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...
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 Defoe dominated prose fiction in the ...
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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...
(1996): Mate selection in popular women's fiction. Human Nature, 7, 427-448.Whissel, C. (1996). Mate selection in popular women's fiction. Human Nature, 7(4), 427-447.Mate Selection in Popular Women's Fiction. Human Nature 7:427-447. Whiten, A. and R. W. Byrne, eds....
【题文】Gone with the Wind was one of the most popular books in history. Margaret Mitchell spent about 10 years writing the 1,037-page book. It was the top American fiction bestseller in 1936 and 1937 and won the Pulitzer Prize for Fiction. The film was also a big hit. In 1926, ...
Her most famous works -including Pride and Prejudice, the one for which she is most known-are set in the world of the English gentry (贵族阶层)in the late 18th century. Most of her fiction is about young women of that time. Women of the gentry could not work so their chances of ...
The top five circulated adult fiction books in 2024: "Lessons in Chemistry" by Bonnie Garmus "The Women" by Kristin Hannah "Think Twice" by Harlan Coben "The Exchange" by John Grisham "Resurrection Walk" by Michael Connelly According to library officials, "Lessons in Chemistry" made ...
For women, who had achieved a degree of emancipation by gaining the vote and experiencing wartime employment and wage-earning, popular culture prescribed a feminine preoccupation with love and finding and serving Mr Right, so films show women giving up their careers for love, as in A Star Is ...
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;...