Classic love & romance literature : an encyclopedia of works, characters, authors & themes / Virginia Brackett.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Brackett, Virginia.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Love in literature--Encyclopedias.

Love in literature.

Romance fiction--Encyclopedias.

Romance fiction.

Romances--Encyclopedias.

Romances.

Genre:

Encyclopedias.

Physical Description:

xvi, 406 pages : illustrations ; 26 cm

Other Title:

Classic love and romance literature

Place of Publication:

Santa Barbara, Calif. ; Oxford : ABC-CLIO, [1999]

Summary:

Before Barbara Cartland, there was Emily Bronte. Before Fabio, there was Heathcliff. If you want to see how men and women have looked at love, and each other, over the centuries, just open this endlessly readable encyclopedia: your A-to-Z guide to the literature of love.

From Romeo and Juliet to Rebecca, entries treat scores of the most memorable novels and plays, providing information on authors, works, characters, and themes. Coverage is fair and square: men and women get equal time; elite and popular fiction are treated with respect; and minority voices are clearly heard.

More than 340 A-to-Z entries are thoroughly illustrated, cross-referenced, and indexed.

Classic Love and Romance Literature accomplishes what the best reference books always do: it sends you back to the originals.

Contents:

Classic Love and Romance Literature: An Encyclopedia of Works, Characters, Authors, and Themes

The Accidental Tourist 1

The African Queen 2

The Age of Innocence 4

Allende, Isabel 5

Allnutt, Charlie 6

An American Tragedy 7

Andrews, Roz 9

Anna Karenina 10

Archer, Isabel 12

Archer, Newland 14

Ariza, Florentino 15

Ata, Sutekichi 16

Atwood, Margaret 17

Austen, Jane 17

The Awakening 19

Baksh, Foam 21

Barnes, Jake 21

Beatrice 22

Beauty and the Beast 23

Beloved 25

Beloved 26

Benedick 27

Bennet, Elizabeth (Eliza/Lizzy) 27

Berto, Giuseppe 29

Bildungsroman 29

The Black Experience in America, 1600-1945 30

Blanchard, Gillian 34

Bonbon, Louise 35

Bovary, Emma 36

Braithwaite, Edward R. (Ted) 37

Braithwaite, Rick 38

Brandon, Colonel 39

Broder, Herman 39

Bronte, Charlotte and Emily 41

Buchanan, Daisy 43

Buchanan, Tom 44

Buck, Pearl Sydenstricker 45

Burden, Jim 46

Butler, Rhett 47

Byronic Hero 48

Carey, Philip 51

Carla 52

Carraway, Nick 53

Carton, Sydney 54

Cather, Willa Siebert 55

Charis 56

Chillingworth, Roger 57

Chittaranjan, Nellie 59

Chivalry 59

Chopin, Kate 60

Clare, Angel 61

Claudio 62

Cleary, Meghann (Meggie) 62

Conroy, Pat 64

Cooper, James Fenimore 65

Cosette 67

The Count of Monte Cristo 68

Daisy Miller 71

Daniele 73

Dantes, Edmond 74

Darcy, Fitzwilliam 76

Dare, Pamela 77

Darnay, Charles, Marquis St. Evremonde 78

Dashwood, Elinor 78

Dashwood, Marianne 79

Daza, Fermina 80

de Bricassart, Father Ralph 81

de la Garza, Tita 82

de Theus, Pauline 83

de Winter, Maxim 84

de Winter, Mrs. 85

del Valle, Clara 85

Dickens, Charles John Huffam 87

Dimmesdale, Arthur 88

Doctor Zhivago 89

Doolittle, Eliza 92

Dreiser, Theodore 93

du Maurier, Daphne 95

Dumas, Alexandre 95

d'Urberville, Alec 97

Durbeyfield, Tess 98

Earnshaw, Catherine 101

Emma 102

Enemies: A Love Story 103

Esmeralda 106

Esquivel, Laura 107

Ethan Frome 108

Fantasy 111

Fantine 111

A Farewell to Arms 112

Ferrars, Edward 114

Fielding, Henry 115

Fitzgerald, F. Scott 116

Flaubert, Gustave 117

For Whom the Bell Tolls 118

Forbidden Love 120

Forester, C. S. 123

Forster, E. M. 123

Fowles, John 124

Frankenstein 125

Frankenstein, Victor 127

Fremont, Tony 128

The French Lieutenant's Woman 129

Frollo, Claude 130

Frome, Ethan 131

Fu, Wen 131

Gaines, Ernest J. 133

Garcia Marquez, Gabriel 134

Gatsby, Jay 135

Genre Romance 136

Giono, Jean 138

Giulia 139

Gone with the Wind 140

The Good Earth 141

Gothic Romance 144

The Great Gatsby 145

Griffiths, Clyde 146

Guerine, Pauline 147

Guishar, Larisa (Lara) Fedorovna 147

A Handful of Dust 149

Hardy, Thomas 149

Hatsue 151

Hawkeye 151

Hawthorne, Nathaniel 152

Heath, A. K. Roy 154

Heathcliff 155

Hemingway, Ernest 156

Henry, Frederic 158

Hero 159

Heroes 159

Herrera, Mercedes 161

Heyward, Major Duncan 162

Higgins, Henry 163

Honeychurch, Lucy 164

The Horseman on the Roof 165

The House of the Spirits 166

Hugo, Victor 169

The Hunchback of Notre Dame 171

Hurston, Zora Neale 173

Ivanhoe 177

Iyayi, Festus 178

Iyere, Osimi 180

James, Henry 183

Jane Eyre 184

Jones, Tom 185

Jordan, Robert 187

The Journey 187

Karenina, Anna Arkadyevna 191

Kincaid, Jamaica 192

King, Tabitha 193

The Kitchen God's Wife 194

Knightley, George 196

Kundera, Milan 197

Last, Brenda 199

Last, Tony 199

The Last of the Mohicans 200

Lawrence, D. H. 202

Les Miserables 204

Levin, Konstantin Dmitrievitch 206

Like Water for Chocolate 207

Linton, Edgar 211

Longus 212

The Lost Generation 213

Lotus Blossom 213

Louie, Jimmy 213

Louie, Winnie 214

Love in the Time of Cholera 214

Love Triangle 215

Lucy 216

Lung, Wang 217

Madame Bovary 221

Magic Realism 222

Magua 222

Maria 223

Maugham, W. Somerset 224

McCullough, Colleen 225

Miller, Daisy 225

Mishima, Yukio 227

Mitchell, Margaret 229

Mondego, Ferdinand 230

Morrison, Toni 231

Much Ado about Nothing 233

Munro, Alice 234

Munro, Cora 234

Muzquiz, Pedro 235

My Antonia 236

Naipaul, V. S. 239

Ndudi 240

Nihilism 240

Of Human Bondage 243

Of Love and Dust 244

O'Hara, Scarlett 246

Okamoto, Taeko 247

O-Lan 249

One on One 250

O'Neill, Luke 251

Osaragi, Jiro 251

Osmond, Gilbert 252

Oz, Amos 253

Pardi, Angelo 257

Pasternak, Boris 258

Patriarchal Marriage 259

Paul 261

Payne, Marcus 261

Pilar 262

Pontellier, Edna 263

The Portrait of a Lady 264

Potter, Lucy Josephine 265

Pride and Prejudice 266

The Prince of Tides 268

Prynne, Hester 269

Pygmalion 271

Quasimodo 273

Quest 275

Ravid, Ivria 277

Ravid, Yoel 277

Rebecca 278

Rebecca, Daughter of Isaac 281

The Robber Bride 281

Rochester, Edward 284

Rogers, Mildred 285

Romance 286

Romeo and Juliet 288

A Room with a View 289

Rowena, Lady 292

Sabina 295

Sayer, Rose 296

The Scarlet Letter 297

Scott, Sir Walter 298

Sense and Sensibility 299

Sethe 301

The Shadow Bride 302

Shakespeare, William 303

Sharp, Becky 305

Shaw, George Bernard 307

Shelley, Mary Wollstonecraft Godwin 308

Shimerda, Antonia 310

Shinji 310

Singer, Isaac Bashevis 311

Singh, Betta 313

Singh, Meena 314

The Sky Is Red 315

Smithson, Charles 316

Sons and Lovers 317

Sophie's Choice 319

The Sound of Waves 320

Stingo 322

Styron, William 323

The Suffrage of Elvira 324

The Sun Also Rises 326

A Tale of Two Cities 329

Tan, Amy 331

Tereza 333

Tess of the d'Urbervilles 334

Thackeray, William Makepeace 336

Their Eyes Were Watching God 337

The Thorn Birds 338

To Know a Woman 340

To Sir, with Love 341

Tolstoy, Count Leo 343

Tom Jones 345

Tomas 346

Trueba, Esteban 347

Tsugawa, Ryosuke 349

Tullio 349

Tyler, Anne 350

The Unbearable Lightness of Being 353

Uncas 354

Valjean, Jean 357

Vanity Fair 359

Victorian Age 362

Violence 363

War 365

Waugh, Evelyn 365

Western, Sophia 366

Wharton, Edith 367

Wilfred of Ivanhoe 368

Wilkes, Ashley 369

Wilkes, Melanie 370

Wingo, Tom 370

Winterbourne, Frederick Forsythe 372

Woodruff, Sarah 372

Woods, Janie Crawford Killicks Starks 373

Wuthering Heights 374

Zawistowska, Sophie 377

Zenia 378

Zhivago, Yurii Andreievich 379.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references (pages 383-395) and index.

ISBN:

087436955X

OCLC:

40881600