It’s been almost a century since E. M. Hull’s Sheikh Ahmed ben Hassan made the brooding, hypersexual sheikh a central figure in Anglophone romance, first…
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Popular Romance Studies is a new enough field that the canon of relevant scholarship has yet to be established. The expansive, interdisciplinary nature of the…
Comments closedReview: For Love and Money: The Literary Art of the Harlequin Mills & Boon Romance, by Laura Vivanco
Nearly thirty years ago, Margaret Ann Jensen wrote Love’s $weet Return: The Harlequin Story (1984), perhaps the first full-length academic study of category romance fiction.…
Comments closedLynn Neal’s book Romancing God: Evangelical Women and Inspirational Fiction is an important book for scholars of popular romance, even if they never intend to…
Comments closedWhenever I write about the romantic comedy film genre, I start by underlining the absence of adequate academic references, especially regarding contemporary films. Fortunately, during…
Comments closedTen years ago, when I was seeking a publisher for the book manuscript that would eventually become Virginity Lost: An Intimate Portrait of First Sexual…
Comments closedReview: Virgin Territory: Representing Sexual Inexperience in Film, edited by Tamar Jeffers McDonald
The scholarship on virginity is surprisingly sparse for a subject so ubiquitous in cultural narratives and so rich in interpretative possibilities. Apart from two general…
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 closedFrom almost the moment the terms chick lit entered the English vocabulary in the mid-1990s, the popular novels grouped into the category have faced derision,…
Comments closedReview by Johansen Quijano The academic community has shown an increasing amount of interest in romance literature, in particular in romance novels, during the past…
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