This article focuses on the significance of marriage and motherhood in two novellas from the Ankara Romance Series, published by the Nigeria- and London-based Cassava…
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Introduction Recent decades have shown a marked rise in the societal, public, and scholarly awareness of trauma, especially in Western culture (see Foulkes and Andrews;…
Comments closedMarian Keyes’ ninth novel, This Charming Man (2008) is a multi-person narrative told from the perspectives of four women, Lola, Alicia, and twins Grace and…
Comments closedContent note: This article discusses sexual violence and abuse in the context of romance novels. In the first book of Amelia Wilde’s Beast of Bishop’s…
Comments closedIntroduction In her 1970 review of Charity Girl for The Times, Marganhita Laski derisively wrote, “even if Miss Heyer’s heroines lifted their worked muslin skirts,…
Comments closedIntroduction Historical romance: For decades, the term has been likely to conjure up images of dashing young bucks and fashionable ladies, dukes and highlanders and…
Comments closedIntroduction This article investigates an issue surrounding BL fandoms from a literary angle. It discusses fantasy in Thai BL texts, in conjunction with the commercially-driven…
Comments closedSeason of Crimson Blossoms is the novel by Abubakar Adam Ibrahim that catapulted him onto the international literary scene following its success in Nigeria. The…
Comments closedIntroduction Women of all ages have always enjoyed romance. They ask for it in their movies, in their music, from their lovers and in their…
Comments closedIntroduction Love is central to romance novels. This is hardly a controversial statement. However, many scholars, readers, and authors continuously grapple with the term. For…
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