Victorian literature and W.M. Thackeray's Vanity Fair. The influence of Victorian literature on Modernism

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INTRODUCTION to the Victorian LITERATURE
The term “Victorian age” is named for Queen Victoria who ruled from 1837 until her death in 1901. In England and the Nineteenth Century, David Thomson describes the Victorian age as “one of strenuous activity and dynamic change, of ferment of ideas and recurrent social interest of great inventiveness and expansion.” (Abrams, 918, 1991) And Queen Victoria remains a remarkable figure in history – not only for having been the longest reigning British monarch, but also as the figurehead of a vast empire, and as the inspiration for a highly complex culture.
Historians often record Victorian age as a period of many contradictions. Much more dubious is the use of Victorian to characterize the British spirit during this era. The later 20th century has tended to see Victorianism as moral earnestness, astounding material progress, confidence, and a serenity strange to our troubled times. In fact, the Victorian age was an era of extraordinary complexity and variety of viewpoint, as its writers demonstrate.
“The Elizabethan literature to be sure, in its imaginative and spiritual enthusiasm, is the expression of a period more profoundly great than the Victorian; but the Victorian literature speaks for an age which witnessed incomparably greater changes than any that had gone before in all the conditions of life--material comforts, scientific knowledge, and in intellectual and spiritual enlightenment.” (
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Thus, although romantic forms of expression in poetry and prose continue to dominate English literature throughout much of the century, the attention of many writers is directed, sometimes passionately, to such issues as the growth of English democracy, the education of the masses, the progress of industrial enterprise and the consequent rise of a materialistic philosophy, and the plight of the newly industrialized worker. In addition, the unsettling of religious...

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