Literary theory

Pérez-Fernández, Irene, and Carmen Pérez Ríu. “Romantic Escapes in Contemporary Popular Romance Fiction.” In Romantic Escapes: Post-Millennial Trends in Contemporary Popular Romance Fiction. Ed. Irene Pérez Fernández and Carmen Pérez Ríu. Bern: Peter Lang, 2022. 11-26.*

_____, eds. Romantic Escapes: Post-Millennial Trends in Contemporary Popular Romance Fiction. (Critical Perspectives on English and American Literature, Communication and Culture, 24). Bern, Berlin, Brussels, New York, Oxford: Peter Lang, 2022.* (Romance and Its Intertextual Fabric – Readers and the Market Always at Heart – Loving and Rebranding in the Exotic – New Political and Genre Twists).

Crawford, Joseph. “Old-World Heroes and New-World Heroines in Post-Millennial Anglophone Romance Media.” In Romantic Escapes: Post-Millennial Trends in Contemporary Popular Romance Fiction. Ed. Irene Pérez Fernández and Carmen Pérez Ríu. Bern: Peter Lang, 2022. 29-54.*

Philips, Deborah. “Fifty Shades of Romance: The Intertextualities of Fifty Shades of Grey.” In Romantic Escapes: Post-Millennial Trends in Contemporary Popular Romance Fiction. Ed. Irene Pérez Fernández and Carmen Pérez Ríu. Bern: Peter Lang, 2022. 55-74.*

Valovirta, Elina. “The Stuff of Which Fairy Tales Are Made: Royal Romance, Ordinariness, and Affectivity in the Literary Market.” In Romantic Escapes: Post-Millennial Trends in Contemporary Popular Romance Fiction. Ed. Irene Pérez Fernández and Carmen Pérez Ríu. Bern: Peter Lang, 2022. 75-94.*

Fernández Rodríguez, Carolina. “Nora Roberts’s Boonsboro Empire: Boosting Business through Romance, Invigorating Romance with Affective Capitalism.” In Romantic Escapes: Post-Millennial Trends in Contemporary Popular Romance Fiction. Ed. Irene Pérez Fernández and Carmen Pérez Ríu. Bern: Peter Lang, 2022. 97-120.*

Pérez-Casal, Inmaculada. “Marketplace Feminism? The Writing and Selling of Lisa Kleypas’s Ravenels Series.” In Romantic Escapes: Post-Millennial Trends in Contemporary Popular Romance Fiction. Ed. Irene Pérez Fernández and Carmen Pérez Ríu. Bern: Peter Lang, 2022. 121-46.*

Pérez Ríu, Carmen. “Romance Reading as Fandom in the Context of Convergence Culture.” In Romantic Escapes: Post-Millennial Trends in Contemporary Popular Romance Fiction. Ed. Irene Pérez Fernández and Carmen Pérez Ríu. Bern: Peter Lang, 2022. 147-74.*

Fresno-Calleja, Paloma. “Rugby Romances and the Branding of New Zealand.” In Romantic Escapes: Post-Millennial Trends in Contemporary Popular Romance Fiction. Ed. Irene Pérez Fernández and Carmen Pérez Ríu. Bern: Peter Lang, 2022. 177-202.*

González-Cruz, María-Isabel. “Constructing the Exotic Other: Paradise Discourse and Environmental Awareness in a Corpus of Popular Romance Fiction Novels.” In Romantic Escapes: Post-Millennial Trends in Contemporary Popular Romance Fiction. Ed. Irene Pérez Fernández and Carmen Pérez Ríu. Bern: Peter Lang, 2022. 203-22.*

Moreno-Álvarez, Alejandra. “Romance Novels in Postcolonial India: From Mills & Boon to Pageturn’s Red Romance Series.” In Romantic Escapes: Post-Millennial Trends in Contemporary Popular Romance Fiction. Ed. Irene Pérez Fernández and Carmen Pérez Ríu. Bern: Peter Lang, 2022. 223-42.*

Hanabusa, Miyuki. “L-bungaku, Oshigoto Shosetsu, and Wa-mama Shosetsu: Chick Lit in Contemporary Japanese Sociocultural Contexts.” In Romantic Escapes: Post-Millennial Trends in Contemporary Popular Romance Fiction. Ed. Irene Pérez Fernández and Carmen Pérez Ríu. Bern: Peter Lang, 2022. 245-64.*

Pérez-Fernández, Irene. “Genre Bending and and Blending in Malorie Blackman’s Noughts and Crosses YA Series.” In Romantic Escapes: Post-Millennial Trends in Contemporary Popular Romance Fiction. Ed. Irene Pérez Fernández and Carmen Pérez Ríu. Bern: Peter Lang, 2022. 265-90.*

Serna-Martínez, Elisa. “Painting Away Regrets, a Caribbean Antiromance.” In Romantic Escapes: Post-Millennial Trends in Contemporary Popular Romance Fiction. Ed. Irene Pérez Fernández and Carmen Pérez Ríu. Bern: Peter Lang, 2022. 291-314.* (Novel by Opal Palmer Adisa, 2011)