I would like to expand my knowledge of the Victorian and Edwardian period and am looking for a few suggestions. I would like the titles of any literature, literary criticism, anthropology and history books you would recommend as interesting and intelligent.
Thanks.
What are the best books regarding Victorian and Edwardian literature?
Charles Dickens exemplifies the Victorian novel better than any other writer. Extraordinarily popular in his day with his characters taking on a life of their own beyond the page, Dickens is still the most popular and read author of the time.
Other significant Victorian novelists include: the Brontë sisters (Emily Brontë and Charlotte Brontë), George Eliot, Thomas Hardy, Robert Louis Stevenson, William Thackeray, Anthony Trollope, Oscar Wilde, Lord Alfred Tennyson, Robert Browning, George Bernard Shaw, and Joseph Conrad.
In Edwardian fiction, some of the best-known names are H.G. Wells, John Galsworthy, Arnold Bennett, Joseph Conrad, P.G.Wodehouse and E.M. Forster.
Reply:Joseph Conrad's famous book Heart of Darkness. It came out in the Victorian Era. It is fictional, but it is heavily based on his experiences in the Congo (Africa). It suggests that when man is taken out of society, or Victorian England, and placed in a jungle environment, he will de-evolve in a way. His behavior reverts back to that of a savage or even a beast. It is Darwinian in theory.
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