Helen Fordham (Notre Dame University) and Barbara Milech (Curtain University) – Romance, Romantic Love, and the ‘want of a fortune’ – Contemporary popular romance has a generic history – it …
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Sex and Sensibility: The pursuit and recognition of reality through analysis of romance fiction in popular culture
Bridget Ransome (University of South Australia) – Sex and Sensibility: The pursuit and recognition of reality through analysis of romance fiction in popular culture – The notion of ‘culture’ is …
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Destabilising Divides and Re-imagining Subjectives: The Romance of Eloisa James
Helen Fordham (Notre Dame University) – Destabilising Divides and Re-imagining Subjectives: The Romance of Eloisa James First of all, there was a session between Jennifer Kloester’s Heyer panel and this …
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Writing History, reflecting history: Georgette Heyer’s Recency Novels in Context
Dr Jennifer Kloester (University of Melbourne) – Writing History, reflecting history: Georgette Heyer’s Recency Novels in Context b 1902 d 1974 – has never been out of print since 1919 …
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Swashbuckling girls and foppish men: the unusual pleasures of Georgette Heyer’s Regency Romances
Jade Armstrong (Curtain University) – Swashbuckling girls and foppish men: the unusual pleasures of Georgette Heyer’s Regency Romances Jane is a lecturer at Curtain University. Her PhD thesis and research …
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Exploring women and modalities of power in fiction: escaping the straightjacket of genre into digital space
Dr Lynn Allen – Exploring women and modalities of power in fiction: escaping the straightjacket of genre into digital space – when a subject is highly controvertial, one cannot hope …
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The Distance Between: Romance readers, authors, publishers and the book industry in Australia
Bronwyn Parry / Bronwyn Clarke – The Distance Between: Romance readers, authors, publishers and the book industry in Australia Context – Rapid change – readers’ social connections – readers’ book-buying …
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Romancing Feminism: From Women’s Studies to Women’s Fiction
Dr Elizabeth Reid Boyd (Edith Cowan University)- Romancing Feminism: From Women’s Studies to Women’s Fiction After the keynote address, the rest of the day was 30 minute panel discussions. The …
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EJC Keynote speaker – Professor Imelda Whelehan
Meaningful encounters – 40 years of feminists reading romance This was a session that was very interesting, but it was also a little disappointing for reasons I will go into …