Talk:Romance Scholarship
- Re the entry for ;Ang, Ien, 2003. : 'Living Room Wars: Rethinking Audiences for a Postmodern World', in The Audience Studies Reader, ed. Will Brooker and Deborah Jermyn (London, England: Routledge), pp. 226-34
Is this an extract from the same author's book of the same name, Living Room Wars; Rethinking Media Audiences for a Postmodern World, published in 1996? In that book there's a chapter on 'Feminist Desire and Female Pleasure: On Janice Radway's Reading the Romance'. Please could you give a small description of the aspect of romance fiction covered by the entry by Ien Ang in The Audience Studies Reader as it isn't clear from the title alone.
- It may be the same item. I identified the essay from the MLA Biliography and the subject descriptors were: popular romance fiction; theories of Radway, Janice A. (1949- ): Reading the Romance. Since it referenced Radway I thought it would be appropriate to include. However, I don't have an abstract of it.
- Re the entry for Charles, Helen, 1995. : '(Not) Compromising: Inter-Skin Colour Relations', in Romance Revisited , ed. Jackie Stacey and Lynne Pearce (New York: New York UP), pp. 197-209.
The author says that she looks at 'inter-skin colour relations in the television programme Taboo (1993) along with Barbara Burford's novella, The Threshing Floor (1986) and Ann Allen Shockley's The Mistress and the Slave Girl (1987)'. She does say that the last has a happy ending, but the first seems to be a documentary programme and I'm not sure about the Burford, so I'm wondering if this is more about romance than about romance novels?
- This is another I found in the MLA. The descriptors here were:Shockley, Ann Allen (1927- ); primary subject Work: The Mistress and the Slave Girl (1987); Genre: fiction; popular romance fiction. However, it may not be on target enough. Perhaps this one should be removed?
- Should dissertations be added to this bibiography? Strictly speaking they aren't books or articles, but there are several out there covering the topic. And often initial work in an area is reflected in dissertations.
