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Are there any good romance novels? Bonus points if they're by women.

>> No.11772377

>by women
Trash taste

>> No.11772379

The Divine Comedy

>> No.11772391

>>11772130
>Are there any good romance novels?
Yes.

>Bonus points if they're by women.
No.

>> No.11772417

>>11772130
is she about to get fucked?

>> No.11772650

>>11772130
The Romance of the Forest - Radcliffe
Evelina - Burney
Love in Excess - Hazewood
The Female Quixote - Lennox

These are classics of the genre. In addition to romance, they all have their own things going on (Radcliffe employs gothic imagery/settings, Burney uses the epistolary format, Lennox uses parody similar to Cervantes).

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>>11772130
>by women.

>> No.11772674

>>11772660
There are many great works of literature written by women

>> No.11772677

>>11772674
literally only Wuthering Heights and Flannery O'Connor's collections

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>>11772674
that's rich
quite the joker, aren't you, OP?

>> No.11773124

Christ everyone in this thread is a pleb.
>>11772130
Pride and Prejudice

>> No.11773346

>>11772677
Woolf Wharton Austen Atwood

>> No.11773888

>>11773124
Mansfield Park is better tho.

>> No.11773955

>>11772130
>Bonus points if they're about women.
fixed your typo, no need to thank me mate

>> No.11773970

>>11773346
>Woolf
Perhaps
>Wharton
Haven't read
>Austen
Good, not great
>Atwood
Are you fucking havin' a laugh m8

>> No.11773991

>>11772130
Sweet Ermengarde.

>> No.11774020

>>11772130
>Are there any friendship between a man and a woman that doesn't end in romance?

>> No.11774038

Are literary works by women really that bad compared to men?

>> No.11774063

>>11774038
no, it's mostly just memers. people who genuinely believe all women are shit writers tend to be insecure themselves, they must pride themselves on the fact that they were born with innate talent. even if they're a really shitty writer, they can comfort themselves in the belief that their maleness allows them to be better than any woman, despite lacking any evidence that proves their worth.

>> No.11774077

>>11773346
I agree with you for the most part, but I dislike Atwood after only having read the Handmaid’s meme. Should I read other stuff by her? Is it better? I really didn’t like HT

>> No.11774081

Nightwood by Djuna Barnes

>> No.11774098

>>11774038
There is good literature by women, i think people have in their minds the massive collection of absolute garbage that women write, romance, ya, im not even up on the categories anymore. Men write that stuff too of course, but when people think of male literature they tend to think of the western canon, which is largely male.

I think jt's a bit like sports actually. There are some women that are genuinely really good at at sports, but when you think of women's sports and men's sports, the distinction is pretty clear. Since writing literature is not physical, it is different, but in practice that seems to be how things have happened, if less dramatically, ie. some people think Dickinson is the best American poet of both sexes, but nobody thinks any woman is the best hockey player.

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>>11774038
The male population just has a higher distribution of what you might call "geniuses", or people who excel in their field. Its not that women aren't good writers, its that good writer's who are women are rarer than their male counterparts.
Most people from either gender are braindead proles anyways.

>> No.11774131

>>11772130
Read "A good man is hard to find" by flannery O'connor. It's a great romance short story. Very sweet and comfy.

>> No.11774391

what are good feminine romance novels set in a calm pastoral town, ideally with not much conflict

>> No.11774448

>>11774391
That sounds very boring.
Nothing worthwhile comes easy, any good mate is going to have suitors from all angles gunning for them.
I reckon a satisfying romance, or story in general, has to have at least a conflict of interests.

Two people just agreeing all the time and being comfy isn't really an event to write a story about.

Rule of thumb for writing satisfying fiction is; is this the most interesting part of this character's life? If not, why aren't I writing about that?

>> No.11774518

>>11774448
yes, precisely, it would be quiet. whether that makes it boring or not is up to the reader. a quick example as to what i'm referring to thematically would be the film brooklyn, were 2/3 of it are just pleasant scenes of a boy/girl story.
>two people just agreeing all the time and being comfy
well that's an extreme case of what i propose, but, yes, like that. indeed it would be difficult to make a story without conflict, if even possible, but surely it's not too out there formally? to my knowledge it's been done in music (ambient), and film (akerman, benning).

but to the fair i'm up for any type of romance novel that strikes my interest. don't think i've ever read one to begin with, so i'm just coming up with a description of what i imagine i'd like. i've thought about picking up something by jane austen because i like whit stillman and he bases a lot of his work on her, but i'm not sure how sold i am on the "classical" aspect of it. alternatively something nyc like annie hall would be nice.

i don't know where to look for these though, if i google it it's just gonna be a bunch of goodreads-tier kind of bestsellers.

>> No.11774526

>>11773346
>Atwood

>> No.11774583

Nobody’s mentioned George Eliot, but idk if she’s romance. Where to start with her? I know middlemarch is her most famous but I don’t want to be 600 pages into a novel and realize I don’t like her writing...

>>11774131
Is that the Bible salesman one?

>> No.11774880

>>11774518
I am all in favour of comfy romance book.

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>>11772674
tell us more. I'm listening. feel free to give us some examples.

>> No.11775358

>>11773346
j.k. Rowlingstone, /thread/

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>>11772674
This is going to be reposted in future lit comedy threads.