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Happily Ever After : The Romance Story in Popular Culture /

"Find your one true love and live happily ever after." The trials of love and desire provide perennial story material, from the Biblical Song of Songs to Disney's princesses, but perhaps most provocatively in the romance novel, a genre known for tales of fantasy and desire, sex and pl...

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Detalles Bibliográficos
Autor principal: Roach, Catherine M., 1965- (Autor)
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: Bloomington : Indiana University Press, 2016.
Colección:Book collections on Project MUSE.
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Acceso en línea:Texto completo
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  • Prologue: Journey into Romancelandia
  • Find your one true love: book lovers and the romance story
  • Going native: when the academic is (also) the fan
  • Notes from the imagination: reading romance writing: wherein Catherine Roach and Catherine LaRoche, in feisty dialogue, comment upon LaRoche's fiction
  • Sex: good girls do, or, romance fiction as sex-positive feminist mommy porn
  • Notes from the field: romance writers of America
  • Love: bondage and the conundrum of erotic love
  • Notes from the writing: "between the sheets" and other moments toward romance novelist
  • Happily ever after: the testament of erotic faith
  • Epilogue: lessons from romancing the academic.