Social Class Of The Mid Victorian Period And Its Values
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Social Class Of The Mid Victorian Period And Its Values
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Author : Alexandra Köhler
language : en
Publisher: GRIN Verlag
Release Date : 2008-10
Social Class Of The Mid Victorian Period And Its Values written by Alexandra Köhler and has been published by GRIN Verlag this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2008-10 with Foreign Language Study categories.
Seminar paper from the year 2007 in the subject English Language and Literature Studies - Culture and Applied Geography, grade: Sehr gut, University of Osnabrück, course: Seminar, language: English, abstract: The term "Victorian" remains a living concept in our daily society. The term is related to the reign of Queen Victoria of England from 1837 to 1901. Since it covers a wide time span, the era has been divided into the early-Victorian period (1837-1851), the mid-Victorian period (1851-1875) and the late-Victorian period (1875-1901). "Victorian" is also used today to describe British furniture and architecture made during the greater part of the 19th century. Additionally it refers to British literary works which were written, for instance by Wilkie Collins or Charles Dickens. Furthermore specific social and moral attitudes are associated with the word "Victorian." The Victorian age was an age of transition. England was transformed from a feudal and agricultural society into an industrial democracy. Nevertheless the process of the industrial revolution did not only create progress but also problems. One drawback was the hierarchy which was created in the British society leading to a division of people into distinctive social classes. In order to analyze the class distinctions more precisely this term paper concentrates on the specific class divisions that arose especially between the middle class and the working class and on how these differences were characterized. In addition, the three well known Victorian values of the middle and working class, family life, respectability and self-help, are defined and discussed. Due to the fact that it is not possible to discuss the whole Victorian period as one homogenous era, the discussion of the social classes and their values is restricted to the mid-Victorian period. In order to understand the society in the Victorian era it is necessary to depict a brief overview of the historical circumstances concerning the Victoria
Daily Life In Victorian England The Middle Class And Its Values
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Author : Julia Schubert
language : en
Publisher: GRIN Verlag
Release Date : 2003-03-24
Daily Life In Victorian England The Middle Class And Its Values written by Julia Schubert and has been published by GRIN Verlag this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2003-03-24 with Foreign Language Study categories.
Seminar paper from the year 2002 in the subject English Language and Literature Studies - Culture and Applied Geography, grade: 2+ (B), Martin Luther University (Institute for Anglistics/ American Studies), course: The Condition of England-Question, language: English, abstract: The Victorian age in England is generally defined by the reign of Queen Victoria from 1837 to 1901. Since the queen ́s rulership was for such a long time, it is not possible to discuss the whole period as one homogen part. There were so many changes during the different phases of Victorias ́s reign that the 64 years of her rulership may be seperated into 3 different periods: the first period which lastet until 1851 is a period of growth; England ́s manufacturing and trading forces grew more and more. In 1851 the Great Exhibition in London started the second and for this paper most important period. Now England was the leading industrial country in the world; the period of supremacy had begun.The late Victorian period covers the last quarter of the century. During this phase England lost its supremacy and the society had a more critical look on the earlier periods.1 The Victorian values which were developed by the middle class were most influential during the second third of Victoria ́s reign. During this time the middle class grew significantly and became very important (for example through the Reform Bills which enlarged the voting population as well as through their growing wealth). Because of their new role in society middle-class opinions, behavior and values were adopted by the other classes above and below.2 Therefore, it can be said that from its beginning onwards the mid-Victorian era was and is of a special influence on the British society in past and present: “The opening of the Great Exhibition was also the opening of the Golden Age of Victorianism,...”.3 This “Golden Age” even has been recognized at the end of the 20th century when the British Prime Minister Margaret Thatcher stated: “Victorian Values were the values when our country became great.”4 Therefore, this term paper will discuss the famous “Victorian Values” which were developed in one class and later characterized a whole society. How did the people of the middle class live in the middle of the 19th century? How did they practise their morals and values? What were their morals and ideals? [...] 1 David Thomson, England in the Nineteenth Century: 1815-1914 (Harmondsworth: Penguin Books 1991) 221-224. 2 Gottfried Niedhart, Geschichte Englands im 19. und 20. Jahrhundert, 3 Bände (München: Verlag C.H. Beck 1987) 39-49. 3 Thomson, England 19th Century, 100. 4 Asa Briggs, A Social History of England, 2nd edition (London: Weidenfeld and Nicolson, 1994) 249.
Victorian Values
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Author : Gordon Marsden
language : en
Publisher: Longman Publishing Group
Release Date : 1990
Victorian Values written by Gordon Marsden and has been published by Longman Publishing Group this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 1990 with History categories.
"Victorian Values is an absorbing portrait of Victorian society and culture, presenting different aspects of the age through profiles of representative or pioneering figures - among them Dickens, Pugin, Mary Kingsley, Lord Leighton, Gladstone and Joseph Chamberlain. It illuminates Victorian attitudes to a range of issues from education, health and self-help to civic ideals and sexual identity. Widely used and enjoyed by students, teachers and general readers alike, it has now been extended with four new essays and the Introduction, comparing the Victorian age with our own, has been updated and rewritten."--
Home And Family Life In Victorian England
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Author : Christina Schlüter
language : en
Publisher: GRIN Verlag
Release Date : 2008-07-23
Home And Family Life In Victorian England written by Christina Schlüter and has been published by GRIN Verlag this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2008-07-23 with Foreign Language Study categories.
Seminar paper from the year 2008 in the subject English Language and Literature Studies - Culture and Applied Geography, grade: 2.0, Leuphana Universität Lüneburg, language: English, abstract: The Victorian Age, referring to Queen Victoria’s reign from 1837 to1901, was a period of drastic political, economic and social change. The impacts of the continuing industrialization affected people’s lives to a great extent. Different occupational patterns as well as renewed social and moral values emerged and shaped the society of this time. The family cannot be considered as a single unit since its interaction with its social environment cannot be denied. Hence, people’s home and family life also underwent a radical change. Yet, not all of England’s citizens were equally affected as the prevailing sharp separation into social classes brought about different prerequisites and chances to cope with the developments. Urban middle-class and working-class members were most susceptible to outside influences, and the purpose of my studies is therefore to analyze and compare their family lives during the Victorian era.
Victorian Values
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Author : Gordon Marsden
language : en
Publisher: Routledge
Release Date : 2014-09-25
Victorian Values written by Gordon Marsden and has been published by Routledge this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2014-09-25 with History categories.
Victorian Values is an absorbing portrait of Victorian society and culture, presenting different aspects of the age through profiles of representative or pioneering figures - among them Dickens, Pugin, Mary Kingsley, Lord Leighton, Gladstone and Joseph Chamberlain. It illuminates Victorian attitudes to a range of issues from education, health and self-help to civic ideals and sexual identity. Widely used and enjoyed by students, teachers and general readers alike, it has now been extended with four new essays and the Introduction, comparing the Victorian age with our own, has been updated and rewritten.
Working Class Radicalism In Mid Victorian England
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Author : Trygve Tholfsen
language : en
Publisher: Routledge
Release Date : 2020-03-31
Working Class Radicalism In Mid Victorian England written by Trygve Tholfsen and has been published by Routledge this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2020-03-31 with History categories.
Originally published in 1976, Working Class Radicalism in Mid-Victorian England examines working-class radicalism in the mid-Victorian period and suggests that after the fading of Chartist militancy the radical tradition was preserved in a working-class subculture that enabled working men to resist the full consolidation of middle-class hegemony. The book traces the growth of working-class radicalism as it developed dialectically in confrontation with middle-class liberal ideology in the generation after Waterloo. Intellectual forces were of central importance in shaping the character of the working-class Left and the Enlightenment, in particular, as the chief source of ideological weapons that were turned against the established order. The Enlightenment also provided the intellectual foundations of the middle-class ideology that was directed against the incipient threat of popular radicalism. The book notes that the same intellectual forces that entered into the first half of the nineteenth century also shaped the value system that provided the foundations of mid-Victorian urban culture. These forces also contributed to the rapprochement between working-class liberalism, bringing latent affinities to the surface. It is also emphasised, however, that inherited ideas and traditions exercised their influence in interaction with the structure of power and status.
Mr Pooter And Victorians
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Author : Marta Zapała
language : en
Publisher: GRIN Verlag
Release Date : 2010-11-07
Mr Pooter And Victorians written by Marta Zapała and has been published by GRIN Verlag this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2010-11-07 with Literary Criticism categories.
Seminar paper from the year 2009 in the subject English Language and Literature Studies - Literature, , language: English, abstract: The Diary of a Nobody, the object of the examination of this work, is a fictitious story of a clerk living in London in the 1880’s, written by George Grossmith. It is the record of fifteen months in the life of Mr. Charles Pooter presented in a form of a diary. Every entry of the dairy is packed with details of trivial moments of his life and as the reviewer for The New York Times wrote, the book consists of “the small triumphs and minor humiliations and homely pleasures of everyday life as lived in a lower-middle-class household in the late Victorian era.” The representation of the English lower middle class as either devoid of heroism or pathetic is unfortunate but not entirely surprising. Indeed these two characteristics are rather famously combined in the figure of the eponymous Mr. Pooter, master of The Laurels, Brickfield Terrace, Holloway. As Hosgood claims: “George and Weedon Grossmith The Diary of a Nobody has rightly become one of the minor classics of Victorian fiction, and no historian can avoid the comic glow it casts over any interpretation of suburban life.” Whether one has studied the Victorian age at school or not, he or she must have some knowledge of it. School studies tend to focus either on the political activities of such persona as Disraeli and Gladstone, with addition of the failure of the Chartists, and rarely extend beyond 1885. Sometimes schools provide bored learners with in-depth analysis of the factory system horrors and the inadequacies of public health and hygiene. Moreover, among some adults, Victorianism is synonymous with the exploitation of the working class and the evils (or, increasingly of late, the absurdities) of Imperialism. Others see it mainly as a period of religious hypocrisy and cruelty to children. According to Mitchell: Many of us have vivid mental pictures of Victorian England: a Charles Dickens Christmas with a large, happy family surrounding a table crammed with food; the dark and terrifying slums in other Dickens novels; Sherlock Holmes in London by gaslight; timeless country estates where laborers nodded in deference to the squire while ladies paid social calls and talked about marriage. In addition, “Victorianism” remains a living concept in social and political debates, although its meanings are contradictory: it is used to describe exploitation and class division, sexual repression, hypocrisy, values of hard work and self-help, moral certain¬ties about family life, and a [...]
The Rise Of Respectable Society
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Author : Francis Michael Longstreth Thompson
language : en
Publisher: Fontana Press
Release Date : 1988
The Rise Of Respectable Society written by Francis Michael Longstreth Thompson and has been published by Fontana Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 1988 with History categories.
'The Rise of Respectable Society' offers a new map of this territory as revealed by close empirical studies of marriage, the family, domestic life, work, leisure and entertainment in 19th century Britain.
Victorian Values As Reflected In The Writings Of Oscar Wilde
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Author : Adam Galamaga
language : de
Publisher: GRIN Verlag
Release Date : 2013-01-23
Victorian Values As Reflected In The Writings Of Oscar Wilde written by Adam Galamaga and has been published by GRIN Verlag this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2013-01-23 with Literary Criticism categories.
Essay aus dem Jahr 2012 im Fachbereich Anglistik - Literatur, Note: 1,7, Johann Wolfgang Goethe-Universität Frankfurt am Main, Sprache: Deutsch, Abstract: From today's point of view, the Victorian era seems to have been a paradoxical period in British history. On the one hand it is a time of revolutionary inventions, rapid industrialisation and further expansion of the Empire. On the other hand it is also a time, when a huge number of people lived in poorest conditions and crime and prostitution were daily fare. What is commonly understood by the term 'Victorian values' today – decency, chastity, diligence, godliness –, was not a common place neither in the working class nor in high society. One may say that the strong notion of morality, which was embodied most profoundly by the institution of marriage, was in fact systematically trespassed by all social classes. Hypocrisy was considered to be the worst vice by Victorians and yet it seems to have been prevalent by the end of the 19th century. It is also the late period of the Victorian era that saw comedies mocking the rigid and yet inconsequent morality. Most prominent plays are those by Oscar Wilde, but before we look closer at the way he satirised the Victorian society, it is first helpful to examine some of the characteristics of that society, which play an important role in his works. The first aspect worth mentioning is the fact that Victorian England was a class society with strictly defined roles of each class. The time is marked not only by the obvious dominance of the aristocracy that became even richer due to industrial development (e.g. coal mines), but also by the formation of a middle-class striving for profit and more power, which eventually led to so-called Reform Act. On the other hand, however, there was a vast majority of poor workers, which caused tremendous social problems and became also an important topic of English literature. [...]
Working Class Radicalism In Mid Victorian England
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Author : J. B. Poole
language : en
Publisher: Routledge
Release Date : 2019-09-18
Working Class Radicalism In Mid Victorian England written by J. B. Poole and has been published by Routledge this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2019-09-18 with History categories.
This fifth volume of annual reviews of developments in the implementation of arms control and environmental agreements and in peacekeeping activities covers recent developments. It discusses nuclear proliferation, nuclear testing, a fissile materials cut-off and the counter-proliferation concept.