Victorian Period [1837-1901]
(New Imperialism and Industrial Revolution)
- Victorian architecture: Medieval Gothic revival, Italianate, Neoclassicism (intricate window frames; incorporates steel as a building component)
- Victorian decorative arts: Orderliness and Ornamentation, Revival of historic styles mixed (introduction of middle east & Asian influences), Gothic & Rococo revival style
-Fashion: If you love costumes and want more information about it. Take a look at Frock Flicks - Costume Movie Reviews (19th-century).
- Literature: Literary realism (social novel, proletarian literature, naturalism ), Children's literature, Gothic literature (supernatural & fantastic literature).
The novel was the most important genre in the Victorian period literature.
- Music (Opera, Operetta & Comic Operas): Gilbert und Sullivan (H.M.S. Pinafore; Trial by Jury, The Gondoliers), Franz Lehár (The Merry Widow), Ferenc…
Victorian Period [1837-1901]
(New Imperialism and Industrial Revolution)
- Victorian architecture: Medieval Gothic revival, Italianate, Neoclassicism (intricate window frames; incorporates steel as a building component)
- Victorian decorative arts: Orderliness and Ornamentation, Revival of historic styles mixed (introduction of middle east & Asian influences), Gothic & Rococo revival style
-Fashion: If you love costumes and want more information about it. Take a look at Frock Flicks - Costume Movie Reviews (19th-century).
- Literature: Literary realism (social novel, proletarian literature, naturalism ), Children's literature, Gothic literature (supernatural & fantastic literature).
The novel was the most important genre in the Victorian period literature.
- Music (Opera, Operetta & Comic Operas): Gilbert und Sullivan (H.M.S. Pinafore; Trial by Jury, The Gondoliers), Franz Lehár (The Merry Widow), Ferenc Liszt, Carl Millöcker (Gasparone), Giacomo Puccini (La bohème, Tosca), Oscar Straus (A Waltz Dream; The Chocolate Soldier), Johann Strauss II (Die Fledermaus; The Gypsy Baron) and Giuseppe Verdi (La traviata)
- Theatre: George Bernard Shaw and Oscar Wilde (The Importance of Being Earnest)
Literary realism: [1848-1890]
Realist authors chose to depict everyday and banal activities and experiences, instead of using a romanticized or similarly stylized presentation. It focused on showing everyday activities and life, primarily among the middle or lower class society, without romantic idealization or dramatization.
Social novel
It is a "work of fiction in which a prevailing social problem, such as gender, race, or class prejudice, is dramatized through its effect on the characters of a novel.
Authors: Honoré de Balzac, Charlotte Brontë (Jane Eyre), Charles Dickens (Bleak House; Little Dorrit), Benjamin Disraeli ( Sybil, or The Two Nations), Fyodor Dostoevsky (Demons; The Brothers Karamazov), Alexandre Dumas, fils, George Eliot (Felix Holt; Middlemarch ), Theodor Fontane (Effi Briest), Gustave Flaubert (Madame Bovary), Benito Pérez Galdós, Elizabeth Gaskell, Thomas Hardy (Under the Greenwood Tree, Jude the Obscure), Victor Hugo (Les Misérables), Thomas Mann (Buddenbrooks), John Steinbeck, Stendhal, Italo Svevo, William Thackeray, Leo Tolstoi, Mark Twain, Giovanni Verga (Cavalleria rusticana of Vita dei campi) and Émile Zola
Proletarian literature
Proletarian literature (socialist realism) is about the working classes and working-class life. The proletarian novel may comment on political events, systems and theories, and is frequently seen as an instrument to promote social reform or political revolution among the working classes.
Authors: Charles Dickens (Hard Times), John Clare, Thomas Cooper, Gerhart Hauptmann (Die Weber), Heinrich Heine, Mike Gold, Robert Tressell (The Ragged Trousered Philanthropists), Thomas Martin Wheeler (Sunshine and Shadows) and Émile Zola (Germinal)
Naturalism
Naturalism (in 19th-century French literature) was a literary movement or tendency from the 1880s to 1930s that used detailed realism to suggest that social conditions, heredity, and environment had inescapable force in shaping human character.
Authors: Hermann Conradi, Stephen Crane, Alphonse Daudet, Fjodor Dostojewski, Theodore Dreiser (Sister Carrie), Edmond & Jules de Goncourt, Maxim Gorki, Thomas Hardy, Gerhart Hauptmann (Vor Sonnenaufgang; The Weavers), Arno Holz, Joris-Karl Huysmans, Henrik Ibsen, Guy de Maupassant, Frank Norris, August Strindberg (The Father, Miss Julie), Lew Tolstoi, Iwan Turgenew, Jules Vallès, Frank Wedekind (Spring Awakening; Lulu) and Émile Zola (Les Rougon-Macquart)
Other lists:
[1933-1963] Modern era Dramas
[1914-1939] Post Edwardian & Interwar Dramas
[1871-1914] Belle Époque & Edwardian Period Films
[1714-1837] Georgian era & Romantic Period films
[1600-1770] Baroque & the Enlightenment era Films
[14th-17th century] Renaissance & Elizabethan Era Films
[500-1500] Medieval Films = in progress
Other sources:
Enchanted-Serenity-Period-Films-Blog (Victorian era)