the victorian period 1833-1901
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The Victorian Period 1833-1901. By Dr. Carter. Queen Victoria. One of England’s powerful, long-reigning queens who support social moral standards. Married Albert of Saxe-Coburg and Gotha, had nine children. Age of Reform. Reform Bills - 1832, 1867, 1884-85 Slavery abolished - 1833 - PowerPoint PPT PresentationTRANSCRIPT
The Victorian Period1833-1901
By Dr. Carter
Queen VictoriaQueen Victoria
One of England’s powerful,One of England’s powerful,long-reigning queens long-reigning queens who support socialwho support socialmoral standards.moral standards.Married Albert of Married Albert of Saxe-Coburg and Gotha, Saxe-Coburg and Gotha, had nine childrenhad nine children
Age of Reform
Reform Bills - 1832, 1867, 1884-85Slavery abolished - 1833Repeal of Corn Laws - 1846Other reforms:
public educationwomen’s educationestablished work week
for women & children
Age of Imperialism
Opium Wars (1839-42)
Crimean War (1853-56)
Indian Mutiny (1857-58)
Boer War (1899-1902)
Acquisitions: Afghanistan, Botswana, Burma, Egypt, Gambia, Hong Kong, Kenya, Malawi, Malaysia, Nigeria, Singapore, South Africa, Sudan, Uganda, and Zimbabwe
Age of Controversy
science v. sentimentalismcomplacency v. reformfaith v. skepticismbirth of: evolution
socialism psychology
Age of Literature
Romanticism (cont.)RealismNaturalismPre-Raphaelites
Alfred, Lord Tennyson
Poet Laureate in 1850, after Wordsworth’s death
Continues in the Romantic tradition
Made a baron for his literary achievement
Robert Browning
Largely self-educatedMarried to
Elizabeth Barret Browning,who was better known
Reinvented the “dramatic monologue”
Interest in psychology, esp. aberrant
Elizabeth Barrett Browning
father a slaverclassically educatedsuffered from tuberculosisproposed to Tennyson and Browning
(whom she had never met) in published poetry
opium addictvery popular poet & novelist
Charles Dickens
Born in poverty: debtor’s prison and child labor
Journalist & student of human nature
Social criticism and reformMost successful novelist
of his dayLong novels published
in serial format
Matthew Arnold
Social reformer & public servantSuccess as poet in midlifeInterest in the relationship
between the individual and society
Social and cultural criticCriticized the weaknesses of
Victorian “success”
Gerard Manley Hopkins
Upper middle-class Anglican background
Strong religious feelings:became a Jesuit
Verse celebrates religious faith, but also “contradicts” it
Verse form: “sprung” rhythm
A.E. Housman
Personal tragedies in youthPublic servant and scholarLittle known in his dayPoems have dark, emotional
themes