Ah, Wodehouse. Everything from his writing style to his most popular characters to his name captured the same sense of whimsical negligence that characterizes a

Ah, Wodehouse. Everything from his writing style to his most popular characters to his name captured the same sense of whimsical negligence that characterizes an aristocracy. We often hesitate to use words like "aristocrat" in post-Victorian settings, but Jeeves showed us that wealthy industrialists weren't all that different from barons or princesses or dukes. It doesn't seem terribly out of character for him to 'cheerfully write a book about crooks' in a prison camp. Stiff upper lip and all that, don't you know.