Journal of Popular Romance Studies https://validator.w3.org/feed/docs/rss2.html Ruling the Court: Reflections on Midcentury Junior Novel Romances About the Journal Defining the Trope in Romance Fiction Review: <em>Young Adult Gothic Fiction: Monstrous Selves / Monstrous Others</em>, ed. by Michelle J. Smith and Kristine Moruzi Review: <em>Queer Anxieties of Young Adult Literature and Culture</em>, by Derritt Mason Review: <em>ChicaNerds in Chicana Young Adult Literature: Brown and Nerdy</em>, by Cristina Herrera Special Issue: (Un)defined YA / Series / Romance Editor’s Note: Volume 14 Volumes Early Access Romancing the Darkness: Understanding Trauma in the Romance Genre Notes and Queries Section Literary Fiction from the Perspective of Romance Scholarship: André Aciman’s <em>Room on the Sea</em> Special Issue Call for Papers Romance, Eroticism, and Intimacy in a Work of <em>Nancy Drew</em> Fanfiction: Cross-Reading Personal Pedagogies and Literacies You Go, Girl! Nancy Drew in the Girl Power Era Book Review Submissions Breaking Boundaries through the Body: Love, Monogamy, and Heteropessimism in Fredrik Backman’s Fiction “I’d really, really like a boyfriend”: A Narratological Examination of Adolescence, Ideology, and Subjectivity in Indian and Indian American YA Netflix Romances Main Character Energy: Black Girls Getting the Love They Deserve in Elise Bryant’s Young Adult Novels Together Forever: Heterodestiny and the Soulmate Trope in Sarah J. Maas’s A Court of Thorns and Roses Series “Leading dual lives, even literarily”: Voice, Visibility, and Ghostwriting in the Sweet Valley Franchise Introducing (Un)defined YA / Series / Romance Editorial Board Review: <em>Romance Fandom in 21st-Century Pakistan: Reading the Regency</em>, by Javaria Farooqui The Debasement of Love and its Cure in Romance: Psychoanalysis and Healing Through Feminization in Loretta Chase’s <em>Lord of Scoundrels</em> Editorial Policies Broken Slippers and Glass Ceilings: Exploring the Romance of Reading Romance Baited: <em>A Tropical Fish Yearns for Snow</em> and the Anglophone Reception of Japanese Yuri Romance Manga <em>When Harry Met Sally</em>… friendship, fear and orgasms Submissions Between Desire and Responsibility: Unplanned Pregnancies in Contemporary Romance Novels Volume 14: Book Reviews Review: <em>Orgasmic Bodies: The Orgasm in Contemporary Western Culture</em>, by Hannah Frith Review: <em>Creating Identity: The Popular Romance Heroine’s Journey to Selfhood and Self-Presentation</em>, by Jayashree Kamblé Journal of Popular Romance Studies Style Guide Volume 14: Notes and Queries Keywords Volume 14: General Articles Editor’s Note: Volume 13 Recent Book Reviews Scholarship of Teaching and Learning: Popular Romance Pedagogy: Notes on Teaching Popular Romance Reader, I Included It: Reading Lists and Romance Fantasy and Desire: From my Mother’s Stack of Trashy Novels to an Experiment in Writing at Field’s Edge From Romantic Gothic to Gothic Romance, With a Little Help from Twilight The Religious Work of Beverly Jenkins’s Black Historical Romance The Activist Potential of Marian Keyes’ Irish Chick Lit Teaching Feminist Cultural Studies Using Popular Romance Intimations of Romance Pedagogy from Recollections of Early Childhood