Faye Halpern’s monograph, Sentimental Readers: The Rise and Fall of a Disparaged Rhetoric, re-examines sentimentality and the sentimental novels of nineteenth-century America. This re-examination structures…
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In Beth Driscoll’s The New Literary Middlebrow, she re-examines both the term middlebrow as well as its surrounding cultural practices in our contemporary moment. While…
Comments closedThe Trouble with Men: Reflections on Sex, Love, Marriage, Porn, and Power by David Shields is, in some ways, a lengthy meditation on marriage, being…
Comments closedMore than two decades ago, chick lit was proclaimed the newest subgenre of romance, considered by some writers and critics so defiant of genre conventions…
Comments closed[End Page 1] This paper investigates two popular historical novels, Marina Fiorato’s The Glassblower of Murano (2008) and Anne Fortier’s Juliet (2010), in order to…
Comments closedA great deal is happening behind the scenes at the Journal of Popular Romance Studies, with a number of changes (and essays!) waiting to roll…
Comments closedThe Romance Hero The hero is one of the main defining elements in the romance novel. Falling in love with him is the story. “The…
Comments closed[End Page 1] Not content to remain in the nineteenth century, Bram Stoker’s Dracula continues to stalk his prey through endless pastiches, parodies, and revisionist…
Comments closed[End Page 1] 1. “Representational theft”: The academic erasure of Chamorro/Chamoru literature Current US literary studies often fail to pay attention to the literatures produced…
Comments closedIn Queer Experimental Literature, Tyler Bradway stakes the claim that ‘by eliciting uncritical affective responses in readers, queer experimental literature … strikes at the disembodied…
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