This lesson contains 13 slides, with interactive quizzes, text slides and 1 video.
Lesson duration is: 45 min
Items in this lesson
Reading in the Victorian Age
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Content
Reading and class system
Video: Reading in the Victorian Age
Children's Literature
Non-Fiction
Fiction
Detectives
Gothic Novel
Fun facts in the library
Questions
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Lower Class
Middle Class
Upper Class
Few of them could read, write or even count
They worked 10 to 12 hours a day
Had two or three servants
They had money and spare time to spend on reading
They donated libraries to their home town to show their wealth
Both males and females speak several languages
Slide 3 - Drag question
Slide 4 - Video
Children's Literature
* New
* Lewis Carroll - Alice in Wonderland
* Beatrix Potter - The Tale of Peter Rabbit
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Fiction
Charles Dickens:
The Christmas Carol
Oliver Twist
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The Detective Novel
Sir Arthur Conan Doyle - Sherlock Holmes
Next slide: What made the Detective Novel so popular?
True or false.....
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TRUE!
FALSE!
The detective characters were popular on television
were almost always in the shape of short stories
Men started to read more
The readers loved suspense, thriller and mystery
People had gaslights, so they could read after dark
The installments are cheap to print
Slide 9 - Drag question
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The Gothic Novel
Characteristics of the Gothic Novel:
Death and decay
Dark and mysterious atmosphere
Supernatural
Insanity
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Light
Gaslight: to read at night
Science
Science became accessible to all readers.
Female Authors
At the start of the Victorian Age females wrote under a male pseudonym, later they published under their own name.
Newspapers
Jack the Ripper: a real life gothic story! Newspapers were sold out with the Jack the Ripper stories. The unidentified and unknown serial killer raped and mutilated prostitutes in the City of London.
Reforms Acts
Queen Victoria passed new laws to ensure children learned to read and write. This, together with public libraries, made knowledge accessible