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3. Danielle Steel and New Home Economics

verfasst von : Michael J. Blouin

Erschienen in: Mass-Market Fiction and the Crisis of American Liberalism, 1972–2017

Verlag: Springer International Publishing

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This chapter investigates the changing character of contemporary romance through the immensely popular works of Danielle Steel. Victorian lines drawn between family and corporation, self and marketplace, have long provided propulsion for the romance formula. In Steel’s universe, however, readers experience an erasure of these lines. The notion of love becomes inseparable from the machinations of high finance. This chapter investigates how Steel dramatically alters the contemporary romance (and reader expectations that in turn extend beyond the confines of these novels).

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Titel: Danielle Steel and New Home Economics
verfasst von: Michael J. Blouin
Verlag: Springer International Publishing
Buch: Mass-Market Fiction and the Crisis of American Liberalism, 1972–2017
Print ISBN: 978-3-319-89386-0

Electronic ISBN: 978-3-319-89387-7

Copyright-Jahr: 2018
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-89387-7_3