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For Stove, the ascription of absurdity to Victorian culture was essentially a matter of taste, but one so powerful and irrational that it possessed the intensity of religious faith. As a result, it produced a revulsion – rather than a reasoned scepticism – to writers such as the Victorian philosopher of science William Whewell .
Ancient Ram Inn, in Gloucestershire.It has been featured on various paranormal television programmes. Arundel Castle in West Sussex, with the first Earl of Arundel who built the structure as its most famous reported ghost.
The Victorian era was a time of unprecedented population growth in Britain. The population rose from 13.9 million in 1831 to 32.5 million in 1901. Two major contributory factors were fertility rates and mortality rates. Britain was the first country to undergo the demographic transition and the Agricultural and Industrial Revolutions.
The Object-Lesson (1958) is a picture book by Edward Gorey. [1] A work of surrealist art and literature, it is typical of Gorey's avant-garde style of storytelling, with Victorian and Edwardian-esque line drawings and settings, each described with a sentence fragment which adds to a larger continuous narrative.
The Victorian era saw the introduction and development of many modern sports. [118] Often originating in the public schools, they exemplified new ideals of manliness. [119] Cricket, [120] cycling, croquet, horse-riding, and many water activities are examples of some of the popular sports in the Victorian era. [121]
Grotesque studies, Michelangelo Since at least the 18th century (in French and German, as well as English), grotesque has come to be used as a general adjective for the strange, mysterious, magnificent, fantastic, hideous, ugly, incongruous, unpleasant, or disgusting, and thus is often used to describe weird shapes and distorted forms such as Halloween masks.
Damien might be the original "Creepy Kid" that now seems to permeate most horror films, but Harvey Spencer Stephens' blank-faced portrayal of Damien, the Antichrist and harbinger of death and ...
The cast move into the expanding factories of the Victorian era and begin work in a pottery. Things progress badly, with further agitation by Ann Widdecombe inspiring a strike and lockout of the workers. [4] [8]