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Originally Posted by Brianna
Dracula. last fookin' book by a 19th C brit I shall ever, Ever, EVER read.
I hate 19th C. British literature - all of it. ALL OF IT! DO YOU HEAR? IT ALL SUCKS!!!
I hate it from Coleridge to Austen, from Wordsworth (the candy ass) to Disraeli, from Darwin to Collins, Bronte (Charlotte) to Bronte (Emily) to Bronte (Anne) To Byron To Shelley!!! I've hated them all -
except Keats. I liked Keats.
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I am not a fan of 19th C literature (Brit or American) on the whole. Never been able to get into the Brontes at all. Byron and Shelley leave me a little cold mostly. I do like some Coleridge, but mainly that's just Kubla Khan. Dracula I quite liked: but if I had to study it I'd hate it. I read it as a kid, at night, when the rest of the house was sleeping :P No need to worry about subtext or cultural indicators when you're ten. Got the same kind of kick from that as from reading Lovecraft or Edgar Allen Poe.
The only two 19th C authors I can truly say I love ( beyond historical interest which is something else entirely) are Charles Dickens and Sir Arthur Conan Doyle. I've read pretty much everything those authors ever wrote.