“We have been dwelling in Arcadia, my green girl.” Damerel to Venetia. The historical-romance novels of Georgette Heyer (1902–74), written over a 50-year period from…
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Introduction What is it like to teach classes on popular romance fiction in a country where the genre has been more or less invisible for…
Readers of popular romance fiction are well aware of the history and legacy of the virgin as a common character in the genre. Titles of…
[End Page 1] Introduction This paper offers a snapshot of the current state of ace-spectrum romance fiction (ARF), focusing on how ace-spectrum main characters negotiate…
Romance has long been associated with a wide range of often exotic locations, but the literature I explore in this article makes the most homely…
In 1924, Aldous Huxley contributed an article to British Vogue entitled “A History of Some Fashions in Love”, which he opened with the following words:…
[End Page 1] This paper investigates two popular historical novels, Marina Fiorato’s The Glassblower of Murano (2008) and Anne Fortier’s Juliet (2010), in order to…
The Romance Hero The hero is one of the main defining elements in the romance novel. Falling in love with him is the story. “The…
[End Page 1] Not content to remain in the nineteenth century, Bram Stoker’s Dracula continues to stalk his prey through endless pastiches, parodies, and revisionist…
[End Page 1] 1. “Representational theft”: The academic erasure of Chamorro/Chamoru literature Current US literary studies often fail to pay attention to the literatures produced…