Literature in the Victorian Era | A Historical Overview

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  • Опубліковано 6 лип 2024
  • Over the six decades of Queen Victoria's reign, some 60,000 works of prose fiction were published in Great Britain alone. What made the Victorian era the golden age of the English novel? And what factors especially influenced the literature of the period? Here is our brief historical overview of Victorian literature.
    Music:
    - Songs Without Words (Lieder ohne Worte) Op. 67
    Felix Mendelssohn
    Performed by Takashi Sato
    - Piano Concerto No. 3 in C minor, Op. 37
    Ludwig van Beethoven
    Performed by ClassicaViva Orchestra
    (Licensed under Creative Commons Attribution 3.0)
    Sources:
    www.bl.uk
    www.rct.uk
    www.history.com
    www.britannica.com
    loc.getarchive.net
    writersinspire.org
    www.english-heritage.org.uk
    wellcomecollection.org
    www.oxfordbibliographies.com
    #BytheHistoryBook #VictorianLiterature

КОМЕНТАРІ • 82

  • @curiousworld7912
    @curiousworld7912 4 роки тому +232

    I could have listened to more than an hour on this subject alone. Victorian literature is an enormously broad topic, with writers as diverse as Emily Bronte and Joseph Conrad. I'd love to see you do a more expanded version.

    • @monicacall7532
      @monicacall7532 3 роки тому +5

      I second your suggestion. Perhaps Victorian literature could be broken into a variety of themes such as literature that called attention to social ills such as poverty, the class system, etc., novels about the British Empire (Kipling’s Jungle Books comes to mind), the changing role of women, the industrialization of Britain and so forth.

    • @anjollabanton230
      @anjollabanton230 2 роки тому +2

      Can I third your suggestion. Totally agree with you that this presentation is outstanding. I cannot find anything to top this. We really a detail follow on👍👍👍👍

  • @dainforsythe7129
    @dainforsythe7129 3 роки тому +22

    Thank you for citing your sources! Wonderful work.

  • @sandralantau7395
    @sandralantau7395 3 роки тому +15

    Thank you for a great introduction to Victorian literature. I am especially impressed by how you've also highlighted other aspects of Victorian culture, especially its art.

  • @adambillen5164
    @adambillen5164 3 роки тому +20

    Okay! Okay! You've convinced me, I'll register for the Victorian Era literature class!

  • @t.c.9029
    @t.c.9029 3 роки тому +26

    I know this video is about literature but I cannot stop admiring the artwork! ❤️

  • @hamzabouzidi8869
    @hamzabouzidi8869 3 роки тому +8

    I was admiring your writing skills the whole time. Everything just flowed so naturally. I would kill to be able to write like that.
    Thank you so much.

  • @thevintageplaylist7191
    @thevintageplaylist7191 4 роки тому +5

    This channel in EVERYTHING

  • @devygonzalez4014
    @devygonzalez4014 3 роки тому +3

    Super helpful! I loved the way you presented the information, it kept me interested the whole way through. :)

  • @stephenbriandeleon5119
    @stephenbriandeleon5119 4 роки тому +46

    please make a historical overview about tudor and elizabethan era

  • @BrentAllenDumfriesshire
    @BrentAllenDumfriesshire 2 місяці тому

    Your video was beautiful and well appreciated. Thank you for your time and sharing your information

  • @Kalopsia1875
    @Kalopsia1875 4 роки тому +4

    Thank you for this nicely done video!

  • @sonalikarmakar9317
    @sonalikarmakar9317 2 роки тому +2

    very easy description in a very short time... thanks for this ☺️

  • @sella6224
    @sella6224 4 роки тому +3

    love your channel so much❤️

  • @karenbearden6198
    @karenbearden6198 3 місяці тому

    A wonderful subject, and the narration was very well done. Thank you!

  • @superdani152003
    @superdani152003 3 роки тому +2

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  • @TheGentlemanPsychic
    @TheGentlemanPsychic 4 роки тому +5

    Wonderful content, thank you.

  • @MG-dd9kj
    @MG-dd9kj 3 місяці тому

    Marvellous! I highly enjoyed this video and I don‘t hesitate to like, subscribe and ring the notification bell as I declare myself a dedicated bookworm and lover of English literature - much love from Germany

  • @relaxtosoundsofnature
    @relaxtosoundsofnature Рік тому

    Love your work! Thank you!

  • @snowprincess6430
    @snowprincess6430 4 роки тому +2

    I like your videos! Wonderful content.📚

  • @unaanguila
    @unaanguila 4 роки тому +2

    Thanks for sharing.

  • @avaelsner
    @avaelsner 2 роки тому

    another wonderful video!

  • @user-ui7kt4gt8c
    @user-ui7kt4gt8c 4 роки тому +11

    could you do a video about doyle's sherlock holmes please?
    or a book vs movie about wuthering heights
    love your channel btw!

  • @hondoklaatu1904
    @hondoklaatu1904 4 роки тому +49

    Excellent video. I appreciate all your research.The victorian era is very fascinating to me. I especially like the mystery or adventure books of the era. My favorite are Doyle, Stevenson, Verne, Melville, Wilkie Collins, and Kipling (though not his more imperialist stuff) . Does anyone have any more classic victorian adventure authors or stories I should try out?

    • @watcherinlaa8736
      @watcherinlaa8736 4 роки тому +3

      Thomas Hardy.

    • @curiousworld7912
      @curiousworld7912 4 роки тому +6

      Well, of course, there's Dickens. And some of the more mysterious writers might be those such as Algernon Blackwood, whose short stories are sometimes absolutely marvelous, there's Anthony Trollope, Nathaniel Hawthorne and another great American short story writer of the age, Ambrose Bierce.

    • @TheGentlemanPsychic
      @TheGentlemanPsychic 4 роки тому +3

      You may enjoy The Baron Munchhausen by Rudolf Erich Raspe . It is a little earlier in history, but still popular during the time and incredibly entertaining.

  • @isabellemarquis61
    @isabellemarquis61 Рік тому

    this is such a great video

  • @mahamsmontessori517
    @mahamsmontessori517 3 роки тому +1

    Amazing information thnx

  • @rosalobo4968
    @rosalobo4968 4 роки тому +10

    Could you do a review of Anna Karenina?

  • @fireofhislove3395
    @fireofhislove3395 10 місяців тому

    Jolly good show!

  • @weronikadzierzak1438
    @weronikadzierzak1438 5 місяців тому

    thank you!

  • @connorsimmons4625
    @connorsimmons4625 3 роки тому +1

    Helpful

  • @soobindoll9561
    @soobindoll9561 Рік тому +1

    My favorite era

  • @achuju4246
    @achuju4246 Рік тому +1

    Excellent video!! Love from kerala💚☺🌸

  • @quelmattia7961
    @quelmattia7961 2 роки тому +6

    This was crystal clear!
    From a non English speaker :)

  • @MF-ct4il
    @MF-ct4il 3 роки тому +2

    is this information can be used as the Characteristics of Victorian literature ??

  • @michaeljohnangel6359
    @michaeljohnangel6359 2 місяці тому

    I enjoyed this very much; I wish, though, that the music had been a little less loud. It made it difficult to hear comfortably what you were saying.

  • @vishnuugale7160
    @vishnuugale7160 3 роки тому +2

    Very useful but background music hinders little

  • @nguyenngocmai9a-209
    @nguyenngocmai9a-209 10 місяців тому

    Hi there! Could you send me the script of your video, cause i am doing my presentation about the Victorian era, and your video is so helpful and give a lot of interesting ideas. Thank you!!!

  • @yeaydemir
    @yeaydemir 3 роки тому +1

    could someone say the name of the paıntıngs showed ın the vıdeo? Thanks

  • @lindanorris2455
    @lindanorris2455 3 місяці тому

    Henry Myahew: London Labor and the London Poor. WOnderful but troubling book!

  • @itszainii2635
    @itszainii2635 4 роки тому +3

    Please can you tell what are the influence of Victorian age on litreature?

    • @sandrasmith382
      @sandrasmith382 3 роки тому +4

      It paved the way for modernism and brought to light injustices of the poor working class. It built upon the neo classical romantic period but was Moore realistic.

  • @bubbercakes528
    @bubbercakes528 2 роки тому +4

    Dickens is without a doubt the greatest writer ever.

    • @Chinnnnuz
      @Chinnnnuz Рік тому

      Have you read 'Don quixote' by Miguel de cervantes?
      Earler writer than dickens but in my opinion stands head and shoulders above many other authors and their works. Try him if you ever have the time to.

  • @yoloyo.
    @yoloyo. Рік тому

    Good video content

  • @khoatrananh6649
    @khoatrananh6649 2 роки тому

    You try to give the video more brightness it will be great if you do

  • @maviecoucou4277
    @maviecoucou4277 3 роки тому +1

    Can some write what is she saying to me cuz I have been trying for a period and it doesn't work please I need what is she saying word by word I like her way of writing but so difficult to understand.please

  • @thogameskanaal
    @thogameskanaal 3 роки тому +6

    Really fascinating!
    The British empire having a BILLION inhabitants in the 1800s!? That's getting awfully close to modern demographics...
    Though, with the important difference being that modern population numbers rose naturally, and are actually maintainable.

    • @rileysimpson3543
      @rileysimpson3543 6 місяців тому +2

      The British Empire never had close to a billion people… The most they had was 531 million in 1938.

  • @disturbedcraig12
    @disturbedcraig12 5 місяців тому

    My great grandmother was a victoran😊

  • @paprisarkar6870
    @paprisarkar6870 Місяць тому

    Wow mam your video is too good ❤ I'm Indian ❤

  • @charneedsit
    @charneedsit 4 роки тому +2

    this became a port of my online learning for English and i am very disturbed by this content

  • @heatheralice89
    @heatheralice89 Рік тому

    🙏

  • @avocadoguacamola7872
    @avocadoguacamola7872 3 роки тому +1

    Y'all there's a thing called subtitle, smh...

  • @davidthom7127
    @davidthom7127 3 роки тому +4

    I couldn't listen to your video because the background music was TOO LOUD

  • @jordanhuang1945
    @jordanhuang1945 2 роки тому +1

    transcript?

  • @verabritto9759
    @verabritto9759 Рік тому

    I would like to invite you to read The Painter by Vera Britto - available as an ebook on Amazaon.
    What is a man to do when he is trapped? - Based on a poignant short story by Aldous Huxley, one of England’s greatest writers
    It is 1923, and London is home to Rolls-Royce limousines, art snobs and cunning young men trying to better themselves. Some, like the dashing William, climb on the backs of others while friends at the club cheer him on. Some, like Lord Badgery, throw out crumbs of privilege to those eager to lap them up. Yet others, like the down-trodden Jonathan, are dazzled by England's aristocratic circles which he observes with ever widening eyes. What wouldn’t he give to be one of them and to escape his own suffocating circumstances? If he had to pay a high price for acceptance, his greatest dream, would he? Set against the backdrop of the world of painting and fine arts, with real and fictional artists and artworks, one man’s soul is tested.
    The cinema has not used Huxley’s short story, “The Tillotson Banquet”, but “The Painter” shows how rich and vibrant such a film would be. The story is written in a screenplay format, which author Vera Britto playfully calls a Movie-in-a-Book and shows it is a viable and enjoyable format as any other. With filmmaking’s freedom, she paints in characters and drama to enrich Huxley’s story. Directions for filming and acting will pique the imagination of the reader in a way that prose does not. There is “image” in “imagination”, and page by page this Movie-in-a-Book fills a mental screen. The reader enjoys both a rich interpretation of life in upper class England and the chance to embark on this exciting adventure sitting in the director’s chair.

  • @laurasacchi8308
    @laurasacchi8308 День тому

    First industrial revolution was in 1760..

  • @Tommyg-rq6lj
    @Tommyg-rq6lj 3 роки тому +1

    I AM EVERYWHERE

  • @valixify
    @valixify 3 роки тому +2

    I'm supposed to be watching the video cuz my teacher said so
    she don't know I'm In the comments

  • @tomaspolach8652
    @tomaspolach8652 Рік тому +3

    Please don't use music while you talk, it's very distracting. I suggest using it only as a filler between topics.

  • @KevTheImpaler
    @KevTheImpaler 2 роки тому

    Queen Victoria would not have said she had almost a billion citizens, because a billion was a million million to the British back then.

  • @lindanorris2455
    @lindanorris2455 3 місяці тому

    As long as I never have to read stupid ERNEST HEMINGWAY or ANY RAND EVER AGAIN! GOOD GAWD!

  • @giacomomitaritonna2139
    @giacomomitaritonna2139 15 днів тому +1

    change the music in the background, its very disturbing

  • @lavenderflowersfall280
    @lavenderflowersfall280 2 роки тому

    They couldn't even take care of themselves why were they trying to take over the world.
    I think people at heart want to help others but it's much easier to sit down and write a novel about doing it actually doing it.
    Which is what I'm doing

  • @zoklev
    @zoklev 2 роки тому

    this girl's accent is halfway between US&EA

  • @autentyk5735
    @autentyk5735 3 роки тому

    0:18
    Peace and what?

  • @Barstoolbrah
    @Barstoolbrah 2 роки тому

    Suiiiii

  • @tristan4270
    @tristan4270 3 роки тому

    s/o la LLCE en première

  • @PuppetMasterdaath144
    @PuppetMasterdaath144 4 місяці тому

    sherlock Holmes the father of stupidity

  • @user-yk9jm2xx7s
    @user-yk9jm2xx7s Рік тому

    Because Victoria married with German man, so Albert brought culture to UK.

  • @kaylamontoya4302
    @kaylamontoya4302 3 роки тому +2

    I wish my teacher didn't make it a requirement to listen to this... I can't stand the mouth noises that come out of this lady's mouth when she speaks!

  • @cheesecake4648
    @cheesecake4648 3 роки тому +1

    For "Victoria" they should have casted an ugly actress given the fact how ugly was that queen or any other, including kings.... british...