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	Kramer, Daniela and Moore, Michael (2001) Gender Roles, Romantic Fiction and Family Therapy, Psycoloquy: 12,#24 Family ... (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-05)
		Readers of romantic fiction, however, can only conclude that to play hard to get is worthwhile, and that spousehood is built on this theme of pursuing and evading, without any other healthy role option of two equal partners.
		In romantic fiction verbal abuse is even more rampant than physical (with Taming-of-the-Shrew-type novels producing the lion's share): Nearly one half of the male heroes, and more than a quarter of the female ones, verbally aggress their partner.
		The world of contemporary romantic fiction is populated with white, Anglo-Saxon (not necessarily Protestant, for religion is totally absent from this genre) heterosexuals, whose main concession to the nineties is the unhindered use of condoms.
	psycprints.ecs.soton.ac.uk /archive/00000153 (6946 words)

	Romanticism
		French Romantic painting is full of themes relating to the tumultuous political events of the period and later Romantic music often draws its inspiration from national folk musics.
		To the Romantics, however, he was the essence of folk poetry, the ultimate vindication of their faith in spontaneous creativity.
		Romantic exoticism is not always in tension with Romantic nationalism, for often the latter focussed on obscure folk traditions which were in themselves exotic to the audiences newly exposed to them.
	www.wsu.edu:8080 /~brians/hum_303/romanticism.html (3260 words)

	Guardian Unlimited Books \| By genre \| In defence of romance
		Romantic fiction is uniquely unfortunate in that no other literary genre is judged by the worst examples, rather than the best.
		But it's hard to get romantic fiction reviewed or discussed in a way that isn't patronising, which is a problem that, say, crime writers don't have.
		Romantic fiction accounts for 70% of all paperbacks sold in the UK; thus, there are bound to be a proportionally larger number of books that are simply no good.
	books.guardian.co.uk /departments/generalfiction/story/0,6000,1159754,00.html (960 words)

	How To Be Romantic
		To be romantic there are a lot of things you must know about romance and a lot of situations you must prepare for.
		It's sort of romantic to buy a mooshy greeting card for your loved one, but to be really romantic, you should sign it.
		To be romantic, you have to call each other names carefully crafted to make yourself and everyone around you throw up.
	www.rinkworks.com /romantic (2380 words)

	Romantic Period: Fiction
		In the case of the novelists, the Romantic vision tended to express itself in the form Hawthorne called the "Romance," a heightened, emotional, and symbolic form of the novel.
		One reason for this fictional exploration into the hidden recesses of the soul is the absence of settled, traditional community life in America.
		Most of the Romantic heroes die in the end: All the sailors except Ishmael are drowned in Moby-Dick, and the sensitive but sinful minister Arthur Dimmesdale dies at the end of The Scarlet Letter.
	www.auroraweb.com /america/romantic_lit/romantic_period_fiction1.htm (5089 words)

	Writing Romantic Fiction (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-05)
		Romantic fiction, in which can be included many historical novels, is the best-selling, most-borrowed type of fiction.
		'This is romantic novel writing for advanced students: all kinds of exciting ideas you mightn't have thought of, markets you might not have considered - including a lot of information about the American market.
		I liked the way she used case studies, tracing three people as they attempt to write a publishable novel, showing the problems and pitfalls they have to deal with.
	freespace.virgin.net /marina.oliver/tudorhouse/romantic.htm (209 words)

	Fiction Department - Enoch Pratt Free Library (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-05)
		The Science Fiction Romance Newsletter has been around since 1993 and provides information on speculative romance, which is the blending of romance and the science fiction/fantasy genres.
		It is a comprehensive database covering fiction and is a lot of fun to explore; all you need is a favorite title, author, or fiction genre to search for similar titles.
		The Romantic Times awards are given in numerous categories like career achievement and reviewers’ choice, selected by more than 35 reviews representing the readers’ voice in the romance industry.
	www.epfl.net /slrc/fiction/ewg_romance.html (2179 words)

	Books \| Everyday story of courtly folk takes romantic fiction award
		Bursting bodices and randy royals romped home in the romantic fiction awards last night - but only with a dose of realism about the sweatiness of Tudor underwear and the chauvinism of flatulent, sadistic kings.
		The historian, feminist and broadcaster Philippa Gregory won the Parker Romantic Novel of the Year award for her meticulously researched true story of Mary Boleyn, younger sister of Henry VIII's second queen, Anne.
		Jean Chapman, chairwoman of the Romantic Novelists Association, said the appetite for historical romance was greater than ever, and romantic fiction looked likely to overtake crime as the best-selling genre in Britain.
	books.guardian.co.uk /print/0,3858,4397184-99819,00.html (286 words)

	Debut novelist Katherine Davies wins FosterGrant romantic novelist prize
		Its object is to recognise excellence in romantic fiction, amongst the UK’s most popular literary genres, and the award is open to any book first published in the UK in the last year which embraces romance in its widest sense.
		The Romantic Novelists’ Association is the UK’s only professional writers’ association specialising in romantic fiction, and includes many best-selling writers such as Joanna Trollope, Katie Fforde and Carole Matthews among its members.
		Romantic fiction is among the UK’s most commercially successful book categories, appearing under a variety of publishers’ labels including general fiction, women’s fiction, chick lit and historical sagas.
	www.spreckley.co.uk /rna (569 words)

	Sensation Writers
		But in fiction of the Romantic era, mysterious events that need to be explained later become widespread.
		It is this widespread use of The Mysterious in Romantic fiction, that is the true ancestor and source of the modern mystery novel.
		Hoffmann's tale recalls nothing so much as the pulp fiction pieces of a hundred years later, in which several independent groups of people each get involved with a crime, and the reader is kept in the dark about the role each is playing, and how they all fit into the overall picture.
	members.aol.com /MG4273/sensatio.htm (10833 words)

	Literary Resources -- Romantic (Lynch)
		Fictional Representations of Romantics and Romanticism: An Annotated Bibliography (Romantic Circles)
		Romantic Canons: A Bibliography (and an Argument) (Laura Mandell, Miami Univ., Ohio)
		A useful index of late-century and Romantic women authors in one of the best collections of fiction of the period.
	andromeda.rutgers.edu /~jlynch/Lit/romantic.html (2498 words)

	Romantic Novelists' Association - home
		Romantic fiction is the best-selling, widest-read type of fiction, universally enjoyed because everyone knows something about love.
		We work to enhance and promote the various types of romantic and historical fiction, to encourage good writing in all its many varieties, to learn more about our craft, and help readers enjoy it.
		Romantic Fiction covers an enormous range, from short stories through category romance and much of women's fiction, to the classics.
	www.rna-uk.org (298 words)

	mass media: reception analysis - Radway on romantic fiction
		Janice Radway's outstanding ethnographic investigation (1987) of the female readers of romantic fiction centres on 'Smithton', a midwestern town in the USA.
		Radway, Associate Professor of American Civilization at Pennsylvania University, arrived in Smithton expecting to be able to explain the readers' fascination with romantic fiction and the effects it had on them by means of the analysis of textual features and narrative details.
		She very soon realized that such methods would not furnish the explanations she was looking for and that, although common features in the narratives did indeed explain some of the novels' attraction, the women readers themselves placed the main emphasis on 'the pleasures of the act itself' (p.86).
	www.cultsock.ndirect.co.uk /MUHome/cshtml/media/radway.html (1711 words)

	BBC - GCSE Bitesize - SOS Teacher English prose Romantic fiction?
		Romantic Fiction is very popular at the moment, and the central ingredient has to be Love!
		"Romantic fiction" applies to most novels written for the women's market, though men both read and write them.
		The novel does not have to be set in modern times, in fact, historical romantic fiction is very popular, but it MUST be a love story, and, to be published in the modern market, should follow a formula:
	www.bbc.co.uk /schools/gcsebitesize/sosteacher/english/40361.shtml (207 words)

	Radway and Romantic Fiction
		Mrs Evans (known as Dot throughout) was so helpful in advising her customers and helping them find their way through the bewilderingly wide range of titles on offer that they returned again and again to buy form her store.
		However, the favourite heroines were almost invariably described as 'spunky', 'extremely intelligent', 'independent' and 'unique' and Radway came to the conclusion that the women saw that romance fiction demonstrated that men were attracted by such qualities.
		Thus, the fiction 'encourages them to believe that marriage and motherhood do not necessarily lead to loss of independence or identity' (p.102).
	home.grandecom.net /~pieper/radway.html (1703 words)

	Les Mis Romantic Fiction
		This romantic fantasy involves a young woman, who all her life has done what other people wanted her to do and suffered for it.
		She is down but not out, scarred from the break up of her marriage but not bitter.
		I choose the term fantasy over the term science fiction because I make no claims that any of the adventures encountered by my heroine are possible or even probable.
	www.geocities.com /quastex (670 words)

	Sci-Fi Site of the Week
		There are regular updates—sometimes weekly, sometimes biweekly—on what staff members are reading, lists of upcoming romantic fiction from a variety of publishers, and a wealth of links to related genre and author sites.
		Those new to the genre should check out the site's "Features" section, which includes a six-book list entitled "Romantic Fiction 101" designed to introduce people to romantic SF (it would've been nice if these books were linked directly to reviews).
		One need not sample the fictional fare without comment, either—it is possible to read and contribute notes about the work at the site's discussion forums.
	www.scifi.com /sfw/issue330/site.html (736 words)

	Romancing the Fan: Romance and Xena Fan Fiction
		I think XWP is romantic in the classic definition of the term, that is, one of its major themes is the relationship, the love, between two heroic figures, Xena and Gabrielle.
		According to Quest, whose works of fiction are sometimes transcendent, no matter how much bravado, swashbuckling and fantasy goes on, the real crux of it all is the "inner landscape of the characters, and how they relate to each other".
		Again, romantic novels of any type hold no interest for this fanfic author, but she sees herself for the first time when she watches the show.
	whoosh.org /issue25/wilder1.html (2217 words)

	Adult Booklists: ROMANCE FICTION (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-05)
		See also Fiction Featuring Holidays and Seasons for books related to Valentine's Day.
		One of Wolfner's bibliographies, a list of about 45 titles chosen by romance reviewers as their favourites (all are not romance genre, however), with author and summaries of each title, and notation as to sex, language, violence.
		Romantic Suspense Booklist (Vivian St. John, Riverton Library, Salt Lake County Library System, UT)
	www.waterborolibrary.org /bklistr.htm (2150 words)

	Avalon Books - Writers Guidelines
		It is the author’s responsibility to heighten the romantic atmosphere by developing love scenes with tenderness, emotion, and perception.
		The books shall be wholesome fiction, without graphic sex, violence or strong language.
		The element of suspense is very important, but it is equally important to have a tight, well-researched, believable story line.
	www.avalonbooks.com /wrtgdl.html (1257 words)

	BBC NEWS \| Entertainment \| Arts \| Romantic prize won by first-timer
		The romantic fiction award, established in 1960, has previously been won by Joanna Trollope and Rosamunde Pilcher.
		The annual prize honours romantic novels first published in the UK during the past year.
		A popular romantic fiction writer can expect to sell up to 10,000 copies of their book within its opening week of publication.
	news.bbc.co.uk /go/newsFeedXML/moreover/-/1/hi/entertainment/arts/4444983.stm (295 words)

	Wax Romantic \| Romance Fiction Magazine
		Wax Romantic is looking for original, previously unpublished short romance stories up to 5,000 words.
		If you submit a story, you're agreeing to promotion of and publication in an upcoming issue, and perpetual archival rights to that story.
		Wax Romantic will be distributed to subscribers in PDF format.
	www.waxromantic.com (188 words)

	Subtext Fan Fiction: Most Romantic Scenes ever written - www.ezboard.com
		The first things that come to mind when I think Romance and XandG fic are classic moments in Missydom, e.g., when Xena rescues Gab from the arrow and they kiss, passionately, in the pouring rain, from one of her early stories (novels), before they ever become lovers.
		And for a PG rated classic XandG tale, novel length, that takes them up to their first kiss with lots of derring do adventure in the grand tradition of the earlier season you MUST read JLynn's brilliant epic, "Storms of War," if you have not.
		Yes one of the reasons I posted this question was definitely for the serious romantics to show us what they are talking about.
	p209.ezboard.com /fxwpwebfrm80.showMessage?topicID=264.topic (1077 words)

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		The explosion in the popularity of fl romantic fiction occurred during a period spanning three decades when African American gender relations were reportedly in a state of crisis.
		The fiction texts I have selected for this study work from the premise that male-female relations in African American communities are in crisis, and each text focuses in its way on “fl-on-fl love” as virtually a lost cause for economically successful African Americans.
		Not surprisingly given patterns of fantasy projection in romantic fiction and the wider national discourse of economic mobility as a means of self-improvement, it is Carol-Anne who remakes herself in Max’s image in order to resolve the tensions in the novel.
	www.uwec.edu /jonesm/DocsHTML/romancepaper.htm (4730 words)

	Romantic Love Stories
		A romantic story of friendship and courageous new beginnings.
		Fearing for her life, Rebecca and Jose take the first bus out of town, which happens to be filled with honeymooners on their way to Niagara Falls.
		In this romantic atmosphere, they join forces to uncover the truth behind Christopher Cushing and make an unexpected discovery-- each other.
	acacia.pair.com /Journey.of.the.Heart (1775 words)

	HDS Aware! - Harlequin Books
		Harlequin characters may live on emotional roller-coasters (always with a happy ending, of course), but Harlequin the company became the world's leading publisher of romantic fiction in large part because of its consistency.
		Today, Harlequin is a leader of romance fiction publishing over 70 titles a month.
		While the core elements of appealing romantic fiction are in every Harlequin story, the publisher also offers varying product lines aimed at different niches in the genre.
	www.azcreative.com /proto2/features/harl_1.html (1376 words)

	Guardian Unlimited Books \| News \| Unrequited love story named Romantic Novel of the Year
		It was described by the judges as a "superbly constructed, magical story that brilliantly contrasts the timelessness of romance with the grittiness of reality".
		This is an astonishingly well-crafted first novel, peopled with believable, empathetic characters, and characterised by a poise and lightness of touch that evokes the magic and pathos of Shakespeare's lovers and losers.
		Its object is to recognise excellence in romantic fiction, one of the UK's most popular literary genres, and the award is open to any book first published in the UK in the last year which embraces romance in its widest sense.
	www.guardian.co.uk /Books/news/articles/0,6109,1460620,00.html (366 words)

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		When Annie Darling, the popular proprietress of the Death on Demand bookstore, throws a cruise-party with guests dressing up as their favorite fictional sleuths, it's a success - that is until one of the revelers plunges overboard and faux murder turns into real-life death.
		After the beast dispatches the others, Pi is left to survive for 227 days with his large feline companion on the 26-foot-long raft, using all his knowledge, wits and faith to keep himself alive”—Publisher’s Weekly review.
		After trekking by snowshoe to a cinema in the neighboring city, three Siberian boys on the verge of manhood find their whole world changed forever after they watch the gorgeous spectacle of a motion picture.
	www.portagecounty.lib.oh.us /bot_updatespring04.htm (3471 words)

	Romance novels, reviews, authors, women's fiction (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-05)
		Reviews romance novels, women's fiction, mystery, suspense, paranormal, multicultural, science fiction, fantasy books.
		Romantic Times BOOKclub Magazine reviews over 200 books each month -- print and e-books -- in the following categories: historical romance, historical fiction, inspirational romance, mainstream fiction, mainstream romance, multicultural romance, mystery, regency romance, science fiction and fantasy, series romance, young adult and more.
		get romantic fiction industry news and announcements, find out about Romantic Times book lovers conventions.
	www.romantictimes.com (225 words)

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