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| - Malthus discredited Utopias
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| - Over-excessive use of the death penalty into the early 19th century; was used to protect those in power and to oppress those who weren't
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| - Parliament resisted change; House of Commons and House of Lords (elected, title); 1st Reform Bill (1932) was slowed down by the House of Lords, who represented the gentry and aristocracy
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| - Reason was not as powerful an influence in the Victorian period as it was 100 years prior
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| Research Paper
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| - 12-15 pages in length
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| - Take some Victorian topic/issue/concern/view and research it to find out how Victorians felt about it
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| - 2nd part - discuss how Dickens views the topic using the novels we read in class
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| - Can use the Altick text as a source
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| - Minimum of 10 sources in addition to the novels; from library, rather than the Internet
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| - 2 periodical sources
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| - The Pickwick Papers: Quite genial
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| - Earlier novels - villains not concerned with negative qualities in society
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| - Oliver Twist: One of his best known novels; attacks philanthropy; focus on criminl underworld of London
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| - Nicholas Nickleby: Not as popular today; rather unstructured and episodic by modern standards; attack on the aristocracy; focus on the smaller boarding schools of northern London
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| - The Old Curiosity Shop: THE favorite for Victorians; near the bottom of the canon today
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| - Barnaby Rudge: Historical novel; set in the 1780s; not a very successful novel
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| - Martin Chuzzlewit: Begins change in Dickens's writing
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