Women Writers and the Hero of Romance [electronic resource] /
Wilt, J.author.
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.
Description based upon print version of record.
Cover; Contents; Acknowledgements; Introduction: 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; Index
Includes bibliographical references and index.
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.
Fiction.
Literature—Philosophy.
Literature, Modern—19th century.
Literature, Modern—20th century.
America—Literatures.
British literature.
Fiction.
Literary Theory.
Nineteenth-Century Literature.
Twentieth-Century Literature.
North American Literature.
British and Irish Literature.