Eleanor Catton has just won the 2013 Booker prize with what the Guardian terms an ‘innovative Victorian thriller’ (if that’s not a contradiction in terms). Catton is quoted as saying that her novel The Luminaries was ‘very strongly influenced by long-form box-set TV drama … at last the novel has found its on-screen equivalent’. But what does it mean to be influenced by box-set TV drama?Just a matter of length? Or is there more to it? Something non-Victorian?
The novel and the box-set: Eleanor Catton’s The Luminaries
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UCL’s take on the subject – http://www.ucl.ac.uk/ah/figs/figs-events-publication/tv-seminars – is getting attention: http://www.theguardian.com/culture/2013/nov/05/digital-distractions-attention-spans-tv-series