<strong><em>Novelists of the Early Victorian Period</em></strong>
In the early Victorian period the novel made a rapid progress. Novel-reading was one of the chief occupations of the educated public, and material had to be found for every taste. The result was that the scope of the novel, which during the eighteenth century dealt mainly with contemporary lite and manners, was considerably enlarged. […]
Poets of the Early Victorian Period
The most important poets during the early Victorian period were Tennyson and Browning, with Arnold occupying a somewhat lower position. After the passing away of Keats, She’ley and Byron in the early eighteen twenties, for about fifteen years the fine frenzy of the high romantics subsided ana a quieter mood ensued. With the abatement of […]
The Victorian Age (1832-1900)
The Victorian Age in English literature began in second quarter of the nineteenth century and ended by 1900. Though strictly speaking, the Victorian age ought to correspond with the reign of Queen Victoria, which extended from 1837 to 1901, yet literary movements rarely coincide with the exact year of royal accession or death. From the […]
<em>Novelists of the Romantic Age</em>
The great novelists of the Romantic period are Jane Austen and Scott, but before them there appeared some novelists who came under the spell of medievalism and wrote novels of ’terror’ or the ’Gothic novels’. The origin of this type of fiction can be ascribed to Horace Walpole’s (1717-97) The Castle of Otranto (1746). Here […]
<em>Prose-writers of the Romantic Age</em>
Though the Romantic period specialised in poetry, there also appeared a few prose-writers-Lamb, Hazlitt and De Quincey who rank very high. There was no revolt of the prose-writers against the eighteenth century comparable to that of the poets, but a change had taken place in the prosestyle also. Whereas many eighteenth century prose-writers depended on […]
<strong>Poets of the Romantic Age</strong>
The poets of the Romantic age can be classified into three groups- (i) The Lake School, consisting of Wordsworth, Coleridge and Southey; (ii) The Scott group, including Campbell and Moore; and (Hi) The group comprising Byron, Shelley, and Keats. The first two groups were distinctly earlier than the third, so we have two eight years […]
<strong>The Romantic Age</strong>
(1798-1824) The Romantic period is sometimes called the Age of Revolutions too: the American Revolution of 1776, and the spirit of ’liberty, equality, and fraternity’ of the French Revolution made it a time of hope and change. William Wordsworth in The Prelude wrote ’bliss was it in that dawn to be alive’. This shows the […]
Eighteenth Century Drama
The dramatic literature of the eighteenth century was not of a high order. In fact there was y gradual deterioration and during the last quarter of the century drama was moving towards its lowest ebb. One of the reasons of the decline of drama during the eighteenth century was the Licensing Act of 1737 which […]
The Eighteenth Century and the Rise of the English Novel :: Science Publishing Group
To cite this article: Mariwan N. Hasan. The Eighteenth Century and the Rise of the English Novel. International Journal of Literature and Arts. Vol. 3, No. 2, 2015, pp. 18-21. doi: 10.11648/j.ijla.20150302.12 Abstract: It is not by chance that the English Novel dates back to the Eighteenth century. This does not imply that nothing existed […]
The Eighteenth Century and the Rise of the English Novel :: Science Publishing Group
To cite this article: Mariwan N. Hasan. The Eighteenth Century and the Rise of the English Novel. International Journal of Literature and Arts. Vol. 3, No. 2, 2015, pp. 18-21. doi: 10.11648/j.ijla.20150302.12 Abstract: It is not by chance that the English Novel dates back to the Eighteenth century. This does not imply that nothing existed […]