Embedding Popular Romance Studies in Undergraduate English Units: Teaching Georgette Heyer's Sylvester

This article outlines one model for introducing popular romance studies to undergraduate English programs: teaching romance texts and topics alongside canonical and contemporary literary texts. It discusses the authors' approach to teaching Georgette Heyer's Sylvester in a unit on historical fiction offered at the University of Tasmania in 2010 and analyses student responses to this initiative through examination of selected assessment tasks.