Library of Congress Classifications
Library of Congress Subject Headings
PR 1-9680: English Literature
PR 1-56: Literary History and Criticism
PR 57-78: Criticism
PR 451-469: 19th Century
PR 500-614: Poetry
PR 521-614: By Period
PR 621-744: Drama
PR 641-744: By Period
PR 750-890: Prose
PR 767-818: By Period
PR 821-890: Prose Fiction. The Novel
PR 921-928: Essays
PR 3991-5990: 19th Century, 1770/1800-1890/1990
Introduction to 19th Century British Literature
The 19th century was an exciting, groundbreaking time for the world of British Literature. Not only did this magnificent literary century contain two of the most renowned literary movements, but it was during this time that such prolific female writers as Jane Austen, Charlotte Bronte, Emily Bronte, Elizabeth Barrett Browning, Mary Shelley, and George Elliot (Mary Ann Evans) made their way into what was so often a man's world, especially where poetry was concerned. The big six Romantic poets; Blake, Worsdworth, Coleridge, Byron, Keats, and Percy Shelley changed the face of British Poetry which had long been set to the metered rhymes of Shakepeare and Alexander Pope. Victorian Poets such as Tennyson, Matthew Arnold, and Robert Browning, while much more reserved than the Romantics, continued to change poetry as well. Novels, which had had once been thought of as secondary literature that "only women liked to read" burst forth, including such titles, as The Picture of Dorian Gray, Jane Eyre, Wuthering Heights, Pride and Prejudice, A Tale of Two Cities, and Great Expectations. Tennyson wrote the beautiful Lady of Shalott, and Wordsworth and Coleridge wrote the poetry collection Literary Ballads. Byron became the first literary celebrity. To have 100 years containing two such distinct, but ground-breaking literary movements, as well as producing some of the greatest authors known to us, is truly a rarity indeed.
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