Georgette Heyer, history, and historical fiction /

Georgette Heyer, History, and Historical Fiction brings together an eclectic range of chapters to explore the work and influence of novelist, Georgette Heyer.

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Online Access: Access full-text online via JSTOR
Other authors / contributors: Rayner, Samantha J. (Editor), Wilkins, Kim (Editor)
Imprint: London : UCL Press, 2021.
Format: Electronic
Language:English
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Table of Contents:
  • List of figures and tables
  • List of contributors
  • Acknowledgements
  • Introduction: the Persistence of Georgette Heyer / Samantha Rayner and Kim Wilkins
  • Part 1: Gender
  • 1.'Where History says little, Fiction may say much' (Anna Barbauld): the historical novel in women's hands in the mid-twentieth century / Kathryn Sutherland
  • 2. The not so silly ass: Freddy Standen, his fictional contemporaries and alternative masculinity / Geraldine Perriam
  • 3. Judith Taverner as dandy-in-training in Georgette Heyer's Regency Buck, / Laura George
  • Part 2: Genre
  • 4. Pride and prejudice: metafiction and the value of historical romance in Georgette Heyer / Kim Sherwood
  • 5. Loving and giving: realism, emotional hypocrisy, and generosity in A Civil Contract / Jennifer Clement
  • 6. Georgette Heyer and redefining the Gothic romance / Holly Hirst
  • 7. Heyer ... in Space! The Influence of Georgette Heyer on science fiction / Kathleen Jennings
  • Part 3: Sources
  • 8. All's Well That Ends Well: Shakespearean Echoes in Heyer's Regency novels / Lisa Hopkins
  • 9. Georgette Heyer, Wellington's Army and the First World War / Vanda Wilcox
  • 10. Georgette Heyer and the language of the historical novel / Tom Zille
  • Part 4: Circulation and Reception
  • 11.A reluctant movie? The Reluctant Widow on screen / Lucie Bea Dutton
  • 12. Georgette Heyer
  • guilty pleasures / Amy Street
  • 13. Data science: Georgette Heyer's historical novels and her readers / Helen Davidge-- Appendix 1: List of Georgette Heyer's novels used for the text analysis
  • Appendix 2: Survey questions
  • Appendix 3: A sample of the comical answers written by the Heyer readers when completing the survey
  • Index