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    Thomas Schlereth’s Victorian America is an informative book based on the social life and cultural history of America from 1876 to 1915. Schlereth’s book does not focus on the wars or political leaders during the era but instead emphasizes on the everyday life of the ordinary American at the time. Schlereth also goes into great detail about the dramatic change that occurred in the workplace‚ housing‚ and communication. Schlereth manages to explain why the changes in the Victorian era also affected

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    Christoffer Gammad Dr. Frank Fennel 4/25/2013 Out with the Old in with the New The Victorian Age transformed the minds of the people of Europe. It challenged the ideas and views they came to understand‚ it created uproars of movements and different bodies of thinking. The growth of an age can be seen through the people who’ve lived through it and how their lives have changed. England quickly became a developing world power with these movements. During the span of this semester‚ we have studied

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    The victorian era was an era of many advancements. Technical advancements‚ industrial advancements‚ and importantly‚ fashionable advancements. In the 1800s women wore modest yet flamboyant clothes. Regal looking but wild in pattern. In a time where a woman’s body is what made her or broke her‚ she sure did have some nice clothes. Victorian clothes were conservative and stiff‚ but as we delve into the past to look at these great fashions‚ you’ll see that these clothes were not only for other people

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    The Year 1837 was very significant. It was not only the year that Queen Victoria acceded the throne‚ but also the year that a new literary age was coined. The Victorian Age‚ more formally known‚ was a time of great prosperity in Great Britain’s literature. The Victorian Age produced a variety of changes. Political and social reform produced a variety of reading among all classes. The lower-class became more self-conscious‚ the middle class more powerful and the rich became more vulnerable

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    The Victorian Era During the Victorian Era‚ social classes of England were newly reforming‚ and fomenting. There was a churning upheaval of the old hierarchical order‚ and the middle classes were steadily growing. Added to that‚ the upper classes’ composition was changing from simply hereditary aristocracy to a combination of nobility and an emerging wealthy commercial class. The definition of what made someone a gentleman or a lady was‚ therefore‚ changing at what some thought was an alarming rate

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    Victorian Style With the year 1837‚ England saw the beginning of its change in history. The Regency era had ended as England’s new Queen‚ 18-year-old Victoria took the thrown. This new era is mostly known as the beginning of the Victorian era‚ which was obviously named after the reigning monarch‚ Queen Victoria. She was one of the first monarchs to see her name given to the period while she was still alive. She reigned from 1837 until she died in the year 1901‚ which marked the end of the

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    orian prose Victorian Prose The Victorian period was in the late 19th century spanning the years of 1830 to 1901‚ the years that Queen Victoria ruled over England. This was the time when industrial cities thrived and the basis of life shifted from land ownership to an urban economy of manufacturing. A mixing of social classes resulted through factory owner/worker relationships and social standing became more malleable than it was in previous periods. Monetarily the country thrived but

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    3 October 2012 Oscar Wilde‚ Victorian or Anti-Victorian? Oscar Wilde was a writer during the end of the Victorian era. This is one of the reasons that it is difficult‚ and still debated‚ whether he was a Victorian writer or not. His private life was far from the puritanical image of the Victorian era. The Victorian age was full of rigid sensibilities‚ while the anti-Victorian movement veered in the complete opposite direction. The anti-Victorians were much more adventurous with sex. There

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    3.0. The Victorian Novel…………………………………………………………… page 8-17 4.0. Victorian Poetry…………………………………………………………………page 17-29 5.0. Other literatures of the period. …………………………………………..page 29-40 -Children’s literature -Drama -Science‚ philosophy and discovery -Nature writing -Supernatural and fantastic literature 6.0. Influence Of the Victorian age and Victorian literature……………page 40-43 7.0. A list of major writers of the Victorian period…………………………page

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    The Victorian era was a period full of changes; the most important was the reign of Queen Victoria‚ who ascended the throne in 1837 and ruled the British Empire‚ restoring stability to the crown. Her reign is considered one of the most prosperous in her time‚ which eventually became the symbol of a period that took its name‚ "the Victorian Era". Queen Victoria (1819-1901) was the first English monarch to see her name given to the period of her reign whilst still living (1). The Victorian Age was

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