SECONDARY SOURCES

Critical Analyses of Romance Novels

Janice Radway. Reading the Romance. Chapel Hill, U of North Carolina P, 1991.
Sarah Frantz and Eric Murphy Selinger. New Approaches to Popular Romance Fiction. Jefferson, NC, McFarland, 2012.
Tania Modleski. Loving With a Vengeance: Mass Produced Fantasies for Women. 2nd. ed. London: Routledge, 2007.
Jayne Ann Krentz, Ed. Dangerous Men and Adventurous Women: Romance Writers on the Appeal of the Romance. 1992 (available as an eBook through NetLibrary. You can access NetLibrary via the Mason Library databases).
Sarah Wendell and Candy Tan. Beyond Heaving Bosoms: The Smart Bitches’ Guide to Romance Novels. New York: Fireside, 2009.
Laura Vivanco. For Love and Money: The Literary Art of the Harlequin Mills & Boon Romance. Humanities-Ebooks, 2011.
Jennifer McKnight-Trontz. The Look of Love: The Art of the Romance Novel. Princeton: Princeton Architectural Press, 2003.

Films

Robert Stevenson’s Jane Eyre (1943), starring Joan Fontaine and Orson Welles. Still the best version of Jane Eyre in terms of capturing the gothic setting.
Cary Fukunaga’s Jane Eyre (2011), the most recent film adaptation starring Mia Wasikowska and Michael Fassbender.
George Melford’s The Sheik (1921)

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