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Date: 2008-09-06 07:28 am (UTC)
See, this is where I get confused. Back until the 1800s, I'm a veritable encyclopaedia of historical facts and useless trivia, but take me back too much further and I can't tell one century from the next. I always thought at least part of the 16th century WAS medieval. O.o I do aim to go a bit later with PC, like Renaissance-era type setting, because in my imagination LWW is very medieval and then by PC things have progressed quite a bit...but I do believe I'm rambling.

As far as I know, the term surfaced in the 18th century, and the 19th century saw a huge explosion of vampire fear, but it seems to go a long way further back in different cultures and under different names. Even Aborigines had their own vampire-type legends, or so I've been told by a couple of websites I've been browsing.

That...is a very good idea. I hadn't thought of the Pevensies having had access to more modern literature. I'm trying to imagine which one of them would have sat around reading gothic and occult literature in their spare time. Lucy's out, as is Peter...I'm inclined to think that if any of them, Edmund might be the most well-read.

Almost exclusively 19th century, yes...I've read a few of the pioneering gothic novels as well, all late 18th century, but I've never read Otranto. Come to think of it, I'm going to have to track down a copy...I DO have the next best thing, which is Udolpho, but that was published in 1794 or something.

Thank you for coming to my aid! I've gotten myself all stressed out about this, I fear...I'm off to obsessively browse wikipedia and fish out my Radcliffe novels, I think. You've given me quite some food for thought.
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