The Danger of Romance

The curious paradox of romance is that, throughout its history, this genre has been dismissed as trivial and unintellectual, yet people have never ceased to flock to it with enthusiasm and even fervor. In contemporary contexts, we devour popular romance and fantasy novels like The Lord of the Rings , Harry Potter , and Game of Thrones , reference them in conversations, and create online communities to expound, passionately and intelligently, upon their characters and worlds. But romance is “unre