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The Victorian Period: Paradox and Progress. 1832-1901. Peace and Economic Growth. Industrial Revolution _________, creating new towns, new goods, new ________, and new ______ for many _________ reforms gave working and middle class citizens more ________ power. The Idea of Progress.
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Peace and Economic Growth • Industrial Revolution _________, creating new towns, new goods, new ________, and new ______ for many • _________ reforms gave working and middle class citizens more ________ power
The Idea of Progress • Middle-class Victorian attitude – progress largely means _________ improvement that can be _________ and touched, _________ and measured
The Hungry Forties • Came to throne during a _________ • _____ working conditions -- _________ kids • The _________ famine -- caused many _______ to emigrate to England, increasing ________ • _________ and filth -- Thames River
The Movement for Reform • _________ in diet – price of food _________ • The Reform Bills – gave the right to ____ to almost all adult _____; _______ child labor; reduced _____ in the working day; state-supported _______ were established, rising the ______ rate
Decorum and Prudery • Publishers deleted or _________ words and episodes that could _________ ladies • Sex, _________, and _________ were softened • People were arrested for distributing information about _________
Authoritarian Values • Uneasy about giving strong _________ to a central government • Women were subject to _________ authority • Women who didn’t marry had few jobs available – _________ (working class); governesses or _________ (middle class)
Intellectual Progress & Science • Worked out the history of the earth in _________ and _________ • Evolution of species theories • Believed the world offered a challenging set of problems that could be understood by human _________ and solved by _________, government, and other human institutions
Questions and Doubts • Can _________ comfort fully satisfy human needs and wishes? • Cost of _________ the earth and human beings to achieve _________ • Codes of _________ and authority • Understanding of the universe
Trust/Skepticism in the Transcendental • Younger writers found it difficult to believe in an _________ power and order that made sense of material and human existence • Some believed there was no _________; others that existence was not governed by a _________ intelligence that _________ for its creatures