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From an English perspective I have to say the average perception of Victorians is more about social inequality and child abuse. Images of workhouses and gruel,
by nonrandomstring 5y ago
From an English perspective I have to say the average perception of
Victorians is more about social inequality and child abuse. Images of
workhouses and gruel, small boys being beasted up chimneys, toothless
14 year-old "match girls" wandering the night calling "Blow ya for a
penny guv".
Really, immodestly clothed piano legs showing too much ankle pale in
comparison to Dickensian tales of ruffians, rats and cockneys.
But then TFA is really saying the same as I am, that both mythologies
are constructed in opposition to one another, and in hindsight that
all cultures ('Modernity' in this case) construct themseves in
relation to something else - something they are not.
Everybody's clever nowadays. And so terribly modern.