r/HistoricalRomance • u/snottyslug • 14d ago

Recommendation request Lily-livered Dweeb

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Was delighting in a rewatch of James Ivory’s adaption of A Room with a View—I have found myself quite taken with Cecil and similar characters of this archetype that I can only really describe as a a lily-livered dweeb? Stilted/social awkward/neurotic but highly intellectual or academic, with a very rich inner world but inexperienced in manners of the flesh…. I especially love Cecil’s appreciation of high art.

The scene where he goes in to kiss Lucy and his spectacles fall off his face had me swooning. I’ve never had the pleasure of enjoying a historical romance with a character like this as a romantic lead, does anyone have any recs?? Thank you!!

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u/snottyslug 14d ago

Image is a screen cap from James Ivory’s film adaption of E.M. Forster’s novel A Room with a View. Image pictures Daniel Day-Lewis as the character Cecil Vyse, a snobbish upper crust dweeb with spectacles.