Rescue and Romance: Popular Novels Before World War I
Book Details
Author(s)
Diana Reep
Publisher
Popular Press 1
ISBN / ASIN
0879722126
ISBN-13
9780879722128
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Sales Rank
#12,651,576
Category
Social Science
Marketplace
United States 🇺🇸
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Description
This study of the rescue motif in popular American novels before World War I focuses on the rescue convention as part of the romantic plot of the novels. The rescue as a structured convention that controls the movement of the romantic plot appears in all types of domestic novels, gothics, dime novels, historical romances, and westerns.
