Romance Fiction and American Culture
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African American literature
Amelia Serafine
American Romance
American Romance Fiction
American Romance Novelist
Ann Herendeen
Black Sexual Politics
Black Women
Bodice Ripper
Butch Lesbians
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Catherine M. Roach
Conseula Francis
Elizabeth Matelski
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Eric Murphy Selinger
Erin S. Young
Evangelical Romance
feminist literary criticism
Gay Romance
genre studies
Harlequin Mills
Hsu-Ming Teo
intersectionality in romance fiction
Jessica Taylor
Julie E. Moody-Freeman
June Hee Chung
Len Barot
Lesbian Pulps
Lesbian Romance Fiction
LGBTQ narratives
Lisa M. Gordis
Main Character
Marriage Plots
Pamela Regis
Popular Romance
Popular Romance Fiction
Popular Romance Genre
publishing history
Queer Romance
readership analysis
Rebecca Barrett-Fox
Rebecca Peabody
Redeeming Love
Rita B. Dandridge
Romance Fiction
RWR
Sarah Frantz Lyons
Transatlantic Cultural Exchange
Vice Versa
Women's Historical Romance
Women’s Historical Romance
Young Men
Product details
- ISBN 9781472431523
- Weight: 997g
- Dimensions: 156 x 234mm
- Publication Date: 18 Dec 2015
- Publisher: Taylor & Francis Ltd
- Publication City/Country: GB
- Product Form: Hardback
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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.
William A. Gleason is Professor of English at Princeton University, USA, and Eric Murphy Selinger is Professor of English at DePaul University, USA.
