Department of Studies in Drama and Pre-1800 English Literature, University of Łódź
Abstract
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.
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