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From:St. James Guide to Crime & Mystery Writers (4th ed.)Victoria Holt was a prolific writer of romantic suspense novels. Her vivid descriptions and well-rounded characters absorb the reader into the stories' intricate plots. These plots are various; yet, death, love,...
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From: CommentaryThe hosannas that have greeted E. L. Doctorow's Ragtime, elevating the book to instant commercial success and its author to literary stardom, have already prompted one early celebrant—Raymond Sokolov, writing in the...
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From:Language and Speech (Vol. 48, Issue 4) Peer-ReviewedAbstract The article describes the contrastive possibilities of alignment of high accents in three Romance varieties, namely, Central Catalan, Neapolitan Italian, and Pisa Italian. The Romance languages analyzed in...
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From:German Politics and Society (Vol. 19, Issue 2) Peer-ReviewedWithin the enormous body of critical writings dedicated to literary works devoted to the Shoah, the possibility of its very representation and the problems arising in the potential deformation of memory are frequent...
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From:Studies in American Jewish Literature (Vol. 35, Issue 2) Peer-ReviewedABSTRACT The essay examines a series of male-authored North American romance novels set in the midst of the Spanish Civil war, to argue that their common plots of cross-cultural love--between North American gentile...
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From:Publishers Weekly (Vol. 258, Issue 46)Over the past few years, authors have felt increasing pressure to promote their works and brands online. This is especially true in the romance world, where wired readers have been quick to adopt e-books, and book...
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From:Tydskrif vir Letterkunde (Vol. 55, Issue 1) Peer-ReviewedThis article provides a feminist critique of representation, analysing the way sexual and racial others are represented in the work of the Afrikaans popular romantic fiction writer Sophia Kapp. Comparing her first three...
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From:Reference Guide to English Literature (2nd ed.)John Lyly graduated as Master of Arts from Oxford, where he had enjoyed the patronage of Lord Burleigh, Elizabeth I's lord high treasurer. He gained a position as secretary to the Earl of Oxford, Burleigh's son-in-law...
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From:Sidney Journal (Vol. 34, Issue 2) Peer-ReviewedIn addition to gracing the first pages of the published portion of Mary Wroth's Countess of Montgomery's Urania (1621), this frontispiece would have hung in a bookseller's shop to lure prospective customers into buying...
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From:Folklore (Vol. 113, Issue 2) Peer-ReviewedAbstract Women are the principal informants in the modern oral tradition of Hispanic balladry, the romancero. This fact conditions the point of view, ideologies, and perceptions expressed in the ballads. Critics...
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From:Publishers Weekly (Vol. 256, Issue 46)No Mercy by Sherdlyn Kenyon. St. Martin's, $24.99, Aug. 2010. ISBN 978.0-312-54656-4. Ecstasy Unveiled by Larissa lone. Grand Central, $6.99 paper, Feb. ISBN 978-0-446-55682-8. Gentlemen Prefer Succubi by Jill...
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From:Studies in Romanticism (Vol. 55, Issue 2) Peer-ReviewedI. "A Perfect Potosi" IN A STRIKING SCENE FROM JOHN GIBSON LOCKHART'S 1819 NOVEL PETER'S Letters to His Kinsfolk, the eponymous Welsh protagonist Peter Morris meets a fictionalized version of William Blackwood, who...
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From:Wordsworth Circle (Vol. 49, Issue 1) Peer-ReviewedFor a while, it seemed that the Romantics would not be remembered at all. Many early-Victorian commentators worried that the writing of the recent past no longer compelled readers' interest, and that it would soon be...
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From:Studies in the Novel (Vol. 32, Issue 3) Peer-ReviewedThe disruption of the assembled crowd's visual expectation is also fully consistent with the novel's central scene of sound versus vision when Rebecca at Torquilstone must persuade Ivanhoe to give up his...
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From: Romance Languages Annual[(essay date 1996) In the following essay, Runte discusses the differences between the courtly and common romance, noting that the courtly form employs “inescapably ambivalent language” for the purpose of deception....
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From:Nordic Journal of English Studies (Vol. 16, Issue 2) Peer-ReviewedThe following essay offers a close reading of an obscure imperial short story, Gertrude Page's 'A Terror That Saved' (1912), in order to question the assumptions that short fiction about imperial adventure is...
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From:Studies in English Literature, 1500-1900 (Vol. 47, Issue 3) Peer-ReviewedJerome Christensen has observed that "[f]or Hume and his fellow men of letters the general term that subsumed 'discourse' and 'conversation' was 'correspondence,'" and that "correspondence" was so multivalent in the...
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From:Studies in the Novel (Vol. 49, Issue 2) Peer-ReviewedCritical interest in the works of Henry Rider Haggard has always turned upon his status as a writer--perhaps the writer--of imperial romance. (1) Neil Hultgren's survey of Haggard criticism shows that even prior to the...
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From:Romance Notes (Vol. 58, Issue 1) Peer-ReviewedEn memoire a mon pere Denis de Rougemont explique, dans L'Amour et l'Occident, que, depuis des siecles, l'adultere est un theme central des litteratures europeennes. Et la litterature francaise n'y fait pas...