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48 Cards in this Set
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Between what years did Queen Victoria reign?
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1837-1901
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What is the era is the greatest change in British history?
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Victoria Era
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What consisted were some elements of the Industrial Revolution?
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railways, factories, midlands
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What are the midlands?
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Liverpool, Birmingham, Manchester
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What is the paradox of the Industrial Revolution?
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The rich get richer and the poor get poorer.
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Who stated the paradox of the Industrial Revolution?
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Charles Dickens
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Name one of the essay righter in favor of the Industrial Revolution.
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Thomas Babbington Macaulay
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Which essay writer had the idea of laissez faire?
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Thomas Babbington Macaulay
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What is the idea of laissez-faire?
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if manufacturing were left alone and factories and industry develop, Britain would become happier and wealthier
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Name the two essay writers against the Industrial Revolution.
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1. Robert Southey
2. Thomas Carlyle |
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What is Robert Southey's idea of regarding the welfare of England?
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a simpler, non-industrial age had been happier
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What is Thomas Carlyle's view on the the Industrial Revolution?
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-attacks economy based on mechanization and profit
-thundered against materialism -distressed by the suffering in the slum, child labor, mines, factories -growing urban povery and squalor contrasted with increasing noational wealth -sponsored legislation to curb abuses of child labor |
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What are the two basic views of the writers toward their world?
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1. strong belief still held in God and country-- "The sun never sets on the British Empire"
2. crisis of fatih -- disturbed by new ideas about religon and science |
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What three things foster the crisis of faith?
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1. Origin of Species - Charles Darwin
2. Principles of Geology - Charles Lylell 3. Freidrich Wilhelm Nietzche's "superman" theory |
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What did Friedrich Wilhelm Neitzche propose?
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-God is dead
- Superman theory - ubermensch |
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What famous leader followed Friedrich Wilhelm Neitzche's teachings?
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Hitler
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When was the Origin of the Species written?
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1859
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When was the Principles of Geology written?
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1830-1833
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When did Friedrich Wilhelm Neitzche live?
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1844-1900
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Who was the main waverer?
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Alfred Lord Tennyson
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Alfred Lord Tennyson (fact)
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raised in religion, but disturbed by Darwin and how science seemed to contradict religion.
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Name 3 works by Tennyson.
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1. In Memoriam
2. Ulysses 3. The Lady of Shalott |
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Who is "In Memoriam" about?
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a close friend, Arthur Henry Hallam
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What is about "In Memoriam" about?
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a series of poems lamenting the death of close friend and at times strugglin to believe in a benevolent God.
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How would "In Memoriam" be characterized as?
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by amood of sad-sweet contemplation
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What is Ulysess about?
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the necessity of heroic action
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What is a the Lady of Shalott about?
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a fair lady and medival knight but there is no chivalric action
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Who are the the main waverers?
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1. Matthew Arnold
2. Thomas Hardy |
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Name one work of writing by Matthew Arnold.
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Dover Beach
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What is Dover Beach about?
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the speaker sits on the shore of the ocean and hears an eternal not of sadness and there is no certainty in the world.
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What did Thomas Hardy write?
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The Darkling Thrush
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What is the Darkling Thrush about?
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-contrasts the happy song of the thrush with the realities of life as he knows it
-works drips with irony - sees the world as always changing and sometimes meaningless |
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Who were the major believers?
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1. Robert Browning
2. Gerard Manley Hopkins 3. Rudyard Kipling 4. Elizabeth Barrett Browning |
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Who spent much of his life in Italy studing the Renaissance?
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Robert Browning
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Who was the inventor of the dramatic monologue?
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Robert Browning
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What is a dramatic monologue?
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a poem in the form of a character's solilquy about himself
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Who wrote Pippa Passes?
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Robert Browning
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What is the idea of Pippa Passes?
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"God's in his heaven; all's right with the world"
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Who was a Victorian Wordsworth?
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Gerard Manley Hopkins
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How is Gerard Manley Hopkins a Victorian Wordsworth?
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he finds evidence of God's handiwork in the keenest observations of nature
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Who wrote God's Grandeur?
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Gerard Manley Hopkins
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What is the idea behind God's Grandeur?
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God's grandeur does exist but our perception of it has dulled
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Who wrote the Jungle Book?
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Rudyard Kipling
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Who thought the British empire so great and was a testament to the marvelous works of the British government?
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Rudyard Kipling
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What did Bishop Usher do?
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counteracted Darwin and Lyell. and by studying the Bible, he concluded the earth was only a couple of thousand years old.
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Who alway reminded the reader of his moral duty not to become drunk with power but to act with humitlity and moral responsiblity in imperial affairs?
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Rudyard Kipling
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What were the two voice of from the Victorian England?
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1. voice of faith, progress, and optimism
2. voice of criticism, doubt, and pessimism |
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What problems did Victorian England face?
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-rapid mechanization
-claims of science -disturbing social change -intellectual and social discontent -immoral behavior |