Issue 2.2

• Editor’s Note: Issue 2.2
  Eric Murphy Selinger

Articles

• A Parody of Love: the Narrative Uses of Rape in Popular Romance
  Angela R. Toscano
• Francophone Perspectives on Romantic Fiction: From the Academic Field to Reader’s Experience (Interview with Agnès Caubet, Romance Reader and Webmaster of Les Romantiques, fan website and webzine)
  Séverine Olivier

Special Issue

• Nothing But Good Times Ahead: A Special Forum on Jennifer Crusie (Editor’s Introduction)
  Eric Murphy Selinger
• Jennifer Crusie’s Literary Lingerie
  Laura Vivanco
• Crusie and the Con
  Christina A. Valeo
• Tell Me Lies: Lying, Storytelling, and the Romance Novel as Feminist Fiction
  Patricia Zakreski
• Getting Laid, Getting Old, and Getting Fed: The Cultural Resistance of Jennifer Crusie’s Romance Heroines
  Kyra Kramer
• The Heroine as Reader, the Reader as Heroine: Jennifer Crusie’s Welcome to Temptation
  Kate Moore and Eric Murphy Selinger
• Gossip, Liminality, and Erotic Display: Jennifer Crusie’s Links to Eighteenth- Century Amatory Fiction
  Kimberly Baldus

Book Reviews

• Review: Virgin Territory: Representing Sexual Inexperience in Film, edited by Tamar Jeffers McDonald
  Hsu-Ming Teo
• Review: The First Time: True Tales of Virginity Lost and Found (Including my Own), by Kate Monro
  Laura M. Carpenter