In the Routledge Research Companion to Popular Romance (2021) Jonathan A. Allan stated that “[o]ne unresolvable conundrum, or at least one that has ongoing permanence,…
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In the dramatic climax to the movie Bros (2022), Bobby (Billy Eichner) rushes off the stage at a gala he is hosting for the opening…
Comments closedScholars of gay fiction face difficulty in obtaining primary material from certain historical periods and publication channels (which is an issue that is and will…
Comments closedAt the end of June, 2023, the International Association for the Study of Popular Romance (IASPR) held its first in-person conference in five years. The…
Comments closedUsing a tripartite structure, Jennifer Leetsch describes and analyses diasporic novels, poems and performances along the axes of space, love and textuality in her new…
Comments closedIn July 2021, I travelled for a family holiday to the sleepy, largely rural Shetland Islands (population 22,990) in far northern Scotland. My chosen holiday…
Comments closedI started reading romance novels when I was twelve years old. These books were not my mom’s forbidden paperbacks, which had titles like Wild Rapture…
Comments closedIt’s the summer of 1969, and my father is singing a love song. I am five, living in the white, two-story Dean’s House at the…
Comments closedAs its title suggests, most of María-Isabel González-Cruz’s Hispanicisms in Romance Fiction: An Annotated Glossary takes the form of a detailed dictionary-like inventory of Spanish…
Comments closedThis article will explore the works of Penny Jordan (1946-2011) with a specific focus on her use of rape as a trope within her romantic…
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