{"id":1827,"date":"2021-10-20T18:05:36","date_gmt":"2021-10-20T17:05:36","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/blog.bham.ac.uk\/englitpostgrad\/?p=1827"},"modified":"2021-10-20T18:06:51","modified_gmt":"2021-10-20T17:06:51","slug":"romance-reading-group-contemporary-romance","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blog.bham.ac.uk\/englitpostgrad\/2021\/10\/20\/romance-reading-group-contemporary-romance\/","title":{"rendered":"Romance Reading Group: Contemporary Romance"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>Our next&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/blog.bham.ac.uk\/englitpostgrad\/regular-events\/romance-reading-group\/\">Romance Reading Group<\/a>&nbsp;online session is based on <strong>Contemporary Romance.<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Our first 21\/22 session will be on next\u00a0<strong>Monday 1st November 2021<\/strong> from\u00a0<strong>18:00-19:00<\/strong> via <strong>Zoom<\/strong>, so save the date in your calendars! RSVP via: <a href=\"https:\/\/romancegroup.wixsite.com\/home\/event-details\/contemporary-romances\">https:\/\/romancegroup.wixsite.com\/home\/event-details\/contemporary-romances<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n<div class=\"wp-block-image\"><figure class=\"alignright size-large is-resized\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/blog.bham.ac.uk\/englitpostgrad\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/75\/2021\/10\/4c843ed5-d8eb-4a64-9aa8-eafef0b6c16c-1024x576.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-1828\" width=\"335\" height=\"188\" srcset=\"https:\/\/blog.bham.ac.uk\/englitpostgrad\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/75\/2021\/10\/4c843ed5-d8eb-4a64-9aa8-eafef0b6c16c-1024x576.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/blog.bham.ac.uk\/englitpostgrad\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/75\/2021\/10\/4c843ed5-d8eb-4a64-9aa8-eafef0b6c16c-300x169.jpg 300w, https:\/\/blog.bham.ac.uk\/englitpostgrad\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/75\/2021\/10\/4c843ed5-d8eb-4a64-9aa8-eafef0b6c16c-768x432.jpg 768w, https:\/\/blog.bham.ac.uk\/englitpostgrad\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/75\/2021\/10\/4c843ed5-d8eb-4a64-9aa8-eafef0b6c16c-1536x864.jpg 1536w, https:\/\/blog.bham.ac.uk\/englitpostgrad\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/75\/2021\/10\/4c843ed5-d8eb-4a64-9aa8-eafef0b6c16c.jpg 1600w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 335px) 85vw, 335px\" \/><\/figure><\/div>\n\n\n\n<p>This month, the Romance Reading Group will be focusing on the most commercially-successful sub-genre of romance: Contemporary Romance. This academic year, the sessions will in the format of an open&nbsp;discussion, with no preparation is needed, so feel free to just come along and add something to our conversation!&nbsp;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>We will be asking questions such as: <\/p>\n\n\n\n<ul class=\"wp-block-list\"><li>What makes a romance contemporary?<\/li><li>What do you love about this sub-genre?<\/li><li>What are your favourite contemporary romance books\/authors?<\/li><li>How does this sub-genre contribute or interrogate the genre of romance?<\/li><li>Does this genre lend itself to intersectionality?<\/li><\/ul>\n\n\n\n<p><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Hope to see you on the 1st!<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Our next&nbsp;Romance Reading Group&nbsp;online session is based on Contemporary Romance. Our first 21\/22 session will be on next\u00a0Monday 1st November 2021 from\u00a018:00-19:00 via Zoom, so save the date in your calendars! RSVP via: https:\/\/romancegroup.wixsite.com\/home\/event-details\/contemporary-romances This month, the Romance Reading Group will be focusing on the most commercially-successful sub-genre of romance: Contemporary Romance. This academic year, &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/blog.bham.ac.uk\/englitpostgrad\/2021\/10\/20\/romance-reading-group-contemporary-romance\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;Romance Reading Group: Contemporary Romance&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":597,"featured_media":1828,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[210],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1827","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-romance-reading-group"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.bham.ac.uk\/englitpostgrad\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1827","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.bham.ac.uk\/englitpostgrad\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.bham.ac.uk\/englitpostgrad\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.bham.ac.uk\/englitpostgrad\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/597"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.bham.ac.uk\/englitpostgrad\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1827"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/blog.bham.ac.uk\/englitpostgrad\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1827\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1831,"href":"https:\/\/blog.bham.ac.uk\/englitpostgrad\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1827\/revisions\/1831"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.bham.ac.uk\/englitpostgrad\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/1828"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.bham.ac.uk\/englitpostgrad\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1827"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.bham.ac.uk\/englitpostgrad\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1827"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.bham.ac.uk\/englitpostgrad\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1827"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}