- 206 pages
- English
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Romancing the Postmodern
About this book
By exposing the theory of romance to the romance of theory, Diane Elam explores literature's most uncertain, least easily definable and most tenacious genre, assessing its implications for both feminism and the understanding of history.
Arguing for a parallel between postmodernism's divided relation to modernism and romance's difficult stance towards realism, Romancing the Postmodern, first published in 1992, not only highlights how postmodernism questions our assumptions about historical time, it also reintroduces the figure of woman to the theory of both history and literature.
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Table of contents
- Cover
- Half Title
- Title
- Copyright
- Original Title
- Original Copyright
- Dedication
- Contents
- Acknowledgments
- INTRODUCTION: A PREFACE WHICH SHOULD HAVE BEEN A POSTSCRIPT
- 1 P.S. "I LOVE YOU": UMBERTO ECO AND THE ROMANCE OF THE READER
- 2 DELAYED IN THE POST: WALTER SCOTT AND THE PROGRESS OF ROMANCE
- 3 ROMANTIC LETTERS AND POSTMODERN ENVELOPES: JOSEPH CONRAD AND THE IMPERIALISM OF HISTORICAL REPRESENTATION
- 4 HEROINES AND HERO WORSHIP: WALTER SCOTT'S UNCERTAIN WOMEN AND GEORGE ELIOT'S UNCERTAIN ROMANCE
- 5 A POSTSCRIPT WHICH SHOULD HAVE BEEN A PREFACE: THEORY'S ROMANCE
- Notes
- Index