Title: Introduction and the background of the Victorian period

Subject: Thomas Carlyle-extracts from “Democracy” in Past and Present; Alfred Lord Tennyson “Ulysses”, “The Charge of the Light Brigade”, “The Lotus Eaters,” from “In Memoriam”.

Date: 18,09,24

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• Main Ideas
• Key words
  • Modernism
  • Post-modernism
  • Abondonement
  • Sense of loss
  • Romantics
• Questions that connect points
• Important points

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<aside> ✏️ During Lecture Notes:

Introduction and Background of the Victorian Period

Thomas Carlyle Democracy

Alfred Lord Tennyson

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<aside> 📎 Summary:

A brief summary and conclusion about the notes/lecture

• Industrial and Political Preeminence:
  • Many Victorians felt proud of Britain’s leading role in industry and politics.
  • Britain was seen as a global superpower during this period
• Sense of Loss and Displacement:
  • Despite the pride, there was an underlying feeling of loss among Victorians.
  • Rapid technological advancements led to feelings of alienation
• Technological Changes:
  • The fast pace of technological change outstripped the ability of people to adapt.
  • This created a sense of being “displaced persons” in their own world
• Psychological Impact:
  • The quick exploitation of new technologies affected the human psyche.
  • Many struggled to cope with the rapid changes in their environment
• Age of Transition because writers of the thirties shared a sharp new sense of modernity, of a break with the past, of historical self-consciousness.
• Turning to the actual and practical career of life: awoke from the morbid, the dreaming, “the moonlight and dimness of the mind and by a natural reaction addressed ourselves to the active an daily objects which lay before us.”

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