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"In this collection of essays, however, the writers challenge these basic assumptions and consider the two as parallel and as reflections of each other. Looking closely at specific narratives, they argue that romance and history share expectations and purposes and create the metaphors that can...

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Detalles Bibliográficos
Otros Autores: Carden, Mary Paniccia, Strehle, Susan
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: Jackson : University Press of Mississippi, 2003.
Colección:Book collections on Project MUSE.
Temas:
Prosa.
Frauenliteratur
Women and literature.
Romance fiction, English.
Romance fiction, American.
Plots (Drama, novel, etc.)
Literature and history.
Historical fiction, English.
Historical fiction, American.
English fiction > Women authors.
American fiction > Women authors.
LITERARY CRITICISM > American > General.
Femmes et litterature > Anglophonie.
Litterature et histoire > États-Unis.
Litterature et histoire > Grande-Bretagne.
Intrigues (Theâtre, roman, etc.)
Literature and history > Great Britain.
Literature and history > United States.
Romance fiction, English > History and criticism.
Romance fiction, American > History and criticism.
Women and literature > English-speaking countries.
Historical fiction, English > History and criticism.
English fiction > Women authors > History and criticism.
American fiction > Women authors > History and criticism.
Historical fiction, American > History and criticism.
USA.
United States.
Great Britain.
English-speaking countries.
Criticism, interpretation, etc.
Electronic books.
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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