![]() ![]() Love as religion is something that romantic characters must learn to “believe in,” so that lasting happiness may be achieved. Rather than a secularization of the romance novel occurring throughout the twentieth century, Selinger and Vivanco argue that the romance itself took on religious qualities, representing romantic love as unconditional, omnipotent, and eternal, and therefore redemptive or salvific. Chapter 22 begins with a consideration of how religion-especially Protestant Christianity-can be read as a discourse of romance: a redemptive and ennobling relational experience that ends in a happily ever after. ![]() From the introduction to the volume: Eric Murphy Selinger and Laura Vivanco’s chapter (Chapter 22) extends the exploration of love and romance to consider how these representations of these entities overlap with religion and are themselves invested with the structure, purpose, and practice of religion. ![]()
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