In South Asian Gothic: Haunted Cultures, Histories, and Media, editors Katarzyna Ancuta and Deimantas Valančiūnas, alongside thirteen fellow “expert scholars of film, literature, and cultural…
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It is highly doubtful that enthusiasts of romantic cinema would consider Richard Linklater’s trilogy, Before Sunrise (1995), Before Sunset (2004), Before Midnight (2013) to be…
Comments closedScholars of gay fiction face difficulty in obtaining primary material from certain historical periods and publication channels (which is an issue that is and will…
Comments closedUsing a tripartite structure, Jennifer Leetsch describes and analyses diasporic novels, poems and performances along the axes of space, love and textuality in her new…
Comments closedAs its title suggests, most of María-Isabel González-Cruz’s Hispanicisms in Romance Fiction: An Annotated Glossary takes the form of a detailed dictionary-like inventory of Spanish…
Comments closedJodi McAlister’s New Adult Fiction traces the history of the new adult publishing category since its inception in 2009. This Cambridge Element book provides one…
Comments closedDr. Ashley Reese’s The Rise of American Girls’ Literature contributes to a resurgence in scholarship about girlhood in contemporary realistic fiction texts, like Kate Harper’s…
Comments closedAt first sight, it is perhaps unclear why popular romance scholars should invest in these two books in the face of other demands on our…
Comments closedDubcon: Fanfiction, Power, and Sexual Consent is a monograph by Milena Popova. This is Popova’s second book, after Sexual Consent, which was published as part…
Comments closedThe literary convention that construes and represents the south of Europe as a reverse signifier to British civilization—a constellation of unique characteristics at the opposite…
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