1st Edition

The Romantic Fiction Of Mills & Boon, 1909-1995

By Dixon, Jay, Jay Dixon. Copyright 1998
232 Pages
by Routledge

232 Pages
by Routledge

232 Pages
by Routledge

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... Read more
Introduction: Mills & Boon have a happy knack of discovering the popular author; Chapter 1 A Short History of Mills & Boon – A very profitable small firm; Chapter 2 Reader, Author, Editor – Many hours of pleasant reading; Chapter 3 1910s – Society and Exotic, City and Country; Chapter 4 Hero – You brought me to life; Chapter 5 Heroine – Mirror Image; Chapter 6 War and Aftermath – You give me redemption; Chapter 7 Work – The smothering of the creative spark … could he a sort of murder; Chapter 8 Sex – We got all the damned foreplay over with months ago; Chapter 9 Love and Marriage – Harbour of desire; Chapter 10 Feminism – I’m not a feminist, but …;

Biography

jay Dixon