Dangerous Men & Adventurous Women

This is what the paperback version on Amazon says about the book: In Dangerous Men and Adventurous Women, Jayne Ann Krentz and the contributors to this volume—all best-selling romance writers—explode myths and biases that haunt both the writers and readers of romances. In this seamless, ultimately fascinating, and controversial book, the authors dispute some of the notions that plague their profession, including the time-worn theory that the romance genre contains only one single, monolithic story, which is cranked out over and over again. The authors discuss positive life-affirming values inherent in all romances: the celebration of female power, courage, intelligence, and gentleness; the inversion of the power structure of a patriarchal society; and the integration of male and female. Several of the essays also discuss the issue of reader identification with the characters, a relationship that is far more complex than most critics realize.

First sentence: According to a variety of sources, romances account for a straggering 35 to 40 percent of all mass market paperback sales.

Year

1992

Language

English

Publisher

University of Pennsylvania Press

Editions

4

Pages

186

ISBN

9780812231922

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