... texts from the celebrated through the marginalized to the almost entirely forgotten. It assesses the interactions—often vexed, sometimes deeply congruent—between Romantic poetry and nonfiction prose, and between Romantic fiction and nonfiction. It reimagines comparisons, confronts paradoxes, considers...

... John Graham Donnelly Daniel Edinburgh Bowles Caroline ‘Letter from a Washerwoman’ Descartes René Hobbes Thomas Kant Immanuel Williams John parody satire Gothic parodies Menippean satire Thomas Love Peacock Blackwood’s Edinburgh Magazine Romantic fiction Romantic periodicals Two centuries...

...Under the Bhasha Gaze. PP Raveendran, Oxford University Press. © PP Raveendran 2023. DOI: 10.1093/oso/9780192871558.003.0017 This chapter discusses the literary output of S.K. Pottekkat, fictionist and travel writer, who thought of himself basically as a writer of romantic fiction...

... their fiction lists. Romantic fiction may have dominated the publication list in the 1920s, but Mills & Boon did not neglect its non-fiction list, including its traditional bread-and-butter line, educational textbooks. Sales of textbooks continued strong and steady during the decade. In his decisions, Boon...

... popular culture imagining shop-girls as potent figures of sexual fantasy. Musical comedies and romantic fiction presented them as ‘swashbucklers in petticoats’, adroit at managing their sexuality to ensnare the unwary. Together, these representations sustained a vivid cultural conflict about the shop...

... by the Grimms and Ludwig Bechstein, to 19th-century romantic fiction, the savagery of High Modernism, and 20th-century versions such as that of the Surrealist Unica Zürn. While the focus is on literature in German, this is the first full-length study published in any language of the history of Bluebeard....

...This chapter examines the civilizing impulse in Sir Gawain and the Green Knight by considering the opposite of civilization or the world outside the castle. Unlike most authors of romantic fiction, the author of this work has an eye for the detail that can create an illusion...

... Didot Perceval Raoul de Houdenc Vance Eugene Fineman Joel Hartmann von Aue Erec Sir Amadace Sir Gawain and the Green Knight hospitality French romance Arthurian romance romantic fiction Chretien de Troyes I have suggested in my previous chapter that the representation...

... curiously modern. She married at age thirty-three and identified herself as a reader and writer more than as a wife and mother. Enthralled by romantic fiction, she wrote extensively about the disillusioning blows that reality can deal to fantasy. This book is a portrait of the writer as reader...

...-twentieth centuries. While the symbolic ‘face of Scotland’ and its attendant mental landscape have been produced and debated in many genres, including travel literature, romantic fiction, and social commentary, links between popular understandings of identity and visual material — particularly photographs...

...This is the first history of Mills & Boon, the British publishing phenomenon that has become a household name, synonymous with romantic fiction. This book, published on the firm's 90th anniversary, gives a history of Mills & Boon, drawing upon a long-lost archive of over 50,000 letters...

.... The result was a spectacular success, a soothing combination of realistic instruction and escapism. Mills & Boon was founded by Gerald Mills and Charles Boon. It was not founded as a romantic fiction publishing house, although its first book was, prophetically, a romance: Arrows from the Dark...

... readers. But under closer scrutiny, there are several ‘myths’ about the firm and romantic fiction, namely the Orwellian agenda, ‘regressive’ storylines, the formula, and the dominating imprint. In this study, the archival material is enhanced and supplemented by interviews conducted with major and minor...

...By 1929, the firm's best-selling authors were all writing romantic fiction. The 1930s heralds a boom for Mills & Boon, a golden age for the company. An analysis of the firm's balance sheet during this period shows the extent of Mills & Boon's financial recovery before the Second World War...

...This introductory chapter explains the coverage of this book, which is about the connection between the romantic fiction Sir Gawain and the Green Knight and the French tradition of Arthurian romance. This book specifically examines the connections between the heroic ideal...

... in the 1950s, and how romantic fiction reinforced a positive view of the NHS among middle- and working-class readers. In a departure from the past, Mills & Boon authors brought their own work experience as nurses to bear in crafting a more realistic, sometimes gritty background for their love stories...

...The 1930s was still a time of experimentation, and novels were novels in their own right. Charles Boon did not impose many restrictions on his authors and, to a large extent, relied on the authors for guidance on current tastes and attitudes. Boon's views on romantic fiction were undoubtedly shaped...

...In a time when reading increased along with the desire to escape from the harsh everyday reality, Mills & Boon's romantic fiction sold well. In all respects the basic tenets of the fledgeling Mills & Boon editorial policy — Lubbock's Law, the Alphaman, the happy ending, and a wholesome...

... and the Green Knight social function romantic fiction Chretien de Troyes feudal knighthood feudal values In my previous chapter I have taken issue with interpretations of courtly romance as an idealized portrayal of an entrenched nobility. Such interpretations form part of a more general trend...