VICTORIAN AGE
Progress
Industrialism
Urbanisation
Gas, lighting, water
Literature
Novel writing
DICKENS
didactic's and denouncing social problems' aim
periodicals, installments
public of women
turn of events; complicated plots
he lived an exploited life himself
Oliver Twist
asking for more = rebellion, crime
good are rewarded, bad are punished (irrealistic)
Hard Times
Compromise
accepting the poorness in the name of the wealthy
public virtues / private vices
RESPECTABILITY
Regress
Exploitation of workers
long hours of work
children and women
WORKHOUSES
offering a place where poor can live in
working and starving
splitting family
• pollution
• slums, quarters
Context
When? 2nd half of 1800
Why? Victoria's reign
Philosophy? Materialism, pragmatism, positivism
What? Imperialism
"10 Hours Act"
STEVENSON
Calvinist family
Family: strictness and respectability
Him: anti-conventional
Strange case of Doctor Jekyll and Mr. Hyde
alter-ego; doppelgänger
Mr. Hyde
evilish, damned, sinful
bad small part VS good big part
public virtues / private vices: in characters and architecture
Imperialism
Cultural, military, intellectual, trading, RACIAL SUPERIORITY
The White Man's Burden
KIPLING
WILDE