Travel and Colonialism in 21st Century Romantic Historical Fiction: Exotic Journeys, Reparative Histories?

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1. Introduction: Travel and Colonialism in Twenty-First Century Romantic Historical Fiction: Exotic Journeys, Reparative Histories?
2. Falling in Love Outside of the Law: Piracy, Race, and Freedom in Caribbean Historical Romance
3. Caribbean Plantation Life through Rose-Tinted Glasses: The Romantic Neo-Historical Novels of Sarah Lark and Michelle Paver
4. (Mis)Guiding Readers through Colonial Kenya and South Africa: The Fetishisation of the Dark Continent in Jennifer McVeigh’s The Fever Tree and Leopard at the Door
5. Narrating Tragedy through Love: Romance, The Great Famine and The Irish Diaspora in Romantic Historical Fiction Set in Ireland
6. “Sun, Sex, Secrets and a Very Uncivil War”: Menorca, the Spanish Civil War and the Pact of Forgetting in Jo Eames’ The Faithless Wife
7. “The Most Romantic Place on Earth”: Exoticism, Militourism, and Romance in Women’s Historical Fiction of the Pacific War
8. Post/Colonial Nostalgia and Melancholia in Dinah Jefferies’ The Tea Planter’s Wife and Before the Rains
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