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What did Sir Henry Holland call the Victorian era? |
"an age of transition" |
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Talairach-Vielmas' view of female characters in Victorian lit? |
"Female characters are more often than not buried alive when they threaten the Victorian status quo, even if only symbolically" |
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What are "two sides of the same thing" according to Spencer? |
"wealth and respectability are two sides of the same thing" |
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What do Hughes and Lund say of serial stories? |
"Readers repeatedly were forced to set aside a continuing story and resume everyday life" |
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Arnold's definition of culture? |
"[Culture is] the best which has been thought and said" |
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Stuart Mille's analysis of the era? |
"mankind have outgrown old institutions and old doctrines, and have not acquired new ones" |
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Macaulay said: "As civilisation advances... |
"...poetry almost necessarily declines" |
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Pykett's opinion of the readers of Wilkie Collins |
"feminised domain of popular culture" |
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Spencer arguing for 'The Social Organism' over the 'Great Man' theory |
"...such social changes as are immediately traceable to individuals of unusual power, are still remotely traceable to the social causes which produced these individuals" |
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Eliot on power of social changes |
"For there is no creature whose inward being is so strong that it is not greatly determined by what lies outside it" (MIDDLEMARCH) |
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Fichte's view of power of language |
"Men are formed by language far more than language is formed by men" |
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Gissing on 'the London poor' |
"The London poor, least original and least articulate beings within the confines of civilisation" |
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Wells on the fear of degenerating language |
"Imagine language, once clear-cut and exact... losing shape and import, becoming mere lumps of sound again" (THE ISLAND OF DR MOREAU) |
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Stepan's analysis of Victorian view of race |
"[For many Victorians] fixed and distinct racial types provided the key to human history and destiny" |
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Kingsley's nationalistic declaration in 'ALTON LOCKE' |
"...for I, too, was a man, and an Englishman" |
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H.R.Haggard's book that legitimises the subjugation of Zulu culture |
NADA THE LILY |
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What happens to Allen's 'THE REVEREND JOHN CREEDY' |
"Instinct had gained the day over civilisation; the savage in John Creedy had broken out" |
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Trilling's memorable phrase on the impact of whispers in the air etc. |
"huge unrecorded hum of implication" |
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Simpson's view of Dickens' characters |
"characters who evidence an abdication or enforced loss of the essential or inward self in favour of outward attributes" |
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Thackeray's description of the age? |
"age of steam" |
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Literary Exahustion - how important is literature to us? |
"the novels we eat are becoming as important to us as the water we drink or the food we eat" |
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Gosse's views on the extinction of certain animals |
"...the sentence if gone forth against them; that their sands are running to the last grains, and that no effort of ours can materially prolong their existence" |
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Bordin on New Women |
"The term New Woman always referred to women who exercised control over their own lives be it personal, social or economic" |
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Adams: what has "Victorian" become a byword for? |
"'Victorian' has become a byword for a religious moralism centred on sexual repression" |
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From Smiles' 'Self Help' book |
"Every human being has a great mission to perform" |
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Jones re. Wilde's fairy tales |
"paradoxical dynamic between physical beauty and moral repugnance" |
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Murray on the cost of art and beauty |
"The cost of art and beauty torments the Victorian poets; they are aware that their private vision is built on the poverty and suffering of others" |
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Mill on humans and social flexibility |
"that human beings are no longer born to their place in life..." |
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Houghton on the rising levels of work |
"To live in this dynamic, free-wheeling society was to feel the enormous pressure of work" |
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Houghton on social flexibility |
"When class lines broke down and it became possible as never before to rise in the world by one's own strenuous efforts" |
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Which struggles complemented each other? |
"the struggle for success was complemented by the struggle for rank" (Houghton again) |
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What two tempos massively increased? |
"tempo of work" and "tempo of living" |
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What did Greg say of the pace of life in his article 'Life at High Pressure' in 1875? |
"a life filled so full... that we have no time to reflect" |
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Eliot's view of idleness in Adam Bede |
"even idleness is eager now" |
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What Arnold (thomas) call the age? |
"an age of disquietude and doubt" |
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Houghton's description of the many different religions and theories at the time |
"a hubbub of contending theories" |
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Houghton's description of the Victorian optimism |
"it never occurred to them to doubt their capacity to arrive at the truth" |
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Mill on people's opinions |
"The men of the present day rather incline to an opinion than embrace it" |
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Houghton's description of the dichotomy of the Victorian state of mind |
"hope and dismay, optimism and anxiety" |
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Osborne's opinion of social class in Thackeray's Vanity Fair |
"good society can never go wrong" |
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The Reluctant Rocket's arrogant statement |
"It may be so with you... but with me it is different" |
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The Swallow's misogyny |
"...I love travelling, and my wife, consequently should love travelling also" |
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The Student's view of pragmatism |
"in this age to be practical is everything" |
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Wilde's view of altruism in 'The Soul of Many Under Socialism' |
"unhealthy and exaggerated altruism" |
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The description of the consumptive in 'The Time Machine' |
"His flushed face reminded me of the more beautiful kind of consumptive - that hectic beauty of which we used to hear so much" |
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Depressing idea of the lack of afterlife in 'In Memoriam' |
"rubbish to the void" (LIV) |
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Despairing powerlessness in 'In Memoriam' |
"My words are only words" |
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Despairing question in 'In Memoriam' |
"What hope of answer or redress?" (LVI) |
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The Woman in White's view of what women can't resist |
"They cannot resist a man's tongue when he knows how to talk to them" |
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The Woman in White's gross view of Marian's lack of corset |
"visibly and delightfully undeformed by stays" |
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'Peace' passage from 'In Memoriam' |
Peace; come away: the song of woe Is after all an earthly song: Peace; come away: we do him wrong To sing so wildly: let us go. (LVIII)
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