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Index
Cover
Title
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Contents
Preface: The Most Popular, Least Respected Literary Genre
Part I. Critics and the Romance Novel
1. The Romance Novel and Women’s Bondage
2. In Defense of the Romance Novel
Part II. The Romance Novel Defined
3. The Definition
4. The Definition Expanded
5. The Genre’s Limits
Part III. The Romance Novel, 1740–1908
6. Writing the Romance Novel’s History
7. The First Best Seller:
8. The Best Romance Novel Ever Written:
9. Freedom and Rochester:
10. The Romance Form in the Victorian Multiplot Novel:
11. The Ideal Romance Novel:
Part IV. The Twentieth-Century Romance Novel
12. The Popular Romance Novel in the Twentieth Century
13. Civil Contracts: Georgette Heyer
14. Courtship and Suspense: Mary Stewart
15. Harlequin, Silhouette, and the Americanization of the Popular Romance Novel: Janet Dailey
16. Dangerous Men: Jayne Ann Krentz
17. One Man, One Woman: Nora Roberts
Conclusion
Works Cited
Index
Acknowledgments
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