1. Quratulain Khalid.
Faiza Aslam.
Fatima.
Victorian novel and
its features.

3. • It was a long period of peace,
prosperity, refined sensibilities and
national self-confidence for Britain.
• The era was preceded by the Georgian
period and followed by the Edwardian
period.

4. • Culturally there was a transition away
from the rationalism of the Georgian
period and toward romanticism and
mysticism with regard to religion, social
values, and the arts.

5. • First of all in the Victorian Age the
dominating literary form was the
novel.
• The Victorian writers exhibited some
well-established habits from previous
eras.
• while at the same time pushing arts
and letters in new and interesting
directions.
• Indeed, some of the later Victorian
novelists and poets are nearly
indistinguishable from the
Modernists who followed shortly
thereafter.

6. Characteristics of Victorian age
literature:
• Literature tends to closer to daily life.
• Moral purpose.
• Idealism.(age of doubt and pessimism)
• Great ideals like truth, justice, love,
brotherhood are emphasized by poets,
essayists and novelists of the age.

7. Characteristics of Victorian novel:
• Omniscient narrator provided a
comment on plot and create a
rigid barrier between right and
wrong(moral aim).
• The setting s the city (symbol of
industrial civilization, anonymous
lives and lost identity)

8. Cont…..
• Long and complicated
plot.
• Creation of character
and deep analysis of
their lives.
• Revenge or
punishment in the
final chapter

9. Famous novelists:

10. Dickens novels:
Novels. Number 1: Bleak House
Number 2: Great Expectations
Hardy’s novels:
Far from the Madding Crowd (1874), The
Mayor of Caster bridge (1886), Tess of the
d'Urbervilles (1891), and Jude the Obscure
(1895).

11. Charles Dickens:
• Charles John Huffam Dickens was an English writer and social critic.
• Generally regarded as the greatest novelist of the Victorian period.
• Dickens showed compassion and empathy towards the vulnerable
and disadvantaged segments of English society, and contributed to
several important social reforms.
• The Pickwick Papers (1837) Oliver Twist, through Nicholas Nickleby, A
Christmas Carol, The Chimes, Dombey and Son, Bleak House, Hard
Times, and ending with Little Dorrit,

12. Characteristics of Charles Dickens' novels:
• The title of a novel was extremely important to Dickens.
• Dickens used suspense and mystery.
• Novels rely heavily upon his use of symbolism (, for example, how he
uses fire, hands, the mist, the river, the signpost in Great
Expectations).
• Dickens uses comedy as relief from the serious and unhappy sections
of his novel.
• Writes from the point of view of the lowest classes living in a large
city.

13. • Thomas Hardy:
• The presence of Fatalism on Hardy’s prose (what happens (or
has happened) in some sense has to (or had to) happen).
• Novelist Thomas Hardy used his novel Tess of the d’Urbervilles
to espouse his ideals on the morals of Victorian society.
• Hardy used several literary devices and themes to express his
ideas stylistically, by foreshadow, symbolism, marriage, and
different philosophies. Of these philosophies, fatalism is the
overall leading philosophical movement demonstrated in Tess
of the d’Urbervilles.

14. • Thomas Hardy’s Tragic Vision Manifested in Major
Novels.
• Tragic novels crucially shape his masterpieces.
• The Mayor of Casterbridge, Tess of the D’Urbervilles
and Jude the Obscure.
• Hardy’s conviction that there is a fundamental conflict
between humanity and the ruthless fate.

15. Conclusion:
• Victorian era can be
considered as the golden age
of novel.
• After the initial
experimentation novel
had become the most
capable artform for
reflecting complexities of
modern world. And the
main source of
entertainment for
educated middle class.

16. Tess of D'Urberville: