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Hmm, well, I could give you more of Demon as a thank you, or I could give you one of the things I less frequently share on here, like the actual scholarship I do, like this bit from an academic essay that I am also currently writing, in which I entertain myself by pondering food, outlaws, and popular romance:
“Without claiming thatcertain selected works can ever be representativeof the entirety of popular romance’s ever-increasing diversity and breadth, acloser examination of three particular texts may be read as potentially indicative, suggesting meeting-pointsand patterns centered around the ability of the outlaw figure to provide both literaland metaphorical sustenance when traditional systems fail to do so, thatpersist over decades and across genres and sexualities. Diane Carey’s historicalromance Under the Wild Moon incorporatesRobin Hood himself, casting Will Scarlet as the hero and imagining thegreenwood as a place to which the imperiled heroine can flee and be bothwell-fed and loved; Suzanne Enoch’s Beforethe Scandal invokes a Regency setting and a hero who consciously assumesand utilizes the role of a fictional legendary highwayman to save his brother’sestate while simultaneously seducing the impoverished heroine with the favoritefoods she can no longer afford; and Alexis Hall’s Prosperity examines the intertwining of sexual desire and adesire for expensive or unusual flavors along with a playful pastiche ofsteampunk airship pirates, Lovecraftian monsters, and queer sexualities. Allthree texts, while exploring decidedly different visions of the outlaw and thecommunity which he orbits and disrupts and reforms, invoke food (or, morespecifically, a difficulty involving food) as a metaphor for that community:society has failed to function on behalf of, or to meet the basic needs of, thehero/ine.”
