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ISBN 10:  0367900696

ISBN 13: 978-0367900694

Author: Ann Brooks

The Routledge Companion to Romantic Love is a multidisciplinary and interdisciplinary reference work essential for students and researchers interested in the field of love, romance and popular romance fiction. Thisfirst-of-its-kind volume illustrates the broad and interdisciplinary nature of love studies. International contributors, including leaders in their field, reflect a range of perspectives from cultural studies, history, literature, popular romance studies, American studies, sociology and gender studies. Comprising over 30 chapters by a team of international contributors the Companion is divided into 12 parts:

Love, romance and historical and social change

Love and feminist discourses

Love and popular romance fiction

Love, gender and sexuality

Romancing Australia

South and Southeast Asian romance communities

Nation, place and identity in US popular romance novels

Romantic love and national identity in Chinese and Taiwanese discourses of love

Muslim and Middle Eastern romances

Discourses of romance fiction and technologies of power

Writing love and romance

Legal and theological fiction and sexual politics

This is an important and unique collection aimed at researchers and students across cultural studies, women and gender studies, literature studies and sociology.

 

Table of contents: 

PART I: Love, Romance and Historical and Social Change
What’s Love Got to do With It? Romance and Intimacy in the Age of Hooking Up – David Shumway

Shipping Anne/Henry: Love in Tudor Historical Romances – Stephanie Russo

Men and Women in Love: Courtship, Marriage and Gender in Late Medieval England – Bronach C. Kane

These Old Shades: Georgette Heyer’s Unruly Eighteenth Century – Stephanie Russo

PART II: Love and Feminist Discourses
A New Vision of Love: Diversity, Positive Sexuality and Cultural Change in America – Catherine M. Roach

Mobilizing Love – Lynne Pearce

Mobile Love: Moral Panics, Erotics, and Affect – Purnima Mankekar

Big Little Lies – Feminist or Postfeminist Fiction? The Subversion of the Love Discourse in Liane Moriarty’s Novel and in the Series – Ann Brooks

PART III: Love and Popular Romance Fiction
Love and Listening: The Erotics of Talk in the Popular Romance Novel – Jodi McAlister

What’s in a Name? A Corpus Study of Phonological Differences in Gay and Straight Romance Heroes’ Names – Ellen Carter

House, Home and Husband in Historical Romance Fiction – Sarah H. Ficke

PART IV: Love, Gender and Sexuality
Toward a Progressive Black Sexual Politics: Reading African American Polyamorous Women in Patricia Hill Collins’ Black Feminist Thought – Justin Leonard Clardy

Self-Improvement as Proof of Love in The Bromance Book Club – Jonathan A. Allan

The #MeToo Movement, Ronan Farrow and the Fall of Sexually Abusive Men in Film and Television – Ann Brooks

PART V: Romancing Australia
Transported for Life, Transported by Love: Love and the Australian Convict Romance Novel – Hsu-Ming Teo

‘This Isn’t It’: The Fantasy of the Breakup in the Australian and American Bachelor/ette Franchises – Jodi McAlister

PART VI: South and Southeast Asian Romance Communities
Army Trenches and School Benches: The Philippine-American War in the Sugar Sun Series – Jennifer Wallace

“Shipping” Larry Stylinson: What Makes Pairing Appealing Boys Romantic – Andrea Ann I. Trinidad

Performances of ‘Reel’ and ‘Real’ Lives: Negotiating Public Romance in Urban India – Meghna Bohidar

PART VII: Nation, Place and Identity in US Popular Romance Novels
The Wild Heart of the Continent: Love and Place in the Silk Road Novels of Sherry Thomas – Eric Murphy Selinger

Remembering Love: Parsons-Yazzie’s Historical Romance Novel and the (Re)writing of Navajo History – Johanna Hoorenman

PART VIII: Romantic Love and National Identity in Chinese and Taiwanese Discourses of Love
The Fantasy of Love and Identity Crisis: (De)colonizing Desire and Nationality – Fang-Mei Lin

Cook for a Better Life: The Economy of Food and Sex in Chinese Web Romance – Jin Feng

Emotion and Empowerment – Romantic Love in Taiwanese Writer San Mao’s Wondering Literature and Life – Huike Wen

PART IX: Muslim and Middle Eastern Romances
Girls of Riyadh and Desperate in Dubai: Reading and Writing Romance in the Middle East – Amy Burge and Sandra Folie

Reading and Writing Muslim Romance on Wattpad – Claire Parnell

PART X: Discourses of Romance Fiction and Technologies of Power
The Geopolitics of Love: Patriotism, Homeland and the Domestication of Violent Masculinities in US Paramilitary Romance Fiction – Nattie Golubov

‘Roma’ Spelled Backwards: Love and Heterotopic Space in Contemporary Romance Novels Set in Italy – Francesca Pierini

PART XI: Writing Love and Romance
Disaggregating ‘Attraction’: Asexuality and Genre Critique in Alex Beecroft’s Blue Steel Chain – Eric Murphy Selinger

Disenchantment and its Discontents: ‘Modern Love’ and Irony in Popular Romance Fiction – Eric Murphy Selinger

PART XII: Legal and Theological Fiction and Sexual Politics
The Single-Mother and the Law: Romance Novels Making Room for Female Voices in Patriarchal Spaces – Therese Dryden

Rethinking ‘One Flesh’: D.S. Bailey and the Theology of Romantic Love in Mid-twentieth Century Britain

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