Liz Fielding is an award-winning author of romance. She has published over seventy romance novels since the early 1980s, as well as a guide to…
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[End Page 1] In 2018 the film Crazy Rich Asians[1] was released to much fanfare and publicity, earning nominations at the Golden Globes and other…
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 closedRomantic love and the religion of Islam have often been combined in western popular fiction to create the necessary element of the “exotic.” This is…
Comments closedThe importance of Nora Roberts to the popular romance genre and, in fact, to the publishing industry, can hardly be overstated. She published her first…
Comments closedThat popular romance has a racism problem will not be news to anyone who’s been paying attention. Big publishers fail hard at inclusion. The Romance…
Comments closedVolume 6 of the Journal of Popular Romance Studies marks a shift in our publication schedule. Rather than publish twice a year, on the model…
Comments closedIn the years since 2001, the number of “desert,” “sheik,” or “Orientalist” romance novels published has “exponentially increased” (Burge 182).[1] Alongside the greater prominence of…
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 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…
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