J. Wilt 
Women Writers and the Hero of Romance [PDF ebook] 

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Women Writers and the Hero of Romance studies the nature of the hero and his meaning for the female seeker, or quester, in romance fiction from Wuthering Heights to Fifty Shades of Grey. The book includes chapters on Wuthering Heights, Middlemarch, The Scarlet Pimpernel, The Sheik, and the novels of Ayn Rand and Dorothy Dunnett.

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Acknowledgements Preface: In the Place of a Hero 1. Wuthering Heights: A Romance of Metaphysical Intent 2. Middlemarch: A Romance of Diffusion 3. Exotic Romance: the Doubled Hero in The Scarlet Pimpernel and The Sheik 4. The Hero as Expert: Ayn Rand’s Romances of Choice 5. The Hero in ‘Gouvernance’: Family Romance in the Novels of Dorothy Dunnett Conclusion: Kingdoms of Romance in Twilight and Fifty Shades of Grey Bibliography

About the author

Judith Wilt is the Newton College Alumni Chair Emerita at Boston College, USA. She has written books on George Meredith, Walter Scott, and Mary Arnold Ward, as well as the theme studies Ghosts of the Gothic, and Abortion, Choice, and Contemporary Fiction.

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Language English ● Format PDF ● Pages 228 ● ISBN 9781137426987 ● File size 1.1 MB ● Publisher Palgrave Macmillan UK ● City London ● Country GB ● Published 2014 ● Downloadable 24 months ● Currency EUR ● ID 3360132 ● Copy protection Social DRM

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