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 The Norton Anthology of English Literature: The Victorian Age: Introduction
By the beginning of the Victorian period, the Industrial Revolution, as this shift was called, had created profound economic and social changes, including a mass migration of workers to industrial towns, where they lived in new urban slums.
The Victorian novel, with its emphasis on the realistic portrayal of social life, represented many Victorian issues in the stories of its characters.
Victorian poetry and the Victorian novel both value visual description as a way of portraying their subjects.
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 The Norton Anthology of English Literature: The Victorian Age: Review: Summary
The Victorian era was a period of dramatic change that brought England to its highest point of development as a world power.
The early Victorian period (1830—48) saw the opening of Britain’s first railway and its first Reform Parliament, but it was also a time of economic distress.
Victorian novels seek to represent a large and comprehensive social world, constructing a tension between social conditions and the aspirations of the hero or heroine.
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 Victorian England
Victorian, in other words, can be taken to mean parent of the modern -- and like most powerful parents, it provoked a powerful reaction against itself.
The Victorian age was not one, not single, simple, or unified, only in part because Victoria's reign lasted so long that it comprised several periods.
British Victorians were excited by geographical exploration, by the opening up of Africa and Asia to the West, yet were troubled by the intractable Irish situation and humiliated by the failures of the Boer War.
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This age conveyed connotations of "prudish" "repressed" "and "old fashioned", this means in a literal sense that people were modest and more than not, didn't express views that didn't coinside with the views of the monarchy.
Due the the longjevity of Queen Victoria, this age is was comprised of several ages.
It was the age of parodix and power, it saw the Catholicism of the Oxford Movement, the Evangelical movement, the spread of the Broad Church, and the rise of Utilitarianism, socialism, Darwinism, and scientific Agnosticism.
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 Victorian Web Sites - The Victorian Literary Studies Archive
Victorians Institute, The - an organization of scholars and students centered in the Mid-Atlantic Region of the USA.
Victorian Literary Trivia - 640 questions and quotations of literary trivia based on the writings and the lives of sixteen 19th century writers from Jane Austen to Oscar Wilde.
Victorian Society in America, The - Founded in 1966 by such legends of historic preservation as Brendan Gill, Henry Russell Hitchcock, and Margot Gayle.
www.lang.nagoya-u.ac.jp /~matsuoka/Victorian.html   (1753 words)

  
 A Description of Victorian Age   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-30)
Like all major periods of transition, this one did not come easily; the first part of the Victorian Age (1832-1848) was one of tumult.
By the middle Victorian period, when Browning wrote "Cleon" (1855) and "Tithonus" was revised and finally published (1860), the situation had changed to some extent.
The utilitarian views distressed the religious conservatives, who argued that the Victorian Age, with its excesses and social problems, was in dire need of the stability and comfort offered by traditional Christianity.
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 VICTORIAN AGE
The Victorian Age is a two-part video program that introduces the student to a dramatic turning point in English social and literary history and, specifically, to a few of the English poets, critics, essayists, and novelists who recorded their impressions of this turbulent period of change and reform.
The Victorian Age is designed to stimulate student interest in an important historical and literary period in England.
Although the Victorian Age roughly spans most of the 19th century (from 1832 to 1900), it is not totally confined within these dates.
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 The Victorian Age:   History
As a result, many historians place the American Victorian Age roughly between 1876, when Reconstruction was coming to a conclusion and the country celebrated its centennial, and 1914, the year World War I began.
The main theme of the Victorian Age in America is change.
The Victorian Age saw the admission of 12 new states, which doubled its geography.
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 Lecture 24: The Victorian Age in Literature   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-30)
Dickens, he says, was the most human of the Victorian writers and most truly sympathized with the desolate and the oppressed.
The Victorian Age began under the godless philosophy of Utilitarianism; it ended in the god-defying philosophy of Decadence, where men engaged in vile behavior not because they did not know it was wrong but because they did know it was wrong.
The Victorian revolution in literature led to independence and eccentricity and eventually anarchy.
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 RPGnet: Review of Victorian Age Trilogy
The three novels are set in the Victorian Age, and are called A Morbid Initiation (ISBN 1-58846-828-3), The Madness of Priests (ISBN 1-58846-829-1) and The Wounded King (ISBN 1-58846-858-5).
Of course, this Victorian Age is not the same as the actual one, but rather the World of Darkness version of it.
Of course, the Victorian Age is a grand period with many elements that can be showed.
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 English literature: The Victorian Age
The Victorian era was the great age of the English novel—realistic, thickly plotted, crowded with characters, and long.
"The greatest Victorian" in the new century: the enduring relevance of Walter Bagehot's commentary on literature, scholarship, and......
The return of Damon and Pythias: Alan Dale's A Marriage Below Zero, Victorian melodrama, and the emergence of a literature of homosexual......
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 Victorian age
He is the Victorian poet, he wrote the model of Victorian poetry.
The product of their love is “ Sonnets from the Portuguese” (1850): a sequence of forty four sonnets in which she recorded the stages of her love for Robert Browning, a sequence she presented under the guise of a translation from the Portuguese language.
Tennyson was the Victorian poet who was worried with the topics of the age.
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 Victorian Age
In the 1890s, the religious questioning, unrest, and sense of decline dominated as Victorian culture faced the dawn of a new age.
  Fin de siecle (end of the century) anxieties caused many Victorians to feel that their nation was in decline socially, politically, and artistically.
The conclusion of the Victorian Period is typically dated at 1901 with the death of Queen Victoria.
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 The Life & Times of Queen Victoria
This genuine, but obsessive mourning kept her occupied for the rest of her life and played an important role in the evolution of what would become the Victorian mentality.
Her popularity was at its lowest by 1870, but it steadily increased thereafter until her death.
The national pride connected with the name of Victoria - the term Victorian England, for example, stemmed from the Queen's ethics and personal tastes, which generally reflected those of the middle class.
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 The Victorian Age Revisited
If you like watching Dickens novels produced on 'Masterpiece Theatre,' and feel a natural inclination towards the Victorian Age, Manchester is the spot to start a vacation in the U.K. It looks, it feels nineteenth-century, except that everyone wears t-shirts and leather jackets instead of hoop skirts and cravats.
This will put you in a Victorian setting immediately, as the bar is gleaming brass, the light fixtures are exquisitely anachronistic, and the restaurant (just beyond the bar proper) looks like a set for a period film, with fl and white tile floor and wooden tables.
Another truly Victorian experience can be had by entering the portals of the John Rylands Library, which now belongs to the University of Manchester, and which was built in the 1890s.
www.travellady.com /Issues/May03/TheVictorianAgeRevisited.htm   (2631 words)

  
 RPGnet: Review of Victorian Age Vampire
Returning to the source of modern Vampric storytelling - the age of Bram Stoker, Mary Shelley, Arthur Conan Doyle and Oscar Wilde Victorian Age Vampire is White Wolf's attempt of giving their popular Vampire franchise a decidedly Gothic feel.
Not so much a stand-alone game as it is a hardback sourcebook on the Victorian Age, this book sets out to provide all the necessary resources to allow a group of players to run a Vampire: The Masquerade game set during this classical period of gothic literature.
One of the first things noticeable about the general visual style of Victorian Age Vampire is that it does look decidedly gothic.
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 English literature: The Victorian Age
The intellectuals and artists of the age had to deal in some way with the upheavals in society, the obvious inequities of abundance for a few and squalor for many, and, emanating from the throne of Queen Victoria (1837–1901), an emphasis on public rectitude and moral propriety.
By the end of the period, the novel was considered not only the premier form of entertainment but also a primary means of analyzing and offering solutions to social and political problems.
The preeminent poet of the Victorian age was Alfred, Lord
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 Afghanistan in the Victorian Age
In 1862, at age 70, Dost Mohammed led an army of Afghans to oppose an attacking Persian force that had taken Herat.
Now for a brief overview of Afghan history during the Victorian Age from the British viewpoint, and then I’ll focus a bit more on what were, of course, the highlights of the century to the British: the Afghan Wars.
Throughout the Victorian years, to alleviate what the Crown viewed as a potential threat to its interests in India, Britain repeatedly attempted to impose its authority over Afghanistan in an attempt to keep the Russians out of the country.
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 Victorian Station-Victorian decorating ideas and information about the victorian era.   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-30)
Victorian Station-Victorian decorating ideas and information about the victorian era.
We offer you a wealth of information with regard to the Victorian era including features such as architecture, Victorian home decorating ideas, life styles, arts and literature and royalty.
Make sure to visit our own Victorian Era Mall for all your interior and exterior decorating and restoration needs, unique Victorian gifts, crafts, fashion and more.
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 Poetry of The Victorian Age free essays
The Victorian period was a transition toward improvements both politically and socially.
The Victorian attempts for gradual democratic reforms were reflected in its literature.
Victorian poetry, similar to Romantic, championed the individual and liberty.
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 The Victorian Era Online
The Victorian style is applied to a variety of subjects from architecture to furniture, literature to music, and holidays to weddings in the Victorian era (1837-1901).
Uncover other Victorian sites and take a glance at 19th century topics in today's news.
For Victorian decorating there are 18th and 19th C. needlework and samplers, Victorian bed and table linens, furniture, silver, Civil War era CDVs and 19th C. hand-colored prints.
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 victorian age usa
The 19th century cemeteries that cover most of America today are the most visible and recognizable symbol of this bygone era.
__ Learn about Victorian architecture in the U.S. "Although "Victorian" is sometimes used today to describe attitudes which are stuffy or prudish, in architecture the term conveys romance, whimsy, invention and imagination." Much of the material is based on Victorian architecture in Doylestown, Pa. - illustrated - From Jan Dickler and John Hauser - http://imls-train.cis.drexel.edu/bucks2/victorian_age.htm
__ "The Victorian Society In America is the only national non-profit organization committed to historic preservation, protection, understanding, education, and enjoyment of our nineteenth century heritage." You will find great photos, history, membership information, chapter locations, and fun stuff.
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 Just Victorian - Dedicated To Victorian Era   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-30)
is dedicated to the Victorian era and everything Victorian, including the romance, fashion, food, architecture, music, and people whom made the Victorian era.
Each month additional articles about Victorian life will be added, some the actual articles penned during this time period.
If you want to own something from the Victorian or Edwardian time periods please visit our antique shopping area.
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The prosperity of the Victorian Age was built upon a period of rapid economic growth that was a consequence of the Industrial Revolution.
Towards the Midlands and N., where the great coal reserves were located — rapid growth of the industrial towns and expansion of Liverpool as a commercial port, importing raw materials from India and the Americas and exporting manufactured goods.
Charles Dickens (1812-70), the greatest novelist of the age, often made fun of what he saw as Victorian hypocrisy and an unwillingness to face unbpleasant facts.
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 Malaspina University-College History Department - WWW Resources - Great Britain   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-30)
It provides capsule summaries of many events, movements, and themes, with an emphasis upon Victorian literature and religion, written by leading scholars in the field.
The section on the Victorian period is concerned principally with literature, but other social topics are featured, as well.
Located at the University of California, Santa Cruz, this is a scholarly consortium devoted to promoting the study and enjoyment of the life, times, and work of Charles Dickens.
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 THOUGHTS AFTER MIDNIGHT - Essay: Victorian Age
Ironically, although the family seem to be well traveled and given direct examples of progress in Paris (and London) a city at the time becoming highly industrialized in the Victorian age, were never really able to shake off the mentally of “old Russia” and quickly came back home after their five year stint abroad.
Lyubov stares one last time at the walls of her home as she responds to the happy calling of her name from outside with an exclamation; “We’re coming!” (1757), as they exit and leave Firs the old servant behind.
The presence of death is symbolically portrayed in the dramatic ending with the sound of an axe chopping away at the orchard and the lone presence of old Firs lying in the doorway.
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 Victorian Age
In the Victorian Age, many different views of the authors were
The Victorian view of death was to "get over it." After
In the earlier period of the Victorian age, there was a peaceful view
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