Doubled plots : romance and history / edited by Susan Strehle and Mary Paniccia Carden.

Contents Introduction : reading romance, reading history / Susan Strehle and Mary Paniccia Carden -- Making love, making history : (anti) romance in Alice McDermott's At weddings and wakes and Charming Billy / Mary Paniccia Carden -- History and the end of romance : Danticat's The farming of bones / Susan Strehle -- Stopping traffic : spectacles of romance and race in The last of the Mohicans / Janet Dean -- What "race" is the sheik? : rereading a desert romance / Susan L. Blake -- Behind the mask of coquetry : the trickster narrative in Miss Numè of Japan : a Japanese-American romance / Huining Ouyang -- Romancing the borderlands : Josephina Niggli's Mexican village / Rita Keresztesi -- What's a nice girl like you doing in a book like this? : homoerotic reading and popular romance / Stephanie Burley -- Desire and the marketplace : a reading of Kathleen Woodiwiss's The flame and the flower / Charles H. Hinnant -- A story of her weaving : the self-authoring heroines of Georgette Heyer's regency romance / Karin E. Westman -- The race, gender, romance connection : a Black feminist reading of African American women's historical romances / Rita B. Dandridge.
Bibliography noteIncludes bibliographical references (p. 213-223) and index.
LCCN 2002156193
ISBN1578065909 (cloth : alk. paper)

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Joyner General Stacks PS374.H5 D68 2003 ✔ Available Place Hold