an overview of disciplinary approaches to studying romance fiction, and critical analyses of important subgenres, themes, and topics. It also highlights new and understudied avenues of inquiry for future research in this vibrant and still-emerging field.
[BREAKING NEWS: It's a lot cheaper as an ebook (i.e. approximately US $37.57/£28.79 depending where you go). Buy links here.]
It's edited by Jayashree Kamblé, Eric Murphy Selinger and Hsu-Ming Teo and there's a chapter in it that I co-wrote with Eric.
I'm told a somewhat cheaper (but probably still not cheap) ebook version should become available next year.
Here's the table of contents:
Introduction [can be downloaded as part of the "preview pdf" available from the publisher]
Jayashree Kamblé, Eric Murphy Selinger, Hsu-Ming Teo
PART I: NATIONAL TRADITIONS
1 History of English Romance Novels, 1621–1975
jay Dixon
2 The Evolution of the American Romance Novel
Pamela Regis
3 Australian Romance Fiction
Lauren O’Mahony
PART II: SUB-GENRES
4 Gothic Romance
Angela Toscano
5 The Historical Romance
Sarah H. Ficke
6 Paranormal Romance and Urban Fantasy
María T. Ramos-García
7 Young Adult Romance
Amanda K. Allen
8 Inspirational Romance
Rebecca Barrett-Fox and Kristen Donnelly
9 Erotic Romance
Jodi McAlister
10 African American Romance
Julie E. Moody-Freeman
11 Explorations of the "Desert Passion Industry"
Amira Jarmakani
PART III: METHODOLOGICAL APPROACHES
12 Romance in the Media
Jayashree Kamblé
13 Literary Approaches
Eric Murphy Selinger
14 Author Studies and Popular Romance Fiction
Kecia Ali
15 Social Science Reads Romance
Joanna Gregson and Jennifer Lois
16 Publishing the Romance Novel
John Markert
17 Libraries and Popular Romance Fiction
Kristin Ramsdell
PART IV: THEMES
18 Class and Wealth in Popular Romance Fiction [a pre-print version is available here]
Amy Burge
19 Sex and Sexuality
Hannah McCann and Catherine M. Roach
20 Gender and Sexuality
Jonathan A. Allan
21 Love and Romance Novels
Hsu-Ming Teo
22 Romance and/as Religion
Eric Murphy Selinger and Laura Vivanco
23 Race, Ethnicity, and Whiteness
Erin S. Young
24 In Response to Harlequin: Global Legacy, Local Agency
Kathrina Mohd Daud
Back in my graduate school days (I was in a religion department), I actually dipped my toe in romance fiction research. I decided academia is not for me, but this looks amazing and I wish it had been available ten years ago. Mainly so I could read your article on Romance and/as Religion.
ReplyDeleteThank you for your continued work on letting me live vicariously in the world of academia and romance.
I'm not sure if you've already seen my latest book, "Faith, Love, Hope and Popular Romance Fiction" but if not, it's free online (details here) and it was shaped by the research I did for the Routledge chapter.
ReplyDeleteObviously that's not the same as reading the chapter itself, but I thought it might be of interest.
In addition, Amy Burge has put her chapter, about class and wealth, online in a pre-print version, available free from here.
Laura, as of today Routledge seems to have posted the Introduction to the book and all of the endnotes (?) as a free pdf preview of the collection. You can find them here: https://www.taylorfrancis.com/books/e/9781315613468
ReplyDeleteThanks, Eric. I'll put that in as a hyperlink too: https://www.taylorfrancis.com/books/e/9781315613468.
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