Introduction In her 1970 review of Charity Girl for The Times, Marganhita Laski derisively wrote, “even if Miss Heyer’s heroines lifted their worked muslin skirts,…
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Corresponding Author Dr Andrea Waling ARC DECRA Senior Research Fellow Australian Research Centre in Sex, Health & Society Building NR6 La Trobe University Bundoora, VIC,…
Comments closedJennifer Crusie identifies herself as a feminist author who attempts to communicate the ideals of gender equality via her narratives. As she has explained, she…
Comments closedJennifer Crusie has stated that “the details of the way people present themselves are heavy with meaning” (“Romancing” 86) and this is certainly true of…
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 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…
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