The Charge That Never Changes
Romance and the Privilege of Literary Value Give me Emily Brontë over this. (Brown, “Why Generation Woke loves Romantasy”) Lara Brown’s recent Telegraph article hit social media like a hurricane this past week, making waves for not only her reductionist take, but with her labeling the entire genre as “fairy porn.” As reductionist as her article for…
The Poem We Were Afraid To Remember
A couple of years ago, I stumbled quite accidentally over what is a lost cinematic gem from 1924: Die Nibelungen. It’s a two-part silent movie directed by Fritz Lang and based on the medieval epic by the same name. Fans of J. R. R. Tolkien’s work will already know the basics of the story, as…
Reclaiming Literary Language for the Romance Writer
Social media influencers and critics love to dismiss Romance, but they’re arguing from the wrong definitions. In this post, I dig into the literary — not marketing — definition of the novel and uncover something surprising: the romance came first. Understanding that history doesn’t just arm you against critics; it opens up a whole new…
Reading The Faerie Queen in the Age of Romantasy
The America-only fundamentalist “Bible-based” curriculum I had in school did more to inflame my love of the Romantic than it did to make me a cookie-cutter Duggar or Douglas Wilson wannabe. Unlike the stale and often repressive presentation of America as continuing the covenant of Israel — or, more worryingly, as an instrument of the…
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I am a life-long bibliophile. This blog began as an attempt to ket my love of great literature out into the world. After my own experience with classic literature and mental health, I wanted to give others the same opportunity to find that one piece of literature that gives them hope. When I’m not blogging, I’m writing great content for businesses, parenting a very rowdy Quaker parrot, knitting, and serving my faith community.
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