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Victorian age (Brodo,Chiodo, Di Rienzo) (Stevenson (poor health…
Victorian age
(Brodo,Chiodo, Di Rienzo)
History
1837-1901
Queen Victoria's Reign
Second longest reign in Great Britain history
POLITICS
Internal politics
Period of progress and social and economic stability
Queen Victoria never overruled the Parliament
Good relationship between the queen and the two parties(liberals and conservatives)
Lots of reforms
Ten hours act 1847
Reducing working hours to 10 a day
Corn laws
Taxes on imported corn
Reforms for making life in slums
better
Common Lodging Houses Act
Labouring Classes Lodging Houses Act
Foreign politics
First Opium War against China
Stevenson
born in 1850 in Edinburg
poor health
childhood in bed
engineering in university
conflict with social environment
graduated in law in 1875
devote himself writing
Trasure Island
The Strange Case of Dr Jekyll and Mr Hyds
Kidnapped
The master of Ballantral
Died of brain hermorrage in 1894
Dickens
unhappy childhood
father imprisoned for debt
his wife and children too
work in factory
born in 1812 in Portsmouth
Newspaper reporter
Pen name "Boz"
1836 "Sketches by Box"
Autobiographical novels
Oliver Twist(1838)
David Copperfield
Hard Times
Busy edtitor of magazines
Died in 1870
Novel
Reasons of success
Cheap (instalments)
Realistic
Expressing emotions
Based on moral value
Often critical of excesses in industrialisation and deterioration of the rural lifestyle
Characters
Good characters rewarded
Bad characters punished
Middle class and self made man
Not against progress
Themes
Morality
Women's conditions
Conflict among classes
Social, economic and religious themes
Reaction against the evils and ugliness of this world