Victorian Period Flashcards
What are the dates of the Victorian period
1837-1901
What are the Victorian poems
Remember by Rosetta
The Ruined Maid
At an inn Hardy
Victorian realism
Portrayed realistic events to real people - there was a focus on society, gender roles, the working classes
It was melancholy and mundane
Negative impacts of the industrial revolution
Drastic increase in the city population that made numbers in slums, poverty, unemployment increase as well as corruption, death, disease
Social responsibility in the Victorian period
The Victorian poets took the responsibility of social reform and gave voice to the commoners
Modernism in Victorian poetry
The life in the Industrial north
A sense of individuality and seniority of the modern era
Pre Raphaelitism
A school against the intellectualism of the Victorian age
It followed the aesthetic movement and the Oxford movement (separating science and religion)
Aesthetic movement quote
‘Art for art sake’
Oxford movement quote
‘Science has nothing to do with religion’
Pre-Raphaelitism quote
‘Science has noting to do with art’
Science in the Victorian era
Charles Dawin’s On the Origin of the Species on evolution
Describing and classifying the natural world
What did Alfred’s death do to the Victorian society
Queen Victoria’s life long mourning made society interested in death, grief and the afterlife.
Queen Victoria was the..
Mother of the nation who protected domestic life
