Fantasy and Romance Books
Articles and resources on romance books, fantasy books and literature. From sentimental erotic adventures to medieval tales of chivalry, romance novels communicate to the superlative human need: love. Derived from a historical tradition of classic romance language works, the modern genre of romance has been unduly discounted. Romance novels exercise the reader’s sense of fantasy, granting imaginative projections to reality. Nineteenth century author, Nathaniel Hawthorne, argued that the romance writer was free to pursue psychological truths denied to the writer of realism. While some critics deem romances to be escapist and immoral, the sustained popularity of the romance novel speaks to its validity as a literary form. The links included herein relate specifically to fantasy and romance novels.
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| The Husband What would you do for love? Would you die? Would you kill? With each and every new novel, Dean Koontz raises the stakes—and... |
Mermaids, Fantasy and Art So what happens as we grow older and those feelings of pretend and fantasy become dull? We find ourselves wondering what... |
| Vampires: The Romantic Invention The purpose of this article is to analyze the ideological components that sustain the notion of the vampire as fixed, both... |
Book Review: The Forgotten Beasts of Eld You have to love good fantasy stories. They take you on mystical journeys and stimulate your imagination with their... |
| My Romance Hero You really don't want to be ending up with someone whose theme song is 'Eighteen till I die'. I mean, you know, young at... |
Book Review - He's Just Not That Into You It has, according to the publicity blitz, 'helped millions of women end bad relationships or stop pining over uninterested... |
| Teenager's Fantasy Dragon Burns Up the Bestseller List Eragon, a fantasy novel written by Christopher Paolini, sits at number three on the New York Times bestseller list for... |
A Romantic Tale About An Unromantic Hero A story of a man who speaks nothing but his heart in a world that listens to anything but. There was once a man who did not... |
| Sex, politics and true romance This week I learned how to be an anarchist in the 21st century. The key elements, it seems, are the internet, London coffee... |
Desperately seeking love - and a book deal Shakespeare wrote that love is blind, but he was reckoning without Robert Epstein. The American psychologist has received... |
| Romance, Beauty of Lighthouses Highlighted in New Book "What is it about lighthouses that attracts so many people and evokes such powerful feelings?" |
Romance Novels Romance fiction websites fan the flames of desire by providing book reviews and suggestions for penning your own steamy... |
| Animals in Children’s Literature Animals often appear in children’s literature to simultaneously teach moral lessons and entertain readers, often while... | |