Victorian America

The Victorian Era was a time of great economic, social, and political changes. Queen Victoria ruled England from 1837 to 1876 and this time was known as the Victorian Era. She ruled during a time when people disliked royalty about how they governed their land, but she is still credited with bringing respect back to the throne. Many of the things that changed for people during the Victorian Era is still prevalent today in the daily life, social class, and working life. First, daily life was…

A significant piece of Victorian literature, North and South, is a novel published in 1855. Gaskell portrays to us the conflicts of different worlds; the rural south vs. the industrial north, mill owners vs. workers, and women private world vs. men public world. The novel’s protagonist Margaret Hale, one of the strongest female characters in English literature and the heroine of North and South, embodies the true spirit of a heroine. Margaret Hale proves herself continuously to be a strong and…

The next issue that Dickens focuses on is the social problems of industrialization. Dickens is known to be one of the novelists who wrote and commented on the social matters of Victorian England in his novels. Hard Times which is no exception, captures contemporary social matters. These contemporary issues are discussed by John D. Baird. The author of "Divorce and Matrimonial Causes": An Aspect of "Hard Times". He argues that these issues are “woven deeply into the texture of the narrative; so…

today because of his bri11iant prose. Some of his exce11ent and notab1e works inc1ude Great Expectations, Hard Times and O1iver Twist. He was a faithfu1 son to his era the Victorian Age who had depicted in detai1 the status of women, and the socia1 structure at that time in Hard Times which in turn gives us a c1ear-cut idea of Victorian times .Char1es Dickens was very ski11fu1 and ambitious for his work. SOCIETY AND FAMILY IN HARD…

Victorian fashion comprises the numerous trends in British culture that developed in province throughout the Victorian era and the reign of Queen Victoria. As quoted from a Victoriana magazine, “The fashion conscious Victorian lady created this appearance with a mysterious combination of the ‘uncomfortable and inconvenient’ with the ‘frivolous and decorative.’”. Starting with undergarments to her dress, evening gowns to bonnets, and Victorian hats trimmed with feathers, flowers and ribbons;…

1. Introduction Ireland, as the “oldest British colony” (Canny 25) experienced the colonization for almost seven centuries, what lead to the emergence of the postcolonial literature, which deals with the feeling of oppression. Besides the oppression from the dominant imperial centre, among this British Empire-colony parallel, there is another one, which must be mentioned, namely man-woman parallel. In the book A Double Colonization: Colonial and Post-Colonial Women’s Writing the editors Kirsten…

Our Mutual Friend, written in the years 1864–65, is the last novel finished by Charles Dickens and is one of his most refined works, consolidating savage parody with social investigation. It fixates on, in the expressions of pundit J. Hillis Miller (citing from the character Bella Wilfer in the book), "cash, cash, cash, and what cash can make of life." In the opening parts a body is found in the Thames and distinguished as that of John Harmon, a young fellow as of late come back to London to get…

In the novel, Alice’s Adventures in Wonderland, Lewis Carroll is attempting to show Alice maturing from a child to a young adult. Before Alice’s tumble down the Rabbit hole and trip to Wonderland, she had gone through a phase in which she believed that everything could be explained and all questions had a reasonable answer. In the real world this was the case, but not in Wonderland. This leads to the inevitable outcome of her confusion between the real world and the “imaginary” world of…

patriarchy / patrimony is seen as "the source of tyranny, wars and diseases".Margaret Fuller, one of the first representatives of cultural feminism, defended the organic worldview in his book Woman in the Nineteenth Century (1845), focusing on the intuitive, emotional and spiritual aspects of knowledge, beyond the rational and legal implications of liberal feminism. And he argued that beyond the rationality of the woman, there are intuitive sense of extreme emotions. Fuller tended to become…

Clearly, Victorian England was a country of strong contrasts. Dirt and filth of slums on one side and elegant houses of rich people on the other, progress and leisure went side by side with poverty and exploitation of workers. A picture so well painted by Charles Dickens in the A Tale of two cities: Scientific progress and colonialism brought prosperity to English nation but with it fear crept in, too. 'Charles Darwin's new study on the idea of fitness in the world added to the anxieties that…