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THE VICTORIAN AGE (1837-1901) (VICTORIAN VALUES (Respectability and…
THE VICTORIAN AGE
(1837-1901)
V. COMPRIMISE
AND contracdition
(1 and o. hand)
P +++
Expanding pow.
mission
patriotism
The Great Exhibition
Prog.
industrial revolution
Social ref.
Victoria reigned const.
Conservatives
Liberals
corn laws ,chartist movement
N - - -
the change was rapid and drammatic
poverty
slums
crime
disease infact (h^ Death rate)
lack of hygine
pollution
injustice and terrible w. cond. for w. cl.
VICTORIAN VALUES
Respectability
and charity
church
owership
good manners
hard work
personal duty
family
man autority
women
house
children education
patriarchal
CONDEMEND
"fallen women"
poverty
omosexuality
RELIGION AND SOCIAL THINKING
Utilitarianism
happiness
avoidance the pain
usefulness
Empiricism
education
knowledge
legislation help men
EVANGELICALISM
strict code of morality
humanitarian causes and s. refo.
Darwinism
str+++ species survived
evolution
incessantly changing
VICTORIAN FASHION
gowns
lavishly trimmed
(fr.flo.lace.braid.fringe.ruche.ribbo.)
heavy petti., layers of underc. ,metal hoo. ,tight cors., pointed boned bod. of w.b
mysterious combination (unc. and inc. with friv. and decora.)
were hidden by (ornat.) underslee., coll. ,peleri. ,fan. ,glo. ,cappelli e parasoli
VICTORIAN NOVEL
most popular entertainment
features
analysis of characters
setting in city
omniscent narrator
long and complicated plot
climax ( in the final chapter the events are expl. and justif.)
3 period
MID
W: Bronte sisters , Robert Stevenson
Th: romantic and gothic traditions psycological vein
LATE
Th : sense of dissatisfaction with values of the age
W : Oscar Wilde , Thomas Hardy
EARLY
W : Charles Dickens
Th: social and humanitarian