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Women writers and the hero of romance

Record Type:	Language materials, printed : Monograph/item
Title/Author:	Women writers and the hero of romance/ Judith Wilt.
Author:	Wilt, Judith,
Published:	Basingstoke :Palgrave Macmillan : : 2014.,
Description:	240 p.
Notes:	Electronic book text.
Subject:	American fiction - Women authors -
Online resource:	Online journal 'available contents' page
ISBN:	1137426985 (electronic bk.) :

Women writers and the hero of romance
Wilt, Judith,1941-

Women writers and the hero of romance[electronic resource] /Judith Wilt. - 1st ed. - Basingstoke :Palgrave Macmillan :2014. - 240 p.

Electronic book text.

Acknowledgements Preface: In the Place of a Hero 1. Wuthering Heights: A Romance of Metaphysical Intent 2. Middlemarch: A Romance of Diffusion 3. Exotic Romance: the Doubled Hero in The Scarlet Pimpernel and The Sheik 4. The Hero as Expert: Ayn Rand's Romances of Choice 5. The Hero in 'Gouvernance': Family Romance in the Novels of Dorothy Dunnett Conclusion: Kingdoms of Romance in Twilight and Fifty Shades of Grey Bibliography.

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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.What does the heroine seek from the hero in a romance - self enhancement or self-sharing? Submission or dominance? A place in this world or a world apart? Drawing together classics like Wuthering Heights and Middlemarch, epics from Ayn Rand and Dorothy Dunnett, and pop culture romances from The Scarlet Pimpernel and The Sheik to the Twilight and Fifty Shades of Grey sagas, Judith Wilt depicts the feminine imagination conceiving the hero as 'the girl' in pursuit of a transcendent self, as the mother looking for a partner in community...and in fifty shades between these figures. The Catherines of Wuthering Heights are allegories of Leaving and Loving; Middlemarch both an allegory of will and a romance between the heroine and (her) Will Ladislaw; the dangerous lovers of twentieth and twenty-first century romance go to masochistic extremes. And the reader finds pleasures both radical and conservative in the controversial domain of 'romance.'.

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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.

ISBN: 1137426985 (electronic bk.) :£55.00Subjects--Topical Terms:

570309
American fiction
--Women authors

LC Class. No.: PR830.L69 / W557 2014

Dewey Class. No.: 823.085099287

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