Document Type
Article
Abstract
Nora Roberts may be the “Queen of the Romance,” but the J. D. Robb In Death series rests on the nexus of three genres of popular fiction: the romance, the detective story, and, to a lesser extent, science fiction, incorporating elements of each genre, but bending them to her own design. Robb takes the standardized elements of each genre and transforms them into something new, challenging and rewriting conventional gender roles along the way. The result is a kind of “super genre” created by the fusion of the three conventional formula fictions into a new genre with its own rules and conventions.
Repository Citation
Ledford-Miller, Linda. "Gender and Genre Bending: The Futuristic Detective Fiction of J. D. Robb." Reconstruction: Studies in Contemporary Culture vol. 11, no. 3, 2011, pp. 1–27. https://digitalcommons.odu.edu/reconstruction/vol11/iss3/6