NPR Article Title of the Day, Hands Down? "Did Steampunk Forget the Meaning of the Word Dickensian?"

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NPR Article Title of the Day, Hands Down? "Did Steampunk Forget the Meaning of the Word Dickensian?"

Besides having an awesome title, Did Steampunk Forget the Meaning of the Word Dickensian?, the article has a fair point. Or well, it quotes Charles Stross as having a fair point: that the Victorian era was a time of paradox. While the cornerstones of civilization were drawing dandy pictures of tea-sipping and writing novels about forlorn lovers, you had brutal elements of colonization in full swing, some wide-spread oppression of women, and a deep rooted poverty right in the midst of the cities that were held up as bastions of the first world. No real commentary outside of the article itself, but it does make some food for thought.

BY WEEK: 2010, Week 43
BY MONTH: October 2010