Liz Fielding is an award-winning author of romance. She has published over seventy romance novels since the early 1980s, as well as a guide to…
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Readers of popular romance fiction are well aware of the history and legacy of the virgin as a common character in the genre. Titles of…
Comments closedHarry Frankfurt’s, The Reasons of Love is based on compilation of lectures given in the year 2000 at Princeton University (Romanell-Phi Beta Kappa Lectures or…
Comments closedIn the Introduction to Men, Masculinities, and Popular Romance, Jonathan Allan asks, “What is the study of popular romance missing given how few scholars have…
Comments closedRomance comic books had already become popular by the time that Ogden Whitney started contributing to them. The genre appeared when Jack Kirby and Joe…
Comments closedMarkert’s work focuses on the history of romance publishing in an American context, from a business perspective. His research, explained in a modest “Methodological Note,”…
Comments closed“When it comes to sexuality in the disabled, dismissal is apt to turn into outright repression” states Nancy Mairs in her essay Sex and the Gimpy…
Comments closed[End Page 1] Introduction This paper offers a snapshot of the current state of ace-spectrum romance fiction (ARF), focusing on how ace-spectrum main characters negotiate…
Comments closedRomance has long been associated with a wide range of often exotic locations, but the literature I explore in this article makes the most homely…
Comments closedIn 1924, Aldous Huxley contributed an article to British Vogue entitled “A History of Some Fashions in Love”, which he opened with the following words:…
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