That's quite a turn from Jane Austen, where money was also a driving force. Old money was viewed as destiny. Do you think that the industrial Age and the new money it brought changed that? Did the rise of machinery increase popular interest in supernatural stories, chance, gambling?
I couldn't say for sure — although I'm sure that other people have written on the subject. I do think that the increased possibility for social mobility fed young people's ambition and imagination in new ways.
That's quite a turn from Jane Austen, where money was also a driving force. Old money was viewed as destiny. Do you think that the industrial Age and the new money it brought changed that? Did the rise of machinery increase popular interest in supernatural stories, chance, gambling?
I couldn't say for sure — although I'm sure that other people have written on the subject. I do think that the increased possibility for social mobility fed young people's ambition and imagination in new ways.