Dangerous Men and Adventurous Women Revisited: New Essays on the Romance Novel by Eric Selinger
Published 2013 · 60,968 words · about 4 hours at an average pace · Essays & Criticism
How hard is Dangerous Men and Adventurous Women Revisited: New Essays on the Romance Novel to read?
Dangerous Men and Adventurous Women Revisited: New Essays on the Romance Novel scores 57 out of 100 for difficulty on ReadingRate, making it quite demanding. The score is a weighted composite of nine measures: four of how hard the prose is to parse, five of how hard the meaning is to extract.
- Vocabulary: 65 out of 100
- Variable across contributors, with some essays using advanced theoretical vocabulary and others being more accessible.
- Sentence structure: 60 out of 100
- Abstraction: 74 out of 100
- High-level cultural and theoretical arguments appear throughout but are grounded in specific texts and communities.
- Information density: 75 out of 100
- Dense anthology with many distinct arguments across essays covering different subgenres and geographies.
- Narrative indirection: 14 out of 100
- Academic essays state arguments plainly, with little rhetorical indirection.
- Symbolic density: 20 out of 100
- Several essays deploy genre conventions as sites of symbolic cultural meaning.
- Ironic distance: 16 out of 100
- Tone is generally earnest and committed with occasional self-aware wit.
- Resolution withholding: 12 out of 100
- Essays conclude with clear claims even where broader disciplinary questions remain open.
- Structural complexity: 35 out of 100
- Standard anthology format, though the range of approaches gives the collection intellectual variety.
How Dangerous Men and Adventurous Women Revisited: New Essays on the Romance Novel is regarded
Dangerous Men and Adventurous Women Revisited: New Essays on the Romance Novel holds a literary regard score of 73 out of 100, weighing its place in the canon, its critical reception, its influence on other writers, and the standing of its author. Regard is measured separately from difficulty: a demanding book is not necessarily an admired one.