Charles Dickens Research Paper

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The Victorian Era roughly runs from approximately 1830 to 1900. This period was greatly controversial, even things as the name was debateable. The name given to the period is borrowed from the royal Queen of England, Queen Victoria, who overseen England from 1837 to 1901. For many historians, accurately stating where the Romantic Era leaves off and the Victorian Era begins because these two periods have a lot of common characteristics. Victorian Era, a literary period where people adopted their own style from Romanticized works from the previous era. The Victorian writers exhibited some well-established habits from previous eras, while at the same time pushing arts and letters in new and interesting directions. Indeed, some of the later Victorian novelists and poets are nearly indistinguishable from the Modernists who followed shortly thereafter. In spite of the uncertainty of …show more content…

One example, of that is Charles Dickens. Dickens symbolizes the Victorian novelist better than any other writer. Very popular during the Victorian Era, with his characters forming a distinctive personally of their own off the page. Although his era is over, he is still the most interesting and most read author to this day.During this time, the public had various journal style writings in rotation including Dickens’ work. His first real novel, The Pickwick Papers, written when he was only 25, was an overnight success, and all his subsequent works sold extremely well. Charles Dickens tended to dictate the direction of all literature of the era, not least because he edited All the Year Round a literary journal of the time. His fondness for a happy ending with all the loose ends neatly tied up is clear and although he is well known for writing about the lives of the poor they are sentimentalized portraits, made acceptable for people of character to read; to be shocked but not