Archive - Shelf Love: romance novel discourse

Notes on Romance Novels as "Camp"

Hold my beer, Sontag

Jul 8 •

May 2024

Unlikable Characters Aren't Unlovable Characters

Is likability the goal for fictional characters, even in romance novels?

May 12 •

April 2024

Becoming Desirable: Transformation vs. Makeovers in Romance

Why I'm still thinking about The Charm School by Susan Wiggs

Apr 8 •

February 2024

Covering Romance: A Journey to John Ennis's Art Exhibit

How far will I go to get the clinch?

Feb 19 •

January 2024

The Data Does Not Exist to Support "Romance is a Billion Dollar Industry"

And, more importantly, we don't need it

Jan 22 •

December 2023

What Romance Novel Formats Afford Us

How does the romance novel afford leisure (and more) in particular contexts and life stages?

Dec 31, 2023 •

November 2023

Intellectualizing My Emotions For the Holidays

What would it be like to feel things outside of romance novels?

Nov 28, 2023 •

October 2023

Colonizing History: Historical Romance

The inconvenient truths that conflict with romantic fantasy worlds

Oct 30, 2023 •

Her Body Says, Yes!

14 Candlelight Ecstasies: The Sexy and the Shameful

Oct 8, 2023 •

The Agony and the Candlelight Ecstasy

Vivian Stephens Kicked Off the Sexy Contemporary Romance Boom in 1980 with Dell's Candlelight Ecstasy

Oct 1, 2023 •

September 2023

Romance-Adjacent Scholarship Reading List

9 More Books & Articles Recommended by Scholars

Sep 27, 2023 •

The Flame and the Flower

Flames on the Sides of my Flower

Sep 14, 2023 •

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