Victorian Period in Literature

Study Victorian Literature using Online Video

With this title, you'll explore British literary history from the advent of Romanticism to the first half of the Victorian era. Use our 3 online educational video titles to explore British literary history from the advent of Romanticism to the first half of the Victorian era. Trace the development of the novel and literary criticism. Study the Pre-Raphaelites desire to create a meaningful pattern of order.

Learning Objectives:

• Explain how the industrial and agrarian revolutions shaped the development of the Romantic movement in England and the poetic subjects and forms adapted by that nation's major Romantic poets.
• Identify the ideals expressed in important works by the English Romantic poets Wordsworth, Coleridge, Shelley, Keats, and Byron.
• Trace the development of literary criticism and the growth in depth and scope of the English novel during the first half of the Victorian era.
• Gain insight to the impact of social unrest and political reforms, Empire-building and colonial expansion on the literary works of early- and mid-Victorian writers.

• Literature > The History Of British Literature > The Romantic Era And Victorian Literature
• The Romantic Era (Runtime: 24:54)
• Victorian Literature Part 1 (Runtime: 12:52)
• Victorian Literature Part 2 (Runtime: 13:59)