I think Victorian Lit is like cilantro: you have to be born with a taste for it.
I actually have problems with lots of earlier Victorian lit, from the 1840s and 1850s (excluding things like Jane Eyre, to which I am devoted): they just seem ponderous to me.
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Date: 2011-04-18 03:17 pm (UTC)I actually have problems with lots of earlier Victorian lit, from the 1840s and 1850s (excluding things like Jane Eyre, to which I am devoted): they just seem ponderous to me.