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This chapter takes a closer look at the work of Georgette Heyer. Although often referred to as the ‘Queen of Regency Romance’, Georgette Heyer wrote across a range of genres including the psychological thriller, the detective, the historical novel and the romance. This chapter investigates how her work across different genres reflects a continuing and evolving engagement with the gothic mode and challenges the generic labels that are frequently used to delimit her work and discount its engagement with the gothic.
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Hirst, H. (2020). Georgette Heyer. In: Bloom, C. (eds) The Palgrave Handbook of Contemporary Gothic. Palgrave Macmillan, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-33136-8_23
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