Today we use ‘‘romance’’ quite broadly: we speak of chivalric romances such as Ariosto’s Orlando furioso (1516, 1532), pastoral romances such as Sannazaro’s Arcadia (1504), or Greek romances …

The first systematic treatise on Romance was published in 1831 by Lorenz Diefenbach, who maintained that the Romance languages derived from a popular form of Latin, further adulterated by contact with …

I do this by analyzing Pride and Prejudice by Jane Austen, Venetia by Georgette Heyer, and Confess by Colleen Hoover, and exploring what they bring to the conversation around romance-as-literature …

For centuries, romantic love has been explored by writers, philosophers, artists, and musicians who have described its various aspects and revealed multiple emotions and feelings related to this type of …

Originally romance bore a meaning quite distinct from that which it bears today. It signified something pertaining to Rome and was applied (1) to a language derived from popular Latin and (2) to a literary …

Some of us may have committed ourselves to the fantastical notion that romance is just an act of spontaneous combustion. But, Needle says it’s time to ditch the myth.

This research study examines how reading fantasy novels impacts the romantic views and expectations of women in emerging adulthood.