neo-Victorian

comparative more neo-Victorian · superlative most neo-Victorian

1. Harking back to the Victorian era or fashions.

   neo-Victorian detective fiction

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   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.

   2013, John Glendening, Science and Religion in Neo-Victorian Novels […] , Routledge, →ISBN, page 10

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

   2023 October 11, Jonathan Jones, “Frieze London art fair review – a graveyard of creativity for tasteless one percenters”, in The Guardian, →ISSN

plural neo-Victorians

1. 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.”

   2022, Gary Gerstle, “Introduction”, in The Rise and Fall of the Neoliberal Order […] , New York: Oxford University Press, →ISBN