Imagine a pregnant woman. Is she overweight? Does she look like she was too tired to care about the clothes she put on? Is she…
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The literary fields of sociology, self-help, history, and popular culture have, for a long period, produced books about love and romance. The three titles above…
Comments closedIn this compilation of a series of his talks, feminist philosopher Tom Digby seeks to demonstrate that war-reliant societies are steeped in “cultural militarism,” one…
Comments closedLooking back at Volume 7 of the Journal of Popular Romance Studies, I am struck not only by how capacious the field of popular romance…
Comments closedRomantic love and the religion of Islam have often been combined in western popular fiction to create the necessary element of the “exotic.” This is…
Comments closedNew Directions in Popular Fiction is an omnifocal deep dive into specific histories, genres, locations, and formats within the scope of popular fiction publishing. The…
Comments closedScholarship into the culture of romantic love has tended to put an emphasis on defining the constitutive elemental concepts (culture and romantic love) and answering…
Comments closedThe continued rise of periodical studies has been a rich addition to the research landscape, attracting a range of scholars to this interdisciplinary area. Sean…
Comments closedThe importance of Nora Roberts to the popular romance genre and, in fact, to the publishing industry, can hardly be overstated. She published her first…
Comments closedRomance fiction explores culturally-specific notions of intimacy. Because it portrays a group’s conventions about love and amorousness, it can provide outsiders glimpses of norms and…
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