No, I get it--and if your favorite author/book is accused of being a genre you generally don't like, it can spur that on quite a bit, I'm sure.
Honestly, one of the bigger reasons why P+P, along with books like Wuthering Heights, Jane Eyre, Adeline Mowbray, and I don't even know what else (I probably haven't read as many classics as you have, but I did major in English, and I actually like the Brontes) initially got labelled erroneously as "romance" is because they're all written by women. And that was just the assumption--women write romance, and men write Real Books.
-_-
Anyway.
The only real beef I have with the "Austen doesn't write romance!" thing is that it need not be coupled with "because romance sucks!"
I, uh, was in something of a panic after I posted this. I've been lash-out-y lately for some reason, and I was wondering if I'd gone a bit too far. I was this-close to deleting the comment altogether and/or trying to say something nicer. Possibly I've just got my Feminism Now blogging gloves on because WiHM is coming up in, like, two days.
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Honestly, one of the bigger reasons why P+P, along with books like Wuthering Heights, Jane Eyre, Adeline Mowbray, and I don't even know what else (I probably haven't read as many classics as you have, but I did major in English, and I actually like the Brontes) initially got labelled erroneously as "romance" is because they're all written by women. And that was just the assumption--women write romance, and men write Real Books.
-_-
Anyway.
The only real beef I have with the "Austen doesn't write romance!" thing is that it need not be coupled with "because romance sucks!"
I, uh, was in something of a panic after I posted this. I've been lash-out-y lately for some reason, and I was wondering if I'd gone a bit too far. I was this-close to deleting the comment altogether and/or trying to say something nicer. Possibly I've just got my Feminism Now blogging gloves on because WiHM is coming up in, like, two days.
...and I'll be shutting up now.