A natural history of the romance novel
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- ISBN: 9780812215229 (pbk. : alk. paper)
- ISBN: 0812215222 (pbk. : alk. paper)
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xiii, 224 p. ; 23 cm. - Publisher: Philadelphia : University of Pennsylvania Press, 2007, c2003.
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Bibliography, etc. Note: | Includes bibliographical references (p. [209]-218) and index. |
Formatted Contents Note: | Critics and the romance novel. The romance novel and women's bondage -- In defense of the romance novel -- The romance novel defined. The definition -- The definition expanded -- The genre's limits -- The romance novel, I740-1908. Writing the romance novel's history -- The first best seller: Pamela, 1740 -- The best romance novel ever written : Pride and prejudice, 1813 -- Freedom and Rochester : Jane Eyre, 1847 -- The romance form in the Victorian multiplot novel : Framley Parsonage, 1861 -- The ideal romance novel : A room with a view, 1908 -- The twentieth-century romance novel. The popular romance novel in the twentieth century -- Civil contracts : Georgette Heyer -- Courtship and suspense : Mary Stewart -- Harlequin, Silhouette, and the Americanization of the popular romance novel : Janet Dailey -- Dangerous men : Jayne Ann Krentz -- One man, one woman : Nora Roberts. |
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