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Date: Wednesday, August 04, 2004 8:41 PM -0500
From: John A Rea <j.rea2@insightbb.com>
To: Vladimir Nabokov Forum <NABOKV-L@LISTSERV.UCSB.EDU>
Subject: Re: TT-9
D. Barton Johnson wrote:
> Since postings on TT-8 have wound down, let us move ob to TT-9.
> I have pondered for years over Mrs. Flankard's _The Stag_. I suspect it
> mocks some bestseller of the sixties--presumably a historical romance a la
> Kathleen Windsor's _Forever Amber_, a much earlier book though. Ideas?
>
> My wife, who is more familiar than I with this genre and its subgenres
tells me that Gothic romances can always be Identied by their having a
burning house on the cover: and of course in the book to (one may
think of _Rebecca_, or perhaps _Jane Eyre_; my exposure to these is
somewhat scance!).
John
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> D. Barton Johnson
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Date: Wednesday, August 04, 2004 8:41 PM -0500
From: John A Rea <j.rea2@insightbb.com>
To: Vladimir Nabokov Forum <NABOKV-L@LISTSERV.UCSB.EDU>
Subject: Re: TT-9
D. Barton Johnson wrote:
> Since postings on TT-8 have wound down, let us move ob to TT-9.
> I have pondered for years over Mrs. Flankard's _The Stag_. I suspect it
> mocks some bestseller of the sixties--presumably a historical romance a la
> Kathleen Windsor's _Forever Amber_, a much earlier book though. Ideas?
>
> My wife, who is more familiar than I with this genre and its subgenres
tells me that Gothic romances can always be Identied by their having a
burning house on the cover: and of course in the book to (one may
think of _Rebecca_, or perhaps _Jane Eyre_; my exposure to these is
somewhat scance!).
John
>
>
> D. Barton Johnson
> NABOKV-L
>
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