Category: Book Reviews

Digital Love is the first comprehensive introduction to the relatively new field of romance in video games. It is a collection of essays contributed by…

For decades popular media sources and scholars alike have opined the death of the romantic comedy genre. However, the new collection of essays on the…

Georgette Heyer, History and Historical Fiction (2021), edited by Samantha J. Rayner and Kim Wilkins, is a varied and pleasant read: the approaches are sometimes…

From the title to the overall framing of the collection, Teaching Tainted Lit: Popular American Fiction in Today’s Classroom (2015) leans into the contested status…

It’s not often that an academic research project successfully and meaningfully combines literary analysis, creative writing, and sociological research. These two publications – one a…

In recent years, there has been a considerable increase in critical questions on the lack of diversity in and the pervasive whiteness of popular romance…

Harry Frankfurt’s, The Reasons of Love is based on compilation of lectures given in the year 2000 at Princeton University (Romanell-Phi Beta Kappa Lectures or…

In the Introduction to Men, Masculinities, and Popular Romance, Jonathan Allan asks, “What is the study of popular romance missing given how few scholars have…

Romance comic books had already become popular by the time that Ogden Whitney started contributing to them. The genre appeared when Jack Kirby and Joe…

Markert’s work focuses on the history of romance publishing in an American context, from a business perspective. His research, explained in a modest “Methodological Note,”…