Euro 'historical' fantasy etc. isn't over. If The Once and Future King is an example, The Matter of Britain has survived in history, fiction and other entertainment since -- how long now? -- so it's tough and resiliant enough to survive much longer as well -- at least as long as homo saps survive (which might be problematical as judging by our determined refusal to take steps re climate change and poisoning oceans and air, which steadily increases -- so we might well say the emphasis is on the 'sap' part of our species ....).
But back to your subject, right now so many are trying to be innovative without really thinking through all the matters involved when setting their tales in a place they don't know in their gut or at least through their soles.
I admired very much Charles Stross's remark a couple years back on LJ that he wasn't about to include African American characters in his work because he doesn't know African Americans, and he doesn't know how any of that works -- the emphasis being American, meaning our history here from the beginning, and then into becoming the U.S., and then being the source of what is distinctly so much of American culture, particularly popular culture, which coincided with what was called the American century -- a very short imperial power reign compared with many imperial powers! (One might think that's because this nation was birthed in the rise of the capitalist wave, and ultimately unchecked, unregulated capitalism devours 24/7, until it becomes cannibalism, which is where we are at now, it seems.)
England, however, has been around a lot longer than that, and so has Europe and European cultures.
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But back to your subject, right now so many are trying to be innovative without really thinking through all the matters involved when setting their tales in a place they don't know in their gut or at least through their soles.
I admired very much Charles Stross's remark a couple years back on LJ that he wasn't about to include African American characters in his work because he doesn't know African Americans, and he doesn't know how any of that works -- the emphasis being American, meaning our history here from the beginning, and then into becoming the U.S., and then being the source of what is distinctly so much of American culture, particularly popular culture, which coincided with what was called the American century -- a very short imperial power reign compared with many imperial powers! (One might think that's because this nation was birthed in the rise of the capitalist wave, and ultimately unchecked, unregulated capitalism devours 24/7, until it becomes cannibalism, which is where we are at now, it seems.)
England, however, has been around a lot longer than that, and so has Europe and European cultures.
Love, C.