Romance Fiction and American Culture: Love as the Practice of Freedom?Dr Eric Murphy Selinger, Dr William A Gleason Since the 1970s, romance novels have surpassed all other genres in terms of popularity in the United States, accounting for half of all mass market paperbacks sold and driving the digital publishing revolution. Romance Fiction and American Culture brings together scholars from the humanities, social sciences, and publishing to explore American romance fiction from the late eighteenth to the early twenty-first century. Essays on interracial, inspirational, and LGBTQ romance attend to the diversity of the genre, while new areas of inquiry are suggested in contextual and interdisciplinary examinations of romance authorship, readership, and publishing history, of pleasure and respectability in African American romance fiction, and of the dynamic tension between the genre and second wave feminism. As it situates romance fiction among other instances of American love culture, from Civil War diaries to Bob Dylan’s Blood on the Tracks, Romance Fiction and American Culture confirms the complexity and enduring importance of this most contested of genres. |
Contents
List of Figures | |
Love as the Practice of Freedom? | |
Pamela Crosses the Atlantic or Pamela Andrewss Story | |
The Southern Belles Love | |
American Romance Publishing | |
George Munros Sons c 1898 Authors | |
Romance Fiction and Identity in PostWorld War II America | |
The Flame and | |
Orientalism Freedom and Feminism in Popular Romance | |
The Transformative Power of Whiteness | |
A Brief Transatlantic History of Romance | |
Mills Boon 1914 | |
1966 paperback | |
Discourses of Passion and Professionalism | |
Bob Dylan Ekphrasis and | |
Marriage as Triangle | |
Pleasure Respectability | |
American Romance in Black and White | |
Strick and written by Jean Genet play and Ben Maddow | |
Agape | |
Romancing Zanes Urban Erotica | |
Inspiring Convention and Challenge | |
Popular Romance Narratives | |
Queer Romance in Twentieth and TwentyFirstCentury | |
Index | |
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Romance Fiction and American Culture: Love as the Practice of Freedom? William A. Gleason,Eric Murphy Selinger No preview available - 2016 |
Romance Fiction and American Culture: Love as the Practice of Freedom? William A. Gleason,Eric Murphy Selinger No preview available - 2016 |