neo-victorian
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3ADJ.
domestic, ideal
VERB + NEO-VICTORIAN
heard, sense
NEO-VICTORIAN + NOUN
detective, fiction, genre
Definitions
adj
Harking back to the Victorian era or fashions.
neo-Victorian detective fiction
a neo-Victorian domestic ideal of femininity
noun
Someone with neo-Victorian characteristics; a conservative.
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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5neo-Victorian detective fiction
Wiktionarya neo-Victorian domestic ideal of femininity
WiktionaryThis 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 th
WiktionaryThe cosmopolitans attacked neo-Victorians for discriminating against gays, feminists, and immigrants, and for stigmatizing the black poor for their “culture of poverty.”
WiktionaryHave you heard the term Neo-Victorian?
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