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The Victorian Era Part I – Overview of an Era
"We are of the time of chivalry....We are of the age of steam."  - William Makepeace Thackery
An “Age of Transition” The Quest for Self-Definition
Never since the beginning of Time was there, that we hear or read of, so intensely self-conscious a Society. Our whole relations to the Universe and to our fellow-man have become an Inquiry, a Doubt.  — Thomas Carlyle, 1831        
Rule Britannia? ,[object Object],[object Object],[object Object],[object Object],[object Object],[object Object]
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Reform and Revolutionary Fears ,[object Object],[object Object],[object Object],[object Object],[object Object],[object Object],[object Object],[object Object],[object Object],[object Object],[object Object]
“ Multitudinousness"  ,[object Object],[object Object],[object Object],[object Object],[object Object],[object Object]
Self-Consciously Modern: ,[object Object],[object Object],[object Object],[object Object]
We Are Not Amused… Victoria and the Victorians
"Few of us, perhaps, have realized till now how large a part she had in the life of everyone of us; how the thread of her life [bound] the warp of the nation's progress."  - A newspaper quote on the Death of the Queen in 1901
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Royal Representations ,[object Object],[object Object],[object Object]
Royal Representations ,[object Object],[object Object],[object Object],[object Object],* As in the famous prank-call joke of the 1950’s-60’s
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What is a Victorian? ,[object Object],[object Object]
Victorian Behavior ,[object Object],[object Object],[object Object],[object Object],[object Object],[object Object]
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Contradictory Behaviors ,[object Object],[object Object],[object Object],[object Object],[object Object],[object Object],[object Object],[object Object],[object Object]

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The Victorian Era Part I - An Age of Transition & Reform

  • 1. The Victorian Era Part I – Overview of an Era
  • 2. "We are of the time of chivalry....We are of the age of steam." - William Makepeace Thackery
  • 3. An “Age of Transition” The Quest for Self-Definition
  • 4. Never since the beginning of Time was there, that we hear or read of, so intensely self-conscious a Society. Our whole relations to the Universe and to our fellow-man have become an Inquiry, a Doubt. — Thomas Carlyle, 1831        
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  • 12. We Are Not Amused… Victoria and the Victorians
  • 13. "Few of us, perhaps, have realized till now how large a part she had in the life of everyone of us; how the thread of her life [bound] the warp of the nation's progress." - A newspaper quote on the Death of the Queen in 1901
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