I haven’t read the Falco books, but they sounds quite tempting.
I reserve my loathing for a particular type of anachronism/assumption about human nature, that which involves a heroine who might be described as “feisty”, and which insists that for a woman to be remarkable in her own historical period, she must be remarkable by modern standards (attractive, well-educated, a genius chaffing at her restricted life, keen on sex and good at it too) and given to expressing sentiments that show her to have a more than passing acquaintance (via her time-machine) with C20 western liberal thinking. Not that I don’t allow historical novels in which women express frustrations with the options/lives before them, but I’d rather they did it within their cultural context.
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Date: 2006-09-04 04:17 pm (UTC)I reserve my loathing for a particular type of anachronism/assumption about human nature, that which involves a heroine who might be described as “feisty”, and which insists that for a woman to be remarkable in her own historical period, she must be remarkable by modern standards (attractive, well-educated, a genius chaffing at her restricted life, keen on sex and good at it too) and given to expressing sentiments that show her to have a more than passing acquaintance (via her time-machine) with C20 western liberal thinking. Not that I don’t allow historical novels in which women express frustrations with the options/lives before them, but I’d rather they did it within their cultural context.