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Re: Revision
by callei on Jul 14, 2003 - 08:54 AM
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I got brookland from misspelling Brooklyn in the google search thingy. ALtho the history of Brooklyn NY is very simiar in that it wasnt where the US "Aristocracy" lived or vacationed. As for "The Age of Innocence", do you mean the recent movie with Wyona Ryder? that was based on a work of fiction and i have heard (having not watched it) that it has, as is usual, much added to it that was not in the original work. I cannot speak to its historical accuracy at all, tho the book was based on exageration of personal experiences.
And when taslking about America in the 1830-1890s you can't really use the word "Victorian" (1837-1901) with any real meaning. The Victorian Era happening in England, not in New England. In New England we were fighting about slaves rights, the President being shot, the civil war, and reconstruction. Let's not forget Revivalism that was influencing the newspapers, stages and sitting rooms of the day. The two nations were experiencing very differnt histories.
To place "Aristocracy", in the worst german and british sense, in New York is bizarre and stretches the bounds of reality. If this was meant to be a story placed in an alternate reality where America didnt "win" the revolutionary war ( a war i might add that ended a mere 50 years before the start of the Victorian Era), the author could have said something to indicate that.
a few other things: Servants usually lived in the same house as those that they served. The middle class was not composed of servants, rather of merchants and clerks. Servants came from the lower classes and usually started in service at an early age. Indentured Servatude had died out by about the 1800's (tho there were cases into the 1820's) Virginity was and is a very different concept in Europe and America. This was the 3rd or 4th re-write of this article.
And perhaps between my notes, and two re-writes, this author will see what i was talking about in my long and rambling emails to them and perhaps learn something about how a story can be shaped or mishaped by a few errors or word choices.
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Re: Revision
by feralucce on Jul 14, 2003 - 09:56 AM
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It is not the slowery speech that I am opposed to... it is the impropper use of it when it is warranted... I tend towards leniency considering this peiece was written by someone who has english as their second language...
Feral
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