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The sentence is a little garbled. My reading of it is "Why [is] the Victorian moral project and supposed 'prudery' [not an accurate assessment of Victorian att
by InitialLastName 5y ago
The sentence is a little garbled. My reading of it is "Why [is] the Victorian moral project and supposed 'prudery' [not an accurate assessment of Victorian attitudes] in the first place?"
- InitialLastName 5y agoAlternately, they could be arguing that "prudery" that originates from a project of improving societal morality is not necessarily a bad thing. The definition you propose applies a modern, negative connotation to "prude" that is certainly present in the English language, but there could also be more sympathetic interpretations of the same characteristic ("innocent" and "straight-laced" and "proper" come to mind).