ENG 112 Lecture Notes - Lecture 4: Double Bind, Contemporary Romance, Genre Fiction
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Bear in mind that the majority of romance fiction readers are women. As you"re reading forbidden, note the characteristics of the novel"s heroin, eddy. Much genre literature is about finding ways to enjoy forbidden pleasures. Bear in mind that forbidden is a historical romance. Novels of the subgenre usually take place in settings where social inequality is especially stark. At the heart of contemporary romance fiction is courtly love, a medieval literary convention. Do one confuse romanticism with the romance novel. In explicit and implicit ways, forbidden acknowledges the patriarchal obstacles. A pleasurable fantasy for readers, forbidden presents eddy carmichael as the ideal woman of her time and place. In the late medieval times, the word romance referred to stories of heroic knights on adventures quests. The knight abided by the chivalric code to be loyal, honourable, generous, courageous, courteous to women, and sensitive to the needs of society"s most vulnerable members.