Introduction Flashcards
1
Q
Name 7 writers typical of the period
A
Dickens The Brontes Robert Louis Stevenson Thomas Hardy George Eliot Alfred Tennyson Arthur Conan Doyle
2
Q
Name five myths about the Victorians
A
Prudish Stern Industrious Sentimental Eccentric
3
Q
Why is it that we can’t quite see the Victorians as prudish?
A
The rise in pornography
4
Q
Why are they considered industrious?
A
Industrial Revolution + religious idealisation of work
5
Q
Why are they considered to be sentimental?
A
They were represented as such in novels of the time + they idealised childhood
