Mod post: theme suggestions

[damned_colonial]

Please suggest themes you'd like to see covered here! Cut and paste the following into a comment:

ETA: please put your theme in the subject of your comment!

Theme:
Are you prepared to run it? Yes/No
Suggested books, if you have them already:


What does it mean to run the theme?

1. At least one month in advance, you'll let everyone know about the theme and your suggested reading for it. You need to suggest at least 3 works of fiction.
2. On the first of the month, you will post a welcome/introduction/kickoff for the theme.
3. Throughout the month, you'll take an active part in discussion of the theme.

You do not have to be an expert on the theme to run it. You just need to have an interest in it.

Comments

Industrial Revolution in Britain

[naraht]

Theme: Industrial Revolution in Britain
Are you prepared to run in?: Yes, depending on when it happens.
Books:
"North and South" by Elizabeth Gaskell
"The Light Ages" by Ian R McLeod
[one more novel needed]

Background reading:
"The Condition of the Working Class in England" by Friedrich Engels
"Progress and Poverty: An Economic and Social History of Britain, 1700-1850" by MJ Daunton

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[damned_colonial]

Ooh, great theme! I'd like to recommend "Freedom and Necessity" by Stephen Brust and Emma Bull (epistolary conspiracy stuff with lots of stuff about the Corn Laws and working class politics and stuff) and ummmm can't remember his name but there's a great author of YA historical fiction who wrote a lot of stuff of this period. It'll come to me.

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[naraht]

Oooh, that sounds great. I can come up with some secondary reading to go with that too.

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[wychwood]

Shirley, by Charlotte Bronte, might be good for this, as well.

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[naraht]

Indeed. Not to mention "Hard Times" by Dickens and a host of others. Sadly I am better with historic fiction than with historical fiction, if you see what I mean, and this community really inclines the other way...

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[wychwood]

Haha, yes, I am having the same problem. As you probably noticed in my WWI suggestion!

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[al_zorra]

Mrs. Gaskell's North and South, which deeply influenced Bronte to write her Shirley. It's also on dvd.

Love, C.

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[damned_colonial]

Yes, that was the first suggested book! *points up*

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[al_zorra]

Eeeek! I apologize. I was reading frome the botton up.

Love, C.

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[beckyzoole]

How about "Tooth and Claw" by Jo Walton?

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[damned_colonial]

Wow, um, yeah, maybe? I know we have historical fantasy elsewhere in the book lists but that would probably be the first one that's not set on earth and doesn't have any human characters :)