VICTORIAN AGE
by Elide Spacciante
1. Overseas colonies increased and India was the most important
2. Queen Victoria's reign 1837-1901 (64 years)
3. Knowledge and religion were very important and there was also a progress in science, chemistry, engineering
4. In 1854 London underground was built
5. Some laws, First Reform Act and Factory Act, tried to riform social and economic conditions
6. Industrian revolution was in full flood but children and workers were exploited
7. 18 years old, very young. She was helped to govern
8. She restored the popularity of the monarchy
9. Period of relative peace for England
10. Age of contradictions but the Victorians became great moralizers: religion, family, home, good manners were important. Patriarchal families. Puritan society. Despite the problems, people accepted things as they were because there was a certain prosperity (Victorian Compromise= morality+hipocrisy)
11. About 1880 the so-called Victorianism (mixture of optimism, chauvinism, doubt and guilt) ended and a new kind of literature emerged
12. Connection between ART and MORALITY
13. NOVELISTS: Dickens (Oliver Twist, David Copperfield), Thackeray, Bronte sisters, Eliot, Hardy
14. NOVEL: the most important genre
15. LITERATURE:
