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It had a stable government, a growing state, and an expanding franchise. It also controlled a large empire, and it was wealthy, in part because of its degree of industrialization and its imperial holdings and in spite of the fact that three-fourths or more of its population was working-class. Late in the period, Britain began to decline as a global political and economic power relative to other major powers, particularly the United States, but this decline was not acutely noticeable until after World War II.

There is some truth to both sides of this stereotype. Some few educated Victorians did write a lot about sex, including pornography , medical treatises , and psychological studies. Most others never talked about sex; respectable middle-class women in particular were proud of how little they knew about their own bodies and childbirth.

The Realistic Novel and its Formation The realistic novel was quite different than what has been seen with earlier literature. Mid-Victorian Period 1. Economic Prosperity 2. Growth of Empire 3. Religious Controversy 4. Time of prosperity. Monarchy proving its worth in a modern setting. Queen and Prince Albert models of middle-class domesticity and devotion to duty. Aristocracy discovering Free Trade enriching and agriculture flourished together with trade and industry.

Factory Acts restricted child labor and limited hours of employment. Annual export of goods nearly trebled in value between and Missionary societies flourished, spreading Christianity in India, Asia, Africa. Increasing debate about religious beliefs 8. Geology — extended history of earth backward millions of years reduced the stature of the human species in time.

Astrology — extended knowledge of stellar distances to dizzying expanses proved disconcerting Darwin The Descent of Man — raised more explicitly the haunting question of our identification with the animal kingdom. Mid-Victorian Period — writers reactions 1.

Some Victorian writers, such as Dickens, continue to make critical attack on the shortcomings of the Victorian social scene. John Ruskin denounces evils of Victorian industry—predicts doom of technological culture. Rebellions, massacres, bundled wars 2. Indian mutiny 3. Massacre of General Gordon and troops in Khartoum in 4.

Boer War — long bloody, unpopular struggle in south of Africa 5. Emergence of Bismarck's Germany confronted England with powerful threats to naval and military position. Recovery of United States after Civil War provided new and serious competition. Expansion of U. Literature of the Period 1. Overall change of attitudes 2.

Attacked major mid-Victorian idols 3. Satirized family life, particularly the self-righteousness of Victorian father 4. Nineties 6.

Studied languor, weary sophistication, search for new ways of titillating jaded palates. From Dickens to Wilde 1. The Role of Women 1. Reforms of the period did not extend to women. Could not vote. Could not hold political office 4. Married women could not own or handle their own property. Men could divorce their wives for adultery, but wives could divorce their husbands only if adultery were combined with cruelty, bigamy, incest, or bestiality.

Educational and employment opportunities limited. Literacy, Publication, and Reading 1. Literacy increased significantly — compulsory national education. Explosion of things to read 3. Technological changes in printing—pressed powered by steam, paper made from wood pulp, typesetting machines. The number of newspapers, periodicals, and books increased dramatically. Growth of Popular Press 1. Growth of periodical 2. Magazines for every taste 4.

Novels and long works of nonfiction prose were published in serial form. Readers shared the expectation that literature would not only delight but instruct, that it would be continuous with the lived world, and that it would illuminate social problems. Download File.