A Natural History of the Romance Novel is one of the most pivotal works on popular romance that has ever been published. In terms of…
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In 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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Comments closed Address given at the 2013 Popular Culture Association Annual Conference, Washington, D.C. March 2013. A Natural History of the Romance Novel was published ten years…
Comments closedAt the annual meeting of the Popular Culture Association/American Culture Association (March 27-30, 2013, Washington D.C.), scholars gathered to mark the tenth anniversary of Pamela…
Comments closedIn the introduction to Women and Romance: A Reader, Susan Ostrov Weisser inquires whether romantic love weakens or empowers women. “Is it a debilitating illusion,…
Comments closedAs Barbara Fuchs acknowledges in the first line of Romance, “romance is a notoriously slippery category” (1). This compact book, part of Routledge’s New Critical…
Comments closedIt’s been almost a century since E. M. Hull’s Sheikh Ahmed ben Hassan made the brooding, hypersexual sheikh a central figure in Anglophone romance, first…
Comments closedPopular Romance Studies is a new enough field that the canon of relevant scholarship has yet to be established. The expansive, interdisciplinary nature of the…
Comments closedIn 2011, I co-authored an article in the journal Sexuality & Culture describing a study on sexual scripts in romance novels. The paper was entitled,…
Comments closedSince joining the editorial team of JPRS as Teaching and Learning Editor in late 2012, I have had numerous conversations with scholars about the scope…
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