Modernism and the Women's Popular Romance in Britain, 1885-1925.
- 1st ed.
- 1 online resource (316 pages)
Intro -- Cover -- Half title -- Title -- Copyright -- Dedication -- Contents -- Acknowledgments -- Introduction -- 1. Contexts of Popular Romance, 1885-1925 -- 2. Mary Ward's Romances and the Literary Field -- 3. Marie Corelli and the Discourse of Romance -- 4. The Women's Romance and the Ideology of Form -- 5. The Imperial Erotic Romance -- 6. Modernism and the Romance of Interiority -- Notes -- Bibliography -- Index.
Today's mass-market romances have their precursors in late Victorian popular novels written by and for women.
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English fiction--Women authors--History and criticism. Modernism (Literature)--Great Britain. Women and literature--Great Britain--History--20th century. Women and literature--Great Britain--History--19th century. Popular literature--Great Britain. Books and reading--Great Britain.