jan 1, 1857 - BRATAIN AND USA
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Queen Victoria
Dynamic period and an epoch of expansion
The british empire reached it highest
Widending gaps between the social classes and rich and poor.
Great Britain were the centre of world power
London population grew rapidly
Inventions, the telegraph and the tepephone and other technological inventions
Technological changes shaped the conditions for literature, a multitude of newspapers were printed and were delivered throughtout the country.
Novel was the most important genre
Writers - depict the contemporary world, as they saw it
Social realism, ordinary people became the subject of fiction
In America dramatic events started shaping the literature
Tensions between the south and the North, Civil war, slavery, immigration and expansion were subjects of writing. American English began.
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