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Wilson tracks the emergence of Victorian pudeur from the looser, libertine Britain that preceded the Napoleonic Wars. Years of war and economic decline produced a national mood of "fear and anxiety," mobilizing evangelical organizations, amateur social scientists, and reactionary newspapers to call for "moral reform and public rectitude." Others fought vigorously against the encroaching spirit of regulation, frequently charging the moralizers with hypocrisy: a ...