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No. 7 Where’s Love Gone? Transformations in the Romance Genre (1997)
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Table of Contents
Where’s Love Gone?, pp 3-14 Kay Mussell
My life as a Romance Reader, pp 15 -28 Tania Modleski
Accidental Authors, Random Readers, and the Art of Popular Romance, pp 29 -45 Beth Rap Young
Paradoxa Interview with Jayne Ann Krentz, pp 46 – 57 Kay Mussell
Wavering Between Worlds: Feminist Influences in the Romance Genre, pp 58 -77 Lynn Coddington
The Art of Romance, pp 78 – 80 Barbara Samuel
Romancing Reality: The Power of Romance to Reinforce and Re-vision the Real, pp 81 -93 Jennifer Crusie Smith
Popular Romance in the 1990s: the Paranormal vs Feminist Horror, pp 94 -106 Sandra Marie Booth
LaVyrle Spencer and the Anti-Essentialist Argument, pp 107 -120 Deborah K. Chappel
A Childe in Love, or Is It Just Fantasy?, pp 121 – 144 Harriet Margolis
Barrier and Point of Ritual Death in Nora Roberts’ Category Fiction, pp 145 -154 Pamela Regis
Paradoxa Interview with Nora Roberts, pp 155 – 163 Kay Mussell
Stitching Time: Feminism(s) and 30 Years of Gothic Romances, pp 164 – 179 Sylvia Kelso
Paradoxa Interview with Barbara G. Mertz, pp 180 – 183 Kay Mussell
Lust and Dust, pp 184 – 194 Julia Bettinotti and Marie-Françoise Truel
Contemporary Mass Market Romances as National and International Culture, pp 195 – 213 Gabriele Linke
Paradoxa Interview with Janet Dailey, pp 214 – 218 Kay Mussell
Romance Fiction as Women’s Myth, pp 219 – 232 Patricia Koski, Lori Holyfield, Marcella Thompson
Romance and Change: Undergraduate Culture, pp 233 -241 Sara Webster Goodwin
On Using Genre Fiction in Bibliotherapy, pp 242 – 245 Victoria Badik