Adoring Outlander : Essays on Fandom, Genre and the Female Audience

ISBN
9781476664231
$19.99
Format Paperback
Details
  • 9.0" x 6.0" x 0.4"
  • Active Record
  • Individual Title
  • 1 vol.
  • 2016
  • 224
  • Yes
  • PS3557.A22O9825 2016
What is behind Outlander fever--the hit television drama's popularity? Is it author Diana Gabaldon's teasing posts on social media? Is it the real history reimagined? The highly emotional melodrama? Or is it the take-charge heroine and the sweet hero in a kilt? One of the show's biggest draws is its multigenre appeal. Gabaldon--whose Outlander novels form the basis of the series--has called it science fiction, fantasy, romance, historical fiction and military fiction, depending on her audience. This collection of new essays explores the series as a romance, a ghost story, an epic journey, a cozy mystery, a comedy of manners, a gothic thriller and a feminist answer to Game of Thrones , and considers the source of its broad appeal.