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Victoria, Albert and their 9 children in 1857
The  Victorian  period 1830/1901 3 periods:  1. the hungry forties   social and economic problems (slump in industry + bad crops) Chartist Movement= social reforms: Universal suffrage, vote by ballot, Annual Parliaments, Payment of the members of Parliament, Abolition of the property Qualification so the working class too could have representatives....... Too early= failure Trade Unions legalized in 1825 grew stronger and stronger Deckens/Gaskell denounce high rate mortality/exploitation of children-Nightingale 1849 the Communist manifesto of Marx and Engels
Second period  Apix of Optimism Caused by Free trade = uncontrolled flow of economical transaction with foreign countries( middle class richer and richer) The flourishing of INDUSTRY and AGRICOLTURE 1851  the Crystal Palace =exhibition of modern industry and science but:.
It was an ARTIFICIAL OPTIMISM MAIN IDEA:  respectability  based on the  Puritan code : Sunday Observance Bill_  established by custom : no entertainment on Sundays- hard work -Puritan sexual behaviour =Prudery  female innocence ( in 1850 there were 8,000 prostitutes-separate beaches etc) veils on statues !!! Bad taste
油
The British empire 1886 the largest extension :idea of  excellence of British culture and institutions Jingoism E. people believed in their right / the empire had to absorb the excess of production Contradiction between the  liberal ideas  and  the  imperialistic ambition.
Respectability  Respectability = mirror of the insecurity of the new powerful class  based on external conformity/morality/hypocrisy E.g. THE FATHER( by di vi ne right) NO DIVORCE LARGE FAMILIES =symbol of success 1870 artificial methods- large families cost!!!!
3 social Classes :aristocracy /  middle class / the poor They had a separate justice A separate morality A different life Crusades of some philanthropic groups to have Acts passed in defence of the poor Overcrowded houses
油
Hard work Hard work + sobriety +experience+ostentation from worldly pleasure =  success If you were poor it was your fault ( theory of predestination) Work-houses Men work hard. Competition,courage, physical strength
Workhouses  Unbearable life conditions for the servant-Keeping class A sort of prisons Not to make people desire to go there Connected with the Victorian Compromise
Pessimism at the turn of the century Bentham  utilitarianism ( hard times)  the greatest good for the greatest number of people Darwin  the strong survived the weak perished Shopenhauer God, free will immortality of the soul= human illusions Comte replaced religion and metaphysics with sociological ethics Reaction at Victorian ideals

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Victorian History

  • 1. Victoria, Albert and their 9 children in 1857
  • 2. The Victorian period 1830/1901 3 periods: 1. the hungry forties social and economic problems (slump in industry + bad crops) Chartist Movement= social reforms: Universal suffrage, vote by ballot, Annual Parliaments, Payment of the members of Parliament, Abolition of the property Qualification so the working class too could have representatives....... Too early= failure Trade Unions legalized in 1825 grew stronger and stronger Deckens/Gaskell denounce high rate mortality/exploitation of children-Nightingale 1849 the Communist manifesto of Marx and Engels
  • 3. Second period Apix of Optimism Caused by Free trade = uncontrolled flow of economical transaction with foreign countries( middle class richer and richer) The flourishing of INDUSTRY and AGRICOLTURE 1851 the Crystal Palace =exhibition of modern industry and science but:.
  • 4. It was an ARTIFICIAL OPTIMISM MAIN IDEA: respectability based on the Puritan code : Sunday Observance Bill_ established by custom : no entertainment on Sundays- hard work -Puritan sexual behaviour =Prudery female innocence ( in 1850 there were 8,000 prostitutes-separate beaches etc) veils on statues !!! Bad taste
  • 5.
  • 6. The British empire 1886 the largest extension :idea of excellence of British culture and institutions Jingoism E. people believed in their right / the empire had to absorb the excess of production Contradiction between the liberal ideas and the imperialistic ambition.
  • 7. Respectability Respectability = mirror of the insecurity of the new powerful class based on external conformity/morality/hypocrisy E.g. THE FATHER( by di vi ne right) NO DIVORCE LARGE FAMILIES =symbol of success 1870 artificial methods- large families cost!!!!
  • 8. 3 social Classes :aristocracy / middle class / the poor They had a separate justice A separate morality A different life Crusades of some philanthropic groups to have Acts passed in defence of the poor Overcrowded houses
  • 9.
  • 10. Hard work Hard work + sobriety +experience+ostentation from worldly pleasure = success If you were poor it was your fault ( theory of predestination) Work-houses Men work hard. Competition,courage, physical strength
  • 11. Workhouses Unbearable life conditions for the servant-Keeping class A sort of prisons Not to make people desire to go there Connected with the Victorian Compromise
  • 12. Pessimism at the turn of the century Bentham utilitarianism ( hard times) the greatest good for the greatest number of people Darwin the strong survived the weak perished Shopenhauer God, free will immortality of the soul= human illusions Comte replaced religion and metaphysics with sociological ethics Reaction at Victorian ideals

Editor's Notes

  • #6: EXAMPLES OF THE BAD TASTE OF THE Victorian opulence
  • #8: Pag e14