The traditional values of which you speak make up a huge, gigantic part of literature. Agatha Christie, as one very small example. Popular literature is all about escaping reality, and what better way to do it than to read "Murder on the Orient Express" or "The Inimitable Jeeves" or "Farthest North"?

There's nothing like sitting on the train home after a day of wage slavery in your cubicle, studying the antics of rich people.