Teach Me Tonight

Laura Vivanco Pamela Regis has written that "Near the beginning of the [romance] novel, the society that the heroine and hero will conf...

Laura Vivanco Katrina Britt's Open Not the Door (1978) might also be titled "open not the pages unless you don't mind reading ...

Laura Vivanco Eric's written an end-of-term report on his romance fiction class. Whatever the life-skills they learned or missed, stude...

Laura Vivanco Over at Reader, I Married Him Elizabeth is analysing Connie Brockway 's As You Desire . There are excerpts of the novel h...

Laura Vivanco When a literary critic thinks about its symbolism, of course. Sarah's over at Romancing the Blog , giving some details abo...

Sarah S. G. Frantz This is a Call For People, rather than a Call For Papers. It is time for an academic society for the study of popular ro...

Laura Vivanco In an article published last year and titled "Harm in reading romance novels?" one could read the following warning:...

Sarah S. G. Frantz As a requirement to receive disbursement of the RWA Academic Research Grant, I had to write a description of the "St...

Laura Vivanco Last week I was in the library, doing research, and it so happened that first I re-read Deborah Lutz's The Dangerous Lover...

Laura Vivanco Over at the Smart Bitches , someone's got an unusual request: The course I'm designing is primarily on the *rhetoric* ...

Laura Vivanco Over the past few months there have been quite a lot of discussions both here and elsewhere about the way in which romanc...

Laura Vivanco The response of reviewers to Sandra Schwab 's Bewitched has ranged widely, from an A- at The Good, The Bad, The Unread , ...