Heavenly Creatures: yes, I know, and I've read a lot of the novels as well, both before and after. After there was that constant awareness, though.
Time plays a huge role I think; I'm more likely to look past sexism in Anthony Trollope than in Frank Miller, to a point at least.
Same here. I mean, something like Bernini ordering his servant to cut his (Bernini's) mistress' face up as an act of sexual jealousy and revenge is revolting in any century. But Trollope going "feminists, aren't they hilarious?" is easier to deal with than Miller and his WHORES!obsession.
If his wife had had the opportunity to have a halfway equal position, to not be his helpmate and punching bag, he very likely still would have been a good writer, he simply would have drawn his inspiration elsewhere.
Yes indeed, and that phrases what I was trying to say re: Wagner even better. Yes, sometimes artists do draw from their dark sides but that does not mean they have to, or that one has to construct an absolute causality between horrid behaviour X and great work of art Y.
Time plays a huge role I think; I'm more likely to look past sexism in Anthony Trollope than in Frank Miller, to a point at least.
Same here. I mean, something like Bernini ordering his servant to cut his (Bernini's) mistress' face up as an act of sexual jealousy and revenge is revolting in any century. But Trollope going "feminists, aren't they hilarious?" is easier to deal with than Miller and his WHORES!obsession.
If his wife had had the opportunity to have a halfway equal position, to not be his helpmate and punching bag, he very likely still would have been a good writer, he simply would have drawn his inspiration elsewhere.
Yes indeed, and that phrases what I was trying to say re: Wagner even better. Yes, sometimes artists do draw from their dark sides but that does not mean they have to, or that one has to construct an absolute causality between horrid behaviour X and great work of art Y.
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But Trollope writes fantastic three-dimensional independent women! Completely unlike Dickens! (And of course he owed his own mother for that.)
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