The romance fiction of Mills & Boon, 1909-1990s

著者

    • Dixon, Jay

書誌事項

The romance fiction of Mills & Boon, 1909-1990s

Jay Dixon

UCL Press, 1999

  • :hbk
  • :pbk

タイトル別名

The romance fiction of Mills & Boon

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注記

Includes bibliographical references (p. 197-202) and indexes

内容説明・目次

巻冊次

:hbk ISBN 9781857282665

内容説明

This study to analyzes romantic fiction's depiction of women as part of the broader history of ideas about women. Given the success of the Mills & Boon romance, their portrayal of subjects like sex, love, marriage, class, motherhood and femineity are important cultural barometers and make interesting study. The author shows how all these themes have an historical trajectory and how these novels have come to reflect feminist concerns. Based on a study of over 1000 Mills & Boon romances the book provides analysis of plot types and shows how these have changed in response to women's own changing position within society.

目次

  • The early years - class and wealth
  • the twenties - sex and violence
  • the thirties - heroine
  • war
  • the forties - aftermath
  • the fifties - love, marriage and motherhood
  • the sixties - hero
  • the seventies - work
  • the eighties - feminism
  • the reader.
巻冊次

:pbk ISBN 9781857282672

内容説明

This study to analyzes romantic fiction's depiction of women as part of the broader history of ideas about women.; Given the success of the Mills & Boon romance, their portrayal of subjects like sex, love, marriage, class, motherhood and femineity are important cultural barometers and make interesting study.; The author shows how all these themes have an historical trajectory and how these novels have come to reflect feminist concerns.; Based on a study of over 1000 Mills & Boon romances the book provides analysis of plot types and shows how these have changed in response to women's own changing position within society.

目次

  • Introduction: Mills & Boon have a happy knack of discovering the popular author
  • Chapter 1 A Short History of Mills & Boon - A very profitable small firm
  • Chapter 2 Reader, Author, Editor - Many hours of pleasant reading
  • Chapter 3 1910s - Society and Exotic, City and Country
  • Chapter 4 Hero - You brought me to life
  • Chapter 5 Heroine - Mirror Image
  • Chapter 6 War and Aftermath - You give me redemption
  • Chapter 7 Work - The smothering of the creative spark ... could he a sort of murder
  • Chapter 8 Sex - We got all the damned foreplay over with months ago
  • Chapter 9 Love and Marriage - Harbour of desire
  • Chapter 10 Feminism - I'm not a feminist, but ...

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