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Resistance And Innovation: The Cultural Work Of Popular Romance Novels, Chelsee M. Niebergall
Resistance And Innovation: The Cultural Work Of Popular Romance Novels, Chelsee M. Niebergall
Dartmouth College Master’s Theses
Popular romance fiction is the highest-grossing genre in contemporary publishing, yet it remains one of the least examined in academic scholarship. As this thesis argues, while texts of this genre have been marginalized and stigmatized for their perceived lack of literary sophistication, they prove to be some of the most radical in terms of cultural impact. Their dismissal is not incidental but symptomatic of the very systems of oppression the romance novels work to disrupt. This thesis will examine these radical texts and uncover the cultural work they perform on their readers by using an analytical framework newly developed here, …