Victorian Literature
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The first decades (1830s to 1860s) of Queen Victoria's reign
produced a vigorous and varied body of literature that attempted to come to
terms with the current transformations of English society, but writers in
the latter decades (1870s to 1900) withdrew into AESTHETICISM, a
preoccupation with sens ....
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.... TROLLOPE focused
on the isolation of the individual within the city. Charlotte BRONTE in
JANE EYRE dramatized the particular problems of creating a female identity.
Among the writers of early Victorian nonfiction, Thomas CARLYLE in Past and
Present (1843) argued for the re-creation in industrial England of the lost
sense of community between social classes. In contrast, John Stuart MILL
in ON LIBERTY spoke for the fullest development of the individual through
freedom from social restraint ....
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