tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5022318990784415929.post8435020145348358056..comments2023-10-20T11:17:47.246-04:00Comments on Two Nerdy History Girls: "Moral Poison": The Evils of Reading Novels, 1864Unknownnoreply@blogger.comBlogger4125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5022318990784415929.post-22898439673641208332018-09-23T16:06:43.269-04:002018-09-23T16:06:43.269-04:00Even Louisa May Alcott, writer of novels, criticiz...Even Louisa May Alcott, writer of novels, criticizes the reading of certain types of novels... French romance novels are too racy, popular adventure novels corrupt boys...and she wrote sensational romance novels to make money! "Eight Cousins", "Rose in Bloom", and "An Old-fashioned Girl" are some of her especially moralizing stories that critique novels of certain types.Annahttps://www.blogger.com/profile/10479587232733503096noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5022318990784415929.post-64671771077704384432018-09-20T11:17:59.338-04:002018-09-20T11:17:59.338-04:00What a killjoy. There is always someone who is so ...What a killjoy. There is always someone who is so personally locked down that they cannot bear it if another human enjoys himself. He must have been a barrel of laughs to his friends. He had a shriveled soul. Imagine going to church every Sunday to listen to that sourpuss. How depressing. I bet he got moved around a lot because he could shrink a flock like nobody's business. Cynthia Lamberthttps://www.blogger.com/profile/16611234458613584346noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5022318990784415929.post-22539230447216889532018-09-20T08:09:15.641-04:002018-09-20T08:09:15.641-04:00The good Pastor has it wrong. Novels don't lea...The good Pastor has it wrong. Novels don't lead to insanity but has kept a great many from it. Reading has saved my sanity many times as a single mother of 3 teens. <br />As to suicides-- that was passee. After the Sorrows of Werther came out in late 18th century, several young men committed suicide like Werther Most readers don't go that far. I think that preacher has been reading the HEROINE.<br />Regencyresearcherhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/10828749339318882968noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5022318990784415929.post-41936790871795991292018-09-20T07:38:31.664-04:002018-09-20T07:38:31.664-04:00"Pastor Jottings" was evidently as inure..."Pastor Jottings" was evidently as inured to the irony of Jane Austen's Northanger Abbey as he was quick to blame the evils of society on its latest invention. Though 1864 is quite late in the day to apportion blame as regards the novel.Anonymoushttps://www.blogger.com/profile/11898745280550132642noreply@blogger.com