{"product_id":"romance-writing-hardback-9780745630045","title":"Romance Writing (Hardback) 9780745630045","description":"\u003cfont face=\"Georgia\"\u003e\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cfont size=\"6\"\u003eRomance Writing\u003c\/font\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cfont size=\"4\"\u003eLynne Pearce (Author)\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cfont size=\"3\"\u003e9780745630045, Polity Press\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cfont size=\"3\"\u003eHardback, published 3 December 2006\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cfont size=\"3\"\u003e232 pages\u003cbr\u003e23.4 x 15.5 x 2.2 cm, 0.459 kg\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n\u003cp align=\"justify\"\u003e\u003cem\u003e\u003cfont size=\"3\"\u003e\"Breezy, adventurous and accessible, \u003ci\u003eRomance Writing\u003c\/i\u003e offers an ambitious cultural history of romantic love, exploring how it articulates with – and sometimes swerves dramatically from – the stories of romance as a genre, of courtship as an institution, and sex, sexuality and desire. En \u003ci\u003eroute\u003c\/i\u003e Lynne Pearce tracks some of our cherished popular clichés to their literary heartlands.\"\u003cbr\u003e \u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eTrev Broughton\u003c\/b\u003e\u003ci\u003e\u003cb\u003e, University of New York\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cbr\u003e \u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e\"In \u003ci\u003eRomance Writing\u003c\/i\u003e, Lynne Pearce implores us – with remarkable insight and unwavering perception – to reconsider our grand narratives of love. By positioning a new and thoroughgoing cultural history of romance, she succeeds in daring readers to investigate the endlessly seductive and confounding languages of literary love. In so doing, Pearce accomplishes one of criticism's greatest of feats: her book illuminates our minds, while challenging us to ponder the mysteries that live in our hearts.\"\u003cbr\u003e \u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eKenneth Womack\u003c\/b\u003e\u003ci\u003e\u003cb\u003e, Penn State Altoona\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cbr\u003e \u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e\"Lynne Pearce's \u003ci\u003eRomance Writing\u003c\/i\u003e spans an extraordinary range, from chivalry to chick-lit, and bravely pits romantic love against an array of its enemies: death, sex, marriage and self-help lifestyles.\"\u003cbr\u003e \u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eChris Baldick\u003c\/b\u003e\u003ci\u003e\u003cb\u003e, Goldsmiths College\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\u003cp align=\"justify\"\u003e\u003cstrong\u003e\u003cfont size=\"3\"\u003eRomance Writing explores the changing nature of both the romance genre and the discourse of romantic love from the seventeenth century to the present day. Indeed, it is one of the first studies to approach romantic love as both genre and discourse in more than sixty years. \u003cp\u003eFaced with the challenge of writing a cultural history for what is commonly understood to be one of lifes most universal, a-historical and cross-cultural phenomena, Lynne Pearce has invoked the concept of the gift to calculate loves added value at different cultural\/historical moments. Building upon those philosophical traditions which have argued for the powerfully transformative nature of romantic love, Pearce shows how in the history of literature lovers have utilized its spark to change not only themselves, but also their worlds, through acts of creativity and heroism. The gift of love ranges from the simple gift of a name in the seventeenth century, through notions of immortality, self-sacrifice and selfhood in the nineteenth and twentieth centuries, through to the liberating temporal and spatial dislocations of the postmodern age. The opening chapter, The Alchemy of Love, also undertakes an in-depth engagement of the changing nature, and meaning, of romantic love.\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eProviding a judicious blend of close reading and cultural history, Romance Writing will be essential reading for undergraduate students as well as postgraduates and scholars working in the field, while also offering much of interest to the general reader.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cfont size=\"3\"\u003eAcknowledgements. \u003cp\u003ePreface.\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e1 Introduction: The Alchemy of Love.\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e2 Romance before the Eighteenth Century: The Gift of a Name.\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e3 Courtship Romance: The Gift of Consolation.\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e4 Gothic Romance: The Gift of Immortality.\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e5 Wartime Romance: The Gift of Self-Sacrifice.\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e6 Modern Romance: The Gift of Selfhood.\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e7 Postmodern Romance: The Gift of the Fourth Dimension.\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eNotes.\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eReferences.\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eIndex.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cfont size=\"3\"\u003eSubject Areas: Literature: history \u0026amp; criticism [\u003ca title=\"See our other books on Literature: history \u0026amp; criticism\" href=\"https:\/\/freshlyprintedbooks.co.uk\/search?q=%22Literature:%20history%20\u0026amp;%20criticism%20%5BDS%5D%22\"\u003eDS\u003c\/a\u003e]\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\r\n\u003c\/font\u003e","brand":"Polity","offers":[{"title":"Brand New","offer_id":52406613246232,"sku":"9780745630045","price":45.76,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0730\/2037\/5320\/files\/9780745630045.jpg?v=1784140808","url":"https:\/\/freshlyprintedbooks.co.uk\/products\/romance-writing-hardback-9780745630045","provider":"Freshly Printed Books","version":"1.0","type":"link"}