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9780812231922

Dangerous Men & Adventurous Women

by Krentz, Jayne Ann
  • ISBN13:

    9780812231922

  • ISBN10:

    0812231929

  • Format: Hardcover
  • Copyright: 1992-10-01
  • Publisher: Univ of Pennsylvania Pr

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Summary

In Dangerous Men and Adventurous Women, Jayne Ann Krentz and the contributors to this volume -- all best-selling romance novelists -- explode the myths and biases that haunt both the writers and readers of romances.

Author Biography

Jayne Ann Krentz (Amanda Quick, Jayne Castle, Stephanie James) has written and published more than fifty series romances Currently she writes contemporary romances under her own name and historical romance the pen name Amanda Quick. Several of her contemporary and historical titles, appeared on the New York Times bestseller list

Table of Contents

Acknowledgments xi
Introduction 1(10)
Jayne Ann Krentz
Setting the Stage: Facts and Figures
11(4)
Cathie Linz
Beneath the Surface: The Hidden Codes of Romance
15(16)
Linda Barlow
Jayne Ann Krentz
The Androgynous Reader: Point of View in the Romance
31(14)
Laura Kinsale
The Androgynous Writer: Another View of Point of View
45(8)
Linda Barlow
The Romance and the Empowerment of Women
53(8)
Susan Elizabeth Phillips
Sweet Subversions
61(12)
Daphne Clair
Mad, Bad, and Dangerous to Know: The Hero as Challenge
73(8)
Doreen Owens Malek
Mean, Moody, and Magnificent: The Hero in Romance Literature
81(4)
Robyn Donald
Legends of Seductive Elegance
85(4)
Anne Stuart
Love Conquers All: The Warrior Hero and the Affirmation of Love
89(10)
Elizabeth Lowell
Welcome to the Dark Side
99(8)
Mary Jo Putney
Trying to Tame the Romance: Critics and Correctness
107(8)
Jayne Ann Krentz
Loved I Not Honor More: The Virginal Heroine in Romance
115(6)
Doreen Owens Malek
Making a Choice: Virginity in the Romance
121(4)
Brittany Young
By Honor Bound: The Heroine as Hero
125(8)
Penelope Williamson
Women Do
133(8)
Judith Arnold
Moments of Power
141(4)
Stella Cameron
The Risk of Seduction and the Seduction of Risk
145(6)
Sandra Brown
Happily Ever After: The Ending as Beginning
151(4)
Suzanne Simmons Guntrum
Let Me Tell You About My Readers
155(4)
Diana Palmer
Judge Me by the Joy I Bring
159(22)
Kathleen Gilles Seidel
Bibliography 181(2)
Index 183

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