{"content":[{"text":"Letendre","bbox":{"left":0.783333,"top":0.042833,"width":0.06948999999999994,"height":0.020212}},{"text":"2","bbox":{"left":0.872353,"top":0.047727,"width":0.009938000000000002,"height":0.015152000000000006}},{"text":"riders, and the relationships they form, result in the creation of sequestered spaces where","bbox":{"left":0.117647,"top":0.089045,"width":0.6949810000000001,"height":0.020211999999999994}},{"text":"expectations of early 19th century British society are questioned and altered.","bbox":{"left":0.117647,"top":0.123401,"width":0.5954900000000001,"height":0.020705000000000015}},{"text":"Temeraire’s Genres and Influences","bbox":{"left":0.176473,"top":0.193807,"width":0.291126,"height":0.018595}},{"text":"As it has already been noted, Temeraire is a product of the Dragonriders of Pern series’","bbox":{"left":0.176471,"top":0.235561,"width":0.6914289999999998,"height":0.02021199999999998}},{"text":"legacy, but that is not to say Novik’s series is solely derivative from McCaffrey‘s. Temeraire’s","bbox":{"left":0.117647,"top":0.270409,"width":0.7435099999999999,"height":0.020212000000000008}},{"text":"alternate history/historical fantasy dual genre contrasts against Pern’s fantasy-resembling science","bbox":{"left":0.117647,"top":0.305258,"width":0.7638039999999999,"height":0.020212000000000008}},{"text":"fiction status. The Dragonriders of Pern occurs on Pern, a planet that humans so long ago","bbox":{"left":0.117647,"top":0.340106,"width":0.7041170000000001,"height":0.020212000000000008}},{"text":"colonized while suffering setbacks that result in the colony technologically regressing and","bbox":{"left":0.117647,"top":0.374955,"width":0.706078,"height":0.020212000000000008}},{"text":"forgetting their history upon Earth. What are called dragons within that series is wildlife native to","bbox":{"left":0.117647,"top":0.409803,"width":0.76451,"height":0.020212000000000008}},{"text":"Pern that has evolved over millennia because of human influence. Temeraire occurs on an","bbox":{"left":0.117647,"top":0.444652,"width":0.706666,"height":0.020212000000000008}},{"text":"alternate-Earth where dragons have always existed alongside human society and were later","bbox":{"left":0.117647,"top":0.4795,"width":0.7126080000000001,"height":0.020212000000000008}},{"text":"domesticated by human society. Set during the Napoleonic Wars of 1803 to 1815, the series sees","bbox":{"left":0.117647,"top":0.514349,"width":0.7584120000000001,"height":0.020212000000000008}},{"text":"protagonist Captain William Laurence of the British Navy have to switch careers after winning a","bbox":{"left":0.117647,"top":0.549197,"width":0.7590939999999999,"height":0.020212000000000008}},{"text":"dragon egg as a spoil of war. The egg hatches into the dragon Temeraire, who chooses Laurence","bbox":{"left":0.117647,"top":0.584045,"width":0.755765,"height":0.020212000000000008}},{"text":"as his rider, forcing the naval captain into becoming a captain of the British Aerial Corps. The","bbox":{"left":0.117647,"top":0.618894,"width":0.7371369999999999,"height":0.020212000000000008}},{"text":"series follows Laurence and Temeraire’s adventures as they acclimatize to their new lives. It is","bbox":{"left":0.117647,"top":0.653742,"width":0.743118,"height":0.020212000000000008}},{"text":"soon revealed that Laurence is not just entering a new career, and he is instead introduced into","bbox":{"left":0.117647,"top":0.688591,"width":0.7388249999999998,"height":0.020212000000000008}},{"text":"what is essentially a new society, one that is hidden within the historical British society known","bbox":{"left":0.117647,"top":0.723439,"width":0.7429399999999999,"height":0.020212000000000008}},{"text":"from our real history. Places for this society are called “dragon coverts” within the text. This new","bbox":{"left":0.117647,"top":0.758288,"width":0.7633719999999999,"height":0.020212000000000008}},{"text":"society is one that contrasts against the one Laurence grew up within, and against his proper","bbox":{"left":0.117647,"top":0.793136,"width":0.722019,"height":0.020212000000000008}},{"text":"British gentlemen, or conservative, expectations. Within this society, we find an element of the","bbox":{"left":0.117647,"top":0.827985,"width":0.7453719999999999,"height":0.020212000000000008}},{"text":"series that is practically an element of fantasy to Laurence, but could be considered simply a","bbox":{"left":0.117647,"top":0.862833,"width":0.7243919999999999,"height":0.020212000000000008}}],"images_bbox":[],"images_bbox_not_text_overlap":[]}