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Corporate heroines and utopian individualism: A study of the romance novel in global capitalism

Young, Erin S. (University of Oregon, 2010-06)

This dissertation explores two subgenres of popular romance fiction that emerge in the 1990s: "corporate" and "paranormal" romance. While the formulaic conventions of popular romance have typically centralized the gendered ...