Dr. Geneva Gray woke to the sound of nomads attacking her archaeological camp, which, though technically in Egypt, bordered all too closely the kingdom of…
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Chick lit is a genre that usually depicts what life is like for young women in big cities, or occasionally—for the sake of variety—on fashionable…
Comments closed[End Page 1] Introduction In this article, I investigate romantic love in American film as a site for experiencing a divine presence in the immanent…
Comments closedThe Journal of Popular Romance Studies started publishing almost exactly five years ago: August 4, 2010, by the date-stamp on the Editor’s Note for Issue…
Comments closed[End Page 1] Introduction “Who will we be studying in 100 years?” – question from the audience at the opening keynote panel presentation at the…
Comments closed[End Page 1] Introduction and Background The romance genre is one of the bestselling genres in the United States (US). It is also the largest…
Comments closedPopular romance collections in libraries of all kinds—public, academic, and special—have faced their fair share of controversies. These can be as simple as whether or…
Comments closedLisa Zunshine’s Getting Inside Your Head: What Cognitive Science Can Tell Us about Popular Culture rests on a fascinating assertion: that the appeal of popular…
Comments closedAs I began outlining this review of Sarah Rothschild’s The Princess Story: Modeling the Feminine in Twentieth-Century American Fiction and Film, the cult of princess-hood…
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