“The Pink Ghetto”. The Avatars of Romantic Fiction

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The paper looks at the history of one of today’s most popular literary genres, romance, with its continuities and discontinuities, as well as its paradoxical reception. As an illustration, the paper focuses on a specific subgenre of romance, Regency, starting from the first and most inspirational author, who consecrated this style – Jane Austen. The paper also discusses the alterations of Regency tradition in contemporary pop fiction: prequels and sequels of some novels, time-slip novels, mashups etc.