Victorian England and Charles Dickens
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"Dickens has achieved a degree of popular and critical recognition rarely equaled in English letters. Almost all of his novels display, to varying degrees, his comic gift, his deep social concerns, and his extraordinary talent for creating vivid characters. Many of his creations, most notably Ebenezer Scrooge, have become familiar English literary stereotypes. And though he has sometimes been criticized for creating caricatures rather than characters, he has been defended as a master of imaginative vision, forging whole character types out of tiny eccentricities. A frequent early criticism that his works are "formless" is not accepted by most modern critics. Many now see Dickens's novels as vast and complex denunciations of the bourgeois society that corrupts its members."
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Victorian EnglandExplore reference materials, images, videos, primary sources, critical essays, and academic journals all about Victorian England.
A collection of scholarly resources related to the Victorian Era of England.
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Explore reference materials, images, videos, primary sources, critical essays, and academic journals all about Dickens.
Norton Topics Online explores the social culture of Victorian Era England including the Role of Women, Industrialism, Victorian Imperialism.
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Britannica Online provides reference materials exploring Charles Dickens life and work.
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Social Issues Explored
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A look at the Reform Act Crisis.
The Victorian Web takes a closer look at the effects of the Industrial Revolution.
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BBC History explains the changing role of women during the Victorian Era.
The Victorian Web explains how safe Victorian England really was.
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These primary source documents illustrate accounts of child labor in Victorian England.
The Victorian Web explores education in Victorian England.
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