We tend to think of pop culture as a 20th century thing, but the term actually dates back to at least 1818. So with that in mind, I decided to start this thread about potential pop culture scenarios with a POD before 1900.
We tend to think of pop culture as a 20th century thing, but the term actually dates back to at least 1818. So with that in mind, I decided to start this thread about potential pop culture scenarios with a POD before 1900.
Ancient Greeks doing Drama that deals with mortal people and everyday life instead of only gods and heroes.
There were a few that did. For example, The Clouds by Aristophanes was a comedy about a heavily indebted man and his horse-obsessed NEET son.
England on the other hand would be driven to a more traditional stance, likely exulting the days of kings and knights.
Arthurian perhaps, but more I was thinking that they'd embrace the Romantic movements to counter the Enlightenment-inspired revolutions in America and France. So they'd look to stories about brave noble kings and knights slaying dragons, protecting the innocent, and serving God. This would run counter to the French movement towards the concept of intellectual and common heroes who defeat fight against more tangible things, like corrupt nobility and superstitions with science and learning.An earlier Arthurian renaissance, perhaps?
19th Century Comic culture out of conventional funny stripes.We tend to think of pop culture as a 20th century thing, but the term actually dates back to at least 1818. So with that in mind, I decided to start this thread about potential pop culture scenarios with a POD before 1900.
Here's an idea: what if Charles Dickens made Jewish friends before he wrote Oliver Twist? IOTL, he made some later in life, and as a result, he de-emphasized Fagin's Jewishness in later editions of the book and introduced some sympathetic Jewish characters in Our Mutual Friend.
Ancient Greeks doing Drama that deals with mortal people and everyday life instead of only gods and heroes.
There were a few that did. For example, The Clouds by Aristophanes was a comedy about a heavily indebted man and his horse-obsessed NEET son.
@Byzantion means 'Ancient Greeks doing Tragedy...' Greek Comedy was most definitely about ordinary, or well-known contemporary (yes, named) people, even if gods show up as well. And not just 'a few'; all of Aristophanes is like this. In fact we probably get a clearer picture of what Athenian life was like at the time than from almost anywhere else. And other dramatists of comedy must have been similar; unfortunately most of their work has been lost.
The term Yankee even comes from it probably.