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Modernism and the Women's Popular Romance in Britain, 1885–1925 by Martin Hipsky (review)

Anne Cunningham
- 01 Jan 2013 - 
- Vol. 59, Iss: 4, pp 855-857
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Heat and lust: desire and intimacy across the (post)colonial divide

TL;DR: In this article, the authors focus on a group of novels dealing with Indo-British interracial marriage, written at the turn of the 20th century, and examine the differences of perspective on British rule evident in male and female writing on India.
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‘Early Flower’ Meets ‘Petted Lion’: The New Woman and New Man in Miles Franklin’s ‘Lost’ Novel, The Net of Circumstance

Janet Lee
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The Cross-Dresser, the Thief, His Daughter and Her Lover: Queer Desire and Romance in Georgette Heyer’s These Old Shades

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Dissertation

Heat and lust: desire and intimacy across the (post)colonial divide

TL;DR: In this article, the authors focus on a group of novels dealing with Indo-British interracial marriage, written at the turn of the 20th century, and examine the differences of perspective on British rule evident in male and female writing on India.
Journal ArticleDOI

‘Early Flower’ Meets ‘Petted Lion’: The New Woman and New Man in Miles Franklin’s ‘Lost’ Novel, The Net of Circumstance

Janet Lee
TL;DR: The Net of Circumstance as mentioned in this paper is a realist New Woman protest novel geared to participate in critical cultural debates about the gendered practices of marriage and the inadequacies of American manhood.
Journal ArticleDOI

The Cross-Dresser, the Thief, His Daughter and Her Lover: Queer Desire and Romance in Georgette Heyer’s These Old Shades

TL;DR: In this paper, a detailed account of male-male desire through arguing that while the romantic narrative is concerned with the Duc of Avon and Leonie, his former cross-dressing page, the substantial sexual tension in the novel occurs in the meetings and exchanges between Avon's biological father, Henri Saint-Vire.