That article said that the gender, of readers and writers, can affect how we appreciate and respond to literature-though not always in straightforward or intuitive ways. Thorpe was criticizing my argument that men, in particular, can enjoy and learn from the writing of women like Jane Austen. As commenter Aaron Thorpe wrote in response to a piece I wrote last week, "I have never met anyone-ANYONE-who considers the author's gender when deciding whether or not to read a book." Lawrence (and pass that love to their husbands) because gendered bodies don't determine aesthetic interests. But nonetheless, men can love Jane Austen (and pass that love to their wives) and women can love D.H. Austen may write about women in drawing rooms chatting about love, and Lawrence may be a modernist obsessed with manly power, passion, and coal miners. You could argue that this shows that what you read and what your gender is don't have anything to do with each other. I convinced my wife of the virtue of Jane Austen novels she convinced me to read D.H.
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