Reading Nora Roberts

by Mary Ellen Snodgrass

Overview

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 burbanout.

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9780313362934
Publisher:	Bloomsbury Academic
Publication date:	12/14/2009
Series:	The Pop Lit Book Club
Pages:	155
Product dimensions:	6.10(w) x 9.30(h) x 0.70(d)
Age Range:	14 - 18 Years

About the Author

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.

Table of Contents

Preface vii

Chapter 1 Nora Roberts: A Writer's Life 1

Chapter 2 Nora Roberts and Genre 13

Chapter 3 Nora Roberts in the 1980s 21

Chapter 4 Nora Roberts in the 1990s 49

Chapter 5 Nora Roberts in the 2000s 61

Chapter 6 J. D. Robb Novels|69

Chapter 7 Today's Issues in Nora Roberts's Work 81

Chapter 8 Pop Culture in Nora Roberts's Work 91

Chapter 9 Nora Roberts on the Internet 105

Chapter 10 Nora Roberts and the Media 117

Chapter 11 What Do I Read Next? 129

Resources 139

Index 149