I’ve been wondering about this. Colleen Hoover is well known as the sort of poster girl for sloppily written, baffling and aggressively mediocre books.

What was the equivalent to her in previous times? Like the Romantic or Modernist period?

During the the 1890s, what book was considered “embarassing” or super low brow to be caught with (in the same way the book community largely treats It Ends With Us)?

  • TemperatureDizzy3257@alien.topBEnglish
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    11 months ago

    Charles Dickens. He published his books in installments called serials. They were cheap to buy, and mass printed. He would often change the direction of his story based on the reaction to the previous installments. People criticized his work, saying it wasn’t literature, but entertainment.

    Today, he’s considered one of the greatest novelists of all time.