Professor Jin Feng (Grinnell College) Session 9.3: Romancing Chinese Worlds Abstract: It is stated in the Confucian classic The Book of Rites: “Food and sex are the primary desires of …
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On the Way to a Better Life: Countryside themed romance in recent Chinese Television
Huike Wen (Willamette University) Session 9.2: Romancing Chinese Worlds Abstract: Thousands of romantic stories are told in East Asian media landscape while few of them happen in a rural area. …
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Topography of Romantic Love: Journeys, the Fantasy of Love, and Identity Crisis
Dr Fang-Mei Lin (National Taiwan Normal University) Session 9.1: Romancing Chinese Worlds Abstract: Taiwanese author Wu Zhuo-Liu’s novel, Orphan of Asia, was written during the end of WWII and Japanese …
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Girls of Riyadh and Desperate in Dubai : Reading and writing romance in the Middle East
Dr Amy Burge (University of Birmingham) Session 8.4: Muslim and Middle Eastern Romances Abstract: The Middle East has long held a romantic fascination for the west, characterised by the popular …
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The Kitchen and Beyond: Romantic Chronotope of Pakistani Popular Fiction
Javaria Farooqui (University of Tasmania) Session 8.3: Muslim and Middle Eastern Romances Abstract: This paper aims to explore the popular romance reading culture of Pakistan which includes, but is not …
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Reading and Writing Muslim Romance Online
Claire Parnell (University of Melbourne) Session 8.2: Muslim and Middle Eastern Romances Abstract: Participatory media production through online self – publishing platforms affects the publishing field in interesting and important …
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Muslims reading romance: Bruneian considerations of “Halal” and romance novels
Dr Katrina Mohd Daud (Universiti Brunei Darussalam) Session 8.1: Muslim and Middle Eastern Romances Abstract: In 2017, Bruneian writer Aisha Malik self-published “Jewel: An attempt at a Halal Romance:, the …
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“Reader, I mirrored him”: the recasting of romance tropes in Jane Eyre fanfiction
Dr Lucy Sheerman Session 7.3: 19th century legacies Abstract: Representatives of Charlotte Bronte’s novel Jane Eyre have proliferated since its publication. Within three months a play had been staged and …
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Beloved Monstrosity: Romance and Romanticism in Frankenstein
Steven Gil (Queensland University of Technology) Session 7.2: 19th century legacies Abstract: Upon its bicentennial anniversary, Mary Shelley’s Frankenstein; or The Modern Prometheus (1818) remains vests with significance. Most are …
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House, Home & Husband in historical romance fiction
Dr Sarah Ficke (Marymount University) Session 7.1: 19th century legacies Abstract: Home. For Elizabeth Bennet, as for many real middle- and upper-class women during the Regency and Victorian periods, “home” …