Empowerment versus oppression
Subtitle: twenty first century views of popular romance novels
By: edited by Sally Goade.
Contributors: Goade, Sally.
Publisher: Cambridge Scholars Pub.
Published: 2007
Place of publication: Newcastle, U.K
Language: eng
Number of pages: 272
ISBN-13: 9781847181398
Subjects: Love stories -- History and criticism; Popular literature -- History and criticism
Notes: Includes bibliographical references and index
Table of contents: title: The romance genre blues, or, Why we don't get no respect / Candace Proctor; title: Romance : the perfect creative industry? A case study of Harlequin-Mills and Boon Australia / Glen Thomas; title: Forms of pleasure in the reading of popular romance : psychic and cultural dimensions / Eva Y.I. Chen; title: Bound to love : captivity in Harlequin sheikh novels / Emily A. Haddad; title: Details : Hitchcock reads Rebecca / Andrea Austin; title: The haunted space of the mind : the revival of the gothic romance in the twenty-first century / Deborah Lutz; title: Hope, faith and toughness : an analysis of the Christian hero / Rebecca Barrett-Fox; title: How dare a black woman make love to a white man! Black women novelists and the taboo of interracial desire / Guy Mark Foster; title: "I find some Hindu practices, like burning widows, utterly bizarre" : representation of Sati and questions of choice in Viels of Silk / Maura Seale; title: Female enfranchisement and the popular romance : Employing an Indian perspective / Jayashree Kamble; title: Forming a local identity : romance novels in Hong Kong / Amy Lee; title: City of fantasy : romance novels in Las Vegas / Eva Stowers; title: Understanding the pleasure : an undergraduate romance reading community / Sally Goade; title: Becoming both poet and poem : feminists repossess the romance / Mary Beth Tegan.