19th-century literature constrains our concepts of love, scholars say

Nineteenth-century narratives that reduce complex, inspiring heroines to two-dimensional caricatures have a ripple effect in the 21st century, scholars say. "We continue to feed the fantasy of love as way of escaping self," says Lisa Rodensky, editor of The Oxford Handbook of the Victorian Novel.

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