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The Victorian Age

The Victorian Age . 1832-1900. Historical Context 1832-1900. England => world’s wealthiest nation, most influential colonial power Large scale attempts to solve the problems of the industrial and democratic revolutions of Romantic Age

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The Victorian Age

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  1. The Victorian Age 1832-1900

  2. Historical Context 1832-1900 England => world’s wealthiest nation, most influential colonial power Large scale attempts to solve the problems of the industrial and democratic revolutions of Romantic Age First Reform Bill of 1832 => rise of middle class in English politics Progress, Prosperity, Problems (and Reform)

  3. The Crystal Palace, 1851.

  4. Victorian Attitudes • Earnestness, Self-Satisfaction, Anxiety • Middle Class progressivism / conservatism • Evangelicalism • John Wesley • Puritanical moral code, Sabbatarians • Utilitarianism • Jeremy Bentham • Progressive- reason and science • “future shock”- psychological distress due to rapid social or technological change

  5. New Ideas and Intellectual Controversy 1830: Sir Charles Lyell’s Principles of Geology 1859: Charles Darwin’s Origin of Species 1867: Karl Marx’s Das Kapital

  6. Ophelia, John Everett Millais, 1852.

  7. The Lady of Shalott, John William Waterhouse, 1888

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