tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7577267431647220035.post3181328832899709632..comments2023-10-12T07:10:11.188-07:00Comments on The Golden Notebooks: On Men Writing On Women Prof. T.http://www.blogger.com/profile/00284898866409356025noreply@blogger.comBlogger2125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7577267431647220035.post-34356261287245957612014-07-30T12:33:37.335-07:002014-07-30T12:33:37.335-07:00Hi Jacob - An interesting question! I think so - n...Hi Jacob - An interesting question! I think so - not necessarily because they were more evolved per say but because some of the great themes of 19th century literature - social constraint, the oppressions of marriage, the stakes of adultery - lent themselves to complex portraits of women and led male writers to identify with female protagonists who suffered under these constraints. The evolution of the novel through modernism and since has been such that these concerns have come to be seen as lesser, as of interest to the middlebrow - probably something similar has happened with movies, from the great "women's pictures" and melodrama to most of what we have now .. .Prof. T.https://www.blogger.com/profile/00284898866409356025noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7577267431647220035.post-18150157260995852572014-07-24T10:02:55.204-07:002014-07-24T10:02:55.204-07:00Do you think 19th century male writers were just b...Do you think 19th century male writers were just better at this? Anna Karenina and Becky Sharp and Emma Bovary are probably fully realized than any male characters Tolstoy or Thackeray or Flaubert wrote...Jacob H.https://www.blogger.com/profile/02781850720023072132noreply@blogger.com