Author : Diana C. Reep
Publisher : Popular Press
Page : 156 pages
File Size : 37,75 MB
Release : 1982
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9780879722128
This study of the rescue motif in popular American novels before World War I focuses on the rescue convention as part of the romantic plot of the novels. The rescue as a structured convention that controls the movement of the romantic plot appears in all types of domestic novels, gothics, dime novels, historical romances, and westerns.