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Reading a novel after reading semiotic theory was like jogging empty-handed after jogging with hand weights. What exquisite guilt she felt, wickedly enjoying narrative! Madeleine felt safe with a nineteenth century novel. There were going to be people in it. Something was going to happen to them in a place resembling the world. Then too there were lots of weddings in Wharton and Austen. There were all kinds of irresistible gloomy men.
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reading
nineteenth-century
victorians
semiotics
narrative
plot
novels
literary-theory
postmodernism
literary-criticism
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Jeffrey Eugenides |
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"You were right the first time, Cathy. It was a stupid, silly story. Ridiculous! Only insane people would die for the sake of love. I'll bet you a hundred to one a woman wrote that junky romantic trash!" Just a minute ago I'd despised that author for bringing about such a miserable ending, then there I went, rushing to the defense. "T. M. Ellis could very well have been a man! Though I doubt any woman writer in the nineteenth century had much chance of being published, unless she used her initials, or a man's name. And why is it all men think everything a woman writes is trivial or trashy-or just plain silly drivel? Don't men have romantic notions? Don't men dream of finding the perfect love? And it seems to me, that Raymond was far more mushy-minded than Lily!"
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romantic
love
dying-for-love
romance-novels-books
romantic-notions
unhappy-endings
initials
publishing
nineteenth-century
silliness
women-authors
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V.C. Andrews |
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"The nineteenth century was the Age of Romanticism; for the first time in history, man stopped thinking of himself as an animal or a slave, and saw himself as a potential god. All of the cries of revolt against 'God' - De Sade, Byron's "Manfred", Schiller's "Robbers", Goethe's "Faust", Hoffmann's mad geniuses - are expressions of this new spirit. Is this why the 'spirits' decided to make a planned and consistent effort at 'communication'? It was the right moment. Man was beginning to understand himself."
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man
spirit
nineteenth-century
romanticism
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Colin Wilson |
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She...wanted no one--apart from men in nineteenth-century novels, which put a whole new spin on the idea of 'unattainable.
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nineteenth-century
unattainable
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Kate Atkinson |
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She could have happily lived inside any nineteenth century novel.
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reading
nineteenth-century
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Kate Atkinson |