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Introduction These are exciting times for popular romance scholars.[1] Over the last few years a number of interconnected developments—including the founding of the International Association…
Comments closedAlthough Francophone romance scholarship dates back to the 1980s, the scholars who write it are not generally familiar with the genre. They identify romantic fiction…
Comments closedThe arguments surrounding the use of rape as a device in popular romance, within both reader and scholarly communities, have most often pivoted on the…
Comments closedThere are many forms of writing; only in literature, however, can there be an attempt at restitution over and above the mere recital of facts,…
Comments closedIntroduction This article examines the work of Stefania Bertola (b. 1952), a prolific Italian writer of romantic fiction who creatively blends the codes and practices…
Comments closedAlmost every major critic of popular romance fiction—and probably minor ones too—notes that in reading the romance novel, readers will encounter virgin heroines. “For most…
Comments closedRomantic comedy is a genre that promotes and celebrates romantic love. This commonsense description may be more problematic than it seems at first sight. Indeed,…
Comments closedThe need for, yet denial of, repetition constitutes a paradox that seems set to confound romantic love for ever more. Inasmuch as many of our…
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