I tend to think of the First World War as the real end of the nineteenth century; everything is different afterwards. One of the reasons I didn't try to write pastiche in Watson's own narrative voice was that I didn't think that distinctly late-Victorian style would work in a post-war world. There's a terrible side to that new modernity--tanks, machine guns, poison gas, trench-strafing by airplane--but there's some liberation as well.
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I tend to think of the First World War as the real end of the nineteenth century; everything is different afterwards. One of the reasons I didn't try to write pastiche in Watson's own narrative voice was that I didn't think that distinctly late-Victorian style would work in a post-war world. There's a terrible side to that new modernity--tanks, machine guns, poison gas, trench-strafing by airplane--but there's some liberation as well.