1. It is practical to every day life and contains ideas for human progress.
2. Most of it has a moral purpose instead of being purely for "Art's sake"
3. It is impacted by the Science of the time so there is a lot of idealism regarding man's relation to the world.
4. A lot of emphasis on the great ideals: truth, justice, love, etc.
At the beginning of the age the stories ended with hardwork, love and luck winning, the bad characters being punished. However, as the century progressed, the stories became more complex. Some of the most famous Victorian writers are William Thackeray, Charlotte Bronte, Charles Dickens, Elizabeth Gaskell, George Eliot, and Thomas Hardy.
http://www.victorianweb.org/authors/dickens/pva/pva90.html
http://olenglish.pbworks.com/f/Victorian+Lit.+Char.pdf
http://www.public.iastate.edu/~khickok/victoriannovel.html
http://www.victorianweb.org/authors/dickens/pva/pva90.html
http://olenglish.pbworks.com/f/Victorian+Lit.+Char.pdf
http://www.public.iastate.edu/~khickok/victoriannovel.html
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