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From: henry@rochester.UUCP
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Subject: good old days
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Date: Sat, 12-Oct-85 16:31:24 EDT
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From: Henry Kautz  <henry>

For a very insightful, frightening, and hilarious look at the situation
of women in "the good old days", read Joyce Carol Oates novel,
"A Bloodsmore Romance".  It is a pseudo-gothic-romantic-thriller, but
is really about the situation of women in Victorian times (and now),
the tension between "feminine" and "feminist" literature, and a 
meditation on the appeal of the romance as a genre (why all all these
modern women gobbling up the paperback romance novels?).  Also a heck
of a good read.  Can't be recommended too highly.