LEADER 03915nam 2200685 450 001 9910824484903321 005 20230831191723.0 010 $a0-253-02052-2 035 $a(CKB)3710000000602888 035 $a(EBL)4426689 035 $a(SSID)ssj0001623914 035 $a(PQKBManifestationID)16362093 035 $a(PQKBTitleCode)TC0001623914 035 $a(PQKBWorkID)14930485 035 $a(PQKB)11189070 035 $a(MiAaPQ)EBC4426689 035 $a(OCoLC)941780537 035 $a(MdBmJHUP)muse52762 035 $a(Au-PeEL)EBL4426689 035 $a(CaPaEBR)ebr11163792 035 $a(CaONFJC)MIL900301 035 $a(EXLCZ)993710000000602888 100 $a20160321h20162016 uy 1 101 0 $aeng 135 $aur|n|---||||| 181 $ctxt$2rdacontent 182 $cc$2rdamedia 183 $acr2$2rdacarrier 200 10$aHappily ever after $ethe romance story in popular culture /$fCatherine M. Roach 210 1$aBloomington, Indiana ;$aIndianapolis, Indiana :$cIndiana University Press,$d2016. 210 4$dİ2016 215 $a1 online resource (xvi, 222 pages) 300 $aDescription based upon print version of record. 311 $a0-253-03248-2 311 $a0-253-02044-1 320 $aIncludes bibliographical references (pages 197-212) and index. 327 $aPrologue: Journey into Romancelandia -- Find your one true love: book lovers and the romance story -- Going native: when the academic is (also) the fan -- Notes from the imagination: reading romance writing: wherein Catherine Roach and Catherine LaRoche, in feisty dialogue, commend upon LaRoche's fiction -- Sex: good girls do, or, romance fiction as sex-positive feminist mommy porn -- Notes from he field: romance writers of America -- Love: bondage and the conundrum of erotic love -- Notes from the writing: "between the sheets" and other moments toward romance novelist -- Happily ever after: the testament of erotic faith -- Epilogue: Lessons from romancing the academic. 330 $a""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." -- Provided by publisher. 606 $aRomance fiction, American$xHistory and criticism 606 $aRomance fiction, English$xHistory and criticism 606 $aWomen in literature 606 $aLove in literature 606 $aPopular literature$zUnited States 606 $aPopular literature$zGreat Britain 615 0$aRomance fiction, American$xHistory and criticism. 615 0$aRomance fiction, English$xHistory and criticism. 615 0$aWomen in literature. 615 0$aLove in literature. 615 0$aPopular literature 615 0$aPopular literature 676 $a813/.08509 700 $aRoach$b Catherine M.$f1965-$0800699 801 0$bMiAaPQ 801 1$bMiAaPQ 801 2$bMiAaPQ 906 $aBOOK 912 $a9910824484903321 996 $aHappily ever after$94013409 997 $aUNINA 999 $p$28.59$u10/04/2017$5Eng