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And rather than it being opposing teams, critics and reviewers were from across the culture ecosystem: some full-time, some drawing their expertise from scholarship, professional experience, or both (or none, tbh). It’s a rowdy practice that dates back (hi) to the 18th century (for better & worse)
British Women Novelists and the Review PeriodicalHow did book reviews shape the fate of novels and their authors during the height of women's literary influence?At the turn of the nineteenth century, British women novelists were publishing more fict...www.press.jhu.eduAlex Brown 🇵🇸 (they/them)*whispers* you know we can do this cultural debate about art thing all the time, right? Websites and news organizations used to have culture critics on staff whose entire job was writing about books, movies, and TV. People read them and then discussed them. We have the technology to do this again.