Victorian society
Corsets and propriety
Victorian society refers to British culture and social organization during Queen Victoria's reign (1837–1901), characterized by rigid class hierarchies, strict moral codes, and elaborate social conventions.
The era saw industrialization, imperial expansion, and a distinctive blend of public propriety with private contradictions: The novel captures Victorian society's obsession with respectability.
The term often implies sexual repression, domestic idealization, and sharp distinctions between acceptable and unacceptable behavior.
- factoriesIndustrial production facilities
- industrial revolutionRapid economic mechanization period
- proprietyCorrectness of conduct
- stiff upper lipControlled emotional restraint
- aristocracyRule by hereditary elite
workhouse conditions · Charles Dickens · penny dreadful · patriarchy · evolutionary theory · empire · spiritualism · public schools · Anglican Church · railways · evangelicalism · missionaries · bourgeoisie · temperance · antiseptics · working class · chastity · motherhood
- Victorian literatureDickens, Charles Dickens, George Eliot, Eliot, Thomas Hardy
- Victorian reformpoor laws, poorhouse, temperance movement, abolitionists, child labor
- heritage organizationsheritage trust, heritage center, national heritage, SAR, maritime heritage
- Oscar WildeThe Importance of Being Earnest, The Picture of Dorian Gray, Salome, An Ideal Husband, The Happy Prince
- Regency SocietyRegency, manners, etiquette, courtship, ballrooms
- TrollopeThe Prime Minister
Victorian societysexual revolution
Era of changing mores
free love · bohemian culture · counterculture · libertinism · 1960s counterculture
Victorian societyegalitarian society
Group with equal status
classless society · bohemianism · counterculture · hippie culture · hippie communes
Victorian societycontemporary society
Present-day collective human existence
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