Be My Baby Now, Part II

I had to leave off this argument to go post at the Hoydens about Sex and the Historical Sensibility. But I promised to come back and finish it off with "subtleties, shades, differences." To ask — of a genre that guarantees its readers a happy-ever-after ending every time — whether it's possible to mix things up a little.

And to say something more (in clarification of my comments to Laura Vivanco at Teach Me Tonight) of what I think of the politics implicit in claiming total innocence for your ...