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even going way back people worried about kids reading to many "trashy" novels - of course those novels are now part of the englit cannon
by C1sc0cat 8y ago
even going way back people worried about kids reading to many "trashy" novels - of course those novels are now part of the englit cannon
- goldcd 8y agoYep - fiction wasn't what books were for. Books were for men to exchange serious knowledge. Start of the 19th century we had Austen knocking out chick lit, Shelley on a Euro-bender knocking out horror, then Dickens serialized gubbins selling pamphlets on the street etc etc