For love and money the literary art of the Harlequin Mills & Boon romance

Cover
Licence and Use
Title Page
Copyright
Contents
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. Metafiction
	Defending Romance and its Readers
	Claiming Kinship with Classics
	Romance as Part of Popular Culture
Chapter 4. Metaphors
	Building a Relationship
	The Flowering of Romance
	Woman as Garden
	Woman as Flower
	The Hunt of Love
	Love is a Journey: Marion Lennox’s Princess of Convenience (2005)
Conclusion
Bibliography
	Harlequin Mills & Boon Romances
	Other Texts Cited
A Note on the Author
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