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Humanities-Ebooks Genre Fiction Monographs Series Editor: John Lennard For Love and Money The Literary Art of the Harlequin Mills & Boon Romance
To every Harlequin Mills & Boon author who has ever been asked “When are you going to write arealnovel?”
Contents
Copyright Acknowledgements Introduction
Chapter 1. Mimetic Modes Myth The Romance Mode The High-Mimetic Mode The Low-Mimetic Mode The Ironic Mode Determining Mode Realism: Settings and Details Realism and the Happy Ending Realism: Issues Variations Within a Single Mode Modal Counterpoint Chapter 2. Mythoi Mythoi and Modes High Mimetic Low Mimetic Ironic Adapting Mythoi Chapter 3. Metaîction Defending Romance and its Readers Claiming Kinship with Classics Romance as Part of Popular Culture
Chapter 4. Metaphors 151 Building a Relationship 155 The Flowering of Romance 164 Woman as Garden 164 Woman as Flower 169 The Hunt of Love 175 Love is a Journey: Marion Lennox’sPrincess of Convenience(2005) 183 Conclusion 199
Bibliography Harlequin Mills & Boon Romances Other Texts Cited
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Acknowledgements
My funding body and our child have been a great source of encour-agement and technical help. Their belief in my work has kept me go-ing on days when I was mired in the Slough of Despond. It has been a pleasure to be published by HEB. John Lennard’s enthusiasm, efîciency and attention to detail have made this a better book. Any remaining errors and omissions are, of course, my responsibility and not his. I am grateful to be part of a community of romance scholars and I would particularly like to acknowledge the vital roles played by Sarah S. G. Frantz (President of the International Association for the Study of Popular Romance), Pamela Regis (Vice President of IASPR and the author ofA Natural History of the Romance Novel), and Eric M. Selinger (Executive Editor of theJournal of Popular Romance Studies and founder of the ‘Teach Me Tonight’ blog) in ensuring that the îeld is a lively and expanding one. Sandra Schwab marched ahead of me, slaying baggy dragons, An Goris made me aware of John Lennard’sOf Modern Dragonsand Kerstin Frank’s introduction to the thermodynamics of Georgette Heyer îred me with enthusiasm for metaphors. I can only wish to match jay Dixon’s vast hoard of knowledge about Mills & Boon. Over the course of writing this book I corresponded with a number of HM&B authors, including Pamela Browning, Julie Cohen, Jennifer Crusie, Jessica Hart, Marion Lennox, Nicola Marsh, Sandra Marton, Sabrina Philips, Michelle Styles, Claire Thornton and Kate Walker. Their kindness is much appreciated. The readers of the ‘Teach Me Tonight’ blog made me believe there was also an audience for this project. Many of them gave me new perspectives on, and information about, romances. Joanna Chambers read and commented on sections of the book. Alan Deyermond remains an inspiration. I miss his incisive comments and value the encouragement he gave me as I began
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work on this project. My conversations with him, Louise Haywood and Iona McCleery encouraged me to believe that in stepping from Hispano-medievalism into popular romance scholarship, I was not taking one giant leap into a totally unrelated îeld.
I would also like to acknowledge the use, on the cover, of an adapted version of J. Herrera’sDiseño 3D, rosa rojawhich was made avail-able online under a Creative Commons Attribution-Share Alike li-cence. The remixed version of the rose featured on the cover of this book is therefore available for use under the terms of that licence.
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Abbreviations
AD: Anno Domini (‘year of the Lord’) AIDS: Acquired Immune Deîciency Syndrome BBC: British Broadcasting Corporation BC: Before Christ ESP: extra-sensory perception HIV: Human Immunodeîciency Virus HM&B: Harlequin Mills & Boon IASPR: International Association for the Study of Popular Romance M&B: Mills & Boon MS: manuscript NHS: National Health Service (UK) N.Sh.OED: New Shorter Oxford English Dictionary OED: Oxford English Dictionary RCMP: Royal Canadian Mounted Police RWA: Romance Writers of America