Introduction As the field of Popular Romance Studies grows, greater emphasis needs to be placed on how and where popular romance scholars gain access to…
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Welcome to the age of “un-innocence.” No one has breakfast at Tiffany’s, and no one has affairs to remember. Instead, we have breakfast at 7:00…
Comments closedFive years ago, a letter to the editor of the Romance Writers Report (a monthly publication issued by the Romance Writers of America), suggested that…
Comments closedHere was what she’d been waiting for. Not something—someone. Here, as so often in the daydreams, Douglas Eamons was talking to her. Doug . .…
Comments closedIntroduction These are exciting times for popular romance scholars.[1] Over the last few years a number of interconnected developments—including the founding of the International Association…
Comments closedAlthough Francophone romance scholarship dates back to the 1980s, the scholars who write it are not generally familiar with the genre. They identify romantic fiction…
Comments closedThe arguments surrounding the use of rape as a device in popular romance, within both reader and scholarly communities, have most often pivoted on the…
Comments closedThere are many forms of writing; only in literature, however, can there be an attempt at restitution over and above the mere recital of facts,…
Comments closedIntroduction This article examines the work of Stefania Bertola (b. 1952), a prolific Italian writer of romantic fiction who creatively blends the codes and practices…
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