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Livingston, Eric

(2006) The Textuality of Pleasure New Literary History 37.3:655-672

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trash/literary and or intellectual quality

Selinger, Eric Murphy

(2012) "How to Read a Romance Novel (and Fall in Love with Popular Romance) " New Approaches to Popular Romance Fiction: Critical Essays 33-46

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trash/literary and or intellectual quality

religion/spirituality

Selinger, Eric Murphy

(2016) "When I Paint My Masterpiece: Bob Dylan, Ekphrasis, and the Art of Susan Elizabeth Phillips " Romance Fiction and American Culture: Love as the Practice of Freedom? 297-319

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Susan Elizabeth Phillips

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(2019) The use of free indirect discourse in J. R. Ward's Black Dagger Brotherhood series Colloquy: Text, Theory, Critique 38:20-43 DOI: 10.26180/5df1974e1cb20

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paranormal/fantasy/time-travel romance