Gender Bias in Mystery and Romance Novel Publishing

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"Gender Bias in Mystery and Romance Novel Publishing examines gender bias from the perspective of readers, writers and publishers, with a focus on the top two best selling genres in modern fiction. It is a linguistic, literary stylistic, and structurally formalist analysis of the male and female sentences in the genres that have the greatest gender divide: romances and mysteries. The analysis will search for the historical roots that solidified what many think of today as a natural division..."--Back cover.

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