The Routledge Companion to Love

The Routledge Companion to Love
ISBN-10
0367900696
ISBN-13
9780367900694
Category
Feminist fiction
Pages
512
Language
English
Published
2021
Author
Ann Brooks

Description

"The Routledge Companion to Love is an multidisciplinary and interdisciplinary reference work essential for students and researchers interested in the field of love, romance and popular romance fiction. This first-of-its-kind volume illustrating the broad and interdisciplinary nature of Love Studies. International contributors including leaders in their field reflect a range of perspectives from cultural studies, history, literature, popular romance studies, American Studies, sociology and gender studies. Comprising over 30 chapters by a team of international contributors the Handbook is divided into 12 parts: Love, Romance and Historical and Social Change Love and Feminist Discourses Love and Popular Romance Fiction Love, Gender and Sexuality Romancing Australia South and Southeast Asian Romance Communities Nation, Place and Identity in US Popular Romance Novels Romantic Love and National Identity in Chinese and Taiwanese Discourses of Love Muslim and Middle Eastern Romances Discourses of Romance Fiction and Technologies of Power Writing Love and Romance Legal and Theological Fiction and Sexual Politics This is an important and unique collection aimed at researchers and students across cultural studies, Women and Gender Studies, Literature Studies and Sociology"--

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