A natural history of the romance novel / Pamela Regis.

• Critics and the romance novel. The romance novel and women's bondage -- In defense of the romance novel -- The romance novel defined. The definition -- The definition expanded -- The genre's limits -- The romance novel, I740-1908. Writing the romance novel's history -- The first best seller: Pamela, 1740 -- The best romance novel ever written : Pride and prejudice, 1813 -- Freedom and Rochester : Jane Eyre, 1847 -- The romance form in the Victorian multiplot novel : Framley Parsonage, 1861 -- The ideal romance novel : A room with a view, 1908 -- The twentieth-century romance novel. The popular romance novel in the twentieth century -- Civil contracts : Georgette Heyer -- Courtship and suspense : Mary Stewart -- Harlequin, Silhouette, and the Americanization of the popular romance novel : Janet Dailey -- Dangerous men : Jayne Ann Krentz -- One man, one woman : Nora Roberts.

Ämnesord

Love stories, English  -- History and criticism. (LCSH)

Love stories, American  -- History and criticism. (LCSH)

Popular literature  -- English-speaking countries -- History and criticism. (LCSH)

Publik  (kao)

Audience  (kao//eng)

Litteraturvetenskap  -- Storbritannien -- Förenta staterna -- 1700-talet -- 1800-talet -- 1900-talet -- sekelskiftet 2000 (kao)

Romaner  -- kärlek -- romantik (kao)

Literary studies  -- Great Britain -- United States -- 18th century -- 19th century -- 20th century -- turn of the century 2000 (kao//eng)

Novels  -- love -- romance (kao//eng)

Engelska kärleksromaner  -- historia (sao)

Amerikanska kärleksromaner  -- historia (sao)

Personnamn

Dailey Janet, 1944-2013

Krentz Jayne Ann, 1948-

Richardson, Samuel, 1689-1761

Austen, Jane, 1775-1817

Brontë, Charlotte, 1816-1855

Trollope, Anthony, 1815-1882

Heyer, Georgette, 1902-1974

Stewart, Mary, 1916-2014

Roberts, Nora, 1950-

Klassifikation

823.08509 (DDC)