On Tue, Jun 15, 2010 at 10:39 PM, Deepa Mohan <[email protected]> wrote:
> I'm going to sharply bring down the level of the books being referred to, > and say that, out of sync with my high school- and college-mates, I could > never go more than a few pages of those Mills and Boons and Hermina Black > type of novels. These are the staple diet of generations of young women, so > I wonder what's wrong with my genetic makeup....because what I read at that > time were the Biggles books! > > > Deepa. > I read 28 MBs and 37 Georgette Heyers when I was in the first year of my Post Graduation - I was doing my final term paper on the genealogy of romance literature, tracing it from Aphra Ben through Jane Austen to popular romance literature. It actually turned out to be more fun than I had expected. There were some very creative ways of refering to sex, human genetalia and lust which formed the fodder for much hilarity and bonding among friends :) Nishant -- Nishant Shah Doctoral Candidate, CSCS, Bangalore. Director (Research), Centre for Internet and Society,( www.cis-india.org ) Asia Awards Fellow, 2008-09 # 00-91-9740074884
