"defining 'our age' as the late twentieth to early twenty-first century"
I'd consider Tolkien to be an earlier era. I'm not quite versed enough in these terms to be positive of my identification here, but he probably belongs to the modernist era, and I'm looking more at the postmodern. I mean, The Fellowship of the Ring was published in 1954 (and written way earlier); Carrie was published in 1974.
The gaps between my examples aren't hugely relevant, except insofar as before the printing press, being a Big Thing was a lot harder to achieve. There are seventeenth- and eighteenth-century authors who could be named as the ones remembered from their particular eras -- basically local peaks between the huge ones of Shakespeare and Dickens.
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Date: 2014-10-24 07:21 pm (UTC)I'd consider Tolkien to be an earlier era. I'm not quite versed enough in these terms to be positive of my identification here, but he probably belongs to the modernist era, and I'm looking more at the postmodern. I mean, The Fellowship of the Ring was published in 1954 (and written way earlier); Carrie was published in 1974.
The gaps between my examples aren't hugely relevant, except insofar as before the printing press, being a Big Thing was a lot harder to achieve. There are seventeenth- and eighteenth-century authors who could be named as the ones remembered from their particular eras -- basically local peaks between the huge ones of Shakespeare and Dickens.