A great deal is happening behind the scenes at the Journal of Popular Romance Studies, with a number of changes (and essays!) waiting to roll…
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The Romance Hero The hero is one of the main defining elements in the romance novel. Falling in love with him is the story. “The…
Comments closed[End Page 1] Not content to remain in the nineteenth century, Bram Stoker’s Dracula continues to stalk his prey through endless pastiches, parodies, and revisionist…
Comments closed[End Page 1] 1. “Representational theft”: The academic erasure of Chamorro/Chamoru literature Current US literary studies often fail to pay attention to the literatures produced…
Comments closedIn Queer Experimental Literature, Tyler Bradway stakes the claim that ‘by eliciting uncritical affective responses in readers, queer experimental literature … strikes at the disembodied…
Comments closedImagine a pregnant woman. Is she overweight? Does she look like she was too tired to care about the clothes she put on? Is she…
Comments closedThe literary fields of sociology, self-help, history, and popular culture have, for a long period, produced books about love and romance. The three titles above…
Comments closedIn this compilation of a series of his talks, feminist philosopher Tom Digby seeks to demonstrate that war-reliant societies are steeped in “cultural militarism,” one…
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