Description: Roach, alongside her romance-writer alter-ego, Catherine LaRoche, guides the reader deep into Romancelandia where the smart and the witty combine with the sexy and seductive to explore why this genre has such a grip on readers and what we can learn from the romance novel about the nature of happiness, love, sex, and desire in American popular culture.
Review Quotes:
"Roach's Happily Ever After is without a doubt a methodological groundbreaker, and its effects will hopefully resonate throughout popular culture studies, fandom studies, and future approaches to other genres of popular fiction."--The Journal of Popular Culture
"Roach's attempt to do emotional justice to the genre should satisfy academics and fans alike."--Publishers Weekly
"An innovative hybrid of both academic analysis and romantic fiction, offering scholarly and popular readers a fascinating account of what is at stake in stories we love about love."--Brenda Weber, author of Makeover TV: Selfhood, Citizenship, and Celebrity
"Impressively smart...a lively and memorable read!"--Eric Murphy Selinger, Executive Editor of the Journal of Popular Romance Studies