In the evolving landscape of literary studies, particularly within the domains of popular romance and historical fiction, two recent edited collections stand out as significant…
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Introduction 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: Polyamory and Media Representation Polyamory is built on principles of honesty, communication, and mutual agreement (Sheff, 2014). The reality television show “Sister Wives,” which…
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Comments closedThis Note reads André Aciman’s Room on the Sea (2025) in light of Gillian Beer’s The Romance (1970), a short treatise on the literary form…
Comments closedIntroduction Recent decades have shown a marked rise in the societal, public, and scholarly awareness of trauma, especially in Western culture (see Foulkes and Andrews;…
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