The Idea of You: An Impassioned Defence

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To enjoy The Idea of You, all you need is some taste, and a healthy dose of shame.

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SOURCES:

Melissa R. Ames, "When Predator Becomes Prey: The Gendered Jargon of Popular Culture" Faculty Research & Creative Activity (37) (2011).

Ian Crouch, “People Who Like Celine Dion Are People Too” The New Yorker (2014).

Eugene L. Didier, “The Summer Girl” The New York Times (1901).

Jennifer Harlan, “A Brief History of Summer Reading” The New York Times (2021).

Adrian Horton, “From The Idea of You to A Family Affair: the summer of age-gap romances” The Guardian (2024).

Benjamin Lee, “The Idea of You review – Anne Hathaway lives out fanfic fantasy in solid romance” The Guardian (2024).

Robinne Lee, “Reducing The Idea of You to Fan Fiction Is Another Example of Dismissing Women’s Art” Time Magazine (2024).

Thomas Nyhus and Allyson Shap, “Summer of Snob: an Examination of the Beach Read” Substack (2024).

Janice Radway, “Reading Is Not Eating: Mass-Produced Literature and the Theoretical Methodological and Political Consequences of a Metaphor” Book Research Quarterly, vol.2 (1986).

Michelle Ruiz, “The Sleeper Hit of the Pandemic? A Three Year-Old Romance Novel Inspired by Harry Styles” Vogue (2020).

Katy Waldman, The Idea of You” and the Notion of the Hot Mom” The New Yorker (2024).

Carl Wilson, “I hate Celine! ... Or do I?” The Globe and Mail (2007).

Carl Wilson, Let’s Talk About Love: Why Other People Have Such Bad Taste, Bloomsbury Academic (2014).

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