03951nam 2200709 450 991046616010332120200520144314.00-253-02052-2(CKB)3710000000602888(EBL)4426689(SSID)ssj0001623914(PQKBManifestationID)16362093(PQKBTitleCode)TC0001623914(PQKBWorkID)14930485(PQKB)11189070(MiAaPQ)EBC4426689(OCoLC)941780537(MdBmJHUP)muse52762(Au-PeEL)EBL4426689(CaPaEBR)ebr11163792(CaONFJC)MIL900301(EXLCZ)99371000000060288820160321h20162016 uy 1engur|n|---|||||txtrdacontentcrdamediacr2rdacarrierHappily ever after the romance story in popular culture /Catherine M. RoachBloomington, Indiana ;Indianapolis, Indiana :Indiana University Press,2016.©20161 online resource (240 p.)Description based upon print version of record.0-253-03248-2 0-253-02044-1 Includes bibliographical references and index.Prologue: Journey into Romancelandia; 1 Find Your One True Love: Book Lovers and the Romance Story; 2 Going Native: When the Academic Is (Also) the Fan; 3 Notes from the Imagination: Reading Romance Writing: Wherein Catherine Roach and Catherine LaRoche, in Feisty Dialogue, Comment upon LaRoche's Fiction; 4 Sex: Good Girls Do, or, Romance Fiction as Sex-Positive Feminist Mommy Porn; 5 Notes from the Field: Romance Writers of America; 6 Love: Bondage and the Conundrum of Erotic Love7 Notes from the Writing: "Between the Sheets" and Other Moments toward Romance Novelist; 8 Happily Ever After: The Testament of Erotic Faith; Epilogue: Lessons from Romancing the Academic; Notes; Bibliography; Index."Find your one true love and live happily ever after." The trials of love and desire provide perennial story material, from the BiblicalSong of Songsto Disney's princesses, but perhaps most provocatively in the romance novel, a genre known for tales of fantasy and desire, sex and pleasure. Hailed on the one hand for its women-centered stories that can be sexually liberating, and criticized on the other for its emphasis on male/female coupling and mythical happy endings, romance fiction is a multi-million dollar publishing phenomenon, creating national and international societies of enthusiasts, practitioners, and scholars. Catherine M. Roach, alongside her romance-writer alter-ego, Catherine LaRoche, guides the reader deep into Romancelandia where the smart and the witty combine with the sexy and seductive to explore why this genre has such a grip on readers and what we can learn from the romance novel about the nature of happiness, love, sex, and desire in American popular culture.--publisher.Romance fiction, AmericanHistory and criticismRomance fiction, EnglishHistory and criticismWomen in literatureLove in literaturePopular literatureUnited StatesPopular literatureGreat BritainElectronic books.Romance fiction, AmericanHistory and criticism.Romance fiction, EnglishHistory and criticism.Women in literature.Love in literature.Popular literaturePopular literature813/.08509Roach Catherine M.1965-800699MiAaPQMiAaPQMiAaPQBOOK9910466160103321Happily ever after2136075UNINA$28.5910/04/2017Eng