Out of Wedlock: The Consummation and Consumption of Marriage in Contemporary Romance Fiction

Aug. 1, 2009

[1] To the marriage of true minds, romance fiction has not admitted many impediments. The genre has long relied on the marriage closure in the tradition of the fairytale happily-ever-after, and because love and marriage continue to “go together” in popular culture discourses, many critics of the genre have taken...