The Victorian age

The Victorian age took its name of Queen Victoria.

It is considered an age of stability and it is the largest reign in British history.

Some speak of the Victorian Age as a period of Splendid Isolation due to the fact that Great Britain did not fight wars at home.

The Victorian Age shows the period in British history where the Industrial Revolution was in full flow. The country had gradually transformed from an agriculture country into an industrial one. You could record a significative growth in population thanks to scientific discovers which had improved medical conditions, there is an interplay agriculture and industry: a new class come in the feltà(middle-class).

The middleclass become the backbone of the country because they could invest their capitals into new industries, thus creating a new problem inside the social organization: the born of a new class.

The clash between the classes (the capitalists and the working class) become a new dynamic inn the relationship between the people and mainly recorded such clash.

The industries that mainly contributed to the economic progress of society were the wool and cotton industries, that is textile industries on the one side which implies the existence of factory regions where you could see the development of manufacturing towns and improvements in the road system could be made.  Also canals were built (see Cocktownà fictional name in Charles Dickens's "Hard Times") where represents the Utilitarism (of the Principal of Utility à Jeremy Benthal). Faith inn progress, technology and development of society were the general attitudes of society at the times, generally visible in the face of Respectability which is also known as the "Double-Faced Nature of Victorianism"