Revealing Difference
Revealing Difference

Author: Jenene J. Allison

Publisher: University of Delaware Press

Published: 1995

Total Pages: 188

ISBN-13: 9780874135664

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In fact, her originality extends far beyond this scale. Charriere's novels not only work with literary conventions, they work on these conventions. For example, the figure of the heroine, plotted according to a standard plot line, serves at a more complex level to undermine the image of woman embedded in the heroine. Most telling are heroines plotted in the context of the French Revolution; they reflect the repressive image of woman that would emerge from the combination of republican ideology with the growing emphasis on maternalism. Surprisingly modern in this regard, these novels confirm recent interpretations of the gendering of the social sphere after the Revolution.

The Secret Lover
The Secret Lover

Author: Julia London

Publisher: Delacorte Press

Published: 2008-08-26

Total Pages: 402

ISBN-13: 0440338034

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Julia London captivated readers and critics alike with her acclaimed Rogues of Regent Street trilogy. Now the nationally bestselling author Romantic Times calls “a rising star” returns with the passionate story of a man and a woman pursued by secrets, shadowed by scandal, and surprised by love… Eight years after fleeing England in the wake of a terrible scandal, Sophie Dane is no longer the trusting debutante betrayed by love. Now as companion to a worldly French widow, she returns to London where her arrival instantly sets tongues wagging…and attracts the roving eye of aristocratic Trevor Hamilton. But it is his mysterious brother, Caleb, in whom Sophie senses a kindred soul—and who captivates her as no other man has before. Reared on the continent, Caleb has come home to his ailing father—only to be shunned by society as a fortune-hunting imposter. Sophie, alone, seems to believe in him. But an unexpected series of events sets them both in flight once more. As scandal pursues them to a remote ancestral estate, a man and a woman haunted by the past will defy every convention on earth for a future in each other’s arms…

Courtship, Love, and Marriage in Nineteenth-Century English Canada
Courtship, Love, and Marriage in Nineteenth-Century English Canada

Author: Peter Ward

Publisher: McGill-Queen's Press - MQUP

Published: 1990-03-01

Total Pages: 230

ISBN-13: 0773562419

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Courtship, love, and marriage are seen today as very private affairs, and historians have generally concluded that after the late eighteenth century young people began to enjoy great autonomy in courtship and decisions about marriage. Peter Ward disagrees with this conclusion and argues that freedom in nineteenth-century English Canada was constrained by an intricate social, institutional, and familial framework which greatly influenced the behaviour of young couples both before and after marriage.

The Poetics of Death
The Poetics of Death

Author: Beatrice Martina Guenther

Publisher: SUNY Press

Published: 1996-07-12

Total Pages: 236

ISBN-13: 9780791430248

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Discusses literary representations of death to explore the relation between writing and death--death understood as both the death of the individual and the death of meaning.

Bastien
Bastien

Author: Alianne Donnelly

Publisher: Alianne Donnelly

Published: 2012-05-05

Total Pages: 71

ISBN-13: 1476446377

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Boredom can be a dangerous thing. Lord Bastien Sauvage has been driven nearly out of his mind with it, retired to his castle in the country. By now, he is willing to agree to anything for some entertainment, no matter how ridiculous it may seem. With his trusted friend at his side, there is no mischief they can’t get into, or trouble they can’t get out of. The world is theirs for the taking. But on a night made dark with powers beyond comprehension, all it takes is one choice, one turn of a card, to change Bastien’s fate forever. He should have heeded the hag’s warning. Now it’s too late. Seduced by the Faery princess, haunted by dreams of a woman he can never have, Bastien discovers that there are things in this world far worse than boredom. History is penned in a human hand. Legend carries on the wicked whisper of a Faery wind. This is the story of Beauty’s Beast—told his way. This is novella is a prequel to "The Beast" Warning: This title has adult content and foul language. The squeamish should look away.