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Alice’s Adventures in Wonderland

Alice’s Adventures in Wonderland. Context and Influences: Romanticism Queen Victoria Industrial Revolution. Romanticism. An international shift in attitude, beginning in 1770 and ending in 1870 The Age of Revolutions American Revolution French Revolution Industrial Revolution.

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Alice’s Adventures in Wonderland

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  1. Alice’s Adventures in Wonderland Context and Influences: Romanticism Queen Victoria Industrial Revolution

  2. Romanticism • An international shift in attitude, beginning in 1770 and ending in 1870 • The Age of Revolutions • American Revolution • French Revolution • Industrial Revolution

  3. What was life like during the Romantic Period? • Intellectual Thought • Reason (Enlightenment) v. Imagination (Romantic) • Emotions—apprehension, horror and terror, and awe—especially that which is experienced in confronting the sublimity of untamed nature and its picturesque qualities • Households • Large families • Men in charge, women obeyed • Men controlled $ even if women earned it

  4. Cont. • Sanitation—BAD • Garbage everywhere • Open cess-pits; open sewers • Toilets new • Sanitation-related diseases • Cholera • Typhoid • Dysentery

  5. Queen Victoria • 1819-1901 • Reigned 1837-1901(63 years) • Unprecedented prosperity • Industrial expansion • Economic progress • Expansion of the empire • At her death, it was said, Britain had a worldwide empire on which the sun never set

  6. Cont. • http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wEOtVXydiEI Brief Bio • http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=s8E68fFSCHI Influence on fashion/society • http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UzzAhdS-xIo Funeral

  7. Industrial Revolution • Timeline • http://www.victorianweb.org/technology/ir/irchron.html • Labor • Transitioned from homes and farms as centers of production to factories • Textile Industry 1st • Women and Children • Self-reliance

  8. Workhouses • People who could not afford to live on their own forced into workhouses • Unpleasant • Families separated • Work difficult

  9. Child Labor • http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=87eVOpbcoVo Robert Minor, The Daily Worker (22nd December, 1924)

  10. The Great Exhibition • 1st World’s Fair • Hyde Park, London, UK 1851 • Prince Albert’s idea • Camera—New art form born • Queen Victoria 1st royal to have her picture taken

  11. Social Hierarchy • Victorian England—strict social hierarchy—pre-defined ladder • Aristocracy (Lords) • Commoners

  12. Disconnect • Between the ideal and reality

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