Victorian Literature Overview

General

  • A Timeline of British Literature, 1709-1918
  • Authors discussed in the Victorian Web
  • Literature, Science, and Print Technology
  • The Printed Book — the Invisible Machine
  • Following Keats or Wordsworth: The Two Strains of Victorian Poetry

Literary Techniques, Genres, Modes, and Styles

  • Literary Techniques
  • Literary Genres and Modes
  • Forms of the Novel
  • The Victorian Revolution in Letter Writing
  • Children's Literature
  • Music and Theater in Victorian Britain

Victorian English: New Words, Victorian Slang, and Colorful Expressions

  • The English Language in Nineteenth-Century Great Britain (sitemap)
  • "Weeping Willow" stands for "Pillow": Victorian Rhyming Slang
  • Earth Yenneps: Victorian Back Slang
  • Victorian Back Slang — a Glossary
  • Pig Latin and Back Slang in Other Countries
  • The Meanings of Posh
  • Then and Now: Posh, Toff, and the Victorians
  • The Origin of "I've got to see a man about a dog"

Related Materials

  • The Concept of a Literary Canon
  • Victorian Periodicals
  • Literary Convergences


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Last modified 5 May 2016