Routledge Companion to Romantic Love

<p><em>The Routledge Companion to Romantic Love</em> is a multidisciplinary and interdisciplinary reference work essential for students and researchers interested in the field of love, romance and popular romance fiction. This<i> </i>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 <em>Companion</em> is divided into 12 parts:</p><p>Love, romance and historical and social change </p><p>Love and feminist discourses</p><p>Love and popular romance fiction </p><p>Love, gender and sexuality </p><p>Romancing Australia </p><p>South and Southeast Asian romance communities </p><p>Nation, place and identity in US popular romance novels</p><p>Romantic love and national identity in Chinese and Taiwanese discourses of love</p><p>Muslim and Middle Eastern romances </p><p>Discourses of romance fiction and technologies of power</p><p>Writing love and romance </p><p>Legal and theological fiction and sexual politics</p><p>This is an important and unique collection aimed at researchers and students across cultural studies, women and gender studies, literature studies and sociology. </p> <p>PART I; Love, Romance and Historical and Social Change; What’s Love Got to do With It? Romance and Intimacy in the Age of Hooking Up; Shipping Anne/Henry: Love in Tudor Historical Romances; Men and Women in Love: Courtship, Marriage and Gender in Late Medieval England; These Old Shades: Georgette Heyer’s Unruly Eighteenth Century; PART II; Love and Feminist Discourses; A New Vision of Love: Diversity, Positive Sexuality and Cultural Change in America; Mobilizing Love; Mobile Love: Moral Panics, Erotics, and Affect; <em>Big Little Lies</em> - Feminist or Postfeminist Fiction? The Subversion of the Love Discourse in Liane Moriarty’s Novel and in the Series; PART III; Love and Popular Romance Fiction; Love and Listening: the Erotics of Talk in the Popular Romance Novel; What’s in a Name? A Corpus Study of Phonological Differences between Gay and Straight Romance Heroes' Names; House, Home and Husband in Historical Romance Fiction; PART IV; Love, Gender and Sexuality; Towards a Progressive Black Sexual Politics: Reading African American Polyamorous Women in Patricia Hill Collins’ <em>Black Feminist Thought</em>; Self-Improvement as Proof of Love in <em>The Bromance Book Club</em>; The #MeTooMovement, Ronan Farrow and the Fall of Sexually Abusive Men in Film and Television; PART V; Romancing Australia; Transported for Life, Transported by Love: Love and the Australian Convict Romance Novel; ‘This Isn’t It’: The Fantasy of the Breakup in the Australian and American Bachelor/ette Franchises; PART VI; South and Southeast Asian Romance Communities; Army Trenches and School Benches: The Philippine-American War in the <em>Sugar Sun</em> Series; "Shipping" Larry Stylinson: What Makes Pairing Appealing Boys Romantic?; Performances of ‘Reel’ and ‘Real’ Lives: Negotiating Public Romance in Urban India;<em> </em>PART VII; Nation, Place and Identity in US Popular Romance Novels; The Wild Heart of the Continent: Love and Place in the Silk Road Novels of Sherry Thomas; Remembering Love: Parsons-Yazzie’s Historical Romance Novel and the (Re)writing of Navajo History; PART VIII; Romantic Love and National Identity in Chinese and Taiwanese Discourses of Love; The Fantasy of Love and Identity Crisis: (De)colonizing Desire and Nationality; Cook for a Better Life: The Economy of Food and Sex in Chinese Web Romance; Emotion and Empowerment-Romantic Love in Taiwanese Writer San Mao’s Wondering Literature and Life; PART IX; Muslim and Middle Eastern Romances; <em>Girls of Riyadh</em> and <em>Desperate in Dubai</em>: Reading and Writing Romance in the Middle East; Reading and Writing Muslim Romance on Wattpad; PART X; Discourses of Romance Fiction and Technologies of Power; The Geopolitics of Love: Patriotism, Homeland and the Domestication of Violent Masculinities in US Paramilitary Romance Fiction; ‘Roma’ Spelled Backwards: Love and Heterotopic Space in Contemporary Romance Novels Set in Italy; PART XI; Writing Love and Romance; Disaggregating ‘Attraction’: Asexuality and Genre Critique in Alex Beecroft’s <em>Blue Steel Chain</em>; Disenchantment and its Discontents: ‘Modern Love’ and Irony in Popular Romance Fiction; PART XII; Legal and Theological Fiction and Sexual Politics; The Single-Mother and the Law: Romance Novels Making Room for Female Voices in Patriarchal Spaces; Rethinking ‘one flesh’: D.S. Bailey and the Theology of Romantic Love in Mid-twentieth Century Britain </p>