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Bourgeois existence was a world of interior space, heavily curtained off and wary of intrusion, and opened only by invitation for viewing on occasions such as parties or teas. " The essential, unknowability of each individual, and society's collaboration in the maintenance of a façade behind which lurked innumerable mysteries, were the themes ...
Victorian Studies. 9 (4): 353– 374. JSTOR 3825816. Merriman, J (2004). A History of Modern Europe; From the French Revolution to the Present New York, London: W.W. Norton & Company. Perkin, Harold James (1969). The Origins of Modern English Society: 1780-1880. Routledge. ISBN 0-7100-4567-0. Searle, G. R. Morality and the Market in Victorian ...
John Plotz, reviewing The Bourgeois in Victorian Studies, found some weaknesses in Moretti's approach: "This functionalist credo lies at the core of The Bourgeois: Moretti presumes that we can say what a text is by saying what it did to the society on which it was initially unleashed. It is a reading strategy that reveals much but that can also ...
Hunger and poor diet was a common aspect of life across the UK in the Victorian period, especially in the 1840s, but the mass starvation seen in the Great Famine in Ireland was unique. [87] [85] Levels of poverty fell significantly during the 19th century from as much as two thirds of the population in 1800 to less than a third by 1901. However ...
MacCarthy described Morris's lifestyle as being "late Victorian, mildly bohemian, but bourgeois", [230] with Mackail commenting that he exhibited many of the traits of the bourgeois Victorian class: "industrious, honest, fair-minded up their lights, but unexpansive and unsympathetic". [231]
The meaning of degeneration was poorly defined, but can be described as an organism's change from a more complex to a simpler, less differentiated form, and is associated with 19th-century conceptions of biological devolution. In scientific usage, the term was reserved for changes occurring at a histological level – i.e. in body tissues.
RKO Pictures - Getty Images But it rose to popularity on TV in the late 1970s. When It's a Wonderful Life 's copyright lapsed in 1974, it became available royalty-free to any station that wanted ...
Madame Bovary (/ ˈ b oʊ v ə r i /; [1] French: [madam bɔvaʁi]), originally published as Madame Bovary: Provincial Manners (French: Madame Bovary: Mœurs de province [madam bɔvaʁi mœʁ(s) də pʁɔvɛ̃s]), is a novel by French writer Gustave Flaubert, published in 1857.