... source of moral and social instruction as well as of delight and entertainment by the newly expanded reading public, the novel stands as the central literary form of the Victorian era. For the Victorians, the modern distinction between the literary novel and the popular best seller had not yet come into existence. The novels of Charlotte Bronte, Charles Dickens, George Eliot, Anthony Trollope, and ... of reality, an equation of the "real" with the material life of a commercial, industrial society. The mode focuses on interpersonal relations and the desire for social status within a soci...

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... onwards. Jane Eyre's 'Reader, I married him' close to the end of Charlotte Bronte's novel (1847) that bears the character's name, shows the reversal of roles and the decision-making capacities that the new generation of socially aware women could demonstrate. On the whole, Dicken's women are not well portrayed; but from Trollope to Thomas Hardy and Henry James, a desire to present fully rounded and complex female characters ... tongue. This is not a usual thing to be written in novels in Victorian Period and the only exception is Emily Bronte. In the last four chapter, Lockwood rents the...

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• Grade Level: High School