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Victorian Poetry - Literature outside of Great Britain
Ujjawal Manocha

The Victorian Era
  __**Queen Victoria (1819-1901) **__   She was the first English monarch to see her name given to the period of her reign whilst still living. The [|Victorian Age] was characterized by advances in many different fields such as medicine, scientific knowledge, technology and population growth and location changed. The era began in a good mood as the economic growth seen was amazing, which also lead to a great deal of optimism within the population. This era has been associated with family values, religious observations, and faith. However, new ideas were introduced in literature, for example, realism, naturalism, and impressionism. In this era, hard work, respectability, social deference, and religious conformity were encouraged. Increasing educational and employment opportunities gave women many roles outside the family and other than raising a large family. Socialism, liberalism, and organized feminism were notably seen throughout this era. People started having faith in institutions as more hospitals, workhouses, and asylums, were built.

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The following authors depicted principles of the Victorian Era through their works in literature, even though they wrote outside of the Great Britain : __  Harriet Beecher Stowe is known as one of the most influential women of the Victorian age. Her fame is a derivative of her novel Uncle Tom's Cabin. In this novel, she portrayed the life of a Negro bond servant.The controversy between abolitionist and proslavery factions grew in intensity and Stowe experienced events in her lifethat she later turned into episodes of //Uncle Tom's Cabin//. It was said that //Uncle Tom's Cabin// was Stowe's "declaration of independence, her revolution, and her emancipation proclamation," not from her marriage, but from sorrow and family difficulties. Abraham Lincoln told her that she was the "young woman that started this big war", as this was the first time the North was correctly informed how slaves were treated and turned them against slavery to the extent that a civil war was inevitable. Her novel portrayed Victorian principles as it can be seen as a socialists and liberals tended to be against slavery, and their numbers were increased all throughout America and Europe due to this novel.
 * Harriet Beecher Stowe** **(1811-1896)**__



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 * <span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: 110%;">__Stephen Crane (1871-1900)__ **

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<span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman',Times,serif; font-size: 120%;"> <span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman',Times,serif; font-size: 120%; line-height: normal;">Stephen Crane's internationally acclaimed work, //[|The Red Badge of Courage]//, was published in 1895. Unique in style and content, the novel explores the emotions of a young Civil War recruit named Henry Fleming. Naturalism and impressionism were seen in this realist novel, as it was astounding that Crane never received war experience before writing this novel. Crane experimented with psychological realism and his interpretation gradually changed the perception of a realist novel in America. The novel focuses on Henry recovering his courage and returning to his regiment, his subsequent heroism, and his final sense of achieving manhood. Modern critics recognize him as one of the most innovative writer of his generation. The wound Henry received was the "red badge of courage", as he finally realized that he was able to fight and risk his life on the front without worrying about himself.

__**Theodore Drieser (1871-1945)**__ <span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman',Times,serif; font-size: 120%;">Theodore Drieser wrote novels intending to bring about awareness of what he saw as major problems with American society. He personified the Victorian era unifying principles of socialism and liberalism, as he had espousing politically liberal views and always seeking to be a voice against unfairness that he saw around him. In addition to his fictional writings, he published non-fiction works on Socialism, as always unafraid of taking the less traveled road politically and artistically. His famous novel, [|Sister Carrie], the protagonist Carrie Meeber moves to Chicago for employment and experiences the root problems in the area. This classic human drama was a controversial book in its day for its often brutal honesty about the facts of material hardship and temptation in American life.