Modern romance novels written in English have a pedigree which stretches back to the eighteenth century: Harlequins can be traced back through the work of…
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The “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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