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Early Victorian Novelists
The
first phase of Victorian literature
included the works of writers who used prose to make a
realistic portrait of the society
in which they lived
contradictions of the industrial Revolution
and the consequences of the expansion of towns
First phase of Victorian literature were less critical: they preferred to use literature
to instruct their readers
and to make them aware of the social evils of their time without using any bitter criticism
The author of the Victorian Age was
Charles Dickens
an extremely prolific writer who explored and refined all the types of prose-writing in his long and successful career
his writing career as a journalist
Pickwick Papers
produced a huge number of novels
Oliver Twist
David Copperfield
Hard Times
Great Expections
Dickens' novels are mainly
tragicomic
This ambivalent attitude is exactly what stands at the core of the "Victorian Compromise"
An authentic literary miracle is the one represented by the
Bronte sisters
EMILY
Wuthering Heights
the novel was an extraordinary
narrative experiment
whose plot centred around the impossible love between Heathcliff, a Byronic hero and Charlotte
The novel adopted elements taken from the
Gothic tradition
and explored universal themes such as love, death, immortability and passion
CHARLOTTE
Jane Eyre
contains a subtle exploration of the theme of
womanhood
and opens a window on the dark sides of human personality throught the analysis of Jane