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Examples of [[{{TOPLEVELPAGE}}]] in [[{{SUBPAGENAME}}]] include:
* ''Amadis of Gaul'' is the most important knight-errant [[Chivalric Romance]] of all time, but today it seems dated, to the point that it has been all but forgotten and replaced in importance by its extremely angry [[Deconstruction]], ''[[Don Quixote]]''. Note, however, that ''Amadis of Gaul'' is saved from the fire for its merits in the chapter where the library of Don Quixote is being burned.
* ''[[Are You There God? It's Me, Margaret.]]'' is seen as a pretty tame book by today's standards, but its frank discussion of puberty and religious issues were controversial in the 70s when it was written and resulted in it being banned from many schools.
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* [[William Morris]] (1834-1896) attempted to revive the [[Chivalric Romance]] genre with novels ''The Wood Beyond the World'' (1894) and ''The Well at the World's End'' (1896). Creating "an entirely invented fantasy world" as their setting. These works and his earlier [[Historical Fantasy]] novels influenced writers such as [[Lord Dunsany]], Eric Rücker Eddison, James Branch Cabell, [[J. R. R. Tolkien|JRR Tolkien]], and [[C. S. Lewis|CS Lewis]]. Problem is that they are among the founding works of [[Medieval European Fantasy]]. And had a noticeable influence in the development of [[Heroic Fantasy]], [[High Fantasy]], and even the [[Cthulhu Mythos]]. There is now nothing innovative about creating an invented world, and his works were considered dated by [[The Seventies]].
* ''[[The Great God Pan]] (1894)'' was a prototype [[Cosmic Horror Story]], notable for "the cumulative suspense and ultimate horror with which every paragraph abounds". It was cited as a major influence by [[H.P. Lovecraft]], and (more recently) [[Stephen King]]. But part of the suspense is killed for the modern reader, who knows what to expect from the genre.
* Reading stuff written or set in the past could make people wonder just how the heck we even survived today - because in many older settings, you could hear mentions of people dying of diseases that are today almost completely unheard of. Smallpox, Scarlet Fever, Scurvy, Beriberi, Dysentery, Cholera...Yeah.
** A [[YouTube]] comment on the [[Animated Adaptation]] of ''[[The Velveteen Rabbit]]'' asked why on earth they would ''burn'' the boy's toys and beddings after he had Scarlet Fever. At the time, scarlet fever being transmitted by personal effects was considered scientific fact. [[Science Marches On]].
** Most of the reason Dysentery is known nowadays is because of ''[[Oregon Trail]]''.
** [[Science Marches On]] is the related trope for this.
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