Emotionality - Heterosexual Love and Emotional Development in Popular Romance

This book follows a close textual analysis approach and offers a discussion of love as portrayed in 'Modern' popular romances. Based on the construction of a novel continuum, this book illustrates a variety of love forms and signals the complexity of love and intimate relationships in popular romance narratives.

List of contents

Acknowledgments
Introduction
1. What is Love
Lust or Love: Confluent vs. Romantic Love
2. The Love Continuum
Pre-Personal Relationship
Semi-Personal Relationship
Personal Relationship and the Process of Emotional Development
Romantic Jealousy
Guilt and Shame
Anger
Altruistic Love
Realisation of Love
Conclusion
From Confluent to Romantic Love
Index

About the author

Eirini Arvanitaki received her PhD from the University of Hull, UK. Since then, she has taught at the University of Hull, the University of Liverpool, UK, the Hellenic Mediterranean University, Greece, and the University of Cyprus. Currently, she is teaching at the Hellenic Open University (School of Social Sciences). She has served as an Evaluator Expert of the Marie Sk¿odowska-Curie Postdoctoral Fellowships and has participated in several EU-funded projects. Her research interests lie in the fields of gender, sociology, social policy, popular romance fiction, gender studies, feminism, cultural sociology, and English literature. She is the author of Masculinities in Post-Millennial Popular Romance (Routledge) and a co-editor of three books on pay gap between genders and working women and motherhood.

Product details

• Authors: Eirini Arvanitaki
• Publisher: Taylor & Francis Ltd.
• Languages: English
• Product format: Paperback / Softback
• Released: 27.10.2025
• EAN: 9781032558318
• ISBN: 978-1-0-3255831-8
• No. of pages: 64
• Series: Routledge Focus on Literature
• Subjects: Fiction > Poetry, drama; Humanities, art, music > Linguistics and literary studies > General and comparative literary studies; SOCIAL SCIENCE / Popular Culture, FAMILY & RELATIONSHIPS / Love & Romance, LITERARY CRITICISM / General, LITERARY CRITICISM / Gothic & Romance, Child & developmental psychology, Child, developmental and lifespan psychology, Literary studies: general, Literary studies: fiction, novelists & prose writers, Literary studies: fiction, novelists and prose writers, Literary studies: plays & playwrights, Literary studies: plays and playwrights, Love;Emotion;Popular novel;Romantic;Heterosexuals