Er, well, for Wodehouse this was more on the order of "current events" than history. He was pretty naive and liked to believe that things would always stay more or less the same, yes. He didn't completely ignore the rise of fascism, though - the whole character of Spode is a direct sendup of both Hitler and the English fascist Oswald Mosley. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Oswald_Mosley Hence the "Heil, Spode!"s. It's a subtle, gentle kind of satire, but satire nonetheless.
Moreover, and this is the big one - if he didn't really seek to emphasize it after WWII, that might possibly be because he was captured by the Nazis in 1939, separated from his family, and put into an internment camp for a year, and that period of internment damn near destroyed his reputation in in England for the rest of his life. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/P._G._Wodehouse#Life_beyond_Britain So, possibly he didn't wish to dwell upon it, you know? Especially while writing light comedy.
Not to say that you're wrong about this being a lighter, fluffier universe, or that people shouldn't write whatever they want to.
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Date: 2009-02-25 05:57 am (UTC)Moreover, and this is the big one - if he didn't really seek to emphasize it after WWII, that might possibly be because he was captured by the Nazis in 1939, separated from his family, and put into an internment camp for a year, and that period of internment damn near destroyed his reputation in in England for the rest of his life. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/P._G._Wodehouse#Life_beyond_Britain So, possibly he didn't wish to dwell upon it, you know? Especially while writing light comedy.
Not to say that you're wrong about this being a lighter, fluffier universe, or that people shouldn't write whatever they want to.