The female extreme adventure story

Back in October we wrote about Maureen Corrigan's book Leave Me Alone, I'm Reading!

AMnews publishes some things she has recently said and, just like in her book, the Brontë references crop up:

"I think literature, like any other form of art, can be dangerous - it can expose the reader to ideas that are seductive, persuasive, and sometimes misleading. I think literature, for instance, gave me skewed ideas about romance, and as an impressionable young woman reader I took those ideas to heart. In my book I talk about episodes in my life where the books I read played a crucial role: my Catholic girlhood - and all the secular saint stories I read in parochial school; my years in graduate school at The University of Pennsylvania - and my relief at escaping into hard-boiled detective fiction and 'Lucky Jim, the classic academic farce of Kingsley Amis'; my marriage and the eventual adoption of our daughter, Molly, from China; and the influence of a genre of literature I call 'the female extreme adventure story'- books like 'Jane Eyre,' 'Pride and Prejudice,' and the poetry of Stevie Smith."

Love the way she's named it!

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