Meaning of neo-Victorian | Babel Free

Definitions

Harking back to the Victorian era or fashions.

Examples

“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.”

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