Early Victorian Period (1830-1848): "Time of Troubles"
Mid-Victorian Period (1848-1870): "Economic Prosperity,
Growth of Empire, and Religious Controversy"
Late Victorian Period (1870-1901): "Decay of Victorian
Values"
Industrialism
The Woman Question
Imperialism
Discussion Questions:
527:
What, according to the
editors, was the most important development of the Victorian
Age?
528:
Why, according to the
editors, was the transformation to an industrial nation a
painful one?
529:
Explain this quote from
Carlyle. writing in 1834: "Close thy Byron; open thy Goethe" (529).
What stereotypes about
Victorians arose in the years following Victoria's death?
532:
Who were the Chartists?
533:
What were the Corn Laws
(repealed 1846)?
536:
What was the Oxford Movement?
What is Utilitarianism?
538:
What factors threatened the
power of the British Empire during the late Victorian Period?
549:
What, according to the
editors, is the greatest achievement of Victorian poetry?
Other Discussion Questions:
528:
How much of the world was
under England's power at the height of Victoria's reign?
531:
What were the consequences of
the Reform Act of 1832?
534:
What was the Crystal Palace?
535:
What were Britain's motives
in creating its empire?
537:
How did scientific
developments in the Victorian Age threaten religious faith?
540:
In the 1890s, why was
melancholy, not gaiety, characteristic of the nation's spirit?
542:
What did the Married Women's
Property Acts (1870-1908) accomplish?
543:
Describe the position of a
governess during this period.
Describe the doctrine of
separate spheres.
546:
What, according to the
editors, is the focus of most Victorian novels?
550:
Explain: "Victorian prose writers were engaged in shaping
belief in a bewilderingly complex and changing world" (550).
551:
Explain: Arnold and Pater each "argues that
culture--the intensely serious appreciation of great works of
literature--provides the kind of immanence and meaning that
people once found in religion" (551).
