- Editor’s Note: Issue 4.2 Eric Murphy Selinger
Articles
- Genre, Author, Text, Reader: Teaching Nora Roberts’s Spellbound Beth Driscoll
- “I’m a Feminist, But…” Popular Romance in the Women’s Literature Classroom Julie M. Dugger
Special Issue
- Special Issue: The Popular Culture of Romantic Love in Australia (Editor’s Introduction) Hsu-Ming Teo
- The Private and Public Life of Nellie Stewart’s Bangle Annita Boyd
- “We have to learn to love imperially”: Love in Late Colonial and Federation Australian Romance Novels Hsu-Ming Teo
- A Masculine Romance: The Sentimental Bloke and Australian Culture in the War- and Early Interwar Years Melissa Bellanta
- Marriage, Romance and Mourning Movement in Cherie Nowlan’s Thank God He Met Lizzie Mark Nicholls
- After Happy Ever: Tender Extremities and Tangled Selves in Three Australasian Bluebeard Tales Lucy Butler
- Teaching an Old Dog New Tricks?: Romance, Ethics and Human-Dog Relationships in a Rural Australian Novel Lauren O'Mahony
- Writing the Happy Ever After: An Interview with Anne Gracie Lisa Fletcher
Roundtable
- Reading the Romance: A Thirtieth Anniversary Roundtable, Editor’s Introduction Eric Murphy Selinger
- To My Mentor, Jan Radway, With Love Deborah Chappel Traylor
- The Politics of Popular Romance Studies Lynn S. Neal
- Radway Roundtable Remarks Katherine Larsen
- Studying the Romance Reader, Then and Now: Rereading Janice Radway’s Reading the Romance Jessica Matthews
- Love’s Laborers Lost: Radway, Romance Writers, and Recuperating Our Past Heather Schell
- From Reading the Romance to Grappling with Genre Stephanie Moody
- Rattling the Toolkit: Methods for Reading Romance, Gender, and Culture Katherine Morrissey
- We’ve Come a Long Way, Baby: Reflecting Thirty Years after Reading the Romance Mallory Jagodzinski
Book Reviews
- Review: Deconstructing Twilight: Psychological and Feminist Perspectives on the Series, by Donna M. Ashcraft Catherine Coker
- Review: Happy Endings in Hollywood Cinema. Cliché, Convention and the Final Couple, by James MacDowell Zorianna Zurba
- Review: Romance: The History of a Genre, edited by Dana Percec Hannah Priest
- Review: The Princess Story: Modeling the Feminine in Twentieth-Century American Fiction and Film, by Sarah Rothschild Erin E. Bell
- Review: Getting Inside Your Head: What Cognitive Science Can Tell Us about Popular Culture, by Lisa Zunshine Karen J. Renner