Periodic Romance

Author : Helen Hughes
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 266 pages
File Size : 45,9 Mb
Release : 2003-09-02
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9781134932016

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The Historical Romance by Helen Hughes Pdf

The Historical Romance explores the ways in which romance authors seek to represent our fantasies of life in the past. Examining how the cut-and-thrust swashbucklers of the 1930s gave way to female-orientated romances, Helen Hughes takes a comprehensive look at how romance authors have dealt with the turbulent question of female independence, and how traditional attitudes towards love, marriage and women's sexuality have been approached in more recent texts. Hughes also charts the ways in which the marketing of romance has developed, with the eventual explosion of the mass market and the blockbusting family sagas of the eighties. The Historical Romance unravels the formulaic and mythical nature of historical romance to provide a fascinating study of this highly popular genre.

Author : Joanna Lowell
Publisher : Penguin
Page : 384 pages
File Size : 48,6 Mb
Release : 2021-04-06
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 9780593198292

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The Duke Undone by Joanna Lowell Pdf

An artist stumbles upon a naked duke and an unlikely love story begins in this captivating Victorian historical romance. When Royal Academy painting student Lucy Coover trips over a naked man passed out in an East End alley, she does the decent thing. She covers him up and fetches help. Trouble is, she can't banish his muscular form from her dreams as easily. Compelled to capture every detail, she creates a stunning portrait but is forced to sell it when the rent comes due. What could be worse than surrendering the very picture of your desire? Meeting the man himself. Anthony Philby, Duke of Weston, is nobody's muse. Upon discovering the scandalous likeness, he springs into action. His infamous family has been torn apart by shame and secrets, and he can't afford more gossip. Even a whisper may jeopardize his inheritance and his chance at independence. His plan is simple: burn the painting, confront the artist. Or rather, it's simple until he meets Lucy and decides to offer the bewitching young artist a devil's bargain. He'll help save her foreclosed home, if she'll help repair his family’s brutal legacy. An irresistible passion ignites between them, but when danger strikes, Lucy and Anthony must risk everything... for a love that might destroy them both.

Author : Jane Austen
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 356 pages
File Size : 52,5 Mb
Release : 1864
Category : Electronic
ISBN : HARVARD:HN6GWD

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Sense and Sensibility by Jane Austen Pdf

Author : Lisa Fletcher
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 186 pages
File Size : 44,9 Mb
Release : 2016-04-22
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9781317121787

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Historical Romance Fiction by Lisa Fletcher Pdf

The first book-length study of romance novels to focus on issues of sexuality rather than gender, Historical Romance Fiction moves the ongoing debate about the value and appeal of heterosexual romance onto new ground, testing the claims of cutting-edge critical theorists on everything from popular classics by Georgette Heyer, to recent 'bodice rippers,' to historical fiction by John Fowles and A.S. Byatt. Beginning with her nomination of 'I love you' as the romance novel's defining speech act, Lisa Fletcher engages closely with speech-act theory and recent studies of performativity. The range of texts serves to illustrate Fletcher's definition of historical romance as a fictional mode dependent on the force and familiarity of the speech act, 'I love you', and permits Fletcher to provide a detailed account of the genre's history and development in both its popular and 'literary' manifestations. Written from a feminist and anti-homophobic perspective, Fletcher's subtle arguments about the romantic speech act serve to demonstrate the genre's dependence on repetition ('Romance can only quote') and the shaky ground on which the romance's heterosexual premise rests. Her exploration of the subgenre of cross-dressing novels is especially revealing in this regard. With its deft mix of theoretical arguments and suggestive close readings, Fletcher's book will appeal to specialists in genre, speech act and performativity theory, and gender studies.

Author : Alexandre Dumas,Auguste Maquet
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 716 pages
File Size : 50,7 Mb
Release : 1893
Category : France
ISBN : HARVARD:32044024335184

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Marguerite de Valois by Alexandre Dumas,Auguste Maquet Pdf

Author : Cristina Contilli
Publisher : Lulu.com
Page : 160 pages
File Size : 52,9 Mb
Release : 2024-07-03
Category : Electronic
ISBN : 9781291291674

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In love and in exile An historical romance setting in Italian Risorgimento by Cristina Contilli Pdf

Author : Anonim
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 324 pages
File Size : 49,8 Mb
Release : 1840
Category : Electronic
ISBN : IBNF:CF990987292

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The Siege of Florence an Historical Romance by Anonim Pdf

Author : Thomas Miller
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 908 pages
File Size : 41,8 Mb
Release : 1840
Category : Electronic
ISBN : OXFORD:590682203

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Lady Jane Grey; an historical romance by Thomas Miller Pdf

Author : Georg Ebers
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 1026 pages
File Size : 55,5 Mb
Release : 1880
Category : German fiction
ISBN : HARVARD:32044012988275

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The Historical Romances of Georg Ebers by Georg Ebers Pdf

v. 1. An Egyptian princess. Homo sum -- v. 2. Uarda. The burgomaster's wife -- v. 3. Cleopatra. Joshua -- v. 4. The bride of the Nile. A question -- v. 5. The emperor. The sisters -- v. 6. A thorny path. The elixir -- v. 7. In the fire of the forge. Only a word -- v. 8. Barbara Blomberg. In the Blue Pike -- v. 9. Margery. Serapis -- v. 10. Arachne. The story of my life.

Author : Marjorie Noel How
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 54 pages
File Size : 45,8 Mb
Release : 1914
Category : English fiction
ISBN : WISC:89099797839

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Historical Romance in the Nineteenth Century by Marjorie Noel How Pdf

Author : A. Stevens
Publisher : Springer
Page : 201 pages
File Size : 45,8 Mb
Release : 2010-04-09
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 9780230275300

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British Historical Fiction before Scott by A. Stevens Pdf

In the half century before Walter Scott's Waverley , dozens of popular novelists produced historical fictions for circulating libraries. This book examines eighty-five popular historical novels published between 1762 and 1813, looking at how the conventions of the genre developed through a process of imitation and experimentation.

Author : Boston Public Library
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 190 pages
File Size : 54,5 Mb
Release : 1896
Category : Electronic
ISBN : UIUC:30112042505245

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Bulletin of the Public Library of the City of Boston by Boston Public Library Pdf

Author : Anonim
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 592 pages
File Size : 49,8 Mb
Release : 1881
Category : Literature
ISBN : RUTGERS:39030033851611

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Appletons' Journal by Anonim Pdf

Author : Hsu-Ming Teo
Publisher : University of Texas Press
Page : 355 pages
File Size : 42,9 Mb
Release : 2012-11-15
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9780292739383

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Desert Passions by Hsu-Ming Teo Pdf

The Sheik—E. M. Hull’s best-selling novel that became a wildly popular film starring Rudolph Valentino—kindled “sheik fever” across the Western world in the 1920s. A craze for all things romantically “Oriental” swept through fashion, film, and literature, spawning imitations and parodies without number. While that fervor has largely subsided, tales of passion between Western women and Arab men continue to enthrall readers of today’s mass-market romance novels. In this groundbreaking cultural history, Hsu-Ming Teo traces the literary lineage of these desert romances and historical bodice rippers from the twelfth to the twenty-first century and explores the gendered cultural and political purposes that they have served at various historical moments. Drawing on “high” literature, erotica, and popular romance fiction and films, Teo examines the changing meanings of Orientalist tropes such as crusades and conversion, abduction by Barbary pirates, sexual slavery, the fear of renegades, the Oriental despot and his harem, the figure of the powerful Western concubine, and fantasies of escape from the harem. She analyzes the impact of imperialism, decolonization, sexual liberation, feminism, and American involvement in the Middle East on women’s Orientalist fiction. Teo suggests that the rise of female-authored romance novels dramatically transformed the nature of Orientalism because it feminized the discourse; made white women central as producers, consumers, and imagined actors; and revised, reversed, or collapsed the binaries inherent in traditional analyses of Orientalism.

Author : James Baldwin
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 590 pages
File Size : 40,6 Mb
Release : 1883
Category : English literature
ISBN : MINN:31951002019937N

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An Introduction to the Study of English Literature and Literary Criticism by James Baldwin Pdf