Dana Percec’s Romance: The History of a Genre is a collection of essays by Romanian scholars, which seek to explore the ‘genre of romance’ (viii).…
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Not only do we know how it will end, but we know it will end well. Boy gets girl, or girl gets boy, and they…
Comments closedStephenie Meyer’s Twilight Saga has created a polarizing media franchise for the better part of the past decade, encompassing books, films, dolls, travel tourism, jewelry,…
Comments closedThe publication of Reading the Romance made room at the academic table for doing scholarly work on romance. Radway’s book has made it possible for me to…
Comments closedI want to begin by setting the scene. It’s 2007 and I’m stumbling my way through my second semester as a master’s student. I’m reading…
Comments closedI first encountered Reading the Romance in the fall of 2007. At the time, I was a first-semester graduate student in the Joint Program of English and…
Comments closedOnce upon a time, a group of romance novelists in America banded together and formed a professional organization. (That time was, to be more exact,…
Comments closedI read Janice Radway’s Reading the Romance in 1995, the first year of my graduate coursework. The book was a required text in my cultural studies course,…
Comments closedI’m something of “a spy in the house of love.” I don’t “do” romance. And yet Reading the Romance has had a significant influence on foundational work…
Comments closedThere is so much to celebrate about this book and its place in the field, but I’ve been given very little time, so I’d like…
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