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Also, 1895 isn't that long ago. These aren't exactly writings from ancient Greece. Lets remember this was a couple years after Chicago's 1893 fair where a lot o
by drzaiusapelord 8y ago
Also, 1895 isn't that long ago. These aren't exactly writings from ancient Greece. Lets remember this was a couple years after Chicago's 1893 fair where a lot of what we consider modern was ushered in, albeit slowly. And in this period books like War and Peace and Dracula were published. I view this period pretty contemporaneous to modern American culture in many significant ways.
- Retric 8y agoIt's not just outside of living memory, nobody alive then was alive even 10 years ago. That's a reasonable definition of 'long time' in human terms. It's a few years before Dracula. Frankenstein on the other hand would have been 68 years old and thus would have seemed like something written in the 1950's to us. I bring that up because we tend to compress history as the time spans are to large to really grasp.
- emj 8y ago1950 isn't that long ago, I've read books from that era in the last 12 months, even computer science papers from that era are not too uncommon.
- Retric 8y agoCS is something of an outlier in that respect as it was so new a the time. However, consider what percentage of those books / paper authors are still alive? If they where 35 then they would be 103 today.