Victorian age(1837-1901) Ferchichi,Grazini,Luzi
History
Queen Victoria came to the throne in 1837 succeding William IV
Wars to protect British trading routes
1839-1842:Opium War against China
1853-1856:Crimean War against Turkey
1851:The Great Exhibition
Period of progress
Two main political parties:Liberals and Conservatives
Social refoms
Ten Hours Act(1847):working hours per day were limited to 10
The Common Lodging Houses Act(1851)
Labouring Classes Houses Act(1851)
British Empire was so powerful and wide
New territories
India(1857)
Australiasia(Australia and New Zealand)
South Africa
Some parts of China under British government
The Victorian novel
Charles Dickens
Born in 1812 in Portsmouth
Unhappy childhood
He became a newspaper reporter
He had to work in a factory at the age of 12
Authobiographical novels
Oliver Twist(1838)
David Copperfield(1849-50)
Little dorrit(1857)
Setting of the novels
The parochial world
The criminal world
The Victorian middle class
Died in 1870
Robert Louis Stevenson
Born in 1850
Calvinist family
He travelled a lot when he was adolescent
He was gratuated in engineering...
In conflict with the Victorian society and morality
First example of "bohemian" in UK
...and later in law
In 1875 he started writing novels
Treasure Island(1883)
The strange case of Dr.Jekyll and Mr.Hyde(1886)
He married an American woman
Died in 1894
The setting was the city
Omniscent narrator
Long and complicated plot
Analysis of characters
Justification of events in the last chapter
Social and humanitarian novels
Charles Dickens
Psycological novels
Emily and Charlotte Bronte
First published in instalments of periodicals
growt of towns
Factories
Woman's novel
Jane Austen