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"In art, myth, and popular culture, romance is connected with the realm of emotions, private thought, and sentimentality. History, its counterpart, is the seemingly objective compendium of public fact. In theory, the two genres are diametrically opposed, offering widely divergent views of human...

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Detalles Bibliográficos
Clasificación:Libro Electrónico
Otros Autores: Strehle, Susan, Carden, Mary Paniccia
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: Jackson : University Press of Mississippi, ©2003.
Temas:
Historical fiction, American > History and criticism.
American fiction > Women authors > History and criticism.
English fiction > Women authors > History and criticism.
Historical fiction, English > History and criticism.
Women and literature > English-speaking countries.
Romance fiction, American > History and criticism.
Romance fiction, English > History and criticism.
Literature and history > United States.
Literature and history > Great Britain.
Plots (Drama, novel, etc.)
Intrigues (Théâtre, roman, etc.)
Littérature et histoire > Grande-Bretagne.
Littérature et histoire > États-Unis.
Femmes et littérature > Anglophonie.
LITERARY CRITICISM > American > General.
American fiction > Women authors
English fiction > Women authors
Historical fiction, American
Historical fiction, English
Literature and history
Romance fiction, American
Romance fiction, English
Women and literature
Frauenliteratur
Prosa
English-speaking countries
Great Britain
United States
USA
Criticism, interpretation, etc.
Acceso en línea:Texto completo
Tabla de Contenidos:
  • Introduction : reading romance, reading history / Susan Strehle and Mary Paniccia Carden
  • Making love, making history : (anti) romance in Alice McDermott's At weddings and wakes and Charming Billy / Mary Paniccia Carden
  • History and the end of romance : Danticat's The farming of bones / Susan Strehle
  • Stopping traffic : spectacles of romance and race in The last of the Mohicans / Janet Dean
  • What "race" is the sheik? rereading a desert romance / Susan L. Blake
  • Behind the mask of coquetry : the trickster narrative in Miss Num'e of Japan : a Japanese-American romance / Huining Ouyang
  • Romancing the borderlands : Josephina Niggli's Mexican village / Rita Keresztesi
  • What's a nice girl like you doing in a book like this? Homoerotic reading and popular romance / Stephanie Burley
  • Desire and the marketplace : a reading of Kathleen Woodiwiss's The flame and the flower / Charles H. Hinnant
  • A story of her weaving : the self-authoring heroines of Georgette Heyer's regency romance / Karin E. Westman
  • The race, gender, romance connection : a Black feminist reading of African American women's historical romances / Rita B. Dandridge.

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