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200 14$aThe historical romance /$fHelen Hughes
210  1$aLondon ;$aNew York :$cRoutledge,$d1993.
215   $a1 online resource (173 p.)
225 1 $aPopular fictions series
300   $aDescription based upon print version of record.
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320   $aIncludes bibliographical references.
327   $aBook 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
330   $aThe 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
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606   $aEnglish fiction$y20th century$xHistory and criticism
606   $aHistorical fiction, English$xHistory and criticism
606   $aLove stories, English$xHistory and criticism
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615  0$aHistorical fiction, English$xHistory and criticism.
615  0$aLove stories, English$xHistory and criticism.
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