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 …

…novelists, poets and dramatists directed their energies primarily to war. After the war ended, the British Empire was shaken badly by the Labour Party. The ideas and popular forms of the Victorians no longer adequated the radically different society. The Victorian age came to an end around 1916, ending one of the most fascinating times in English history.Literature was greatly affected during the Victorian Age. Victorian literature helped to strengthen modern literature in all aspects.