Research Catalog

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]

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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"--

Subject

• Gabaldon, Diana
• Gabaldon, Diana > Criticism and interpretation
• Fans (Persons)
• Women > Books and reading
• Scotland > In literature

Genre/Form

Criticism, interpretation, etc.

Bibliography (note)

• Includes bibliographical references and index.

Processing Action (note)

• committed to retain

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 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.

ISBN

• 9781476664231 (softcover : alk. paper)
• 1476664234 (softcover : alk. paper)

LCCN

^^2016003880

OCLC

• 933590606
• SCSB-12270340

Owning Institutions

Harvard Library