Nooo. Sort of like how Seamus isn't pronounced "Sea-mus", and so on and so forth.

Rape is not "rough sex".

19th-century readers were most certainly not "more interested" in the mechanics of the novel. What a silly and ahistorical thing to say. Dickens wrote his novels in a serialized format, so even if his section titles might "give away" certain broad aspects of the story to follow, he was specifically writing in a way…

This is the A.V. Club, not the NYT. Discussing pop culture and works of art is what this site is for.

Sweden was settled by Germanic peoples, and Swedish (like the other "Nordic" languages) is a Germanic language.