Download or read book The Routledge Research Companion to Popular Romance Fiction written by Eric Murphy Selinger and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2020-08-10 with total page 566 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: That popular romance fiction constitutes the largest segment of the global consumer book market is well-established. Less well-known, though no less important, is the worldwide presence of scholarship that studies this global genre and its remarkable readership. Bringing together an international group of scholars, this work offers a state-of-the-art review of scholarship in this vibrant and still-emerging field.