The Routledge Research Companion to Popular Romance Fiction
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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…mehr

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Produktbeschreibung
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.
Autorenporträt
Jayashree Kamblé is an Associate Professor of English at LaGuardia Community College in the City University of New York. She is the author of Making Meaning in Popular Romance Fiction: An Epistemology (2014) and a Vice-President of the International Association of the Study of Popular Romance. Eric Murphy Selinger is a Professor of English at DePaul University, Executive Editor of the Journal of Popular Romance Studies, and President of the International Association for the Study of Popular Romance. He is the author of What Is It Then Between Us? Traditions of Love in American Poetry (1998) and co-editor of New Approaches to Popular Romance Fiction (2012) and Romance Fiction and American Culture (2016). Hsu-Ming Teo is a novelist and cultural historian at Macquarie University, Australia, where she is an Associate Professor of literature and creative writing. Her academic publications include her monograph Desert Passions: Orientalism and Romance Novels (2012), and the edited books The Popular Culture of Romantic Love in Australia (2017) and Cultural History in Australia (2003).
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Literary Approaches

Eric Murphy Selinger

14 Author Studies and Popular Romance Fiction

Kecia Ali

15 Social Science Reads Romance

Joanna Gregson and Jennifer Lois

16 Publishing the Romance Novel

John Markert

17 Libraries and Popular Romance Fiction

Kristin Ramsdell

PART IV: THEMES

18 Class and Wealth in Popular Romance Fiction

Amy Burge

19 Sex and Sexuality

Hannah McCann and Catherine M. Roach

20 Gender and Sexuality

Jonathan A. Allan

21 Love and Romance Novels

Hsu-Ming Teo

22 Romance and/as Religion

Eric Murphy Selinger and Laura Vivanco

23 Race, Ethnicity, and Whiteness

Erin S. Young

24 In Response to Harlequin: Global Legacy, Local Agency

Kathrina Mohd Daud