Category: Book Reviews

Romantic Escapes: Post-Millennial Trends in Contemporary Popular Romance Fiction is a collection of essays aimed at expanding and exploring popular romance studies outside of the…

Casey Ryan Kelly’s 2016 monograph Abstinence Cinema: Virginity and the Rhetoric of Sexual Purity in Contemporary Film argues that “[P]opular cinema contributes to the ideological…

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…

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…

Scholars of gay fiction face difficulty in obtaining primary material from certain historical periods and publication channels (which is an issue that is and will…

Using a tripartite structure, Jennifer Leetsch describes and analyses diasporic novels, poems and performances along the axes of space, love and textuality in her new…

As 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…

Jodi 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…

Dr. 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…

At first sight, it is perhaps unclear why popular romance scholars should invest in these two books in the face of other demands on our…