ranged from moralistic, idealistic, political, and pure entertainment. The main genres were fiction, nonfiction, and poetry. Fiction novels gave society moral lessons, known universally; love, justice, trust, and brotherhood. These kinds of novels gave society character and a conscience.  “ Also absent are characters who brood earnestly, and who seek God or the good or wisdom or love or, for that matter, money”(DeLaura).Fiction novels, especially by Mark Twain, appealed to the middle-class and in the case of books by Thackeray, fiction appealed to the higher class. In writing fiction novels by novels, by Mark Twain, the condition of the poor was exposed, allowing these such problems to be solved. Nonfiction, which includes science and politics, was influenced greatly, during the Victorian Era, by the longing to explore and progress. Out of nonfiction novels improved political organization and broadened people’s perspective about life and the scientific world. In broadening people’s perspective, it caused confusion and started practices, such as atheism. Poetry gave understanding of those hurt, happy, and driven to those who desired the same insight. Although poetry was not as important in the Victorian Era, “Poetry in a sense settled down from the upheavals of the romantic era and much of the work of the time is seen as a bridge between this earlier era and the modernist poetry of the next century” (Significance), it still played a major part in reviving the old ways of England and chivalry. “Some of the great novelists of the time were: Sir Walter Scott, Emily, Anne, and Charlotte Bronte, Anthony Trollope, George Eliot, Oscar Wilde, and, of course, Charles Dickens. That is not to say that poetry did not thrive - it did with the works of the Brownings, Alfred, Lord Tennyson, the verse of Lewis Carroll and Rudyard Kipling” (Miller).