Twentieth-century Romance and Historical Writers - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Twentieth-century Romance and Historical Writers write by Lesley Henderson. This book was released on 1990. Twentieth-century Romance and Historical Writers available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. An encyclopedic, biographical survey of the genre. The entry for each writer consists of a biography, a complete list of separately published books, and a signal critical essay. In addition, living entrants were invited to comment on their work. Series characters and locales have been indicated. Also included are notations of available bibliographies, manuscript collections, and critical studies. Acidic paper. Annotation copyrighted by Book News, Inc., Portland, OR
St. James Press Guide to Twentieth-century Romance & Historical Writers
St. James Press Guide to Twentieth-century Romance & Historical Writers - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook St. James Press Guide to Twentieth-century Romance & Historical Writers write by . This book was released on . St. James Press Guide to Twentieth-century Romance & Historical Writers available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle.
Twentieth-century Romance and Gothic Writers
Twentieth-century Romance and Gothic Writers - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Twentieth-century Romance and Gothic Writers write by James Vinson. This book was released on 1982. Twentieth-century Romance and Gothic Writers available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle.
Outlander
Outlander - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Outlander write by Diana Gabaldon. This book was released on 2004-10-26. Outlander available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. #1 NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER • NOW A STARZ ORIGINAL SERIES Unrivaled storytelling. Unforgettable characters. Rich historical detail. These are the hallmarks of Diana Gabaldon’s work. Her New York Times bestselling Outlander novels have earned the praise of critics and captured the hearts of millions of fans. Here is the story that started it all, introducing two remarkable characters, Claire Beauchamp Randall and Jamie Fraser, in a spellbinding novel of passion and history that combines exhilarating adventure with a love story for the ages. One of the top ten best-loved novels in America, as seen on PBS’s The Great American Read! Scottish Highlands, 1945. Claire Randall, a former British combat nurse, is just back from the war and reunited with her husband on a second honeymoon when she walks through a standing stone in one of the ancient circles that dot the British Isles. Suddenly she is a Sassenach—an “outlander”—in a Scotland torn by war and raiding clans in the year of Our Lord . . . 1743. Claire is catapulted into the intrigues of a world that threatens her life, and may shatter her heart. Marooned amid danger, passion, and violence, Claire learns her only chance of safety lies in Jamie Fraser, a gallant young Scots warrior. What begins in compulsion becomes urgent need, and Claire finds herself torn between two very different men, in two irreconcilable lives. This eBook includes the full text of the novel plus the following additional content: • An excerpt from Diana Gabaldon’s Dragonfly in Amber, the second novel in the Outlander series • An interview with Diana Gabaldon • An Outlander reader’s guide Praise for Outlander “Marvelous and fantastic adventures, romance, sex . . . perfect escape reading.”—San Francisco Chronicle “History comes deliciously alive on the page.”—New York Daily News
Romance and Readership in Twentieth-Century France
Romance and Readership in Twentieth-Century France - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Romance and Readership in Twentieth-Century France write by Diana Holmes. This book was released on 2006-12-14. Romance and Readership in Twentieth-Century France available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Romance in modern times is the most widely read yet the most critically despised of genres. Associated almost entirely with women, as readers and as writers, its popularity has been argued by gender traditionalists to confirm women's innate sentimentality, while feminist critics have often condemned the genre as a dangerous opiate for the female masses. This study adopts the more positive perspective of critics such as Janice Radway, and takes seriously the pleasure that women readers consistently seem to find in romance. Drawing on the social constructionist feminism of Simone de Beauvoir, the psychoanalytical theories of Jessica Benjamin, and a range of social theorists from Bourdieu to Zygmunt Bauman, the book uncovers the history of romantic fiction in France from the late nineteenth to the early twenty-first century, and explores its place in women's lives and imaginations. Romance is not defined - as it usually is - solely in terms of its mass-market form. Rather, the history of women's popular fiction is traced in its full context, as one dimension of a literary story that encompasses the mainstream or 'middlebrow' as well as 'high' culture. Thus this study ranges from the formula romance (from the pious but popular Delly to global brand Harlequin), through 'middlebrow' bestsellers like Marcelle Tinayre, Françoise Sagan, Régine Deforges, to critically esteemed stories of love in the work of such authors as Colette, Simone de Beauvoir, Elsa Triolet, and Camille Laurens. Criss-crossing the boundaries of taste and class, as well as those of sexual orientation, the romance has been at times reactionary, at others progressive, utopian, and contestatory. It has played an important part in the lives of twentieth-century women, providing both a source of imaginative escape, and a fictional space in which to rehearse and make sense of identity, relationship, and desire.
