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あらすじ・解説
Bodice rippers: what are they? (Spoiler alert: they've mostly disappeared from the romance publishing landscape.) Where did they come from? (It's complicated and messy!) And why should you care? (So many reasons.) Let Candy, Angela, and Molly sweep you away on a rearing stallion and take you on a romp through a landscape filled with cinnabar caverns, feisty ingenues, and the hard-eyed, hard-mouthed men who (claim to) love them.
CONTENT NOTE: This episode contains discussions of sexual violence.
Some of the texts we mention:
The Flame and the Flower by Kathleen E. Woodiwiss: The ur-bodice ripper! Published in 1972.
Sweet Savage Love by Rosemary Rogers: Another famous bodice ripper, published shortly after The Flame and the Flower.
Wuthering Heights by Emile Brontë: Big-R Romantic, but not a small-r romance.
Jane Eyre by Charlotte Brontë: Big-R Romantic AND a romance.
The Sheik by E.M. Hull: Published in 1919, is widely recognized as one of the first modern romance novels.
Devil's Embrace by Catherine Coulter: Bodice ripper published in 1982; infamous for its brutal hero and what he does to the heroine he kidnaps.
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