ENG 4339 Lecture 15: english-literature
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It takes his name from queen victoria who ruled from 1837 to 1901. Progress, expansion and mobility are the keywords that evoke a society and culture which was conscious of transformaions in every part of daily life. In this period, there is the industrial society evoluion, the increase in populaion that forces government aciviies to expand. Literacy rates increase and, as a consequence, there is the proliferaion of press and print culture, mass reading public. The developments ofer new opportuniies for travel and communicaion. Unknown lands were explored, mapped and expansion of commerce with the world; and also imperialism. Opimisic embrace of the idea of progress progress seen as something good and posiive. The irst level of reading is a posiive one, but the second level revels the unconscious anxiety of the period, but then at the end, there is a happy ending. The authors reveal which are the problems and anxieies of the society of that ime.
