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Wednesday, February 27, 2008

Help a Prof Out?

Hello, everyone!

Eric here, with a super-secret romance project in the works. I can't say what it is yet, but if I give you a hint, can you give me some help?

I need a catchy title for a project on Romance Fiction (or maybe Romance and Chick-Lit) and American Culture. I've been kicking around the usual words and phrases that come up in an American Studies context: "Pursuits of Happiness," "Liberty and Union," "Perfect Unions and Others," that sort of thing. None of them has grabbed me yet. They're too far from the genre, somehow.

So--what do you think? Any of those strike you as worth pursuing? Any clever plays on words, riffs on titles, and so forth? Something fun about ladies and liberties? I don't have a prize to hand out, or even a title, but I'll be mighty grateful, and make sure you get the credit.

Anyone out there who can Help a Prof Out?

(Lady Liberty print by Alfred Gockel, available for purchase here.)
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16 comments:

  1. Anonymous27 February, 2008 20:39

    Oh yeah, I love coming up with titles.

    Here are my ideas:

    One Nation Under Pulp

    With Liberty and Lipgloss For All

    A Novel Divided Against Itself Cannot Stand

    --Lazaraspaste

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  2. Anonymous27 February, 2008 21:07

    "A More Perfect Union"

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  3. Wendy27 February, 2008 23:07

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  4. Wendy27 February, 2008 23:09

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  5. Wendy27 February, 2008 23:19

    Sorry--was trying to consolidate.

    Remember the Ladies
    Taking Liberties
    For Love Or Country
    United We Stand

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  6. E. M. Selinger28 February, 2008 01:48

    Liberty and Lipgloss is wonderful! I don't know if we'll use it, but what a great zeugma, Lazaraspaste.

    "Taking Liberties" is also nice...picks up the Lady Liberty theme, gives it a twist...

    Keep them coming, everyone!

    E

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  7. Wendy28 February, 2008 02:19

    Liberty and Libertines
    Belles of Freedom
    Liberty Belles (can you tell I like Regencies? ;)

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  8. talpianna28 February, 2008 02:22

    Miss American Pie?
    Love, American Style?

    ---tal, clever but not very original

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  9. Anonymous28 February, 2008 19:17

    (American) Pride and Paramours
    Romancing US

    hmmmm... Man, I stink at this...my brain...it hurtses.

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  10. Sarah S. G. Frantz28 February, 2008 23:59

    One nation under love?
    One nation under the covers?

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  11. Anonymous29 February, 2008 15:27

    Life, Liberty, and the Pursuit of Jimmy Choos

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  12. E. M. Selinger29 February, 2008 15:45

    Hmmm...

    Love, Liberty, and the Pursuit of Happiness

    (too long to carry a subtitle, but it's a good trio)

    Liberty and Happiness: Romance Fiction and American Culture (is love implied by Romance in the subhead, as Chick Lit is implied when you mention Jimmy Choos?)

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  13. Anonymous29 February, 2008 16:16

    Playing around with what others have already posted:

    Love and Liberty
    Liberty and Pursuit

    I was trying to figure out what you could do with the phrase "certain inalienable rights" - thinking of the rights husbands would claim in historicals (would women claim them now?), but couldn't come up with anything even remotely interesting.

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  14. Sarah S. G. Frantz29 February, 2008 16:54

    I like "A More Perfect Union: Romance Fiction and American Culture" or "Liberty and Happiness: RF + AC."

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  15. Wendy29 February, 2008 23:57

    I like Sarah's first suggestion (AMPU: RF + AC).

    I can't help thinking of the end of Harriet Jacobs' narrative: "Reader, my story ends with freedom; not in the usual way, with marriage."

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  16. JanLo01 March, 2008 17:26

    I'll give it a try:

    Snark, Liberty, and Choice: The Romance Novel Comes of Age

    Liberty and Choice: Reflections of Romance and American Culture

    Liberty and Romantic Equality: The Romantic Heroine as a Reflection of American Culture

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