Poverty, Payment, Power: Kathleen Thompson Norris and Popular Romance

Publication year
2008
Journal
Studies in American Fiction
Volume
36.2
Pages
197-220
Comment

While many of Norris's novels count as "romance," focused as they are on monogamous heterosexual relationships, the forced conclusions that end the happier novels, let alone the despair that marks the darker ones, tell a story not conventionally "romantic." (197)