[LV - I've checked with the editor about the contents and there are just two articles which exclusively address the novels: Sharon Kaye's and Eric Selinger's. Other articles may focus solely on the TV series, or on a mix of the TV series and novels. However, Jessica Miller's own article discusses the HEA as a concept, and since that's so central to the definition of the romance genre I've also added an entry for that article (and it's available freely online). Similarly, although Laura Katherin Jimenez-Cuadros and Pablo Rivas- Robledo's refers to the show, it also includes a couple of pages of close textual analysis of a sex scene.
Other articles may still be of interest to scholars working on the novels, however. For example, Frazier and Fried's article about the fatness of Penelope as played by Nicola Coughlan, includes the observation that "the television series is an important contrast with the books on which the show is based, which feature both 'relentless commentary about Penelope’s weight' and a significant weight-loss arc." (32).
The reason I'm concerned about the distinction between novels and TV series is not just that this database in general focuses on work on romance novels but also because, specifically with regards to Bridgerton, the adaptation differs considerably in many respects from the novels including having, it has been argued, moved away from the definition of romance: "Instead of a study of two characters’ evolving erotic connection, the show is a sprawling soap opera. [...] The season’s wandering eye for subplots consistently nudges the central lovers out of frame." (romance scholar Jayashree Kamblé writing in the New York Times).]
Here's the full list of the contents. The hyperlinks are to articles with separate entries (and these will also be listed again below the list of contents):
Cheryl Frazier and Jeremy Fried - Out of the Shadows?: Examining Assumptions About Love and Fatness in Bridgerton
Mary Bernard and Susan Peppers-Bates - Authenticity Through Solidarity: A Beauvoirian Existentialist Analysis of Lady Danbury, Simon Basset, and Penelope Featherington
William Rodriguez - A Bridgerton's Defense of Gossip
Lisa Cassidy - Is Lady Whistledown Full of B.S.?: An Impertinent Investigation
Catherine M. Robb - "All of Us Talk": Bridgerton and the Value of Gossip
Clara Nisley and Thomas Nisley - "The Most Curious of News": Testimony, Gossip, and the Search for Knowledge
Sarah E. Worth and Sondra Bacharach - Ladies Reading and Writing: Penelope, Eloise, and the Friendship of Women
Katelyn Antilla and Lel Jones - The Bane of My Forgiveness: On Excuses, Apologies, and Repentance
SuddhaSatwa GuhaRoy - Trust Lessons from Bridgerton: Shades of Vulnerability and Betrayal
Zachary Isrow - Breaking the Bonds of Crystallization: The Search for Perfection and Love in Bridgerton
Guillaume Lequien - Is True Love Really Friendship?
Janelle Pötzsch - Queen Charlotte: Wedlock(-ed)
Rebecca Chapman - "Has Anyone Told You That Your Mother is Rather Terrifying?": Mothers and Their Children in Bridgerton
Jade Metzger-Riftkin and Tolonda Henderson - "I Have Never Been a Man That Much Enjoyed Flirting, or Chatting, or, Indeed, Talking at All": The Duke of Hastings's Stutter and the Troubles with Defining Disability
Gah-Kai Leung - Queerbaiting the Fans: What (If Anything) Is Wrong with Queerbaiting in Bridgerton?
Edwardo Pérez - Understanding the Great Experiment in Netflix's Bridgerton and Queen Charlotte
Tom Ue - Of Brawn and Brow: Boxing and Honor in Bridgerton
[LV - I've checked with the editor about the contents and there are just two articles which exclusively address the novels: Sharon Kaye's and Eric Selinger's. Other articles may focus solely on the TV series, or on a mix of the TV series and novels. However, Jessica Miller's own article discusses the HEA as a concept, and since that's so central to the definition of the romance genre I've also added an entry for that article (and it's available freely online). Similarly, although Laura Katherin Jimenez-Cuadros and Pablo Rivas- Robledo's refers to the show, it also includes a couple of pages of close textual analysis of a sex scene.
Other articles may still be of interest to scholars working on the novels, however. For example, Frazier and Fried's article about the fatness of Penelope as played by Nicola Coughlan, includes the observation that "the television series is an important contrast with the books on which the show is based, which feature both 'relentless commentary about Penelope’s weight' and a significant weight-loss arc." (32).
The reason I'm concerned about the distinction between novels and TV series is not just that this database in general focuses on work on romance novels but also because, specifically with regards to Bridgerton, the adaptation differs considerably in many respects from the novels including having, it has been argued, moved away from the definition of romance: "Instead of a study of two characters’ evolving erotic connection, the show is a sprawling soap opera. [...] The season’s wandering eye for subplots consistently nudges the central lovers out of frame." (romance scholar Jayashree Kamblé writing in the New York Times).]
Here's the full list of the contents. The hyperlinks are to articles with separate entries (and these will also be listed again below the list of contents):
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Sharon Kaye - Feminist Sex?: It's in His Kiss
Laura Katherin Jimenez-Cuadros and Pablo Rivas-Robledo - Bridgerton and the Philosophy of Good Sex
Cheryl Frazier and Jeremy Fried - Out of the Shadows?: Examining Assumptions About Love and Fatness in Bridgerton
Mary Bernard and Susan Peppers-Bates - Authenticity Through Solidarity: A Beauvoirian Existentialist Analysis of Lady Danbury, Simon Basset, and Penelope Featherington
Jessica Miller - "I Shall Be Very Happy, Indeed": The Meanings of Happiness in Bridgerton
Eric Murphy Selinger - Bee-ing and Time: Mortality, Ontology, and Love in Julia Quinn's The Viscount Who Loved Me
Katherine Byrne - Bridgerton and the Environment
William Rodriguez - A Bridgerton's Defense of Gossip
Lisa Cassidy - Is Lady Whistledown Full of B.S.?: An Impertinent Investigation
Catherine M. Robb - "All of Us Talk": Bridgerton and the Value of Gossip
Clara Nisley and Thomas Nisley - "The Most Curious of News": Testimony, Gossip, and the Search for Knowledge
Sarah E. Worth and Sondra Bacharach - Ladies Reading and Writing: Penelope, Eloise, and the Friendship of Women
Katelyn Antilla and Lel Jones - The Bane of My Forgiveness: On Excuses, Apologies, and Repentance
SuddhaSatwa GuhaRoy - Trust Lessons from Bridgerton: Shades of Vulnerability and Betrayal
Zachary Isrow - Breaking the Bonds of Crystallization: The Search for Perfection and Love in Bridgerton
Guillaume Lequien - Is True Love Really Friendship?
Janelle Pötzsch - Queen Charlotte: Wedlock(-ed)
Rebecca Chapman - "Has Anyone Told You That Your Mother is Rather Terrifying?": Mothers and Their Children in Bridgerton
Jade Metzger-Riftkin and Tolonda Henderson - "I Have Never Been a Man That Much Enjoyed Flirting, or Chatting, or, Indeed, Talking at All": The Duke of Hastings's Stutter and the Troubles with Defining Disability
Gah-Kai Leung - Queerbaiting the Fans: What (If Anything) Is Wrong with Queerbaiting in Bridgerton?
Edwardo Pérez - Understanding the Great Experiment in Netflix's Bridgerton and Queen Charlotte
Tom Ue - Of Brawn and Brow: Boxing and Honor in Bridgerton