{"product_id":"new-frontiers-in-popular-romance-9781476682464","title":"New Frontiers in Popular Romance","description":"\u003cb\u003eBook Synopsis\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cp\u003e   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 defense of the genre and its value for academic study. Even the early scholarly works on the genre approach it in ways that, while primarily respectful, make sweeping generalizations about popular romance, its texts, and its readers. \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e   This essay collection examines the position of the romance genre in the twenty-first century, and the ways in which romance responds to and influences the culture and community in which it exists. Essays are divided into six sections, which cover the genre''s relationship with masculinity, the importance of consent, historical romance, representation, social status and web-based romance fiction. \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eTable of Contents\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003eIntroduction—Popular Romance in the 21st Century: Time to Claim Its\u003cbr\u003eSusan Fanetti\u003cbr\u003ePart One: Problematic Masculinities\u003cbr\u003eHealing Toxic Masculinity in Sweatpants Season by Danielle Allen\u003cbr\u003eJonathan A. Allan\u003cbr\u003eFrom Darcy to Dickheads: Why Do Women Love the Bad Boy?\u003cbr\u003eAshleigh Taylor Sullivan\u003cbr\u003ePart Two: Navigating Consent After #MeToo\u003cbr\u003eTingles and Shivers: First Kisses and Intimate Civility in Eliza Redgold's Historical Harlequin Romances Pre–and Post-#MeToo\u003cbr\u003eDebra Dudek, Elizabeth Reid Boyd, Madalena Grobbelaar, and Rose Williams\u003cbr\u003eI Thought You'd Never Ask: Consent in Contemporary Romance\u003cbr\u003eCourtney Watson\u003cbr\u003ePart Three: History and Historicity\u003cbr\u003e\"Say, could that lass be I?\" Outlander, Transmedial ­Time-Travel, and Women's Historical Fantasy\u003cbr\u003eAshley Elizabeth Christensen\u003cbr\u003e\"Place the glass before you, and draw in chalk your own picture\": The Recasting of Jane Eyre\u003cbr\u003eLucy Sheerman\u003cbr\u003ePart Four: Representation Matters\u003cbr\u003e\"The Realness\" in Jasmine Guillory's Sista Lit Rom Com Novels\u003cbr\u003eCamille S. Alexander\u003cbr\u003eEating Disorders and Romance\u003cbr\u003eEllen Carter\u003cbr\u003eThe \"Grandly and Inhospitably Strange\" World of Autistic Heroines in Romance Fiction\u003cbr\u003eWendy Wagner\u003cbr\u003ePart Five: Romance Tropes and Social Status\u003cbr\u003eWomen Policing Whiteness: Deviance and Surveillance in Contemporary Police Procedural Romance\u003cbr\u003eNattie Golubov\u003cbr\u003e\"I'm a mehfil, I'm a gathering to which everyone is invited\": Reading \"Outcast\" Romances in Arundhati Roy's Fiction\u003cbr\u003eLucky Issar\u003cbr\u003ePart Six: Romance Tropes in Online Spaces\u003cbr\u003eThe System That Loves Me: The State of Human Existence in ­Web-Based Romantic Fiction from ­Post-Socialist China\u003cbr\u003eJin Feng\u003cbr\u003eOriginal Slash, Romance, and C.S. Pacat's Captive Prince\u003cbr\u003eMaria Alberto\u003cbr\u003eAbout the Contributors\u003cbr\u003eIndex","brand":"McFarland \u0026 Co Inc","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":51040481640791,"sku":"9781476682464","price":20.89,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0817\/1739\/5799\/files\/9781476682464.jpg?v=1750946887","url":"https:\/\/bookcurl.com\/products\/new-frontiers-in-popular-romance-9781476682464","provider":"Book Curl","version":"1.0","type":"link"}