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.
Victorian novel
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.
Victorian novels had common features:
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The omniscient narrator who commented the plot;
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The city as the set of the novels
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The long and complex plot;
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The deep analysis of the character;
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The punishment and the moral in the final chapter.
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