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Romancing Literature: When Literary Fiction Meets Genre book cover

1st Edition

Romancing Literature When Literary Fiction Meets Genre

By Francesca Pierini Copyright 2027
144 Pages 3 B/W Illustrations
by Routledge

Romancing Literature places literary fiction in dialogue with what it rejects—the feminine, the popular and the romantic, disclosing deep-seated assumptions concerning artistic production and literary creation in relation to genre and gender. The book explores how literary fiction articulates and defines itself through a dialectical relation along both axes of genre and gender, revealing the... Read more

Acknowledgements

Introduction

Chapter 1. Genre as Dialectic Relationship: The Gender Politics of Artistic Creation

Chapter 2. Genre as Camouflage: Sally Rooney’s Normal People and the Coming-of-Age Romance

Chapter 3. Genre as Adaptation: Dual-Time Narratives after A.S. Byatt’s Possession

Chapter 4. Genre as Convergence: Erin Doom’s The Tearsmith and the Transnational Circulation of Romance Tropes

Glossary

Index

Biography

Francesca Pierini is Assistant Professor in Anglophone Literature and Cultural Studies at the Asian University for Women, Bangladesh. Previously Adjunct Lecturer at University of Basel, Switzerland, her academic interests include Anglophone Representations of Italian Culture and the Anglophone Romance Novel.

"An adept, rigorous and productive examination of the gendered relationship between genre and literary fiction, Romancing Fiction is an important addition to the scholarship on both. Its provocative argument that we should dismantle 'the wall separating literature for everyone from literature for women' has never been more timely - and I hope it is a call that many will heed."

- Jodi McAlister, Deakin University, Australia

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