Introduction to the Victorian Era

Major genres, cultural and historical summary

[TRex-ddze]

It's interesting - I had a history professor tell me that the discussion of history often tells you more about the time when it is being discussed than the time it is discussing. So 2016 was when this was posted and presumably recorded, which is the same time as 2020, and probably 2024; in other words, it tells us about our time now. So: immigration, sexual morality and women's role in society. They are all labeled as fears. The language used such as "repression" is an insight, as is how "snooty" is used, etc. It's interesting that the focus is on the critics of the Victorian era, too, as opposed to what might have perhaps been the dominate way of doing things or the dominate beliefs and values then. The way these topics are discussed tells us how the modern person (or a certain percentage of the modern person, those in positions of power/authority/academia) think. They think our society now, or many people in it, fear immigrant communities and they think we should have a virtually unregulated free flow of people across borders, that sexual morality is archaic and that we live today in a patriarchy. Also, the idea that women wanted the right to vote, demanded it and that's how it happened, is what we believe today, and it fits today's narrative of needing to still fight and smash the patriarchy. And perhaps women wanting and fighting for the vote is largely true; however, there is no mention that most women did not want the right to vote at that time (which is my understanding), and by simply saying "women" it seemed to imply all or at least a vast majority. No mention, at least not yet in this lecture, how working men were only granted the right to vote in the late Victorian era. Anyway, it is really interesting when you consider what my history professor said of how discussing history often tells us more about the time when it is discussed. :D

[tahminasah]

Worth it! <3
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[naly]

In all these videos I find about the Victorian era, things are presented in a bad light. As if morality, social stability, identity were a bad thing. Gimme a break.
Victorian times weren't all pink, but the Empire expanded as never before, industrialization took the country into a modern era, the strict laws against crime helped civilise the darker sides of the society. Also, by the end of the period laws were given to better the life of the poor as well: strict rules about employment - working hours, improving working conditions, etc.
All these were in the Victorian era.

[mariademurtas]

Thank you so much for your video, well dome and good expressed, actualy I preferito listening instradare of following all day from a boring book! It si much poweful to mixing both

[animanoir]

Nice introduction. Would had loved to be your student :~)

[mr.chavez]

Thank you so much, and I love your voice.

[robnewman]

The Lifestyle of the Victorian Policeman was particularly harsh and the pay was poor, about the same as a Farm Labourer, well through it was better in some City Forces.

[kurukiiru]

Thanks a lot I got many useful things as student of literature

[neetadamor]

Chafter ka hindi translation krke se kijiye ga sir plz

[JOHN----DOE]

This is a grossly revisionist treatment of "Victorian fears" based on contemporary politically-correct overemphasis on race and gender (especially race). The REAL Victorian fears were about class and religion. Victorian politics and society were constantly in fear of a French revolution, of the massive economic dislocations of industrialism and their effects on politics (the switch of power from landowning nobility to industrial capitalists), and swirled around the Reform Acts which extended the vote and attempts to negotiate with the Chartists threatening revolt for working-class rights. The other fear was of falling morality because science was relentlessly undermining the "opiate of the people, " religion. The repressive moralities of the era were due to the attempts of the rising middle class to have enough political and familial stability to consolidate their economic gains. That's why the Victorian society was so rigid--the workplace was a dynamic "survival of the fittest" jungle, not the agrarian and predictable life of past centuries, and there was extreme pressure on the family unit to police morality and education. Technological, democratic, and scientific changes were the driving forces.