{"href":"https://api.simplecast.com/oembed?url=https%3A%2F%2Fshelflove.simplecast.com%2Fepisodes%2Frewriting-the-wallflowers-revisionist-history-7bjU6Y9N","width":444,"version":"1.0","type":"rich","title":"Rewriting the Wallflowers: Revisionist History","thumbnail_width":300,"thumbnail_url":"https://image.simplecastcdn.com/images/dc107bcd-2db8-4565-95cb-1d0aa8e7faf8/29fee816-109a-4f0a-928a-b246b4ffd084/square.jpg","thumbnail_height":300,"provider_url":"https://simplecast.com","provider_name":"Simplecast","html":"<iframe src=\"https://player.simplecast.com/81c8e160-7112-4815-befd-e765c100e3c8\" height=\"200\" width=\"100%\" title=\"Rewriting the Wallflowers: Revisionist History\" frameborder=\"0\" scrolling=\"no\"></iframe>","height":200,"description":"Have you read Lisa Kleypas's neogothic duology: Devil in Winter and It Happened One Autumn? Tehyah Carver shares her provocative claims about Kleypas’s Wallflower series, including how St. Vincent is a gothic heroine. We also discuss the revisions the author made to the texts around 2021, theories on why the changes were made, and how we feel about them.\n\nWhat differentiates a villain from an interesting character in romance and how have contemporary romance readers' expectations evolved and what are the broader implications of rewriting problematic elements in historical romance fiction?"}