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Concetti Chiave

  • Victorian novels marked a new era where readers and writers shared interests, partly due to significant literary growth.
  • Novelists of the Victorian era held social and moral duties to reflect and address societal changes.
  • Victorian novels can be categorized into three periods: early with social themes, mid with psychological themes, and late aligning with European Naturalism.
  • Common traits of Victorian novels include an omniscient narrator, city settings, intricate plots, and detailed character exploration.
  • These novels often concluded with a moral lesson and the punishment of wrongdoings, emphasizing a didactic approach.

Indice

  1. L'evoluzione della letteratura vittoriana
  2. Caratteristiche comuni del romanzo vittoriano

L'evoluzione della letteratura vittoriana

For the first time there was a communion of interests between readers and writers, probably because in that period, literature grew a lot. Novels became the most popular form of literature and the novelist had both a social and moral responsibility: they had to draw and reflect the social changes.

The Victorian novel can be divided in three groups:

1) Early Victorian novel (Charles dickens) dealt with social themes;

2) Mid-Victorian novel (Bronte sisters) dealt with psychological themes;

3)Late-Victorian novel (Wilde) was nearer to European Naturalism.

Caratteristiche comuni del romanzo vittoriano

Victorian novels had common features:

    The omniscient narrator who commented the plot;

    The city as the set of the novels

    The long and complex plot;

    The deep analysis of the character;

    The punishment and the moral in the final chapter.

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