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Riders

Disciplines:
literature

Summary

Jilly Cooper's blockbuster saga of the international showjumping circuit — passion, rivalry, horses, and English aristocratic sexuality.

Core Contribution

The founding text of the 'Rutshire Chronicles' — Cooper's long-running series of bonkbusters set in the English upper classes. Enormous popular success; defined the 1980s bonkbuster genre. Rupert Campbell-Black — one of the great anti-heroes of popular fiction — arrogant, brutal, sexually voracious, but somehow compelling.

Historical Influences

Barbara Cartland Georgette Heyer

Intellectual Lineage

English Popular Fiction Romance Novel

Allied Works

Rivals Polo Jump!

Contemporaries & Peers

Polo Rivals

Minds Influenced

Popular Romance Fiction

Intellectual Posterity

Bonkbuster Genre

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