Introduction As Farzaneh Milani accurately asserts, virginity has been “an absolute prerequisite for most heroines of classical Persian literature” (Words, Not Swords 34). In One…
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Here was what she’d been waiting for. Not something—someone. Here, as so often in the daydreams, Douglas Eamons was talking to her. Doug . .…
Modern romance novels written in English have a pedigree which stretches back to the eighteenth century: Harlequins can be traced back through the work of…
The “story of romance” is the guiding text offered by contemporary American culture, and more generally the culture of the modern West, on the subject…