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dc.contributor.editorRayner, Samantha J.
dc.contributor.editorWilkins, Kim
dc.date.accessioned2021-12-08T12:16:24Z
dc.date.available2021-12-08T12:16:24Z
dc.date.issued2021
dc.identifierONIX_20211208_9781787357600_55
dc.identifier.urihttps://library.oapen.org/handle/20.500.12657/51823
dc.description.abstractThe Nonesuch is the name of one of Georgette Heyer’s most famous novels. It means a person or thing without equal, and Georgette Heyer is certainly that. Her historical works inspire a fiercely loyal, international readership and are championed by literary figures such as A. S. Byatt and Stephen Fry. Georgette Heyer, History, and Historical Fiction brings together an eclectic range of chapters from scholars all over the world to explore the contexts of Heyer’s career. Divided into four parts – gender; genre; sources; and circulation and reception – the volume draws on scholarship on Heyer and her contemporaries to show how her work sits in a chain of influence, and why it remains pertinent to current conversations on books and publishing in the twenty-first century. Heyer’s impact on science fiction is accounted for, as are the milieu she was writing in, the many subsequent works that owe Heyer’s writing a debt, and new methods for analysing these enduring books. From the gothic to data science, there is something for everyone in this volume; a celebration of Heyer’s ‘nonesuch’ status amongst historical novelists, proving that she and her contemporary women writers deserve to be read (and studied) as more than just guilty pleasures.
dc.languageEnglish
dc.subject.classificationthema EDItEUR::D Biography, Literature and Literary studies::DS Literature: history and criticism::DSK Literary studies: fiction, novelists and prose writersen_US
dc.subject.otherWomen's writing
dc.subject.otherfiction
dc.subject.otherpublishing
dc.subject.otherliterature
dc.subject.othersexuality
dc.subject.othergender
dc.subject.otherThe Nonesuch
dc.subject.otherhistorical fiction
dc.titleGeorgette Heyer, History and Historical Fiction
dc.typebook
oapen.identifier.doi10.14324/111.9781787357600
oapen.relation.isPublishedBydf73bf94-b818-494c-a8dd-6775b0573bc2
oapen.relation.isbn9781787357600
oapen.relation.isbn9781787357617
oapen.relation.isbn9781787357624
oapen.relation.isbn9781787357631
oapen.relation.isbn9781787357648
oapen.imprintUCL Press
oapen.place.publicationLondon


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