Introduction: Romance never dies -- Romance, ruins and the thing : from the romantic sublime to cybergothic -- Romance consumed : death, simulation and the vampire -- Poor things as they are : political romance from Alasdair Gray to William Godwin -- Monsters of the imagination : science, fiction, romance -- Flight of the heroine : from feminised gothic to postfeminist romance -- Resistance is futile : romance and the machine
Summary
Re-evaluates the relationship between the two genres in order to plot the shifting alignments of popular and literary fictions with cultural theories, consumption and representations of science
Re-evaluates the relationship between the two genres in order to plot the shifting alignments of popular and literary fictions with cultural theories, consumption and representations of science
Notes
Formerly CIP. Uk
Bibliography
Includes bibliographical references (p. [207]-219) and index
