Women and Romance: The Consolations of Gender in the English Novel 9781501723063

Consensual Fictions: Women, Liberalism, and the English Novel 9781442627727

In Consensual Fictions, Wendy S. Jones focuses on the English novel of the period to explore the relationship between ma

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Novel Cleopatras: Romance Historiography and the Dido Tradition in English Fiction, 1688–1785 9781442667396

Advocating a revised history of the eighteenth-century novel, Novel Cleopatras showcases the novel’s origins in ancient

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Private Interests: Women, Portraiture, and the Visual Culture of the English Novel, 1709-1791 9781442678767

This study undertakes a new definition of the 18th-century novel?s investment in visual culture, tracing the relationshi

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Narrative Transvestism: Rhetoric and Gender in the Eighteenth-Century English Novel 9781501721854

Many of the earliest canonical novels—including Defoe's Moll Flanders and Roxana and Richardson's Pamela and C

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Dangerous Men and Adventurous Women: Romance Writers on the Appeal of the Romance 0812231929, 9780812231922

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Magic and the Supernatural in Medieval English Romance 1843842211, 9781843842217

The world of medieval romance is one in which magic and the supernatural are constantly present: in otherwordly encounte

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Female Desire in Chaucer's Legend of Good Women and Middle English Romance: 15 1843845709, 9781843845706

In both medieval and modern contexts, women who do not desire men invite awkward silences. Men's dissident sexual p

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A Natural History of the Romance Novel 9780812203103

Pamela Regis argues that the romance novel, the most popular but least respected of literary genres, does not enslave wo

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A Natural History of the Romance Novel 9780812203103, 2002045412

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Middle English Romance and the Craft of Memory 1843844176, 9781843844174

An examination of the depiction and function of memory in a variety of romances, including 'Troilus and Criseyde�

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