What was typical for the victorian era in literature?
Continuing influence of Romanticism Interest in historical and legendary stories from the past, also nostalgia for personal and cultural past Views of love in different Victorian works Dramatic monologue Development of 19th-century realism in poetry and fiction Links and conflicts between life and art Elements of nonsense literature such as illogical events/statements, word play, exaggeration, fantasy elements Types of fantasy represented in Alice novels and other works: animal fantasy, looking glass fantasy, magical transformations, etc. Character of Alice as a Victorian girl, a fantasy heroine, a typical child: naive and gullible or curious and clever? Satire of English class system, social hierarchy and royalty, childhood education, customs in Alice and other works Comparing narratives about girls and women Roles of secondary and minor characters in relation to main character in Victorian novels Realism and social history in Tess of the d’Urbervilles Tess as tragic novel; Tess’s rol
