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• Title:
  Breaking the Hard Limits: Romance, Pornography, and the Question of Genre in the Fifty Shades Trilogy
• Creator:
  McAlister, Jodi
• Contributor:
  Macquarie University;
  Dr Jodi McAlister is an Honorary Associate in the Department of Modern History, Politics and International Relations at Macquarie University in Sydney. She is an interdisciplinary scholar, working across History, English, and Cultural Studies. Her PhD thesis examined the evolution of representations of virginity loss in popular literatures. Her current research is on the history of romantic love and its representations, and its intersections with the history and discourses of sex. Her debut novel will be published in 2017.
• Description:
  The Fifty Shades series has brought erotic fiction to a broader and more mainstream audience than ever before. In its wake, a number of erotic romance series have achieved unprecedented popularity, such as Sylvia Day’s Crossfire series and Lisa Renee Jones’ Inside Out series. These books do not fit comfortably into the genres of romance or pornography: rather, they fuse the romantic and pornographic together. This locates the multiple climaxes of pornography within the overarching emotional climax of romance and creates a structure that is both finite and infinite, allowing the books to create both instant and delayed gratification. This article examines The Sheik as a textual forebear to Fifty Shades before moving on to examine the ways in which romance and pornography are fused, overcoming the limits of serialization in romance, and creating a romantic “pornotopia.”
• Object availability:
  free access
• Rights:
  Uznanie autorstwa-Użycie niekomercyjne-Bez utworów zależnych 3.0 Polska;
  http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-nd/3.0/pl ;
  Jodi McAlister
• Date:
  2017.05.29;
  2015
• Type:
  Article
• Language:
  English
• Format:
  application/pdf
• Publisher:
  Department of Studies in Drama and Pre-1800 English Literature, University of Łódź
• Relation:
  Analyses/Rereadings/Theories Journal;2;
  3
• Subject:
  romance;
  pornography;
  Fifty Shades;
  erotic romance;
  genre
• Identifier:
  2353-6098;
  http://hdl.handle.net/11089/21796
• Data provider:
  Repozytorium Uniwersytetu Łódzkiego
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  seek permission
• Type:
  image