Romance Fiction and American Culture: Love as the Practice of Freedom?William A. Gleason, Eric Murphy Selinger 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
1988 | |
The Southern Belles | |
American Romance Publishing | |
Romance Fiction and Identity in PostWorld War II | |
The Flame and | |
Pleasure | |
American Romance in Black and White | |
Orientalism Freedom and Feminism in Popular Romance | |
The Transformative Power of Whiteness | |
A Brief Transatlantic History | |
Discourses of Passion | |
Bob Dylan Ekphrasis | |
Marriage | |
Inspiring Convention | |
Popular Romance | |
Romancing Zanes Urban Erotica | |
Elizabeth Matelski | |
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