https://hastac.hcommons.org/members/lauravivanco/activity/ Activity feed for Laura Vivanco. Sat, 04 Apr 2026 16:34:59 +0000 https://buddypress.org/?v=10.6.0 en-US 30 hourly 2 59acf75ca0b6f0ef52eadb974f8d9880 https://hcommons.org/activity/p/1896589/ Fri, 16 Aug 2024 22:40:43 +0000 @dwl I’m probably doing this the wrong way, but hopefully you’ll see the message. I got a contact email about the Independent Scholars group and I clicked on reject request and then everything from you vanished (at least, I hope it was you, but obviously I can’t go back to check, because of the vanishing bit). And I tried sending a private…[Read more]

]]> 0 a80cc7a594c187045a2c888ad05b287f https://hcommons.org/activity/p/1880394/ Fri, 22 Mar 2024 20:00:48 +0000 In general, “pornography has been defined in terms of content (sexually explicit depictions of genitalia and sexual acts), lack thereof (materials without any redeeming artistic, cultural or social value), intention (texts intended to arouse their consumers) and effect (texts arousing their consumers)” (Paasonen, Nikunen and Saarenmaa 1). This art…[Read more]

]]> 0 e5b8750b5331dae3b93af93b32643e59 https://hcommons.org/activity/p/1785099/ Mon, 27 Jun 2022 20:18:07 +0000 This essay seeks to demonstrate that Courtney Milan’s The Duke Who Didn’t (2020) is a “novel of ideas” which challenges readers to examine the concept of “historical accuracy” and the racism that may be perpetuated by its invocation. The historical context in which the novel itself emerged is also examined.

]]> 0 166d4bd589f84f4ed87b3f852dad7a17 https://hcommons.org/activity/p/1747543/ Sun, 25 Jul 2021 22:35:35 +0000 Faith, Love, Hope and Popular Romance Fiction (2020) explores romance novels from a theological perspective and suggests a new definition of the romance novel to complement other definitions which focus on structural elements: “modern popular romances are novels whose authors have assumed pastoral roles, offering hope to their readers through…[Read more]

]]> 0 ac65351ddff003e531acc51a4d8c44d3 https://hcommons.org/activity/p/1739923/ Fri, 28 May 2021 19:06:20 +0000 E. M. Hull’s The Sheik is, unquestionably, a bestseller which left a mark on popular romance. It is debatable, however, whether “The Sheik is the ur-romance novel of the twentieth century.” Like many bestsellers it seems to have drawn on a variety of genres and its hybrid nature could account for its success while making it less than repre…[Read more]

]]> 0 2bea89112628007b9ff78bfc1ca1d664 https://hcommons.org/activity/p/1739922/ Fri, 28 May 2021 19:00:46 +0000 Georgette Heyer is one of the most influential authors of popular romance novels and it is a mark of her continuing popularity that after her death she became the subject of two biographies: Jane Aiken Hodge’s The Private World of Georgette Heyer (1984) and Jennifer Kloester’s Georgette Heyer: Biography of a Bestseller (2011). However, as rep…[Read more]

]]> 0 e5bb6a586e22e4d8ecd9c92035509213 https://hcommons.org/activity/p/1739919/ Fri, 28 May 2021 17:47:31 +0000 Lingerie plays a significant role in many of Jennifer Crusie’s romances from Sizzle,“the first book I wrote even though it was published as my third,”through to Bet Me, which she has described as her “last classic romance.” Its function and symbolism varies depending on differences in context, colour, fabric and design: in Bet Me sexy underwear…[Read more]

]]> 0 2b11ced12586ccd9e45a8ad052c3686c https://hcommons.org/activity/p/1739918/ Fri, 28 May 2021 17:38:34 +0000 Following Nancy Scheper‐Hughes and Margaret M. Lock, we suggest that each romance protagonist has three bodies: a physical body, a social body, and a political body. In applying this insight to the romance genre we focus on the socio‐sexual aspects of the social body and the socio‐political aspects of the political body, and draw on exist…[Read more]

]]> 0 7ad716e343a9a97fc990680d2e57c9c2 https://hcommons.org/activity/p/1739917/ Fri, 28 May 2021 17:24:52 +0000 This article looks at avian imagery in Celestina.

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