Why Are So Many Romances Set in the Regency Period?

Re:Why Are So Many Romances Set in the Regency Period? by Nasrudith on Wednesday February 03, 2021 @10:44AM (#26014642)

Why would it be worth emphasizing in a very home island bound setting which doesn't even address the middle class residents of the isle. Colonialism went on for over a century before and after.

It would be like emphasizing that Edgar Allen Poe married his thirteen year old cousin when discussing his horror influence. Terrible but hardly germane to the topic.

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Re:Why Are So Many Romances Set in the Regency Period? by throwaway2245 on Wednesday February 03, 2021 @11:02AM (#26014880)

"Le bon ton" likely had a very direct hand in shaping colonialism, given that they were aristocrats and landed gentry, and given the "season" spent in London was shaped around political networking.

However, I also meant that it was a sort of cultural neo-colonialism: that the British are allowed to present the history of this period as a romantic drama.

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Re:Why Are So Many Romances Set in the Regency Period? by rebolek on Wednesday February 03, 2021 @11:23AM (#26015166)

People are free. This notion of collective guilt - "the British are allowed" - is terrifying.

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Re:Why Are So Many Romances Set in the Regency Period? by desas on Wednesday February 03, 2021 @01:20PM (#26017082)

Bridgerton at least was written by an American novelist and then made into a TV show by an American director / writer / producer team for an American media company.

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