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The historical romance /
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 th...
| Clasificación: | Libro Electrónico |
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| Formato: | Electrónico eBook |
| Idioma: | Inglés |
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London ; New York :
Routledge,
1993.
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| Colección: | Popular fiction series.
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| Acceso en línea: | Texto completo |
| Sumario: | 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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| Descripción Física: | 1 online resource (viii, 165 pages) |
| Bibliografía: | Includes bibliographical references (pages 157-160) and index. |
| ISBN: | 020316802X 9780203168028 9780415058124 0415058120 9786610056835 6610056838 |