Due out at the end of July this year is
Adoring Outlander
:
Essays on Fandom, Genre and the Female Audience, edited by Valerie Estelle Frankel and published by McFarland and Co. According to
details provided by the editor, it will include:
Part II: The Romance Question: Is it or Isn't it?
" 'Linked ... through the body of one man': Black Jack Randall as a Non-traditional Romance Villain", Michelle L. Jones, University of Regina
"The Good, The Bad and Lord John Grey: Observations on Desire, Sex, Violence, Lust and Love", Sandi Solis
"Travelling Through Time and Genre: Are the Outlander Books Romance Novels?", Jodi McAlister, MacQuarie University
"Gabaldon and the Practice of Gay Male Homoerotic Reading", Anthony Guy Patricia, Concord University
- Khuankaew, Sasinee, 2015.
- "Femininity and masculinity in three selected twentieth-century Thai romance fictions." Ph.D thesis, Cardiff University.
- The main purpose of this study is to examine a popular Thai genre of the
novel, romance fiction, with a focus on the modes of subjectivity and
discourses of femininity and masculinity to be found in Thai romance
novels between the 1940s and 1990s. The thesis also seeks to locate the
various socio-cultural contexts of Thai society, which influence the
constitution of Thai gender relations and the transformation of gender
norms. Additionally, it attempts to address the issue of the usefulness
of Western theories of gender and romance, which are widely regarded in
Thailand as tools of Westernization and new forms of colonialism. This
study suggests that Thai gender relations are complicated, since there
are several disparate aspects that influence the constitution of male
and female subjectivity. Western influence is one of these aspects that
help define femininity and masculinity, while domestic beliefs also play
a salient role as palimpsests that are not easily erased. Thus, the
representation of various modes of gendered subjectivity in romance
fiction concurrently indicates both changes in and the reproduction of
discourses that define an „essence‟ of gender identity that accords with
traditional Thai cultural beliefs including the deep-rooted idea that
the primary purpose of writing is didactic.
(More details here)
and not on the Wiki, since it's not a dissertation/thesis and isn't focused on romance:
- Hu, Huizi, 2015.
- "Fall 2015 Award Winner: The Power of Novels." The Diana McDonald Writer's Challenge. Parkland College.
"To be honest, I used to think the period when I read so many romance novels was worthless. However, while I am writing this essay and taking an entirely new look at how novels influenced me, I have realized that even these popular novels, which are often underestimated, actually improved my critical thinking ability and my rhetorical ability."
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