The historical romance / by Hughes, Helen, 1937-

Table of Contents: “…Chapter 1 Introduction -- chapter 2 The structures of historical romance -- chapter 3 The readers of historical romance -- chapter 4 Evolution versus revolution The inevitability of the bourgeois state -- chapter 5 English heritage -- chapter 6 Class, the gospel of work and 'hazard' -- chapter 7 'Brute heroes' and 'spirited heroines' -- chapter 8 History, best-sellers and the media.…”
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Historical romance linguistics : retrospective and perspectives /

Table of Contents: “…HISTORICAL ROMANCE LINGUISTICS -- Editorial page -- Title page -- LCC data -- Table of Contents -- EDITORS' FOREWORD -- INTRODUCTION -- 1. …”
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Hawthorne and the Historical Romance of New England / by Bell, Michael Davitt

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Stirring age : Scott, Byron and the historical romance / by McColl, Robert Duncan

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The clansman : an historical romance of the Ku Klux Klan / by Dixon, Thomas, Jr., 1864-1946

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Failed frontiersmen : white men and myth in the post-sixties American historical romance / by Donahue, James J., 1974-

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Injun Joe's ghost : the Indian mixed-blood in American writing by Brown, Harry J. (Harry John), 1972-

Table of Contents: “…Miscegenation and Degeneracy in Antebellum Historical Romance -- Homo Criminalis and Half-Breed Outlaws in the Dime Western -- From Biological to Cultural Hybridity in Cogewea, Sundown, and Twentieth-Century Magazine Fiction -- Epilogue: Contemporary Reflections on Mixed Descent.…”
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Cinema at the end of empire : a politics of transition in Britain and India by Jaikumar, Priya, 1967-

Table of Contents: “…Film policy and film aesthetics as cultural archives -- Acts of transition: the British cinematograph films acts of 1927 and 1938 -- Empire and embarrassment: colonial forms of knowledge about cinema -- Realism and empire -- Romance and empire -- Modernism and empire -- Historical romances and modernist myths in Indian cinema.…”
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Archives of American time : literature and modernity in the nineteenth century by Pratt, Lloyd, 1967-

Table of Contents: “…Introduction: Written to the future -- Figures of print, orders of time, and the character of American modernity -- "A magnificent fragment" : dialects of time and the American historical romance -- Local time : southwestern humor and nineteenth-century literary regionalism -- The deprivation of time in African American life writing -- Epilogue: The spatial turn and the scale of freedom.…”
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Archives of American time : literature and modernity in the nineteenth century by Pratt, Lloyd, 1967-

Table of Contents: “…Introduction: Written to the future -- Figures of print, orders of time, and the character of American modernity -- "A magnificent fragment" : dialects of time and the American historical romance -- Local time : southwestern humor and nineteenth-century literary regionalism -- The deprivation of time in African American life writing -- Epilogue: The spatial turn and the scale of freedom.…”
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Desert passions : Orientalism and romance novels by Teo, Hsu-Ming, 1970-

Table of Contents: “…Hull's The Sheik -- The spectacular East : romantic Orientalism in America -- The Orientalist historical romance novel -- The contemporary sheik romance novel : the historical background -- Harems, houris, heroines, and heroes -- From tourism to terrorism -- Reader responses to the modern Orientalist romance novel.…”
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Desert passions : Orientalism and romance novels by Teo, Hsu-Ming, 1970-

Table of Contents: “…Hull's The Sheik -- The spectacular East : romantic Orientalism in America -- The Orientalist historical romance novel -- The contemporary sheik romance novel : the historical background -- Harems, houris, heroines, and heroes -- From tourism to terrorism -- Reader responses to the modern Orientalist romance novel.…”
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American Gothic art and architecture in the age of Romantic literature by Carso, Kerry Dean

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The Scottish romance tradition c.1375-c.1550 : nation, chivalry and knighthood by Mainer, Sergi

Table of Contents: “…Cover; Title Page; Copyright Page; Table of Contents; Acknowledgements; Preface Contextualising Medieval Scottish Romance; Introduction Late Medieval Scotland and the Romance Tradition; Chapter One National Constructs in the Medieval Scottish Romances; Chapter Two The Hero's Progression; Chapter Three The Historical Romances; Chapter Four The Arthurian Romances; Chapter Five The Alexander and Charlemagne Romances; Conclusion The Scottish Romance Tradition; Bibliography; Index.…”
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Music for the Melodramatic Theatre in Nineteenth-Century London and New York. by Pisani, Michael V.

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The creation of Anne Boleyn : a new look at England's most notorious queen by Bordo, Susan, 1947-

Table of Contents: “…-- Recipes for "Anne Boleyn" -- Basic historical ingredients -- Anne's afterlives, from she-tragedy to historical romance -- Postwar: domestic trouble in the house of Tudor -- An Anne for all seasons -- It's the Anne that makes the movie: "Anne of the Thousand Days" -- The Tudors -- Chapuys' revenge -- Anne gets the last word (for now).…”
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Descendants of Waverley : Romancing History in Contemporary Historical Fiction. by Bowden, Martha F.

Table of Contents: “…THE METAMORPHOSIS OF THE HISTORICAL ROMANCE.…”
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Romance Comparative and Historical Linguistics.

Table of Contents: “…Dembowski Romance historical syntax; 1.3 Historical lexical studies; Rebecca Posner Historical Romance lexicology and semantics; Jerry R. Craddock, Steven N. …”
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Landscapes of language : the achievement and context of Richard Brautigan's fiction by Tanner, John, 1944-

Table of Contents: “…Introduction -- Introduction -- Chapter One: In Fragments -- Chapter Two: Cultivating the hybrids -- The Pill versus the Springhill Mine Disaster -- Revenge of the Lawn -- Chapter Three: Things fall apart -- A Confederate General from Big Sur -- Chapter Four: Language as mindscape -- In Watermelon Sugar -- Chapter Five: Escape from the tomb of words -- The Abortion: An Historical Romance 1966 -- Chapter Six: Beyond metafiction -- Trout Fishing in America…”
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Space, utopia and Indian decolonization : literary pre-figurations of the postcolony by Banerjee, Sandeep

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The historical imagination in nineteenth-century Britain and the Low Countries

Table of Contents: “…. -- 'Retro-fitting the past': literary historicism between the golden spurs and Waterloo / Joep Leerssen -- The Victorians, the Dark Ages and English national identity / Joanne Parker -- 'A true conception of history': 'making the past part of the present' in late Victorian historical romances / Anna Vaninskaya -- The past imagined in the visual arts. -- Picturing patriotism: the image of the artist-hero and the Belgian nation state, 1830-1900 / Jenny Graham -- A few painters, a few heroes and many factory workers: in search of the historical culture of Belgian immigrants in northern France, 1850-1914 / Saartje Vanden Borre and Tom Verschaffel -- 'Retracing the history of our country': national history painting and engraving in Britain and the Low Countries during the nineteenth century / Hugh Dunthorne.…”
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The Routledge research companion to popular romance fiction

Table of Contents: “…Gothic romance -- 5. The historical romance -- 6. Paranormal romance and urban fantasy -- 7. …”
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A companion to the American novel

Table of Contents: “…Fear, Ambiguity, and Transgression: The Gothic Novel in the United States / Charles L Crow -- The American Historical Romance: From James Fenimore Cooper and Nathaniel Hawthorne to Toni Morrison, Louise Erdrich, and E.L. …”
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Sublime Desire : History and Post-1960s Fiction. by Elias, Amy J.

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Sublime Desire : History and Post-1960s Fiction. by Elias, Amy J.

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Comparative historical dialectology : Italo-Romance clues to Ibero-Romance sound change by Cravens, Thomas D.

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Ivanhoe : a Romance. by Scott, Walter, 1771-1832

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The eighteenth-century novel and contemporary social issues : an introduction by Sim, Stuart

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A history of Canadian literature by New, William H.

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The emergence of the modern language sciences : studies on the transition from historical-comparative to structural linguistics in honour of E.F.K. Koerner. Volume 2, Methodologica...

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Dorian Unbound Transnational Decadence and the Wilde Archive. by O'Toole, Sean

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