Victorian_Age

Victorian Age The Victorian Age In the Victorian period most importantly was the shift away from life based on ownership of land to a modern urban economy based on trade and manufacturing. By the beginning of the Victorian period, the Industrial Revolution, as this shift was called, had created profound economic and social changes, including a mass migration of workers to industrial towns, where they lived in new urban slums. But the changes arising out of the Industrial Revolution were just one subset of the radical changes taking place in mid- and late-nineteenth-century Britain among others were the democratization resulting from extension of the franchise; challenges to religious faith, in part based on the advances of scientific knowledge, particularly of evolution; and changes in the role of women. These issues, and the controversies attending them, enriched Victorian literature. In part because of the expansion of newspapers and the periodical press, debate about political and social issues played an important role in the experience of the reading public. Moreover, debates about political representation involved in expansion both of the franchise and of the rights of women affected literary representation, as writers gave voice to those victorian, war, new, about, writers, women, social, sense, poetry, writing, changes, been, while, period, literature, john, fiction, end, century, both, beginning, voice, visual, twentieth, time, technology, role, realist, poets, part, others, novelists, modern, industrial, fought