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The Oldest Ones in the Book Older Than the NES | Before 1985 Older Than Cable TV | 1939 — 1980 Older Than Television | 1890 — 1939 Older Than Radio | 1698 — 1890 Older Than Steam | 1439 — 1698 Older Than Print | 476 — 1439 Older Than Feudalism | ~800 BC — 476 AD Older Than Dirt | Before ~800 BC
Tropes first documented after the invention of the steam engine (1698) and before the invention of the radio (1890). This is the classic age of English literature, and of the penny dreadful: Sir Walter Scott, Jane Austen and Charles Dickens, but also Frankenstein, Varney the Vampire, the first Sherlock Holmes novel, Alice in Wonderland, and the earliest Science Fiction—to say nothing of the maudlin numbers that funded Benjamin Disraeli's political career. This is also the age of western political philosophers like Thomas Paine and Jean-Jacques Rousseau, who helped lay the foundations of modern democracy, as well as treatises and literature both pro- and anti-slavery. It is also the last time when books dominated popular entertainment, although many of these "books" were originally serialised in magazines, such as The Strand, Blackwood's etc. This is also when many compilations of legends and fairy tales were collected and recorded, such as 19th-century Finnish work The Kalevala, the Child Ballads, The Brothers Grimm books, and most European Fairy Tale collections. |
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