Pursuing Happiness: Reading American Romance as Political Fiction Lawrence G. Lovasik A lot has been said

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Pursuing Happiness: Reading American Romance as Political Fiction Lawrence G. Lovasik A lot has been saidThe dominance of popular romance in the US fiction market suggests that its trends and themes may reflect the politics of a significant proportion of the US population. Pursuing Happiness explores some of the choices, beliefs and assumptions which shape the politics of US romance novels. In particular, it focuses on what romances reveal about American attitudes towards work, the West, race, gender, community cohesion, ancestral "roots" and a