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Showing 1 to 8 of 8 for “"romance fiction"”.
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Love in Conflict: D.E. Stevenson, War-Time Romance Fiction, and The English Air
… was a 20th century Scottish novelist writing romance fiction before, during, and after World War II. By analyzing her life and dissecting the genre's formulaic properties, I will show how The English Air is representative of the ways some women coped with the eras of conflict of the two World …
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Blasphemous bodies: Transgressive morality as cultural interrogation in romance fiction of the long nineteenth century
… relating to human nature and the cosmos. British fiction of the period participated in an interdiscursive tradition that was deeply informed by these discussions of the body. Romance writers in particular often engaged with these ideas in imaginative and innovative ways. Among the more provocative …
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Write the Book of Your Heart: Career, Passion and Publishing in the Romance Writing Community
… and reading are perceived to be under threat, romance fiction, because of its gendered and classed status, is often neglected by the academy and patronized in the media. Researched through observation of the largest romance writers groups in Canada, which I call City Romance Writers, this …
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The Lies They Hold
<p><em>A fiction story is created by approaching the idea of integrating romance into fiction, as is often omitted in some college curriculums. </em></p> <p><strong><em>Small town. Big secrets. One small chance of survival… </em></strong></p> <p><em>Ella moves back to her quiet, idyllic hometown …
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"Love of the purest kind": Heteronormative rigidity in the homoerotic fiction of Ann Herendeen
This paper deals with the conflict slash fiction proposes for the heteronormative endings typical of the popular romance genre, specifically within the works of Ann Herendeen.
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The Master of the Rebels: Teenage Encounters with Shakespeare, 1944-2012.
This dissertation tells the story of Shakespeare's role in the invention of the teenager and teenagers' roles in re-inventing Shakespeare. In post World War II England, Australia, and the United States, Shakespeare's plays became one arena where competing versions of teenage identity were defined, …
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Izzy and Aster's Guide to Cryptid Creatures
<p>Izzy and Aster’s Guide to Cryptid Creatures is a novel length work about two girls who have just graduated high school going on a road trip to investigate legendary cryptids such as the mothman and bigfoot. It is a LGBTQIA+ Young Adult contemporary rom-com that explores themes of found family, …
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The Art of Sungazing
… the plot of this novel revolves heavily around romance and romantic relationships, I do not consider it a “romance novel.” Rather, I prefer to think of my work as focusing on love stories, but falling more closely into what I can only call “contemporary commercial fiction.” Unlike a typical …