The historical romance / Helen Hughes.

By:

Hughes, Helen, 1937-

Material type: Text

TextSeries: Popular fiction seriesPublication details: London ; New York : Routledge, 1993.Description: 1 online resource (viii, 165 pages)Content type:

text

Media type:

computer

Carrier type:

online resource

ISBN:

020316802X
9780203168028
9780415058124
0415058120
9786610056835
6610056838

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Additional physical formats: Print version:: Historical romance.DDC classification:

823/.08109/0904 20

LOC classification:

PR888.H5 H84 1993eb

Online resources:

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Contents:

Chapter 1 Introduction -- chapter 2 The structures of historical romance -- chapter 3 The readers of historical romance -- chapter 4 Evolution versus revolution The inevitability of the bourgeois state -- chapter 5 English heritage -- chapter 6 Class, the gospel of work and 'hazard' -- chapter 7 'Brute heroes' and 'spirited heroines' -- chapter 8 History, best-sellers and the media.

Summary: 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.

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Includes bibliographical references (pages 157-160) and index.

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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.

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