Review by Jonathan A. Allan As romance readers and scholars both know, the sexual ethos of the popular romance novel has changed over the years.…
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From almost the moment the terms chick lit entered the English vocabulary in the mid-1990s, the popular novels grouped into the category have faced derision,…
Comments closedReview by Johansen Quijano The academic community has shown an increasing amount of interest in romance literature, in particular in romance novels, during the past…
Comments closedAs a pre-teen reader in suburban Virginia, Amy Pattee and her twin sister Ellie, like many of their contemporaries, were avid consumers of the Sweet…
Comments closedThere are many forms of writing; only in literature, however, can there be an attempt at restitution over and above the mere recital of facts,…
Comments closedIntroduction This article examines the work of Stefania Bertola (b. 1952), a prolific Italian writer of romantic fiction who creatively blends the codes and practices…
Comments closedAlmost every major critic of popular romance fiction—and probably minor ones too—notes that in reading the romance novel, readers will encounter virgin heroines. “For most…
Comments closedRomantic comedy is a genre that promotes and celebrates romantic love. This commonsense description may be more problematic than it seems at first sight. Indeed,…
Comments closedThe need for, yet denial of, repetition constitutes a paradox that seems set to confound romantic love for ever more. Inasmuch as many of our…
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