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Beyond the Bodice Ripper: Innovation and Change in The
© 2014 Andrea Cipriano Barra ALL RIGHTS RESERVED BEYOND THE BODICE RIPPER: INNOVATION AND CHANGE IN THE ROMANCE NOVEL INDUSTRY by ANDREA CIPRIANO BARRA A dissertation submitted to the Graduate School—New Brunswick Rutgers, the State University of New Jersey In partial fulfillment of the requirements For the degree of Doctor of Philosophy Graduate Program in Sociology Written under the direction of Karen A. Cerulo And approved by _______________________________________________________ _______________________________________________________ _______________________________________________________ _______________________________________________________ New Brunswick, New Jersey OCTOBER 2014 ABSTRACT OF THE DISSERTATION Beyond the Bodice Ripper: Innovation and Change in the Romance Novel Industry By ANDREA CIPRIANO BARRA Dissertation Director: Karen A. Cerulo Romance novels have changed significantly since they first entered the public consciousness. Instead of seeking to understand the changes that have occurred in the industry, in readership, in authorship, and in the romance novel product itself, both academic and popular perception has remained firmly in the early 1980s when many of the surface criticisms were still valid."Using Wendy Griswold’s (2004) idea of a cultural diamond, I analyze the multiple and sometimes overlapping relationships within broader trends in the romance industry based on content analysis and interviews with romance readers and authors. Three major issues emerge from this study. First, content of romance novels sampled from the past fourteen years is more reflective of contemporary ideas of love, sex, and relationships. Second, romance has been a leader and innovator in the trend of electronic publishing, with major independent presses adding to the proliferation of subgenres and pushing the boundaries of what is considered romance. Finally, readers have a complicated relationship with the act of reading romance and what the books mean in their lives. -
Romantic Reads
Contemporary Extra Spicy Sandra Brown Cherry Adair Meg Cabot Maya Banks Robyn Carr Sylvia Day Katherine Center Helen Hardt Samantha Chase E.L. James Jenny Colgan Regina Kyle Jackie Collins Jennifer Crusie Barbara Delinsky istorical Jude Deveraux (Edilean Series) Stephanie Evanovich Lenora Bell (Victorian) Emily Giffin Jude Deveraux (Montgomery-Taggert Shelley Shepard Gray Series/Medieval) Kristan Higgins Alyson McLayne (Medieval) Helen Hoang Joanna Shupe (Gilded Age) Abby Jimenez Lisa Kleypas (Friday Harbor Series) Literary Romance Kevin Kwan Christina Lauren Sarah Addison Allen Debbie Macomber Isabel Allende Susan Mallery Jane Austen Jill Mansell Charlotte Bronte Jenn McKinlay Emily Bronte Judith McNaught A.S. Byatt Jojo Moyes E.M. Forster Brenda Novak Diana Gabaldon Priscilla Oliveras Gabriel Garcia Marquez Susan Elizabeth Phillips Elizabeth Gaskell Nora Roberts Elizabeth George Sheila Roberts Thomas Hardy Jill Shalvis Alice Hoffman Nicholas Sparks Victoria Holt Anna Todd D.H. Lawrence Abbi Waxman Adriana Trigiani Jennifer Weiner Anne Tyler Susan Wiggs Edith Wharton Sherryl Woods Evelyn Waugh Regency Romantic Suspense Nancy Campbell Allen Sandra Brown Katharine Ashe Christina Dodd Jane Ashford Karen Harper Mary Balogh Linda Howard Lenora Bell Lisa Jackson Anna Bennett Jayne Ann Krentz Lisa Berne Kat Martin Jo Beverley Brenda Novak Kelly Bowen Erica Spindler Anna Bradley Grace Burrowes Christy Carlyle Sci-Fi, Fantasy, and Marion Chesney Tessa Dare -
Inkwell Management London 2017
InkWell Management London 2017 TABLE OF CONTENTS Fiction Peter Blauner .................................................. Proving Ground ........................................................................ 9 Mary Clyde ..................................................... No Morning Sun ....................................................................... 10 Rene Denfeld .................................................. The Child Finder ...................................................................... 11 Owen Egerton ................................................ Hollow ....................................................................................... 12 Katherine Heiny ............................................. Standard Deviation ................................................................... 13 Elin Hilderbrand ............................................ The Identicals ............................................................................ 14 Lia Hills ........................................................... The Crying Place ....................................................................... 15 Eloisa James .................................................... Wilde in Love............................................................................. 16 Wendy James .................................................. The Golden Child ....................................................................... 17 Jarett Kobek .................................................... The Future Won’t Be Long ....................................................... -
Women at the State Fair Issue
Minnesota Women’s Press, August 2014 1 Changing the Universe through Women’s Stories Women at the State Fair issue Secrets from a blue-ribbon canner Radical seed art The ‘butterhead’ murder mystery Mama Lou: American Strong Woman DEBRA FISHER GOLDSTEIN DEBRA AUGUST 2014 Volume 30, Issue 8 www.womenspress.com 2 MinnesotaYOUTH Women’s PERFORMANCE Press, August 2014 COMPANY PRESENTS OUR 2014 – 2015 SEASON : Uproarious Halloween fun for the whole family! The world’s Dra uaWritten by Milo Enders most famous vampire finally c l changes for the better in this e ic l th mus a Oct 10 – Nov 1, 2014 hilarious musical spoof of the Dracula story. A Charlie Brown Experience everyone’s favorite television special in a live theatrical setting, complete with the timeless Christmas music of Vince Guaraldi. Join Charlie Brown, Lucy, Dec 5 – 21, 2014 Snoopy and friends in the search for the true meaning By Charles M. Schulz • Based on the television special by Bill Melendez and Lee Mendelson • Stage Adaptation by Eric Schaeffer of Christmas! By Special Arrangement with Arthur Whitelaw and Ruby Persson The stories of a Jewish girl in Home on the WW II Germany and a young runaway slave in the deep South in the early 1800s are Mornin’ Train intertwined in this remarkable play that brings history to life. February 6 – 22, 2015 By Kim Hines Pecos Bill May 1 – 17, 2015 Join us for this series of adventures in American Folklore, with legendary heroes Paul Bunyan, & Other Tall Tales Pecos Bill, Slue-Foot Sue, Annie Christmas, Written by Milo Enders Pilly Flapjack -
Uncovering and Recovering the Popular Romance Novel A
Uncovering and Recovering the Popular Romance Novel A DISSERTATION SUBMITTED TO THE FACULTY OF THE GRADUATE SCHOOL OF THE UNIVERSITY OF MINNESOTA BY Jayashree Kamble IN PARTIAL FULFILLMENT OF THE REQUIREMENTS FOR THE DEGREE OF DOCTOR OF PHILOSOPHY Dr. Timothy Brennan December 2008 © Jayashree Sambhaji Kamble, December 2008 Acknowledgements I thank the members of my dissertation committee, particularly my adviser, Dr. Tim Brennan. Your faith and guidance have been invaluable gifts, your work an inspiration. My thanks also go to other members of the faculty and staff in the English Department at the University of Minnesota, who have helped me negotiate the path to this moment. My graduate career has been supported by fellowships and grants from the University of Minnesota’s Graduate School, the University of Minnesota’s Department of English, the University of Minnesota’s Graduate and Professional Student Assembly, and the Romance Writers of America, and I convey my thanks to all of them. Most of all, I would like to express my gratitude to my long-suffering family and friends, who have been patient, generous, understanding, and supportive. Sunil, Teresa, Kristin, Madhurima, Kris, Katie, Kirsten, Anne, and the many others who have encouraged me— I consider myself very lucky to have your affection. Shukriya. Merci. Dhanyavad. i Dedication This dissertation is dedicated to my parents, Shashikala Kamble and Sambhaji Kamble. ii Abstract Popular romance novels are a twentieth- and twenty-first century literary form defined by a material association with pulp publishing, a conceptual one with courtship narrative, and a brand association with particular author-publisher combinations. -
ELOISAELOISA On…On… Being “ Outed;” a Knight in the Life; Passions of Faith and Fiction
Avon Books An Imprint of HarperCollinsPublishers _______________________________________________________________________________ 10 East 53rd Street, New York, New York 10022 Media Contact: Pamela Spengler-Jaffee, 212.207.7495 / [email protected] Joanie Gidas, 212.207.7509 / [email protected] ELOISAELOISA on…on… Being “ Outed;” A Knight in the Life; Passions of Faith and Fiction Eloisa on…Being “ Outed”: Last year Eloisa James "came out," revealing to her friends and colleagues that she'd written nine bestselling novels behind their backs. She brought a box full of romances and a power point presentation into the English Department meeting at Fordham University. She visited the Dean of Faculty, the Dean of the Graduate School, and the Dean of the Lincoln Center campus individually. She handed out loads of books to disgruntled friends and querulous relatives. An academic peer (Julie Crawford, assistant professor of Early Modern Literature at Columbia University) noted, "It's pointless to ignore the power, the pleasure, and the craft employed in well-written romances, such as those of Eloisa James." Jocelyn Wogan-Browne, Chair of Late Medieval Literature at the University of York, England, said in defense of Eloisa and the genre, “Romance-reading shouldn't be used by the academy as a way of reinforcing high-low culture distinctions in pursuit of its own institutional prestige. The sheer cultural weight of romance scripts and their presence in women's lives is what matters, and we can and should take all romances still more seriously than we do." After Eloisa wrote an op-ed defending romance for The New York Times, she almost crashed the Fordham server as manuscripts flooded her in-box from all over the country. -
Publishers Weekly June 28, 1999 • M.A
Connie Brockway Connie Brockway began her writing career in 1994 with JUST THE FACTS the publication of her first novel. Since then she has had written fifteen full-length novels and three • First published in 1994 anthology stories, bringing the current number of her books in print to over 1,500,000 published in thirteen • Author of seventeen full-length countries*. novels and four anthology stories Consistently praised for her “adult romances,” ** • Multiple award-winner, including Brockway has twice received coveted Publishers twice for the Romance Weekly starred reviews and unqualified Writers of America’s Rita award recommendations from Library Journal, as well as For best historical romance two starred reviews from the Library Journal’s organ, BOOKLIST. Her 2004 title, My Seduction was named • Eight time finalist for RWA’s Rita one of 2004’s top ten romance by that same industry award. magazine. • Author of The Bridal Season, An eight time finalist for Romance Writers of America voted 2001’s “Top Ten Favorite prestigious RITA award, Brockway has twice been Romance of the Year by Its recipient, first in 1998 for My Dearest Enemy and RWA’s membership. In for The Bridal Season. Her books regularly Appear on national and regional bestseller lists and • Author of My Seduction, named are frequent Doubleday/Literary Guild selections. Library Journal’s top romance for 2004. Today Brockway lives in Minnesota with her husband David, a family physician, and two spoiled mutts. A • New York Times and USA Today regular speaker at both the national and regional best-selling author level, when she is not traveling, Brockway enjoys reading, gardening, tennis, and cooking. -
Farrar, Straus & Giroux International Rights Guide
FARRAR, STRAUS & GIROUX INTERNATIONAL RIGHTS GUIDE FRANKFURT BOOK FAIR 2016 Devon Mazzone Director, Subsidiary Rights [email protected] 18 West 18th Street, New York, NY 10011 (212) 206-5301 Amber Hoover Foreign Rights Manager [email protected] 18 West 18th Street, New York, NY 10011 (212) 206-5304 2 FICTION Farrar, Straus and Giroux FSG Originals MCD/FSG Sarah Crichton Books 3 Baldwin, Rosecrans THE LAST KID LEFT A Novel Fiction, June 2017 (manuscript available) MCD/FSG Nineteen-year-old Nick Toussaint Jr. is driving drunk through New Jersey on his way to Mexico. The dead bodies of Toussaint’s doctor and his wife lie in the backseat. When Nick crashes the car, police chief Martin Krug becomes involved in the case. Despite an easy murder confession from Nick, something doesn’t quite add up for the soon-to-be retired Krug. An itch he can’t help but scratch. Nick is extradited to his hometown of Claymore, New Hampshire—a New England beach town full of colorful characters, bed-and-breakfasts, and outlet malls—where the local scandal rocks the residents. Meanwhile his girlfriend, sixteen-year-old Emily Portis, rallies behind her boyfriend, her protector. THE LAST KID LEFT charts the evolution of their relationship and of Emily’s own coming of age, in the face of tragedy and justice. Rosecrans Baldwin is the author of Paris, I Love You but You’re Bringing Me Down and You Lost Me There. He has written for GQ, The New York Times, the Los Angeles Times, and The Guardian. -
Plagiat Merupakan Tindakan Tidak Terpuji Plagiat Merupakan Tindakan Tidak Terpuji
PLAGIATPLAGIAT MERUPAKAN MERUPAKAN TINDAKAN TINDAKAN TIDAK TIDAK TERPUJI TERPUJI ELOISA JAMES’ VIEWS TOWARDS BRITISH SOCIAL CONDITION IN THE 19TH CENTURY AS REFLECTED IN A KISS AT MIDNIGHT AN UNDERGRADUATE THESIS Presented as Partial Fulfillment of the Requirements for the Degree of Sarjana Sastra in English Letters By DILA NURROHMAH Student Number: 094214049 ENGLISH LETTERS STUDY PROGRAMME DEPARTMENT OF ENGLISH LETTERS FACULTY OF LETTERS SANATA DHARMA UNIVERSITY YOGYAKARTA 2015 PLAGIATPLAGIAT MERUPAKAN MERUPAKAN TINDAKAN TINDAKAN TIDAK TIDAK TERPUJI TERPUJI ELOISA JAMES’ VIEWS TOWARDS BRITISH SOCIAL CONDITION IN THE 19TH CENTURY AS REFLECTED IN A KISS AT MIDNIGHT AN UNDERGRADUATE THESIS Presented as Partial Fulfillment of the Requirements for the Degree of Sarjana Sastra in English Letters By DILA NURROHMAH Student Number: 094214049 ENGLISH LETTERS STUDY PROGRAMME DEPARTMENT OF ENGLISH LETTERS FACULTY OF LETTERS SANATA DHARMA UNIVERSITY YOGYAKARTA 2015 ii PLAGIATPLAGIAT MERUPAKAN MERUPAKAN TINDAKAN TINDAKAN TIDAK TIDAK TERPUJI TERPUJI PLAGIATPLAGIAT MERUPAKAN MERUPAKAN TINDAKAN TINDAKAN TIDAK TIDAK TERPUJI TERPUJI PLAGIATPLAGIAT MERUPAKAN MERUPAKAN TINDAKAN TINDAKAN TIDAK TIDAK TERPUJI TERPUJI STATEMENT OF ORIGINALITY I certify that this undergraduate thesis contains no material which has been previously submitted for the award of any other degree at any university, and that, to the best of my knowledge, this undergraduate thesis contains no material previously written by any other person except where due reference is made in the text -
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Macalester Today November 1994 Macalester College
Macalester College DigitalCommons@Macalester College Macalester Today Communications and Public Relations 11-1-1994 Macalester Today November 1994 Macalester College Follow this and additional works at: http://digitalcommons.macalester.edu/macalestertoday Recommended Citation Macalester College, "Macalester Today November 1994" (1994). Macalester Today. Paper 32. http://digitalcommons.macalester.edu/macalestertoday/32 This Article is brought to you for free and open access by the Communications and Public Relations at DigitalCommons@Macalester College. It has been accepted for inclusion in Macalester Today by an authorized administrator of DigitalCommons@Macalester College. For more information, please contact [email protected]. 1994 •HI ' I Kofi Annan '61 of the United Nations I and President Bob Gavin at a special convocation LETTERS The policy of Macalester Today is to gave me the practical knowledge of how the manner in which we students were publish as many letters as possible from to teach; Ray Livingston, who taught the made to feel so welcome in the homes as alumni, the primary audience oj this psychology of what made authors and great well as the classrooms of faculty members magazine, as well as other members of the works of literature really fascinating; and even of the deans and president. kAacalester community. Exceptions are Hildegard Johnson, who taught geography The Dupres, living on campus in the letters that personally malign an individual like it was the center of existence. I old duplex east of Wallace Hall, were or are not related to issues at Macalester or remember the chaplain, Russell Wigfield especially accessible, and the Turcks, who contents oj the magazine. -
LOVE BETWEEN the COVERS a Feature-Length Documentary Film About the Little-Known, Surprisingly Powerful Community of Women Who Read and Write Romance Novels
LOVE BETWEEN THE COVERS A feature-length documentary film about the little-known, surprisingly powerful community of women who read and write romance novels. INTRODUCTION Romance fiction is a female-powered engine of commerce, a multi-billion dollar business, and a tech-savvy global sisterhood. Women who write and think about relationships turn out to be amazing community builders. Love Between the Covers takes us inside this world, one of the few places where women are always center stage, where female characters always win, where justice prevails in every book, and where the broad spectrum of desires of women from all backgrounds are not feared, but explored unapologetically. SYNOPSIS For three years, we follow the lives of five published romance authors and one unpublished newbie as they build their businesses, find and lose loved ones, cope with a tsunami of change in publishing, and earn a living doing what they love—while empowering others to do the same. We watch romance authors and readers building communities and friendships that don’t just exist on social media sites, blogs, and message boards, but also transition into the real world. We accompany authors on trips with their readers, at conferences and special romance events -- and we see them encouraging their readers to become writers themselves. During the three years we’ve been shooting Love Between the Covers, we have witnessed the biggest power shift that has taken place in the publishing industry over the last 200 years. And it’s the romance authors who are on the front lines, pioneering new ways to survive in this rapidly changing environment.