I always thought that Jane Austen despite the fact that her name has become synonymous with Romance, is in reality very anti-romantic. The prose has ironic detachment instead of heated passion. She has little use for love at first sight. Her characters decide upon their mates by reason instead of emotion. So I think its weird that the list doesn't include her.
A.S. Byatt's Possession is, indeed, a very romantic (and sexy) novel, but of the others on the list that I've read few really are romances, although they might touch on love or sex in rather non-romantic ways. Personally if I want to read a bodice-ripper, I'll read a bodice-ripper.
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I always thought that Jane Austen despite the fact that her name has become synonymous with Romance, is in reality very anti-romantic. The prose has ironic detachment instead of heated passion. She has little use for love at first sight. Her characters decide upon their mates by reason instead of emotion. So I think its weird that the list doesn't include her.
Probably left of because, as you say, her name is synonymous with romance, whether it's true or not.
Yeah probably.
A.S. Byatt's Possession is, indeed, a very romantic (and sexy) novel, but of the others on the list that I've read few really are romances, although they might touch on love or sex in rather non-romantic ways. Personally if I want to read a bodice-ripper, I'll read a bodice-ripper.
A very sensible attitude.
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