William A. Gleason and Eric Murphy Selinger’s collection Romance Fiction and American Culture: Love as the Practice of Freedom? came out of a 2009 conference…
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Volume 6 of the Journal of Popular Romance Studies marks a shift in our publication schedule. Rather than publish twice a year, on the model…
Comments closedIntroduction The popular romance is a pervasive and ubiquitous part of popular culture (Roach 2), which has been critically and rigorously analysed by a wide…
Comments closedIn the years since 2001, the number of “desert,” “sheik,” or “Orientalist” romance novels published has “exponentially increased” (Burge 182).[1] Alongside the greater prominence of…
Comments closedThough long since promoted to that lofty category “literature,” Charlotte Brontë’s Jane Eyre nevertheless holds pride of place in any genealogy of the romance novel…
Comments closedThe Journal of Popular Romance Studies started out as an interdisciplinary journal exploring popular romance fiction, mostly in print. It has steadily been expanding its…
Comments closed[End Page 1] In this article I will outline the objectives of Critical Love Studies, their grounding in a wide range of critical theory, a…
Comments closed[End Page 1] Introduction I meet Camilla and Rolf at an independent café on a weekday morning in the El Portal area of Barcelona. Camilla…
Comments closed[End Page 1] The field of Critical Love Studies is a vigorous and burgeoning one, drawing from multiple disciplines, with or without a feminist point…
Comments closedIntroduction I was first attracted to love as a topic of research because I saw other feminist female friends as well as myself struggling with…
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