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Victorian Literature, Culture, and Power, Capitalism, Femininity,…

- - - - Thomas Carlyle
        
        Argues that workers in the Industrial Age are worse off than even the peasants in the Middle Ages
        
        Workers have the "freedom" to die of starvation
- - - - Women were also seen as morally superior to men and as such in charge of moral education of the children
      - In an attempt to justify their new prevalence, (besides merely having the money) the middle class made the assertion that they were morally superior
        
        This is where the link between social class and morality originated
- - - - The angel of the house holds a moral superiority over her husband
        
        It is a woman's role to inspire her husband to make moral decisions even when the harsh public sphere (AKA capitalism) try to sway him to immoral action
- - - - Apolitical Women
        
        Giving female characters radical political views allowed the ideas to slide as apolitical inherent truth since women were considered apolitical. This was a tool the middle class used to spread its values in novels
- - - - The 'New Woman' is similar to the Femme Fatale
        
        Men blamed the New woman/femme fatale for their own feelings of desire they felt for the woman
- - - - The Victorians relied on gay people as a tool to make straight people paranoid
      - Ironically, this logic launched the modern gay rights movement
      - This shift is largely due to the shift from religious authority to the new authority of science
        
        Havelock Ellis, "Studies in the Psychology of Sex"
  - - - Concludes that we don't need women to reproduce because there are already plenty of people on earth so we can focus on "bettering" society with these male companionships
        
        He believes that women are useless because they only want to be complimented on their physical beauty and have no interest in their intelligence
  - - - "Violated the standards of middle class propriety" (Cohen 803)
    - - Oscar Wilde was on trial for "gross indecency"
        
        He gives a passionate speech in his defense calling "the love that dare not speak its name"
        
        He argues that "the love that dare not speak its name" is like a mentorship and is the "Noblest form of affection
      - They read passages from The Picture of Dorian Grey as evidence in the trial
      - Ed Cohen, "Writing Gone Wilde"
- - - - a Realism book
- - - - Brönte is a racist anti-colonialist because she is against colonialism because she fears that the English will take on the characteristics of the colonized people if they continue to interact with them via colonialism.
- - - - Race was a justification of imperialism
        
        Empire By Nathan Hensley
        
        The Sun and Moon were made to give them light By Cannon Schmitt
        
        Scientific Racism