en333: day 2 what you need to know before we get going
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EN333: DAY 2
What you need to know before we get going
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THE NUTS & BOLTS
Who are the sensation novelists?• Braddon, Collins, Reade, Wood
Some more popular authors too• C. Bronte and Dickens
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WHAT BROUGHT IT ON
Rose to popularity in Great Britain in mid 1800’s
Response to “novel of manners”• Propaganda?• Middle-class guide books• Live the “proper” British lifestyle
Pair-Share: What are some Victorian norms and
values?
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LET’S COMPARE
With the person next to you, create a Venn
Diagram for life in 1860 vs. life in 1950.
Men: industrious, bread winners
Women: “angel in the house”
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ANGEL IN THE HOUSE
Remain in the homeTend to domestic duties
• i.e. order around the staff
Be polite
Be calm
Dote on husband
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BUT…
Overabundance of single women• More women than men born in previous generation• By 1891, 882,000 excess women (Kramer, David. "George
Gissing and Women's Work: Contextualizing the Female Professional." English Literature in Transition, 1880-1920 43.3 (2000): 317.)
Not independently wealthyCame from modest homesModerate educationForced to work
• Menial and low-paying
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SURPLUS WOMEN
INDEPENDENCE!Many liked it
• Took the opportunity to improve employment prospects and other advancements for other women
Pair-Share: What might be some other advantages and disadvantages of being a single women in the 1860’s be?
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THE OPPOSITION
Fuddy-duddiesWomen with jobs AND independence from men?!?!Can’t let women enjoy the single lifeWhat to do?
• Use literature
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LIT OF THE EARLY-MID 1800’S
Plot focused around angelic-looking and acting women• Keeping house• Tending children• Doting on husband
Submissive
Never angry
Polite
Fashionable
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SO NOT REALITY
Literature could not dispel all crime form the worldSensation novels turned the notion of “angle in the house” upside down
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FOR NEXT CLASS
Respond to the discussion on the wiki
Be sure to have read Maniac ch. 1-3
for Feb. 3