Talk:Amatory fiction

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This is a new article. Most of the information for this article came from "Sex, Lies, and Invisibility: Amatory Fiction from the Restoration to Mid-Century," written by Toni O'Shaughnessy Bowers. This article can be found in The Columbia History of the British Novel, edited by John Richetti.

142.150.17.243 (talk) 15:45, 5 February 2008 (UTC)[reply]

I think this article neglects the satirical quality of amatory fiction. For example, Oxford Dictionary of National Biography describes Delarivier Manley's narrative publications as "anti-Whig satire veiled as romance." That doesn't sound like a 'precursor to the modern romance novel' to me.

142.150.17.243 (talk) 15:45, 5 February 2008 (UTC)[reply]

Could be both. As Bowers says in the article you cite, "amatory fiction" is a pretty wide-ranging category. — scribbling woman 13:05, 25 September 2008 (UTC)[reply]

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I would guess that this is a modern critical term, not 17th-century terminology... AnonMoos (talk) 03:30, 13 April 2022 (UTC)[reply]