{"id":18035,"date":"2022-09-19T07:29:49","date_gmt":"2022-09-19T07:29:49","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.booksofall.com\/id\/?post_type=product&p=18035"},"modified":"2022-09-19T07:29:49","modified_gmt":"2022-09-19T07:29:49","slug":"english-literature-victorians-and-moderns","status":"publish","type":"product","link":"https:\/\/www.booksofall.com\/id\/english-literature-victorians-and-moderns\/","title":{"rendered":"English Literature Victorians and Moderns"},"content":{"rendered":"

Although Queen Victoria<\/a> did not ascend to the throne until 1837, it is common to refer to the Victorian era as beginning in 1832, the year of both the First Reform Bill and the death of Sir Walter Scott<\/a>, a major writer of the Romantic era. The main topics for this unit on the Victorians are Industrialism, Religious Doubt, The Role of Women (\u201cThe Woman Question\u201d) and Imperialism. This is not to say that these issues were peculiar to that era; indeed, we will see them reappearing in later units; for example, the \u201cWoman Question\u201d in the Virginia Woolf and Katherine Mansfield chapters, Industrialism<\/a> in Shaw\u2019s play Major Barbara and in Huxley\u2019s Brave New World, and Imperialism and Religious Doubt in the Orwell and Eliot chapters respectively.<\/p>\n

As one critic puts it, the following developments characterize the Victorian era:<\/p>\n