“假设我们对维多利亚时代的所有认知都是错误的。”英国知名学者、电影批评家马修·斯威特(Matthew Sweet)在一本研究19世纪英国文化的社会史学著作——《人造维多利亚时代》(Invention the Victorians)的开篇提出这一观点。他在考据了大量维多利亚时期的信件、日记、报纸、小说和剧本后,试图去颠覆人们关于维多利亚时代存在的严重刻板印象,以及那些被人们传颂却与史实并不相符的故事。通过驳斥与揭露这些关于维多利亚时期生活想象的刻板印象,作者描绘了 “Suppose all our knowledge of the Victorian era was wrong.” Matthew Sweet, a well-known British scholar and film critic, wrote a book on social history that studied British culture in the 19th century- " This view was made at the opening of Invention the Victorians. After examining a large number of Victorian letters, diaries, newspapers, novels and scripts, he tried to subvert popular stereotypes about the existence of Victorian times and stories that were celebrated but did not match historical facts. By refuting and exposing these stereotypes about Victorian life imagination, the author paints