The Culture of Late Victorian The Culture of Late Victorian Society 1880Society 1880--19141914

ThemesThemes

Artistic revolt against Victorian valuesArtistic revolt against Victorian valuesScience and societyScience and societyEmergence of a national cultureEmergence of a national cultureChanging political valuesChanging political values

Artistic RevoltArtistic Revolt

Domesticity and Domesticity and respectabilityrespectability

Charles Dickens

Artistic revoltArtistic revolt

NaturalismNaturalism

Prostitute by Walter Sickert, 1884

Thomas Hardy

Artistic revoltArtistic revolt

AestheticismAestheticism

Oscar Wilde

Science and societyScience and society

From religion as the From religion as the authority for valuesauthority for values

“Soapy Sam” Bishop Wilberforce

Science and SocietyScience and Society

To Science as the To Science as the authority for values authority for values

Science and societyScience and society

Technology and Technology and ordinary lifeordinary life

Science and societyScience and society

Social Social darwinismdarwinism; ; survival of the fittest; survival of the fittest; racismracism

Races of Man

Emergence of a national cultureEmergence of a national culture

From regions to From regions to nationnation——the case of the case of dialectdialect

Emergence of a national cultureEmergence of a national culture

NewspapersNewspapers

Emergence of national culture: Emergence of national culture: educationeducation

Ragged School

Board School

Emergence of a national cultureEmergence of a national culture

Transportation: Transportation: trams, bicycles and trams, bicycles and suburbssuburbs

Trams

Emergence of national Emergence of national cutlurecutlure

Leisure: SportsLeisure: Sports

W. G. Grace

Emergence of a national cultureEmergence of a national culture

Entertainment: the music hallEntertainment: the music hall

Music HallMusic Hall

Canterbury Music Hall“A Little Bit of what you fancy does you good.”

Changing political valuesChanging political values

From individualism to From individualism to collectivismcollectivism

J.S Mill

Karl Marx

Changing political valuesChanging political values

SocialismSocialism

Changing political valuesChanging political values

FeminismFeminism

Changing political valuesChanging political values

Politics and classPolitics and classthird reform bill 1884third reform bill 1884labourlabour party 1900party 1900