Timeline for How did contemporary readers respond to coincidence in 19th century novels?
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| Aug 12, 2021 at 15:32 | history | edited | bobble | CC BY-SA 4.0 |
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| Aug 12, 2021 at 9:00 | answer | added | Gordon Clarkson | timeline score: 3 | |
| Mar 3, 2018 at 8:23 | vote | accept | user1398948 | ||
| Feb 26, 2018 at 13:59 | answer | added | Gareth Rees | timeline score: 25 | |
| Feb 26, 2018 at 13:37 | comment | added | user406 | I suspect @Randal'Thor is correct. The level of nitpicking of art today is little short of insanity. But another factor that is perhaps hard to appreciate today is how difficult it was to find or transmit information before the telephone, internet, and photography. You would have no idea what a person looked like unless you had already met them, and no idea they were coming unless they wrote to you in advance. Thus chance encounter and mistaken identity that seem contrived to us would be much more normal occurrences to them. | |
| Feb 25, 2018 at 23:31 | comment | added | Rand al'Thor♦ | I don't have any sources to support this, but I suspect that readers back then were much less nitpicky, and didn't expect everything in their stories to be as logically plausible as if it had actually happened. | |
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| Feb 25, 2018 at 20:56 | history | asked | user1398948 | CC BY-SA 3.0 |