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dc.contributor.authorFresno-Calleja, Paloma
dc.contributor.authorTeo, Hsu-Ming
dc.date.accessioned2024-12-09T15:29:49Z
dc.date.available2024-12-09T15:29:49Z
dc.date.issued2025
dc.identifier.urihttps://library.oapen.org/handle/20.500.12657/95819
dc.description.abstractRomantic fiction has often involved stories of travel. In narratives of the journey towards love, "romance" often involves encounters with "exotic" places and peoples. When history is invoked in such stories, the past itself is exoticised and treated as "other" to the present to serve the purposes of romanticisation: a narrative strategy by which all manner of things – settings, characters, costumes, customs, consumables – are made to perform a luxuriant otherness that amplifies the experience of love. This volume questions the reparative function of Anglophone romantic historical fiction to ask: can plots of travel and discourses of tourism empower women while narrating stories of healing for the wounds of the past? This is the first volume to consider how romanticised and exoticised women’s historical fiction not only serves the purposes of armchair travel but may also replicate colonial discourse, unintentionally positioning readers as neocolonial, neo-Orientalist cultural voyeurs as well as voyagers.en_US
dc.languageEnglishen_US
dc.subject.classificationthema EDItEUR::D Biography, Literature and Literary studies::DS Literature: history and criticismen_US
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.classificationthema EDItEUR::N History and Archaeology::NH History::NHT History: specific events and topics::NHTQ Colonialism and imperialismen_US
dc.subject.otherCaribbean Historical Romance,Neo-Historical Novels,Sarah Lark,Michelle Paver,Colonial Kenya,Colonial South Africa,Jennifer McVeigh,The Fever Tree,Leopard at the Door,Tragedy,Love,Great Famine,Irish Diaspora,Civil War,The Faithless Wife,Romance,Pacific Waren_US
dc.titleChapter 1 Introductionen_US
dc.title.alternativeTravel and Colonialism in Twenty-First Century Romantic Historical Fiction: Exotic Journeys, Reparative Histories?en_US
dc.typechapter
oapen.identifier.doi10.4324/9781003495840-1en_US
oapen.relation.isPublishedBy7b3c7b10-5b1e-40b3-860e-c6dd5197f0bben_US
oapen.relation.isPartOfBook420b3cb7-5185-4c41-8b1d-65a079f13f84en_US
oapen.relation.isbn9781032801773en_US
oapen.relation.isbn9781032801797en_US
oapen.imprintRoutledgeen_US
oapen.pages26en_US
oapen.remark.publicFunder name: University of the Balearic Islands.


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