Tag: popular romance canon

At the opening keynote panel presentation at the 2013 Popular Romance Author Symposium (Princeton University, October 24, 2013), a member of the audience asked, “Who…

In 2014, cultural commentator Noah Berlatsky wrote in Salon that there wasn’t even a provisional consensus on which books were the best or essential romance…

“Canon building is empire building. Canon defense is national defense. Canon debate, whatever the terrain, nature, and range (of criticism, of history, of the history…

Is there a popular romance canon? If any, then many, though maybe’s there’s none (though we all know, deep down, that there is): that, my…