For Love and Money: The Literary Art of the Harlequin Mills & Boon Romance (Genre Fiction Monographs)

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I daresay, it's been done from here to eternity.

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Her attitude reminds me of a speaker at NEC this year. I can't imagine where she got the guts to show up for payment and lecture to writers with more experience the she.

This woman took 7 years to write a novel which her words is unpublishable. Then she stood there and told successful writers that she always considered romance characters as "flat".

Gee, I wonder if she ever read a romance. Finally, do people denigrate romance because women are the authors? I bet lots of opinions are based on a sexist conscious or not world view. Yes, I do think the long tradition of denigrating romance stems in part from the fact that most of its authors and readers are women.

But there are many other reasons, too, including class category romance is often considered fiction for the working classes, not worthy of the attention of more educated readers and scholars and feminism many early students of the genre were feminists who identified troubling, oppressive aspects in Harlequin romances of the s and 70s.

Romance has changed significantly, but the conventional wisdom about romance and its lack of value hasn't. How can the latest Eric Hobsbawm book can coexist with Jill Shalvis "It had to be you" in your bedside table? Well, stereotypes are the worst that can happen to anybody, specially a highly educated Latin American woman.

As in any other discipline, the more people joins the conversation the more interesting it gets, more sophisticated and thus academically acceptable. As a scholar of children's literature, I would often get the same kind of reaction from my fellow graduate students -- children's books are easy, by definition, so why would a scholar need to study them? Mention will, however, be made of some of the works that have been recognised as relatives some more distant than others of the romance novel.

Jean Radford, although she concedes that: Over the years, both firms have become household names, their books enjoying the almost unique distinction of being requested by publisher, rather than author.

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Joseph McAleer, for example, states that: This flavourful confection, wrapped in a brightly coloured paperback cover with a dreamy scene, is to many addictive in its escapist nature. Rather, as Ann Curthoys and John Docker com- mented in She writes five books a year—a hardcover novel, a paperback trilogy, and a paranormal suspense un- der the pseudonym J. In the literary world, Mills and Boon has long been the black sheep. Its books—to call them novels would be to raise them far above their station—are lightweight, the plots recycled and the endings predictable and to read them is a waste of pre- cious life.

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