#must everything be decontextualized and fed back to the audience as modernified girlbossery ????
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goatsandgangsters · 1 year ago
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tell me you've never read the buccaneers without telling me you've never read the buccaneers
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girl help they're girlbossifying and decontextualizing Edith Wharton !!
what is this ~~~oooh the fieeestty american girls #disrupting #subverting the corset-wearing english aristocracy with their Bold And Daring New American Ways~~ when the buccaneers is literally a social commentary of how wealthy turn-of-the-century americans were desperate to elevate their social standing by enmeshing themselves as part of the english aristocracy and the misery their daughters experience after marrying and assimilating into the aristocracy. it is, and I cannot stress this enough, an exploration of nationalism and class anxieties, not some schlocky Bridgerton-esque ~spunky heroine romcom
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