New frontiers in popular romance : essays on the genre in the 21st century /
"In the twenty-first century, the romance genre has gained a growing academic response, including the creation of the International Association for the Study of Popular Romance. Popular romance has long been so ignored and maligned that seemingly every scholarly work on it opens with a lengthy...
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Jefferson, North Carolina :
McFarland & Company, Inc., Publishers,
[2022]
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Table of Contents:
- Introduction: Popular romance in the 21st century: time to claim its due / Susan Fanetti
- Problematic masculinities. Healing toxic masculinity in Sweatpants season by Danielle Allen / Jonathan A. Allan
- From Darcy to dickheads: why do women love the bad boy? / Ashleigh Taylor Sullivan
- Navigating consent after #MeToo. Tingles and shivers: first kisses and intimate civility in Eliza Redgold's historical Harlequin romances pre- and post-#MeToo / Debra Dudek, Elizabeth Reid Boyd, Madalena Grobbelaar, and Rose Williams
- I thought you'd never ask: consent in contemporary romance / Courtney Watson
- History and historicity. "Say, could that lass be I?" Outlander, transmedial time-travel, and women's historical fantasy / Ashley Elizabeth Christensen
- "Place the glass before you, and draw in chalk your own picture": the recasting of Jane Eyre / Lucy Sheerman
- Representation matters. "The realness" in Jasmine Guillory's sista lit rom com novels / Camille S. Alexander
- Eating disorders and romance / Ellen Carter
- The "grandly and inhospitably strange" world of autistic heroines in romance fiction / Wendy Wagner
- Romance tropes and social status. Women policing whiteness: deviance and surveillance in contemporary police procedural romance / Nattie Golubov
- "I'm a mehfil, I'm a gathering to which everyone is invited": reading "outcast" romances in Arundhati Roy's fiction / Lucky Issar
- Romance tropes in online spaces. The system that loves me: the state of human existence in web-based romantic fiction from post-socialist China / Jin Feng
- Original slash, romance, and C.S. Pacat's Captive prince / Maria Alberto.
