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Adoring Outlander : essays on fandom, genre and the female audience
- Title
- Adoring Outlander : essays on fandom, genre and the female audience / edited by Valerie Estelle Frankel.
- Publication
- Jefferson, North Carolina : McFarland & Company, Inc., Publishers, [2016]
- ©2016
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Details
- Additional Authors
- Frankel, Valerie Estelle, 1980-
- Description
- vi, 218 pages; 23 cm
- Summary
- "This collection of new essays explores the series as romance, a ghost story, an epic journey, a cozy mystery, a comedy of manners, a gothic thriller and a feminist answer to Game of Thrones, and considers the source of its broad appeal"--
- Subjects
- Bibliography (note)
- Includes bibliographical references and index.
- Contents
- Part I: Gabaldon's fans, forming communities -- "A love letter to Scotland": The creation and conception of heritage / Stephenie McGucken -- Engaging with "herself": fandom and authorship in the age of Tumblr / Jennifer Phillips and Katharina Freund -- Diana Gabaldon's excerpts and daily lines: when the first read is a re-read / Jessica R. Matthews -- Melodrama, gender and nostalgia: The appeal of Outlander / Eleanor Ty -- Part II: The romance question: is it or isn't it? -- "Linked, through the body of one man": Black Jack Randall as a non-traditional romance villain / Michelle L. Jones -- The good, the bad and Lord John Grey: observations on desire, sex, violence, lust and love / Sandi Solis -- Traveling through time and genre: are the Outlander books romance novels? / Jodi McAlister -- Gabaldon and the practice of gay male homoerotic reading / Anthony Guy Patricia -- Part III: Putting the speculative in speculative fiction -- The short stories on the science fiction shelf, or Lord John Grey complicates matters as usual / Valerie Estelle Frankel -- Half-ghosts and their legacy for Claire, Jamie and Roger / Stella Murillo -- Confrontational content, gendered gazes and the ethics of adaptation in Outlander and Game of Thrones / Jennifer Phillips -- The heroine's journey: Claire Beauchamp reclaims the feminine / Patti McCarthy.
- Call Number
- JFE 17-5946
- ISBN
- 9781476664231
- 1476664234
- LCCN
- 2016003880
- OCLC
- 933590606
- Title
- Adoring Outlander : essays on fandom, genre and the female audience / edited by Valerie Estelle Frankel.
- Publisher
- Jefferson, North Carolina : McFarland & Company, Inc., Publishers, [2016]
- Copyright Date
- ©2016
- Type of Content
- text
- Type of Medium
- unmediated
- Type of Carrier
- volume
- Bibliography
- Includes bibliographical references and index.
- Added Author
- Frankel, Valerie Estelle, 1980- editor.
- Research Call Number
- JFE 17-5946