Northrop Frye (1912-1991) remains one of the most cited and broadly useful theorists of the romance as a literary genre, not only in its form…
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Despite persistent critical disapproval, the mass-market romance has tenaciously remained one of the most popular literary genres of the last century. Its overwhelmingly female authorship…
Comments closedIn the landmark 1997 Paradoxa special issue on popular romance, Pamela Regis and Kay Mussell both noted that the study of individual romance authors was…
Comments closedThe African American historical romance developed in nineteenth-century America but did not gain popularity as a genre until the twentieth century. Set in a specific…
Comments closedA photograph of a young Lady Diana Spencer provides another image of English romance. She is shown reading a novel by her step-grandmother, Barbara Cartland,…
Comments closedIn 1919 a romance novel by a little-known Derbyshire woman was published, featuring the story of an aristocratic but tomboyish English virgin who, in her…
Comments closedThe “story of romance” is the guiding text offered by contemporary American culture, and more generally the culture of the modern West, on the subject…
Comments closedWith the phenomenal commercial success of Stephenie Meyer’s Twilight series and the profits earned internationally by the Swedish art-house film Let the Right One In,…
Comments closedIs there an academic field of Popular Romance Studies? Certainly scholars from many disciplines have studied the ways that love is represented in—and has been…
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