Not just Five Weeks...according to Wikipedia, From the Earth to the Moon, A Journey to the Center of the Earth, and maybe even Twenty Thousand Leagues Under the Sea would have been available in France in 1870. (Verne being French and all, his novels were in French before they were English.)
Methinks a lot of Verne features in Joshua's diet...
Other novels worth considering:
Victor Hugo: Les Miserables and The Hunchback of Notre Dame, at least. Voltaire: Probably Candide. Especially for the "window into the lives of normal people" thing. Shelley: Frankenstein was translated by 1821. Probably important. Anything by Poe. Baudelaire translated much of Poe, and he (Baudelaire) died before 1870, so that's all fair game.
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Re: Period literature
Date: 2010-02-05 11:50 pm (UTC)Methinks a lot of Verne features in Joshua's diet...
Other novels worth considering:
Victor Hugo: Les Miserables and The Hunchback of Notre Dame, at least.
Voltaire: Probably Candide. Especially for the "window into the lives of normal people" thing.
Shelley: Frankenstein was translated by 1821. Probably important.
Anything by Poe. Baudelaire translated much of Poe, and he (Baudelaire) died before 1870, so that's all fair game.