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Historical Romance Fiction: Heterosexuality and Performativity

Historical Romance Fiction: Heterosexuality and Performativity

Hardcover

Literary Criticism

ISBN10: 0754662020
ISBN13: 9780754662020
Publisher: Routledge
Published: Mar 28 2008
Pages: 186
Weight: 0.97
Height: 0.50 Width: 6.14 Depth: 9.21
Language: English
Lisa Fletcher moves the debate about the value and appeal of heterosexual romance onto new ground, testing the claims of speech-act and performativity theorists on everything from popular classics by Georgette Heyer, to 'bodice rippers, ' to historical fiction by John Fowles and A. S. Byatt. Nominating 'I love you' as the romance novel's defining speech act, Fletcher offers a lively mix of theoretical arguments and suggestive close readings.

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