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This book is the first collected volume to be entirely dedicated to the work of contemporary Anglo-American writer Patrick McGrath. It follows the international conference that was held in his presence at Perpignan University, France, in May 2011. It comprises nine chapters (as well as an introduction and an index) written by scholars specializing in Gothic and American literature, each dealing with specific aspects of McGrath's work. The volume seeks to encompass the author's whole literary...

Romance fiction, English --- English romance fiction --- Love stories, English --- English fiction --- History and criticism. --- McGrath, Patrick, --- McGrath, P. --- Criticism and interpretation. --- Romance-language fiction, English

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The Historical Romance explores the ways in which romance authors seek to represent our fantasies of life in the past. Examining how the cut-and-thrust swashbucklers of the 1930's gave way to female-orientated romances, Helen Hughes takes a comprehensive look at how romance authors have dealt with the turbulent question of female independence, and how traditional attitudes towards love, marriage and women's sexuality have been approached in more recent texts. Hughes also charts the ways in which the marketing of romance has developed, with the eventual explosion of the mass market and

Romance languages --- History. --- English fiction --- Historical fiction, English --- Love stories, English --- English romance fiction --- History and criticism --- 804 --- 804 Romaanse taalkunde --- Romaanse taalkunde --- History --- Romance fiction, English --- History and criticism. --- Langues romanes --- Histoire --- Historical linguistics --- Romance-language fiction, English

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Originally published in 1994. In The Improvement of the Estate, Alistair Duckworth contends that understanding Mansfield Park is fundamental to appreciating Jane Austen's body of work. Professor Duckworth understands Mansfield Park as underscoring the central uniting theme in Austen's work—her concept of the "estate" and its "improvement." The author illustrates Austen's connection to the values of Christian humanism, which she conveys through the uniting theme of estate improvement. According to Duckworth, the estate represents moral and social heritage, so the manner in which individuals seek to improve their estates in Jane Austen's novels represents the direction in which she saw the state and society moving. Finally, Duckworth underscores Austen's awareness of the importance of a society of individuals whose behavior is socially informed.

Administration of estates. --- Social problems in literature. --- Romance fiction, English --- Women and literature --- Literature and society --- History and criticism. --- History --- Austen, Jane, --- Political and social views. --- Literature: history & criticism --- Romance-language fiction, English

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Originally published in 1994. In The Improvement of the Estate, Alistair Duckworth contends that understanding Mansfield Park is fundamental to appreciating Jane Austen's body of work. Professor Duckworth understands Mansfield Park as underscoring the central uniting theme in Austen's work—her concept of the "estate" and its "improvement." The author illustrates Austen's connection to the values of Christian humanism, which she conveys through the uniting theme of estate improvement. According to Duckworth, the estate represents moral and social heritage, so the manner in which individuals seek to improve their estates in Jane Austen's novels represents the direction in which she saw the state and society moving. Finally, Duckworth underscores Austen's awareness of the importance of a society of individuals whose behavior is socially informed.

Administration of estates. --- Social problems in literature. --- Romance fiction, English --- Women and literature --- Literature and society --- History and criticism. --- History --- Austen, Jane, --- Political and social views. --- Literature: history & criticism --- Romance-language fiction, English

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""Find your one true love and live happily ever after." The trials of love and desire provide perennial story material, from the BiblicalSong of Songsto Disney's princesses, but perhaps most provocatively in the romance novel, a genre known for tales of fantasy and desire, sex and pleasure. Hailed on the one hand for its women-centered stories that can be sexually liberating, and criticized on the other for its emphasis on male/female coupling and mythical happy endings, romance fiction is a multi-million dollar publishing phenomenon, creating national and international societies of enthusiasts, practitioners, and scholars. Catherine M. Roach, alongside her romance-writer alter-ego, Catherine LaRoche, guides the reader deep into Romancelandia where the smart and the witty combine with the sexy and seductive to explore why this genre has such a grip on readers and what we can learn from the romance novel about the nature of happiness, love, sex, and desire in American popular culture." -- Provided by publisher.

Romance fiction, American --- Romance fiction, English --- Women in literature. --- Love in literature. --- Popular literature --- History and criticism. --- Literature, Popular --- Books and reading --- Popular culture --- Woman (Christian theology) in literature --- Women in drama --- Women in poetry --- English romance fiction --- Love stories, English --- English fiction --- American romance fiction --- Love stories, American --- American fiction --- Thematology --- American literature --- Romance-language fiction, American --- Romance-language fiction, English