Romance novels, which have historically been read primarily by girls and women, have long been seen as containing problematic messages, particularly when aimed at young…
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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] The field of Critical Love Studies is a vigorous and burgeoning one, drawing from multiple disciplines, with or without a feminist point…
Comments closedIntroduction I was first attracted to love as a topic of research because I saw other feminist female friends as well as myself struggling with…
Comments closedOn February 21, 1915, the Chicago Tribune ran an appeal to readers for letters describing their experiences falling in love. With the promise of $1…
Comments closedIntroduction: Tending the Bluebeard Tale “We must tend the myths […] only in that way shall we survive.” Janet Frame (2007, 109) The Bluebeard tales…
Comments closedJennifer Crusie identifies herself as a feminist author who attempts to communicate the ideals of gender equality via her narratives. As she has explained, she…
Comments closedJennifer Crusie has stated that “the details of the way people present themselves are heavy with meaning” (“Romancing” 86) and this is certainly true of…
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 closedIt’s unlikely to surprise readers of the Journal of Popular Romance Studies that a book that promises to reclaim romance for our century makes no…
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