>/lit/ hates Jane Austen >/lit/ hates Charles Dickens >/lit/

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>>8979873

We don't actually read Bloom and look up to him. We just meme around with him a lot.

you can appreciate the spirit of his criticism without believing everything he says. it is hard to say that there could be right or wrong in lit crit particulars but there is a right direction overall, which is what Bloom stands for.

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>>8979873
>reading anything by British "authors"

The novel is a French/American form.

>>8979873
first of all. /lit/ is not a hivemind.

There are plenty of people here that like Jane Austen and Dickens.

Second. Harold Bloom is liked because he has strong opinions and seems to troll contemporary popular tastes a lot. Most people memeing bloom's opinions around probably barely understand Shakespeare if at all.

>>8979927
>American
lol

>>8979927
>American

Didn't even know Americans could read.

>>8980888
>>8980892
Christ you Brits are anal. Come back to me when you've written a passably good novel, the last time you tried was Tristram Shandy.

>>8980911
>Referring to nations as "you"
Go back to /int/

>>8979873
Well I liked DICKens when I was 14
But Austen is pure autism

>>8979873
we don't, he just generates easy discusion in academia and /lit/

>>8979927
this guy gets it

>>8979927
Truth.

Brits haven't done much since Shakespeare (he was Catholic, so he barely qualifies as British). Milton is pure garbage. Lycidas is decent but he plagiarized some of the best lines.

You have to be a really boring person to read British novels.

Kek, itt Americans trying to convince themselves that their authors are the ultimate beings.

>>8979873
because Jane Austen is a terrible writer
Dickens is great so i dont know why /lit/ hates him, probably because his works are a little socialist

>>8979927
>>8980940
>not reading literature due to its geographical location
Wow imagine being such a close minded faggot

>>8981021
>Not understanding that discrete geographical locations called "states" are internally linked by shared governance and all that comes with it, including cultural homogeneity, economic welfare, education, and common language, therefore creating literary tendencies more similar internally than to those in other discrete geographic locations

>scooby doo where are you