Victorian influence
Nineteenth-century British impact
Victorian influence refers to the lasting impact of attitudes, aesthetics, and social conventions from Britain's Victorian era (1837–1901) on later periods.
The phrase often describes architecture, literature, or moral standards that echo nineteenth-century sensibilities: The house shows strong Victorian influence in its ornate trim and steep gables.
In discussions of sexuality or social propriety, Victorian influence usually implies prudishness or repression: Victorian influence still shapes how Americans talk about death.
- Pre-Raphaelite BrotherhoodMid-century English artistic revolt
- Gothic RevivalArchitectural return to medieval forms
- steam engineThermal vapor motor
- Arts and Crafts movementDesign reform favoring traditional making
- moralityRight and wrong principles
moral reform · imperialism · empire building · propriety · stiff upper lip · public decency · serialized novels · British Raj · railways · Oscar Wilde · etiquette · Romanticism · paternalism · aestheticism · telegraph · temperance · gender roles · missionary work
Victorian influence1960s counterculture
Sixties anti-establishment movement
Victorian influencesexual liberation
Freedom in intimate matters
permissiveness · moral relativism · libertinism · free love · hedonism
Victorian influenceminimalism
Aesthetic of reduction
mid-century modern · functionalism · clean lines · Scandinavian design · brutalism
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