5 myths about romance fiction, busted – from Fabio to feminism
- Written by Jodi McAlister, Senior Lecturer in Writing, Literature and Culture, Deakin University
Romance fiction has a reputation problem. In its long history, it has been regularly characterised as “trashy”: a sort of sentimental junk food for the brain.
At worst, romance novels have been imagined as actively harmful to their readers (usually assumed to be...
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