[Sarah Frantz]

What do you all think of Fletcher's "Historical Romance Fiction"?

I like it, but I'm fascinated that her choice of the speech act "I love you" means that books with UNhappy endings can be considered "romance."

We also need someone to read and review it for JPRS' first issue in February.

-Sarah

[IASPR_admin]

I wasn't aware that it came out. I'll have to take a look at it.

[Pam Regis]

What do you all think of Fletcher's "Historical Romance Fiction"?

I like it, but I'm fascinated that her choice of the speech act "I love you" means that books with UNhappy endings can be considered "romance."

We also need someone to read and review it for JPRS' first issue in February.

-Sarah

Haven't seen the Fletcher, but thanks for the reminder.

I'm looking at Cathy N. Davidson's Revolution and the Word, Elizabeth Maddock Dillon's The Gender of Freedom, and Elizabeth Barnes's States of Sympathy ISO of the Early American romance novel (EARN). I'm also reading Alonzo and Melissa, which is an EARN.

Pam Regis

[Angela Toscano]

I have been wanting to get my hands on this book for some time. I was able to read the introduction online and I,too, was interested in her choice of focus on the speech act of "I love you" particularly since this is one of the parts of Barthes'A Lover's Discourse that I was most fascinated by. I was also interested in the way she used performativity to approach the genre. Alas, that was as much as I was able to read because none of the libraries around me have a copy of this book.

[An Goris]

I'm a little late to the party, but I have to say I'm in awe of the first two chapters of this book (I haven't read the rest yet). Fletcher is very savvy and uses several theoretical appraoches really well, I think. I absolutely love her approach of genre as a performative notion - that's very much up my alley
I'll be using a lot of her stuff for some of my own work on Nora Roberts, genre and authorship. Too bad I've only gotten my hands on this book now - my library didn't have it for a long time and for some mysterious reason it is hidiously expensive...

[Cora Buhlert]

How important is the performative utterance/speech act theory approach in this book? From the TOC and the excerpts available it seems as if speech act theory pervades the entire book. Can anyone who has read it confirm whether this is so?

I've been invited to the North German Linguistic Symposium and speech act theory and genre fiction would make a great topic for a paper. But before actually buying the book (my library doesn't have it, though I could get it via interlibrary loan), I'd like to know how useful it is, considering how steep the price is.

Also, is the focus solely on historical romance or can Fletcher's research also be applied to other subgenres? My PhD thesis is on paranormals and if the book could be of use for the thesis as well, I may get it after all.

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