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The Romantic Fiction of Mills and Boon, 1909-1995.

By: Contributor(s): Material type: TextTextSeries: Women's and Gender History SeriesPublisher: Oxford : Taylor & Francis Group, 1999Copyright date: ©1998Edition: 1st edDescription: 1 online resource (233 pages)Content type:
  • text
Media type:
  • computer
Carrier type:
  • online resource
ISBN:
  • 9781134217373
Subject(s): Genre/Form: Additional physical formats: Print version:: The Romantic Fiction of Mills and Boon, 1909-1995DDC classification:
  • 823/.08509091
LOC classification:
  • PR888.L69D59 1999
Online resources:
Contents:
Cover -- Half Title -- Title Page -- Copyright Page -- Dedication -- Table of Contents -- Foreword -- Acknowledgements -- Introduction -- 1 A Short History of Mills &amp -- Boon - A very profitable small firm -- 2 Reader, Author, Editor - Many hours of pleasant reading -- 3 1910s - Society and Exotic, City and Country -- 4 Hero - You brought me to life -- 5 Heroine - Mirror Image -- 6 War and Aftermath - You give me redemption -- 7 Work - The smothering of the creative spark ... could be a sort of murder -- 8 Sex - We got all the damned foreplay over with months ago -- 9 Love and Marriage - Harbour of desire -- 10 Feminism - I'm not a feminist, but ... -- Bibliography and Further Reading -- Index of Mills &amp -- Boon Authors -- General Index.
Summary: Analyzes romantic fiction and its depiction of women within its historical context and as part of the history of ideas about women. This volume discusses such areas as: early years - class and wealth; and the twenties - sex and violence.
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Cover -- Half Title -- Title Page -- Copyright Page -- Dedication -- Table of Contents -- Foreword -- Acknowledgements -- Introduction -- 1 A Short History of Mills &amp -- Boon - A very profitable small firm -- 2 Reader, Author, Editor - Many hours of pleasant reading -- 3 1910s - Society and Exotic, City and Country -- 4 Hero - You brought me to life -- 5 Heroine - Mirror Image -- 6 War and Aftermath - You give me redemption -- 7 Work - The smothering of the creative spark ... could be a sort of murder -- 8 Sex - We got all the damned foreplay over with months ago -- 9 Love and Marriage - Harbour of desire -- 10 Feminism - I'm not a feminist, but ... -- Bibliography and Further Reading -- Index of Mills &amp -- Boon Authors -- General Index.

Analyzes romantic fiction and its depiction of women within its historical context and as part of the history of ideas about women. This volume discusses such areas as: early years - class and wealth; and the twenties - sex and violence.

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