1. INTRODUCTION As people are increasingly reaching for electronic devices instead of books to spend their leisure time, this has resulted in a number of…
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When Janice Radway conducted her now-famous study of romance readers in the early 1980s, she found that all her respondents “cited the educational value of…
Comments closedIntroduction The seminar Critical Approaches to the Modern and Contemporary Anglophone Romance Novel (From A Room with a View to Fifty Shades of Grey) was…
Comments closedThe significance of heterosexual romance as Georgette Heyer writes it characteristically unfolds within a familial context, emphasizing the growing cultural investment in the family as…
Comments closedINTRODUCTION In the late 1970s and 1980s, there was a boom of academic interest in romance reading (Modleski; Radway “Women Read”, Reading; Thurston; Christian-Smith; Fowler).…
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Comments closed A prolific Welsh romance novelist of the early and mid-twentieth century, Berta Ruck wrote approximately a hundred novels between 1915 and 1970. Although her novels…
Comments closed“Doormat” (31). “Airhead” (32). “Too Stupid to Live” (35). These are some of the categories of romance heroine Candy Tan and Sarah Wendell introduce in…
Comments closedAcknowledgements: This article is part of a research project (2018-06798) financed by the Swedish research council, Vetenskapsrådet. [End Page 1] Popular romance has long existed…
Comments closedIntroduction As Farzaneh Milani accurately asserts, virginity has been “an absolute prerequisite for most heroines of classical Persian literature” (Words, Not Swords 34). In One…
Comments closed[End Page 1] Most work on dime novels has focused on their content, emphasizing how they convey as many stereotypes as subversive fantasies (Sullivan &…
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