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Historical Context The Victorian era (1837-1901) was characterised by industrial expansion, cultural flourishing, and the expansion of the B...

Historical background   Victorian ethics, which were contradictory to the point of hypocrisy, featured a code of repressive sexual morality,...

  Historical context Victorian society at end of the 19th century in the UK continued the painful social changes involved in the gradual tra...

  Historical background   When  Middlemarch: A Study of Provincial Life  was published in 1891, the U.K. was in a rapid process of industria...

Philosophical background Hard Times is a criticism of Jeremy Bentham's ethical philosophy, Utilitarianism , which proposed that an acti...

   Historical background In Vanity Fair , William Makepeace Thackeray (1811-1863) penned a critical review of contemporary Victorian England...

Outline Historical context In the 19th. century the U.S. was marked by westward expansion, increasing national consciousness, political orga...

  Discussion Social background Wuthering Heights  (1847) was published a decade into the Victorian Age when the UK was changing from a mainl...

Discussion Social and economic background The French Revolution in 1789 was a reference point for the Romantic movement. It marked the shift...

Discussion Historical context At the beginning of the nineteenth century the Augustan Age continued its advances in capitalism and industria...

Discussion Historical Background When  The Vicar of Wakefield  was published in 1766 the British Empire was in expansion and the Industrial ...

Discussion   1. Literary background Narrative presentation : In  Don Quixote  (1605 & 1615) the knight lives out his own fiction by re-e...

Discussion Literary context Henry Fielding's (1707-1754) picaresque narrative Tom Jones (1749) draws on the Spanish tradition of Don Qu...

  Discussion Literary background Jonathan Swift (1667–1745) was an Irish clergyman. He visited England briefly and joined The Scriblerus Clu...

Discussion Literary context This short introductory background to the novel is an overview of its historical situation in European literatur...

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