A Companion to Romance
Copyright © 2004 by Blackwell Publishing Ltd
Editor(s): Corinne Saunders
Published Online: 10 DEC 2007
Print ISBN: 9780631232711
Online ISBN: 9780470999172
DOI: 10.1002/9780470999172
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Romance is a varied and fluid literary genre, notoriously difficult to define. This groundbreaking Companion surveys the many permutations of romance throughout the ages.
- Considers the literary and historical development of the romance genre from its classical origins to the present day
- Incorporates discussion of the changing readership of romance and of romance's special relation to women readers
- Comprises 30 essays written by leading authorities on different periods and sub-genres
- Challenges the idea that the appeal of romance is exclusively escapist
- Draws on a wide range of specific and influential literary examples