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