The 'influence of Scotland' one sounds marvellous. What was its general argument?
Please feel free to ignore the below! I'm just musing out loud.
One of the other talks you mention is on Shakespeare, and I guess Macbeth is one point of intersection there with its Scottish setting *and* witches.
Plus there are the border ballads, thinking especially of Tam Lin. (Though of the two fantasy books that were definitely written in response to it, one author was American -- Pamela Dean -- and the other, Diana Wynne Jones, was English).
Classic/trope-setting fantasy -- Doctor Jekyll and Mr Hyde. To my shame, I've never read it. I was a bit surprised just now to see that it's set in London. In the extra-fictional version that lived inside my head, it was Edinburgh.
Tragically, I don't think there's a sub-genre of Edinburgh Urban Fantasy. I would be there for it.
Thinking of mainstream modern fantasy, then I guess the Wall from the A Song of Ice and Fire/Game of Thrones series is one inheritance. At least when I read the series, my thought was of Hadrian's Wall. Perhaps wrongly -- I guess George Martin could have been thinking of the Great Wall of China.
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Date: 2024-10-22 06:11 pm (UTC)Please feel free to ignore the below! I'm just musing out loud.
One of the other talks you mention is on Shakespeare, and I guess Macbeth is one point of intersection there with its Scottish setting *and* witches.
Plus there are the border ballads, thinking especially of Tam Lin. (Though of the two fantasy books that were definitely written in response to it, one author was American -- Pamela Dean -- and the other, Diana Wynne Jones, was English).
Classic/trope-setting fantasy -- Doctor Jekyll and Mr Hyde. To my shame, I've never read it. I was a bit surprised just now to see that it's set in London. In the extra-fictional version that lived inside my head, it was Edinburgh.
Tragically, I don't think there's a sub-genre of Edinburgh Urban Fantasy. I would be there for it.
Thinking of mainstream modern fantasy, then I guess the Wall from the A Song of Ice and Fire/Game of Thrones series is one inheritance. At least when I read the series, my thought was of Hadrian's Wall. Perhaps wrongly -- I guess George Martin could have been thinking of the Great Wall of China.