And you know, I feel like regency romances that are pretty ahistorical get a pass. It's an entire genre of published romance novels, and those books are full of anachronisms. Plus, since you can trace it back to Austen, it's not like she has piles of socio-cultural analysis in her books; you have to read them in a class to get what she's not saying, like where all that money is coming from. I know that zvi gave astolat a really hard time for a Kradam regency that she wrote a year ago, and I agree that she should have labeled it as being more like a regency romance than like an historical AU, but I can't get too worked up about that genre being used as a glorified costume epic.
I don't actually feel the same about the western, perhaps because even Hollywood has complicated the genre since the 60s, so if you write about the west you probably should do it with some research.
I can't think of another genre I'd give a pass to.
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Date: 2010-07-08 05:40 pm (UTC)I don't actually feel the same about the western, perhaps because even Hollywood has complicated the genre since the 60s, so if you write about the west you probably should do it with some research.
I can't think of another genre I'd give a pass to.