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Judith Wilt - Women Writers and the Hero of Romance - 9781349490974 - V9781349490974
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Women Writers and the Hero of Romance

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Description for Women Writers and the Hero of Romance paperback. 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. Num Pages: 235 pages, biography. BIC Classification: DSA; DSBF; DSBH. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 216 x 140. .
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.

Product Details

Format
Paperback
Publication date
2014
Publisher
Palgrave Macmillan United Kingdom
Number of pages
235
Condition
New
Number of Pages
228
Place of Publication
Basingstoke, United Kingdom
ISBN
9781349490974
SKU
V9781349490974
Shipping Time
Usually ships in 15 to 20 working days
Ref
99-15

About Judith Wilt
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.

Reviews for Women Writers and the Hero of Romance
"Always incomparable, Judith Wilt has never been better. This revisionist genre study not of heroes or heroines exactly, but of hero-worship in a certain strain of romance fiction, is learned, scrupulous, wide-ranging, witty, confident, and captivating, full of more ideas per chapter than in many whole books, inhabiting the novels at issue from the inside out with a tenacious charm ... Read more

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