The Historical Romance
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The Historical Romance

  1. 176 pages
  2. English
  3. ePUB (mobile friendly)
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eBook - ePub

The Historical Romance

About this book

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.

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Publisher
Routledge
Year
2003
eBook ISBN
9781134932016
Topic
Social Sciences
Subtopic
Media Studies
Index
Social Sciences

Table of contents

  1. Cover Page
  2. Title Page
  3. Copyright Page
  4. Popular fictions series
  5. Series editors’ preface
  6. Acknowledgements
  7. Chapter 1: Introduction
  8. Chapter 2: The structures of historical romance
  9. Chapter 3: The readers of historical romance
  10. Chapter 4: Evolution versus revolution the inevitability of the bourgeois state
  11. Chapter 5: English heritage
  12. Chapter 6: Class, the gospel of work and ‘hazard’
  13. Chapter 7: ‘Brute heroes’ and ‘spirited heroines’
  14. Chapter 8: History, best-sellers and the media
  15. Notes
  16. Bibliography

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