Literature of the Victorian Period & Era of Queen Victoria Video

Study Literature of the Victorian Period using Online Video. Use the video subtitles to improve Reading and Literacy Skills ... at the same time!

These 5 online History through Literature videos about the Literature of the Victorian Period will enable you to discover and study how much of that Literature from the Victorian Era was influenced by important events in world history that took place during that time, from the 1830s to the early part of the 20th century.

You will be able to identify and learn about some of the European and American authors who lived and wrote during the Victorian Period and explain the cause-and-effect relationship between the Industrial Revolution, the United States Civil War, and the post-war economic expansion.

Learning Objectives:

• Learn some of the important events of world history during the Victorian Era, from the 1830s to the first decade of the twentieth century.
• List some European and American authors who lived and wrote during the Victorian Era.
• Explain the cause-and-effect relationship between the Industrial Revolution, the United States Civil War, and the post-war economic expansion.
• Identify some of the major reform movements of Victorian times--the Protestant missionary movement, the abolition movement, the labor movement, and the progressive movement--and describe how they improved the lives of ordinary citizens.
• Discover the territorial expansions of the United States, Great Britain, Russia, and other industrial powers during the late nineteenth century.

• Literature > History Through Literature > The Victorian Era Imperialism And Progress
• Imperialism and Social Reform (Runtime: 05:09)
• Victorian Literature (Runtime: 05:25)
• Human Rights (Runtime: 02:41)
• Realism and Reason (Runtime: 06:21)
• Post-Victorian Optimism (Runtime: 01:44)