{"product_id":"daily-life-in-victorian-england-the-middle-class-and-its-values-von-julia-schubert","title":"Daily Life in Victorian England: The Middle Class and its Values","description":"\u003cp\u003eSeminar paper from the year 2002 in the subject English Language and Literature Studies - Culture and Applied Geography, grade: 2+ (B), Martin Luther University (Institute for Anglistics\/ American Studies), course: The Condition of England-Question, language: English, abstract: The Victorian age in England is generally defined by the reign of Queen Victoria\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003efrom 1837 to 1901. Since the queen¿s rulership was for such a long time, it is not\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003epossible to discuss the whole period as one homogen part. There were so many\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003echanges during the different phases of Victorias¿s reign that the 64 years of her\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003erulership may be seperated into 3 different periods: the first period which lastet\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003euntil 1851 is a period of growth; England¿s manufacturing and trading forces grew\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003emore and more. In 1851 the Great Exhibition in London started the second and for\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003ethis paper most important period. Now England was the leading industrial country\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003ein the world; the period of supremacy had begun.The late Victorian period covers\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003ethe last quarter of the century. During this phase England lost its supremacy and\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003ethe society had a more critical look on the earlier periods.1\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eThe Victorian values which were developed by the middle class were most\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003einfluential during the second third of Victoriäs reign. During this time the middle\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eclass grew significantly and became very important (for example through the\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eReform Bills which enlarged the voting population as well as through their\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003egrowing wealth). Because of their new role in society middle-class opinions,\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003ebehavior and values were adopted by the other classes above and below.2\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eTherefore, it can be said that from its beginning onwards the mid-Victorian era\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003ewas and is of a special influence on the British society in past and present: ¿The\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eopening of the Great Exhibition was also the opening of the Golden Age of\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eVictorianism,...¿.3 This ¿Golden Age¿ even has been recognized at the end of the\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e20th century when the British Prime Minister Margaret Thatcher stated: ¿Victorian\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eValues were the values when our country became great.¿4 Therefore, this term\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003epaper will discuss the famous ¿Victorian Values¿ which were developed in one\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eclass and later characterized a whole society.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eHow did the people of the middle class live in the middle of the 19th\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003ecentury? How did they practise their morals and values? What were their morals\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eand ideals? [...]\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e1 David Thomson, England in the Nineteenth Century: 1815-1914 (Harmondsworth: Penguin Books 1991)\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e221-224.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e2 Gottfried Niedhart, Geschichte Englands im 19. und 20. Jahrhundert, 3 Bände (München: Verlag C.H. Beck\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e1987) 39-49.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e3 Thomson, England 19th Century, 100.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e4 Asa Briggs, A Social History of England, 2nd edition (London: Weidenfeld and Nicolson, 1994) 249.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cdiv class=\"aw-variant-hidden-subtitle-div\" id=\"aw-variant-subtitle-9783656204862\"\u003e\u003ch3\u003e\u003c\/h3\u003e\u003c\/div\u003e","brand":"Libri","offers":[{"title":"Softcover - 9783656204862","offer_id":39432149893213,"sku":"9783656204862","price":17.95,"currency_code":"EUR","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0940\/0622\/files\/5ad74ebf-9ee6-422c-9162-43c4c1e53411.jpg?v=1777955402","url":"https:\/\/shop.autorenwelt.de\/en\/products\/daily-life-in-victorian-england-the-middle-class-and-its-values-von-julia-schubert","provider":"Autorenwelt Shop","version":"1.0","type":"link"}