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“Dark romance”, Wattpad, “feel good”… understanding literature 2.0.

Literary genre born in Great Britain which developed notably under the name of “new romance” in the United States.

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“Dark romance”, Wattpad, “feel good”… understanding literature 2.0.

Literary genre born in Great Britain which developed notably under the name of “new romance” in the United States. It takes up the codes of the sentimental novel and the romantic comedy with its stereotypical characters and its happy ending. The “new romance” also integrates sexuality, psychology, and feminism. Its structure varies and evolves. There are different subgenres: detective romance, historical romance, erotic romance, etc. “Dark romance” is part of this classification. She follows it by reversing the codes of “romance” and mixes sexuality, violence, humiliation, control, rape, torture, kidnapping, toxic relationships.

In French, “young adult”. Appearing at the end of the 1990s with Harry Potter and At the Crossroads of Worlds, it designates this literary category which is mainly aimed at adolescents as well as readers in their twenties. This literature being multifaceted (fantasy, adventures, sci-fi, dystopia thriller, etc.) we find The Hunger Games, by Suzanne Collins, like Finding a Wallflower, by Stephen Chbosky, The Fault in Our Stars, by John Green, etc.

Canadian collaborative writing and reading platform, acquired in January by Korean digital giant Naver. It boasts nearly 100 million monthly users and more than 5 million writers - it is on it that After, by Anna Todd, a “chick lit” book was born.

In French, “literature for chicks”. This very popular genre among young girls in the late 1990s and early 2000s is sometimes presented as the ancestor of “new romance”. There are light comedies with feminine themes. It has its own tree structure with the “grip-lit” and in particular the “bit-lit”, in which we find the Twilight vampire saga.

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