The romance fiction of Mills & Boon, 1909-1990s
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The romance fiction of Mills & Boon, 1909-1990s
UCL Press, 1999
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The romance fiction of Mills & Boon
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Includes bibliographical references (p. 197-202) and indexes
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:hbk ISBN 9781857282665
Description
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.
Table of Contents
- 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.
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:pbk ISBN 9781857282672
Description
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.
Table of Contents
- 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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