Emotionality

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.

Auteur

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 Sklodowska-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.