Characteristics of the Victorian Period?

Question

What are some characteristics of the victorian period?? Websites would be a big help.

Answer 1

One important fact only during these modern times circa 2007 do Americans refer to 'Victorian' times, the term is a British invention describing the era when Queen Victoria reigned, 1837 to 1901. In America things are much more complicated; the eras were Pre-Civil War, the Antebellum Era, the not so Civil War, and the post war period was The Gilded Age as well as the Age of Prosperity (disparity)...

A cheif characteristic on both sides of the Atlantic was dynamic growth, new inventions & modes of life constantly changing the way people played out their existence. Advances in communicattion; the telegrapgh near the start of the age, the telephone toward the end and in between expanding networks of wries and the Atlantic cable, so it was a lot like the Internet Age !!!! The Victorian Era (I do find it a convenient term even as an American) was a time of movement; disenchanted people moved to places of perceived opportunity often at the expence of the Natives; the American West, the Canadian heartland, Australia, etc.
Dynamic changes explosive possibilties characterize the Victorian Era.
(Period conjurs up those dread monthlies)

Gonna throw a few of my favorite links at you..

http://www.lahacal.org/gentleman/behavior.html
a snippet
"""The following web pages will endeavor to give a rough notion of what was expected of 19th Century American Gentlemen, as presented in etiquette books, with a leavening of how they really behaved, as presented in the works of foreign observers and social commentators.

The 19th Century was a time of tremendous social and economic flux. The Industrial Revolution created a consumer economy and a huge middle class with the means of purchasing consumer goods. This new middle class felt that they had arrived at a higher social plane of existence. The social norms of the farm and the tenement would not do for the family of a man who had made his way in the world.

The new middle class wanted to purchase appropriate manners, just as they could purchase fashionable homes, stylish clothing or the latest domestic gadget. From the 1850s on, the market was flooded with etiquette books which laid out to people who had never been exposed to such things, the rules of "polite society". In many cases, they also did not describe 19th Century America as it was, but as the author hoped it could become.

Ironically, these rules were based upon the norms of the 18th Century aristocratic society which the middle class had supplanted and rendered obsolete.

These changes were taking place throughout the European and American world, but in America, an additional dynamic was present. 19th Century Americans were keenly aware of the uniqueness of their democratic institutions and society, and many saw the manners of "polite society" as contrary to the egalitarian nature of America. Hifaluten manners were a thing of the decadent Old World. This often manifested itself in loud, coarse and rough behavior and downright rudeness--especially on the part of the have-nots towards the haves. Anyone who wore a top hat had to be ready to patiently endure the "I'm as good a man as you" reception he might get from every white porter, cab driver, sailor and ditch digger he might encounter.""

This is just fun
http://etext.library.adelaide.edu.au/b/beeton/isabella/household//

so is this
http://www.catskillarchive.com/rrextra/makeem.Html

so is this
http://www.fashion-era.com/
http://celticfringe.net/history/vocab.htm

http://doi.contentdirections.com/mr/greenwood.jsp?doi=10.1336/0275979814
""Victorian England was, in Tennyson's phrase, "an awful moment of transition." A society based largely on agriculture, traditional values, and social hierarchies was transformed into one both stimulated and unsettled by unprecedented growth in science, technology, industry, urbanization and population, and profound questioning of politics, morality, and religion. Its writers energetically revealed their responses to the times and the effect that such a rapidly changing world had upon them. This collection of some of the best, wittiest, and most unusual Victorian writing uses careful observations and acute comments to bring to life the variety, the energy, and the often harsh reality of the society that produced and inspired one of England's most famous authors.""


Peace......................

Answer 2

Victorian Age Characteristics

Answer 3

Sexually repressed,overly ornate period ruled over and named for Queen Victoria of England. Some of the best English literature was a result of this period in history.The industrial revolution was in full swing. India was drawn into English rule. You could write a book about the wide ranging effects of the Victorian age-and many people have.

Answer 4

In matters of morals and graphic arts, it divides into two almost opposite periods.

From 1830-ish up to the death of Prince Albert in 1861, it was okay to be aware of bodies, beauty, and sex, and to talk about them. Victoria and Albert had nine children, so it was obvious that sex was okay. Paintings depicting beautiful and scantily-clad females were okay, too.

From 1862 to 1890, it was the opposite. Victoria was a grieving widow, and it was seen as disloyal to upset her sensitivities by displaying or mentioning anything which would remind her of married life, or remind anyone else of it either. Hypocrisy began on a grand scale, bulbous piano legs were covered in fabric sleeves to avoid any suggestiveness, and human figures in paintings had to be almost fully clothed, with whatever little skin was showing painted in pale, uninteresting and unexciting tones.

However, from 1890 onwards, national respect for Victoria's sensitivity weakened noticeably, and suggestiveness and sensuousness becan to creep back into art and everyday life, especially through Oscar Wilde and Aubrey Beardsley.

Answer 5

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Characteristics of the Victorian Period?
What are some characteristics of the victorian period?? Websites would be a big help.

Answer 6

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Answer 7

The Victorian Period was a repressed and hypocritical time.
Look it up in Wikipedia for mote detailed info.

Answer 8

Google Queen Victoria- busy busy decoration is what comes to mind... try Victorianstation.com