Most part of the ideas about the Victorians
and the attitudes toward their age change within the times. Modern
writers often saw the Victorians chiefly as repressed and over-confident.
Reality was also a part of the Victorians' world, but it was not the base
of their work. The power ful of that time made most of thier citizens feel
independent, almost sure of their political power and thier economic wealth.The
belief in institutions was stronger than ever. Patriotism, democracy (democracy
of that times), religion, familiy and sexual morality were considered as
pilars of the Victorian world. But the private lifes were a different thing,
and certain hypocresy was there.
However, in this victorian world, where Dickens
and G. Eliot made of realism their works' base, authors like Arthur Conan
Doyle or Robert L. Stevenson, towards the end of the XIX century, made
of the adventure novels a new world to explore. The basis for science-fiction
was created Stevenson in his work Dr. Jeckyll and Mr. Hyde, althoug
it had remains of the romantic novel the fisrt terror novels. But waht
it was different was the inner core of science, wich played an important
role in the novel.
This important difference was expanded by H.G. Wells, probably the
first pure sci-fi writer.