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Book SynopsisTrade Review"Roach's Happily Ever After is without a doubt a methodological groundbreaker, and its effects will hopefully resonate throughout popular culture studies, fandom studies, and future approaches to other genres of popular fiction."
* The Journal of Popular Culture *
Roach's attempt to do emotional justice to the genre should satisfy academics and fans alike.
-- Publishers Weekly
Table of Contentsi carry your heart with me(i carry it in by E.E. Cummings
Acknowledgments
Prologue: Journey into Romancelandia
1. Find Your One True Love: Book Lovers and the Romance Story
2. Going Native: When the Academic is (also) the Fan
3. Notes from the Imagination: Reading Romance Writing: Wherein Catherine Roach and Catherine LaRoche, in Feisty Dialogue, Comment upon LaRoche's Fiction
4. Sex: Good Girls Do, Or, Romance Fiction as Sex-Positive Feminist Mommy Porn
5. Notes from the Field: Romance Writers of America
6. Love: Bondage and the Conundrum of Erotic Love
7. Notes from the Writing: "Between the Sheets" and Other Moments toward Romance Novelist
8. Happily Ever After: The Testament of Erotic Faith
Epilogue: Lessons from Romancing the Academic
Notes
Bibliography
Index
