The Historical Romance

by Helen Hughes

Book Overview

The Historical Romance explores the ways in which romance authors seek to represent our fantasies of life in the past. Examining how the cut-and-thrust swashbucklers of the 1930s gave way to female-orientated romances, Helen Hughes takes a comprehensive look at how romance authors have dealt with the turbulent question of female independence, and how traditional attitudes towards love, marriage and women's sexuality have been approached in more recent...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0415058120
• ISBN13: 9780415058124
• Release Date: July 1993
• Publisher: Routledge
• Length: 176 Pages
• Weight: 0.80 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.7" x 5.6" x 8.8"