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Historical Romance

Helen Hughes
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      Everyone recognizes the world of the historical romance - a windswept, sunset-ridden world of deep-plunge bodices where spirited young beauties challenge impossibly rugged heros, and where tempestuous yet unspoken sexual frisson can lead to a fantastic escape and, with love, to mutual liberation. "The Historical Romance" explores the ways in which romance authors have sought to represent our fantasies of life in the past ever since the first "cloak and dagger" tales captured the popular fiction market of the 1930's. The book explores how, with the social upheaval of the war, these cut-and-thrust swashbucklers gave way to the female-oriented romances of Georgette Heyer and her successors, their qualities of fantasy and credibility and exaggerated romantic motifs representing the symbolic expression of women's concerns. Hughes' study leads us right up to the present day by exploring how authors as diverse as Conan Doyle and Barbara Cartland treat the question of female independence, and how established attitudes towards love, marriage and women's sexuality have been both challenged and re-affirmed by more recent texts.
      Format: CONTRIBUTORS: Helen Hughes EAN: 9780415058124 COUNTRY: United Kingdom PAGES: WEIGHT: 340 g HEIGHT: 216 cm
      PUBLISHED BY: Taylor & Francis Ltd DATE PUBLISHED: 1993-07-15 CITY: GENRE: SOCIAL SCIENCE / Media Studies WIDTH: 138 cm SPINE:

      Book Themes:

      Literature: history and criticism, Cultural studies

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      Everyone recognizes the world of the historical romance - a windswept, sunset-ridden world of deep-plunge bodices where spirited young beauties challenge impossibly rugged heros, and where tempestuous yet unspoken sexual frisson can lead to a fantastic escape and, with love, to mutual liberation. "The Historical Romance" explores the ways in which romance authors have sought to represent our fantasies of life in the past ever since the first "cloak and dagger" tales captured the popular fiction market of the 1930's. The book explores how, with the social upheaval of the war, these cut-and-thrust swashbucklers gave way to the female-oriented romances of Georgette Heyer and her successors, their qualities of fantasy and credibility and exaggerated romantic motifs representing the symbolic expression of women's concerns. Hughes' study leads us right up to the present day by exploring how authors as diverse as Conan Doyle and Barbara Cartland treat the question of female independence, and how established attitudes towards love, marriage and women's sexuality have been both challenged and re-affirmed by more recent texts.
      Format: CONTRIBUTORS: Helen Hughes EAN: 9780415058124 COUNTRY: United Kingdom PAGES: WEIGHT: 340 g HEIGHT: 216 cm
      PUBLISHED BY: Taylor & Francis Ltd DATE PUBLISHED: 1993-07-15 CITY: GENRE: SOCIAL SCIENCE / Media Studies WIDTH: 138 cm SPINE:

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      Literature: history and criticism, Cultural studies

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