Victorian literature?

[Lovelace]

What's characteristic for this kind of literature, both in novels and poems?

[Rubeskies]

the Brontë sisters, (Anne, Emily and Charlotte Brontë), Robert Browning, Elizabeth Barrett Browning, Edward Bulwer-Lytton, Lewis Carroll, Wilkie Collins, Charles Dickens, Benjamin Disraeli, George Eliot, Elizabeth Gaskell, George Gissing, Thomas Hardy, A. E. Housman, Rudyard Kipling, Robert Louis Stevenson, Bram Stoker, Philip Meadows Taylor, Lord Alfred Tennyson, William Thackeray, Anthony Trollope and Oscar Wilde.

-The novel becomes the dominant form of English Literature
-Tended to be idealized portraits of difficult lives in which hard work, perseverance, love and luck win out in the end; virtue would be rewarded and wrong-doers are suitably punished.
-They tended to be of an improving nature with a central moral lesson at heart, informing the reader how to be a good Victorian.
-Transition from the Romantic Era to the Modernist Era.