The Routledge Research Companion to Popular Romance Fiction - Hardcover

Hardcover

ISBN 10: 1472443306 ISBN 13: 9781472443304

Publisher: Routledge, 2020

Synopsis

That popular romance fiction constitutes the largest segment of the global consumer book market is well-established. Less well-known, though no less important, is the worldwide presence of scholarship that studies this global genre and its remarkable readership. Bringing together an international group of scholars, The Ashgate Research Companion to Popular Romance Fiction offers a state-of-the-art review of scholarship in this vibrant and still-emerging field. In recognition of the diversity of the form, the Companion provides a history of the genre, an overview of disciplinary approaches to studying romance fiction, and analysis and critical evaluation of important subgenres, themes, and topics, while also highlighting new and understudied avenues of inquiry for future research. The first systematic, comprehensive resource on romance fiction, this Companion will be invaluable to graduate students and scholars.

About this title

About the Author:

An Goris is a postdoctoral research fellow at the University of Leuven, Belgium, Eric Murphy Selinger is Professor of English at DePaul University, USA, and Hsu-Ming Teo is a novelist and Senior Lecturer in History at Macquarie University, Australia.

About this edition

• Publisher: Routledge
• Publication date: 2020
• ISBN 10: 1472443306
• ISBN 13: 9781472443304
• Binding: Hardcover
• Edition number: 1
• Number of pages: 578
• Editor: Kamblé Jayashree, Murphy Selinger Eric, Teo Hsu-Ming