Tackling these Victorian texts has been a fun and occasionally frustrating experience, but one thing that I've noticed is ever-present is a new kind of societal awareness in the writing. Where as past English authors seemed to focus on the individual in almost existential terms, Victorian authors seems to me more concerned with the individual as a part of society. There were plenty of changes happening during this time period, so that might account for this new awareness, but class struggles and differences are more apparent, and the struggles of women are also represented for the first time in this class. The Victorian period ushered in a new type of literature, one that definitely left its imprint on what came afterward.
And now Dickens awaits...
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