Victorians, eminent and otherwise
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The Victorian Web is your one-stop resource for England in the Victorian era (1837-1901). The site is much too extensive to give but a flavor. It is divided into 20 categories, including Technology, Gender Matters, Economic Contexts, Authors, Political History, Theater and Popular Entertainment, Science and Genre and Technique. Here are a few examples of the articles inside: Inventions in Alice in Wonderland, The Role of the Victorian Army, Earth Yenneps: Victorian Back Slang (and a glossary of same), Algernon Charles Swinburne and the Philosophy of Androgyny, Hermaphrodeity, and Victorian Sexual Mores, Evolution, progress and natural laws and, of course, Queen Victoria.
I use this resource all the time when writing my essays, yay for legitimate academic resources that a person can trust.
posted by Fizz at 7:11 AM on July 28, 2008
posted by Fizz at 7:11 AM on July 28, 2008
Wow, great post.
Both here and for about 4 paragraphs into the article, I was reading that as "black slang" and I was waiting patiently to get the part about negro slaves. It also made this sentence kind of hilarious: "In the mid-1960s a middle-aged London lady tried to teach me back slang."
Even a humorous note from Maxwell who for some reason I always thought was a dour Scot.
posted by DU at 7:14 AM on July 28, 2008
Both here and for about 4 paragraphs into the article, I was reading that as "black slang" and I was waiting patiently to get the part about negro slaves. It also made this sentence kind of hilarious: "In the mid-1960s a middle-aged London lady tried to teach me back slang."
Even a humorous note from Maxwell who for some reason I always thought was a dour Scot.
posted by DU at 7:14 AM on July 28, 2008
At first I was just going to post the backslang links but I got lost in the entrails of The Victorian Web and decided that the site merited a proper FPP.
Though, as far as backslang goes, it's interesting to note its differences from French Verlan and that backslang has mostly disappered while Verlan persists. I don't suppose if anyone knows if rhyming slang exists in French today?
posted by Kattullus at 7:23 AM on July 28, 2008
Though, as far as backslang goes, it's interesting to note its differences from French Verlan and that backslang has mostly disappered while Verlan persists. I don't suppose if anyone knows if rhyming slang exists in French today?
posted by Kattullus at 7:23 AM on July 28, 2008
A middle-aged London lady in the 1960s, or the 1860s for that matter, could well have been black.
posted by Abiezer at 8:35 AM on July 28, 2008
posted by Abiezer at 8:35 AM on July 28, 2008
May I just add that the sidebar at (Mefi's own) The Little Professor contains an absolute plethora of links to all manner of Victoriana sites.
posted by peacay at 8:58 AM on July 28, 2008 [1 favorite]
posted by peacay at 8:58 AM on July 28, 2008 [1 favorite]
Might I just add that Thomas J Wise's (never realized before TJW was female) blog is a delight in and of itself. Thanks for the link, peacay.
posted by Kattullus at 9:12 AM on July 28, 2008
posted by Kattullus at 9:12 AM on July 28, 2008
Excellent post! I have a writing project that needed a resource like this and I can't tell you how thrilled I am to see this.
posted by Ber at 1:47 PM on July 28, 2008
posted by Ber at 1:47 PM on July 28, 2008
*blush*
An important counterpart to the Victorian Web is the Victoria Research Web, a scholarly guide to locating and using all things Victorian. (The section on finding affordable lodgings in the UK, incidentally, may be of interest even to non-Victorianists.)
posted by thomas j wise at 2:15 PM on July 28, 2008
An important counterpart to the Victorian Web is the Victoria Research Web, a scholarly guide to locating and using all things Victorian. (The section on finding affordable lodgings in the UK, incidentally, may be of interest even to non-Victorianists.)
posted by thomas j wise at 2:15 PM on July 28, 2008
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