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Title:

Doubled plots : romance and history / edited by Susan Strehle and Mary Paniccia Carden.

Publisher:

University Press of Mississippi,

Copyright Date:

c2003

Description:

xxxiii, 232 p. ; 24 cm.

Subject:

Historical fiction, American--History and criticism.
American fiction--History and criticism--History and criticism
English fiction--History and criticism--History and criticism
Historical fiction, English--History and criticism.
Romance fiction, American--History and criticism.
Romance fiction, English--History and criticism.
Literature and history--United States.
Literature and history--Great Britain.
Women and literature--United States.
Women and literature--Great Britain.
Plots (Drama, novel, etc.)

Other Authors:

Strehle, Susan.
Carden, Mary Paniccia.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references (p. 213-223) and index.

Contents:

Introduction : reading romance, reading history / Susan Strehle and Mary Paniccia Carden -- Making love, making history : (anti) romance in Alice McDermott's At weddings and wakes and Charming Billy / Mary Paniccia Carden -- History and the end of romance : Danticat's The farming of bones / Susan Strehle -- Stopping traffic : spectacles of romance and race in The last of the Mohicans / Janet Dean -- What "race" is the sheik? : rereading a desert romance / Susan L. Blake -- Behind the mask of coquetry : the trickster narrative in Miss Num©· of Japan : a Japanese-American romance / Huining Ouyang -- Romancing the borderlands : Josephina Niggli's Mexican village / Rita Keresztesi -- What's a nice girl like you doing in a book like this? : homoerotic reading and popular romance / Stephanie Burley -- Desire and the marketplace : a reading of Kathleen Woodiwiss's The flame and the flower / Charles H. Hinnant -- A story of her weaving : the self-authoring heroines of Georgette Heyer's regency romance / Karin E. Westman -- The race, gender, romance connection : a Black feminist reading of African American women's historical romances / Rita B. Dandridge.

ISBN:

9781578065905
1578065909 (cloth : alk. paper)

OCLC:

(OCoLC)51342442

LCCN:

2002156193

Locations:

USUX851 -- Iowa State University - Parks Library (Ames)

OVUX522 -- University of Iowa Libraries (Iowa City)