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The Concept
19thc_exchange is an exchange for works of fiction based on period dramas. “Period dramas” includes literature written during the 19th century in any part of the world; movies, television shows, and mini-series based on that literature; original movies, television shows, and mini-series set during that time. Periodically, the terms of this exchange ( Read more... )
19thc_exchange is an exchange for works of fiction based on period dramas. “Period dramas” includes literature written during the 19th century in any part of the world; movies, television shows, and mini-series based on that literature; original movies, television shows, and mini-series set during that time. Periodically, the terms of this exchange ( Read more... )
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I know you already have a non-english speaking "catagory" but if you were up for makingit a bit more specific, I'd be really interested in seeing a Russian 19th c lit round :)
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I'd love some Russian 19th c, too! Dostoevsky and Pushkin were big reasons I thought of that category! But I am leery of making categories too narrow, lest there not be enough participants. Because Jane Austen is super popular now with lots of adaptations, she can get her own category, but a thing such as young-reader 19th c. lit needs a broader category, because as much as I want it people probably just aren't going to line up to write me The Secret Garden fanfic. You know? But maybe I can do some polls to see how interested people would be in a Russian lit round.
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Oh, love Pushkin’s Eugene Onegin :D
Though, War and Peace is, admittedly, the one fandom I’m dying to see fanfic in. I just have a bad habit of choosing secondary characters/weird, unpopular, or secondary parings to like in obscure books, I guess.
Hah, apparently I just haven’t read many because I’m not even sure what you’d consider Young Adult, lol.
Ah yes, The Secret Garden. I remember reading that when I was a lot younger. Along with Anne of Green Gables. Sadly, I hardly remember either, otherwise, I’d volunteer to write fic for you :D
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Well, not "young adult", but just young reader. Many children's classics are actually 19th c: Old Yeller, The Yearling, Alice in Wonderland, The Jungle Book. I think this section could include a lot of fairy tales that have a 19th c. flavor, either because they were written in the 19th c. or what, like Brothers Grimm fairytales. This one I might want to open up to include more than just 18th c., because I'd want to include Anne of Green Gables, and I'm dying for more
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Some of these sound awesome to me, though. I don't imagine I'd participate in a Jane Austen round, though maybe I could see myself tossing out a small Marianne piece, but I'd love an excuse to write Hardy fic... And Poe fic! Oh, now I kind of wonder why I haven't written Poe fic yet.
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I'm sure someone will request Marianne! Come on!
Poe fic would be interesting. I have no idea what it would look like . . . .
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As to Poe fic, this is pros writing Poe fanfic: Ellen Datlow's Poe anthology. I was at a reading when they launched the anthology, and it has some great stuff in it.
And... maybe I'll sign up? The only Austen novels I've read are P&P and S&S and the beginning of Persuasion.
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Is Shelley's Frankenstein Gothic adventure or a scientific romance? It's both, duh.
True. ...My problem is probably less that they shelve sci fi/fantasy together, and more that they shelve it separately from everything else. The Road is sci fi, but because it's a best seller, it goes in fiction. Borges is fantasy, but because he's Borges he goes in fiction. It does seem to me though that fantasy and sci fi currently have less of the stigma than they once had, and more people are accepting things with fantastic/scientific elements as literature.
You only have to have read one (or watched one adpatation) . . . or know something about Jane Austen's life to participate! I'm hard selling here because it looks like not a lot of people are going to sign up ;o) Do what you like, of course!
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