https://padlet.com/mollymcdonough1006/BritishLiterature Study Guide en-us 2018-04-18 00:21:40 UTC 2023-02-28 05:21:39 UTC hello@padlet.com mollymcdonough1006 https://padlet.com/mollymcdonough1006/BritishLiterature/wish/252808347 The Victorian Period lasted from 1837-1901. These were also the years that Queen Victoria held the thrown. This was considered the most popular literary period. Some people like to believe that the period began in 1832, when the First Reform Bill was formed, which allowed working men, who own a certain amount of land, to vote. But majority say that it began in 1837 when Queen Victoria took the thrown.

Picture from: https://www.townandcountrymag.com/society/tradition/a14510744/queen-victoria-facts/]]> 2018-04-18 00:29:40 UTC https://padlet.com/mollymcdonough1006/BritishLiterature/wish/252808347 mollymcdonough1006 https://padlet.com/mollymcdonough1006/BritishLiterature/wish/252810659 Victorian Temper was the idea that people were earnest, moral responsibility, domestic propriety, or also know as prudes. But because they repressed sex so much they actually thought more of it more. They shifted away from agricultural life to modern urban economy and manufacturing (Industrial Revolution). ]]> 2018-04-18 00:40:10 UTC https://padlet.com/mollymcdonough1006/BritishLiterature/wish/252810659 mollymcdonough1006 https://padlet.com/mollymcdonough1006/BritishLiterature/wish/252815455 2018-04-18 00:58:47 UTC https://padlet.com/mollymcdonough1006/BritishLiterature/wish/252815455 mollymcdonough1006 https://padlet.com/mollymcdonough1006/BritishLiterature/wish/252816463 There were 3 periods within the Victorian Period: Early, Mid, and Late
~1830 - Liverpool and Manchester Railway: 1st major railway
~1832 - Reform Bill 
~1838 - Chartists Movement: Money and power went to factory owners, but they had no representation. They wanted to redistrict the country so new urban centers will have more votes. This was a result of the growing new middle class.
~Rise of Laissez Faire Economics: This was the belief that unregulated working conditions will benefit everyone. ]]> 2018-04-18 01:03:28 UTC https://padlet.com/mollymcdonough1006/BritishLiterature/wish/252816463 mollymcdonough1006 https://padlet.com/mollymcdonough1006/BritishLiterature/wish/252817178 ~Time of Prosperity: Taking the role as most powerful nation
~(1853-1856)- Crimean War : England vs Russia. England scared that Russia is going to take over India
~ Factory acts restrict child labor and limits their hours from 16 hours a day to 12 hours.
~1851- Great Exhibition: This was a way for England to show off their dominance
~1867- Second Reform Bill: Allowing all working class men to vote.

]]> 2018-04-18 01:08:19 UTC https://padlet.com/mollymcdonough1006/BritishLiterature/wish/252817178 mollymcdonough1006 https://padlet.com/mollymcdonough1006/BritishLiterature/wish/252818721 ~Apex: (Peak of British Imperialism) Becoming the worlds superpower with colonial holdings. 25% of the Globe.
~1890s- Fin de Siecle (end of century): Aesthetic/Decedence Movement. They studied languor, weary sophistication, searching for new ways of titillating jaded palated (rise in drug culture, sexual experimentation and alcohol). Pre-Raphaelite Movement (Vibrant colors and very detailed). 
~ Art for Art's Sake: Beauty in the world for beauties sake

]]> 2018-04-18 01:19:22 UTC https://padlet.com/mollymcdonough1006/BritishLiterature/wish/252818721 mollymcdonough1006 https://padlet.com/mollymcdonough1006/BritishLiterature/wish/252819579 ~Rise and return of drama
~Theater was going strong: Burlesque, Melodramas, Musicals. This was not "serious" drama.
~1890s - Shaw's Problem Play: These plays were concerned with class and woman's issues.
~Woman's Question: There were more unmarried woman then there were men, so what are we going to do with all of them? Some of them were encouraged to immigrate and become mothers. They still could not vote or hold political office.
~Woman could not divorce unless there was proof of adultery, combined with cruelty, bigamy, incest or bestiality.]]> 2018-04-18 01:25:29 UTC https://padlet.com/mollymcdonough1006/BritishLiterature/wish/252819579 mollymcdonough1006 https://padlet.com/mollymcdonough1006/BritishLiterature/wish/252820982 ~1839 - Custody Act: Before this woman had no custody of their children. Both Woman and Children were treated like property to men. But this act gave woman the right for custody.
~1857 - Divorce and Matrimonial Causes Act: This act allowed woman to divorce as they please. This gave them more freedom. Frances Power Cobbe was an activist for woman, he was also behind this act. 
~Contagious Disease Act: This allowed men to stop any woman on the street and strip search her and check her for STDs. They believed that any woman who is alone must be a prostitute. ]]> 2018-04-18 01:34:14 UTC https://padlet.com/mollymcdonough1006/BritishLiterature/wish/252820982 mollymcdonough1006 https://padlet.com/mollymcdonough1006/BritishLiterature/wish/252821905 The New Woman were woman who were educated, smoked, rode bikes, wore pants, free love movement, had sex outside of marriage. Bernard Shaw's Problem Play, Mrs.Warren's Profession, has a prime example of the New Woman: Vivie. She is described almost in a masculine form, "RebeccaTgibedes‏ @rebeccatgi @rebeccatgi #en2490 Shaw is almost making fun of the "New Women" idea and masculinity itself. Vive is described as liking to smoke cigars, and strong (almost like having masculine strength), and poking fun at Vivie for being independent." 
Shaw seems to making fun of the New Woman.]]> 2018-04-18 01:40:14 UTC https://padlet.com/mollymcdonough1006/BritishLiterature/wish/252821905 mollymcdonough1006 https://padlet.com/mollymcdonough1006/BritishLiterature/wish/252824383 He was a poet who somehow was able to live off his poets salary, which was not much. He was the most popular of poets, "his works, from 1850 onward, occupied a significance space on the bookshelves of almost every family of readers in England and the United States" (Norton,1156). He attended Cambridge and joined "the Apostles", who encouraged him to write poetry. ]]> 2018-04-18 01:55:33 UTC https://padlet.com/mollymcdonough1006/BritishLiterature/wish/252824383 mollymcdonough1006 https://padlet.com/mollymcdonough1006/BritishLiterature/wish/252825521 2018-04-18 02:03:50 UTC https://padlet.com/mollymcdonough1006/BritishLiterature/wish/252825521 mollymcdonough1006 https://padlet.com/mollymcdonough1006/BritishLiterature/wish/252825838 2018-04-18 02:06:13 UTC https://padlet.com/mollymcdonough1006/BritishLiterature/wish/252825838 mollymcdonough1006 https://padlet.com/mollymcdonough1006/BritishLiterature/wish/252826018 2018-04-18 02:07:18 UTC https://padlet.com/mollymcdonough1006/BritishLiterature/wish/252826018