Presentation Victorian Age Flashcards
Give 4 examples of Victorian period’s author and their books
1) Charlotte Brontë, Jayne Eyre
2) Emily Brontë, Wuthering Heights
3) George Eliot, Middlemarch
4) Oscar Wilde, The importance of being earnest/ The picture of Dorian Gray
In which century is the Victorian Age ?
19th century
When was the reign of Queen Victoria ?
1837 to 1901 (year of her death)
When was the Victorian Age ?
The Victorian age extanded/spanned from the ascenssion to the throne of Queen Victoria to her death.
What’s the context of the Victorian Age ?
1) Time of rapid change and contradiction
2) Industrial revolution
3) Britain became a very wealth nation : period associated with peace and prosperity.
4) Peak of the British Empire (colonies had to give goods to Britain)
5) Appaling (apparentes) inequalities
6) Emergence of middle class
What are the big changes at this time ?
Industrialisation : From agriculture to industry
From a rural way of life based on the ownership of land to modern urban economy based on trade and manufacturing
Whick country is the first to become industrialised ?
England
How is the situation of middle class women in the 19th century ?
- They learn to write and to read
- They still had no right to vote
- They still had no right of property
- They still had no right to take action in court
- What was the traditional vertue for women ?
- Domestic virtue
- Respectability
- Motherhood
Comment dit-on l’aristocratie en anglais ?
Aristocracy, rural gentry, upperclass
Who is the upperclass ?
The ones that enherite lands
Who is the middleclass ?
The ones that make money from business
Why is there a rise of the middle class ?
Business man with the industrialisation become more important.
Who is the working class ?
The ones that work in factories.
At this time, did literature came from working class ?
No
