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Romance Fiction and American Culture: Love as the Practice of Freedom?

Romance Fiction and American Culture: Love as the Practice of Freedom?

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Bringing together scholars from the humanities, social sciences and publishing, this collection adds historical depth and specificity to the American cultural history of twentieth- and twenty-first-century popular romance fiction. The contributors examine the genre's eighteenth- and nineteenth-century contexts, the relationships between love and race, the emergence of LGBTQ romance, the dynamic tension between romance fiction and second-wave feminism, and the practical and rhetorical aspects of the romance industry.

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Pub dateDec 18, 2015
ISBN-101472431537
ISBN-139781472431530
LanguageEnglish
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