Victorian Age | বাংলা লেকচার | Victorian Era | Victorian Period in History of English literature

Victorian Age | বাংলা লেকচার | Victorian Era | Victorian Period in History of English literature Victorian Age In English literature, the period from 1832 to 1901 is known as the Victorian age. It is named after Queen Victoria who reigned the UK from 1837 to 1901. The age is marked by the reformation bill, Charles Darwin’s evolution theory, Karl Marx’s concept of socialism, the industrial revolution, philosophical positivism, the inception of feminism, and the middle class respectability, Disbelief, hypocrisy, affluence, prudery, and complacency characterized the age. However, it was a Period of prolific literary production. Alfred lord Tennyson, Robert Browning, E.B. browning, and Matthew Arnold are the famous poets, Charles dickens, W. M. Thackeray, charlotte Bronte, Emily Bronte, George Eliot, and Thomas Hardy are the great novelists and Carlyle, Arnold, Huxley, J.S. Mill, Ruskin are the well-known essayists of this age. Attitude of compromise, moral earnestness, purity both religious and secular, didacticism, and social equity dominated the Victorian literature.