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Victorian Literature, Culture, and Power, The Domestic Sphere - Coggle…

- - - - Friedrich Engels: “The strongest of all, a tiny group of capitalists, monopolize everything, while the weakest, who are in the vast majority, succumb to the most abject poverty” (1566).
      - Need for a "Chivalry of Work:" “No Working World, any more than a Fighting World, can be led on without a noble Chivalry of Work, and laws and fixed rules which follow out of that…Good Heavens, will not one French Revolution and Reign of Terror suffice us, but must there be two?” (5)
- - - - In Jane Eyre, Brontë describes the oppression that white women faced in Victorian society as similar to that of non-white persons, but simultaneously upholds the racism
    - - In 1807, the slave trade is abolished in England, meaning merchants can no longer participate in trade
      - In 1833, slavery is abolished in all British possessions, though not all at once
    - - Nathan Hensley, Empire: "Victorian and later writers described this kind of imposed change toward a predetermined goal as “modernization”; postcolonial scholars have referred to it more critically as cultural imperialism" (4).
      - In Late-Victorian era, there are increasing doubts on the Christian faith, many turn to the British Empire as a replacement, by uniting the world we can create peace on earth
    - - Need for imperialism to promote technological and cultural advancements to developing peoples otherwise called by Rudyard Kipling the "White Man's Burden"
    - - The history of the Vincey family offered by Leo’s father from “Kallikrates” to the present reflects how Victorians viewed the British Empire: “Westward goes the course of empire,” Britain thinks its the inheritors of the great empires of history, Greece, Rome, Egypt
  - - - “By the beginning of the Victorian period, the Industrial Revolution had already created profound economic and social changes. Hundreds of thousands of workers had migrated to the industrial towns, where they lived in horribly crowded, unsanitary housing and labored very long hours–fourteen a day or more–at very low wages” (1556).
- - - - Communist Manifesto: "A part of the bourgeoisie is desirous of redressing social grievances in order to secure the continued existence of bourgeois society. They desire the existing state of society, minus its revolutionary and disintegrating elements" (31).
  - - - Charles Kains Jackson, "The New Chivalry": “Where boy and girl are of equal outward grace the spiritual ideal will prevail over the animal and the desire of influencing the higher mind, the boy’s, will prevail over the old desire to add to the population. The higher form of influence will be chosen” (156).
    - - Ed Cohen, "Writing Gone Wilde": "Thus, the development of Dorian's 'perfect nature' underscores the disjunction between male homoerotic experience and the historical means of expressing it, so that his strategic mediation between them enables desire to enter the novel explicitly" (808).
      - Innovative for its thinly-veiled references to homosexuality, though arguably moralistic: “For every sin that he committed, a stain would fleck and wreck its fairness” (Chapter VII).