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A review by s_gork
The Darcy Myth: Jane Austen, Literary Heartthrobs, and the Monsters They Taught Us to Love by Rachel Feder
funny
informative
slow-paced
3.5
“I recognize that both romance and the Gothic are easy to dismiss because they are easily coded as feminine. And Jane Austen taught me to that shit seriously.”
First and foremost I loved the tone of this book. It was funny and relatable and the real life references to other works from Beauty and Beast to Sabrina Carpenter made all the author’s points so easy to relate to.
It was fun to take a cheeky look at how women’s literature has always been dismissed and looked down upon but how that same literature has immense cultural staying power and how it shapes our lives.
The line between hero and villain is thinner than you think.
First and foremost I loved the tone of this book. It was funny and relatable and the real life references to other works from Beauty and Beast to Sabrina Carpenter made all the author’s points so easy to relate to.
It was fun to take a cheeky look at how women’s literature has always been dismissed and looked down upon but how that same literature has immense cultural staying power and how it shapes our lives.
The line between hero and villain is thinner than you think.