Carol Dyhouse opens Heartthrobs: A History of Women and Desire with the canonical Freudian question: “What did women want?” (1) The question itself is recorded…
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William A. Gleason and Eric Murphy Selinger’s collection Romance Fiction and American Culture: Love as the Practice of Freedom? came out of a 2009 conference…
Comments closedThere has been a considerable volume of work produced on the sheikh romance in recent years, including two other book-length studies (both of which have…
Comments closedToday we are seeing a growing interest in erotic literature for women. I am thinking about, for example, Catherine M. Roach’s Happily Ever After: The…
Comments closedNotes from an Ongoing Man Last was not, to be fair, a great year for Laura Kipnis – or, from another perspective, it was an…
Comments closedCriticism and analysis within the field of popular romance studies have frequently been performed from a feminist or sociological point of view, primarily focusing on…
Comments closedAustralian universities and popular romance fiction may be moving towards their own Happily Ever After. Growing scholarly interest in romance fiction here includes presentations on…
Comments closedIn recent years, there has been a surge of academic interest in the sheikh romance, or what some call “desert romance.” The term describes a…
Comments closedMichael DeAngelis’s edited collection Reading the Bromance: Homosocial Relationships in Film and Television (2014) is a timely contribution to film scholarship on the subject of…
Comments closedOver the last few years, we have witnessed the publication of masses of books on the Twilight Saga, some addressed to the general public, others…
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