| 1 | [[WMG:[[center:[-'''TheOldestOnesInTheBook'''\ |
| 2 | OlderThanTheNES | Before 1985\ |
| 3 | OlderThanCableTV | 1939 -- 1980\ |
| 4 | OlderThanTelevision | 1890 -- 1939\ |
| 5 | '''Older Than Radio''' | 1698 -- 1890\ |
| 6 | OlderThanSteam | 1439 -- 1698\ |
| 7 | OlderThanPrint | 476 -- 1439\ |
| 8 | OlderThanFeudalism | ~800 BC -- 476 AD\ |
| 9 | OlderThanDirt | Before ~800 BC-]]]]] |
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| 11 | [[quoteright:215:[[Theatre/MiseryJunction https://static.tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pub/images/oldpulp.jpg]]]] |
| 12 | Tropes first documented after the invention of the steam engine (1698) and before the invention of the radio (1890). |
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| 14 | This is the classic age of English literature, and of the penny dreadful: Sir Creator/WalterScott, Creator/JaneAusten and Creator/CharlesDickens, but also ''Literature/{{Frankenstein}}'', ''Literature/VarneyTheVampire'', the first Literature/SherlockHolmes novel, ''Literature/AliceInWonderland'', and the earliest ScienceFiction--to say nothing of the maudlin numbers that funded UsefulNotes/BenjaminDisraeli's political career. This is also the age of western political philosophers like Thomas Paine and Jean-Jacques Rousseau, who helped lay the foundations of modern democracy, as well as treatises and literature both pro- and anti-slavery. It is also the last time when books dominated popular entertainment, although many of these "books" were originally serialised in magazines, such as The Strand, Blackwood's etc. |
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| 16 | This is also when many compilations of legends and fairy tales were collected and recorded, such as 19th-century Finnish work ''Literature/TheKalevala'', the Literature/ChildBallads, Creator/TheBrothersGrimm books, and most European FairyTale collections. |
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| 20 | !! Notable works and authors from this time period include: |
| 21 | * {{Neoclassicis|m}}t art. |
| 22 | ** Creator/WilliamAdolpheBouguereau: |
| 23 | *** ''Art/{{The Birth of Venus|Bouguereau}}'' |
| 24 | *** ''Art/{{Charity|Bouguereau}}'' |
| 25 | *** ''Art/DanteAndVirgilInHell'' |
| 26 | *** ''Art/{{Dawn|Bouguereau}}'' |
| 27 | *** ''Art/NymphsAndSatyr'' |
| 28 | *** ''Art/{{Psyche and Cupid|Bouguereau}}'' |
| 29 | *** ''Art/TheReturnOfSpring'' |
| 30 | ** Creator/AlexandreCabanel: |
| 31 | *** ''Art/{{The Birth of Venus|Cabanel}}'' |
| 32 | *** ''Art/TheFallenAngel'' |
| 33 | |
| 34 | !!Tropes: |
| 35 | |
| 36 | [[index]] |
| 37 | * AcidRefluxNightmare: ''Literature/AChristmasCarol'', 1843 |
| 38 | * AdoptionConflict: ''Literature/SilasMarner'' by Creator/GeorgeEliot, 1861. Long after the theft of his savings, Silas comes home to discover a young girl who broke in to get warm on a winter night. He adopts and raises Eppie, only finding out when she's grown that she's the love child of the wealthy Godfrey Cass. Silas and Godfrey agree to let Eppie choose whether to be adopted as Godfrey's heir. She chooses to remain with Silas, and Godfrey accepts her choice and then pays to renovate the Marners' house when her new husband Aaron moves in with her and Silas. |
| 39 | * AdvancedAncientAcropolis: ''Apoikis'' by Creator/KurdLasswitz, 1882 |
| 40 | * AdventurerArchaeologist: 19th-century gothic horror |
| 41 | * AfroAsskicker: The Hadendoa people, a nomadic subset of northeastern UsefulNotes/{{Africa}}'s Beja ethnic group, were known both for their elaborate afro-like hairstyles (earning them the nickname [[FluffyTheTerrible Fuzzy-Wuzzy]]) and for their fierce resistance to UsefulNotes/TheBritishEmpire during the Mahdist War of the 1880s and 1890s. |
| 42 | * AllLoveIsUnrequited: Creator/GilbertAndSullivan |
| 43 | * AloneWithThePsycho: ''Great Expectations'', Creator/CharlesDickens, 1860-1861 |
| 44 | * TheAlternet: Creator/JulesVerne's ''Literature/ParisInTheTwentiethCentury'' (written in 1863, though not published until 1994), banks communicate via a linked network of fax-style document machines. |
| 45 | * AmericaTakesOverTheWorld: Technically the United States is a continuously-expanding nation and has been so ever since the original Thirteen Colonies declared independence in 1776, but its first forays into imperial expansion really get going in the mid-19th century: it ramps up wars of occupation against Native American tribes and First Nations in the 1830s, grabs a lot of Mexico's territory in UsefulNotes/MexicanAmericanWar in the 1840s, begins studying annexation of Cuba as early as 1848 (its first attempt to seize territory that didn't become a state and is not one today), is involved in a Nicaraguan invasion and passes laws to annex overseas guano islands in 1856, and acquires Alaska by 1867. The better-known examples of American imperialism such as the overthrow of Hawai'i in 1893 and the Spanish-American War fallout after 1898 sit right smack at the beginning of the age of radio. |
| 46 | * AndThereWasMuchRejoicing: ''Literature/AChristmasCarol'', 1843 |
| 47 | * BananaPeel: "Banana-Skin Butcheries", ''Harper's Weekly'' cartoon, 1880 (see [[https://www.google.com/books/edition/Bananas/SqVqBgAAQBAJ?hl=en&gbpv=1&bsq=harper%27s here]]) |
| 48 | * BandOfRelatives: [[https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hutchinson_Family_Singers The Hutchinson Family Singers]], one of the first American vocal groups to achieve nationwide fame, in the 1840s. |
| 49 | * BeautifulAllAlong: "Literature/TheUglyDuckling" (1843) and "Literature/TheRoughFacedGirl" (at least 1884). |
| 50 | * BecomeARealBoy: ''Literature/TheAdventuresOfPinocchio'', early 1880s |
| 51 | * BlindAndTheBeast: ''Literature/{{Frankenstein}}'' by Mary Shelley |
| 52 | * BoxingKangaroo: An actual practice of the 1800s. |
| 53 | * BrainFever: Happens to the doctor in ''Frankenstein''. Accidentally invoked in ''Literature/TheAdventuresOfHuckleberryFinn''. |
| 54 | * BrandNameTakeover: Kerosene, 1854 |
| 55 | * BriarPatching: West African {{Anansi}} stories, known in North America as Uncle Remus. |
| 56 | * CarMeetsHouse: The first car accident in history was one of these. In 1771 a prototype steam-powered car crashed through the wall of a French military building. The accident [[{{Pun}} wrecked]] its inventor's reputation. |
| 57 | * CastsNoShadow: The protagonist of ''Peter Schlemihl's Miraculous Tale'' (1814) by Adelbert von Chamisso sells his shadow to a mysterious stranger in exchange for a purse that never gets empty. |
| 58 | * CatapultNightmare: ''Literature/TreasureIsland'', 1881 |
| 59 | * CatScare: ''God's Judgment on a Wicked Bishop'' by Robert Southey, 1799 |
| 60 | * ChainedToARailway: "Captain Tom's Fright," 1867 |
| 61 | * ClockDiscrepancy: ''Literature/AroundTheWorldInEightyDays'', 1873 |
| 62 | * ColonelBadass: Max Piccolomini from ''Theatre/{{Wallenstein}}'', 1799. |
| 63 | * ColorMeBlack: The Inky Boys from ''Literature/DerStruwwelpeter'', 1845. |
| 64 | * CornerOfWoe: ''Art/TheFallenAngel'' by Creator/AlexandreCabanel shows Lucifer atop a rocky mountain, scrunched up with his arms protecting his face, and doing some major sulking because he's no longer welcome in Heaven. |
| 65 | * CosmicHorrorStory: The early precedents of this genre (of which Creator/HPLovecraft's Franchise/CthulhuMythos is the TropeCodifier) originated around the 1880s, with early weird-fiction authors such as Creator/AmbroseBierce (''An Inhabitant of Carcosa'', 1886, source of the Carcosa place-name in Creator/RobertWChambers' ''Literature/TheKingInYellow'', 1895, itself published in the first decade of successful applied radio experiments). Going even farther back, we have Creator/EdgarAllanPoe's ''Literature/TheNarrativeOfArthurGordonPymOfNantucket'' (1838), featuring a bizarre trip to MysteriousAntarctica that makes the continent feel like an EldritchLocation. |
| 66 | * DelicateAndSickly: Jane Fairfax in ''{{Literature/Emma}}'', 1815 |
| 67 | * DeliveryStork: Victorian English folklore |
| 68 | * DepthDeception: "Literature/TheSphinx," short story by Creator/EdgarAllanPoe, 1850 |
| 69 | * DomedHometown: ''Literature/ThreeHundredYearsHence'' by William Delisle Hay, 1881 |
| 70 | * DoomItYourself: ''Literature/ThreeMenInABoat (To Say Nothing of the Dog)'' by Jerome K. Jerome, 1889 |
| 71 | * DoorClosesEnding: ''Theatre/ADollsHouse'', 1879 |
| 72 | * DownToTheLastPlay: "Literature/CaseyAtTheBat," Ernest Thayer, 1888 |
| 73 | * DramaticSpotlight: Started with the use of 'limelight' (created by directing an oxygen-hydrogen flame at calcium oxide--i.e. lime--causing the lime to incandesce bright white) at the Theatre Royal, Covent Garden in 1837. |
| 74 | * DramaticWind: Creator/AlexandreCabanel's ''Art/TheFallenAngel'' captures TheClimax of Lucifer's story. Being cast from Heaven after a long war against his beloved God is the turning point for his descent into [[{{Pun}} full-blown]] villainy. Among other things, this is conveyed by the wind tousling his mop of hair. It's {{justified|trope}} because, for added RuleOfDrama, Lucifer is nested atop a mountain, so strong winds are no strange occurrence. This also serves to justify why his locks aren't obscuring his eyes, which are the {{painting|s}}'s main element. |
| 75 | * DreamingOfAWhiteChristmas: Along with all its SantaClaus codifying, ''Literature/TwasTheNightBeforeChristmas'' (1823) mentions "new-fallen snow" on Christmas Eve. Christina Rossetti’s “In the Bleak Midwinter” (1872) describes a snowy Christmas on the birth of Jesus in Bethlehem. |
| 76 | * EliteAgentsAboveTheLaw: ''Literature/TheThreeMusketeers'' includes the Musketeers (answering directly to UsefulNotes/LouisXIII), the Cardinal's Guards (answering to Cardinal Richelieu), and the Cardinal's collection of what would be called NOC agents in modern times, such as [=Milady deWinter=]. |
| 77 | * EvilHand: Fairy tale about three surgeons recorded by Creator/TheBrothersGrimm. |
| 78 | * EvilLaugh: ''Faust'', Charles Gounod, 1859 |
| 79 | * EyelessFace: The Devil in Creator/EdgarAllanPoe's short story "Bon-Bon" (1835) wears green sunglasses to conceal that he has neither eyes nor eyesockets; the space where the eyes should be being "simply a dead level of flesh". |
| 80 | * ExplosiveOverclocking: The steam engine, bringing this to the brink of OlderThanSteam without actually crossing the line. |
| 81 | * FairytaleWeddingDress: [[UsefulNotes/QueenVictoria Queen Vicky]] wore a white dress in 1840 -- before, a wedding dress was otherwise indistinguishable from a regular PimpedOutDress. |
| 82 | * FantasyConflictCounterpart: ''Literature/TheBegumsMillions'', Creator/JulesVerne, 1879, with two fictional cities standing in for France and Germany. |
| 83 | * FictionalUnitedNations: "Locksley Hall" by Creator/AlfredLordTennyson predicts "the Parliament of man, the Federation of the world". |
| 84 | * FilmNoir: The literary forbears that inspired the genre began to coalesce in the 19th century, evolving out of disparate elements such as GothicHorror and gritty realist fiction, which became more relevant in an age of accelerating urban growth, and with it, urban poverty and crime. Sensation novels with labyrinthine plots set in UsefulNotes/VictorianBritain (and especially VictorianLondon) appeared in the mid-1800s (e.g. ''Literature/LadyAudleysSecret'', by M.E. Braddon, or works like ''Literature/TheWomanInWhite'' by Wilkie Collins), but they had equivalents elsewhere, like the works of Creator/PaulFeval, which depicted the seediness of early 19th-century Paris. Meanwhile, the developing field of psychology provided closer and deeper looks into human minds, including those of criminals, with novels like ''Literature/CrimeAndPunishment'' examining its characters' minds more minutely. |
| 85 | * FireKeepsItDead: Vampires in GothicHorror literature (the UrExample being ''Literature/VarneyTheVampire'', c. 1845) had to be burned to keep them from coming back to life after being staked and beheaded. |
| 86 | * FishOutOfTemporalWater: ''Literature/AConnecticutYankeeInKingArthursCourt'', Creator/MarkTwain, 1889 |
| 87 | * ForYourPeopleByYourPeople: UsefulNotes/AbrahamLincoln's famous [[http://showcase.netins.net/web/creative/lincoln/speeches/gettysburg.htm Gettysburg Address]] contains the phrase: "a government of the people, by the people, for the people". |
| 88 | * FourTemperamentEnsemble: ''Literature/TheThreeMusketeers'', 1844 |
| 89 | * FowlMouthedParrot: In real life one of the earliest documented instances was President Andrew Jackson's pet parrot, which had to be removed from his funeral because it wouldn't stop swearing (in two languages, no less). |
| 90 | * FrankensteinsMonster: The TropeNamer appears in ''Literature/{{Frankenstein}}'', Creator/MaryShelley, 1818 (reprinted in 1823, and republished with edits in 1831) |
| 91 | * FreakyFridayFlip: F. Anstey's ''[[Literature/ViceVersaALessonToFathers Vice Versa: A Lesson to Fathers]]'' 1882 |
| 92 | * FreakyIsCool: ''Literature/{{Frankenstein}}'' |
| 93 | * FrothyMugsOfWater: The [[TheTeetotaler Temperance]] [[Literature/TheBible Bible]] changed every mention of wine to "grape juice", unless someone is getting drunk off it or condemning it[[note]]This is particularly egregious considering that before pasteurization was invented, grape juice didn't really exist - pressed grapes begin to ferment almost immediately due to the wild yeasts that live on their skins, and will generally be alcoholic enough to cause intoxication within forty-eight hours.[[/note]] |
| 94 | * FutureImperfect: ''The Year 4338: Petersburg Letters'', 1840, features archeologists concluding that the Germans, Deutsche, Teutons and Allemans were all different ethnic groups. |
| 95 | * GivingRadioToTheRomans: ''A Connecticut Yankee in King Arthur's Court'', Creator/MarkTwain, 1889 |
| 96 | * GoingDownWithTheShip: The trope is derived from Age of Sail maritime salvage laws, which said that if a ship was abandoned by all crew but didn't sink, it was first come, first serve on the ship and its cargo. |
| 97 | * GothicHorror: Officially begins with the publication of TropeMaker ''Literature/TheCastleOfOtranto'' (Horace Walpole, 1764) |
| 98 | * GreatWhiteHunter: Ned Land in ''Literature/TwentyThousandLeaguesUnderTheSea'' (1869). |
| 99 | * HauntedCastle: ''Literature/TheCastleOfOtranto'', 1764 |
| 100 | * HaveYouTriedNotBeingAMonster: "Literature/TheLittleMermaid" (1837) has been [[https://www.themarysue.com/little-mermaid-queer-subtext/ interpreted]] to represent Creator/HansChristianAndersen's inability to be with the man he loved. |
| 101 | * HeartTrauma: "Literature/TheSnowQueen" by Creator/HansChristianAndersen, 1845 |
| 102 | * HeroAntagonist: Porfiry Petrovich in ''Literature/CrimeAndPunishment'' |
| 103 | * {{Hikikomori}}: ''Literature/{{Oblomov}}'' by Ivan Goncharov, 1859 |
| 104 | * HistoricalInJoke: ''Literature/TheThreeMusketeers'', 1844; possibly its source material in 1700. |
| 105 | * IDoNotOwn: Creator/LordByron's ''Literature/DonJuan'', 1824 |
| 106 | * ImADoctorNotAPlaceholder: ''Literature/TwentyThousandLeaguesUnderTheSea'' by Creator/JulesVerne, 1869 |
| 107 | * ImGoingToHellForThis: ''The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn'' (1885) is the TropeNamer. |
| 108 | * InspectorJavert: ''Literature/LesMiserables'', 1862 is the TropeNamer. |
| 109 | * InterracialAdoptionStruggles: In Creator/EmilyBronte's 1847 novel ''Literature/WutheringHeights'', the {{byronic|Hero}} Heathcliff starts out as an AmbiguouslyBrown foundling--described as a "gypsy," but largely as a convenient shorthand for his dark skin, as we never find out his actual ethnicity. Even after adopting him, the white English Earnshaw family treats him as a mere servant, and his outcast status drives him down the path of vindictive villainy as he grows up. |
| 110 | * InterruptedSuicide: Twice in ''[[Theatre/TheMagicFlute Die Zauberflöte]]'' by Music/WolfgangAmadeusMozart, 1791 |
| 111 | * JukeboxMusical: ''Theatre/TheBlackCrook'', 1866. |
| 112 | * JungleOpera: ''Literature/KingSolomonsMines'', 1885 |
| 113 | * KubrickStare: ''Literature/BleakHouse'', 1852. PlayedForDrama in Creator/AlexandreCabanel's ''Art/TheFallenAngel'' -- Lucifer has his head tilted down while staring hatefully and mournfully toward {{Heaven}} above. |
| 114 | * KissMeImVirtual: ''Theatre/TheTalesOfHoffmann'', 1880. |
| 115 | * {{Leitmotif}}: Term coined by a critic describing Carl Maria von Weber's classical compositions, 1871, but Weber died in 1826. |
| 116 | * LemonyNarrator: ''Literature/TristramShandy'' by Laurence Sterne (1759-1767) and ''Literature/JacquesTheFatalist'' by Denis Diderot (1765-1780). |
| 117 | * LesbianVampire: In ''Literature/{{Carmilla}}'' (1872) by Joseph Sheridan Le Fanu, the vampire Carmilla only feeds off young women she falls in love with. Some already see a lesbian subtext in the unfinished poem "Christabel" by Creator/SamuelTaylorColeridge (c. 1797–1801), in which the adolescent, eponymous heroine meets a mysterious girl, named Geraldine, who possibly is a vampire, or in the character of Miss Clara Crofton in ''Literature/VarneyTheVampire'' by James Malcolm Rymer (c. 1845–47), whose only confirmed victim is a girl. |
| 118 | * LiteraryAllusionTitle: ''Literature/FarFromTheMaddingCrowd'' by Creator/ThomasHardy (1874) and "Childe Roland to the Dark Tower Came" by Robert Browning (1855). |
| 119 | * LivingToys: ''Literature/TheNutcrackerAndTheMouseKing'' by Creator/ETAHoffmann, 1816. |
| 120 | * LyricalDissonance: The song "My Grandfather's Clock," written in 1876. |
| 121 | * MadScientist: In "Literature/TheSandman1816", the alchemist Coppelius and the physicist Professor Spalanzani are concerned with [[CreatingLife creating an artifical human]]. In the same year, Creator/MaryShelley started to work on ''Literature/{{Frankenstein}}'' (1818), in which Victor Frankenstein succeeds in the same endeavour. |
| 122 | * MadScientistsBeautifulDaughter: Olimpia in ''Literature/TheSandman1816'' (although she is a subversion), 1816. |
| 123 | * MadwomanInTheAttic: ''Literature/JaneEyre'', by Charlotte Brontë, 1847. |
| 124 | * MagicPants: ''Literature/AlicesAdventuresInWonderland'', by Creator/LewisCarroll, 1865. An ImpliedTrope in the actual text, but made explicit by John Tenniel's illustrations showing Alice wearing the same dress for the whole story. |
| 125 | * ManEatingPlant: Early examples include a giant flytrap in Creator/ArthurConanDoyle's short story "The American's Tale" (1879) and the "man-eating tree of Madagascar," a newspaper hoax born in 1881. |
| 126 | * ManInAKilt: [[https://static.tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pub/images/kiltsmall_5183.GIF The earliest depictions of men in kilts]] as {{Fanservice}} date back to UsefulNotes/TheNapoleonicWars. |
| 127 | * MaybeEverAfter: ''Literature/GreatExpectations'', 1861 |
| 128 | * MessageInABottle: Chunosuke Matsuyama wrote one in 1784 after a shipwreck in the Pacific. |
| 129 | * MileHighClub: Rumours of people having sex in airborne vessels first circulated in 1785, after the allegedly first female balloonist, a certain Mrs Sage, had completed a flight in a hot air balloon together with a certain Mr Biggin. The idea of it being a kind of sexual goal for men also dates from the period, at least according to a certain eighteenth-century wager book quoted on ''Series/{{QI}}'': |
| 130 | -->'''Stephen Fry''': "Lord Cholmondely has given two guineas to Lord Derby, to receive 500 guineas whenever his lordship 'plays hospitals' with a woman in a balloon 1,000 yards from the Earth." For "plays hospitals with" I think you can insert your own--word. |
| 131 | * MiraculousMalfunction: ''Literature/TheStrangeCaseOfDrJekyllAndMrHyde'', 1886 |
| 132 | * MistakenForSpecialGuest: ''Theatre/TheInspectorGeneral'' by Creator/NikolaiGogol, 1836, although a similar plot-twist already was used in ''Die deutschen Kleinstädter'' ("The German Small-Towners", 1802) by German-Russian author August von Kotzebue. |
| 133 | * TheMockbuster: Victorian-era publisher [[https://web.archive.org/web/20200922225543/https://dickensmuseum.com/blogs/charles-dickens-museum/on-dishonest-dullards-the-penny-pickwick-and-other-dickens-plagiarisms Edward Lloyd made a living]] off of works copying Creator/CharlesDickens like ''[[Literature/OliverTwist Oliver Twiss]]'' and ''[[Literature/ThePickwickPapers The Penny Pickwick]]'' in the 1830s and 1840s. |
| 134 | * {{Mon}}: The Japanese card game [[https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Karuta#Obake_karuta Obake Karuta]], which was first invented in the Edo period. |
| 135 | * MustHaveCaffeine: Music/JohannSebastianBach's "Coffee Cantata," ''Music/SchweigtStillePlaudertNicht, [[http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Schweigt_stille,_plaudert_nicht,_BWV_211 BWV 211,]]'' 1732-1734, a miniature opera dedicated to caffeine addiction. |
| 136 | * MyHovercraftIsFullOfEels: ''English as She Is Spoke'', an [[EpicFail attempted]] 1883 guide to learning English written by a Portuguese schoolteacher who relied on a French phrasebook and a French[=/=]English dictionary. |
| 137 | * NaughtyTentacles: ''The Dream of the Fisherman's Wife'', 1814 woodcut by Hokusai |
| 138 | * NeverBringAKnifeToAGunFight: Tchaikovsky's opera ''[[http://www.metoperafamily.org/metopera/history/stories/synopsis.aspx?customid=131 Mazeppa]]'', 1884, at least for the modern codified trope. |
| 139 | * NoOntologicalInertia: The stepmother's poisons have none in Creator/TheBrothersGrimm fairy tale "Snowdrop" (a.k.a. Snow White). |
| 140 | * NotTheNessie: Early attacks by the ''Nautilus'' in ''Literature/TwentyThousandLeaguesUnderTheSea'' (1869) were blamed on a giant narwhal. |
| 141 | * NotWearingPantsDream: ''The Dream of Councillor Popov'', [[http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Aleksey_Konstantinovich_Tolstoy Alexey Tolstoy]], 1873 |
| 142 | * TheNounAndTheNoun: Many of Creator/JaneAusten's novels. |
| 143 | * NowItsMyTurn: Henry Fielding's ''Literature/JosephAndrews'', 1742 |
| 144 | * OccultDetective: Dr. Martin Hesselius from Creator/JosephSheridanLeFanu's ''In A Glass Darkly'', 1872. |
| 145 | * OhWaitThisIsMyGroceryList: Creator/JaneAusten's ''Literature/NorthangerAbbey'', 1817. Catherine, having read way too many Gothic novels, mistakes a laundry list it's too dark to read for something lurid such as a suicide note. |
| 146 | * TheOldConvict: ''Literature/TheCountOfMonteCristo'', 1844 |
| 147 | * OneCrazyNight: ''Literature/AChristmasCarol'', 1843 |
| 148 | * OpenSesame: Literal words in "Literature/AliBabaAndTheFortyThieves", added to ''Literature/TheArabianNights'' in the 18th century. |
| 149 | * OrphanageOfFear: ''Literature/OliverTwist'' is often cited as the TropeMaker, although it actually features a workhouse. Even if that doesn't count, ''Literature/JaneEyre'' features Lowood School and also predates radio, so there. |
| 150 | * PensieveFlashback: ''Literature/AChristmasCarol'', 1843 |
| 151 | * PersonalRaincloud: "The Devotee to Whom Allah Gave a Cloud for Service and the Devout King" from ''Literature/TheArabianNights'', 19th century |
| 152 | * PirateParrot: ''Literature/TreasureIsland'', 1881 |
| 153 | * PlayingDrunk: ''Theatre/TheBarberOfSeville'', 1816 |
| 154 | * PolicePig: The earliest known usage of the word "pig" to refer to a police officer dates back to 1785. |
| 155 | * PostApocalypticDog: Lord Byron's poem "Darkness," 1816. |
| 156 | * POWCamp: What were essentially proto-concentration camps were used by American settler-colonial forces against Native tribes starting in the 1830s. They're more commonly known as the Indian Reservations. |
| 157 | * ThePratfall: Shows up in vaudeville and music hall theater. |
| 158 | * PrincessClassic: Supposedly Victorian, and already deconstructed by Creator/MarkTwain in ''Literature/AConnecticutYankeeInKingArthursCourt'' (1889). |
| 159 | * RaceAgainstTheClock: ''Literature/AroundTheWorldInEightyDays'', 1872 |
| 160 | * RamblingOldManMonologue: ''Literature/TheRimeOfTheAncientMariner'' by Creator/SamuelTaylorColeridge, 1798 |
| 161 | * RashomonStyle: ''Literature/ThePrivateMemoirsAndConfessionsOfAJustifiedSinner'', by James Hogg, 1824 |
| 162 | * RearWindowInvestigation: Creator/JaneAusten's ''Literature/NorthangerAbbey''. |
| 163 | * ReportsOfMyDeathWereGreatlyExaggerated: Creator/MarkTwain said similar words when he was mistakenly declared dead in the 1880s. He also wrote such a situation into ''The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn''. |
| 164 | * RightOnTheTick: ''Literature/AChristmasCarol'', 1843 |
| 165 | * RiverOfInsanity: "[[http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/David_Livingstone Doctor Livingston, I presume?]]" |
| 166 | * RoboticReveal: ''Literature/TheSandman1816'' by E.T.A. Hoffmann, 1816 |
| 167 | * RodentCellmates: Already ParodiedTrope in ''Literature/AdventuresOfHuckleberryFinn'', 1884 |
| 168 | * RomanticRain: Jane Austen's LemonyNarrator pokes fun on it in ''Literature/{{Emma}}''. |
| 169 | * RuinsOfTheModernAge: "Ozymandias" by Horace Smith, 1818 |
| 170 | * SalvagePirates: ''Literature/RobinsonCrusoe'', 1719 |
| 171 | * SaveTheVillain: ''Literature/TheWomanInWhite'' Creator/WilkieCollins, 1859 |
| 172 | * ScienceIsUseless: The legend of John Henry from the mid-19th century: man with sledgehammers digs a tunnel faster than a steam-powered drilling rig and dies. |
| 173 | * ScoobyDooHoax: ''Literature/TheLegendOfSleepyHollow'' Creator/WashingtonIrving, 1820 |
| 174 | * ScrapbookStory: Goes back at least to ''Tomcat Murr'' by Creator/ETAHoffmann (1819); as the EpistolaryNovel it is OlderThanSteam. |
| 175 | * SeadogPegLeg: See the pirates trope above. |
| 176 | * SeductionAsOneUpmanship: The opera ''Theatre/CosiFanTutte'' by Music/WolfgangAmadeusMozart involves [[TheBet a bet]] between two rivals on trying to seduce the other's fiancee. |
| 177 | * SendInTheSearchTeam: ''How I Found Livingstone'' by Henry Morton Stanley, 1871 |
| 178 | * SingleMomStripper: ''Literature/LesMiserables'', Creator/VictorHugo, 1862 |
| 179 | * TheShutIn: ''Literature/{{GreatExpectations}}'' by Charles Dickens, 1860-1861 |
| 180 | * SoMuchForStealth: ''Literature/TheLeatherstockingTales'' by James Fenimore Cooper, 1820s, possibly older. |
| 181 | * SoupOfPoverty: ''Literature/OliverTwist'', 1837 |
| 182 | * SpeculativeBiology: In ''On the Origin of Species'', Charles Darwin theorizes that given time bears might become more adapted to aquatic environments and evolve into whale-like animals. |
| 183 | * SplitPersonality: In ''Literature/TheStrangeCaseOfDrJekyllAndMrHyde'' (1886) by Robert Louis Stevenson, the reputable Dr Jekyll creates a potion that transforms him into the criminal brute Edward Hyde, a manifestation of the bad side of Jekyll's character. Also a possible interpretation of ''Literature/ThePrivateMemoirsAndConfessionsOfAJustifiedSinner'' (1824) by James Hogg, in which the protagonist is encouraged to commit crimes by the mysterious Gil-Martin, who may or may not be a figment of his own imagination. |
| 184 | * StockYuck (Inedible Christmas Fruitcakes): "Miss Fogarty's Christmas Cake," 1883 |
| 185 | * StringyHairedGhostGirl: "[[http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Ghost_of_Oyuki The Ghost of Oyuki]]," c. 1750 |
| 186 | * SuperPoweredRobotMeterMaids: ''Frankenstein'', 1816 |
| 187 | * SympatheticMurderer: The monster in ''Frankenstein'' when killing his creator. |
| 188 | * TextbookHumor: Johnson's ''Dictionary'' (1755) has entries such as "Lexicographer: a writer of dictionaries; a harmless drudge that busies himself in tracing the original and detailing the signification of words." |
| 189 | * ThereIsNoHigherCourt: In ''Literature/TheThreeMusketeers'', Milady de Winter claims her convict's brand of a fleur-de-lis was done by the Duke of Buckingham to frame her as a criminal under French law for refusing his sexual advances (she was actually branded in France for theft). If the brand had been a British mark, she could have appealed it to any court in the land, but there is no appeal under French law. |
| 190 | * TomatoInTheMirror: "William Wilson" by Creator/EdgarAllanPoe, 1839 |
| 191 | * TomboyishName: Josephine "Jo" March of ''Literature/LittleWomen'', 1868, by Louisa May Alcott |
| 192 | * TownWithADarkSecret: ''Germelshausen'', 1800s, by Friedrich Gerstäcker, source for ''Brigadoon''. |
| 193 | * TrappedInThePast: ''A Connecticut Yankee in King Arthur's Court,'' 1889 |
| 194 | * TrueLovesKiss: Creator/TheBrothersGrimm version of "[[http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_True_Bride The True Bride]]" -- but ''not'' the original versions of "Snow White," "Sleeping Beauty," or "Frog Prince." |
| 195 | * {{Ubermensch}}: ''Literature/CrimeAndPunishment'', Fyodor Dostoevsky, 1866 |
| 196 | * UglyAmericanStereotype: ''Literature/TheInnocentsAbroad'', Creator/MarkTwain, 1869 |
| 197 | * UnconventionalFormatting: ''Literature/TristramShandy'', 1767 |
| 198 | * VampiresAreSexGods: "Literature/TheVampyre'', J. William Polidori, 1819 |
| 199 | * VictoriasSecretCompartment: The opera ''Theatre/DieFledermaus'' by Johann Strauss II, 1871 |
| 200 | * WackyCravings: This happens in the European fairy tales "[[http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rapunzel Rapunzel]]" and "[[http://www.surlalunefairytales.com/rapunzel/stories/petros.html Petrosinella]]," both first recorded during the early 19th century. |
| 201 | * WalkThePlank: Francis Grose's ''Literature/DictionaryOfTheVulgarTongue'', 1788 |
| 202 | * TheWallsAreClosingIn: ''Literature/ThePitAndThePendulum'' by Creator/EdgarAllanPoe, 1842 |
| 203 | * TheWildWest |
| 204 | ** DawnOfTheWildWest |
| 205 | ** TheWestern |
| 206 | * TheWatson: Watson's portrayal as this goes back to ''Literature/AStudyInScarlet'' by Arthur Conan Doyle, 1887 |
| 207 | * WithThisHerring: "Literature/TheBraveLittleTailor," a European folktale collected by Creator/TheBrothersGrimm. |
| 208 | * WhenIWasYourAge: Typical in societies when a culture changes as a result of new technology, enough to result in a [[TheGenerationGap Generation Gap]] like the one from the UsefulNotes/IndustrialRevolution, in contrast with the gradually shifting {{Generation Xerox}}s that came before. |
| 209 | * WorkingOnTheChainGang: ''Literature/LesMiserables'', 1862 |
| 210 | * WrongGuyFirst: Jane Austen's writing, or earlier. |
| 211 | * YearX: ''Literature/{{Frankenstein}}'' by Mary Shelley, 1818. Later ''Literature/TreasureIsland'' by Robert Lewis Stevenson, 1883. Incidentally, both are set in "17--". |
| 212 | * YourCostumeNeedsWork: "Literature/TheMasqueOfTheRedDeath" by Edgar Allan Poe, 1842 |
| 213 | * ZillionDollarBill: TheSampo in ''Literature/TheKalevala''. |
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