Since joining the editorial team of JPRS as Teaching and Learning Editor in late 2012, I have had numerous conversations with scholars about the scope…
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During a career that spanned the years 1921 to her death in 1974, British author Georgette Heyer wrote fifty-six novels and achieved enviable fame and…
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Comments closedReview: For Love and Money: The Literary Art of the Harlequin Mills & Boon Romance, by Laura Vivanco
Nearly thirty years ago, Margaret Ann Jensen wrote Love’s $weet Return: The Harlequin Story (1984), perhaps the first full-length academic study of category romance fiction.…
Comments closedLynn Neal’s book Romancing God: Evangelical Women and Inspirational Fiction is an important book for scholars of popular romance, even if they never intend to…
Comments closedWhenever I write about the romantic comedy film genre, I start by underlining the absence of adequate academic references, especially regarding contemporary films. Fortunately, during…
Comments closedIntroduction As the field of Popular Romance Studies grows, greater emphasis needs to be placed on how and where popular romance scholars gain access to…
Comments closedWelcome to the age of “un-innocence.” No one has breakfast at Tiffany’s, and no one has affairs to remember. Instead, we have breakfast at 7:00…
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