Harlequin Romanceとは 意味・読み方・使い方

別の表記

• Harlequin Romance

語源

A reference to the Harlequin Enterprises publishing company.

名詞

Harlequin romance (複数形 Harlequin romances)

1. (informal) A romance story written in a dramatic and fast-paced style with passionate love affairs and a characteristic cover design usually featuring a windswept scene, bare-chested man and/or adventurous woman.
   • 2013, Andrea Meyer, Room for Love‎^[1]:

     His big sister is a public relations maven in a gray suit who, with her petite, lightly freckled facial features and blond bob pulled back with a purple paisley silk scarf, looks like the heroine on a Harlequin Romance cover.

   • 2013, Carl Rollyson, American Isis: The Life and Art of Sylvia Plath‎^[2]:

     She might as well have written a Harlequin romance, for the scene is set at night, with the wind whipping up a froth of expectation, as she strides forward on 'silver feet', holding hands with her beloved under the starkly shining street lights.

   • 2014, Nina Solomon, The Love Book‎^[3]:

     So, like a doctor writing a prescription for a patient, she decided a Harlequin romance administered quaque hora would get her through the day

   • 2015, Glenn Kenney, A Galaxy Not So Far Away‎^[4]:

     Others may protest that when they think of Star Wars and sexy they think of young Harrison Ford, who as Han Solo played the part of a Harlequin romance hero, a roughtalking mercenary who treats our heroine Leia with gruff, arrogant disrespect...

   • 2013, Ankhi Mukherjee, Aesthetic Hysteria: The Great Neurosis in Victorian Melodrama and Contemporary Fiction‎^[5]:

     The novel is a neurotic shape-shifter which cannibalizes older, mostly canonical texts: Dickens's novel by the same title, a pornographic novel, a Harlequin romance, excerpts of Greek history, a line from a Keats letter.

参考

• Appendix:Glossary of authorship