literature preference generalisations

ambereliza:

catchy title!! i know!!!!

classics:

• would die for at least one character from the iliad
• has read the secret history and has a very strong opinion on it
• terrified of the languages their favourite texts are written in (but hates ancient greek more than latin)
• probably has an incredibly messed up sense of humour
• won’t stop talking about how much gore is involved in their favourite tragedy

old/middle english:

• seem terrifying but actually just very confused
• have a favourite jumble of letters that is pretending to be a word
• once looked at a rune and cried from either happiness or devastation
• argues about pronunciation but then realises it doesn’t really matter
• knows a lot of history
• band together in groups because they know they’ll never find people that like chaucer as much as they do

renaissance:

• the greatest people you will ever meet…and the worst
• pretend like shakespeare isn’t their favourite playwright and fails miserably because they know all the words to their favourite soliloquy
• probably enjoy acting
• have a strong opinion on the wars of the roses
• gay

shakespeare (yes buddy, you get your own):

• extra gay
• cry thinking about how much their fave play means to them
• theatre snobs but also annoying theatre kids
• incredibly dramatic

18th/19th century literature:

• probably all INFPs
• “i like big books and i cannot lie”
• have a favourite austen book and will defend it to the ends of the earth
• watch more period dramas than is good for them
• all have frail hearts so get spooked out by gothic literature

romanticism:

• the gayest
• cries about john keats on the regular
• will quote long passages from their favourite poem so violently you’ll have to ask them if they’re okay,,,,, they aren’t
• once tried to become ‘at one’ with nature but got scared by a fallen leaf so had to take a three-hour nap
• all of them have their favourite fact about lord byron and bring it up constantly whether it’s appropriate or not

victorian literature:

• pretends they hate dickens but would die for great expectations
• love cities and the country equally
• won’t shut up about how much they love the rain
• have a very special place in their heart for christmas
• threaten to kill people with a single books because they’re the same shape and weight as bricks
• have cried extensively over tennyson and arthur hallam 
• don’t know where oscar wilde quotations end and they begin

twentieth century literature

• very confused
• love the 20s a bit too much
• probably wish they were french, unless they are french in which case they wish they were living in america
• call every war ‘The War’
• prepared to fight hemingway’s ghost at any given moment
• secretly love dystopian ya and high fantasy
• won’t stop saying ‘The American Dream’ because it’s relevant to everything, apparently

disclaimer: highly distorted by my own literary knowledge (which is minimal outside of the west) so apologies for that. feel free to add on