English Victorian Period
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- Between what years did Queen Victoria reign?
- 1837-1901
- What is the era is the greatest change in British history?
- Victoria Era
- What consisted were some elements of the Industrial Revolution?
- railways, factories, midlands
- What are the midlands?
- Liverpool, Birmingham, Manchester
- What is the paradox of the Industrial Revolution?
- The rich get richer and the poor get poorer.
- Who stated the paradox of the Industrial Revolution?
- Charles Dickens
- Name one of the essay righter in favor of the Industrial Revolution.
- Thomas Babbington Macaulay
- Which essay writer had the idea of laissez faire?
- Thomas Babbington Macaulay
- What is the idea of laissez-faire?
- if manufacturing were left alone and factories and industry develop, Britain would become happier and wealthier
- Name the two essay writers against the Industrial Revolution.
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1. Robert Southey
2. Thomas Carlyle - What is Robert Southey's idea of regarding the welfare of England?
- a simpler, non-industrial age had been happier
- What is Thomas Carlyle's view on the the Industrial Revolution?
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-attacks economy based on mechanization and profit
-thundered against materialism
-distressed by the suffering in the slum, child labor, mines, factories
-growing urban povery and squalor contrasted with increasing noational wealth
-sponsored legislation to curb abuses of child labor - What are the two basic views of the writers toward their world?
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1. strong belief still held in God and country-- "The sun never sets on the British Empire"
2. crisis of fatih -- disturbed by new ideas about religon and science - What three things foster the crisis of faith?
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1. Origin of Species - Charles Darwin
2. Principles of Geology - Charles Lylell
3. Freidrich Wilhelm Nietzche's "superman" theory - What did Friedrich Wilhelm Neitzche propose?
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-God is dead
- Superman theory - ubermensch - What famous leader followed Friedrich Wilhelm Neitzche's teachings?
- Hitler
- When was the Origin of the Species written?
- 1859
- When was the Principles of Geology written?
- 1830-1833
- When did Friedrich Wilhelm Neitzche live?
- 1844-1900
- Who was the main waverer?
- Alfred Lord Tennyson
- Alfred Lord Tennyson (fact)
- raised in religion, but disturbed by Darwin and how science seemed to contradict religion.
- Name 3 works by Tennyson.
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1. In Memoriam
2. Ulysses
3. The Lady of Shalott - Who is "In Memoriam" about?
- a close friend, Arthur Henry Hallam
- What is about "In Memoriam" about?
- a series of poems lamenting the death of close friend and at times strugglin to believe in a benevolent God.
- How would "In Memoriam" be characterized as?
- by amood of sad-sweet contemplation
- What is Ulysess about?
- the necessity of heroic action
- What is a the Lady of Shalott about?
- a fair lady and medival knight but there is no chivalric action
- Who are the the main waverers?
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1. Matthew Arnold
2. Thomas Hardy - Name one work of writing by Matthew Arnold.
- Dover Beach
- What is Dover Beach about?
- the speaker sits on the shore of the ocean and hears an eternal not of sadness and there is no certainty in the world.
- What did Thomas Hardy write?
- The Darkling Thrush
- What is the Darkling Thrush about?
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-contrasts the happy song of the thrush with the realities of life as he knows it
-works drips with irony
- sees the world as always changing and sometimes meaningless - Who were the major believers?
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1. Robert Browning
2. Gerard Manley Hopkins
3. Rudyard Kipling
4. Elizabeth Barrett Browning - Who spent much of his life in Italy studing the Renaissance?
- Robert Browning
- Who was the inventor of the dramatic monologue?
- Robert Browning
- What is a dramatic monologue?
- a poem in the form of a character's solilquy about himself
- Who wrote Pippa Passes?
- Robert Browning
- What is the idea of Pippa Passes?
- "God's in his heaven; all's right with the world"
- Who was a Victorian Wordsworth?
- Gerard Manley Hopkins
- How is Gerard Manley Hopkins a Victorian Wordsworth?
- he finds evidence of God's handiwork in the keenest observations of nature
- Who wrote God's Grandeur?
- Gerard Manley Hopkins
- What is the idea behind God's Grandeur?
- God's grandeur does exist but our perception of it has dulled
- Who wrote the Jungle Book?
- Rudyard Kipling
- Who thought the British empire so great and was a testament to the marvelous works of the British government?
- Rudyard Kipling
- What did Bishop Usher do?
- counteracted Darwin and Lyell. and by studying the Bible, he concluded the earth was only a couple of thousand years old.
- Who alway reminded the reader of his moral duty not to become drunk with power but to act with humitlity and moral responsiblity in imperial affairs?
- Rudyard Kipling
- What were the two voice of from the Victorian England?
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1. voice of faith, progress, and optimism
2. voice of criticism, doubt, and pessimism - What problems did Victorian England face?
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-rapid mechanization
-claims of science
-disturbing social change
-intellectual and social discontent
-immoral behavior