Reading Nora Roberts
1st Edition
Published on 14. December 2009
168 pages
978-0-313-36294-1 (ISBN)
Description
This book offers an overview of the contributions of author Nora Roberts to the popular literary market.
Nora Roberts's captivating biography and extensive canon are explored in this comprehensive reader's guide, including coverage on her early works, critical successes, trilogies and quartets, short stories and novellas, futuristic mysteries written as J.D. Robb, and titles under other pseudonyms.
Reading Nora Roberts shows how this remarkable author expands the limits of the genres in which she writes, exploring feminist ideas, Celtic and Western settings, psychological and religious themes, and Gothic and supernatural elements. The book also highlights Roberts's willingness to have her characters face serious real-world issues, including sexism and racism, gun violence, abortion, suicide, corporate greed, and career burnout.
Nora Roberts's captivating biography and extensive canon are explored in this comprehensive reader's guide, including coverage on her early works, critical successes, trilogies and quartets, short stories and novellas, futuristic mysteries written as J.D. Robb, and titles under other pseudonyms.
Reading Nora Roberts shows how this remarkable author expands the limits of the genres in which she writes, exploring feminist ideas, Celtic and Western settings, psychological and religious themes, and Gothic and supernatural elements. The book also highlights Roberts's willingness to have her characters face serious real-world issues, including sexism and racism, gun violence, abortion, suicide, corporate greed, and career burnout.
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Series
Edition
1. Auflage
Language
English
Place of publication
New York
United States
Publishing group
Bloomsbury Publishing Plc
Target group
Interest Age: From 7 to 17 years
ISBN-13
978-0-313-36294-1 (9780313362941)
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Mary Ellen Snodgrass
Reading Nora Roberts
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Mary Ellen Snodgrass, a professor of Latin and English at Lenoir Rhyne University, is an award-winning author of textbooks and reference works and a former columnist of the Charlotte Observer.
Content
- Cover
- Title Page
- CONTENTS
- PREFACE
- 1: NORA ROBERTS: A WRITER'S LIFE
- 2: NORA ROBERTS AND GENRE
- 3: NORA ROBERTS IN THE 1980s
- 4: NORA ROBERTS IN THE 1990s
- 5: NORA ROBERTS IN THE 2000s
- 6: J. D. ROBB NOVELS
- 7: TODAY'S ISSUES IN NORA ROBERTS'S WORK
- 8: POP CULTURE IN NORA ROBERTS'S WORK
- 9: NORA ROBERTS ON THE INTERNET
- 10: NORA ROBERTS AND THE MEDIA
- 11: WHAT DO I READ NEXT?
- RESOURCES
- INDEX
- About the Author
