The first book of the series lays out a strange relationship between Christian the man and Christian the company. Marianna Torgovnick: Horses and Carriages: Fifty Shades Clichédįrom the first time we meet him, the hero of Fifty Shades of Grey is both Christian Grey and Christian Grey, Enterprises. Jane Gallop: Seducing the English Major Noah Berlatsky: Inner Goddess Puking: Dreadful Writing as Striptease Minou Arjomand: Capitalism’s Erogenous Zones For some, they are political and economic allegory for others, the most recent episode in a long history of critics charging women writers with overstepping the boundaries of good taste and sexual propriety. Some see the books as a commentary on the romance genre, others as anti-novels. Their responses run the gamut from hatred to zest, with ambivalence, indifference, and resistance in between. Hallett, Claire Jarvis, Bethany Schneider, and Marianna Torgovnick-have to say about them. You may not want to read the books themselves, but admit it … you’re curious to see what our contributors- Minou Arjomand, Noah Berlatsky, Jane Gallop, Hilary A. It has also been a cultural irritant, prompting complaints about bad writing, sexual politics, and mommy porn. With over 29 million copies sold in trade paperback alone and translations afoot in languages from Arabic to Tagalog, the Fifty Shades trilogy has been the bookselling phenomenon of the decade.
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