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Corsets and Colonialism---all sorts of stifling oppression.

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welcome to the next installment of British literary history doing my favorite letter a. Well maybe I really like the next one to the Victorian era and all of these pictures represent stuff about it not the British Empire Groucho Dickens play Kim urbanisacion big novels good.  Alright here's some stuff that was going on around the world during the you know what happens quite a bit for the Victorian. Industrialization is still really importance, still an important factor how's the British people are living the lifestyle still being changed by factories I'm so during Queen Vic rain friends even though we had already experienced some organization the London population grows from 2 million to 6.5 so the impacts of the Industrial Revolution although that happens to literary periods ago are still very very long and so by 1891 had to be 11 years old so that's how much things have improved in the city's cholera I'm in one of Charles Dickens novels there was a character named Joe and this young orphan boy that makes his living sweeping the Streets of London before a middle or upper class people simply because there's some scum and feces on the street so he would sweep in front of people in the hopes that they'd tip him for it and his character represents how horrible the lives of some of these children debtors prisons which really great ideas to lock them up so that they can get out of set and work houses for homeless and forced to work in these workhouses that did Supply them with a place but in really brutal with really brutal and really restrictive working conditions house by choice open weather Silverman another part of the Victorian era or Rhapsody to finding part is the middle class and when you say Victorian it usually refers to these people of the middle previous monarchs outrageous outfits like that when Victoria and Prince Albert her husband's tried to Phoenix pull up middle-class values they try not to be extravagant often models name the cultural norms and middle-class victorians were very much trying to stabilize their world that was changing so much before moving to cities there's population growth and some control and so they use manners and presentation as an effort to control things so if they had strict like how young woman would be addressed or like the use of letters of introduction so that you can meet people who are ever it gives the appearance of safety the population of your world is growing so much instead of knowing just landed gentry around you Elizabeth Bennet your family you're now living in the city with people you know nothing about so it gives this feeling of control and safety what you're hanging out with the right people way to receive basically to create the reception but they want and particularly consumerism so they're pretty much the first. That shops not the first. He is closing was also always a part of identity much more than other periods they shop in order to form their identity play music choice says something about you they would purchase things to say things about them Princeton home which is kind of the sitting room where you would welcome guests was often a performance they would put out specific wible Lane set the beat all in order  the male consequence are also concerned with distinguishing themselves the upper class is aristocracy as overly hedonistic and immoral and also from the lower class from the stop viewed as poor because of some  usually moral problem but at the same time they would Clemson to help them leave you the word consent to condescend to someone liking condescending the negative victorians in a positive way but it meant the same thing they view themselves as better most of what we've us traditional gender roles will really cemented during the Orion. And wake up urbanisacion this idea of separate spheres a domestic sphere and develop and the woman's spear was supposed to be a place of safety omnistat the man got to go out and do the same oral but difficult ugly broken world Gamble's Hill Retreats into the bosom of their wonderful beautiful and clean so description for the ideal woman during the Victorian era was the angel in the house the word angel mean next she's very very moral woman were viewed as responsible for Southwest and how she's very sick I'm so in this picture from the woman in the house worrying about her man but she has a sort of like make everything okay the Empire reached its height during the Victorian era by 1891 fourth of all of the people in the world were subjects of Great Britain and 1/4 of all of the land was in the British Empire there was the same that the Sun never set on the British Empire because I will look at the map as the Earth is rotating there's always part of the Empire that the sun is shining on but this was you will fight as no centricity the British people thought that they were the greatest and most highly civilized people the world ever ever saw so they thought it was their moral responsibility to go civilize the walls in the famous White Man's Burden it says pick up The White Man's Burden to wait and heavy harness fun fluttered folk and wild half devil and half child so the Palm is argue it's the burden of these white men to help the ignorant childish devilish brown people of the world and so that was the British Empire what interests me most about organism is that the Victorian period was an  so we have industrialization that's making the lower faucet what's that industrialization there's finding themselves by manners and morals and my materialism so where to finding themselves as good moral people but that goodness and morality is in part did fighter consumption to create for them and some distance from the lower classes and then there's progress there's like ass and things are getting better every day or something like that or excited about technology crowding in the cities on the famous London Fog which was actually a small that was created by all of the pollution that was so bad that if the wind caught it and took it out to the field had from the pollution and then they were also bringing this racist ethnocentric in it  salmon in the idea that it was an age of improvements which was very much a French's cultivation of white English middle-class values at home and abroad. They were improving at the same time that they were hypocritically oppressing people hypocritically ignoring people I'm so all of these contradictions that some another Victorious willfully ignored some to make some very interesting some Victorian Riders are often the same way that Victorian Manor for trying to make sense of this chaotic changing World writers trying to Grapple the optimism that the Victorian. Brought like you getting better everyday see through this song and sleeping kid so a lot of times writing Princeton Charleston looks at the industrialization tried to bring lights to the Flight of the urban poor  particularly many of the writers would examine the inferior treatment of women and they would often look at the problematic elements of colonialism some of them we're just kind of complicit with colonialism at the time but a few of them examines how it was dangerous to both and they're also grappling with some frightening Darwin's theory of evolution geology the Earth is cops older than dating based on the Bible indicated are having people question kind of their religious the biggest part of literature in the Victorian period is Monopoly what's the novel novels were published serially received play that 1 hours ramazan Sciorra Steve so Staples right now Game of Thrones as person is like house of cards or Orange is the New Black supposed to come out play some most novels would be separated into 20 Parts the last two would be published together and they would be published in those little so the same way that all of your friends might be talking about the most recent episode of Game of Thrones and what happens if looking forward to the next episode that's how people were taking TV and internet with novels want to know what was going to happen next to their stories of Americans waiting at the ports for the next people your novels often featured realism which seems pretty normal to us now but keep in mind that most of what we read up to this point in terms of longer fiction has dealt with pretty generally upper-class people and awesome  want to say I feel I spent some fantastic elements realism on the other hand to prevent an accurate portrayal of reality is a lot of details was useful for Victor's because they were trying to draw attention to social justice issues the disparity between the victorianism really philanthropic moral group and the reality of the Victorian crippling poverty mistreatment of various groups let's plays Austin way of understanding the role of an individual in a sprawling multi-faceted Society so it's trying again to make sense of what it means to be a young man in this world of Oppression and cruelty and also during this period is naturalism which is a more pessimistic take me to say he is at biology or natural forces 16 sign  human life and so Mom what happens to us like kind of were pre basically to meet this fate that's determined by biology  why did I mention Victorian poetry is kind of Fielding off of all of the features making the novel so popular at the time so long narrative poems like those by Alfred Lord Tennyson which kind of which between Romanticism and victorianism on there also dramatic monologues which are homes where the voice of the speaker is ironically and they're often psychological monologue one person speaking the whole time but from the I morphed rest homes that usage will details and they're often trying to represent psychology or different perspectives and now I will leave you with another horrible joke why did Queen Victoria super pair for the longest reign until next time

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