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H a p p i l y ver E f t e r A The Romance Story in Popular Culture CATHERINE M. ROACH H a p p i l y ver E f t e r A The Romance Story in Popular Culture CATHERINE M. ROACH INDIANA UNIVERSITY PRESS Bloomington & Indianapolis This book is a publication of Indiana University Press Office of Scholarly Publishing Herman B Wells Library 350 1320 East 10th Street Bloomington, Indiana 47405 USA iupress.indiana.edu “i carry your heart with me(i carry it in”. Copyright 1952, © 1980, 1991 by the Trustees for the E. E. Cummings Trust, from COMPLETE POEMS: 1904–1962 by E. E. Cummings, edited by George J. Firmage. Used by permission of Liveright Publishing Corporation. © 2016 by Catherine M. Roach All rights reserved No part of this book may be reproduced or utilized in any form or by any means, electronic or mechanical, including photocopying and recording, or by any information storage and retrieval system, without permission in writing from the publisher. The Association of American University Presses’ Resolution on Permissions constitutes the only exception to this prohibition. The paper used in this publication meets the minimum requirements of the American National Standard for Information Sciences— Permanence of Paper for Printed Library Materials, ANSI Z39.48–1992. Manufactured in the United States of America Library of Congress Cataloging-in-Publication Data Names: Roach, Catherine M., author. Title: Happily ever after : the romance story in popular culture / Catherine M. Roach. Description: Bloomington : Indiana University Press, 2016. | Includes bibliographical references and index. Identifiers: LCCN 2015033975 | ISBN 9780253020444 (cloth : alk. paper) | ISBN 9780253020529 (e-book) Subjects: LCSH: Love stories, American—History and criticism. | Love stories, English—History and criticism. | Women in literature. | Love in literature. | Popular literature—United States. | Popular literature—Great Britain. Classification: LCC PS374.L6 R58 2016 | DDC 813/.08509—dc23 LC record available at http://lccn.loc.gov/2015033975 1 2 3 4 5 21 20 19 18 17 16 To Theo Such is my lover and such my friend This page intentionally left blank i carry your heart with me(i carry it in e. e. cummings i carry your heart with me(i carry it in my heart)i am never without it(anywhere i go you go,my dear;and whatever is done by only me is your doing,my darling) i fear no fate(for you are my fate,my sweet)i want no world(for beautiful you are my world,my true) and it’s you are whatever a moon has always meant and whatever a sun will always sing is you here is the deepest secret nobody knows (here is the root of the root and the bud of the bud and the sky of the sky of a tree called life;which grows higher than soul can hope or mind can hide) and this is the wonder that’s keeping the stars apart i carry your heart(i carry it in my heart) This page intentionally left blank Contents Acknowledgments xi Prologue: Journey into Romancelandia 1 1 Find Your One True Love: Book Lovers and the Romance Story 3 2 Going Native: When the Academic Is (Also) the Fan 28 3 Notes from the Imagination: Reading Romance Writing: Wherein Catherine Roach and Catherine LaRoche, in Feisty Dialogue, Comment upon LaRoche’s Fiction 48 4 Sex: Good Girls Do, or, Romance Fiction as Sex-Positive Feminist Mommy Porn 78 5 Notes from the Field: Romance Writers of America 104 6 Love: Bondage and the Conundrum of Erotic Love 119 7 Notes from the Writing: “Between the Sheets” and Other Moments toward Romance Novelist 142 8 Happily Ever After: The Testament of Erotic Faith 165 Epilogue: Lessons from Romancing the Academic 189 Notes 197 Bibliography 207 Index 213

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“Find your one true love and live happily ever after.” The trials of love and desire provide perennial story material, from the Biblical Song of Songs to Disney’s princesses, but perhaps most provocatively in the romance novel, a genre known for tales of fantasy and desire, sex and pleasure. H
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