History Main / GenteelInterbellumSetting

[[caption-width-right:350: Party like it's 1929]]

* ''{{Literature/Madeline}}'' and to a lesser degree the first book of ''{{Literature/Babar}}'' take place in a particularly GayParee-flavoured version of this trope. Note that the former was published in the very tail-end of this period, in [[UsefulNotes/WorldWarII 1939]].

* Most of Creator/HPLovecraft's stories take place in this time period, appropriately enough as it covers the span of his litterary career and far preferred Ye Olde Anglo-Saxon way of life to the hustle and bustle of contemporary urban America; as the setting is LovecraftCountry, it remains credible.

* ''Literature/TheSecretsOfDrearcliffGrangeSchool'' is set at an all-girls boarding school in England at some unspecified point in the 1920s. Aftereffects of World War I come up at several points, and the epilogue chapter has the main characters meeting again as adults during World War II.

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* ''TabletopGame/{{Clue}}'' / ''Cluedo''

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* {{Literature/Madeline}} and to a lesser degree the first book of {{Literature/Babar}} take place in a particularly GayParee-flavoured version of this trope. Note that the former was published in the very tail-end of this period, in [[{{UsefulNotes/WorldWarII}} 1939]].

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* ''Series/UpstairsDownstairs'' and its lookalike ''TheDuchessOfDukeStreet'', for the most part, though both actually run from about 1900 to 1930.

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* ''[[ComicStrip/RupertBear Rupert]]'' (which actually began in 1920) and other British children's NewspaperComics.

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In GenteelInterbellumSetting and ChandlerAmericanTime the time from 1918-1941 is usually ''[[YeGoodeOldeDays idealized]]'', while in DieselPunk it is the opposite, often containing critical deconstruction of the values of those times.

* Creator/JoWalton's AlternateHistory ''Literature/SmallChange'' trilogy takes place in an extended GenteelInterbellumSetting: Britain's fascist-sympathetic government stays out of WWII, while one main character is a homicide detective whose investigations drag him deeper and deeper into a conspiracy trying to keep it that way.

** The [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=190C8rRKe3w opening titles]] are practically the GenteelInterbellumSetting incarnate.
* ''Series/{{Poirot}}''. Like the above, the early seasons also had [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ywMg-XOxGYc opening titles]] which were essentially pure distilled GenteelInterbellumSetting, although in being on the "murder mystery" side of the spectrum rather than the "wacky romantic misunderstandings" end they're a bit DarkerAndEdgier.

** Christie's final novel ''Curtain'' actually does provide a timeframe for her stories (or at least the ones about Poirot, though this would probably drag a lot of others into the mix as well by proxy due to overlapping characters), placing them in the period of the early 1920s through the early 1940s. This may not always be consistent with the details of all of her stories but at least it's established.

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* ''VideoGame/TheLastExpress'' is set in 1914, just before WWI, is filled to the brim with Art Nouveau and is about [[ThrillerOnTheExpress a murder on the Orient Express]].

* "Literature/DeadStars" (1925), by the Filipino author Paz Marquez Benitez, is implied to be contemporarily set in the 1920s American Philippines, but in the Filipino context "interbellum" doesn't so much count back to WWI, but instead to the Philippine-American War, the same war that allowed U.S. colonialists to occupy the fledgling first Philippine republic.

* ''Literature/TheFountainhead'', by ''Creator/AynRand'', is supposed to be set in a generic, strangely historically-detached version of TheRoaringTwenties where jazz, flappers, and Prohibition curiously go unmentioned.

* ''Series/DowntonAbbey'' moves into this period starting in Series 3. Series 1 being firmly [[TheEdwardianEra Edwardian]] and the first six episodes of Series Two being set during UsefulNotes/WorldWarI.

* ''Series/DowntonAbbey'' moves into this period starting in Series 3, Series 1 being firmly [[TheEdwardianEra Edwardian]] and the first six episodes of Series Two being set during UsefulNotes/WorldWarI.

* ''Series/DowntonAbbey'' moves into this period starting in Episode 7 of Series 2, Series 1 being firmly [[TheEdwardianEra Edwardian]] and the first six episodes of Series Two being set during UsefulNotes/WorldWarI.

* Theatre/LendMeATenor

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* Erich Kästner's comedy ''Drei Männer im Schnee'' (''Three Men in the Snow''), including snooty servants, big cars, and a [[FourthDateMarriage second date engagement]].

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* RichardLockridge's husband and wife detectives, MrAndMrsNorth.

* ThePhantomDetective provides a pulp-hero version of the genteel detective.

* A few ''{{Biggles}}'' books set during his "freelance Gentleman Adventurer" period before his MandatoryUnretirement to fight the Nazis take place in this setting, most notably ''Biggles and Co'', which was basically a standard issue detective story with added SkyPirates.

* Most of Nancy Mitford's body of work, but especially ''Literature/ThePursuitOfLove'' and "Love in a Cold Climate". The various TV adaptations fall under this heading as well.