Romance Fiction and American Culture: Love as the Practice of Freedom?

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Synopsis
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.
Copyright:
2016

Book Details

Book Quality:
Publisher Quality
Book Size:
456 Pages
ISBN-13:
9781134806287
Related ISBNs:
9781315563237, 9781472431523, 9781472431530
Publisher:
Taylor and Francis
Date of Addition:
Copyrighted By:
William A. Gleason and Eric Murphy Selinger and the contributors
Adult content:
No
Language:
English
Has Image Descriptions:
No
Categories:
Romance, Literature and Fiction, Language Arts
Submitted By:
Bookshare Staff
Usage Restrictions:
This is a copyrighted book.
Edited by:
William A. Gleason
Edited by:
Eric Murphy Selinger

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