VICTORIAN WRITING AND PERIODICAL LITERATURE

Perhaps one of the most notable observations that concern Victorian writing was the wide range of British periodicals which came to be perceived as a new and powerful literary force that left its mark on the nineteenth-century literary milieu. It is generally considered nowadays that both the periodicals and the newly developed printing technologies truly represented the spirit of the age. And, as early as 1828, periodicals were predicted an increasingly influential future while periodical literature was regarded as being capable of acting upon the minds of all social classes and of setting up its own definitions of what 'right' and 'wrong' meant. The changed social environment that witnessed the growth of population and of literacy - owing to the widespread of general minimal education, the widening of the social system, and the implementation of the innovative technical devices enabled periodical literature to assert its remarkable influence throughout the Victorian age.