Marriage and Procreation: Continuities and Transformations in the Ankara Novellas A Tailor-Made Romance and Love Me Unconditionally Against the Backdrop of Flora Nwapa’s Efuru

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Marriage and Procreation: Continuities and Transformations in the Ankara Novellas A Tailor-Made Romance and Love Me Unconditionally Against the Backdrop of Flora Nwapa’s Efuru

Published August 25, 2026

This article focuses on the significance of marriage and motherhood in two novellas from the Ankara Romance Series, published by the Nigeria- and London-based Cassava…

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Reading Response in Mary Balogh: A Critical Engagement

Published August 10, 2021

“Doormat” (31). “Airhead” (32). “Too Stupid to Live” (35). These are some of the categories of romance heroine Candy Tan and Sarah Wendell introduce in…

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Authors on The Sheik: A conversation with Liz Fielding

Published December 21, 2020

Liz Fielding is an award-winning author of romance. She has published over seventy romance novels since the early 1980s, as well as a guide to…

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The Heroine as Reader, the Reader as Heroine: Jennifer Crusie’s Welcome to Temptation

Published April 30, 2012

In July, 2011, an opinion piece in the “consumer commentary” of the British Journal of Family Planning, Reproduction, and Health Care sparked a brief flurry…

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