A photograph of a young Lady Diana Spencer provides another image of English romance. She is shown reading a novel by her step-grandmother, Barbara Cartland,…
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In 1919 a romance novel by a little-known Derbyshire woman was published, featuring the story of an aristocratic but tomboyish English virgin who, in her…
Comments closedThe “story of romance” is the guiding text offered by contemporary American culture, and more generally the culture of the modern West, on the subject…
Comments closedWith the phenomenal commercial success of Stephenie Meyer’s Twilight series and the profits earned internationally by the Swedish art-house film Let the Right One In,…
Comments closedIs there an academic field of Popular Romance Studies? Certainly scholars from many disciplines have studied the ways that love is represented in—and has been…
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