“Do you think I haven’t paid for what I did?”: Rape in the Mills & Boon Romantic Novels of Penny Jordan
Rape is almost an obsession in the works of Penny Jordan (1946-2011) written for Mills & Boon and published during the 1980s. Arguably, rape is not at all romantic and has no place whatsoever within a romantic novel. However, Jordan uses rape as a trope within her novels repeatedly, particularly...
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International Association for the Study of Popular Romance (IASPR)
2023-11-01
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| Series: | Journal of Popular Romance Studies |
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| Online Access: | https://www.jprstudies.org/2023/11/do-you-think-i-havent-paid-for-what-i-did-rape-in-the-mills-boon-romantic-novels-of-penny-jordan/ |