Just via fiction though. In physical space I'll be heading off later today to speak at a conference on Greece and Britain in Women's Literary Imagination, 1913-2013 and the paper I'll be giving is about some long-running elements to be found in Harlequin Mills & Boon romances set in Greece. I'm a bit nervous: maybe I'll inadvertently convince some more people that HM&Bs "are clones of the same hive mind: a single story in multiple, infinite iterations, written by uncounted authors and their pseudonyms."
So? How did it go?
So? How did it go?
Thanks for asking! I think it
Thanks for asking!
I think it went well. I must have been at least somewhat audible and entertaining because the audience laughed quite a bit while I was reading my paper. Various themes kept emerging over the course of the conference and it was very interesting to see that the depiction of Greece in category romances has something in common with the way quite a few "highbrow" authors have depicted it. I also met some lovely people and saw quite a bit of Cambridge.