Have you read Lisa Kleypas's neogothic duology: Devil in Winter and It Happened One Autumn? Tehyah Carver shares her provocative claims about Kleypas’s Wallflower series, including how St. Vincent is a gothic heroine. We also discuss the revisions the author made to the texts around 2021, theories on why the changes were made, and how we feel about them.
What differentiates a villain from an interesting character in romance and how have contemporary romance readers' expectations evolved and what are the broader implications of rewriting problematic elements in historical romance fiction?
- 00:00 Tehyah’s Romance Credentials
- 03:57 Lisa Kleypas's Novels
- 07:07 The Magic of Stony Cross Park
- 11:23 Romance Genre and Reader Response
- 18:26 Neogothic Romance and Social Anxieties
- 23:52 Revisions in Romance Novels
- 51:18 What kind of dog is Sebastian St. Vincent?
- 51:55 Sebastian's Villainous Nature and Reader Perspectives
- 53:47 Gothic Elements in Devil in Winter
- 55:48 Sebastian as a Gothic Heroine
- 57:44 Cam's Role and Racial Elements
- 01:06:42 Sebastian's Masculinity and Gender Roles
- 01:15:01 Revisions and Reader Perceptions
- 01:27:01 Don’t be Boring: Concluding Thoughts on Romance
Guest: Tehyah Carver
- PhD student at Teachers College Columbia University, “real” romance fan and legit scholar
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