Overview

In the twenty-first century, the romance genre has gained a growing academic response, including the creation of the International Association for the Study of Popular Romance. Popular romance has long been so ignored and maligned that seemingly every scholarly work on it opens with a lengthy defense of the genre and its value for academic study. Even the early scholarly works on the genre approach it in ways that, while primarily respectful, make sweeping generalizations about popular romance, its texts, and its readers. This essay collection examines the position of the romance genre in the twenty-first century, and the ways in which romance responds to and influences the culture and community in which it exists. Essays are divided into six sections, which cover the genre's relationship with masculinity, the importance of consent, historical romance, representation, social status and web-based romance fiction.

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Author:   Susan Fanetti
Publisher:   McFarland & Co Inc
Imprint:   McFarland & Co Inc
Dimensions:   Width: 15.20cm , Height: 1.30cm , Length: 22.90cm
Weight:   0.322kg
ISBN:  

9781476682464

ISBN 10:   1476682461
Pages:   246
Publication Date:   27 June 2022
Recommended Age:   From 18 years
Audience:   Professional and scholarly ,  Professional & Vocational
Format:   Paperback
Publisher's Status:   Active
Availability:   Manufactured on demand  
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Table of Contents

Table of Contents Introduction—Popular Romance in the 21st Century: Time to Claim Its Susan Fanetti Part One: Problematic Masculinities Healing Toxic Masculinity in Sweatpants Season by Danielle Allen Jonathan A. Allan From Darcy to Dickheads: Why Do Women Love the Bad Boy? Ashleigh Taylor Sullivan Part Two: Navigating Consent After #MeToo Tingles and Shivers: First Kisses and Intimate Civility in Eliza Redgold’s Historical Harlequin Romances Pre–and Post-#MeToo Debra Dudek, Elizabeth Reid Boyd, Madalena Grobbelaar, and Rose Williams I Thought You’d Never Ask: Consent in Contemporary Romance Courtney Watson Part Three: History and Historicity “Say, could that lass be I?” Outlander, Transmedial ­Time-Travel, and Women’s Historical Fantasy Ashley Elizabeth Christensen “Place the glass before you, and draw in chalk your own picture”: The Recasting of Jane Eyre Lucy Sheerman Part Four: Representation Matters “The Realness” in Jasmine Guillory’s Sista Lit Rom Com Novels Camille S. Alexander Eating Disorders and Romance Ellen Carter The “Grandly and Inhospitably Strange” World of Autistic Heroines in Romance Fiction Wendy Wagner Part Five: Romance Tropes and Social Status Women Policing Whiteness: Deviance and Surveillance in Contemporary Police Procedural Romance Nattie Golubov “I’m a mehfil, I’m a gathering to which everyone is invited”: Reading “Outcast” Romances in Arundhati Roy’s Fiction Lucky Issar Part Six: Romance Tropes in Online Spaces The System That Loves Me: The State of Human Existence in ­Web-Based Romantic Fiction from ­Post-Socialist China Jin Feng Original Slash, Romance, and C.S. Pacat’s Captive Prince Maria Alberto About the Contributors Index

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Susan Fanetti is a professor of English at California State University, Sacramento, where she serves as Coordinator of the English Education program and teaches courses in teaching English Language Arts and in American literature, genre literature, composition, and popular culture. Her scholarship tends to explore the intersections of teaching and popular culture.

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