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Victorian Literature

Victorian Literature. 1837-1902. prudery. The prevailing theme during this time is prudery This is the obsession with gentility, decorum, and propriety An obsession with wealth and status for security versus poverty and struggle While also an obsession with marriage for the sake of love.

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Victorian Literature

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  1. Victorian Literature 1837-1902

  2. prudery • The prevailing theme during this time is prudery • This is the obsession with gentility, decorum, and propriety • An obsession with wealth and status for security versus poverty and struggle • While also an obsession with marriage for the sake of love

  3. Why?

  4. Queen Victoria

  5. What is the Victorian Historical Period Like? • The Victorian Period is defined as one of peace • They were becoming more economically sound, fair politically and economically, and focused on their sense of propriety • Population increased as a result of the Industrial Revolution because people were living better and could sustain the growth, more environmentally aware, and embraced the value of the individual –better medical care

  6. Unfortunately . . . • Irish Potato Famine- forced emigration • Slums were a result of the over population and the poor • Prostitution • Child Labor

  7. Issues at this time are: Child labor

  8. Issues at this time: Prostitution

  9. Consequence Literarily • Authors continued to comment on these atrocities through literature

  10. Positive innovations • Price of food dropped • Diet improved- meat, fruit, and vegetables became more readily available • Factories and railroads made postage, newspapers, clothing, furniture, travel, and other goods and services more available • First Reform Act: More people could vote • Reform Act: Even more people could vote • Organized Political Action by women (although women suffrage doesn’t happen until 1928) • Factory Acts limited child labor/reduced the work day to ten hours

  11. What is Victorian Literature? • The literature written during the Reign of Queen Victoria • The Victorian Period embraced the novel and developed it into what we know of today • They wrote very long descriptive wordy novels about the lives of fictional people • Still enjoyed irony and satire

  12. Famous Victorian Works • Oliver Twist • David Copperfield • Jane Eyre • Emma • Tess of the d’Ubervilles • Dracula • The Importance of Being Earnest • Gunga Din • A Christmas Carol

  13. What will we be reading?

  14. What will we be reading? Pride and Prejudice by Jane Austen

  15. Jane Austen

  16. Who was Jane Austen? • She lived with her sister and five brothers in Hampshire, England • Never married • Lacked formal schooling • Family was into music, playwriting, and letter writing –huge vocabulary • Completed “Pride and Prejudice” when she was 21 but it was denied publication • It was later published and received remarkable accolades

  17. Pride and prejudice • You will be reading an excerpt from the novel • Then you will be required to write a five paragraph, three point definition essay • It will be typed, in MLA format, and PRINTED • It will be ready to be passed in at the beginning of class on Monday • No flash drives, emailed papers, or late papers will be accepted

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