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Rewriting the romance: adaptation and appropriation in contemporary historical romance
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2018
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This project analyzes the intertextual relationship between the popular historical romance genre and long-nineteenth century texts it frequently adapts and appropriates. Analyzing this connection reveals both the cultural capital of the source texts and their problems of race, class, and gender that the later texts adapt. First, I analyze popular historical romance novels that cite Mary Wollstonecraft and discuss the ways in which these texts portray Wollstonecrafts reputation as scandalous rather than as feminist. Second, I analyze popular historical romance novels that appropriate Charlotte Brontës Jane Eyre and discuss how these texts uncover Jane Eyres connection to the monster bridegroom fairytale tradition. Finally, I discuss how technology has allowed writing and reading romance to become even more collaborative, which allows readers to voice their varied expectations of romance novels, including their critique of problematic tropes in the genre.
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1 online resource (iv, 79 pages).
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English