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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

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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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语言英语 ● 格式 PDF ● 网页 228 ● ISBN 9781137426987 ● 文件大小 1.1 MB ● 出版者 Palgrave Macmillan UK ● 市 London ● 国家 GB ● 发布时间 2014 ● 下载 24 个月 ● 货币 EUR ● ID 3360132 ● 复制保护 社会DRM

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