documentary context victorian era - complete

Question 1

when was Dracula published

Answer 1

1897

Question 2

the discover of radio waves and electricity prompts curiosity about what

Answer 2

communication between this world and the next and psychic abilities

Question 3

many victorians feared losing control over ___

Answer 3

technology

Question 4

who started the pseudo science of eugenics

Answer 4

Francis galton

Question 5

who started the pseudo science of physiognomy

Answer 5

cesare ombroso

Question 6

what new invention captured people’s voices

Answer 6

phonographs

Question 7

who was the most famous aesthete of the victorian period

Answer 7

Oscar wilde

Question 8

cultural degenerates are also known as what

Answer 8

decadents

Question 9

who wrote degeneration and what was it about

Answer 9

max Nordau
aesthetes and decadents causing social degeneration
- he thought books and art corrupted the masses

Question 10

why was there a growth in asylums in this period

Answer 10

fears that moral defects would be passed down if they were not isolated (social darwinism)

Question 11

what were literacy rates in this period and what type of stories were bestselling

Answer 11

90%
ghost stories

Question 12

what becomes a word and is investigated in a book by Havelock ___

Answer 12

homosexuality
Ellis

Question 13

what writer was very popular for writing detective fiction in this period?

Answer 13

Arthur conan doyle

Question 14

what doe the Time Machine by HG Wells explore

Answer 14

the degeneration of humanity and technological advancement/modernity

Question 15

when did social darwinism originate (with what book by who?)

Answer 15

1859
on the origin of species
Charles Darwin

Question 16

the New Woman was born alongside the invention of what - why?

Answer 16

the bicycle - women began dressing with a more pragmatic trouser style

Question 17

why did many see the New Woman as degernate

Answer 17

• she read and so gained new ideas

Question 18

the invention of telegraph communication by ___ prompted speculation of whether radio could be used to communicate how?

Answer 18

Marconi
telepathically

Question 19

when was the society for psychical research set up? what key figure was a member

Answer 19

1882
the PM

Question 20

give 3 characteristics of the decadent movement

Answer 20

• hedonism
• material excess/the pursuit of all desires
• creation of art for its own sake

Question 21

give a book which links strongly to the decadent movement

Answer 21

Oscar Wilde’s the picture of dorian gray

Question 22

when was degeneration written

Answer 22

1892

Question 23

what did Nordau say the decadent movement was a result of?

Answer 23

a neurological disorder called ‘degeneration’

Question 24

what two people did Nordau examine in his book degeneration

Answer 24

wilde and Nietzche

Question 25

how did Nordau explain the degeneration he was witnessing?

Answer 25

• rapid and significant modernisation leads to a return of the irrational