| Description |
ix, 272 pages ; 22 cm |
| Contents |
The romance genre blues or why we don't get no respect / Candace Proctor -- Romance: the perfect creative industry? A case study of Harlequin-Mills and Boon Australia / Glen Thomas -- Forms of pleasure in the reading of popular romance psychic and cultural dimensions / Eva Y.I. Chen -- Bound to love: captivity in Harlequin Sheikh Novels / Emily A. Haddad -- Details: Hitchcock reads Rebecca / Andrea Austin -- The haunted space of the mind: the revival of the gothic romance in the twenty-first century / Deborah Lutz -- Hope, faith and toughness: an analysis of the Christian hero / Rebecca Barrett-Fox -- How dare a black woman make love to a white man! Black women novelists and the taboo of interracial desire / Guy Mark Foster -- "I find some Hindu practices, like burning widows, utterly bizarre"; Representation of Sati and questions of choice in Viels of Silk / Maura Seale -- Female enfranchisement and the popular romance: Employing an Indian perspective / Jayashree Kamble -- Forming a local identity: romance novels in Hong Kong / Amy Lee -- City of fantasy: romance novels in Las Vegas / Eva Stowers / Understanding pleasure: an undergraduate romance reading community / Sally Goade -- Becoming both poet and poem: feminists repossess the romance / Mary Beth Tegan |
| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references and index |
| Subject |
Romance fiction -- History and criticism.
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Popular literature -- History and criticism.
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| Author |
Goade, Sally.
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| ISBN |
1847181392 |
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9781847181398 |
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