Neo-victorian

"Neo-victorian" in a Sentence (6 examples)

Have you heard the term Neo-Victorian?

neo-Victorian detective fiction

a neo-Victorian domestic ideal of femininity

This sense of the neo-Victorian genre, which emerged in tandem with its recognition and naming in the mid-1990s, can be understood in light of a general British literary resistance to postmodernist thought even more prevalent today than it was in the late twentieth century.

Or is that just the way art is now? The neo-Victorian craze is very apposite.

The cosmopolitans attacked neo-Victorians for discriminating against gays, feminists, and immigrants, and for stigmatizing the black poor for their “culture of poverty.”

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