Telling Gaps and Domestic Tyranny: Georgette Heyer’s Regency Romances

O'Brien, Lee

Telling Gaps and Domestic Tyranny: Georgette Heyer’s Regency Romances

Published May 18, 2022

The significance of heterosexual romance as Georgette Heyer writes it characteristically unfolds within a familial context, emphasizing the growing cultural investment in the family as…

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Venetia: Georgette Heyer’s Pastoral Romance

Published December 22, 2020

“We have been dwelling in Arcadia, my green girl.” Damerel to Venetia. The historical-romance novels of Georgette Heyer (1902–74), written over a 50-year period from…

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“You and I are humans, and there is something complicated between us”: Untamed and queering the heterosexual historical romance

Published July 15, 2016

Untamed by Anna Cowan was one of the most keenly anticipated and polarising historical romances of 2013. A debut novel from an Australian author, it…

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14 Weeks of Love and Labour: Teaching Regency and Desert Romance to Undergraduate Students

Published August 29, 2015

[End Page 1] In February 2012, after finishing my Magister thesis on the popular Regency romance and getting my degree,[1] I was offered the opportunity…

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‘Who the devil wrote that?’: Intertextuality and Authorial Reputation in Georgette Heyer’s Venetia

Published June 14, 2013

During a career that spanned the years 1921 to her death in 1974, British author Georgette Heyer wrote fifty-six novels and achieved enviable fame and…

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Georgette Heyer: The Nonesuch of Regency Romance

Published June 14, 2013

Georgette Heyer’s “invariable answer, when asked about her private life, was to refer the questioner back to her books. You will find me, she said,…

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The Upper-Class Bisexual Top as Romantic Hero: (Pre)dominant in the Social Structure and in the Bedroom

Published October 15, 2012

As an illustration of the attractions of wealth and high social status in a marriage partner, it’s hard to surpass Elizabeth Bennet’s reply in Jane…

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Pedagogy Report: Embedding Popular Romance Studies in Undergraduate English Units: Teaching Georgette Heyer’s Sylvester

Published March 31, 2011

Introduction This paper outlines one model for introducing popular romance studies to undergraduate English programs: teaching romance texts and topics alongside canonical and contemporary literary…

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There Are Six Bodies in This Relationship: An Anthropological Approach to the Romance Genre

Published August 4, 2010

Modern romance novels written in English have a pedigree which stretches back to the eighteenth century: Harlequins can be traced back through the work of…

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