The African American Historical Romance: An Interview with Beverly Jenkins by Rita B. Dandridge

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Review: Historical Romance Fiction: Heterosexuality and Performativity, by Lisa Fletcher by Pamela Regis

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Against Odds: Beverly Jenkins’ Indigo and Black Historical Romance by Margo Hendricks

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“You and I are humans, and there is something complicated between us”: Untamed and queering the heterosexual historical romance by Jodi McAlister

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When Wuxia Met Romance: The Pleasures and Politics of Transculturalism in Sherry Thomas’s My Beautiful Enemy by Jayashree Kamblé

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Freedom’s Epilogue: Love as Freedom in Alyssa Cole’s Historical Novellas by Nicole M. Jackson

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Writing the Happy Ever After: An Interview with Anne Gracie by Lisa Fletcher

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Cultural Authenticity, the Family, and East Asian American Romance Novels by Hsu-Ming Teo

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Conversation with Beverly Jenkins by Julie E. Moody-Freeman

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Pedagogy Report: Embedding Popular Romance Studies in Undergraduate English Units: Teaching Georgette Heyer’s Sylvester by Lisa Fletcher, Rosemary Gaby, Jennifer Kloester

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14 Weeks of Love and Labour: Teaching Regency and Desert Romance to Undergraduate Students by Karin Heiss

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Bride of the Beast / by 563401 Welfonder, Sue-Ellen

“…In this historical romance, Sue-Ellen Welfonder delivers a sensual tale set in medieval Scotland about a young woman in need of a champion - and finding one in a heroic, scarred warrior.…”

“She is a Jade”: by Rick Wei Po-Yu

“… This essay aims to study the images of a modern Faro lady in Georgette Heyer’s historical romance Faro’s Daughter. It is divided into three parts. …”
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Italo‐Romance Metaphony and the Tuscan Diphthongs by Maiden, M

“…The historical causes of general so‐called ‘opening’ diphthongization of proto‐Romance low mid vowels in stressed open syllables are an enduring matter of dispute in historical Romance phonology, the two principal positions being that the diphthongs originate in the assimilatory process of metaphony conditioned by following unstressed vowels, or that they are a matter of ‘spontaneous’ diphthongization associated with lengthening of the vowels. …”

A. A. ZINOVIEV ON THE TRANSFORMATION OF THE SOVIET MANAGERIAL ELITE by E. M. Amelina

“…Zinoviev considers it as a consequence of the death of the spirit of communism, that is, the state of human souls that were characteristic of the first stages of the life of the Soviet administrative elite, and raised the spiritual life of people to the unattainable heights of historical romance.…”
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Laura Endress, Les trajectoires textuelles de l’Hercule médiéval : de la mythographie à l’historiographie et au-delà. Avec édition critique partielle du livre IX de l’Ovide moralis... by Laura Endress

“…Texts examined include, on the one hand, Latin commentaries on the Classics – on the Metamorphoses in particular – and related mythographic treatises, and, on the other, vernacular historiographical compilations, which evolved in close relation to works of historical romance. On the basis of texts belonging to these distinct traditions, it is possible to consider a large array of Hercules-related materials integrated within different interpretative contexts, to study the evolution of various episodes of the hero’s life within and across textual traditions and to identify intersections between them. …”
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Representations of trauma and solidarity in Regency romance by Noemi Neconesnic

“…This paper focuses on a specific subgenre of popular romantic fiction; I briefly describe the characteristics of historical romance fiction, with the subset known as Regency romance, and the romantic hero as focal points of my review. …”
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Editor’s Note: Volume 11 by Eric Murphy Selinger

“…—we are able to offer you all of the following:Six book reviews, on topics that range from Georgette Heyer’s historical romance fiction, romantic comedy in contemporary film, and romance and sexuality in video games to reader ethnography, popular fiction pedagogy, and recent British Muslim writing on love, desire, and relationships;A four-essay Notes and Queries section in which I offer thoughts on the (putative?) …”
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THE MAN IN THE IRON MASK / by Dumas, Alexandre, 1802-1870, author 199563

“…The ensuing jailbreak and the consequent struggle for power bring the musketeers into swashbuckling action, taking us back to the days of chivalry and making The Man in the Iron Mask one of the most enthralling historical romances in literature.…”