Victorian age literature



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VICTORIAN AGE LITERATURE english

CONCLUSION.
In conclusion, in 1837, Victoria became Queen of Great Britain. His reign was the longest in British history, lasting until 1901. This period is called the Victorian period.
The Victorian era was marked by sharp contrasts. In many ways it was a period of development. The Victorian era was the culmination of British economic and military domination. In the 19th century, England became the first modern industrialized country. He ruled the largest empire in world history, covering all of Canada, Australia, New Zealand, India, Pakistan, and many smaller countries in Asia and the Caribbean. But inner England was not stable. Extreme poverty, extreme injustice and cruel human exploitation .
Workers fought for their rights. Their political demands were expressed in the People's Charter of 1833. The Chartist movement was a revolutionary movement of British workers that lasted until 1848. The Chartists presented their literature. Chartist writers have tried themselves in a variety of genres. They wrote articles, stories, songs, epigrams, poems. Chartists e.g., Ernest Jones's "Song of the Lower Classes"; Thomas Good's "Song of the Shirt" described the struggle of workers for their rights, the brutal exploitation, and the tragic fate of the poor .
The ideas of chartism attracted the attention of many progressive people of that period. Many well-known writers were aware of the social injustice that surrounded them and tried to portray it in their works. The greatest novelists of that period were Charles Dickens, William Makepis Tekerey, Charlotte Bronte, Elizabeth Gaskell, George Eliot.
These writers used the novel as a tool to protest against the vices of modern socio-economic life, a realistic depiction of the world. They expressed deep condolences to the working people; described the unbearable conditions of life and labor. Criticism was very strong in their works, which is why some scholars called them critical realists, and which direction they belonged to, critical realism. Charles Dickens’s “Difficult Days” and Elizabeth Gaskell’s “Mary Barton” are the best examples of literature describing the chartist movement . The contribution of realist writers in world literature is enormous. They created a broad picture of social life, exposed and condemned the vices of modern society, took the side of the common people in their fierce protests against unbearable exploitation, and expressed hope for a better future. Speaking of the poetry of that period, Alfred Tennison and Robert Brown are regarded by British and American critics as the two great pillars on which Victorian poetry rested. Unlike Romantic period poetry, their poetry demonstrated conservatism, optimism, and self-confidence, a hallmark of Victorian poetry.
2. In 1824, a 14-year-old boy from Lincolnshire engraved the words "Byron is dead" on a stone. For the young Alfred Tennison, something unique and beautiful in the world has disappeared. His sense of loss was reflected by his countless contemporaries throughout Europe; it has shaped the history of literature since then. But Byron’s lively later life also reflects the strong cultural hesitation of nineteenth-century Britain, which became Victorian literature.

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