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Paranormal Romance: A History

open access: yes, 2018
Paranormal Romance was a term coined in the 1990’s, but during that decade, this subgenre was very marginal. The genre, which was all but disappearing by the year 2000 started to take off at the beginning of the 21st Century.
Ramos-Garcia, Maria T.
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Crosses to Cullens: The Western Vampire from Gothic Predator to Romantic Icon

open access: yes, 2022
Although the figure of the vampire in Western culture has undergone significant alterations from the nineteenth century to the modern day in terms of presentation, there has always existed a strain of latent sexual concern in their depictions. In earlier
Fewings, Alex
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Contemporary Paranormal Romance: Theories and Development of the Genre’s Feminism (Or Lack Thereof)

open access: yes, 2018
Paranormal romance is a contentious subgenre that some critics have castigated as being anti-feminist. Linda J. Lee writes that this subgenre features “male protagonists [who often] come from a cultural background in which men are dominant over women ...
Kollman, Kathleen
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Books

open access: yes, 2021
Books dataset is a collection of book descriptions from the Goodreads (https://www.goodreads.com/) website, a famous book review platform. This dataset is composed of 33,594 books descriptions classified into the following 8 genres: children, graphic ...
Dheeraj Mekala
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“Oh, my friend, those weren’t angels”: Trauma, Recovery and Folklore in The Secret Casebook of Simon Feximal and Spectred Isle by KJ Charles

open access: yesJournal of Popular Romance Studies
Trauma and recovery have been explored more and more frequently in popular literary genres. Despite the positive and uplifting disposition of the romance genre, romance novels do not shy away from depictions of even the most gruesome traumatic ...
Monika Markéta Šmídová
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Contemporary vampire genre fiction: ethical feeding and the posthuman vampire in urban fantasy and paranormal romance [PDF]

open access: yes, 2017
© 2017 Dr Leigh McLennonContemporary vampire literature uses a bloodsucking monster to play with continually shifting social boundaries, to try on new identities, and to refract our world in a different, fantastic context. It has been widely acknowledged
McLennon, Leigh
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Dark Lover

open access: yes, 2023
J.R. Ward launched her long-running Black Dagger Brotherhood series with the publication of Dark Lover in 2005. This paranormal romance series, which mixes romance with intricate world-building, became a decades-long phenomenon with over two dozen books ...
Ward, J. R.
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Review of Girls in Contemporary Vampire Fiction

open access: yesInternational Journal of Young Adult Literature, 2022
Bill Hughes
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