Dixon, Jay The Romantic Fiction Of Mills & Boon, 1909-1995

Erscheinungsjahr 2016
ISBN: 978-1-134-21737-3
Verlag: CRC Press
Format: EPUB
Kopierschutz: Adobe DRM (»Systemvoraussetzungen)

E-Book, Englisch, 232 Seiten

Reihe: Women's and Gender History

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.

Autoren/Hrsg.

Dixon, Jay,

Fachgebiete

• Geisteswissenschaften Kunst Kunstgeschichte Kunstgeschichte: 20./21. Jahrhundert Pop Art, Minimalismus
• Interdisziplinäres Wissenschaften Wissenschaften: Allgemeines Enzyklopädien, Nachschlagewerke, Wörterbücher

Inhaltsverzeichnis

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.