5c. Study Help
Concepts & terms to remember
Check your Literary History file whether you've taken notes on all these concepts/terms.
General historical background
- Industrial Revolution
- Queen Victoria
- Victorian values
- Urbanisation
- Workhouses
- The Great Exhibition
- Crimean War
- Boer War
- Darwinism
Novels
- Genres (Gothic; Novel of Manners; Bildungsroman (or coming-of-age); Pastoral; Fantasy; Proletarian; Detective; Horror / science-fiction)
- Perspective (first person; second person; third person - omniscient and limited)
- Plot
- Themes
- Serialised fiction