In recent years, there has been a considerable increase in critical questions on the lack of diversity in and the pervasive whiteness of popular romance…
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University of Basel Although some of the most commercially successful and/or critically acclaimed works of literary fiction of the current century feature dominant romantic storylines,…
Comments closed“Doormat” (31). “Airhead” (32). “Too Stupid to Live” (35). These are some of the categories of romance heroine Candy Tan and Sarah Wendell introduce in…
Comments closedAcknowledgements: This article is part of a research project (2018-06798) financed by the Swedish research council, Vetenskapsrådet. [End Page 1] Popular romance has long existed…
Comments closedIntroduction As Farzaneh Milani accurately asserts, virginity has been “an absolute prerequisite for most heroines of classical Persian literature” (Words, Not Swords 34). In One…
Comments closed[End Page 1] Most work on dime novels has focused on their content, emphasizing how they convey as many stereotypes as subversive fantasies (Sullivan &…
Comments closedIn my Editor’s Note for Volume 8 of the journal I promised that a number of changes and essays would roll out in 2020. Some…
Comments closed“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…
Comments closedIntroduction What is it like to teach classes on popular romance fiction in a country where the genre has been more or less invisible for…
Comments closedThree cheers for E. M. Hull, who wrote That masterpiece, “The Sheik!” I proudly state I’ve read it eight- No, twenty times, this week. (Anthony)…
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