Genre B: Who Reads, and Popular Fictions

Who Reads and Popular Fictions

First off, readers of this time period were accustomed to adult novels which used long complicated words with extended descriptive sentences
The novels often focused on family values and emphasized societal values
At this time, fiction began to turn towards darker themes
 Began to focus on more realistic tales instead of an idealistic style that used to be more popular amongst writers
Stories began to get more complex in general as fiction began to look more and more similar to life, reflecting their works in visual art as well
The Victorian style of both fictional literature and Victorian artwork are both characterized by their striking similarities to everyday life, not making what is really there any more fantastical than it really is, nor making it too plain to be regarded as a simple re-telling of daily life.
The fiction novels, although this may be a self-contradicting term, could be labelled as “realistic fiction”

- Mr. Wong