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New Approaches to Popular Romance Fiction
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Sarah S.G. Frantz (Goodreads Author)
Despite the prejudices of critics, popular romance fiction remains a complex, dynamic genre. It consistently maintains the largest market share in the American publishing industry, even as it welcomes new subgenres like queer and BDSM romance. Digital publishing originated in erotic romance, and savvy on-line communities have exploded myths about the genre’s readership. Ro...more
Published
June 2012
by McFarland
(first published March 5th 2012)
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Excellent study of current and past trends in romance writing. This book should be read by every author who's making a career of romance writing. I didn't agree with 100% of the contributors' conclusions--I think just as sometimes a cigar was just a cigar to Freud, sometimes a romance novel is simply an entertaining read where the author wasn't purposefully (or even unconsciously) inserting words like "glittery" to make a point.
Nonetheless, the essays are well-researched and thoughtful, and a va...more
Nonetheless, the essays are well-researched and thoughtful, and a va...more
Great to see some considered, contemporary discussion of popular romance fiction.
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Sarah has a Ph.D. in English Literature from the University of Michigan. She co-edited two academic collections, "Women Constructing Men" and "New Perspectives on Popular Romance Fiction." She is President of the International Association for the Study of Popular Romance and has published academic articles on Jane Austen, J.R. Ward, Suzanne Brockmann, Joey Hill, and scenes in which the romance her...more
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