Below is an annotated version of my scripted remarks. I focused on a brief look at the history of scholarship and collecting related to romance within the academy. Rebecca Romney’s remarks situated the genre within publishing history, while Rebecca Baumann gave some great examples of ways romance novels can be used in book history instruction. We conceived of this panel as a way to get our colleagues in the rare book and special collections spaces to think differently about the romance genre. On JI was part of a panel at the RBMS 2021 conference titled “Happily Rarer After: The Radical Act of Taking Popular Romance Fiction Seriously” with my fantastic friends Rebecca Baumann of the Lily Library at Indiana University and Rebecca Romney, co-founder of the rare book firm Type Punch Matrix.
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