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The interior décor now says much more about the Victorians’ romantic image of Scotland than it does about how the room would have really looked: The walls are lined with suits of armor and swords.
The Victorians reworked the history and legends of Scotland to add romantic, neo-Gothic touches.
This particular brand of sexual doublespeak has been remarked upon before, most famously by the late French historian Michel Foucault, who, in his History of Sexuality (published in English in 1978), put forth his unexpected "repressive hypothesis": Those supposedly tight-lipped Victorians, in the course of devising rules to regulate sex and the sciences that investigate its perversions, in fact talked and wrote more about sex than anyone before them.
He wants to maintain the tidy and comfortable belief, beloved by Victorians of all epochs, that thrift is always a virtue.
American Victorians weren't cool: They subscribed to a veritable cult of grief.