The Journal of Popular Romance Studies started publishing almost exactly five years ago: August 4, 2010, by the date-stamp on the Editor’s Note for Issue…
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[End Page 1] Introduction “Who will we be studying in 100 years?” – question from the audience at the opening keynote panel presentation at the…
Comments closed[End Page 1] Introduction and Background The romance genre is one of the bestselling genres in the United States (US). It is also the largest…
Comments closedPopular romance collections in libraries of all kinds—public, academic, and special—have faced their fair share of controversies. These can be as simple as whether or…
Comments closedLisa Zunshine’s Getting Inside Your Head: What Cognitive Science Can Tell Us about Popular Culture rests on a fascinating assertion: that the appeal of popular…
Comments closedAs I began outlining this review of Sarah Rothschild’s The Princess Story: Modeling the Feminine in Twentieth-Century American Fiction and Film, the cult of princess-hood…
Comments closedDana Percec’s Romance: The History of a Genre is a collection of essays by Romanian scholars, which seek to explore the ‘genre of romance’ (viii).…
Comments closedNot only do we know how it will end, but we know it will end well. Boy gets girl, or girl gets boy, and they…
Comments closedStephenie Meyer’s Twilight Saga has created a polarizing media franchise for the better part of the past decade, encompassing books, films, dolls, travel tourism, jewelry,…
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