Author Phillips, Kristen Publisher McFarland & Company Location Jefferson, North Carolina Publication year 2015 Comment There is a review at the Journal of Popular Romance Studies. In addition, I wrote up some fairly brief reviews of each of the chapters. I'm only including the ones about romance in the database, but others may be of interest too.
Booth, Naomi (2015) "Good Vibrations: Shaken Subjects and the Disintegrative Romance Heroine " Women and Erotic Fiction: Critical Essays on Genres, Markets & Readers 99-116 Topic Samuel Richardson Thomas Hardy Bram Stoker Fifty Shades food, drink BDSM
Morrissey, Katherine (2015) "Steamy, Spicy, Sensual: Tracing the Cycles of Erotic Romance " Women and Erotic Fiction: Critical Essays on Genres, Markets & Readers 42-58 Topic erotic romance Publishing genre definitions Kathleen Woodiwiss Avon historical romance BDSM LGBT+ characters, readers and/or authors
Serisier, Tanya (2015) "On Not Reading Fifty Shades: Feminism and the Fantasy of Romantic Immunity " Women and Erotic Fiction: Critical Essays on Genres, Markets & Readers 117-132 Topic Fifty Shades readers feminism rape and/or intimate partner violence/abuse
Veldman-Genz, Carole (2015) "Selling Gay Sex to Women: The Romance of M/M and M/M/F Romantica " Women and Erotic Fiction: Critical Essays on Genres, Markets & Readers 133-149 Topic sex/sexuality erotic romance m/m romance Ellora's Cave gender BDSM LGBT+ characters, readers and/or authors
There is a review at the Journal of Popular Romance Studies. In addition, I wrote up some fairly brief reviews of each of the chapters. I'm only including the ones about romance in the database, but others may be of interest too.