VICTORIAN NOVEL (most important genre)

themes

DICKENS

novelists were realistic but in a "soft" way

reading

scientific discoveries

inventions

economic developments

in public

in families

of the middle class

lower classes

Hard Times

themes

social injustice

suffering

poverty

political corruption

bad conditions in the factories

victorian compromise: dividing characters in good and bad

BRONTE'S SISTERS

novels about love

living in the countryside