Essay Archive - How Literature was Affected in the Victorian Age
How Literature was Affected in the Victorian Age
The Year 1837 was very significant. It was not only the year that
Queen Victoria acceded the throne, but also the year that a new literary
age was coined. The Victorian Age, more formally known, was a time of
great prosperity in Great Britain's literature(Keach 608). The Victorian
Age produced a variety of changes. Political and social reform produced a
variety of reading among all classes(Stuart 5). The lower-class became
more self-conscious, the middle class more powerful and the rich became
more vulnerable(6). T....
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