1. The Victorian Period: Paradox and Progress

2. Peace and Economic Growth
Industrial Revolution _________, creating new towns, new goods, new ________, and new ______ for many
_________ reforms gave working and middle class citizens more ________ power

3. The Idea of Progress
Middle-class Victorian attitude – progress largely means _________ improvement that can be _________ and touched, _________ and measured

4. The Hungry Forties Came to throne during a _________
_____ working conditions -- _________ kids
The _________ famine -- caused many _______ to emigrate to England, increasing ________
_________ and filth -- Thames River

5. The Movement for Reform
_________ in diet – price of food _________
The Reform Bills – gave the right to ____ to almost all adult _____; _______ child labor; reduced _____ in the working day; state-supported _______ were established, rising the ______ rate

6. Decorum and Prudery
Publishers deleted or _________ words and episodes that could _________ ladies
Sex, _________, and _________ were softened
People were arrested for distributing information about _________

7. Authoritarian Values
Uneasy about giving strong _________ to a central government
Women were subject to _________ authority
Women who didn’t marry had few jobs available – _________ (working class); governesses or _________ (middle class)

8. Intellectual Progress & Science
Worked out the history of the earth in _________ and _________
Evolution of species theories
Believed the world offered a challenging set of problems that could be understood by human _________ and solved by _________, government, and other human institutions

9. Questions and Doubts
Can _________ comfort fully satisfy human needs and wishes?
Cost of _________ the earth and human beings to achieve _________
Codes of _________ and authority
Understanding of the universe

10. Trust/Skepticism in the Transcendental
Younger writers found it difficult to believe in an _________ power and order that made sense of material and human existence
Some believed there was no _________; others that existence was not governed by a _________ intelligence that _________ for its creatures