Pearce, Elizabeth Florence (2004) Reading the Lesbian Romance: Re-imagining Love, Sex, Relationships, and Community PhD, University of Iowa Topic lesbian romance
Peaty, Gwyneth (2015) "Rock Hard: Gargoyles in Contemporary Gothic Romance " New Directions in 21st Century Gothic: The Gothic Compass 54-70 DOI:10.4324/9781315749419 Topic paranormal/fantasy/time-travel romance war/armed forces United States of America Christine Warren Lisa Blackwood Sally Painter Marjorie M. Liu Danielle Monsch
Pecora, Norma (1999) "Identity by Design: The Corporate Construction of Teen Romance Novels " Growing Up Girls: Popular Culture and the Construction of Identity 49-86 Topic YA/teenage romance fashion/clothing sex/sexuality rape and/or intimate partner violence/abuse food, drink LGBT+ characters, readers and/or authors race/ethnicity
Peinado Rodríguez, Matilde Anta Félez, José Luis (2013) Educar para el matrimonio en femenino: modelos y prácticas en la literatura de posguerra Athenea Digita 13.2:35-46 DOI: 10.5565/rev/athenead/v13n2.892 Topic Spain fascism/right-wing authoritarianism gender marriage
Péquignot, Bruno (1988) Le rêve ou l'ordure. Du Roman sentimental et de ce qu'en disent certains. Psychologie médicale 20.8:1124-1128 Topic trash/literary and or intellectual quality
Péquignot, Bruno (1990) "Le roman sentimental, un objet pour quelle sociologie? " Le roman sentimental: actes du colloque des 14-15-16 mars 1989 à la Faculté des lettres de Limoges, volume 1 185-198 Topic sociology
Péquignot, Bruno (1991) La relation amoureuse: analyse sociologique du roman sentimental moderne Paris: L’Harmattan Topic sociology France Publishing love sex/sexuality readers
Péquignot, Bruno (1991) Les femmes dans le roman sentimental moderne L'Homme et la société 99-100:115-125 DOI: 10.3406/homso.1991.2542 Topic France Delly Harlequin Mills & Boon religion/spirituality Barbara Cartland work sex/sexuality marriage family
Péquignot, Bruno (1997) "Le sentimental e(s)t le populaire " Le Roman Populaire en Question(s): Actes du colloque international de mai 1995 à Limoges 65-81
Percec, Dana (2011) “The Pink Ghetto”. The Avatars of Romantic Fiction Brukenthalia. Romanian Cultural History Review. Supplement of Brukenthal. Acta Musei 1.1:92-102 Topic Older and/or precursor texts (may not be "romance" as now defined) historical romance Jane Austen
Percec, Dana (2012) Romance: The History of a Genre Newcastle upon Tyne: Cambridge Scholars Publishing
Percec, Dana (2014) Reading the Fantastic Imagination: The Avatars of a Literary Genre Newcastle upon Tyne: Cambridge Scholars Publishing
Pereira, Simone Luci das Neves, Thiago Tavares Budag, Fernanda Elouise (2021) Comunicação e Culturas Urbanas: temas, debates e perspectivas São Paulo: INTERCOM
Pérez, María Mercedes (2009) Es la historia de un amor: la edición de novelas románticas en el mercado de habla hispana Páginas de Guarda: Revista de Lenguaje, Edición y Cultura Escrita 8: Topic Publishing
Pérez Casal, Inmaculada (2016) Love in Times of Crisis: An Approach to Contemporary Romance Novels in Spain Journal of Artistic Creation and Literary Research 4.2:62-70 Topic Spain Publishing Older and/or precursor texts (may not be "romance" as now defined)
Pérez Casal, Inmaculada (2018) Mass-market romance and the question of genre: N. Sparks, E. L. James and D. Gabaldon Oceánide 10: Topic Diana Gabaldon Fifty Shades Nicholas Sparks genre definitions film/movies
Pérez Casal, Inmaculada (2018) "The Romance Novel as Bildungsroman in the Works of Rosamunde Pilcher and Lisa Kleypas " Taking Stock to Look Ahead: Celebrating Forty Years of English Studies in Spain 139-144 Topic gender Rosamunde Pilcher Lisa Kleypas historical romance
Pérez Casal, Inmaculada (2019) Antecedents and Development of the Contemporary Romance Novel in English: A Study of the Contribution to the Genre by Rosamunde Pilcher and Lisa Kleypas PhD, Universidade de Santiago de Compostela Topic feminism Lisa Kleypas Rosamunde Pilcher
Pérez Casal, Inmaculada (2020) "“There’s Something Charming about a Man with an Accent, Isn’t There?”: The Representation of Otherness in Three Novels by Lisa Kleypas " Love, Language, Place, and Identity in Popular Culture: Romancing the Other 145-156 Topic Lisa Kleypas race/ethnicity historical romance languages social/economic class UK
Pérez Fernández, Irene Pérez Ríu, Carmen (2021) Romantic Escapes: Post-Millennial Trends in Contemporary Popular Romance Fiction Bern, Switzerland: Peter Lang
Pérez Fernández, Irene Pérez Ríu, Carmen (2021) "Romantic Escapes in Contemporary Popular Romance Fiction " Romantic Escapes: Post-Millennial Trends in Contemporary Popular Romance Fiction 11-25 Topic romance scholarship
Pérez Ríu, Carmen (2021) "Romance Reading as Fandom in the Context of Convergence Culture " Romantic Escapes: Post-Millennial Trends in Contemporary Popular Romance Fiction 147-174 Topic readers
Pérez-Casal, Inmaculada (2020) "Business-like Lords and Gentlemanly Businessmen: The Romance Hero in Lisa Kleypas's Wallflowers Series " Love Across the Atlantic: US-UK Romance in Popular Culture 194-208 Topic Lisa Kleypas capitalism/business historical romance United States of America UK national identity social/economic class
Pérez-Casal, Inmaculada (2021) "Marketplace Feminism? The Writing and Selling of Lisa Kleypas’s Ravenels Series " Romantic Escapes: Post-Millennial Trends in Contemporary Popular Romance Fiction 121-146 Topic Lisa Kleypas feminism
Pérez-Casal, Inmaculada (2022) "La novela rosa o romántica: pasado, presente y futuro " Discursos e Identidades en la Ficción Romántica: Visiones Anglófonas de Madeira y Canarias / Discourses and Identities in Romance Fiction: Anglophone Visions from Madeira and the Canaries 37-52 Topic genre definitions Older and/or precursor texts (may not be "romance" as now defined) romance and, or as, activism romance scholarship
Pérez-Casal, Inmaculada (2022) "Popular romance novels: past, present and future " Discursos e Identidades en la Ficción Romántica: Visiones Anglófonas de Madeira y Canarias / Discourses and Identities in Romance Fiction: Anglophone Visions from Madeira and the Canaries 233-246 Topic genre definitions Older and/or precursor texts (may not be "romance" as now defined) romance and, or as, activism romance scholarship
Pérez-Fernández, Irene (2024) Black British love matters: Asserting the transformative power of love in Bolu Babalola’s Love in Colour: Mythical Tales Around the World Retold Journal of Postcolonial Writing ONLINE FIRST:ONLINE FIRST DOI: 10.1080/17449855.2024.2312359 Topic Bolu Babalola race/ethnicity UK myth
Pérez-Gil, María del Mar (2018) Exoticism, Ethnocentrism, and Englishness in Popular Romance Fiction: Constructing the European Other Journal of Popular Culture 51.4:940-955 DOI: 10.1111/jpcu.12710 Topic Spain national identity UK race/ethnicity islands Harlequin Mills & Boon
Pérez-Gil, María del Mar (2019) Representations of Nation and Spanish Masculinity in Popular Romance Novels: The Alpha Male as “Other” The Journal of Men’s Studies 27.2:169-182 DOI: 10.1177/1060826518801531 Topic Spain gender national identity Harlequin Mills & Boon UK
Pérez-Gil, María del Mar (2020) "Britannia’s Daughters: Popular Romance Fiction and the Ideology of National Superiority (1950s–1970s) " Love, Language, Place, and Identity in Popular Culture: Romancing the Other 13-24 Topic national identity race/ethnicity UK history Violet Winspear Lilian Warren as Kathryn Blair/Rosalind Brett/Celine Conway Kay Thorpe Greece Spain Jean S. MacLeod/Catherine Airlie gender feminism
Pérez-Gil, María del Mar (2022) "Imperfect paradise: Madeira in the novels of Margaret Rome, Katrina Britt, and Sally Wentworth " Discursos e Identidades en la Ficción Romántica: Visiones Anglófonas de Madeira y Canarias / Discourses and Identities in Romance Fiction: Anglophone Visions from Madeira and the Canaries 247-256 Topic Harlequin Mills & Boon settings national identity race/ethnicity Portugal UK Margaret Rome Ethel Connell as Katrina Britt Doreen Hornsblow as Sally Wentworth Sara Wood gender
Pérez-Gil, María del Mar (2022) Mass Tourism, Ecocriticism, and Mills & Boon Romances (1970s-1980s) Green Letters: Studies in Ecocriticism 26.4:383-396 DOI: 10.1080/14688417.2023.2202190 Topic Harlequin Mills & Boon settings history Doreen Hornsblow as Sally Wentworth Spain Greece Margaret Rome Elizabeth Hunter Violet Winspear rural romance Ethel Connell as Katrina Britt Kay Thorpe Iris Danbury ecocriticism/environmentalism/climate change
Pérez-Gil, María del Mar (2022) "Paraísos imperfectos: Madeira en las novelas de Margaret Rome, Katrina Britt y Sally Wentworth " Discursos e Identidades en la Ficción Romántica: Visiones Anglófonas de Madeira y Canarias / Discourses and Identities in Romance Fiction: Anglophone Visions from Madeira and the Canaries 53-64 Topic Harlequin Mills & Boon settings national identity race/ethnicity Portugal UK Margaret Rome Ethel Connell as Katrina Britt Doreen Hornsblow as Sally Wentworth Sara Wood gender
Perriam, Geraldine (2021) "The not so silly ass: Freddy Standen, his fictional contemporaries and alternative masculinity " Georgette Heyer, History, and Historical Fiction 36-52 DOI:10.2307/j.ctv15d818n.8 Topic Georgette Heyer gender
Perrin-Naffakh, Anne-Marie (1998) "Amours - toujours : l'écriture clichée dans le roman sentimental " Le cliché 167-183 Topic Harlequin Mills & Boon
Petersson, Sara Söderberg, Daniel (2014) En berättelse tar form - en studie i hur geometrisk form på bokomslag indikerar populärlitterär genre Bachelor, Linköping University Topic paratext
Petrović, Janja (2023) Breaking the stereotype – romance novel today Masters thesis, University of Zagreb Topic genre definitions gender Mariana Zapata Abby Jimenez Christina Lauren Emily Henry Colleen Hoover
Peukert, Christian Reimers, Imke (2018) Digital Disintermediation and Efficiency in the Market for Ideas CESifo Working Papers 6880: Topic Publishing
Philadelphoff-Puren, Nina (2004) The Mark of Refusal: Sexual Violence and the Politics of Recontextualization Feminist Theory 5.3:243–256 DOI: 10.1177/1464700104046975 Topic rape and/or intimate partner violence/abuse Charlotte Lamb
Philadelphoff-Puren, Nina (2005) Contextualising Consent: The Problem of Rape and Romance Australian Feminist Studies 20.46:31-42 DOI: 10.1080/0816464042000334519 Topic rape and/or intimate partner violence/abuse Charlotte Lamb
Philips, Deborah (1990) "Mills and Boon: The Marketing of Moonshine " Consumption, Identity, and Style: Marketing, Meanings, and the Packaging of Pleasure 139-152 Topic Harlequin Mills & Boon Publishing paratext
Philips, Deborah Tomlinson, Alan (1992) "Homeward Bound: Leisure, popular culture and consumer capitalism " Come on Down?: Popular Media Culture in Post-War Britain 9-45 Topic capitalism/business Harlequin Mills & Boon war/armed forces work gender
Philips, Deborah Haywood, Ian (1998) Brave New Causes: Women in British Postwar Fictions London: Leicester University Press Topic social/economic class settings national identity work marriage medical romance history UK Harlequin Mills & Boon
Philips, Deborah (2011) "The Empire of Romance: Love in a Postcolonial Climate " End of Empire and the English Novel since 1945 114-133 Topic Harlequin Mills & Boon UK race/ethnicity Pamela Kent Juliet Shore/Anne Vinton Jean Herbert settings work Lilian Warren as Kathryn Blair/Rosalind Brett/Celine Conway Africa medical romance
Philips, Deborah (2020) In defence of reading (and watching) trash: Feminists reading the romance European Journal of Cultural Studies 23.6:900–914 DOI: 10.1177/1367549420957334 Topic romance scholarship feminism
Philips, Deborah (2021) "Fifty Shades of Romance: The intertextualities of Fifty Shades of Grey " Romantic Escapes: Post-Millennial Trends in Contemporary Popular Romance Fiction 55-74 Topic Fifty Shades Harlequin Mills & Boon Twilight
Phillips, Kristen (2015) Women and Erotic Fiction: Critical Essays on Genres, Markets & Readers Jefferson, North Carolina: McFarland & Company
Phipps, Catherine (2023) Sex, race and power: colonial and interracial sexuality in the French Empire in Morocco, 1912-1956 DPhil, University of Oxford Topic history Morocco sheikh romance sex/sexuality race/ethnicity
Phipps, Catherine (2023) "‘The Machine for Showing Desire’: Desert Romance Fiction and Knowing Sexual Desire " Historical Research, Creative Writing, and the Past: Methods of Knowing DOI:10.4324/9781003252801-4 Topic sheikh romance history race/ethnicity sex/sexuality E. M. Hull Leonard Noel Barker writing as L. Noel
Phumithammarat, Nanphatchaon (2023) The Cultural Politics of Chinese-Thai Identities in Ethnic Romance Novels by Female Authors PhD, Silpakorn University Topic Thailand race/ethnicity China
Piatti-Farnell, Lorna Brien, Donna Lee (2015) New Directions in 21st Century Gothic: The Gothic Compass New York: Routledge
Piatti-Farnell, Lorna Johnson-Hunt, Nancy (2023) "Vampires and Desire: Blood, Sex, and Ritual in Paranormal Romance and Urban Fantasy Fiction " The Palgrave Handbook of the Vampire 1161-1179 DOI:10.1007/978-3-030-82301-6_95-1 Topic paranormal/fantasy/time-travel romance
Pierini, Francesca (2020) Olive Skin, Chocolate Eyes: The Legacy of The Sheik on Descriptive Patterns of the Italian Romantic Hero in Harlequin Short Contemporaries Journal of Popular Romance Studies 9: Topic Italy national identity Harlequin Mills & Boon race/ethnicity gender E. M. Hull metaphor/symbolism animals
Pierini, Francesca (2020) “He Looks like He’s Stepped out of a Painting:” The Idealization and Appropriation of Italian Timelessness through the Experience of Romantic Love Journal of Popular Romance Studies 9: Topic Italy history Shakespeare Marina Fiorato Anne Fortier work race/ethnicity
Pierini, Francesca (2021) “Sharing the Same Soil:” Sally Rooney’s Normal People and the Coming-of-Age Romance Prospero. Rivista di letterature e culture straniere :141-166 DOI: 10.13137/2283-6438/33293 Topic Sally Rooney romance scholarship
Pierini, Francesca (2022) Critical Approaches to the Modern and Contemporary Anglophone Romance Novel (From A Room with a View to Fifty Shades of Grey) Journal of Popular Romance Studies 11: Topic teaching romance E. M. Forster Jennifer Crusie E. M. Hull Beverly Jenkins Alyssa Cole Fifty Shades K. J. Charles
Pierini, Francesca (2022) Romance and Metagenre: A Response to Burkhard Niederhoff Connotations: A Journal for Critical Debate 31:100-111 Topic romance scholarship E. M. Forster happy ending
Pierini, Francesca (2022) "“Roma” spelled backwards: love and heterotopic space in contemporary romance novels set in Italy " The Routledge Companion to Romantic Love DOI:10.4324/9781003022343-28 Topic Italy settings
Pierini, Francesca (2023) Literary Fiction from the Perspective of Romance: Normal People Journal of Popular Romance Studies 12: Topic Sally Rooney
Pierini, Francesca (2023) Towards a Regime of Authenticity. Reading A Room with a View through the Lens of Contemporary Romance Scholarship LEA - Lingue E Letterature D'Oriente E D'Occidente 12:217-228 DOI: 10.36253/lea-1824-484x-14273 Topic E. M. Forster Older and/or precursor texts (may not be "romance" as now defined) Italy marriage emotions happy ending trash/literary and or intellectual quality
Pierre, Zakiya (2021) Browsing in nuances: Using ethnographic research to design for the experience of browsing. Bachelor, Malmö University Topic readers
Pierre-Robertson, Petronetta (2021) "Literature as an Agent of Change " Gender and Domestic Violence in the Caribbean 87-103 DOI:10.1007/978-3-030-73472-5_6 Topic Caribbean rape and/or intimate partner violence/abuse Petra Pierre-Robertson romance and, or as, activism
Pierre-Robertson, Petronetta (2023) Librarian as Creator Caribbean Library Journal 7:1-16 Topic romance and, or as, activism libraries/librarians rape and/or intimate partner violence/abuse Petra Pierre-Robertson Caribbean
Pifarré, Alexandra-Flora Rutigliano-Daspet, Sandrine (2010) Re- Répéter - Répétitions Chambéry, France: Presses universitaires Savoie Mont Blanc
Piper, Andrew Portelance, Eva (2016) How Cultural Capital Works: Prizewinning Novels, Bestsellers, and the Time of Reading Post45 : Topic linguistics trash/literary and or intellectual quality
Po-Yu, Rick Wei (2018) “She is a Jade”: A Georgian Gaming Woman Re-imagined in Georgette Heyer’s Faro’s Daughter Crossings 9:122-131 Topic Georgette Heyer history feminism historical romance
Pöhls, R. L. Victoria Utudji, Mariane (2021) Powerful Prose: How Textual Features Impact Readers Bielefeld: transcript Verlag
Pokrywka, Rafał (2015) Temperaturen des Begehrens als konventionelle Metaphern im Hard-Core-Liebesroman 36:159-174 DOI: 10.14746/sgp.2015.36.12 Topic metaphor/symbolism Sylvia Day Fifty Shades sex/sexuality
Pollak, Richard (1992) What's in a Pseudonym? Romance Slaves of Harlequin The Nation 254.10: Topic Harlequin Mills & Boon Publishing authors
Popova, Milena (2018) Rewriting the Romance: Emotion Work and Consent in Arranged Marriage Fanfiction Journal of Popular Romance Studies 7: Topic fanfiction sex/sexuality marriage emotions
Popova, Milena (2019) Sexual Consent : MIT Press Topic sex/sexuality rape and/or intimate partner violence/abuse
Pöppel, Hubert (2014) Las reinas de la novela rosa en España y Alemania: Corín Tellado y Hedwig Courths-Mahler Lingüística y Literatura 66:153-170 Topic Germany Spain Corín Tellado Hedwig Courths-Mahler trash/literary and or intellectual quality
Porter, J. D. Eimannsberger, Angelina English, James Hathaway, May Yakoob, Ashna (2023) Genre Juggernaut: Measuring “Romance” Public Books : Topic genre definitions readers
Portut, Vanessa (2001) Évolution du roman sentimental contemporain en France: diversité et spécificité des collections chez Harlequin Mémoire de maîtrise, Université de Cergy-Pontoise Topic Harlequin Mills & Boon France
Posti, Piia K (2024) "‘I Get to Exist as a Black Person in the World’: Bridgerton as Speculative Romance and Alternate History on Screen " History and Speculative Fiction 123-149 DOI:10.1007/978-3-031-42235-5_7 Topic race/ethnicity history historical romance Julia Quinn
Postma, Kathlene (1999) American Women Readers Encounter Turkey in the Shadow of Popular Romance Journal of American Studies of Turkey 9:71-82 Topic United States of America Greece Turkey national identity Older and/or precursor texts (may not be "romance" as now defined) Demetra Vaka race/ethnicity
Potter, Jane Elizabeth (1998) Boys in khaki, girls in print: women's literary responses to the great war, 1914-1918 D.Phil, University of Oxford Topic war/armed forces national identity
Potter, Jane (1997) ""A great purifier": The Great War in Women's Romances and Memoirs 1914-1918 " Women's Fiction and The Great War 85-106 Topic war/armed forces Berta Ruck Ruby M. Ayres
Potter, Jane (2005) Boys in Khaki, Girls in Print: Women's Literary Responses to the Great War 1914-1918 Oxford: Clarendon Press Topic war/armed forces Ruby M. Ayres Berta Ruck Mary Ward/Mrs. Humphry Ward Florence Barclay disability gender social/economic class paratext Bessie Marchant Janet Laing Marie Belloc Lowndes religion/spirituality national identity
Potter, Jane (2015) "‘Khaki and Kisses’: Reading the Romance Novel in the Great War " Reading and the First World War: Readers, Texts, Archives 29-44 DOI:10.1057/9781137302717_2 Topic war/armed forces readers national identity gender
Powley, Tammy (2015) "Romance Fiction in Florida: The Crisscross of Jane Austen and Angela Hunt " Women of Florida Fiction: Essays on 12 Sunshine State Writers 123-132 Topic Angela Hunt Jane Austen
Powley, Tammy Van Camp, April (2015) Women of Florida Fiction: Essays on 12 Sunshine State Writers Jefferson, North Carolina: McFarland & Company
Pozzato, Maria Pia (1986) "Letteratura popolare e livelli di qualità. Un confronto fra Georgette Heyer e Barbara Cartland " Maestre d'amore: eroine e scrittrici nell'impero del rosa inglese 93-118 Topic Georgette Heyer Barbara Cartland trash/literary and or intellectual quality
Pradhan, Anil (2021) The literary field of queer cultural production in contemporary India: considering popular queer texts via Bourdieu Runas: Journal of Education & Culture 2.4: DOI: 10.46652/runas.v2i4.48 Topic India LGBT+ characters, readers and/or authors
Prayuana, Ratu De Ferras, Rayhan Romombe Ramadhan, Fitra Wahyu (2023) The Rules of Romance Manifested in the Textual Structure of the Novel Fireside JIIP (Jurnal Ilmiah Ilmu Pendidikan) 6.8:6450-6454 Topic Susan Wiggs
Préfontaine, Clémence (1991) Le roman d’amour à l’école Québec: Les Éditions Logiques Topic teaching romance Harlequin Mills & Boon love gender
Press, Andrea L. (1986) New Views on the Mass Production of Women's Culture Communication Research 13.1:139-149 DOI: 10.1177/009365028601300108 Topic romance scholarship
Preston, Cathy Lynn (1995) Folklore, Literature, and Cultural Theory: Collected Essays New York and London: Garland Publishing
Pritchard, Jamee Nicole (2021) That 90's Kind of Love: the Rise of African American Romance Novels in Traditional Romance Publishing Master of Arts, University of Wisconsin Milwaukee Topic African American romance readers
Pritchard, Jamee N. (2022) Reading the Black Romance: Exploring Black Sexual Politics in the Romance Fiction of Rebekah Weatherspoon Journal of Popular Romance Studies 11: Topic Rebekah Weatherspoon sex/sexuality African American romance gender race/ethnicity BDSM erotic romance feminism LGBT+ characters, readers and/or authors Ann Allen Shockley
Priyatna, Aquarini Wardiani, Sri Rijati (2022) Naturalization and Romanticization of Violence in Indonesian Teen Lit Jingga Series by Esti Kinasih Journal of International Women's Studies 24.5: Topic Esti Kinasih Indonesia YA/teenage romance rape and/or intimate partner violence/abuse gender
Proctor, Candice (2007) "The Romance Genre Blues or Why We Don't Get No Respect " Empowerment versus Oppression: Twenty-First Century Views of Popular Romance Novels 12-19 Topic trash/literary and or intellectual quality emotions gender pornography
Provost, Sylvie (1982) Avez-vous déjà lu IXE-13, Albert Brien, Guy Verchères…? Études littéraires 15.2:133–164 DOI: 10.7202/500571ar Topic dime novels Canada readers social/economic class
Pryde, Jessica P. (2022) Black Love Matters: Real Talk on Romance, Being Seen, and Happily Ever After New York: Berkley Topic African American romance race/ethnicity readers LGBT+ characters, readers and/or authors Adriana Herrera Jasmine Guillory food, drink Kosoko Jackson Christina C. Jones Publishing
Pupipat, Apisak Rungkaew, Titirut Meeparp, Lampoon (2022) Judging a Book by its Back Cover: Spoken/Informal Register as Found in Happily-Ever-After Women’s Novel Blurbs Journal of Studies in the English Language 17.2:1–31 Topic linguistics paratext
Pupipat, Apisak (2023) Should a Book Be Judged by its Back Cover? Some Written/Formal Features as Observed in Happily- Ever-After Women’s Novel Blurbs LEARN Journal: Language Education and Acquisition Research Network 16.1:604-630 Topic paratext linguistics
Puren, Nina (1995) Hymeneal Acts: Interrogating the Hegemony of Rape and Romance Australian Feminist Law Journal 5:15-26 DOI: 10.1080/13200968.1995.11077171 Topic rape and/or intimate partner violence/abuse Charlotte Lamb race/ethnicity virginity
Puri, Jyoti (1997) Reading Romance Novels in Postcolonial India Gender & Society 11.4:434-452 DOI: 10.1177/089124397011004004 Topic India readers marriage sex/sexuality gender social/economic class family
Pustz, Matthew (2012) Comic Books and American Cultural History: An Anthology New York: Continuum Books
Pylkkänen, Merita (2013) Didactic Fulfillment and the Popular Romance: Jude Deveraux’s The Mulberry Tree MA thesis, University of Eastern Finland Topic Jude Deveraux
Pyrhönen, Heta (2017) "Love under Threat: The Emotional Valences of the Twilight Saga " Writing Emotions: Theoretical Concepts and Selected Case Studies in Literature 347-362 Topic Twilight emotions love happy ending
Quale, Amy E. (2014) Pursuit of Empowerment: The Evolution of the Romance Novel and Its Readership in Fifty Shades of Grey MA, Minnesota State University Topic Fifty Shades
Quilliam, Susan (2011) “He seized her in his manly arms and bent his lips to hers…”. The surprising impact that romantic novels have on our work Journal of Family Planning and Reproductive Health Care 37.3:179-181 DOI: 10.1136/jfprhc-2011-100152 Topic sex/sexuality readers
Quiroga Fernández de Soto, Alejandro del Arco Blanco, Miguel Ángel (2010) Soldados de Dios y apóstoles de la patria: Las derechas españolas en la Europa de entreguerras Granada: Comares
Rabanal, Hayley (2018) Courting convivencia: Hispano-Arab identity and Spanish women’s Orientalism in the Franco regime’s years of “unbearable solitude” (1946–1950) Journal of Spanish Cultural Studies 19.3:339-364 DOI: 10.1080/14636204.2018.1493891 Topic Spain fascism/right-wing authoritarianism race/ethnicity religion/spirituality sheikh romance María Adela Durango Ana Marcela García María del Pilar Carré Lía Ramos E. M. Hull history Morocco Carmen de Icaza Egypt rape and/or intimate partner violence/abuse gender
Rabine, Leslie W. (1985) Reading the Romantic Heroine: Text, History, Ideology Ann Arbor: University of Michigan Press Topic Harlequin Mills & Boon work Charlotte Brontë emotions Publishing authors
Rabine, Leslie W. (1985) Romance in the Age of Electronics: Harlequin Enterprises Feminist Studies 11.1:39-60 DOI: 10.2307/3180131 Topic Harlequin Mills & Boon work Charlotte Brontë emotions Publishing authors
Radcliffe, Polly (1991) Accounting for romance: Women's explanations for reading romance fiction Master of Arts, University of Toronto Topic readers sociology
Rader, Kara Hovick, Shelly R. Bigsby, Elisabeth (2021) “Are You Clean?” Encouraging STI Communication in Casual Encounters through Narrative Messages in Romance Novels Communication Studies 72.3:333-346 DOI: 10.1080/10510974.2021.1899006 Topic sex/sexuality health/medical psychology readers
Radford, Jean (1986) "Introduction " The Progress of Romance: The Politics of Popular Fiction 1-20 Topic trash/literary and or intellectual quality romance scholarship genre definitions Older and/or precursor texts (may not be "romance" as now defined) socialism and/or communism feminism readers
Radford, Jean (1986) The Progress of Romance: The Politics of Popular Fiction London and New York: Routledge & Kegan Paul
Radford, Jean (1992) "A Certain Latitude: Romance as Genre " Gender, Language, and Myth: Essays on Popular Narrative 3-19 Topic Older and/or precursor texts (may not be "romance" as now defined) genre definitions trash/literary and or intellectual quality romance scholarship socialism and/or communism feminism readers psychology
Radhika, P. (2004) Narratives of Fractured Conjugality: Women’s Romance Novels in Kannada, 1950s-1960s Journal of Karnataka Studies 2.1: Topic India
Radhika, P. (2014) Inaugurating a (Feminine) Public: Women’s Romances in Kannada, 1950s–1960s Indian Journal of Gender Studies 21.1:85-110 DOI: 10.1177/0971521513511201 Topic India psychology
Radick, Caryn (2016) Romance Writers’ Use of Archives Archivaria, the Journal of the Association of Canadian Archivists 81:45-73 Topic libraries/librarians authors historical romance trash/literary and or intellectual quality
Radner, Hilary (1995) Shopping Around: Feminine Culture and the Pursuit of Pleasure New York and London: Routledge Topic gender feminism readers sex/sexuality Barbara Delinsky metafiction Roumelia Lane psychology pornography BDSM Kathleen Woodiwiss historical romance race/ethnicity LaVyrle Spencer settings
Radstone, Susannah (1988) Sweet Dreams: Sexuality, Gender and Popular Fiction London: Lawrence & Wishart
Radway, Janice A. (1982) "The Aesthetic in Mass Culture: Reading the "Popular" Literary Text " The Structure of the Literary Process Studies dedicated to the Memory of Felix Vodička 397-429 DOI:10.1075/llsee.8.19rad Topic gothic romance Victoria Holt/Jean Plaidy/Eleanor Burford Hibbert fashion/clothing
Radway, Janice A. (1983) Women Read the Romance: The Interaction of Text and Context Feminist Studies 9.1:53-78 DOI: 10.2307/3177683 Topic readers psychology gender
Radway, Janice A. (1984) Interpretive Communities And Variable Literacies: The Functions Of Romance Reading Daedalus 113.3:49-73 Topic readers linguistics
Radway, Janice A. (1984) Reading the Romance: Women, Patriarchy, and Popular Literature Chapel Hill: University of North Carolina Press Topic Publishing feminism readers genre definitions marriage psychology gender
Radway, Janice (1981) The Utopian Impulse in Popular Literature: Gothic Romances and "Feminist" Protest American Quarterly 33.2:140-162 DOI: 10.2307/2712313 Topic gothic romance readers genre definitions Victoria Holt/Jean Plaidy/Eleanor Burford Hibbert United States of America gender feminism Kathleen Woodiwiss sex/sexuality
Radway, Janice (1994) "Romance and the Work of Fantasy: Struggles over Feminine Sexuality and Subjectivity at Century's End " Viewing, Reading, Listening: Audiences and Cultural Reception 213-231 Topic authors feminism gender sex/sexuality romance scholarship Publishing work Jude Deveraux
Raineri, Rosalia (2019) Verde bianco e rosa. Il romanzo 'femminile' e l'educazione sentimentale delle italiane (1911-1946) PhD, Università degli Studi di Palermo Topic Annie Vivanti/Annie Vivanti Chartres Mura Luciana Peverelli Italy national identity gender Older and/or precursor texts (may not be "romance" as now defined) linguistics family
Ramos-García, María Teresa (2022) "Definiciones transatlánticas de la raza blanca en las novelas góticas de Louise Bergstrom en Canarias (1971-1972) " Discursos e Identidades en la Ficción Romántica: Visiones Anglófonas de Madeira y Canarias / Discourses and Identities in Romance Fiction: Anglophone Visions from Madeira and the Canaries 127-147 Topic Louise Bergstrom gothic romance race/ethnicity
Ramos-García, María Teresa (2022) "Transatlantic definitions of Whiteness in Louise Bergstrom’s Gothic romances in the Canary Islands (1971-1972) " Discursos e Identidades en la Ficción Romántica: Visiones Anglófonas de Madeira y Canarias / Discourses and Identities in Romance Fiction: Anglophone Visions from Madeira and the Canaries 313-331 Topic Louise Bergstrom gothic romance race/ethnicity
Ramos-García, María T. Vivanco, Laura (2020) "Introduction " Love, Language, Place, and Identity in Popular Culture: Romancing the Other 1-9 Topic race/ethnicity
Ramos-García, María T. Vivanco, Laura (2020) Love, Language, Place, and Identity in Popular Culture: Romancing the Other Lanham, Maryland: Lexington
Ramos-García, María T. (2020) "Representations of Otherness in Paranormal Romance: Race and Wealth in Nalini Singh and J. R. Ward " Love, Language, Place, and Identity in Popular Culture: Romancing the Other 127-144 Topic Nalini Singh J. R. Ward paranormal/fantasy/time-travel romance race/ethnicity United States of America capitalism/business
Ramos-García, María T. (2021) "Paranormal romance and urban fantasy " The Routledge Research Companion to Popular Romance Fiction 141-167 DOI:10.4324/9781315613468-6 Topic paranormal/fantasy/time-travel romance happy ending genre definitions YA/teenage romance LGBT+ characters, readers and/or authors steampunk erotic romance romance scholarship Laurell K. Hamilton Twilight J. R. Ward war/armed forces race/ethnicity Nalini Singh
Rampoldi Hnilo, Lynn A. (1996) The effects of romance in young adult fiction on pre-adolescent African-American females MA thesis, Michigan State University Topic readers YA/teenage romance psychology
Rampure, Archana (2005) Doctors in the Darkness: Reading Race, Gender, and History in the Popular Medical Romance PhD, University of Toronto Topic medical romance race/ethnicity UK Olivia Gates war/armed forces national identity Harlequin Mills & Boon United States of America feminism work Juliet Shore/Anne Vinton Debbie Macomber health/medical history Lucy Agnes Hancock Louise Gerard Helen Dore Boylston Lilian Warren as Kathryn Blair/Rosalind Brett/Celine Conway Charlotte Lamb Africa war/armed forces
Ramsdell, Kristin (1999) Romance Fiction: A Guide to the Genre Englewood, Colorado: Libraries Unlimited Topic libraries/librarians genre definitions contemporary romance romantic suspense gothic romance historical romance paranormal/fantasy/time-travel romance LGBT+ characters, readers and/or authors Christian romance race/ethnicity romance scholarship
Ramsdell, Kristin (2018) Encyclopedia of Romance Fiction Santa Barbara, California: Greenwood Topic Publishing paranormal/fantasy/time-travel romance comics/manga Christian romance marriage Jane Austen Charlotte Brontë Emily Brontë Barbara Cartland Janet Dailey Daphne du Maurier Ethel M. Dell erotic romance feminism science fiction/futuristic romance Elinor Glyn Margaret Mitchell Harlequin Mills & Boon Georgette Heyer Victoria Holt/Jean Plaidy/Eleanor Burford Hibbert historical romance E. M. Hull romance scholarship LGBT+ characters, readers and/or authors libraries/librarians romantic suspense Samuel Richardson rape and/or intimate partner violence/abuse Nora Roberts/J. D. Robb Bertrice Small Mary Stewart translation Patricia Veryan Phyllis A. Whitney Kathleen Winsor Kathleen Woodiwiss race/ethnicity
Ramsdell, Kristin (2021) "Libraries and popular romance fiction " The Routledge Research Companion to Popular Romance Fiction 371-392 DOI:10.4324/9781315613468-17 Topic libraries/librarians
Randell, Karen Weedon, Alexis (2020) "Atlantic Liners, It Girls and Old Europe in Elinor Glyn’s Romantic Adventures " Love Across the Atlantic: US-UK Romance in Popular Culture 19-37 Topic Elinor Glyn social/economic class wealth/prosperity Older and/or precursor texts (may not be "romance" as now defined) marriage United States of America history
Rani, Mohd. Zariat Abdul (2012) Islam, Romance and Popular Taste in Indonesia: A textual analysis of Ayat ayat cinta by Habiburrahman El-Shirazy and Syahadat cinta by Taufiqurrahman Al-Azizy Indonesia and the Malay World 40.116:59-73 DOI: 10.1080/13639811.2011.648998 Topic Indonesia Habiburrahman El-Shirazy Taufiqurrahman Al-Azizy Islam religion/spirituality paratext film/movies Publishing marriage Muslim romance
Rani, Mohd. Zariat Abdul (2014) The Conflict of Love and Islam: The Main Ingredients in the Popular Islamic Novels of Malaysia South East Asia Research 22.3:417-433 DOI: 10.5367/sear.2014.0222 Topic Malaysia Islam religion/spirituality Zaid Akhtar Ilham Hamdani paratext Publishing Muslim romance
Rao, Sathya (2009) Genres populaires et «érographiques» en Afrique francophone: le cas des romans de la collection Adoras Présence Francophone: Revue internationale de langue et de littérature 72.1:33-47 Topic Africa Publishing settings
Rapp, Adrian Dodgen, Lynda Kaler, Anne K. (2000) A Romance Writer Gets Away with Murder Clues: A Journal of Detection 21.1:17–21 Topic Sandra Brown romantic suspense death
Rashid, Hussein Petersen, Kristian (2023) The Bloomsbury Handbook of Muslims and Popular Culture London: Bloomsbury
Rastier, François Ballabriga, Michel (2007) Corpus en Lettres et Sciences sociales : des documents numériques à l'interprétation, Actes du colloque international d'Albi, juillet 2006 Toulouse: CALS-CPST
Rata, Georgeta (2013) Linguistic Studies of Human Language Athens: Athens Institute for Education and Research
Rattanamathuwong, Bancha (2023) Time Is on Our Side?: Homo Economicus in Time-Travel Romance Critique: Studies in Contemporary Fiction ONLINE FIRST:ONLINE FIRST DOI: 10.1080/00111619.2023.2186212 Topic paranormal/fantasy/time-travel romance capitalism/business Jude Deveraux Rompaeng Thomyantri Thailand Audrey Niffenegger
Raub, Patricia (1992) Issues of Passion and Power in E. M. Hull's The Sheik Women's Studies 21:119-128 DOI: 10.1080/00497878.1992.9978930 Topic E. M. Hull sex/sexuality United States of America history gender Older and/or precursor texts (may not be "romance" as now defined) Elinor Glyn Harlequin Mills & Boon
Raub, Patricia (1994) Yesterday's Stories: Popular Women's Novels of the Twenties and Thirties Westport, Connecticut: Greenwood Press Topic Older and/or precursor texts (may not be "romance" as now defined) Temple Bailey Kathleen Thompson Norris E. M. Hull Gene Stratton-Porter Viña Delmar sex/sexuality marriage family work Dorothy Canfield United States of America history Faith Baldwin fashion/clothing Daphne du Maurier Margaret Mitchell gender
Raw, Laurence (2013) The Silk Road of Adaptation: Transformations across Disciplines and Cultures Newcastle upon Tyne: Cambridge Scholars Publishing
Raymundo, Sarah Jane S. (2004) In the Concrete Now: Investigating Feminist Challenges to Popular Romance Production Plaridel: A Philippine Journal of Communication, Media, and Society 1.2:91-118 Topic Philippines feminism gender Joi Barrios Lualhati Bautista
Rayner, Samantha J. Wilkins, Kim (2021) Georgette Heyer, History, and Historical Fiction : UCL Press Topic Georgette Heyer
Rayner, Samantha J. Wilkins, Kim (2021) "Introduction: the persistence of Georgette Heyer " Georgette Heyer, History, and Historical Fiction 1-13 DOI:10.2307/j.ctv15d818n.6 Topic Georgette Heyer
Reed, Eleanor (2018) Domestic Culture in Woman's Weekly, 1918-1958 PhD, University of Roehampton Topic history social/economic class romances in magazines and newspapers Older and/or precursor texts (may not be "romance" as now defined) UK
Reed, Eleanor (2020) Romance in Woman’s Weekly and Woman’s Weekly as Romance, 1918–39 Journal of European Periodical Studies 5.2:80–94 DOI: 10.21825/jeps.v5i2.17039 Topic romances in magazines and newspapers social/economic class UK readers work
Reed, Eleanor (2023) Woman's Weekly and Lower-Middle-Class Domestic Culture in Britain, 1918-1958: Making Homemakers Liverpool: Liverpool University Press Topic romances in magazines and newspapers UK readers social/economic class
Reep, Diana (1982) The Rescue And Romance: Popular Novels Before World War I Bowling Green, Ohio: Bowling Green State University Popular Press Topic Older and/or precursor texts (may not be "romance" as now defined) United States of America gender race/ethnicity social/economic class
Reese, Tracy H.Z. (2024) "Beyond the Pale: Genre, Race, and Intersectional Feminist Tensions in Bridgerton " Adapting Bridgerton: Essays on the Netflix Show in Context 9-21 Topic Julia Quinn race/ethnicity rape and/or intimate partner violence/abuse
Reeves, Anne R. (2004) Adolescents Talk about Reading: Exploring Resistance to and Engagement with Text : International Reading Association Topic readers
Regan, Lisa (2017) Women and the 'War Machine' in the Desert Romances of E. M. Hull and Rosita Forbes Women's Writing 24.1:109-122 DOI: 10.1080/09699082.2016.1233773 Topic E. M. Hull UK war/armed forces national identity
Regis, Pamela (1997) Complicating Romances and their Readers: Barrier and Point of Ritual Death in Nora Roberts's Category Fiction Para.doxa: Studies in World Literary Genres 3.1-2:145-154 Topic Nora Roberts/J. D. Robb romance scholarship genre definitions
Regis, Pamela (2003) A Natural History of the Romance Novel Philadelphia: University of Pennsylvania Press Topic genre definitions trash/literary and or intellectual quality Samuel Richardson Jane Austen Older and/or precursor texts (may not be "romance" as now defined) Charlotte Brontë Anthony Trollope E. M. Forster Georgette Heyer Mary Stewart Harlequin Mills & Boon Janet Dailey Jayne Ann Krentz/Amanda Quick/Jayne Castle Nora Roberts/J. D. Robb rape and/or intimate partner violence/abuse E. M. Hull
Regis, Pamela (2011) "Female genre fiction in the twentieth century " The Cambridge History of the American Novel 847-860 DOI:10.1017/CHOL9780521899079.056 Topic genre definitions Samuel Richardson Older and/or precursor texts (may not be "romance" as now defined) E. D. E. N. Southworth religion/spirituality Kathleen Thompson Norris Faith Baldwin Claire Morgan/Patricia Highsmith LGBT+ characters, readers and/or authors Kathleen Woodiwiss Jennifer Crusie Beverly Jenkins Ann Herendeen Nora Roberts/J. D. Robb marriage
Regis, Pamela (2011) What Do Critics Owe the Romance? Keynote Address at the Second Annual Conference of the International Association for the Study of Popular Romance Journal of Popular Romance Studies 2.1: Topic feminism trash/literary and or intellectual quality pornography readers emotions romance scholarship
Regis, Pamela (2016) "Pamela Crosses the Atlantic; or, Pamela Andrews's Story Inaugurates the American Romance Novel " Romance Fiction and American Culture: Love as the Practice of Freedom? 25-40 Topic Samuel Richardson United States of America
Regis, Pamela (2021) "The evolution of the American romance novel " The Routledge Research Companion to Popular Romance Fiction 51-71 DOI:10.4324/9781315613468-2 Topic United States of America Older and/or precursor texts (may not be "romance" as now defined) romance scholarship Charles Brockden Brown Sukey Vickery Catharine Maria Sedgwick Lydia Maria Child E. D. E. N. Southworth Louisa May Alcott Frances Watkins Harper race/ethnicity Onoto Watanna/Winnifred Eaton Jean Webster Kathleen Thompson Norris Viña Delmar family Claire Morgan/Patricia Highsmith LGBT+ characters, readers and/or authors
Reid, Charlotte (1990) A Cursory Visit of Inspection to Annie S. Swan Cencrastus: The Curly Snake 38:28-31 Topic Annie S. Swan
Reid Boyd, Elizabeth (2014) Romancing feminism: From women’s studies to women’s fiction Australasian Journal of Popular Culture 3.3:263-272 DOI: 10.1386/ajpc.3.3.263_1 Topic feminism love readers Elizabeth Reid Boyd (pen name Eliza Redgold)
Reid-Walsh, Jacqueline (1993) "Adolescent Girls' Romance Fiction: Contemporary Conduct Books? " Weaving Alliances: Selected Papers Presented For The Canadian Women's Studies Association at the 1991 and 1992 Learned Societies Conferences 303-318 Topic YA/teenage romance readers Older and/or precursor texts (may not be "romance" as now defined) gender
Reitemeier, Rebecca (2019) Romance Novels and Higher Education Inter-Text: An Undergraduate Journal for Social Sciences and Humanities 2.2: Topic Older and/or precursor texts (may not be "romance" as now defined) feminism readers psychology teaching romance
Rempel, Valerie Gale (2003) “The soft white strong hand of God”: Gender and the expression of evangelical piety in the religious fiction of Grace Livingston Hill, 1897–1948 PhD, Vanderbilt University Topic Grace Livingston Hill Christian romance religion/spirituality gender marriage family
Reuter, Yves (1990) "Le roman sentimental: système de personnages et circulation sociale de la thématique amoureuse " Le roman sentimental: actes du colloque des 14-15-16 mars 1989 à la Faculté des lettres de Limoges, volume 1 209-223 Topic love gender genre definitions
Reyes, Daisy Verduzco Speer, Annika C. Denes, Amanda (2021) White Women and Latina Readers’ Ambivalence Toward Fifty Shades of Grey Sexuality & Culture 25:852–870 DOI: 10.1007/s12119-020-09797-3 Topic Fifty Shades erotic romance pornography sex/sexuality race/ethnicity gender readers United States of America rape and/or intimate partner violence/abuse
Rholetter, Wylene (2008) Nora Roberts Teaching American Literature: A Journal of Theory and Practice 2.2/3:1-35 Topic Nora Roberts/J. D. Robb rape and/or intimate partner violence/abuse family romantic suspense feminism work Janet Dailey fairytales/folktales paranormal/fantasy/time-travel romance Harlequin Mills & Boon
Riba, Caterina Sanmartí, Carme (2018) The Reception of Elinor Glyn's Work in Spain (1926–57) Women: A Cultural Review 29.2:188-215 DOI: 10.1080/09574042.2018.1447040 Topic Elinor Glyn Spain Rafael Pérez y Pérez religion/spirituality sex/sexuality
Richaudeau, François (1986) La galaxie Harlequin, des auteurs et des romans Communication et langages 67:9-24 DOI: 10.3406/colan.1986.1733 Topic Harlequin Mills & Boon linguistics translation Margaret Rome Delly Barbara Cartland metaphor/symbolism
Riche, Martha Farnsworth (1986) Why Romance Novels Are Like the Rustbelt American Demographics 8.8:46-48 Topic readers Publishing
Richey, Weston (2023) (Loves) Me, (Loves) Me Not: Unbuilding of Selfhood in the Romance of the Present Journal of Popular Romance Studies 12: Topic readers LGBT+ characters, readers and/or authors gender psychology Kris Ripper
Richlin, Amy (1992) Pornography and Representation in Greece and Rome Oxford: Oxford University Press
Ricker-Wilson, Carol (1999) Busting Textual Bodices: Gender, Reading, and the Popular Romance The English Journal 88.3:57-64 DOI: 10.2307/821580 Topic gender Danielle Steel readers feminism work social/economic class trash/literary and or intellectual quality
Rihoit, Catherine (1984) Regards de femmes Paris: Presses de la Renaissance Topic Harlequin Mills & Boon readers
Ripoll Fonollar, Mariana (2023) Wording deeds: the figure of the suffragette in contemporary british fiction , Universitat de les Illes Balears Topic feminism historical romance Katie MacAlister Courtney Milan Evie Dunmore
Riseman, Noah (2020) Intimatopias and the queering of Australian war fiction Continuum: Journal of Media & Cultural Studies 34.6:940-954 DOI: 10.1080/10304312.2020.1827371 Topic Australia history war/armed forces m/m romance LGBT+ characters, readers and/or authors
Rix, Robert W. (2009) “Love in the Clouds”: Barbara Cartland’s Religious Romances The Journal of Religion and Popular Culture 21.2: DOI: 10.3138/jrpc.21.2.002 Topic Barbara Cartland religion/spirituality love gender Christian romance Marie Corelli Ethel M. Dell
Roach, David (2023) A Very British Affair – The Best of Classic Romance Comics Oxford: Rebellion Topic comics/manga UK
Roach, Catherine M. (2010) Getting a Good Man to Love: Popular Romance Fiction and the Problem of Patriarchy Journal of Popular Romance Studies 1.1: Topic love religion/spirituality happy ending sex/sexuality BDSM Maya Banks Joey W. Hill J. R. Ward
Roach, Catherine M. (2014) 'Going Native': Aca-Fandom and Deep Participant Observation in Popular Romance Studies Mosaic 47.2:33-49 DOI: 10.1353/mos.2014.0011 Topic authors romance scholarship
Roach, Catherine M. (2016) Happily Ever After: The Romance Story in Popular Culture Bloomington, Indiana: Indiana University Press Topic authors religion/spirituality love sex/sexuality Beverly Jenkins gender rape and/or intimate partner violence/abuse genre definitions BDSM J. R. Ward readers LGBT+ characters, readers and/or authors happy ending romance scholarship marriage pornography Publishing feminism
Roach, Catherine M. (2016) "Love as the Practice of Bondage: Popular Romance Narratives and the Conundrum of Erotic Love " Romance Fiction and American Culture: Love as the Practice of Freedom? 369-387 Topic love BDSM Beverly Jenkins James Buchanan J. R. Ward gender LGBT+ characters, readers and/or authors m/m romance
Roach, Catherine M. (2018) "Erotica " The Routledge Companion to Media, Sex and Sexuality 107-116 Topic erotic romance sex/sexuality pornography love LGBT+ characters, readers and/or authors feminism rape and/or intimate partner violence/abuse BDSM Alexis Hall
Roberts, Sherron Killingsworth (2002) Meet Jessica and Elizabeth from Sweet Valley: Who Are the Female Role Models in Popular Romance Novels for Children? Paper presented at the Annual Meeting of the American Educational Research Association (New Orleans, LA, April 1-5,2002) ERIC document ED470819: Topic YA/teenage romance
Roberts, Sherron Killingsworth (2010) Twenty-five years and counting of Sweet Valley: Jessica and Elizabeth in romance novels for young children? Journal of Research in Childhood Education 24.2:123-139 DOI: 10.1080/02568541003635201 Topic YA/teenage romance
Roberts, Gillian (2018) Reading between the Borderlines: Cultural Production and Consumption across the 49th Parallel Montreal and Kingston: McGill-Queen's University Press
Robertson, Rachel (2014) ‘Driven by Tens’: Obsession and cognitive difference in Toni Jordan’s romantic comedy Addition Australasian Journal of Popular Culture 3.3:311-320 DOI: 10.1386/ajpc.3.3.311_1 Topic disability Toni Jordan
Robine, Nicole (1995) "Roman sentimental et jeunes travailleuses " Guimauve et fleurs d’oranger: Delly 21-54 Topic sociology readers
Robinson, Rachel (2023) Reading and writing dogs in popular romance fiction PhD, University of Tasmania Topic animals
Robinson, Lillian S. (1978) Sex, Class, and Culture Bloomington, Indiana: Indiana University Press Topic historical romance history Jane Austen Georgette Heyer fashion/clothing sex/sexuality social/economic class gender trash/literary and or intellectual quality
Roccella, Eugenia (1998) La letteratura rosa Rome: Editori Riuniti Topic Liala, pen name of Amalia Liana Cambiasi Negretti Odescalchi
Roces, Mina (2012) Women's Movements and the Filipina 1986-2008 Honolulu: University of Hawai'i Press Topic Philippines feminism health/medical family Lualhati Bautista Carmen Cabiling
Roche, Emma (2023) Women, Violence and Postmillennial Romance Fiction Abingdon, Oxon: Routledge Topic Twilight Fifty Shades feminism rape and/or intimate partner violence/abuse capitalism/business
Rodriguez, Simone Meirelles (2005) Leitoras com coração: usos de leitura dos romances sentimentais de massa Letras 65:23-37 DOI: 10.5380/rel.v65i0.4294 Topic Brazil readers
Roger, Isabel M. (1986) Recreación crítica de la novela rosa en El cuarto de atrás Romance Notes 27.2:121-126 Topic metafiction
Rollins, Shannon Marie (2019) Crafting women’s narratives: the material impact of twenty-first century romance fiction on contemporary steampunk dress PhD, University of Edinburgh Topic steampunk fashion/clothing gender Gail Carriger feminism race/ethnicity Adrienne Kress
Roman, Leslie G. Christian-Smith, Linda K. Ellsworth, Elizabeth (1988) Becoming Feminine: The Politics of Popular Culture London: Falmer Press
Romera Pintor, Angela Magdalena (2019) L’enfance dans l’œuvre de Delly Le Rocambole 86-87:169-202 Topic Delly family
Romera Pintor, Angela Magdalena (2020) "Maryan (1847-1927) et le déclassement du roman sentimental " Documentando la memoria cultural: las mujeres en las (auto)narraciones exocanónicas 201-215 Topic Maryan, pen name of Marie Cadiou Older and/or precursor texts (may not be "romance" as now defined)
Romney, Rebecca (2021) The Romance Novel in English: A Survey in Rare Books, 1769-1999 : Type Punch Matrix Topic Publishing Older and/or precursor texts (may not be "romance" as now defined) work Harlequin Mills & Boon historical romance Christian romance gothic romance romantic suspense paranormal/fantasy/time-travel romance YA/teenage romance African American romance LGBT+ characters, readers and/or authors Frances Brooke Canada Elizabeth Inchbald Frances Burney Sydney Owenson national identity Ireland Ouida May Agnes Fleming Laura Jean Libbey Emma Wolf religion/spirituality Judaism Pauline Hopkins Onoto Watanna/Winnifred Eaton Japan Elinor Glyn Louise Gerard Barbara Cartland Laura Lou Brookman Kathleen Thompson Norris romances in magazines and newspapers Elizabeth Carfrae Frances Shelley Wees Lilian Warren as Kathryn Blair/Rosalind Brett/Celine Conway Jean S. MacLeod/Catherine Airlie Alice Lent Covert Joyce Dingwell/Kate Starr Australia Faith Baldwin Mary Renault medical romance Mary Burchell, pen name of Ida Cook Juliet Shore/Anne Vinton Della Field, pseudonym of Fanny Howe Janet Dailey Lydia Maria Child Charlotte M. Yonge Mary Johnston Susa Young Gates Kathleen Woodiwiss Rosemary Rogers June Lund Shiplett paratext Jayne Ann Krentz/Amanda Quick/Jayne Castle science fiction/futuristic romance Valerie Belgrave Caribbean Beverly Jenkins Jane Austen Susan Ferrier Georgette Heyer Amii Lorin Nora Roberts/J. D. Robb Marisa de Zavala/Ana Lisa de Leon/Rachel Scott/Celina Rios Mullan Sandra Kitt Maureen Wartski Augusta Jane Evans Florence Barclay Ethel M. Dell Janette Oke Beverly Lewis Charlotte Brontë Harriet Lewis Virginia Coffman Victoria Holt/Jean Plaidy/Eleanor Burford Hibbert Phyllis A. Whitney Mary Stewart Daoma Winston Chelsea Quinn Yarbro Rita Clay Estrada Lori Herter Jean Webster Robin McKinley Tracy West/Joyce McGill/Chassie West Marie G. Lee race/ethnicity Paula Christian Isabel Miller Gordon Merrick Ann Allen Shockley Vincent Virga Nancy Garden Katherine V. Forrest Loretta Chase Brenda Jackson
Roper, Holly N. (2020) Representing the Romance: Diversity and Inclusion in the Romance Collections of Public Libraries M.S. in Library Science, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill Topic libraries/librarians disability race/ethnicity LGBT+ characters, readers and/or authors
Rosanowski, Annika (2019) Can She Have It All? Pregnancy Narratives in Contemporary Category Romance Journal of Popular Romance Studies 8: Topic family gender Harlequin Mills & Boon marriage
Rose, Suzanna (1985) Is Romance Dysfunctional? International Journal of Women's Studies 8.3:250-265 Topic sex/sexuality gender psychology fairytales/folktales readers
Rosier, Laurence Pollet, Marie-Christine (2007) Les mauvais genres en classe de français?: Retour sur la question. Namur: Presses universitaires de Namur
Ross, Marlon B. (2013) “What’s Love But a Second Hand Emotion?”: Man-on-Man Passion in the Contemporary Black Gay Romance Novel Callaloo 36.3:669-687 DOI: 10.1353/cal.2013.0159 Topic African American romance LGBT+ characters, readers and/or authors race/ethnicity Larry Duplechan James Earl Hardy m/m romance family E. Lynn Harris
Ross, Catherine Sheldrick (2009) Reader on Top: Public Libraries, Pleasure Reading, and Models of Reading Library Trends 57.4:632-656 DOI: 10.1353/lib.0.0059 Topic libraries/librarians readers trash/literary and or intellectual quality
Ross, Catherine Bourland (2005) Carmen de Icaza: Novela rosa as Feminist Discourse? Letras peninsulares 18.1:99-108 Topic Carmen de Icaza
Ross, Catherine Bourland (2006) Carmen de Icaza: Novela Rosa as Feminist Discourse? Brown Working Papers : Topic Carmen de Icaza feminism Spain fascism/right-wing authoritarianism work
Rudisill, Kristen (2018) Full-Blooded Desi Romance: Contemporary English-Language Romance Novels in India Journal of Popular Culture 51.3:754-775 DOI: 10.1111/jpcu.12652 Topic India readers Publishing national identity Harlequin Mills & Boon family
Ruggiero, Josephine A. Weston, Louise C. (1977) Sex-Role Characterization of Women in "Modern Gothic Novels" The Pacific Sociological Review 20.2:279-300 DOI: 10.2307/1388936 Topic gender gothic romance feminism Mary Stewart Victoria Holt/Jean Plaidy/Eleanor Burford Hibbert Phyllis A. Whitney Jane Blackmore Dorothy Eden Susan Howatch Anne Maybury social/economic class work readers
Ruggiero, Josephine A. Weston, Louise C. (1983) Conflicting Images of Women in Romance Novels International Journal of Women's Studies 6.1:18-25 Topic gothic romance historical romance gender readers
Rush, Ramona R. Allen, Donna (1989) Communications at the Crossroads: The Gender Gap Connection Norwood, New Jersey: Ablex Publishing Corporation
Russ, Joanna (1973) Somebody's Trying to Kill Me and I Think It's My Husband: The Modern Gothic Journal of Popular Culture 6.4:666-691 DOI: 10.1111/j.0022-3840.1973.00666.x Topic gothic romance genre definitions settings Phyllis A. Whitney Margaret Summerton Helen Arvonen Susan Howatch Anne Maybury Dorothy Eden food, drink fashion/clothing sex/sexuality gender
Russ, Joanna (1985) Magic Mommas, Trembling Sisters, Puritans & Perverts: Femininst Essays Trumansburg, NY: The Crossing Press
Russ, Joanna (1985) "Pornography By Women For Women, With Love " Magic Mommas, Trembling Sisters, Puritans & Perverts: Femininst Essays 79–99 DOI:10.2307/j.ctt20p58d6.10 Topic fanfiction m/m romance pornography readers gender sex/sexuality rape and/or intimate partner violence/abuse science fiction/futuristic romance
Russell, Shannon (2014) Dangerous Young Men: Themes of Female Sexuality and Masculinity in Paranormal Romance Novels for Young Adults Masters, University of Ottawa Topic YA/teenage romance paranormal/fantasy/time-travel romance sex/sexuality gender rape and/or intimate partner violence/abuse
Russo, Stephanie (2022) "These old shades: Georgette Heyer’s unruly eighteenth century " The Routledge Companion to Romantic Love 48-?? DOI:10.4324/9781003022343-4 Topic Georgette Heyer gender history fashion/clothing
Ryan, Mary (2011) Amongst women: Male romance authors and Irish chick lit author, Andrew O’Connor Australasian Journal of Popular Culture 1.2:209-225 DOI: 10.1386/ajpc.1.2.209_1 Topic authors gender chick lit Andrew O’Connor
Ryden, Wendy (2007) Bourgeois Realism or Working Class Kitsch?: The Aesthetics of Class in Composition Open Words: Access and English Studies 1.2:4-23 Topic trash/literary and or intellectual quality social/economic class Karen van der Zee teaching romance family marriage
Ryder, Mary Ellen (1999) Smoke and mirrors: Event patterns in the discourse structure of a romance novel Journal of Pragmatics 31.8:1067-1080 DOI: 10.1016/S0378-2166(99)80001-0 Topic linguistics Barbara Cartland
Sabino, Rosimeri Ferraz Bezerra, Antônio Ponciano (2020) Romance-folhetim em tela: linguagem, personagens e sentidos sociais DELTA: Documentação de Estudos em Lingüística Teórica e Aplicada 36.4: DOI: 10.1590/1678-460X2020360406 Topic Brazil Faith Baldwin gender film/movies
Sabo, Oana (2024) Translingualism 2.0 Contemporary French and Francophone Studies 28.2:302–316 DOI: 10.1080/17409292.2024.2311539 Topic France linguistics
Sagun, Karryl Kim Abella (2019) Book Mavens of Manila: an interpretative phenomenological analysis of contemporary niche publishers in the Philippines PhD, Nanyang Technological University, Singapore Topic Philippines Publishing Mina V. Esguerra
Saint-Jacques, Denis (1990) "La recherche sur le roman sentimental au CRELIQ de l'Université de Laval " Le roman sentimental: actes du colloque des 14-15-16 mars 1989 à la Faculté des lettres de Limoges, volume 1 175-183 Topic romance scholarship
Saint-Jacques, Denis de la Garde, Roger (1992) Les pratiques culturelles de grande consommation. Le marché francophone Québec: Nuit blanche éditeur
Saint-Jacques, Denis Bettinotti, Julia des Rivières, Marie-José Bleton, Paul Savoie, Chantal (1998) Femmes de rêve au travail : les femmes et le travail dans les productions écrites de grande consommation, au Québec, de 1945 à aujourd'hui Québec: Les Éditions Nota bene Topic Canada work gender Delly Barbara Cartland Harlequin Mills & Boon Charlotte Lamb Janet Dailey
Saint-Jacques, Denis des Rivières, Marie-José (2011) Le féminisme problématique d’un roman d’amour, Anne Mérival Recherches féministes 24.1:61–76 DOI: 10.7202/1006077ar Topic Older and/or precursor texts (may not be "romance" as now defined) feminism work marriage war/armed forces Canada trash/literary and or intellectual quality Delly religion/spirituality romances in magazines and newspapers
Sales, Roger (1999) "The Loathsome Lord and the Disdainful Dame: Byron, Cartland and the Regency Romance " Byromania: Portraits of the Artist in Nineteenth- and Twentieth-Century Culture 166-183 DOI:10.1007/978-1-349-27107-8_10 Topic Barbara Cartland historical romance
Salmon, Catherine Symons, Donald (2003) Warrior Lovers: Erotic Fiction, Evolution and Female Sexuality New Haven, Connecticut: Yale University Press Topic evolutionary psychology m/m romance sex/sexuality
Salmon, Catherine (2005) "Crossing the Abyss: Erotica and the Intersection of Evolutionary Psychology and Literary Studies " The Literary Animal: Evolution and the Nature of Narrative 244-257 DOI:10.2307/j.ctvw1d5h1.19 Topic evolutionary psychology sex/sexuality feminism pornography fanfiction
Salmon, Catherine (2012) The Pop Culture of Sex: An Evolutionary Window on the Worlds of Pornography and Romance Review of General Psychology 16.2:152-160 DOI: 10.1037/a0027910 Topic evolutionary psychology pornography gender feminism
Salmon, Catherine (2016) "What Do Romance Novels, Pro Wrestling, and Mack Bolan Have in Common?: Consilience and the Pop Culture of Storytelling " Darwin's Bridge: Uniting the Humanities and Sciences 167-182 DOI:10.1093/acprof:oso/9780190231217.003.0010 Topic evolutionary psychology
Salter, Anastasia (2020) Plundered Hearts: Infocom, Romance, and the History of Feminist Game Design Feminist Media Histories 6.1:66-92 DOI: 10.1525/fmh.2020.6.1.66 Topic computer/video/digital games pirates and outlaws fashion/clothing feminism