Searching for Birth Parents or Adopted Children: Finding without Seeking in Romance Novels

Mary Kay Chelton

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Using concepts from Catherine Sheldrick Ross’s “Finding without Seeking: The Information Encounter in the Context of Reading for Pleasure,” a convenience sample of 129 romance novels about secret babies is examined to determine what information is imparted about the processes by which adoptees and birth parents search for each other.

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2003A Natural History of the Romance Novel 1999Finding without seeking: the information encounter in the context of reading for pleasure 2000‘Knowing where you’ve come from’: Ruptures and continuities of time and kinship in narratives of adoption reunions 1979Mass Market Romance: Pornography for Women is Different 2011Selecting fiction as part of everyday life information seeking

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