Historical Romance Fiction: Heterosexuality and Performativity

Lisa Fletcher moves the debate about the value and appeal of heterosexual romance onto new ground, testing the claims of speech-act and performativity theorists on everything from popular classics by Georgette Heyer, to 'bodice rippers, ' to historical fiction by John Fowles and A. S. Byatt. Nominating 'I love you' as the romance novel's defining speech act, Fletcher offers a lively mix of theoretical arguments and suggestive close readings.

• | Author: Lisa Fletcher
• | Publisher: Routledge
• | Publication Date: Mar 28, 2008
• | Number of Pages: 186 pages
• | Binding: Hardback or Cased Book
• | ISBN-10: 0754662020
• | ISBN-13: 9780754662020