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Romancing the Darkness: Understanding Trauma in the Romance Genre

2026/02/24 by Alicia Leigh · 1 voice
Arts and Humanities · Psychology · #Memory, Trauma, and Commemoration #Modern American Literature Studies #Modernist Literature and Criticism

paper · pdf · doi:10.70138/zogs1161

openalex publication_date 2026/02/24 · openalex created_date 2026/02/25 · openalex updated_date 2026/07/09

Abstract

Introduction Recent decades have shown a marked rise in the societal, public, and scholarly awareness of trauma, especially in Western culture (see Foulkes and Andrews; Gillis). Literary theorists have observed how, intentionally or not, writers adapt the dominant psychological and social issues of their time into their work. For instance, Ronald Granofsky traces the emergence

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