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Why was Robert Gould's work considered unacceptable to Victorian era critics?
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Gould's work was considered unacceptable to Victorian era critics because it was sexually frank and exceptionally vicious. At the end of the twentieth century, his name was revived as an example solely of "subliterary misogyny" by feminist literary critics such as Felicity Nussbaum, whose "The Brink of All We Hate" held out Gould's most scabrous satires (and almost exclusively "Love Given O'er" and the passage quoted above) as typical of an unpreserved tradition of misogyny