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Victorian period

Monica Sotelo
Monica Sotelo

Victorian time - Queen Victoria Social context, values - Victorian morality Social facts (economy, family, population) Domestic life - Home sweet home Women's role - patriarchal society Prostitution - child labor Victorian literature

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Victorian period
Victorian period
Victorian Era Queen Victoria (20 June 1837 22 January 1901) Victorianum - Victorian morality set of moral standards, often hypocritically applied. Highly moralistic behavior Conservative language
Victorian period
Elite control society/politics The upper class (the elite) valued Segregation of social classes History Heritage, linage Continuity family line Noblesse oblige Born to rule through divine Duty to take care of society
Social facts Economy Family + Population Less mortality/diseases* Healthier environment Improvement nutrition Sewage works quality of water Industrial Revolution Better Income Prosperity/train Better living standards + Middle class + Marriages Young couples Woman had + children PROSPERITY * Colera epidemic, typhoid, tuberculosis
Home sweet home
Escape from: Violence - Alcohol - Dirty - Noice Parlour most important Sideboard focal point Dining room 2nd importantNovella /read at home Ornaments / interests CONFORT DOMESTIC LIFE Idealism Victorias home Orderliness Ornamentation Idealistic Divided rooms Home/Family
PRIVACY = a hallmark of the middle class life Maintanace of a FACADE and APPEARANCES. Separation classes owners / servants Sex Segregation different exits - temptation Novelist were interested on family secrets Public and private space carefully separated. CULT OF DOMESTICITY open by invitation: parties or teas. Book of Household Management by Mrs Beenton
Woman role PATRIARCAL SOCIETY Female purity Homemaking role Free from pollution/corruption Men were allowed to divorce for adultery. Women only adultery + cruelty.
Behind the fa巽ade
Prostitution HUMAN COMMODITIES Dickens: prostitution = mechanisation/industrialisation - Reform close brothels - Concentration of street-prostitution in Whitechapel. - Jack the Ripper prostitute murders took place. (1880) Prostitutes consumed and thrown away.
Child labor The children of the poor help family budget long hours / dangerous jobs / low wages Factories and mines as chimney sweeps Charles Dickens Oliver Twist
The Victorians are credited with children literature Efforts to stop child labour Introduction of education learn to read Lewis Caroll Alice in Wonderland Who in the world am I? That is the great puzzel Victorian literature Main genre: NOVEL . Sub genre: Gothic Novel - people liked occultism, ghost stories. Combines romance - horror Attempt to thrill readers Fantastic fiction old gothic tales late 19th Mary Shelley Frankenstein Industrial society
Fictional characters Bram Stocker Dracula (1897) Gothic horror novel. Vampire character Sir Arthur Conan Doyle Sherlock Holmes (1887) Consulting detective Uses logical reasoning
The Picture of Dorian Gray (1890) - Moral duplicity and self- indulgence and their negative consequences. Happy Prince (1888) part of a collection of stories for children Oscar wilde Every saint has a past, and every sinner has a future Oscar Wilde
Anne, Charlotte and Emily Bront谷 - They wrote under pseudonyms Emily's work> Wuthering Heights example of Gothic Romanticism from a woman's point of view. Anne's novel: Agnes Grey based on Bront谷's own experiences - the precarious situation faced by a governess and how it affected a young woman. Charlotte卒s novel: Jane Eyre elements of social criticism and sense of morality. The three bronte sisters
Dickens' novels usually end with every character getting the kind of ending they deserve. Good people - happy endings/bad people - sad endings. "Oliver Twist It reflects the problem of child labor in Victorian society. A Christmas Carol themes like compassion, fraternity and redemption A loving heart is a the truest wisdom Charles Dickens Charles dickens
Uses the name of a man to write. Real name Mary Ann Evans. She Used a pseudonym to be taken seriously. Wanted to escape the stereotype of women who write about romance. " Adam Bede The novel revolves around a love "rectangle. George elliot It is never too late to be what you might have been. George Elliot
Victorian period
You dont love someone for their looks, or their clothes, or for their fancy car, but because they sing a song only you can hear. - Oscar Wilde
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  • 3. Victorian Era Queen Victoria (20 June 1837 22 January 1901) Victorianum - Victorian morality set of moral standards, often hypocritically applied. Highly moralistic behavior Conservative language
  • 5. Elite control society/politics The upper class (the elite) valued Segregation of social classes History Heritage, linage Continuity family line Noblesse oblige Born to rule through divine Duty to take care of society
  • 6. Social facts Economy Family + Population Less mortality/diseases* Healthier environment Improvement nutrition Sewage works quality of water Industrial Revolution Better Income Prosperity/train Better living standards + Middle class + Marriages Young couples Woman had + children PROSPERITY * Colera epidemic, typhoid, tuberculosis
  • 8. Escape from: Violence - Alcohol - Dirty - Noice Parlour most important Sideboard focal point Dining room 2nd importantNovella /read at home Ornaments / interests CONFORT DOMESTIC LIFE Idealism Victorias home Orderliness Ornamentation Idealistic Divided rooms Home/Family
  • 9. PRIVACY = a hallmark of the middle class life Maintanace of a FACADE and APPEARANCES. Separation classes owners / servants Sex Segregation different exits - temptation Novelist were interested on family secrets Public and private space carefully separated. CULT OF DOMESTICITY open by invitation: parties or teas. Book of Household Management by Mrs Beenton
  • 10. Woman role PATRIARCAL SOCIETY Female purity Homemaking role Free from pollution/corruption Men were allowed to divorce for adultery. Women only adultery + cruelty.
  • 12. Prostitution HUMAN COMMODITIES Dickens: prostitution = mechanisation/industrialisation - Reform close brothels - Concentration of street-prostitution in Whitechapel. - Jack the Ripper prostitute murders took place. (1880) Prostitutes consumed and thrown away.
  • 13. Child labor The children of the poor help family budget long hours / dangerous jobs / low wages Factories and mines as chimney sweeps Charles Dickens Oliver Twist
  • 14. The Victorians are credited with children literature Efforts to stop child labour Introduction of education learn to read Lewis Caroll Alice in Wonderland Who in the world am I? That is the great puzzel Victorian literature Main genre: NOVEL . Sub genre: Gothic Novel - people liked occultism, ghost stories. Combines romance - horror Attempt to thrill readers Fantastic fiction old gothic tales late 19th Mary Shelley Frankenstein Industrial society
  • 15. Fictional characters Bram Stocker Dracula (1897) Gothic horror novel. Vampire character Sir Arthur Conan Doyle Sherlock Holmes (1887) Consulting detective Uses logical reasoning
  • 16. The Picture of Dorian Gray (1890) - Moral duplicity and self- indulgence and their negative consequences. Happy Prince (1888) part of a collection of stories for children Oscar wilde Every saint has a past, and every sinner has a future Oscar Wilde
  • 17. Anne, Charlotte and Emily Bront谷 - They wrote under pseudonyms Emily's work> Wuthering Heights example of Gothic Romanticism from a woman's point of view. Anne's novel: Agnes Grey based on Bront谷's own experiences - the precarious situation faced by a governess and how it affected a young woman. Charlotte卒s novel: Jane Eyre elements of social criticism and sense of morality. The three bronte sisters
  • 18. Dickens' novels usually end with every character getting the kind of ending they deserve. Good people - happy endings/bad people - sad endings. "Oliver Twist It reflects the problem of child labor in Victorian society. A Christmas Carol themes like compassion, fraternity and redemption A loving heart is a the truest wisdom Charles Dickens Charles dickens
  • 19. Uses the name of a man to write. Real name Mary Ann Evans. She Used a pseudonym to be taken seriously. Wanted to escape the stereotype of women who write about romance. " Adam Bede The novel revolves around a love "rectangle. George elliot It is never too late to be what you might have been. George Elliot
  • 21. You dont love someone for their looks, or their clothes, or for their fancy car, but because they sing a song only you can hear. - Oscar Wilde