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Showing 1 to 8 of 8 for “"Romantic fiction"”.
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Travelling in Language and Image: Representing Alterity in French Romantic Fiction, Travel Narrative, Journalism, and Art, 1830--1870
… cultural phenomenon of French society during the Romantic period. This study suggests that having appropriated the theme of the competition---or collaboration---between images and words, vision and language, visuality and discursivity, the works by Delacroix, Fromentin, Sand, and Merimee represent …
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Reading the Gothic at Madame Rivardi's Seminary/Prodigal Sons and Virtuous Daughters
… women in their discussions of gothic novels and romantic fiction, I argue that young women’s engagement with these texts defied the expectations of educators and moralists, especially in regards to the practice known today as sympathetic identification. By reading, comparing, and identifying with …
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Blossom from a Crack in Stone: A Maslovian Study of Chinese Danmei Readers
… Chinese danmei genre — female-authored male–male romantic fiction — as a significant form of gendered popular culture. Combining historical contextualisation, reader-response theory, and thematic narrative analysis, the study adopts Maslow’s hierarchy of needs to offer a comprehensive explanation …
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As Runs the Deer
These eleven chapters comprise Part One of a novel of thirty-seven chapters, entitled As Runs the Deer. It is a dialectic play on the processes of Time, as well as a play with evolving dialects. Nominally set in the 19th c., in an Appalachian-like terrain, it shows the difficulties James Ian …
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History, revolution and the British popular novel: historical fiction in the romantic age
… its focus the significant role which historical fiction played within the French Revolution debate and its aftermath. Examining the complex intersection of the genre with the political and historical dialogue generated by the French Revolution crisis, the thesis contends that contemporary …
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Writing American Soldiers: Nineteenth-Century Varieties of Military Experience
… Wars through the lens of the historical war fiction of James Fenimore Cooper and Herman Melville. Cooper's The Spy associates the memory of war with the unfortunate martyrdom of John Andre, a British spy executed for his complicity in Benedict Arnold's treason. By representing war's …
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Dangerous men: the crisis of masculinity in Romantic women's fiction
… writing, and feminist literary studies in the Romantic period. I address a gap in Romantic-era scholarship by interrogating how proto-Byronic and Austenian heroes reflect societal and authorial attitudes toward men and often incompatible masculine forms of behavior. Keen observers of their …