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A collection of stories reflects the transformation of the literature of love in Latin America, as well as a change in the role and nature of women, breaking social, religious, political, and sexual barriers in fiction in works by Elena Poniatowska, Ana Mar a Shua and other notable women writers.

Love stories, Latin American --- Latin American fiction --- Latin American literature --- Latin American romance fiction --- Women authors

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In the world of the evangelical romance novel, sex and desire are mitigated by an omnipresent third party, the divine. This book states that women's interpretations demonstrate the constant negotiations that characterize evangelical living. It shows the aesthetic sensibility to help alter conventional understandings, both secular and religious.

Christian fiction, American --- American fiction --- Romance fiction, American --- Christianity and literature --- Women and literature --- Evangelicalism --- Evangelicalism in literature. --- Literature --- American literature --- American romance fiction --- Love stories, American --- History and criticism. --- Christian authors --- Women authors

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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. Hailed on the one hand for its women-centered stories that can be sexually liberating, and criticized on the other for its emphasis on male/female coupling and mythical happy endings, romance fiction is a multi-million dollar publishing phenomenon, creating national and international societies of enthusiasts, practitioners, and scholars. Catherine M. Roach, alongside her romance-writer alter-ego, Catherine LaRoche, guides the reader deep into Romancelandia where the smart and the witty combine with the sexy and seductive to explore why this genre has such a grip on readers and what we can learn from the romance novel about the nature of happiness, love, sex, and desire in American popular culture.

Romance fiction, American --- Romance fiction, English --- Women in literature. --- Love in literature. --- Popular literature --- History and criticism. --- Literature, Popular --- Books and reading --- Popular culture --- Woman (Christian theology) in literature --- Women in drama --- Women in poetry --- English romance fiction --- Love stories, English --- English fiction --- American romance fiction --- Love stories, American --- American fiction --- Thematology --- American literature

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Romance fiction, English --- Romance fiction, American --- Historical fiction, American --- Historical fiction, English --- American fiction --- English fiction --- English --- Languages & Literatures --- English Literature --- English romance fiction --- Love stories, English --- American romance fiction --- Love stories, American --- English historical fiction --- American historical fiction --- English literature --- American literature --- Dictionaries --- Bio-bibliography

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Romanticism. --- Villains in literature. --- Antiheroes in literature. --- Gothic revival (Literature) --- Love stories, American --- Love stories, English --- Seduction in literature. --- English fiction --- English romance fiction --- American romance fiction --- American fiction --- Literary movements --- Revival movements (Art) --- Romanticism --- Pseudo-romanticism --- Romanticism in literature --- Aesthetics --- Fiction --- History and criticism. --- Byron, George Gordon Byron, --- Influence. --- Romance fiction, American --- Romance fiction, English