Concetti Chiave
- The Aristocracy held significant wealth and inherited properties, maintaining social superiority and a strict bloodline, exemplified by characters like Lady De Bourg and Mr. Darcy.
- The Gentry, considered middle class, owned land and followed strict societal rules, aiming to compete with the Aristocracy while employing servants and not working for a living.
- The Emergent Class included professionals like doctors and industrialists who worked to sustain their lifestyle and invested their capitals.
- Farmers and domestic servants represented the working class, with examples like Mr. Martis and Slighting from Emmadomestic.
- Women faced educational limitations and societal expectations, often dependent on marriage for financial stability, with skills like piano and dance being highly valued.
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Il contesto culturale del periodo Regency
The Regency era includes the years from He was involved in some Under George’s government Napoleon was defeated (in 1815 Waterloo’s battle was fought) and the cultural environment was full of suggestions and creative fervour as well as Dandyism was spread among the upper classes.
As a matter of fact, Baudelaire said about it: “Dandyism is not even, as many unthinking people seem to suppose, an immoderate interest in personal appearance and material elegance. It is the delight in causing astonishment, and the proud satisfaction of never oneself being astonished."
Le dinamiche familiari e sociali
They have huge incomes that they passed down to the eldest child.
They aim maintain the privilege keep to themselves.
They don’t want to mix the blood.
They inherit They felt superior than all the other people.
They are more Conscious of their superior rank.
An example from Pride and Prejudice by Jane Austen: On the other hand, the Bennet’s family appears well-mannered but they are also superficial even though they try to hide this part in front of people to seem aristocratic. At the ball, anyway, the three youngest girls don’t behave well.
This became problematic when Mr Darcy wanted to marry Elizabeth Bennet but he was ashamed of her family because it was rude and made by peasants.
Mr Darcy seems to have a cold heart because he doesn’t want to mix classes, but at the same time he has a good capability to Women were considered They inherit lands and properties, fortune in form of lands, land owners.
Le regole sociali e la competizione
They are the They compete with aristocracy, they try to improve their figure.
They follow strict rules about clothing, courting, traveling and manners in general (fixed code of accepted rules).
They have They don’t work for living.
They felt superior to lower classes.
It includes: They’re not poor but they work to live, they invest their capitals.
An example from literature could be Mr Martis and Slighting by Emma.
La vita dei servitori
Servants were poor since they did not have anything of their own but they were offered room and board by nobles and aristocrats in exchange of their services, doing household chores and taking care of the house and their owner's children so at the end the became part of the family.
Domande da interrogazione
- Quali sono le principali classi sociali del periodo della Reggenza?
- Quali caratteristiche definiscono l'aristocrazia durante il periodo della Reggenza?
- Come si distingue la gentry dall'aristocrazia?
- Chi faceva parte della classe emergente e quali erano le loro caratteristiche?
- Qual era la condizione dei contadini, dei domestici e dei lavoratori delle città?
Le principali classi sociali del periodo della Reggenza includono l'aristocrazia, la gentry, la classe emergente, i contadini, i domestici e i lavoratori delle città.
L'aristocrazia aveva grandi redditi trasmessi al primogenito, mirava a mantenere i privilegi, non voleva mescolare il sangue, ereditava proprietà e si considerava superiore agli altri.
La gentry ereditava terre e proprietà, era considerata classe media, cercava di competere con l'aristocrazia e seguiva rigide regole di comportamento, ma non lavorava per vivere.
La classe emergente includeva medici, commercialisti e industriali; non erano poveri ma lavoravano per vivere e investivano i loro capitali.
I domestici erano poveri, non possedevano nulla di proprio ma ricevevano vitto e alloggio in cambio dei loro servizi, diventando parte della famiglia nobile o aristocratica per cui lavoravano.
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