“Nothing But Good Times Ahead” marks the first of what will be an ongoing series of Special Features at the Journal of Popular Romance Studies: …
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Ten years ago, when I was seeking a publisher for the book manuscript that would eventually become Virginity Lost: An Intimate Portrait of First Sexual…
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The scholarship on virginity is surprisingly sparse for a subject so ubiquitous in cultural narratives and so rich in interpretative possibilities. Apart from two general…
Comments closedAlthough Francophone romance scholarship dates back to the 1980s, the scholars who write it are not generally familiar with the genre. They identify romantic fiction…
Comments closedThe arguments surrounding the use of rape as a device in popular romance, within both reader and scholarly communities, have most often pivoted on the…
Comments closedFive years ago, at a hotel bar in Boston, Sarah S. G. Frantz and I sat down with a half-dozen scholars from the U.S., Australia,…
Comments closedReview by Jonathan A. Allan As romance readers and scholars both know, the sexual ethos of the popular romance novel has changed over the years.…
Comments closedFrom almost the moment the terms chick lit entered the English vocabulary in the mid-1990s, the popular novels grouped into the category have faced derision,…
Comments closedReview by Johansen Quijano The academic community has shown an increasing amount of interest in romance literature, in particular in romance novels, during the past…
Comments closedAs a pre-teen reader in suburban Virginia, Amy Pattee and her twin sister Ellie, like many of their contemporaries, were avid consumers of the Sweet…
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