The Routledge Research Companion To Popular Romance Fiction

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The Routledge Research Companion to Popular Romance Fiction

Author : Eric Murphy Selinger
Publisher : Routledge
ISBN 13 : 9781472443304
Total Pages : 566 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (433 download)

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Download or read book The Routledge Research Companion to Popular Romance Fiction written by Eric Murphy Selinger and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2020-08-10 with total page 566 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: That popular romance fiction constitutes the largest segment of the global consumer book market is well-established. Less well-known, though no less important, is the worldwide presence of scholarship that studies this global genre and its remarkable readership. Bringing together an international group of scholars, this work offers a state-of-the-art review of scholarship in this vibrant and still-emerging field.

The Routledge Research Companion to Popular Romance Fiction

Author : Jayashree Kamblé
Publisher : Routledge
ISBN 13 : 1317041941
Total Pages : 570 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (17 download)

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Download or read book The Routledge Research Companion to Popular Romance Fiction written by Jayashree Kamblé and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2020-08-11 with total page 570 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Popular romance fiction constitutes the largest segment of the global book market. Bringing together an international group of scholars, The Routledge Research Companion to Popular Romance Fiction offers a ground-breaking exploration of this global genre and its remarkable readership. In recognition of the diversity of the form, the Companion provides a history of the genre, an overview of disciplinary approaches to studying romance fiction, and critical analyses of important subgenres, themes, and topics. It also highlights new and understudied avenues of inquiry for future research in this vibrant and still-emerging field. The first systematic, comprehensive resource on romance fiction, this Companion will be invaluable to students and scholars, and accessible to romance readers.

The Routledge Companion to Romantic Love

Author : Ann Brooks
Publisher : Routledge
ISBN 13 : 1000432734
Total Pages : 462 pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 (4 download)

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Download or read book The Routledge Companion to Romantic Love written by Ann Brooks and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2021-11-30 with total page 462 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Routledge Companion to Romantic Love is a multidisciplinary and interdisciplinary reference work essential for students and researchers interested in the field of love, romance and popular romance fiction. This first-of-its-kind volume illustrates the broad and interdisciplinary nature of love studies. International contributors, including leaders in their field, reflect a range of perspectives from cultural studies, history, literature, popular romance studies, American studies, sociology and gender studies. Comprising over 30 chapters by a team of international contributors the Companion is divided into 12 parts: Love, romance and historical and social change Love and feminist discourses Love and popular romance fiction Love, gender and sexuality Romancing Australia South and Southeast Asian romance communities Nation, place and identity in US popular romance novels Romantic love and national identity in Chinese and Taiwanese discourses of love Muslim and Middle Eastern romances Discourses of romance fiction and technologies of power Writing love and romance Legal and theological fiction and sexual politics This is an important and unique collection aimed at researchers and students across cultural studies, women and gender studies, literature studies and sociology.

Happily Ever After

Author : Catherine M. Roach
Publisher : Indiana University Press
ISBN 13 : 0253020522
Total Pages : 240 pages
Book Rating : 4.2/5 (53 download)

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Download or read book Happily Ever After written by Catherine M. Roach and published by Indiana University Press. This book was released on 2016-03-31 with total page 240 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "Find your one true love and live happily ever after." The trials of love and desire provide perennial story material, from the Biblical Song of Songs to Disney's princesses, but perhaps most provocatively in the romance novel, a genre known for tales of fantasy and desire, sex and pleasure. Hailed on the one hand for its women-centered stories that can be sexually liberating, and criticized on the other for its emphasis on male/female coupling and mythical happy endings, romance fiction is a multi-million dollar publishing phenomenon, creating national and international societies of enthusiasts, practitioners, and scholars. Catherine M. Roach, alongside her romance-writer alter-ego, Catherine LaRoche, guides the reader deep into Romancelandia where the smart and the witty combine with the sexy and seductive to explore why this genre has such a grip on readers and what we can learn from the romance novel about the nature of happiness, love, sex, and desire in American popular culture.

The Routledge Companion to Jane Austen

Author : Cheryl A. Wilson
Publisher : Routledge
ISBN 13 : 0429675267
Total Pages : 623 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (296 download)

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Download or read book The Routledge Companion to Jane Austen written by Cheryl A. Wilson and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2021-10-13 with total page 623 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: First published anonymously, as ‘a lady’, Jane Austen is now among the world’s most famous and highly revered authors. The Routledge Companion to Jane Austen provides wide-ranging coverage of Jane Austen’s works, reception, and legacy, with chapters that draw on the latest literary research and theory and represent foundational and authoritative scholarship as well as new approaches to an author whose works provide seemingly endless inspiration for reinterpretation, adaptation, and appropriation. The Companion provides up-to-date work by an international team of established and emerging Austen scholars and includes exciting chapters not just on Austen in her time but on her ongoing afterlife, whether in the academy and the wider world of her fans or in cinema, new media, and the commercial world. Parts within the volume explore Jane Austen in her time and within the literary canon; the literary critical and theoretical study of her novels, unpublished writing, and her correspondence; and the afterlife of her work as exemplified in film, digital humanities, and new media. In addition, the Companion devotes special attention to teaching Jane Austen.

Conflict and Colonialism in 21st Century Romantic Historical Fiction

Author : Hsu-Ming Teo
Publisher : Taylor & Francis
ISBN 13 : 1040085415
Total Pages : 180 pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 (4 download)

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Download or read book Conflict and Colonialism in 21st Century Romantic Historical Fiction written by Hsu-Ming Teo and published by Taylor & Francis. This book was released on 2024-06-13 with total page 180 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book explores how postmillennial Anglophone women writers use romantic narrativisations of history to explore, revise, repurpose and challenge the past in their novels, exposing the extent to which past societies were damaging to women by instead imagining alternative histories. The novelists discussed employ the generic conventions of romance to narrate their understanding of historical and contemporary injustice and to reflect upon women’s achievements and the price they paid for autonomy and a life of public purpose. The volume seeks, firstly, to discuss the work of revision or reparation being performed by romantic historical fiction and, secondly, to analyse how the past is being repurposed for use in the present. It contends that the discourses and genre of romance work to provide a reparative reading of the past, but there are limitations and entrenched problems in such readings.

The Routledge Companion to Gender, Sexuality and Culture

Author : Emma Rees
Publisher : Taylor & Francis
ISBN 13 : 1000627004
Total Pages : 613 pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 (6 download)

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Download or read book The Routledge Companion to Gender, Sexuality and Culture written by Emma Rees and published by Taylor & Francis. This book was released on 2022-09-02 with total page 613 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Routledge Companion to Gender, Sexuality, and Culture is an intersectional, diverse, and comprehensive collection essential for students and researchers examining the intersection of sexuality and culture. The book seeks to reflect established theories while anticipating future developments within gender, sexuality, and cultural studies. A range of international contributors, including leaders in their field, provide insights into dominant and marginalised subjects. Comprising over 30 chapters, the volume is comprised into five thematic parts: Identifying, Embodying, Making, Doing, and Resisting. Topics explored include homonormativity, poetry, video games, menstruation, fatness, disability, sex toys, sex work, BDSM, dating apps, body modifications, and politics and activism. This is an important and unique collection aimed at scholars, researchers, activists, and practitioners across cultural studies, gender studies and sociology.

New Directions in Popular Fiction

Author : Ken Gelder
Publisher : Springer
ISBN 13 : 1137523468
Total Pages : 473 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (375 download)

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Download or read book New Directions in Popular Fiction written by Ken Gelder and published by Springer. This book was released on 2016-11-21 with total page 473 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book brings together new contributions in Popular Fiction Studies, giving us a vivid sense of new directions in analysis and focus. It looks into the histories of popular genres such as the amatory novel, imperial romance, the western, Australian detective fiction, Whitechapel Gothic novels, the British spy thriller, Japanese mysteries, the 'new weird', fantasy, girl hero action novels and Quebecois science fiction. It also examines the production, reproduction and distribution of popular fiction as it carves out space for itself in transnational marketplaces and across different media entertainment systems; and it discusses the careers of popular authors and the various investments in popular fiction by readers and fans. This book will be indispensable for anyone with a serious interest in this prolific but highly distinctive literary field.

History and Speculative Fiction

Author : John L. Hennessey
Publisher : Springer Nature
ISBN 13 : 303142235X
Total Pages : 295 pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 (314 download)

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Download or read book History and Speculative Fiction written by John L. Hennessey and published by Springer Nature. This book was released on 2023-12-14 with total page 295 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This open access book demonstrates that despite different epistemological starting points, history and speculative fiction perform similar work in “making the strange familiar” and “making the familiar strange” by taking their readers on journeys through space and time. Excellent history, like excellent speculative fiction, should cause readers to reconsider crucial aspects of their society that they normally overlook or lead them to reflect on radically different forms of social organization. Drawing on Gunlög Fur’s postcolonial concept of concurrences, and with contributions that explore diverse examples of speculative fiction and historical encounters using a variety of disciplinary approaches, this volume provides new perspectives on colonialism, ecological destruction, the nature of humanity, and how to envision a better future.

New Frontiers in Popular Romance

Author : Susan Fanetti
Publisher : McFarland
ISBN 13 : 1476646228
Total Pages : 247 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (766 download)

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Download or read book New Frontiers in Popular Romance written by Susan Fanetti and published by McFarland. This book was released on 2022-06-07 with total page 247 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In the twenty-first century, the romance genre has gained a growing academic response, including the creation of the International Association for the Study of Popular Romance. Popular romance has long been so ignored and maligned that seemingly every scholarly work on it opens with a lengthy defense of the genre and its value for academic study. Even the early scholarly works on the genre approach it in ways that, while primarily respectful, make sweeping generalizations about popular romance, its texts, and its readers. This essay collection examines the position of the romance genre in the twenty-first century, and the ways in which romance responds to and influences the culture and community in which it exists. Essays are divided into six sections, which cover the genre's relationship with masculinity, the importance of consent, historical romance, representation, social status and web-based romance fiction.

Publishing Romance Fiction in the Philippines

Author : Jodi McAlister
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
ISBN 13 : 1009090321
Total Pages : 159 pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 (9 download)

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Download or read book Publishing Romance Fiction in the Philippines written by Jodi McAlister and published by Cambridge University Press. This book was released on 2023-06-08 with total page 159 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The romance publishing landscape in the Philippines is vast and complex, characterised by entangled industrial players, diverse kinds of texts, and siloed audiences. This Element maps the large, multilayered, and highly productive sector of the Filipino publishing industry. It explores the distinct genre histories of romance fiction in this territory and the social, political and technological contexts that have shaped its development. It also examines the close connections between romance publishing and other media sectors alongside unique reception practices. It takes as a central case study the Filipino romance self-publishing collective #RomanceClass, analysing how they navigate this complex local landscape as well as the broader international marketplace. The majority of scholarship on romance fiction exclusively focuses on the Anglo-American industry. By focusing here on the Philippines, the authors hope to disrupt this phenomenon, and to contribute to a more decentred, rhizomatic approach to understanding this genre world.

Detoxing Masculinity in Anglophone Literature and Culture

Author : Sara Martín
Publisher : Springer Nature
ISBN 13 : 3031221443
Total Pages : 308 pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 (312 download)

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Download or read book Detoxing Masculinity in Anglophone Literature and Culture written by Sara Martín and published by Springer Nature. This book was released on 2023-03-07 with total page 308 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This edited volume rethinks Masculinity Studies by breaking away from the notion of the perpetual crisis of masculinity. It argues that not enough has been done to distinguish patriarchy from masculinity and proposes to detox masculinity by offering a collection of positive representations of men in fictional and non-fictional texts. The editors show how ideas of hegemonic and toxic masculinity have been too fixed on the exploration of dominance and subservience, and too little on the men (and the male characters in fiction) who behave following other ethical, personal and socially accepted patterns. Bringing together research from different periods and genres, this collection provides broad, multidisciplinary insights into alternative representations of masculinity.

The Routledge Companion to Feminism and Postfeminism

Author : Sarah Gamble
Publisher : Routledge
ISBN 13 : 1134545622
Total Pages : 389 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (345 download)

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Download or read book The Routledge Companion to Feminism and Postfeminism written by Sarah Gamble and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2004-11-23 with total page 389 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Approachable for general readers as well as for students in women's studies related courses at all levels, this invaluable guide follows the unique Companion format in combining over a dozen in-depth background chapters with more than 400 A-Z dictionary entries. The background chapters are written by major figures in the field of feminist studies, and include thorough coverage of the history of feminism, as well as extensive discussions of topics such as Postfeminism, Men in Feminism, Feminism and New Technologies and Feminism and Philosophy. The dictionary entries cover the major individuals and issues essential to an understanding both of feminism's roots and of the trends that are shaping its future. Readers will find entries on people such as Aphra Behn, Simone de Beauvoir, Princess Diana, Courtney Love and Robert Bly, and on subjects such as Afro-American feminism, cosmetic surgery, the 'new man', prostitution, reproductive technologies and 'slasher' films.

American Quaker Romances

Author : Carolina Fernández Rodríguez
Publisher : Universitat de València
ISBN 13 : 8491349103
Total Pages : 198 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (913 download)

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Download or read book American Quaker Romances written by Carolina Fernández Rodríguez and published by Universitat de València. This book was released on 2021-12-20 with total page 198 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Quaker characters have peopled many an American literary work—most notably, "Uncle Tom’s Cabin"—as Quakerism has been historically associated with progressive attitudes and the advancement of social justice. With the rise in recent years of the Christian romance market, dominated by American Evangelical companies, there has been a renewed interest in fictional Quakers. In the historical Quaker romances analyzed in this book, Quaker heroines often devote time to spiritual considerations, advocate the sanctity of marriage and promote traditional family values. However, their concern with social justice also leads them to engage in subversive behavior and to question the status quo, as illustrated by heroines who are active on the Underground Railroad or are seen organizing the Seneca Falls convention. Though relatively liberal in terms of gender, Quaker romances are considerably less progressive when it comes to race relations. Thus, they reflect America’s conflicted relationship with its history of race and gender abuse, and the country’s tendency to both resist and advocate social change. Ultimately, Quaker romances reinforce the myth of America as a White and Christian nation, here embodied by the Quaker heroine, the all-powerful savior who rescues Native Americans, African Americans and Jews while conquering the hero’s heart.

Romance Fandom in 21st-Century Pakistan

Author : Javaria Farooqui
Publisher : Bloomsbury Publishing USA
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 145 pages
Book Rating : 4.7/5 (651 download)

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Download or read book Romance Fandom in 21st-Century Pakistan written by Javaria Farooqui and published by Bloomsbury Publishing USA. This book was released on 2024-10-31 with total page 145 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Romance Fandom in 21st-century Pakistan offers the first major study of English-speaking romance fandom in South Asia, providing a new reader-centric model that engages with romance readers as genre experts. Javaria Farooqui inspects the popular Anglophone romance reading community in Pakistan and develops a model for analysing genre romance novels through the lens of the readers' perspective and preferences. Using focus-group interviews and close textual analysis, Romance Fandom in 21st-century Pakistan explores where and how readers access books of their choice, and explains why the detailed descriptions of dresses, food and spaces in historical romance novels of the Regency era exemplify good taste for this distinctive readership. Sitting at the intersection of literary studies, genre studies, and fan studies, this book considers the reception of Anglophone romance fiction by reading communities of colour.

Love in the Time of Self-Publishing

Author : Christine M. Larson
Publisher : Princeton University Press
ISBN 13 : 0691217408
Total Pages : 288 pages
Book Rating : 4.6/5 (912 download)

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Download or read book Love in the Time of Self-Publishing written by Christine M. Larson and published by Princeton University Press. This book was released on 2024-06-04 with total page 288 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Lessons in creative labor, solidarity, and inclusion under precarious economic conditions As writers, musicians, online content creators, and other independent workers fight for better labor terms, romance authors offer a powerful example—and a cautionary tale—about self-organization and mutual aid in the digital economy. In Love in the Time of Self-Publishing, Christine Larson traces the forty-year history of Romancelandia, a sprawling network of romance authors, readers, editors, and others, who formed a unique community based on openness and collective support. Empowered by solidarity, American romance writers—once disparaged literary outcasts—became digital publishing’s most innovative and successful authors. Meanwhile, a new surge of social media activism called attention to Romancelandia’s historic exclusion of romance authors of color and LGBTQ+ writers, forcing a long-overdue cultural reckoning. Drawing on the largest-known survey of any literary genre as well as interviews and archival research, Larson shows how romance writers became the only authors in America to make money from the rise of ebooks—increasing their median income by 73 percent while other authors’ plunged by 40 percent. The success of romance writers, Larson argues, demonstrates the power of alternative forms of organizing influenced by gendered working patterns. It also shows how networks of relationships can amplify—or mute—certain voices. Romancelandia’s experience, Larson says, offers crucial lessons about solidarity for creators and other isolated workers in an increasingly risky employment world. Romancelandia’s rise and near-meltdown shows that gaining fair treatment from platforms depends on creator solidarity—but creator solidarity, in turn, depends on fair treatment of all members.

Girls in Contemporary Vampire Fiction

Author : Agnieszka Stasiewicz-Bieńkowska
Publisher : Springer Nature
ISBN 13 : 3030717445
Total Pages : 277 pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 (37 download)

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Download or read book Girls in Contemporary Vampire Fiction written by Agnieszka Stasiewicz-Bieńkowska and published by Springer Nature. This book was released on 2021-05-08 with total page 277 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book explores the narratives of girlhood in contemporary YA vampire fiction, bringing into the spotlight the genre’s radical, ambivalent, and contradictory visions of young femininity. Agnieszka Stasiewicz-Bieńkowska considers less-explored popular vampire series for girls, particularly those by P.C. and Kristin Cast and Richelle Mead, tracing the ways in which they engage in larger cultural conversations on girlhood in the Western world. Mapping the interactions between girl and vampire corporealities, delving into the unconventional tales of vampire romance and girl sexual expressions, examining the narratives of women and violence, and venturing into the uncanny vampire classroom to unmask its critique of present-day schooling, the volume offers a new perspective on the vampire genre and an engaging insight into the complexities of growing up a girl.