Publisher's Synopsis
The Routledge Companion to Romantic Love is a 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 illustrates 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 Companion 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.
