ABSTRACT
In his analysis of what he describes as love-plot books Boone defines three types of storylines: courtship, where “lovers are sundered by various obstacles … all of which must be removed to facilitate a successful alliance”; seduction, where the “would-be lovers are revealed as sexual antagonists”; and wedlock, which focuses either on “the tribulations of the long-suffering wife caught in an adulterous triangle” or “on the impasse of the totally mismatched union” (1987:80, 100, 114).
