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Happily ever after : the romance story in popular culture / / Catherine M. Roach



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Autore: Roach Catherine M. <1965-> Visualizza persona
Titolo: Happily ever after : the romance story in popular culture / / Catherine M. Roach Visualizza cluster
Pubblicazione: Bloomington, Indiana ; ; Indianapolis, Indiana : , : Indiana University Press, , 2016
©2016
Descrizione fisica: 1 online resource (240 p.)
Disciplina: 813/.08509
Soggetto topico: Romance fiction, American - History and criticism
Romance fiction, English - History and criticism
Women in literature
Love in literature
Popular literature - United States
Popular literature - Great Britain
Soggetto genere / forma: Electronic books.
Note generali: Description based upon print version of record.
Nota di bibliografia: Includes bibliographical references and index.
Nota di contenuto: 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 Love
7 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.
Sommario/riassunto: "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.
Titolo autorizzato: Happily ever after  Visualizza cluster
ISBN: 0-253-02052-2
Formato: Materiale a stampa
Livello bibliografico Monografia
Lingua di pubblicazione: Inglese
Record Nr.: 9910466160103321
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