Preparing for a #TrueCrime class this fall, and I'm noticing that much of the 2ndary lit is largely written so the authors can congratulate themselves on disliking the genre.
Look, I work on #EarlyModernEngland and these articles do not impress me. I've read some of William Prynne's Histriomastix, and if you want to be a genre-hating douchebag channeling 17th-C puritans, then write 1000 pages, insult the queen, and get thrown in prison or GTFO.