Georgette Heyer, history, and historical fiction. (2021)

• Record Type: Book
• Further Information: Note: Edited by Samantha J. Rayner, Kim Wilkins.
• Editors: Rayner, Samantha J; Wilkins, Kim
• 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
• Edition: 1st
• Publisher Details: London : UCL Press
• Publication Date: 2021
• Extent: 1 online resource, illustrations (colour)
• Subjects: 823.912; Criticism and interpretation; Influence
• Languages: English
• ISBNs: 9781787357631; 9781787357648
• Related ISBNs: 9781787357624; 9781787357617
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