Re: What happened to the Depression?


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Posted by Duncan on November 05, 2008 at 19:29:07 user Duncan.

In Reply to: Re: What happened to the Depression? posted by John Giddy on November 05, 2008 at 01:25:54:

Of course, though the stories seem like 'historical novels' now, they weren't then. Though there's a good deal of social history in them, it is not particularly rooted in its setting. The social history that we see is a mixture of when the books were set, when they were written and when they were inspired. Thus we DO see social history in terms of industrial and cultural history of the various locations, oblique references to the Manchurian Crisis (okay - maybe tenuous, but there is certainly a broader context to Commander Walker's tendency to be stationed away from home in the latter days of Britain as an imperial power), we have subtle comments on certain aspects of popular culture, social class, changing attitudes to conservation, etc. What we don't have is specific historical events of a particular time. Of course that's partly because of the locations, but also partly because it isn't really a specific time. Though years are written in cairns and caches, really this is the late 19th century, the late 1920s, early thirties, and the full period of the books writing merged together into a chronology that (mostly) works internally (so long as we assume a wrong year in either Swallows and Amazons or Swallowdale).


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