What she wants to know is why women continue to read romances and what Radway contends,in fact, that the history of the ideal romantic heroine and Hazin's Endless Rapture; Rape, Romanceand the Female Imagination bears mention only because it illustrates howGA Hovet...
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Popular Fiction by Women 1660-1730 gathers together for the first time a representative selection of shorter fiction by the most successful women writers of the period, from Aphra Behn, the first important English female professional writer, to Penelope Aubin and Eliza Haywood, who with Daniel Defo...
Beutler, Gary Groth-Marnat Guilford Press, c2011 3rd ed : [pbk.]A Companion to African American Literaturedoi:10.1002/9781444323474.ch23Robin V. SmilesPopular Black Women’’s Fiction and the Novels of Terry McMillan. Smiles,Robin. A Companion to African American Literature . 2010...
2,087 of the Most Popular Fiction Books of All Time In Search of Lost Time by Marcel Proust (1913) Don Quixote by Miguel de Cervantes (1605) Ulysses by James Joyce (1922) The Great Gatsby by F. Scott Fitzgerald (1925) Moby Dick by Herman Melville (1851) Hamlet by Willia...
Crime and mystery seem to be the two most popular genres for fiction books. Crime fiction is the genre of fiction that deals with crimes, their detection, criminals, and their motives. Most crime novels share a common structure. First, there is the crime; then there is the investigation;...
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It also examines transformations in the representation of women in fictional texts about "romantic love" from the 1920s to the 1930s. In the 1930s, popular literature diversified into several different forms—serialized in newspapers and magazines, single books, or "paperback popular fiction" (tta...
In the 1970s the woman's historical novel was widely visible but in a range of sub-genres regarded as popular fiction and therefore disregarded by literary critics: the historical romance associated with Mills and Boon and Barbara Cartland; the family saga reinvigorated by Susan Howatch; the Ame...
Popular Fiction and Brain Science in the Late Nineteenth Century Above all, however, Brownson's project of dismissing Young America as a misguided and immoral set of social trends lays the blame for cultural problems in the nineteenth century squarely upon the shoulders of women, especially on wh...