Alice’s Adventures in Wonderland

Alice’s Adventures in WonderlandContext and Influences:RomanticismQueen VictoriaIndustrial Revolution

RomanticismAn international shift in attitude,

beginning in 1770 and ending in 1870◦The Age of Revolutions

American Revolution French Revolution Industrial Revolution

What was life like during the Romantic Period?Intellectual Thought

◦Reason (Enlightenment) v. Imagination (Romantic)

◦Emotions—apprehension, horror and terror, and awe—especially that which is experienced in confronting the sublimity of untamed nature and its picturesque qualities

Households◦Large families◦Men in charge, women obeyed

Men controlled $ even if women earned it

Cont.Sanitation—BAD

◦Garbage everywhere◦Open cess-pits; open sewers◦Toilets new◦Sanitation-related diseases

Cholera Typhoid Dysentery

Queen Victoria1819-1901

◦Reigned 1837-1901(63 years) Unprecedented prosperity

Industrial expansion Economic progress Expansion of the empire

At her death, it was said, Britain had a worldwide empire on which the sun never set

Cont.http://

www.youtube.com/watch?v=wEOtVXydiEI Brief Bio

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=s8E68fFSCHI Influence on fashion/society

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UzzAhdS-xIo Funeral

Industrial RevolutionTimeline

◦http://www.victorianweb.org/technology/ir/irchron.html

Labor◦Transitioned from homes and farms

as centers of production to factories Textile Industry 1st

Women and Children Self-reliance

WorkhousesPeople who could not afford to

live on their own forced into workhouses◦Unpleasant◦Families separated◦Work difficult

Child Laborhttp://

www.youtube.com/watch?v=87eVOpbcoVo

Robert Minor, The Daily Worker (22nd December, 1924)

The Great Exhibition1st World’s Fair

◦Hyde Park, London, UK 1851◦Prince Albert’s idea

Camera—New art form born Queen Victoria 1st royal to have her picture

taken

Social HierarchyVictorian England—strict social

hierarchy—pre-defined ladder◦ Aristocracy (Lords)◦ Commoners

DisconnectBetween the ideal and reality