When Eftihia Mihelakis and Jonathan A. Allan first called for papers on “Sexting, Romance, and Intimacy,” they cast a wide net, inviting submissions on the…
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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…
Comments closedWhen 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).…
Continue readingConfluent Love and the Evolution of Ideal Intimacy: Romance Reading in 1980 and 2016
Comments closed Books, Articles, and Thesis/Dissertations Abdullah-Poulos, Layla. “The Stable Muslim Love Triangle – Triangular Desire in African American Muslim Romance Fiction.” Journal of Popular Romance Studies,…
Comments closedThis conversation with Margo Hendricks (Elysabeth Grace) originally appeared October 20, 2020 on the Black Romance Podcast, created and hosted by Julie E. Moody-Freeman: https://blackromancepodcast.libsyn.com/elysabeth-gracemargo-hendricks.…
Comments closedThis conversation with Rochelle Alers originally appeared October 13, 2020 on the Black Romance Podcast, created and hosted by Julie E. Moody-Freeman: https://blackromancepodcast.libsyn.com/rochelle-alers. * *…
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