Mary Fahnestock-Thomas, the editor of the volume, describes "Decentering the Romance: Jane Austen, Georgette Heyer, and Popular Romance Fiction" as "1999, unpublished essay based on Bywaters' 1989 dissertation, "Re-Reading Jane: Jane Austen's Legacy to Twentieth Century Women Writers [Pym, Heyer, Gibbons, Brookner]" (493). It should be noted that in that dissertation (also in the database), Bywaters' name is given as "Barbara Lee Bywaters."
I am not clear why the essay is dated 1999 if it was unpublished. Perhaps it was supplied in that year to Fahnestock-Thomas, whose volume was published in 2001? As I'm unaware of an earlier place of publication, I've given it a date of 2001, which is the year Fahnestock-Thomas's volume was published.
The relevant chapter in Bywaters' dissertation has a slightly shorter version of the same title: "Jane Austen, Georgette Heyer, and Popular Romance Fiction." In its contents, however, it is a longer version of the essay in Fahnestock-Thomas' volume. The 1999/2001 version has been edited down in size, mostly through extensive cuts, although some minor alterations have also been made in some of the sentences/paragraphs which were retained.
Mary Fahnestock-Thomas, the editor of the volume, describes "Decentering the Romance: Jane Austen, Georgette Heyer, and Popular Romance Fiction" as "1999, unpublished essay based on Bywaters' 1989 dissertation, "Re-Reading Jane: Jane Austen's Legacy to Twentieth Century Women Writers [Pym, Heyer, Gibbons, Brookner]" (493). It should be noted that in that dissertation (also in the database), Bywaters' name is given as "Barbara Lee Bywaters."
I am not clear why the essay is dated 1999 if it was unpublished. Perhaps it was supplied in that year to Fahnestock-Thomas, whose volume was published in 2001? As I'm unaware of an earlier place of publication, I've given it a date of 2001, which is the year Fahnestock-Thomas's volume was published.
The relevant chapter in Bywaters' dissertation has a slightly shorter version of the same title: "Jane Austen, Georgette Heyer, and Popular Romance Fiction." In its contents, however, it is a longer version of the essay in Fahnestock-Thomas' volume. The 1999/2001 version has been edited down in size, mostly through extensive cuts, although some minor alterations have also been made in some of the sentences/paragraphs which were retained.