Rather than presenting YA series romance as a unified category, this special issue considers it as a site of continuous negotiation. Anyone who grew up…
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Javaria Farooqui’s Romance Fandom in 21st-Century Pakistan is the first drop of rain in the generally dry and arid research-scapes of Popular Romance Studies in…
Comments closedIntroduction Love is central to romance novels. This is hardly a controversial statement. However, many scholars, readers, and authors continuously grapple with the term. For…
Comments closedIntroduction: The Body in Love Fredrik Backman’s fiction has been lauded for its depictions of the human experience, particularly in relation to love and romance,…
Comments closedCompared to the better-known genre of “boys’ love” manga, the Japanese tradition of yuri romance manga has received limited scholarly attention in the West. Also…
Comments closedWhat is an orgasm? This is a question researchers have tried to identify and understand for the last seventy or so years. It has been…
Comments closedJayashree Kamblé’s monograph not only adds significant dimensions to the intersecting fields of popular romance studies, gender studies, and cultural studies by exploring the question…
Comments closedIntroduction A one-night stand followed by an unplanned pregnancy is a plot opening that offers portrayals of female sexuality, complications, and a forced relationship that…
Comments closedWhile working late at night on my laptop in early December 2023 with my television set kept on—on mute—I caught a glimpse of the opening…
Comments closedAt the ripe old age of nineteen, I found myself falling for romance novels long after my friends had already journeyed from the whimsical lands…
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