/lit/ - Literature

>>12239107

>>12112909
>Brontë sisters

>>10937558
Plenty of room for improvement

>>10461696

What does /lit/ think of the Bronte's?

>>7881063

I think you're taking Emily Bronte's flaws a bit too personally. Yes, she was nuts; no, Heathcliffe is not an ideal guy. Yes, it's a commonly recognised trend that some women are attracted to abusive men; no, let's not extrapolate that into some kind of sweeping 'what the fuck are women's problems' anger as if plenty of men don't make poor romantic choices too.

You have to read this novel as a product of its time. It exalts passion and personal integrity above all else, and especially above the very Victorian virtues of decent, mannerly conduct and conventional bourgeois morality (as exemplified to one degree or another by Edgar and Lockwood). In that sense, it's quite radical. You don't have to agree with it or approve of its conclusions to appreciate the breath of fresh air that it represents compared to, for instance, Jane Eyre.

It's also up there as one of the greatest evocations of a landscape and atmosphere in literature.

tl;dr forget any 'Catherine Heathcliffe OTP greatest love story ever' nonsense that you may have been exposed to by your teacher or anybody else, and appreciate the book for what it is, which is an intense insight into a disturbed but creatively gifted mind.

>>6148841

>>3948974
Oh god who makes these comics anyway?

I like Kate Beaton's stuff

Kate Beaton applies

what are some humorous places for people interested in literature to check out, besides here and "Hark! a Vagrant!" ?

Just finished Effi Briest, and I've got to ask.

These novels, these countless dry cookie-cutter novels about Victorian and Edwardian upper-class assholes and their problems...

Why the actual fuck are they regarded so highly? Maybe there's something I'm missing, and maybe my love of postmodernism is coloring my perspective, but from where I'm standing they're almost invariably dull as shit and nigh-indistinguishable from each other.

Austen and the Brontes can stay, though.

Are any of the Bronte sisters worth reading, /lit/?

I've heard Anne is decent, but what do you guys think?

No, it's Kate Beaton !

EMILY BRONTE. I remember now, I think that was the author I couldn't fucking stand.

Jesus christ it was so terrible. FUCK Wuthering Heights.