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dangermousieHas anyone on my flist read Tanith Lee? Is she worth checking out? I saw something by her cross-referenced somewhere and it looked interesting, but I wanted some opinions...
Oh, and if you will read only one 18th century English novel in your life, you have to read Henry Fielding's Shamela. It's a parody of Samuel Richardson's Pamela which was a sentimental, bizarre, runaway bestseller about a worthy servant girl who wins the hand of her master in marriage by being super pure and resisting his lustful advances after he kidnaps her and repeatedly attempts to rape her. She thwarts it by suicide attempts and repeated fainting. Also, there is a breast obsession going on. Anyway, even though I got an extra kick because I read Pamela, Shamela is a great read in its own right, as it mocks the whole sanctimonious, full of virtuous sentiment yet chock-stuffed with titillating detail school of writing which Richardson might well have pioneered but which has reigned supreme even in our day with bad romance novels. Check it out.
And while I am on recs, I am really sad Oscar Wilde plays all got filmed at one time or another, but no one has had the thought to film any Congreve. He is so funny and clever and just think of the potential for costume Oscars for those gorgeous Restoration frocks. Booooo.
Oh, and if you will read only one 18th century English novel in your life, you have to read Henry Fielding's Shamela. It's a parody of Samuel Richardson's Pamela which was a sentimental, bizarre, runaway bestseller about a worthy servant girl who wins the hand of her master in marriage by being super pure and resisting his lustful advances after he kidnaps her and repeatedly attempts to rape her. She thwarts it by suicide attempts and repeated fainting. Also, there is a breast obsession going on. Anyway, even though I got an extra kick because I read Pamela, Shamela is a great read in its own right, as it mocks the whole sanctimonious, full of virtuous sentiment yet chock-stuffed with titillating detail school of writing which Richardson might well have pioneered but which has reigned supreme even in our day with bad romance novels. Check it out.
And while I am on recs, I am really sad Oscar Wilde plays all got filmed at one time or another, but no one has had the thought to film any Congreve. He is so funny and clever and just think of the potential for costume Oscars for those gorgeous Restoration frocks. Booooo.
