Pursuing Happiness: Reading American Romance as Political Fiction

Laura VivancoFebruary 1, 2016

Humanities-Ebooks

The dominance of popular romance in the United States fiction market suggests that its trends and themes may reflect the politics of a significant proportion of the population. Pursuing Happiness explores some of the choices, beliefs and assumptions which shape the politics of American Romance novels. In particular, it focuses on what romances reveal about American attitudes towards work, the West, race, gender, community cohesion, ancestral “roots” and a historical connection (or lack of it) to the land.

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Laura Vivanco is an independent scholar of romance fiction, including both modern popular romance and mediaeval Hispanic literature. She has a PhD from the University of St Andrews, and is the author of Death in Fifteenth-Century Castile: Ideologies of the Elites (Woodbridge: Tamesis, 2004) and For Love and Money: The Literary Art of the Harlequin Mills & Boon Romance (Humanities-Ebooks, 2011). She is a member of the International Association for the Study of Popular Romance and a regular contributor to Teach Me Tonight (http://teachmetonight.blogspot.com/) an academic blog devoted to the study of popular romance novels.

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Feb 1, 2016

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164

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9781847603609

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