British Studies Test Two

Question 1: Picture or Text
1. Picture
  1. Turner's
    1. fighting temeraire
      1. goodbye to old ship, sun setting on old gallieon, steam boat helping old galleon,steam boat is ugly, new things are happening,not always good, contrast the two boats, accept that the old romantic world is fading away
    2. Train
      1. everything is fading away behind the train. difference from horse to train, weird extreme transition. not entirely comfortable with new world
    3. Painting at the Louvre
  2. Mr. And Mrs. Andrews- field enlightenment
    1. The people who were farming had power over the land
      1. size of people
  3. Focus on Nature
    1. John constable
      1. nature
        light shining on nature- good
      2. the hay wain- human is very cmall, nature is huge- so much bigger, darkness on human side, light on nature.small house overpowered by nature, man is not controlling nature
    2. emphasis on nature. cathedral and man in the background,insignificant to sublime powerful world of nature
      1. sublime= so monumental/powerfui that it is almost too much. evokes deep seeded emotion
  4. Industrialization
    1. massive coal burning- England's Industrial Revolution. Coalbrookdale- origins of coal power
  5. That one picture with naked god in it-- Ancient of Days
    1. enlightenment
    2. god is a man who is naked and has lots of power and gives his intelligence to help the people
  6. that wright of derby picture with science and the bird in the technology chamber
  7. Victoria saying fuck the feminists
    1. crown- status as monarch
    2. the queen gazes at the viewer because she is watching the people- her family and her people are both her responsibilities
    3. Eldest son, edward is next to Victoria- heir to the throne
    4. hand gestures
      1. Victoria and Albert's hands almost touching- love
      2. Victoria has arm around edward and albert reach towards baby- closeness of royal family
  8. Death of General Wolfe
    1. General Wolfe- christ-like
    2. Native- kneeling with chin on fist looking at General Wolfe- sign of Deep thought and intelligence
2. Text
  1. North and South- see 3
  2. Chadwick's Poor Report
    1. set idle to work
    2. never provide assistance to the able- bodied because they need to be productive and do work
      1. refuse relief, punish mendacity
    3. the poor ask for help when they should not, and those who need resources will not have any available in dire circumstances
  3. Beggar's Opera
  4. Patriotic Songs and Poems
Question 2: Southwell Workhouse and Harlaxton Manor
1. Harlaxton
  1. started in 1832-finished by 1837
    1. Victorian House- not elizabethan
  2. Gregory Gregory's Influences
    1. Grand tour
      1. visit houses on the continent to mature the plans of the unique mansion
      2. ideas for the house "leads me into all parts of the world,and to mix with every variety of nation and character"
    2. Burghley, Montacute, Harwick, Hatfield, Knole, Rushton, Kirby, Wollaton, Cobham, Hengrave, amd Bramshill- english country houses
    3. replace original architect Anthony Salvin with William Burn who added the huge extensions to the house
    4. house ended up being his epitaph a he was only one line in "The times" when he died
  3. Form and Function
    1. Appearance
      1. inside
    2. Values of the People
      1. Separation
        Upper and Lower Class
        Impenetrable Social Barrier
        Servants
        no privacy in servants life- like the inmates of Southwell
        walls, regulations, timetables, etc. to keep in check
        Stone Passageway- keep track of speed and location of Servants by GUY
      2. Romantic
2. Southwell Workhouse
  1. Look at Chadwick's Poor Report
  2. built in 1824
  3. Enlightened
  4. Appearance
    1. enlightened as fuck
  5. Division
    1. Quardians
      1. Masters
        Paupers
        Men
        Deserving
        Undeserving
        Women
        deserving
        undeserving
        Children
        under 2
Question 3
1. Economy and Industry
  1. Economic Change leads to Social Change
  2. Shift from agricultural and aristocrats to powerful factory owners and technological innovations
  3. description of Milton- North and South
2. Politics
  1. Elections and that Lecture on that one election from the British Library guy
3. Art and Culture
  1. Literature
    1. North And South
      1. Margaret
        Originally hate industrialization
        Women gaining power
        Women's Suffrage
        Margaret helps her father pick out where they are going to live in Milton
      2. Agricultural South and Industrial North
        Division of North and South
        Description of Milton pg 60
        lead-colored cloud hovering over the city, the air had a faint taste and smell of smoke, chaotic streets filled with everything that all has something to do with the cotton industry. the factories let out the smoke that makes the cloud.
      3. Different angles of looking at the issues of this time period
      4. Challenges Victorian Values
      5. Contrasts from Jane Austen's Values
        country house, setting, theme representation of women
      6. Everyone is intertwined
        all classes work together
        contrasts with the strict division in harlaxton and southwell
      7. Mr. Thorton
        owns the factory but learns to communicate with workers and become a better person
  2. Paintings
  3. Culture and Beliefs- seen in 2, and North and South
4. Class and Gender
  1. Lots of ties to
Romantic vs. Enlightenment vs. etc.
1. Romantic
  1. Focus on Nature
  2. harlaxton
  3. emotion,imagination, medeivalism, gothic
  4. React to Enlightenment and Industrialization
2. Enlightened
  1. focus on power people have over nature, like Mr. and Mrs. Anderson
  2. calculated, organized, mathematical, symmetrical, rationalism, scientific, neoclassical
  3. Gregory Gregory's uncle's house- Hungerton Hall
  4. Southwell Workhouse
  5. ancient Greece
3. Shifts from Puritans to Charles (1660) -baroque and catholic;then quickly transitions to industrial, then slowly into the romantic ideals

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