The Romantic Fiction Of Mills & Boon, 1909-1995
The Romantic Fiction Of Mills & Boon, 1909-1995 (Women's and Gender History) by Dixon Jay, Jay Dixon.
1999 | ISBN: 1857282671, 1857282663 | English | 232 pages | PDF | 11 MB
1999 | ISBN: 1857282671, 1857282663 | English | 232 pages | PDF | 11 MB
This study to analyzes romantic fiction's depiction of women as part of the broader history of ideas about women.; Given the success of the Mills & Boon romance, their portrayal of subjects like sex, love, marriage, class, motherhood and femineity are important cultural barometers and make interesting study.; The author shows how all these themes have an historical trajectory and how these novels have come to reflect feminist concerns.; Based on a study of over 1000 Mills & Boon romances the book provides analysis of plot types and shows how these have changed in response to women's own changing position within society.