are there any novels written by women that aren't centered around romance/sex?
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are there any novels written by women that aren't centered around romance/sex?
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Harry Potter.
All the relationships are garbage afterthoughts.
She just sits there and everything works out for her. At one point she goes on a 3 mile walk and this event is so strenuous that she has to lay around a rich man's house for weeks.
Jane is the one who is sick for weeks speed-reader kun, Elizabeth is there to watch for her
Using Pride and Prejudice for this example is misleading. You're framing the question as if these aren't of immense importance to the female sphere in the time depicted. Same with Middlemarch. This was woman's arena and their success, honor, and quality of life depended on it. Of course it's going to be central to the subject matter of what they write. It's nothing like contemporary fluff booktok romance, it's life and death. I think the Aubrey/Maturin series understands this even for how masculine it is. Patrick O'Brian was a big Austen fan, and it really comes through in his earlier books. You have the one sphere of life, the military, where 14 year Olds are being bisected by cannonballs, and the social sphere of courting, and they're treated as equally important and life changing.
He liked her because he was powerful and tired of yes-men and -women sucking up to him trying to get a piece of his money. Pretty well-established trope, really.
What it says about a woman's role more generally is pretty interesting - it's absolutely *not* purely liberal or egalitarian, but it's also saying that the woman's personality matters somewhat beyond just the usual beauty, grace and chastity. It's hard to give an exact description of the quality Austen is extolling, because she clearly thinks both Lizzie and Jane have it, and they're pretty different. I suppose it's a combination of things: social judgment and taste balanced by magnanimity. It's a sort of social-aesthetic ideal, that of the well-managed society household where witty conversation thrives and exhibits a healthy balance of liveliness and politeness. Much of its purpose is decorative but we see the dangers to which the social world is subject: Wickham is the boogeyman threatening to steal away daughters, and the judgment of the woman in charge of the household is the bulwark against him, both in terms of how she raises her daughters and how she curates the social environment of her household to exclude interlopers.
Well said.
Atlas Shrugged
Frankenstein
are there any novels written by men that aren't centered around violence?
Winnie the Pooh
Makes me violent. Next.
This question is sort of disingenuous. There are plenty of books written by women which are not centered around romance/sex, but where romance/sex still figures in the work in some way. I wouldn't want to read any book which doesn't address those topics anyway.
Zadie is such a hot name
Memoirs of Hadrian
(And no I'm not butters)
We Have Always Lived in the Castle