Happily Ever After: The Romance Story in Popular Culture

by Catherine M. Roach

Book Overview

"Find your one true love and live happily ever after." The trials of love and desire provide perennial story material, from the Biblical Song of Songs to Disney's princesses, but perhaps most provocatively in the romance novel, a genre known for tales of fantasy and desire, sex and pleasure. Hailed on the one hand for its women-centered stories that can be sexually liberating, and criticized on the other for its emphasis on male/female coupling...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0253020441
• ISBN13: 9780253020444
• Release Date: March 2016
• Publisher: Indiana University Press
• Length: 240 Pages
• Weight: 1.12 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.8" x 6.2" x 9.2"
• Grade Range: Postsecondary and higher