Definitions
American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, Fourth Edition
- n. The state or quality of being Victorian, as in attitude, style, or taste.
- n. Something exhibiting Victorian characteristics.
Examples
“A bit of old fashioned Victorianism is required here.”
“LP: It would have helped if the author had ever bothered to define "Victorianism," don't you think?”
“BRASS: I don't think I ever grasped the connection between "Victorianism" and "hegemonic imperialism.”
“Victorianism," and most of what is the liberal establishment today.”
“this is, after all, a novel in which "Victorianism" stands in for a culture of punishing sexual repression, one that explodes outward in unpredictably violent ways.”
“Perhaps some of it could be called Neo-Victorianism, though 'steampunk' does have a nice ring to it, doesn't it?”
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“But Lloyd pushes us to see beyond Watts's windy Victorianism, pointing out the artist's ability to produce "magical effects".”
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“Monkeys, microcephalous idiots, and the barbarous races of mankind: Darwin's dangerous Victorianism (1).”
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“During her lifetime, the last vestiges of Victorianism gave way to modernism, to pop, to postmodernism.”
“But we're generally still too much in the forest of post-Victorianism to do more than wince at the tree of say, Matt Frewer in a deerstalker.”
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