Transformation of Love — Elif Güvendi Yalçın

Romances date back to the creation of stories Although the definition of the genre has changed in time from the Ancient Greeks to the Bildungsromans to the 19th century and today s courtship novels both scholarship and widely held attitudes towards romance has remained fixedly and prioritized only the universality unoriginality and continuity of romance fiction instead of its sociocultural effect of promoting positive ideals like female empowerment The portrayal of women in social roles has been in a state of constant change including their relationship with and relation to men This book explores only medieval historical romance fictions and their changes through the course of the time I examine three medieval romances content Walter Scott s Ivanhoe 1920 Kathleen Woodowiss The Wolf and the Dove 1974 and Amanda Quick s Mystique 1995 written in different time periods based on content analysis using Anthony Giddens s 1992 theories of intimacy In addition it will address romance novels views about sex gender and love roles Tanıtım Bülteninden