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A Natural History of the Romance Novel
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| #253113 in Books | 2007-04-26 | Original language:English | PDF # 1 | 8.50 x.55 x5.51l,.70 | File type: PDF | 240 pages||0 of 0 people found the following review helpful.| Finally, a scholarly account of the romance genre!|By Simone Beaudelaire|This is a great book about romance novels, what they are, what they are not, and how they can be traced from Richardson and Austin clear through to the 20th century. A serious study and jumping off point for anyone wanting to do scholarly research.|14 of 23 people found the following review helpful.| ||"Finally, a true and insightful history of the romance novel. This book establishes the historical legitimacy of an important literary genre."—Jayne Ann Krentz
|"Regis sets out to analyse the formal features and literary history of this much-
The romance novel has the strange distinction of being the most popular but least respected of literary genres. While it remains consistently dominant in bookstores and on best-seller lists, it is also widely dismissed by the critical community. Scholars have alleged that romance novels help create subservient readers, who are largely women, by confining heroines to stories that ignore issues other than love and marriage.
Pamela Regis argues that such critical s...
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