The Victorian Age by Elisabetta Ercolini https://padlet.com/eliercolini2/pbnamk5bv0ew From history to literature en-us 2019-02-10 20:46:28 UTC 2025-11-14 14:30:17 UTC hello@padlet.com Queen Victoria's reign eliercolini2 https://padlet.com/eliercolini2/pbnamk5bv0ew/wish/329652558 1837 - 1901]]> 2019-02-10 20:48:43 UTC https://padlet.com/eliercolini2/pbnamk5bv0ew/wish/329652558 Early Victorian Period eliercolini2 https://padlet.com/eliercolini2/pbnamk5bv0ew/wish/329653510 1832 - 1848
INDUSTRIALISATION
ECONOMIC DEPRESSION
SOCIAL CONFLICTS AND REFORMS

]]> 2019-02-10 20:52:30 UTC https://padlet.com/eliercolini2/pbnamk5bv0ew/wish/329653510 Mid-Victorian Period eliercolini2 https://padlet.com/eliercolini2/pbnamk5bv0ew/wish/329653625 1848 - 1870
PROSPERITY
RISING LIVING STANDARDS
MIDDLE CLASS VALUES]]> 2019-02-10 20:53:07 UTC https://padlet.com/eliercolini2/pbnamk5bv0ew/wish/329653625 Late Victorian Period eliercolini2 https://padlet.com/eliercolini2/pbnamk5bv0ew/wish/329653793 1870 - 1901
DECLINE
THE DOWNSIDE OF FREE TRADE
THE US ECONOMIC EXPANSION
ISOLATION OF BRITAIN 
GERMAN GROWTH
CRIMEA WAR 1853-1856
IRISH QUESTION 1880s
"WOMAN QUESTION"]]> 2019-02-10 20:53:52 UTC https://padlet.com/eliercolini2/pbnamk5bv0ew/wish/329653793 ECONOMIC EXPANSION eliercolini2 https://padlet.com/eliercolini2/pbnamk5bv0ew/wish/329654235 SOCIAL REFORM
CULTURAL CHANGE
CONTRADICTIONS]]> 2019-02-10 20:55:45 UTC https://padlet.com/eliercolini2/pbnamk5bv0ew/wish/329654235 eliercolini2 https://padlet.com/eliercolini2/pbnamk5bv0ew/wish/329660155 OVERCROWDED SLUMS]]> 2019-02-10 21:33:07 UTC https://padlet.com/eliercolini2/pbnamk5bv0ew/wish/329660155 eliercolini2 https://padlet.com/eliercolini2/pbnamk5bv0ew/wish/329660504 1859]]> 2019-02-10 21:35:34 UTC https://padlet.com/eliercolini2/pbnamk5bv0ew/wish/329660504 MECHANISATION OF PRINTING eliercolini2 https://padlet.com/eliercolini2/pbnamk5bv0ew/wish/329662517 CIRCULATING LIBRARIES]]> 2019-02-10 21:49:49 UTC https://padlet.com/eliercolini2/pbnamk5bv0ew/wish/329662517 CHARLES DICKENS 1812 - 1870 eliercolini2 https://padlet.com/eliercolini2/pbnamk5bv0ew/wish/329662927 2019-02-10 21:52:16 UTC https://padlet.com/eliercolini2/pbnamk5bv0ew/wish/329662927 THEMES eliercolini2 https://padlet.com/eliercolini2/pbnamk5bv0ew/wish/329664593 PROVINCIAL LIFE
RELIGIOUS BELIEF
CITY SQUALOR
MAKING/LOSING MONEY
CLEAR MORAL MESSAGE AND DEPICTION OF GOOD/EVIL
SOCIAL PROBLEM NOVEL]]> 2019-02-10 22:05:32 UTC https://padlet.com/eliercolini2/pbnamk5bv0ew/wish/329664593 CONDITIONS OF CHILDREN eliercolini2 https://padlet.com/eliercolini2/pbnamk5bv0ew/wish/329666003 OLIVER TWIST 1837]]> 2019-02-10 22:16:04 UTC https://padlet.com/eliercolini2/pbnamk5bv0ew/wish/329666003 eliercolini2 https://padlet.com/eliercolini2/pbnamk5bv0ew/wish/329667669 CHARLOTTE BRONTE AND THE WOMAN QUESTION]]> 2019-02-10 22:26:57 UTC https://padlet.com/eliercolini2/pbnamk5bv0ew/wish/329667669 eliercolini2 https://padlet.com/eliercolini2/pbnamk5bv0ew/wish/329670109 SUFFRAGETTES MOVEMENT]]> 2019-02-10 22:42:15 UTC https://padlet.com/eliercolini2/pbnamk5bv0ew/wish/329670109 AUTHORS SEEM NOW MORE CONCERNED WITH DARWIN'S THEORY THAT IS ALSO REFLECTED IN THEIR NOVELS' PLOTS eliercolini2 https://padlet.com/eliercolini2/pbnamk5bv0ew/wish/329670805 2019-02-10 22:47:09 UTC https://padlet.com/eliercolini2/pbnamk5bv0ew/wish/329670805 eliercolini2 https://padlet.com/eliercolini2/pbnamk5bv0ew/wish/329671557 A NEW GOTHIC MODE]]> 2019-02-10 22:52:14 UTC https://padlet.com/eliercolini2/pbnamk5bv0ew/wish/329671557 eliercolini2 https://padlet.com/eliercolini2/pbnamk5bv0ew/wish/330070780 1.     What elements characterized the early Victorian period?
2.     What were the downsides of industrialization?
3.     What were workhouses?
4.     What did the Great Exhibition of 1851 symbolize?
5.     What elements determined the power of Britain? 
6.     Has the composition of the social classes changed?
7.     Why can the late Victorian period be considered as ‘declining’? What new themes are now emerging?
8.     Themes and style of the rising fiction:.........

]]> 2019-02-11 19:52:51 UTC https://padlet.com/eliercolini2/pbnamk5bv0ew/wish/330070780 Charles Dickens eliercolini2 https://padlet.com/eliercolini2/pbnamk5bv0ew/wish/331056954 Events that marked his life:

  • ·        at the age of 12 he worked in a boot-blacking factory after his father was imprisoned for debts
  • ·        became a clerk in a solicitor’s office
  • ·        started to write court reports
  • ·        became a journalist
  • ·        gave public readings of his works

Works:

 | Pickwick Papers   | Barnaby Rudge   | Little Dorrit 
| Sketches by Boz   | American Chronicles   | Hard Times 
| Oliver Twist   | Martin Chuzzlewit   | Bleak House 
| Nickolas Nickleby   | Dombey and Son   | Great Expectations 
| Old Curiosity Shop   | David Copperfield   | A Tale of two Cities   Our Mutual Friend
 

Distinctive features of his work:

  • ·        serialized novels to gain the audience attention
  • ·        heroes and heroines as well as minor characters, sometimes caricatured > psychological gallery of human beings
  • ·        London, unknown and unexplored, becomes a character
  • ·        social commitment: his novels, characters and situations offer  social comment/criticism
  • ·        he denounces and attacks the hypocrisy of institutions WITHOUT offering a solution
  • ·        his characters are depicted as good or evil ones = middle class frame of mind
  • ·        there is no evolution/development of characters: their situation/fate is determined by their social status
  • ·        early novels: complicated plots developing into a happy ending thanks to the intervention of a character (deus ex machina) that solves the situation
  • ·        after 1850: disillusionment > grim view of life > ambiguous endings

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