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- 1. • Name: Trivedi Disha Hiteshbhai • Roll no:36 • Paper no: 6 • Topic: Characteristic of Victorian age • Year: 2015-2017 • Submitted to: Smt. S. B. Gardi Department of English M.K.Bhavnagar University • EMAIL: trivedisha22236@gmail.com
- 2. Characteristic of the age 1. Serialization 2. Industrialization 3. Class 4. Science v/s religion 5. Progress 6. The woman questions 7. Nostalgia 8. Utilitarianism
- 3. • Difference between class • The Victorians were super status conscious. Between the working class and the upper crust, there was the catchall "middle class." And with the middle class growing in the nineteenth century, there were suddenly more class gradations to keep track of. • How much money do you make per year? • Do you have your very own carriage? • What does your family do for a living?
- 4. Serialization in Victorian age • It can be daunting to pick up a Victorian novel. The Penguin edition of Middlemarch weighs in at 880 pages, and it's not an exception. But that's not always how you would have originally encountered them. Many novels were published in parts—in the super trendy three-volume form, or by a monthly dose, or even in a weekly magazine. Why? Mostly it came down to cold hard cash.
- 5. Industrialization • "industrialization" might sound more like economic development than literary history. • But Victorians were seeing major changes—from manufacturing booms to the first railways to widespread urbanization. And it's hard to escape this stuff if you read many 19th-century novels or poems. • In fact, a whole genre developed around it: the industrial or social novel (sometimes it's called "the condition of England" novel).
- 6. Science v/s religion • Victorian theories about nature often work their way into the lit when things take a turn for the bleak—from Tennyson's famous description of nature as "red in tooth and claw," to George Gissing's depressing novels about being poor in London. • Things are pretty wretched in Gissing's New Grub Street: it's like taking Darwin's theories and applying them to the London literary scene. All the characters seem to be in a real struggle for survival. They're trying to make it as writers, but only the strong (or just lucky) survive. It doesn't seem to matter how hard people try, or how much faith they have—sometimes the world (i.e., nature) is against them.
- 7. progress • Victorians loved them some progress, whether it was one person bootstrapping their way up into the middle class, or the entire nation growing bigger and stronger. And the British didn't stop at their borders, either. This was the age of imperialism, and the British colonies stretched as far away as India and Jamaica. But things were always liable to fall apart. •
- 8. nostalgia • The Victorians had a bad case of nostalgia. They could get wistful and sad about just about anything that was over. • Victorian literature is riddled with nostalgia: from historical novels about Robin Hood (Sir Walter Scott's Ivanhoe), to epic poems about the golden days of Camelot (Alfred, Lord Tennyson's Idylls of the King). • This nostalgia probably had more to do with the present than with the past. • Many Victorian writers and thinkers— especially Thomas Carlyle—were convinced that the nineteenth century was facing a crisis. • For example, see everything Carlyle ever wrote.