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Why does /lit/ hate victorian literature so much? Especially the works of the bronte sisters and Jane Austen?

Actually, why does /lit/ hate women writers in general? The only woman /lit/ respects are Flann O' Connor and George Eliot.

>> No.12567495
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>>12567488
Lurk more. /lit/ has always liked Jane Austen.

>> No.12567524

>victorian
>austen

>> No.12567644

>>12567524
This, Austen was very popular during the Victorian Period but she actually predates it, she was writing at the same time the Romantic poets were.

>> No.12567657

/r9k/ leaks onto other boards, including this one

>> No.12567669

>>12567657
If I had two buttons in front of me, and one of them would allow me to delete /pol/, and the other one allowed me to delete /r9k/, and I could only press one of them, I'm honestly not sure which one I would pick.

>> No.12567712

>>12567669
I would shoot you twice
...what?

>> No.12567906

>>12567669
must be /pol/

>> No.12568667

>>12567669
At this point I would pick /r9k/

>> No.12570109

>>12567488
No I also respect Mary Shelley

>> No.12570181

>>12567488
Wuthering Heights is way better than Jane Eyre, but I haven’t read any of Anne’s books yet.

>> No.12570227

>>12567495
kys

Austen is only readable if you want to take in the consideration historical aspects. Anything else about her is pure depraved marry barry shit.

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Life is too short to read those cunts.

>> No.12571295

>>12570227
Get thee back to R E D D I T.

>> No.12571318

Victorian Britain was the cringiest era in the world

>> No.12571403

>>12567488
Because most /lit/izens don't have the cognitive framework necessary to read something as masterfully engineered as Portrait of a Lady. Seriously, no one ever wants to discuss the english novel, and when they do it's literally just to talk about how boring it is. These are also probably the people who start with (and then never move on from) the greeks, thinking they're cultured and well-read when really they've fallen at the first hurdle.

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>>12571318
Based

Renaissance is a close second though.

>> No.12571462

> No get sex - must be because of women
> No get sex - must be because of society's ethos
> No get sex - find lit to confirm my pre-existing biases

Based Wharton tho

>> No.12571471

>>12571403
Even worse, there just isn't enough pseud cred to make reading Victorian literature worthwhile. With the Russians, Greeks, postmodernist tomes, you can wallow in feeling superior, and secretly hope people see what you're reading and be impressed and intimidated, and possibly even attracted. You can't really do that with Jane Eyre

>> No.12571537

>>12567669
same thing

>> No.12571604

>>12571403
>>12571471
shut the fuck up ANGLO