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Alice’s Adventures in Wonderland. Context and Influences: Romanticism Queen Victoria Industrial Revolution. Romanticism. An international shift in attitude, beginning in 1770 and ending in 1870 The Age of Revolutions American Revolution French Revolution Industrial Revolution. - PowerPoint PPT Presentation
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Alice’s Adventures in WonderlandContext and Influences:RomanticismQueen VictoriaIndustrial Revolution
RomanticismAn international shift in attitude,
beginning in 1770 and ending in 1870◦The Age of Revolutions
American Revolution French Revolution Industrial Revolution
What was life like during the Romantic Period?Intellectual Thought
◦Reason (Enlightenment) v. Imagination (Romantic)
◦Emotions—apprehension, horror and terror, and awe—especially that which is experienced in confronting the sublimity of untamed nature and its picturesque qualities
Households◦Large families◦Men in charge, women obeyed
Men controlled $ even if women earned it
Cont.Sanitation—BAD
◦Garbage everywhere◦Open cess-pits; open sewers◦Toilets new◦Sanitation-related diseases
Cholera Typhoid Dysentery
Queen Victoria1819-1901
◦Reigned 1837-1901(63 years) Unprecedented prosperity
Industrial expansion Economic progress Expansion of the empire
At her death, it was said, Britain had a worldwide empire on which the sun never set
Cont.http://
www.youtube.com/watch?v=wEOtVXydiEI Brief Bio
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=s8E68fFSCHI Influence on fashion/society
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UzzAhdS-xIo Funeral
Industrial RevolutionTimeline
◦http://www.victorianweb.org/technology/ir/irchron.html
Labor◦Transitioned from homes and farms
as centers of production to factories Textile Industry 1st
Women and Children Self-reliance
WorkhousesPeople who could not afford to
live on their own forced into workhouses◦Unpleasant◦Families separated◦Work difficult
Child Laborhttp://
www.youtube.com/watch?v=87eVOpbcoVo
Robert Minor, The Daily Worker (22nd December, 1924)
The Great Exhibition1st World’s Fair
◦Hyde Park, London, UK 1851◦Prince Albert’s idea
Camera—New art form born Queen Victoria 1st royal to have her picture
taken
Social HierarchyVictorian England—strict social
hierarchy—pre-defined ladder◦ Aristocracy (Lords)◦ Commoners
DisconnectBetween the ideal and reality