This comprehensive collection of original essays on popular romance fiction delivers on the promise of its title. The succinct and insightful introductory essay by co-editors…
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In 1988, the author and political activist Patrick Califia published Macho Sluts, the first collection of sadomasochism-themed short fiction to provide visibility and erotic legitimacy…
Comments closedThe commercial success of the Fifty Shades of Grey books has prompted an outpouring of media coverage on the trilogy and its rapid success. Much…
Comments closed[End Page 1] “My mind drifts. Christian the sadist. Christian the submissive. Christian the untouchable. Christian’s Oedipal impulses… Can I really marry this man?” (E.L. James’s…
Comments closedLast November, the Humanities Research Centre at Australian National University held a two-day conference on “The Radicalism of Romantic Love: Critical Perspectives.” The conference conveners,…
Comments closedI was not at the PCA this year (truthfully, I’ve never been). I write this brief commentary as an outsider, insofar as I’ve never been…
Comments closedIn Los Angeles in 2004, I sat down next to Pam Regis at the annual conference of the Jane Austen Society of North America—in fact,…
Comments closedI started graduate school in 2000 with the intent of studying Shakespeare and film. In 2002, when I expressed some uncertainty about my doctoral focus,…
Comments closedA Natural History of the Romance Novel is one of the most pivotal works on popular romance that has ever been published. In terms of…
Comments closedIn the summer or fall of 2005, I went to my local public library to pick up some books on “romance.” I was new to…
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