Helen Hughes

The Historical Romance

• Broschiertes Buch

Produktbeschreibung

An exploration of the ways in which romance authors seek to represent our fantasies of life in the past. Hughes also charts the marketing of romance which culminated in the blockbusting family sagas of the 1980s.

Produktdetails

• Verlag: Taylor & Francis Ltd (Sales)
• Seitenzahl: 176
• Erscheinungstermin: 23. Dezember 2014
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 216mm x 140mm x 10mm
• Gewicht: 209g
• ISBN-13: 9780415755627
• ISBN-10: 041575562X
• Artikelnr.: 39699602

Autorenporträt

Helen Hughes

Inhaltsangabe

Series editors' preface
Acknowledgements
1. Introduction
2. The structures of historical romance
3. The readers of historical romance
4. Evolution versus revolution: the inevitability of the bourgeois state
5. English heritage
6. Class
the gospel of work and 'hazard'
7. 'Brute heroes' and 'spirited heroines'
8. History
best-sellers and the media
Notes
Bibliography
Index