Perhaps English incurs my wrath more because it's more reified than the other arts subjects and humanities? Philosophy, for example, is just less important in the sense of people thinking and talking about it on a day to day basis even outside the academic sphere. (You're absolutely right about my views on Western-dominated philosophy - a post for another time.) I don't know why I'm more defensive about my choice in reading material, and thus keen to yell indiscriminately, than I would be about other things. I feel the need to talk about what I read as trash because, well, most of the time, I don't read Shakespeare, I read things off bestseller lists, and that's just the way I seem to be made.

I have not read Daniel Deronda. Tell me about postcolonialism. (And Noel Streatfeild.) I think I would enjoy it. And I apologise again if I said things you found hurtful.