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<blockquote data-quote="Richard Burley" data-source="post: 424732" data-attributes="member: 1690"><p>So-called politically correct characters, attitudes, and dialogue are laughable in any setting; in historical fiction, it's a disaster. Besides the lack of authenticity, you get the distasteful impression of the author being a low-grade parasite trying to cash in on an established genre. For me, even one line of dialogue can ruin the story. It's an integrity thing.</p><p></p><p>But having said that, I can't recall a novel or story, Victorian, Edwardian, or otherwise, other than the Holmes series or Mark Twain's <em>oeuvre</em> that featured much pipe smoking. Rhett Butler in GWTW smoked a lot of cigars, if memory serves, and hardboiled detectives smoke a lot of cigarettes. You occasionally "see" a pipe in Agatha Christie, or John Dickson Carr. Wait! There's the poor bastard in Dostoevsky's <em>Poor People</em>, a novelette. Any more?...there's gotta be.</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="Richard Burley, post: 424732, member: 1690"] So-called politically correct characters, attitudes, and dialogue are laughable in any setting; in historical fiction, it's a disaster. Besides the lack of authenticity, you get the distasteful impression of the author being a low-grade parasite trying to cash in on an established genre. For me, even one line of dialogue can ruin the story. It's an integrity thing. But having said that, I can't recall a novel or story, Victorian, Edwardian, or otherwise, other than the Holmes series or Mark Twain's [i]oeuvre[/i] that featured much pipe smoking. Rhett Butler in GWTW smoked a lot of cigars, if memory serves, and hardboiled detectives smoke a lot of cigarettes. You occasionally "see" a pipe in Agatha Christie, or John Dickson Carr. Wait! There's the poor bastard in Dostoevsky's [i]Poor People[/i], a novelette. Any more?...there's gotta be. [/QUOTE]
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