Journal of Popular Romance Studies

Archive for the ‘TOC’ Category

• Editor's Note: Issue 2.2
• “A Parody of Love: the Narrative Uses of Rape in Popular Romance” by Angela Toscano
• Francophone Perspectives on Romantic Fiction: From the Academic Field to Reader’s Experience, by Séverine Olivier (Interview with Agnès Caubet, Romance Reader and Webmaster of Les Romantiques, fan website and webzine)
• Review: Virgin Territory: Representing Sexual Inexperience in Film
• Review: The First Time: True Tales of Virginity Lost and Found (Including my Own), by Kate Monro
• Nothing But Good Times Ahead: A Special Forum on Jennifer Crusie (Editor’s Introduction)
• "Jennifer Crusie's Literary Lingerie" by Laura Vivanco
• “Crusie and the Con” by Christina A. Valeo
• “Tell Me Lies: Lying, Storytelling, and the Romance Novel as Feminist Fiction” by Patricia Zakreski
• “Getting Laid, Getting Old, and Getting Fed: The Cultural Resistance of Jennifer Crusie’s Romance Heroines” by Kyra Kramer
• “The Heroine as Reader, the Reader as Heroine: Jennifer Crusie’s Welcome to Temptation” by Kate Moore and Eric Murphy Selinger
• “Gossip, Liminality, and Erotic Display: Jennifer Crusie's Links to Eighteenth- Century Amatory Fiction” by Kimberly Baldus

• Editor's Note: Issue 2.1
• “‘The Bells Are Ringing for Me and My Gal’: Marriage and Gender in the Contemporary Greek Romantic Comedy” by Betty Kaklamanidou
• “Translated Romances: the Effect of Cultural Textual Norms on the Communication of Emotions” by Artemis Lamprinou
• “Safe Sex with Defanged Vampires: New Vampire Heroes in Twilight and the Southern Vampire Mysteries” by Chiho Nakagawa
• “Belles, Beaux, and Paratexts: American Story Papers and the Project of Romance” by William Gleason
• “Matricide in Romance Scholarship? Response to Pamela Regis’ Keynote Address at the Second Annual Conference of the International Association for the Study of Popular Romance” by An Goris
• “Romance and Repetition: Testing the Limits of Love” by Lynne Pearce
• “What Do Critics Owe the Romance? Keynote Address at the Second Annual Conference of the International Association for the Study of Popular Romance” by Pamela Regis
• "The Comic, the Serious and the Middle: Desire and Space in Contemporary Film Romantic Comedy" by Celestino Deleyto
• “Theorising Male Virginity in Popular Romance Novels” by Jonathan A. Allan
• "When chick lit meets romanzo rosa: Intertextual narratives in Stefania Bertola’s romantic fiction," by Federica Balducci
• "Romancing the Past: History, Love, and Genre in Vincent Ward’s River Queen" by Roger Nicholson
• Review: Reading the Adolescent Romance: Sweet Valley High and the Popular Young Adult Romance Novel, by Amy S. Pattee
• Review: Boys' Love Manga: Essays on the Sexual Ambiguity and Cross-Cultural Fandom of the Genre
• Review: Chick Lit and Postfeminism, by Stephanie Harzewski
• Review: Premarital Sex in America: How Young Americans Meet, Mate, and Think About Marrying

• Editor's Note: Issue 1.2
• "Does This Book Make Me Look Fat?" by Sonya C. Brown
• “Men Conquer the World and Women Save Mankind: Rewriting Patriarchal Traditions through Web-based Matriarchal Romances" by Jin Feng
• “These are Just Romances: Love and the Single Woman in the Fiction of Rosamond Lehmann" by Emma Sterry
• Pedagogy Report: Embedding Popular Romance Studies in Undergraduate English Units: Teaching Georgette Heyer’s Sylvester by Lisa Fletcher, Rosemary Gaby, and Jennifer Kloester
• Interview: Joanna Russ, by Conseula Francis and Alison Piepmeier

• Editor's Note: Issue 1.1
• “A Little Extra Bite: Dis/Ability and Romance in Tanya Huff and Charlaine Harris’s Vampire Fiction,” by Kathleen Miller
• "Getting a Good Man to Love: Popular Romance Fiction and the Problem of Patriarchy," by Catherine Roach
• "There Are Six Bodies in This Relationship: An Anthropological Approach to the Romance Genre" by Laura Vivanco and Kyra Kramer
• “Historicizing The Sheik: Comparisons of the British Novel and the American Film,” by Hsu-Ming Teo
• “There Were Three of Us in this Biography, So it Was a Bit Crowded: The Biographer as Suitor and the Rhetoric of Romance in Diana: Her True Story,” by Giselle Bastin
• Interview: Beverly Jenkins, by Rita B. Dandridge
• Review: Reading Nora Roberts, by Mary Ellen Snodgrass
• Review: Romance and Readership in Twentieth-Century France: Love Stories, by Diana Holmes
• Review: Northrop Frye’s Notebooks on Romance, by Northrop Frye
• Review: Historical Romance Fiction: Heterosexuality and Performativity, by Lisa Fletcher
• Review: A Vindication of Love: Reclaiming Romance for the Twenty-first Century, by Cristina Nehring