Word: victorian
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...internet slang for what happens when, for better or for worse, an artist gives the people exactly what they want. Philip Pullman's brief, exquisite novel ONCE UPON A TIME IN THE NORTH (Knopf; 104 pages) is fan service at its best. North is set in the same quasi-Victorian alternative universe as Pullman's Golden Compass, where every human is accompanied by a talking-animal soul mate called a daemon. It's a prequel, the story of how a young and not-yet-grizzled Lee Scoresby, gunslinging aeronaut extraordinaire, and his rabbit daemon, Hester, first met up with armored...
...ignoring the issues of colonialism and its abuses present in both Caliban’s character and the play as a whole. The interpretation of some characters differs from what would have been presented at the play’s inception. Prospero and Ariel are imagined as a Victorian magician and his assistant. One suspects that Ariel’s costume, which includes leather boots, fishnet stockings, turquoise eye shadow, and a top hat, was not the go-to outfit of most 17th-century fairies. Yet this change from the original version of the play effectively exposes the more ridiculous...
Britons have never been very comfortable with the idea of childhood. ("Culturally, Britain just doesn't like children much," says Batmanghelidjh.) In Victorian England, rich children were banished to nurseries and boarding schools, while their poorer contemporaries were sent out to work. The British are still expected to function as adults from an early age. At 8, Scotland has the lowest age of criminal responsibility in Europe, followed by England and Wales, where youngsters answer for their crimes from the age of 10. Yet children venturing into the adult world often feel rebuffed. "I don't get the feeling that...
...professor of Middle Eastern studies at Brandeis, Makiya lives in a pale green Victorian house near Porter Square. His living room is decorated with embroidered wall-hangings and a table decked with candles...
...keeping with its history. Stonehenge was probably built in three key stages, roughly between 3050 B.C. and 1500 B.C. The identity of its builders, and its purpose, may never be known. Various theories suggest it may have been a place of worship or have astronomical significance. Since Victorian times, it has been popularly linked to New Age beliefs, particularly neo-Druidism - even though archeologists have shown that it was built long before Druidism arrived in England. Still, summer solstice gatherings by New Agers once drew huge crowds to Stonehenge. Fearing that the stones were at risk, English Heritage roped them...