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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London
UCL Press
2021, 2021
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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
- Includes bibliographical references