New to the Wiki: Authors, Austen and Prison

Laura Vivanco

Hopkins, Lisa, 2017/2018. 

‘Waltzing with Wellington, Biting with Byron: Heroes in Austen Tribute Texts’. Jane Austen and Masculinity. Ed. Michael Kramp. Lewisburg: Bucknell University Press. 173-189. Abstract Excerpt

Larson, Christine, 2017. 

“An Economy of Words: Precarity, Solidarity and Innovation in Digital Book Publishing.” PhD Diss., Stanford University. [According to Lois and Gregson (2018) "Larson’s dissertation (2017) comprises the only known examination of writers’ careers in the romance genre. Her 2014 survey examined 4,270 romance writers’ earnings over the previous eight years, comparing their incomes via traditional and self-publishing. She found that only approximately 20 percent of her sample earned above the U.S. median income through their writing."]

Lois, Jennifer and Joanna Gregson, 2018. 

"Aspirational Emotion Work: Calling, Emotional Capital, and Becoming a 'Real' Writer." Journal of Contemporary Ethnography. Online First 1 January 2018. Abstract

Nilson, Maria, 2017. 

"Nådens tuttar : Om skönheter, odjur och den frälsande kvinnokroppen i modern romance." HumaNetten 39. 110-123.pdf

Sequeiros, Paula, 2018. 

'“Holding the Dream”: Women’s Favorite Reading Matter in a Portuguese Prison', Qualitative Sociology Review 14.1: 110-128.

New Article: Sex, Power and Desire in the Romance Novel

Laura Vivanco

Maria Nilson's "From The Flame and the Flower to Fifty Shades of Grey: Sex, Power and Desire in the Romance Novel" has been published in Akademisk Kvarter/Academic Quarter 7 (2013): 119-131.

Reading these books [i.e. the Fifty Shades trilogy] mainly as romance, Nilson focuses on how James uses well known and established romance traits from, for example, the so-called “bodice-ripper” novel and chick lit, in order to create a hybrid. These traits are visible in both how James describes her protagonists and in how the relationship between them is portrayed. Nilson argues that the Fifty Shades trilogy is, rather than a new kind of romance, a compilation of well-established traits.

The article is available in full, for free, here.