The Subversion of Romance in the Novels of Barbara Pym

by Tsagaris

University of Wisconsin Press, 1998

Cloth: 978-0-87972-763-5 | Paper: 978-0-87972-764-2

Library of Congress Classification PR6066.Y58Z88 1998

Dewey Decimal Classification 823.914

ABOUT THIS BOOK

This book seeks to explore how Barbara Pym subverts the discourse of the romance novel through her use of food, clothes, heroine and hero characterizations, and marriage customs.

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