Victorian Paragraphs Immigrants and Natives Living in Canada No matter where you lived‚ your social class always stayed the same‚ which was unfortunately the case for immigrants and first nation’s people in Canada. Immigrants coming to Canada were hoping for one of two things: their own land‚ and freedom of class. Most new immigrants to Canada were from Europe‚ but mainly Ireland and Scotland. The living conditions were the same in Canada as they were in Europe. The poor stayed poor‚ and the
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THE VICTORIAN NOVEL SPIS TREŚCI INTRODUCTION 1 I THE DEVELOPMENT OF THE NOVEL 2 II KEY AUTHORS 3 III KEY TEXTS 3 IV TOPICS 3 INTRODUCTION Many associate the word “Victorian” with images of over-dressed ladies and snooty gentlemen gathered in reading rooms. The idea of “manners” does sum up the social climate of middle-class England in the nineteenth century. However‚ if there is one transcending aspect to Victorian England life and society‚ that aspect is change. Nearly every institution of society
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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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Victorian Thinkers (Thomas Carlyle and John Ruskin) Victorian Thinkers contains studies of four of the most influential critics of 19th-century British culture. Each was heralded a prophet in his own lifetime‚ and yet each was also regarded as misguided‚ and even mad‚ by his contemporaries. Their interests in art and culture led them to develop views on society and economics. Carlyle was a writer of extraordinary stature‚ radical in thought and style; Ruskin‚ who began his career as a critic of
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The Victorian Age 1832-1900 Even idleness is eager now‚ eager for amusement; prone to excursion-trains‚ artmuseums‚ periodical literature‚ and exciting novels. (George Eliot) General Info About the Time • Enormous changes occurred in political and social life in England and the rest of the world • The scientific and technical innovations of the Industrial Revolution‚ the emergence of modern nationalism‚ and the European colonization of much of Africa‚ the Middle East‚ and the Far
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Literary Background—Trends in the Victorian NovelWhen we speak of the Victorian novel we do not mean that there was a conscious school of the English novel‚ with a consciously common style and subject-matter‚ a school which began creating with the reign of Queen Victoria and which came to an end with the end of that reign. The English are too individualistic for such conformity. However‚ there can be no denying the fact that the English novel during second half of the nineteenth century‚ with the
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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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The Victorian era‚ from the coronation of Queen Victoria in 1837 until her death in 1901‚ was an era of several unsettling social developments that forced writers more than ever before to take positions on the immediate issues animating the rest of society. Thus‚ although romantic forms of expression in poetry and prose continued to dominate English literature throughout much of the century‚ the attention of many writers was directed‚ sometimes passionately‚ to such issues as the growth of English
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The Victorian Woman and Feminism The image most of us have of the Victorian woman is home loving and devoted to family; one dressed in the finest fabrics encumbered under half a dozen crinolines and laced tightly in a corset. She is sympathetic‚ unselfish and sacrifices herself daily to be her husband’s best friend and companion‚ never his "competitor"‚ mindful and striving for the same goals as her husband. It is her job to take care of the children and run the household maintaining it as a tranquil
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Victorian Era Feminism: Confined and Demeaned Imagine living in a world completely dominated by men. Imagine‚ just because of her sex‚ a woman is left powerless. Worst of all‚ imagine living a life of confinement‚ forced to be controlled by men with no chance of escape. Victorian women in nineteenth-century England lived this life. They had no respect‚ they had no power‚ and they had no freedom. In Charlotte Brontë’s‚ Jane Eyre‚ confinement of women is portrayed as the yearning to find the key
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