English Literature & Theology

The rationale of the Victorian novel.  Development of the novel in Victorian era.                Critical essay by  -Lionel Stevenson. The Victorian period can be considered the ' Golden age' of the novel, which has become the art form most capable of reflecting the complexity of the modern world and the main source of entertainment of the middle classes . It should never be forgotten that prose fiction in the 19th Century provided the whole range of popular pastime that is now occupied with television, radio, mobile phones ,videos and etc .Like as we using social media the Victorian period people read  novels to experience with vicarious fields of adventure suspense and horror . Victorian people had no mobile culture to pass their time as we have, there was no Telephone by which one could gossip with neighbours and friends at all distances, there were no automobiles like car and bike by which one could avoid boredom by 'goi...

Coincidence in the Victorian novel By David Goldknof. Summary. Bringing  coincidence in the Victorian novel came to practice in the Victorian era ,for this was the time when the pressure of scientific expansionism and violent social economic dislocations had severely strained the English man's traditional attitude towards God - and people started questioning against God . So the English writers decided to bring coincidence in the Victorian novel to illustrate the efforts to reconceptualize God and to bring transparency in the society . Novelist brought new concept of circumstances knit themselves, fitted themselves, shot into orders ,incidents linked to each other and was given the perfect connection and novelists called it as the coincidence . The writers of the Victorian novel brought coincidence in the natural manner by saying 'God did this ' . An author chooses coincidence in preference to a naturalistic motivation . To a greater or lesser extent, for a longer ...