DePaul University
A consumption of gay men: navigating the shifting boundaries of m/m romantic readership
Abstract
dc:description.abstract<p>The rise in popularity of the male/male romance novel subgenre has led to a number of contentions in the romance community. In order to understand these grievances and just why so many women read m/m romance novels, this paper conducts an examination of the subgenre as a whole, starting with the history of m/m romance novel publication. The author continues by detailing women’s stated reasons for reading these novels and the push-back this has engendered within the community and without. The following section demonstrates how m/m romance authors might engage with these questions by subverting or enforcing them through specific analysis of the work of m/m romance novelist KJ Charles. The paper culminates in an evaluation of the field of m/m romance as it currently stands and the ongoing attempt to delineate this genre from the wider sphere of gay fiction.</p>
Degree
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- Thesis
- Discipline thesis:degree_discipline
- English
- Year dc:date.available
- 2017
Author and committee
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- Whalen, Kacey
Subjects
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- https://via.library.depaul.edu/etd/228
- OAI identifier oai:identifier
- oai:via.library.depaul.edu:etd-1234