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The Historical Romance

Author : Helen Hughes

Publisher : Routledge

Page : 266 pages

File Size : 41,21 MB

Release : 2003-09-02

Category : Social Science

ISBN : 1134932014

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The 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 1930s 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 the blockbusting family sagas of the eighties. The Historical Romance unravels the formulaic and mythical nature of historical romance to provide a fascinating study of this highly popular genre.



Historical Romance Fiction

Author : Lisa Fletcher

Publisher : Routledge

Page : 186 pages

File Size : 43,70 MB

Release : 2016-04-22

Category : Literary Criticism

ISBN : 1317121783

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The first book-length study of romance novels to focus on issues of sexuality rather than gender, Historical Romance Fiction moves the ongoing debate about the value and appeal of heterosexual romance onto new ground, testing the claims of cutting-edge critical theorists on everything from popular classics by Georgette Heyer, to recent 'bodice rippers,' to historical fiction by John Fowles and A.S. Byatt. Beginning with her nomination of 'I love you' as the romance novel's defining speech act, Lisa Fletcher engages closely with speech-act theory and recent studies of performativity. The range of texts serves to illustrate Fletcher's definition of historical romance as a fictional mode dependent on the force and familiarity of the speech act, 'I love you', and permits Fletcher to provide a detailed account of the genre's history and development in both its popular and 'literary' manifestations. Written from a feminist and anti-homophobic perspective, Fletcher's subtle arguments about the romantic speech act serve to demonstrate the genre's dependence on repetition ('Romance can only quote') and the shaky ground on which the romance's heterosexual premise rests. Her exploration of the subgenre of cross-dressing novels is especially revealing in this regard. With its deft mix of theoretical arguments and suggestive close readings, Fletcher's book will appeal to specialists in genre, speech act and performativity theory, and gender studies.



Outlander

Author : Diana Gabaldon

Publisher : Dell

Page : 560 pages

File Size : 27,44 MB

Release : 2004-10-26

Category : Fiction

ISBN : 0440335167

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#1 NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER • NOW A STARZ ORIGINAL SERIES Unrivaled storytelling. Unforgettable characters. Rich historical detail. These are the hallmarks of Diana Gabaldon’s work. Her New York Times bestselling Outlander novels have earned the praise of critics and captured the hearts of millions of fans. Here is the story that started it all, introducing two remarkable characters, Claire Beauchamp Randall and Jamie Fraser, in a spellbinding novel of passion and history that combines exhilarating adventure with a love story for the ages. One of the top ten best-loved novels in America, as seen on PBS’s The Great American Read! Scottish Highlands, 1945. Claire Randall, a former British combat nurse, is just back from the war and reunited with her husband on a second honeymoon when she walks through a standing stone in one of the ancient circles that dot the British Isles. Suddenly she is a Sassenach—an “outlander”—in a Scotland torn by war and raiding clans in the year of Our Lord . . . 1743. Claire is catapulted into the intrigues of a world that threatens her life, and may shatter her heart. Marooned amid danger, passion, and violence, Claire learns her only chance of safety lies in Jamie Fraser, a gallant young Scots warrior. What begins in compulsion becomes urgent need, and Claire finds herself torn between two very different men, in two irreconcilable lives. This eBook includes the full text of the novel plus the following additional content: • An excerpt from Diana Gabaldon’s Dragonfly in Amber, the second novel in the Outlander series • An interview with Diana Gabaldon • An Outlander reader’s guide Praise for Outlander “Marvelous and fantastic adventures, romance, sex . . . perfect escape reading.”—San Francisco Chronicle “History comes deliciously alive on the page.”—New York Daily News



Indigo

Author : Beverly Jenkins

Publisher :

Page : 359 pages

File Size : 34,20 MB

Release : 1996

Category : Fiction

ISBN : 9780380786589

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When the notorious Black Daniel is carried, badly injured, into Hester Wyatt's home, there is no question that he will be cared for and protected. Once a slave herself, Hester regularly gives shelter to runaways, yet the man of mysteries she now harbours brings greater danger than she's ever known, for Black Daniel is a member of a unique elite class of pre Civil War blacks, involved in subversive underground activity, and is also after her heart whether she wants him or not.



A Lady Awakened

Author : Cecilia Grant

Publisher : Bantam

Page : 370 pages

File Size : 40,49 MB

Release : 2011-12-27

Category : Fiction

ISBN : 034553252X

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In Cecilia Grant’s emotionally rich and deeply passionate Regency romance debut, a deal with a rumored rogue turns a proper young woman into . . . A Lady Awakened. Newly widowed and desperate to protect her estate and beloved servants from her malevolent brother-in-law, Martha Russell conceives a daring plan. Or rather, a daring plan to conceive. After all, if she has an heir on the way, her future will be secured. Forsaking all she knows of propriety, Martha approaches her neighbor, a London exile with a wicked reputation, and offers a strictly business proposition: a month of illicit interludes . . . for a fee. Theophilus Mirkwood ought to be insulted. Should be appalled. But how can he resist this siren in widow’s weeds, whose offer is simply too outrageously tempting to decline? Determined she’ll get her money’s worth, Theo endeavors to awaken this shamefully neglected beauty to the pleasures of the flesh—only to find her dead set against taking any enjoyment in the scandalous bargain. Surely she can’t resist him forever. But could a lady’s sweet surrender open their hearts to the most unexpected arrival of all . . . love?



The American Historical Romance

Author : George Dekker

Publisher : Cambridge University Press

Page : 392 pages

File Size : 10,16 MB

Release : 1990-05-03

Category : Literary Criticism

ISBN : 9780521389372

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This book traces the tradition of American historical fiction from its origins in the early nineteenth century to the eve of World War II. It examines the historical novel's connections with Enlightenment and Romantic theories of history; with the rise of literary regionalism; with the ambitions of Romantic writers to revive the epic and romance; with changing conceptions of gender roles; and with the authors' troubled responses to the great revolutionary and imperialistic conflicts of the modern era. However, though inevitably much concerned with the theory of genre and with the specific contents of the genre of historical romance, Professor Dekker devotes most of his book to new readings of major texts by James Fenimore Cooper, Nathaniel Hawthorne, Herman Melville, Mark Twain, Allen Tate, Edith Wharton, Willa Cather, and William Faulkner, as well as to the Briton whose name was synonymous with the genre for most of the nineteenth century - Sir Walter Scott. 'The American Historical Romance is the richest, most fully meditated and most rewarding yet written by this author ... It is the most important book on the relations of British and American fiction to come out for many years. No devotee of the American novel will ignore it.' -- The Times Literary Supplement



Conflict and Colonialism in 21st Century Romantic Historical Fiction

Author : Hsu-Ming Teo

Publisher : Taylor & Francis

Page : 180 pages

File Size : 13,79 MB

Release : 2024-06-13

Category : Literary Criticism

ISBN : 1040085415

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This book explores how postmillennial Anglophone women writers use romantic narrativisations of history to explore, revise, repurpose and challenge the past in their novels, exposing the extent to which past societies were damaging to women by instead imagining alternative histories. The novelists discussed employ the generic conventions of romance to narrate their understanding of historical and contemporary injustice and to reflect upon women’s achievements and the price they paid for autonomy and a life of public purpose. The volume seeks, firstly, to discuss the work of revision or reparation being performed by romantic historical fiction and, secondly, to analyse how the past is being repurposed for use in the present. It contends that the discourses and genre of romance work to provide a reparative reading of the past, but there are limitations and entrenched problems in such readings.



My Highland Protector: A Mistaken Identity Historical Romance Novel

Author : Miriam Minger

Publisher : Walker Publishing

Page : 226 pages

File Size : 15,68 MB

Release : 2023-02-04

Category : Fiction

ISBN : 1943644438

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My Highland Protector in the exciting Warriors of the Highlands series by award-winning author Miriam Minger brings you mistaken identity, adventure, passion, and romance! After saving Robert the Bruce's life, Cameron Campbell finds himself rewarded with an enemy's castle. His first act as laird is to release the wretched prisoners in the dungeon, one of them no youth but a flame-haired beauty on the brink of death. Alas, though Cameron is no stranger to war, he's nonetheless a stranger to women. Still, he vows to do his best to nurse Aislinn back to health. Although if he thought her helpless, he couldn't be more wrong. Fierce and loyal to her kin, Aislinn insists upon setting out to find her father and brother, both having come from Ireland to fight for King Robert. Despite that Cameron believes them executed by now, and against his better judgment, he joins her on a dangerous quest to discover her family's fate, never expecting to lose his heart along the way. My Highland Protector is the second novel in the action-packed Warriors of the Highlands series by bestselling author Miriam Minger. For fans of Cecelia Mecca, Keira Montclair, Eliza Knight, and Mariah Stone, you don't want to miss this breathtaking Highland romance set during the tumultuous time of Braveheart and Robert the Bruce!



My Highland Warrior: A Scottish Highlander Historical Romance Novel

Author : Miriam Minger

Publisher : Walker Publishing

Page : 246 pages

File Size : 42,88 MB

Release : 2023-02-04

Category : Fiction

ISBN : 194364442X

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Enjoy this delicious Highland historical romance novel from a beloved storyteller filled with adventure, passion, intrigue, and dark family secrets... Fearsome Scots laird Gabriel MacLachlan must take a bride, but not just any bride. Magdalene, his liege lord's younger sister is known to be as bonny as any Highland lass but as mad as a loon. Mad Maggie, they call her-and Gabriel has no choice. Not if he wants to put food in his clansmen's bellies, clothes on their backs, and repair the crumbling castle he calls home. A fat dowry in exchange for a madwoman, whose life will be in danger from the MacLachlan family curse the instant she becomes his wife. A generations-old curse, an honorable chieftain, a clever beauty--it's the perfect recipe for a spirited Highland Romance. My Highland Warrior is the first novel in the exciting Warriors of the Highlands series by bestselling and award-winning author Miriam Minger. For fans of Cecelia Mecca, Keira Montclair, Eliza Knight, and Mariah Stone, you don't want to miss this breathtaking Highland romance set during the tumultuous time of Braveheart and Robert the Bruce!



My Highland Raider: A Scottish Pirate Historical Romance Novel

Author : Miriam Minger

Publisher : Walker Publishing

Page : 223 pages

File Size : 23,23 MB

Release : 2023-02-04

Category : Fiction

ISBN : 1943644454

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My Highland Raider in the exciting Warriors of the Highlands series by award-winning author Miriam Minger brings you a second chance at love romance novel filled with adventure, passion, and danger on the high seas! A fearsome raider known as the Devil of the Seas, Gavin MacLachlan has only ever loved one woman—and he lost her to another man over a year ago. A rich, powerful man that Cora's clan insisted she wed for the powerful alliance it would bring them, though she swore her undying love for Gavin on the eve of her marriage. Consumed by a lust for vengeance, he took to the high seas to make his fortune, which now rivals that of the wealthiest Highland laird. Yet no glittering gold can bring Cora back to him . . . until he hears the startling news that her ruthless husband has been slain. His love for her burning as fiercely as ever, Gavin is determined to steal her away from the Campbells before they marry her off again, only to discover Cora has fled. But where? My Highland Raider is the fourth novel in the Warriors of the Highlands series by bestselling author Miriam Minger. For fans of Cecelia Mecca, Keira Montclair, Eliza Knight, and Mariah Stone, you don't want to miss this breathtaking Highland romance set during the tumultuous time of Braveheart and Robert the Bruce!