This makes me want to read some C.S. Lewis essays, which I have never done!
And YES it's so funny, because, like, it's a fair analysis of some Lord Peter and obviously he just gave up before he got to, say, Have His Carcase or any of the books which really start to complicate the class stuff. (...the Harriet books really, I guess, because she's the one who has the most uncomfortable feelings about Percy's class.)
The volume I have didn't have the Dickens essay and clearly I'm going to have to hunt it down! I would definitely say 'funny' greeting cards/birthday cards fill the same ecological niche as smutty picture postcards, though the audience target feels slightly different; I feel like those cards are aimed at, like, a female 40-60 demographic? and the smutty cards aimed at more of a male one? which is kind of an interesting shift, but also not at all based on any kind of exhaustive study!
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And YES it's so funny, because, like, it's a fair analysis of some Lord Peter and obviously he just gave up before he got to, say, Have His Carcase or any of the books which really start to complicate the class stuff. (...the Harriet books really, I guess, because she's the one who has the most uncomfortable feelings about Percy's class.)
The volume I have didn't have the Dickens essay and clearly I'm going to have to hunt it down! I would definitely say 'funny' greeting cards/birthday cards fill the same ecological niche as smutty picture postcards, though the audience target feels slightly different; I feel like those cards are aimed at, like, a female 40-60 demographic? and the smutty cards aimed at more of a male one? which is kind of an interesting shift, but also not at all based on any kind of exhaustive study!