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CONCEPT MAP (English) THE VICTORIAN AGE (1837–1901) - Coggle Diagram
CONCEPT MAP (English)
THE VICTORIAN AGE (1837–1901)
Historical Context :
Age of progress, reforms, colonial expansion
Two parties: Liberals and Conservatives
Reign of Queen Victoria
Major Reforms :
Abolition of Corn Laws (1846)
Chartist Movement (1838): political rights → fails but later becomes law
Ten Hours Act (1847)
The Great Exhibition (1851) :
Showcased industrial and scientific progress
Increased British prestige
Held at the Crystal Palace
Life in Victorian Towns :
Diseases (cholera, tuberculosis)
Harsh working conditions
Overcrowding
Urban reforms: hospitals, public services, police (“Bobbies”)
Poverty :
Poor Laws worsen conditions
Criticised by Blake and Dickens
Slums
Poverty seen first as a crime, later as a social issue
Victorian Architecture :
Gothic for churches and homes
After 1855: Gothic Revival
Classical style for public buildings
The Victorian Compromise :
Values: work, respectability, family, chastity
Philanthropy by upper-class women
Mix of morality and hypocrisy
Hiding negative aspects of progress
Victorian Family :
Authoritarian father
Woman as “angel in the house”
Patriarchal
Repression of sexuality
Women’s Role :
Some women break boundaries: sports, travel, nursing
Key figures: Florence Nightingale, Marianne North
Domestic duties
The British Empire :
Belief in racial superiority
“White man’s burden”
Expansion in India, Africa, Asia, Oceania
The Victorian Novel :
Serialized publication
Social and psychological themes
Popular among middle class
Omniscient narrator
Authors: Dickens, Brontë sisters, Hardy, Stevenson, Wilde
Moral ending