i'd always thought J&W was interwar, the 20s, when everything was beautiful and frivolous. and the magic of wodehouse's world, sort of personified in innocent bertie, was just to make a timeless happy limbo out of that and never extend the period that the series takes place in beyond 1929.
stephen fry called it 'pre-lapsarian'. excellent term.
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Date: 2005-04-18 01:12 am (UTC)stephen fry called it 'pre-lapsarian'. excellent term.