Romance Writing Pearce Hardback Polity Press 9780745630045

Further Details\n\nTitle: Romance Writing\nCondition: New\nAuthor: Lynne Pearce\nPublisher: Polity Press\nEAN: 9780745630045\nISBN: 9780745630045\nFormat: Hardback\nGenre: Literary Criticism\nRelease Date: 03/12/2006\nItem Height: 237mm\nItem Length: 160mm\nItem Width: 23mm\nItem Weight: 466g\nLanguage: English\nCountry/Region of Manufacture: GB\nSeries: Cultural History of Literature\nType: Hardback\nDescription: Romance Writing explores the changing nature of both the romance genre and the discourse of romantic love from the seventeenth century to the present day. Indeed, it is one of the first studies to approach romantic love as both genre and discourse in more than sixty years. \nFaced with the challenge of writing a cultural history for what is commonly understood to be one of lifes most universal, a-historical and cross-cultural phenomena, Lynne Pearce has invoked the concept of the gift to calculate loves added value at different cultural/historical moments. Building upon tho.