Swordfights and petticoats from Georgette Heyer, the grande dame / mother superior of all things swashbuckling, in this week's podcast scripts catch-up from Really Like This Book, with The Masqueraders, from 1928. Georgette Heyer wrote a very large number of novels. To those who haven’t read them, and simply judge them by their covers, from all their … Continue reading Gender performativity at its best: Georgette Heyer’s The Masqueraders
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Great swashbuckling: Robert Louis Stevenson’s Kidnapped
Allow Robert Louis Stevenson to give you a swashbuckling time in the Really Like This Book podcast scripts catch-up. Kidnapped (1886) is the classic romp through the heather by the master of the modern Scottish adventure, though it's set in 1746. Stevenson dragged the historical novel out of the rather long-winded grip of Sir Walter Scott, and made it immediate, exciting and … Continue reading Great swashbuckling: Robert Louis Stevenson’s Kidnapped
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