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All French or English writers you list. The context of this HN post is 19th-century Russia.
by OfSanguineFire 3y ago
All French or English writers you list. The context of this HN post is 19th-century Russia.
- fuzztester 3y agoGood catch, by logic, but you're wrong, in reality: The mistake is mine, though. I did not make my point clear enough. My intention, by saying gadzooks (a word from an earlier century, that I have read in historical novels, such as by Georgette Heyer - I'm not a scholar), was to express surprise, and to indicate that bawdy writing was not only from the 19th century, but existed much prior to that. Hence the references I gave. And they're not even very old. Bawdy writing probably existed from hundreds, if not thousands, of years earlier. And bawdiness is human and global, dude, I mean, tovarisch ;-). No need to limit it to Russia.