Doubled Plots: Romance and HistorySusan Strehle, Mary Paniccia Carden Univ. Press of Mississippi, 28.09.2009 - 232 Seiten In art, myth, and popular culture, romance is connected with the realm of emotions, private thought, and sentimentality. History, its counterpart, is the seemingly objective compendium of public fact. In theory, the two genres are diametrically opposed, offering widely divergent views of human experience. In this collection of essays, however, the writers challenge these basic assumptions and consider the two as parallel and as reflections of each other. Looking closely at specific narratives, they argue that romance and history share expectations and purposes and create the metaphors that can either hold cultures and institutions together or drive them apart. The writers explore the internal contradictions of both genres, as seen in works in which the elements of both romance and history are present. The theme that flows throughout this collection is that romance literature and art frequently engage with or comment on actual historical events or histories. Included among the contributions are discussions of romance and race in James Fenimore Cooper's The Last of the Mohicans, the Rudolph Valentino film classic The Sheik, the series of English “Regency Romance” novels, the constructs of love and history in two of Alice McDermott's novels, and a feminist reading of African American women's historical romances. Moreover, the essays approach romance and history from a variety of critical and political perspectives and examine a wide selection of romances from the 1800s to contemporary times. They look at bestsellers and literary classics, at texts by and for white audiences, and at works created by writers on the margins of Western culture. The anthology is a radical approach to romance, a genre often dismissed as diversionary and reactionary. It explores how well this genre serves for critical examinations of history. |
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... and criticism. 4. Historical fiction, EnglishHistory and criticism. 5. Love stories, AmericanHistory and criticism. 6. Love stories, English-History and criticism. 7. Literature and history-United States. 8. Literature and.
... and criticism. 4. Historical fiction, EnglishHistory and criticism. 5. Love stories, AmericanHistory and criticism. 6. Love stories, English-History and criticism. 7. Literature and history-United States. 8. Literature and.
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... Literature and history - United States . 8. Literature and history - Great Britain . 9. Women and literature - United States . 10. Women and literature- Great Britain . 11. Plots ( Drama , novel , etc. ) I. Strehle , Susan . II . Carden ...
... Literature and history - United States . 8. Literature and history - Great Britain . 9. Women and literature - United States . 10. Women and literature- Great Britain . 11. Plots ( Drama , novel , etc. ) I. Strehle , Susan . II . Carden ...
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... Literature places two kindred definitions of romance in a historical context : In 1785 Clara Reeve in The Progress of Romance declared , " The Novel is a picture of real life and manners , and of the times in which it was written . The ...
... Literature places two kindred definitions of romance in a historical context : In 1785 Clara Reeve in The Progress of Romance declared , " The Novel is a picture of real life and manners , and of the times in which it was written . The ...
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... literature often continue to use the term romance for quest narratives , romance has taken on a different primary meaning for the reading culture at large . Romance now refers to the narrative of falling in love , with all of the ...
... literature often continue to use the term romance for quest narratives , romance has taken on a different primary meaning for the reading culture at large . Romance now refers to the narrative of falling in love , with all of the ...
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... literature " that creates " absurd misconceptions " ( 115 ) . Castigating the " worn - out , hackneyed stories of romance " ( 158 ) and the " romantic coer- cions " that imprison and enslave women ( 605-06 ) , they warn against " the ...
... literature " that creates " absurd misconceptions " ( 115 ) . Castigating the " worn - out , hackneyed stories of romance " ( 158 ) and the " romantic coer- cions " that imprison and enslave women ( 605-06 ) , they warn against " the ...
Inhalt
AntiRomance in Alice McDermotts At Weddings and Wakes and Charming Billy | 3 |
Danticats The Farming of Bones | 24 |
Spectacles of Romance and Race in The Last of the Mohicans | 45 |
What Race Is the Sheik? Rereading a Desert Romance | 67 |
The Trickster Narrative in Miss Nume of Japan A JapeneseAmerican Romance | 86 |
Josephina Nigglis Mexican Village | 107 |
Whats a Nice Girl like You Doing in a Book like This? Homoerotic Reading and Popular Romance | 127 |
A Reading of Kathleen Woodiwisss The Flame and the Flower | 147 |
The SelfAuthoring Heroines of Georgette Heyers Regency Romance | 165 |
A Black Feminist Reading of African American Womens Historical Romances | 185 |
Notes | 203 |
Works Cited | 213 |
About the Contributors | 224 |
Index | 227 |
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