Oooh, that's an interesting question! I don't think that I've read any recent books that are like Stevenson's, which might mean they're not being published or might mean I'm not looking in the right places for them.
I do think there's a certain conscious nostalgia in Stevenson: she's writing contemporary-to-her novels, but about a way of life that she knows is on the cusp of changing utterly, and I think that in at least in some of her books she's purposefully chronicling those communities. So for me part of the appeal is definitely Stevenson's description of a bygone era, but part of the reason that description is so detailed and moving is that Stevenson can see that bygoneness coming.
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Date: 2021-12-23 08:35 pm (UTC)I do think there's a certain conscious nostalgia in Stevenson: she's writing contemporary-to-her novels, but about a way of life that she knows is on the cusp of changing utterly, and I think that in at least in some of her books she's purposefully chronicling those communities. So for me part of the appeal is definitely Stevenson's description of a bygone era, but part of the reason that description is so detailed and moving is that Stevenson can see that bygoneness coming.