neo-Victorianとは 意味・読み方・使い方

形容詞

neo-Victorian (comparative more neo-Victorian, superlative most neo-Victorian)

1. Harking back to the Victorian era or fashions.

   neo-Victorian detective fiction

   a neo-Victorian domestic ideal of femininity

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

     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.

   • 2023 October 11, Jonathan Jones, “Frieze London art fair review – a graveyard of creativity for tasteless one percenters”, in The Guardian‎^[1], →ISSN:

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

名詞

neo-Victorian (複数形 neo-Victorians)

1. Someone with neo-Victorian characteristics; a conservative.
   • 2022, Gary Gerstle, “Introduction”, in The Rise and Fall of the Neoliberal Order […] , New York: Oxford University Press, →ISBN:

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

アナグラム

• reinvocation