The Victorian Age 1832-1901 Victorian Age

A brilliant example of this method and one of the greatest masterpieces of literature under critical realism is his

“Vanity Fair”, a novel without a hero, published in 1847-48.

“The History of Pendennis” (1850),

“Henry Esmond” (1852),

“The Newcomes” (1854),

“The Virginians” (1859)

“Denis Duwal”.

“Vanity Fair”

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  Thackeray seems to make a clear division line between angel and monster from the first meeting of two heroines in Miss Pinkerton’s Academy for young ladies.
  
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  Amelia Sedley, with her innocent appearance and her kind disposition, impersonates a perfect Victorian angel while
  
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  Rebecca Sharp, with her vamp-like attractiveness and a wild nature represents a ‘woman-monster’.
  

Robert Louis Stevenson (1850-1894)

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  R.L. Stevenson was a Scottish novelist, essayist, and poet who became one of the world’s most popular writers. He was born on November 13, 1850, in Edinburgh, Scotland.
  
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  Stevenson’s first and most famous novel “Treasure Island” was published in 1883. The characters of the book, the boy hero Jim Hawkins, the two villains Long John Silver and blind Pew, and their search for the buried treasure have become familiar to millions of readers.
  
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  The publication of Stevenson’s second major novel “The Strange Case of Dr. Jekyll and Mr.Hyde” in 1886
  

Alice’s Adventures in Wonderland

by Lewis Carroll (1865)

Arthur Rackham, 1907

John Tenniel, 1865

Helen Oxenbury, 1999

Gothic fiction

Gothic genre

Ghost fiction
Vampire fiction
Witch fiction

Werewolf

fiction

Bram Stoker

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  The gothic novel “Dracula” written by Bram Stoker in 1897
  
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  Stoker's novel is certainly the most prevalent and well-known of the vampire novels, there are other examples of vampires appearing as the villains of gothic horror stories before the publication of Dracula.