The historical romance, 1890-1990 / Helen Hughes.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Hughes, Helen, 1937-

Series:

Popular fiction series.

Popular fictions series

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

English fiction--20th century--History and criticism.

English fiction.

Historical fiction, English--History and criticism.

Historical fiction, English.

Romance fiction, English--History and criticism.

Romance fiction, English.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (173 p.)

Edition:

1st ed.

Place of Publication:

London ; New York : Routledge, 1993.

Language Note:

English

Summary:

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 1930's 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

Contents:

Book Cover; Half-Title; Title; Copyright; Contents; Series editors' preface; Acknowledgements; Chapter 1 Introduction; Chapter 2 The structures of historical romance; Chapter 3 The readers of historical romance; Chapter 4 Evolution versus revolution The inevitability of the bourgeois state; Chapter 5 English heritage; Chapter 6 Class, the gospel of work and 'hazard'; Chapter 7 'Brute heroes' and 'spirited heroines'; Chapter 8 History, best-sellers and the media; Notes; Bibliography; Index

Notes:

Description based upon print version of record.

Includes bibliographical references.

ISBN:

9781134932016

1134932014

9780415755627

041575562X

9781134932023

1134932022

9781280056833

1280056835

9780203168028

020316802X

OCLC:

252900503