Blog Post 8

Writing Romantic Fiction by Daphne Clair and Robyn Donald talks about some of the major characterization involved in writing romantic fiction also the major themes, structure, plots, and subplots. Also, things like emotional impact that is very important in novels of romantic fiction.

Jane Austen's "Wild Imagination": Romance and the Courtship Plot in the Six Canonical Novels by Charles H. Hinnant is about the bulk of Jane Austen’s novels. Jane Austen can be used as example for the project because she is famous for writing novels with romantic qualities. Hinnant goes over the motif in plot that Jane Austen uses like the idea of courtship and union.

The Supernatural in Romantic Fiction by Edward Yardley is pretty much self-explanatory. Since the turn of the millennia the supernatural and romance has been coming up more and more often. Especially with things involving vampires. Yardley’s book looks to explore this idea.

Love and the Novel: the Poetics and Politics of Romantic Fiction by George Paizis. In its analysis, it shows that the genre borrows the narrative elements of the realist bourgeois novel - the conventions of time, place and individual characterization, with an emphasis on women and society and how that leads to what was written as a combination of tradition and experience.

And Then Their Hearts Stood Still: an Exuberant Look at Romantic Fiction Past and Present by Mary Cadogan. Much of what was written with in this book is a history of the evolution of romantic history going over past and present trends. It also shows a role about women in literature.