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BDSM

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Annie S. Swan

O. Douglas/Anna Buchan

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languages

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Topic

Older and/or precursor texts (may not be "romance" as now defined)

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Topic

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Christian romance

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Topic

BDSM

pornography

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Topic

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love

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Topic

Hedwig Courths-Mahler

Ethel M. Dell

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rural romance

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teaching romance

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Topic

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Topic

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Topic

Dryden, Therese (2019) The Valentine Wars PhD, University of Newcastle, Australia

Topic

Susan Elizabeth Phillips

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Robyn Carr

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Topic

Janet Dailey

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film/movies

Africa

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Topic

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France

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Topic

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Topic

Dunnion, Janne May (1997) Mapping Normalcy: Romance and the Postmodern Body MA thesis, University of Toronto

Topic

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film/movies

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Topic

Linda Howard

philosophy

Liala, pen name of Amalia Liana Cambiasi Negretti Odescalchi

Eco, Umberto Federzoni, Marina Pezzini, Isabella Pozzato, Maria Pia (1979) Carolina Invernizio, Matilde Serao, Liala Firenze: La nuova Italia

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Eden, Edward Goertz, Dee (2003) Carol Shields, Narrative Hunger, and the Possibilities of Fiction Toronto: University of Toronto Press

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Topic

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Edmondson, Belinda (2007) The Black Romance Women's Studies Quarterly 35.1/2:191-211

Topic

Older and/or precursor texts (may not be "romance" as now defined)

Frances Watkins Harper

Edwards, Holly (2000) Noble Dreams, Wicked Pleasures: Orientalism in America, 1870-1930 Princeton: Princeton University Press

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Topic

Mary Renault

modernism

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Topic

Ehnenn, Jill (1998) Desperately Seeking Susan Among the Trash: Reinscription, Subversion and Visibility in the Lesbian Romance Novel Atlantis 23.1:120-127

Topic

lesbian romance

Eickelman, Dale F. Anderson, Jon W. (1999) New Media in the Muslim World: The Emerging Public Sphere Bloomington: Indiana University Press

Eike, Ann M. (1986) An Investigation of the Market for Paperback Romance Novels Journal of Cultural Economics 10.1:25-36

Topic

Eiss, Harry (1994) Images of the Child Bowling Green, Ohio: Bowling Green State University Popular Press

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Topic

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Topic

Elliott, Jack (2016) Vocabulary decay in category romance Digital Scholarship in the Humanities 31.2:321–332

Topic

Jane Austen

Elliott, Jack (2017) Whole genre sequencing Digital Scholarship in the Humanities 32.1:65–79

Topic

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Topic

Ellis, Kate (1987) " Gimme Shelter: Feminism, Fantasy, and Women's Popular Fiction " American Media and Mass Culture: Left Perspectives 216-230

Topic

gothic romance

virginity

Victoria Holt/Jean Plaidy/Eleanor Burford Hibbert

Emrys, A. B. (1994) Magic Regencies: How Fantasy Forms a Hybrid Popular Culture Review 5.1:85-93

Topic

Encanto, Georgina Reyes (1996) The development of the Filipino romance novel as written by women (1922-1992) PhD, University of the Philippines, College of Mass Communication

Topic

Philippines

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Topic

Philippines

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Topic

Colette

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Topic

English, Jessica (2017) Reading the Romance: Through the Eyes of a Millenial Feminist Masters of Science in Communication, Eastern Washington University

Topic

English Studies Group, 1978–9, The (1980) " Recent Developments in English Studies at the Centre " Culture, Media, Language: Working Papers in Cultural Studies, 1972-79 227-262 DOI:10.4324/9780203381182

Topic

Erekli, Arzu (2006) Medeni ya da müslüman: popüler aşk romanlarında Feyza olmak Yayınlanmamış Yüksek Lisans Tezi, Bilkent University, Ankara

Topic

Islam

Turkey

Erhart, Virginia (1973) " Amor, ideología y enmascaramiento en Corín Tellado " Imperialismo y medios masivos de comunicación 93-101

Topic

Erhart, Virginia (1974) " Amor, ideología y enmascaramiento en Corín Tellado " Penetración cultural imperialista en América Latina: comics y revistas femeninas 71-123

Topic

Erhart, Virginia (1974) Corín Tellado: la Cenicienta en la sociedad de consumo Crisis 1.9:71-80

Topic

Erhart, Virginia (1976) Amor y consumo en las novelas de Corin Tellado Cuadernos de Comunicación 17:16-21

Topic

Escandell Montiel, Daniel Oliveira Dias, Sofia Raquel (2020) Voces e identidades exocanónicas (1880-1920): recuperando (auto) narrativas femeninas de los márgenes Valencia: Tirant Humanidades

Escolar, Marisa (2015) Marry the Allies? Luciana Peverelli’s ‘True’ Romanzo Rosa in ‘Liberated’ Rome Italian Studies 70.2:228-248

Topic

Luciana Peverelli

Italy

national identity

Escolar, Marisa (2019) Allied Encounters: The Gendered Redemption of World War II Italy New York: Fordham University Press

Topic

Luciana Peverelli

Italy

Esquibel, Catrióna Rueda (1991) Loving the other woman: contemporary lesbian romance novels Masters, University of Colorado

Topic

lesbian romance

Esquibel, Catrióna Rueda (1992) " A Duel of Wits and the Lesbian Romance Novel or Verbal Intercourse in Fictional Regency England " New Perspectives on Women and Comedy 123-133

Topic

lesbian romance

Michelle Martin

Esser, Linda Adkins, Denice Velasquez, Diane L. (2008) “The Red Dot District”: Uncommon Ground in Reader Advisory Education and Professional Practice Educational Media and Technology Yearbook 33:105–111

Topic

pornography

Evans, Julie (1993) Beatrice Grimshaw and Australia - White Women in the Pacific Olive Pink Society Bulletin 5.1:34-39

Topic

Oceania

Fahnestock-Thomas, Mary (2001) Georgette Heyer: A Critical Retrospective Saraland, Alabama: PrinnyWorld Press

Topic

Faktorovich, Anna (2014) The Formulas of Popular Fiction: Elements of Fantasy, Science Fiction, Romance, Religious and Mystery Novels Jefferson, North Carolina: McFarland & Company

Faktorovich, Anna (2015) Gender Bias in Mystery and Romance Novel Publishing: Mimicking Masculinity and Femininity Stone Mountain, GA: Anaphora Literary Press

Topic

Faktorovich, Anna (2015) Interview with Mary Jo Putney, Best-Selling Romance Author Pennsylvania Literary Journal 7.2:

Topic

Mary Jo Putney

Fallon, Eileen (1984) Words of Love: A Complete Guide to Romance Fiction New York and London: Garland Publishing

Topic

Older and/or precursor texts (may not be "romance" as now defined)

Farooqui, Javaria Ashraf, Rabia (2019) Reconnaissance of ‘Difference’ in Cognitive Maps: Authenticating Happily Ever After in Julia Quinn’s To Sir Philip with Love Khazar Journal of Humanities and Social Sciences 22.2:71-82

Topic

Julia Quinn

Farooqui, Javaria (2020) The Kitchen and Beyond: The Romantic Chronotope in Pakistani Popular Fiction Journal of Popular Romance Studies 9:

Topic

Farooqui, Javaria (2022) Romance in an Old Bookshop The Bridge Magazine 1:66-69

Topic

Farooqui, Javaria (2022) " Romance, Austen, and English-Medium Schooling in Pakistan " Language, Education, and Identity: Medium in South Asia

Topic

Fasick, Adele M. Johnston, Margaret Osler, Ruth (1990) Lands of Pleasure: Essays on Lillian H. Smith and the Development of Children's Libraries Metuchen, N.J.: Scarecrow Press

Faura, Salvador Godsland, Shelley Moody, Nickianne (2004) " The Romance Novel, or, the Generalisimo's Control of the Popular Imagination " Reading the Popular in Contemporary Spanish Texts 46-58

Topic

Faust, Meredith S. (2010) "Love of the purest kind": Heteronormative rigidity in the homoerotic fiction of Ann Herendeen Master of Arts, DePaul University

Topic

Ann Herendeen

Faust, Beatrice (1980) Women, Sex and Pornography London: Melbourne House

Topic

Fekete, Maleah (2022) Confluent Love and the Evolution of Ideal Intimacy: Romance Reading in 1980 and 2016 Journal of Popular Romance Studies 11:

Topic

Felski, Rita (1990) Kitsch, Romance Fiction and Male Paranoia: Stephen King meets the Frankfurt School Continuum: The Australian Journal of Media & Culture 4.1:54-70

Topic

Feng, Jin (2009) "Addicted to Beauty": Consuming and Producing Web-based Chinese Danmei Fiction at Jinjiang Modern Chinese Literature and Culture 21.2:1-41

Topic

m/m romance

Feng, Jin (2011) Men Conquer the World and Women Save Mankind: Rewriting Patriarchal Traditions through Web-based Matriarchal Romances Journal of Popular Romance Studies 1.2:

Topic

Feng, Jin (2013) Romancing the Internet: Producing and Consuming Chinese Web Romance Leiden: Brill

Topic

Fenty, Linda D. (1987) A Comparative Analysis of Female Role Models in Selected Contemporary Teen Romances Educat.D., Auburn University

Topic

Older and/or precursor texts (may not be "romance" as now defined)

Fera-VanGent, Tania (2005) Popular Romance Novels: Seeking out the 'Sisterhood' MA thesis, Brock University

Topic

chick lit

Fernández Rodríguez, Carolina (2018) " Del cuento de hadas a la novela romántica: Una visión de la sub/literatura como gimnasio mental y laboratorio de sub/versión cultural " Repercusión de la lectura y otras formas de arte en nuestra vida y nuestra obra: Memorias del VII coloquio de LART, Centro Español de Manhattan, Nueva York, 26-28 de octubre de 2016 69-95

Topic

fairytales/folktales

Fernández Rodríguez, Carolina (2019) Chamorro WWII Romances: Combating Erasure with Tales of Survival and Vitality Journal of Popular Romance Studies 8:

Topic

Guam

languages

Fernández Rodríguez, Carolina (2021) American Quaker Romances: Building the Myth of the White Christian Nation Valencia: Universitat de València

Topic

Christian romance

Fernández Rodríguez, Carolina (2021) " Nora Roberts’s Boonsboro Empire: Boosting Business through Romance, Invigorating Romance with Affective Capitalism " Romantic Escapes: Post-Millennial Trends in Contemporary Popular Romance Fiction 97-119

Topic

metaphor/symbolism

Fernández Ulloa, Teresa Morazzani, Joanne Schmidt (2016) Images of Women in Hispanic Culture Newcastle upon Tyne: Cambridge Scholars Publishing

Fernández Ulloa, Teresa Soler Gallo, Miguel (2020) Aproximaciones a la configuración de la identidad en la cultura y sociedad hispanas e italianas contemporáneas Madrid: Liceus

Ferrández San Miguel, María Neumann, Claus-Peter (2018) Taking Stock to Look Ahead: Celebrating Forty Years of English Studies in Spain Zaragoza: Prensas Universitarias de la Universidad de Zaragoza

Fesenmeier, Ludwig Novakova, Iva (2020) Phraséologie et stylistique de la langue littéraire/Phraseology and Stylistics of Literary Language; Approches interdisciplinaires/Interdisciplinary Approaches Berlin: Peter Lang

Fialkoff, Francine (1992) Romancing the Patron: Romance novels don't get equal review treatment Library Journal 117.21:118

Topic

Ficke, Sarah H. (2021) " The historical romance " The Routledge Research Companion to Popular Romance Fiction 118-140 DOI:10.4324/9781315613468-5

Topic

history

Beverly Jenkins

Ficke, Sarah (2022) " House, home and husband in historical romance fiction " The Routledge Companion to Romantic Love DOI:10.4324/9781003022343-11

Topic

Fife, Leslie (2003) The 2000-2003 Proceedings of the SW/Texas PCA/ACA Conference : SW/TEX PCA/ACA

Figuerola, M. Carme (2011) " Le roman dellyen et les structures du roman populaire : quelques réflexions " L’Œuvre de Delly 91-112

Topic

Delly

Finn, Geraldine (1988) " Women, Fantasy, and Popular Culture: The Wonderful World of Harlequin Romance " Popular Cultures and Political Practices 51-68 DOI:10.3138/9781442602861-006

Topic

Fischer, Heinz-Dietrich Melnik, Stefan Reinhard (1979) Entertainment: A Cross-Cultural Examination New York: Hastings House

Fisher, Maryanne L. Meredith, Tami M. (2012) The Success behind the Candy-Colored Covers: An Evolutionary Perspective on Romance Novels Evolutionary Review 3.1:154-167

Topic

evolutionary psychology

Fisher, Maryanne L. Meredith, Tami M. (2021) Evolutionary and sociocultural themes in cover art on Harlequin romance novels: A temporal analysis Evolutionary Behavioral Sciences ONLINE FIRST:ONLINE FIRST

Topic

evolutionary psychology

Fisher, Maryanne Cox, Anthony (2010) Man Change Thyself: Hero Versus Heroine Development in Harlequin Romance Novels Journal of Social, Evolutionary, and Cultural Psychology 4.4:305-316

Topic

evolutionary psychology

Fitzsimmons, Rebekah Wilson, Casey Alane (2020) Beyond the Blockbusters: Themes and Trends in Contemporary Young Adult Fiction Jackson: University Press of Mississippi

Fjelkestam, Kristina Hill, Helena Tjeder, David (2013) Kvinnorna gör mannen: maskulinitetskonstruktioner i kvinnors text och bild 1500-2000 Göteborg: Makadam förlag

Fleenor, Juliann E. (1983) The Female Gothic Montreal: Eden Press

Flegel, Monica Roth, Jenny (2010) Annihilating love and heterosexuality without women: Romance, generic difference, and queer politics in "Supernatural" fan fiction Transformative Works and Cultures 4:

Topic

fanfiction

Fleites-Lear, Marisela (2009) ¿Victoria contra Corín Tellado?: La novela rosa revolucionaria cubana y la ficción en Mujeres Romance Notes 49.1:91-100

Topic

Cuba

Flesch, Juliet (1995) Love Brought to Book: A Bio-Bibliography of 20th Century Australian Romance Novels Melbourne: National Centre for Australian Studies

Topic

Flesch, Juliet (1996) A Labour of Love? Compiling a Bibliography of Twentieth Century Australian Romance Novels Australasian Public Libraries and Information Services 9.3-4:170-178

Topic

Flesch, Juliet (1996) A Labour of Love? The Story Behind the Compilation of Love Brought to Book: A Bio-bibliography of 20th Century Australian Romance Novels Australian Academic & Research Libraries 27.3:182-190

Topic

Flesch, Juliet (1997) Not just housewives and old maids Collection Building 16.3:119-124

Topic

Flesch, Juliet (2005) Blushing Bride to Bush Matriarch: Women in the Fiction of Lucy Walker Journal of Publishing 1:37-52

Topic

Lucy Walker

Flesch, Juliet (2007) " Love under the Coolabah: Australian Romance Publishing since 1990 " Making Books: Contemporary Australian Publishing 279-285

Topic

Flesch, Juliet (2009) " ”Feminists Talk about Sisterhood: I Do Not Know How Deeply They Feel It”: Australian Mass Market Romance Novels and Their Critics " Reading Down Under: Australian Literary Studies Reader 419-428

Topic

Flesch, Juliet (2012) " The Wide Brown Land and the Big Smoke: The Setting of Australian Popular Romance " Sold by the Millions: Australia's Bestsellers 82-95

Topic

Fletcher, Lisa (2002) I love you: historical romance fiction and heterosexuality PhD, University of Melbourne

Topic

Fletcher, Lisa (2004) " “Mere Costumery”? Georgette Heyer’s Cross-Dressing Novels " Masquerades: Disguise in Literature in English from the Middle Ages to the Present 196-212

Topic

Fletcher, Lisa (2008) Historical Romance Fiction: Heterosexuality and Performativity Burlington: Ashgate

Topic

Fletcher, Lisa Gaby, Rosemary Kloester, Jennifer (2011) Pedagogy Report: Embedding Popular Romance Studies in Undergraduate English Units: Teaching Georgette Heyer’s Sylvester Journal of Popular Romance Studies 1.2:

Topic

Fletcher, Lisa (2013) The Scholarship of Teaching and Learning Popular Romance Studies: What is it, and why does it matter? Journal of Popular Romance Studies 3.2:

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teaching romance

Fletcher, Lisa (2014) Writing the Happy Ever After: An Interview with Anne Gracie Journal of Popular Romance Studies 4.2:

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Anne Gracie

Fletcher, Lisa (2016) Popular Fiction and Spatiality: Reading Genre Settings New York: Palgrave Macmillan

Fletcher, Lisa Driscoll, Beth Wilkins, Kim (2018) Genre Worlds and Popular Fiction: The Case of Twenty-First-Century Australian Romance Journal of Popular Culture 51.4:997-1015

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Fletcher, Lisa Driscoll, Beth Wilkins, Kim (2018) What is Australian Popular Fiction? Australian Literary Studies 33.4:1-11

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national identity

Fletcher, Lisa McAlister, Jodi Temple, Kurt Williams, Kathleen (2019) #loveyourshelfie: Mills & Boon books and how to find them Mémoires du livre / Studies in Book Culture 11.1:

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Flora, Cornelia Butler Flora, Jan L. (1978) The Fotonovela As a Tool for Class and Cultural Domination Latin American Perspectives 5.1:134-150

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Foley, J. A. (2007) Critical Awareness: Romance Novels in English for the Asian Market. A Critical Study of Locally Published "Romance Novels" in English Asian Journal of Literature, Culture and Society 3.2:93-108

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Singapore

Folie, Sandra (2020) " The Ethnic Labelling of a Genre Gone Global: A Distant Comparison of African-American and African Chick Lit " Literary Translation, Reception, and Transfer: The Many Languages of Comparative Literature 313–326 DOI:10.1515/9783110641998-026

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Fong, Katrina Mullin, Justin B. Mar, Raymond A. (2013) What You Read Matters: The Role of Fiction Genre in Predicting Interpersonal Sensitivity Psychology of Aesthetics, Creativity, and the Arts 7.4:370-376

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Fong, Katrina Mullin, Justin B. Mar, Raymond A. (2015) How Exposure to Literary Genres Relates to Attitudes Toward Gender Roles and Sexual Behavior Psychology of Aesthetics, Creativity, and the Arts 9.3:274–285

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Forbes, Curdella (2006) X Press Publications: Pop Culture, “Pop Lit” and Caribbean Literary Criticism: An Essay of Provocation Anthurium: A Caribbean Studies Journal 4.1:

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Fordham, Helen (2014) ‘That’s love for you’: Destabilizing divides and re-imaging subjectivities in the romantic fiction of Eloisa James Australasian Journal of Popular Culture 3.3:273-284

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Eloisa James

Shakespeare

Forte, Gioacchino (1966) I persuasori rosa: sociologia curiosa del rotocalco femminile in Italia Naples: Edizioni Scientifiche Italiane

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Italy

sociology

Fortunati, Vita Franci, Giovanna (1982) 'Ma c'è sempre un arcobaleno': La 'romantic fiction' di Barbara Cartland Quaderni di Filologia Germanica della Facolta di Lettere e Filosofia dell'Universita di Bologna 2:167-192

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Victoria Holt/Jean Plaidy/Eleanor Burford Hibbert

Fortunati, Vita Franci, Giovanna Mangaroni, Rosella (1986) " Prefazione " Maestre d'amore: eroine e scrittrici nell'impero del rosa inglese 5-16

Fortunati, Vita Franci, Giovanna (1986) " Tre romantiche ‘figlie d’Inghilterra’ alla conquista della storia: Eleanor Hibbert, Georgette Heyer e Barbara Cartland " Maestre d'amore: eroine e scrittrici nell'impero del rosa inglese 17-53

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Fortunati, Vita Franci, Giovanna (1987) " Barbara Cartland, la regina del rosa " Intorno al rosa

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Foss, Kimberly Kay (1997) An Analysis to Determine if Popular Romance Novels, Read by Today’s High School Students, Reflect the Characteristics and Roles of Women in Current Society M.S. in Education with Emphasis in Library Science, University of Wyoming

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Foster, Guy Mark (2007) " How Dare a Black Woman Make Love to a White Man! Black Women Romance Novelists and the Taboo of Interracial Desire " Empowerment versus Oppression: Twenty-First Century Views of Popular Romance Novels 103-128

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Foster, Guy Mark (2015) What To Do If Your Inner Tomboy Is a Homo: Straight Women, Bisexuality, and Pleasure in M/M Gay Romance Fictions Journal of Bisexuality 15.4:509-531

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Fowler, Bridget (1979) "True to Me Always": An Analysis of Women's Magazine Fiction The British Journal of Sociology 30.1:91-119

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Older and/or precursor texts (may not be "romance" as now defined)

Fowler, Bridget (1991) The Alienated Reader: Women and Romantic Literature in the Twentieth Century Hemel Hempstead: Harvester Wheatsheaf

Fox, Pamela A. (1993) " Ethel Carnie Holdsworth's "Revolt of the Gentle": Romance and the Politics of Resistance in Working-Class Women's Writing " Rediscovering Forgotten Radicals: British Women Writers 1889-1939 57-74

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Older and/or precursor texts (may not be "romance" as now defined)

Ethel Carnie Holdsworth

Fox, Pamela (1994) The "Revolt of the Gentle": Romance and the Politics of Resistance in Working-Class Women's Writing NOVEL: A Forum on Fiction 27.2:140-160

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Ethel Carnie Holdsworth

Ellen Wilkinson

Older and/or precursor texts (may not be "romance" as now defined)

Fragero Guerra, Carmen (2013) La técnica narrativa del espejo en Carmen de Icaza (1899-1979) y en Carmen Martín Gaite (1925-2000) Tejuelo: Didáctica de la Lengua y la Literatura. Educación 16:23-34

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Fragero Guerra, Carmen (2013) Fifty shades of grey: Una novela popular en España Investigaciones Feministas 4:255-269

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Fifty Shades

Fragero Guerra, Carmen (2014) "Soñar la vida": La narrativa de Carmen de Icaza (1936-1960) PhD, Universidad de Córdoba

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fashion/clothing

film/movies

Fragero Guerra, Carmen (2014) Auxilio Social en La casa de enfrente (1960) de Carmen de Icaza Tejuelo: Didáctica de la Lengua y la Literatura. Educación 20:57-77

Topic

Fragero Guerra, Carmen (2017) Del azul al rosa: la narrativa de Carmen de Icaza (1936-1960) Madrid: Sial Pigmalión

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Luisa-María Linares

Fragero Guerra, Carmen (2020) " Carmen de Icaza: la imagen de identidad femenina durante el primer franquismo (1936-1949) " Aproximaciones a la configuración de la identidad en la cultura y sociedad hispanas e italianas contemporáneas 61-87

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Francis, Conseula (2016) " Flipping the Script: Romancing Zane's Urban Erotica " Romance Fiction and American Culture: Love as the Practice of Freedom? 167-180

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Zane

Franck, Kaja (2020) " Growing Pains of the Teenage Werewolf: Young Adult Literature and the Metaphorical Wolf " In the company of wolves: Werewolves, wolves and wild children 163-177 DOI:10.7765/9781526129048.00020

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Franco, Jean (1986) " Plotting Women: Popular Narratives for Women in the United States and in Latin America " Reinventing the Americas: Comparative Studies of Literature of the United States and Spanish America 249–268 DOI:10.1215/9780822385462-010

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Anne Mather

Mexico

Franco, Jean (1986) " The Incorporation of Women: A Comparison of North American and Mexican Popular Narrative " Studies in Entertainment: Critical Approaches to Mass Culture 119-138

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Frankel, Valerie Estelle (2016) Adoring Outlander: Essays on Fandom, Genre and the Female Audience Jefferson, North Carolina: McFarland & Company

Franssen, Thomas Velthuis, Olav (2016) Making materiality matter: a sociological analysis of prices on the Dutch fiction book market, 1980–2009 Socio-Economic Review 14.2:363–381

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Netherlands

Jayne Ann Krentz/Amanda Quick/Jayne Castle

Frantz, Sarah S. G. (2002) " "Expressing" Herself: The Romance Novel and the Feminine Will to Power " Scorned Literature: Essays on the History and Criticism of Popular Mass-Produced Fiction in America 17-36

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Frantz, Sarah S. G. (2008) "Suzanne Brockmann" Teaching American Literature: A Journal of Theory and Practice 2.2/3:1-19

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Suzanne Brockmann

Islam

romantic suspense

Frantz, Sarah S. G. (2009) Darcy’s Vampiric Descendants: Austen’s Perfect Romance Hero and J. R. Ward’s Black Dagger Brotherhood Persuasions 30.1:

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Frantz, Sarah S. G. (2009) " I’ve tried my entire life to be a good man': Suzanne Brockmann’s Sam Starrett, Ideal Romance Hero " Women Constructing Men: Female Novelists and their Male Characters, 1750-2000 227-247

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Frantz, Sarah S. G. Rennhak, Katharina (2009) Women Constructing Men: Female Novelists and their Male Characters, 1750-2000 Lanham, Maryland: Lexington

Frantz, Sarah S. G. (2012) " "How we love is our soul": Joey W. Hill's BDSM Romance Holding the Cards " New Approaches to Popular Romance Fiction: Critical Essays 47-59

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Frantz, Sarah S. G. Selinger, Eric Murphy (2012) New Approaches to Popular Romance Fiction: Critical Essays Jefferson, North Carolina: McFarland

Frantz, Sarah S. G. (2012) " The History of BDSM Fiction and Romance " Fifty Writers on Fifty Shades of Grey 159-172

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Frantz Lyons, Sarah Selinger, Eric Murphy (2016) " Strange Stirrings, Strange Yearnings: The Flame and the Flower, Sweet Savage Love, and the Lost Diversities of Blockbuster Historical Romance " Romance Fiction and American Culture: Love as the Practice of Freedom? 89-110

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Fraysse, Mélie Garcia, Marie-Carmen (2019) Les Thug Love : des romans sentimentaux à l'épreuve de la classe et de la race Genre en séries : cinéma, télévision, médias 9:15-37

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Frederick, Rhonda (2013) Making Jamaican Love: Colin Channer's Waiting in Vain and Romance-ified Diaspora Identities Small Axe: A Caribbean Journal Of Criticism 17.3:63-84

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Frenier, Mariam Darce (1988) Good-bye Heathcliff: Changing Heroes, Heroines, Roles, and Values in Women’s Category Romances New York: Greenwood Press

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Fresno-Calleja, Paloma (2019) Chick-Lit Pasifika-Style or How to B(l)end the Formula: Lani Young’s Scarlet Series Contemporary Women's Writing 13.2:203–221

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Fresno-Calleja, Paloma (2021) " Rugby Romances and the Branding of New Zealand " Romantic Escapes: Post-Millennial Trends in Contemporary Popular Romance Fiction 177-201

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New Zealand

national identity

Fresno-Calleja, Paloma (2022) Repurposing Fantasy Island: Lani Wendt Young’s Telesā Series and the Politics of Postcolonial Romance Interventions: International Journal of Postcolonial Studies ONLINE FIRST:ONLINE FIRST

Topic

Lani Wendt Young

Friedman, Lenemaja (1990) Mary Stewart Boston: Twayne

Topic

romantic suspense

Mary Stewart

Fromont, Daniel (2011) " Lire Delly, un plaisir toujours renouvelé " L’Œuvre de Delly 83-90

Topic

Delly

Frost, Laura (2006) " The Romance of Cliché: E. M. Hull, D. H. Lawrence, and Interwar Erotic Fiction " Bad Modernisms 94-118 DOI:10.2307/j.ctv125jq8v.8

Topic

E. M. Hull

Frost, Laura (2013) The Problem with Pleasure: Modernism and Its Discontents New York: Columbia University Press

Topic

E. M. Hull

romance scholarship

Older and/or precursor texts (may not be "romance" as now defined)

Fuchs, Barbara (2004) Romance New York: Routledge

Topic

Funderburk, Amy (2004) Romance collections in North Carolina public libraries: Are all genres treated equally? Masters, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill

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Gagne-Hawes, Genevieve (2006) Anatomy of a Romance: Questioning genre conventions in the novels of Nora Roberts Modern Mask 1.2:

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Gagnon, Andrée (1987) Et si je t'aime, prends garde à toi : essai d'anthropologie sur la sexualité dans les romans Harlequin Mémoire (M.A.), l’Université Laval

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Gaines, Judith (1990) Tracing feminism through the romance novel, or, the vines (clinging) and the swines (chauvinistic), they are a-changin' M.A., Ball State University

Topic

Galateria, Daria (1986) " Erotismo e buona creanza in Georgette Heyer " Maestre d'amore: eroine e scrittrici nell'impero del rosa inglese

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Galateria, Daria (1987) " Accorgimenti antibovaristi di Georgette Heyer " Intorno al rosa

Topic

Gallon, Kim (2013) “How Much Can You Read about Interracial Love and Sex without Getting Sore?”: Readers’ Debate over Interracial Relationships in the Baltimore Afro-American Journalism History 39.2:104-114

Topic

Gandolfo, Anita (2007) Faith and Fiction: Christian Literature in America Today Westport, Connecticut: Praeger Publishers

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Christian romance

Ganetz, Hillevi Lövgren, Karin (1991) Om unga kvinnor: identitet, kultur och livsvillkor Lund: Studentlitteratur

Ganguly, Keya (1991) Alien(ated) Readers: Harlequin Romances and the Politics of Popular Culture Communication 12.2:129-150

Topic

Garber, Linda (2021) Novel Approaches to Lesbian History Cham, Switzerland: Palgrave Macmillan

Topic

history

pirates and outlaws

García Fernández, Aurora Fresno-Calleja, Paloma (2020) Competence, Complicity and Complexity: Hsu-Ming Teo on the Pitfalls and Nuances of Reading and Researching Popular Romance Raudem, Revista de Estudios de las Mujeres 8:261-280

Topic

romance scholarship

love

Gardiner, Edmond F. (1974) Annie S. Swan—forerunner of modern popular fiction Library Review 24.6:251-254

Topic

Annie S. Swan

Gardner, Jeanne Emerson (2012) " "Dreams May End, But Love Never Does": Marriage and Materialism in American Romance Comics, 1947-1954 " Comic Books and American Cultural History: An Anthology 94-109

Topic

comics/manga

Gardner, Jeanne Emerson (2013) She Got Her Man, but Could She Keep Him? Love and Marriage in American Romance Comics, 1947–1954 The Journal of American Culture 36.1:16-24

Topic

Gardner, Jeanne (2011) 'True-To-Life': Romance Comics and Teen-Age Desire, 1947-1954 Forum for World Literature Studies 3.1:118-128

Topic

comics/manga

Gardner, Jeanne (2012) " Girls Who Sinned in Secret and Paid in Public: Romance Comics, 1949-1954 " Comic Books and the Cold War, 1946-1962: Essays on Graphic Treatment of Communism, the Code and Social Concerns 92-102

Topic

Gardner, Dora Abigail (2019) Defending the Bodice Ripper MA thesis, Eastern Kentucky University

Topic

Gargano, Elizabeth (2006) "English Sheiks" and Arab Stereotypes: E. M. Hull, T. E. Lawrence, and the Imperial Masquerade Texas Studies in Literature and Language 48.2:171-186

Topic

Garland, Sarah (2012) " Ornamentalism: Desire, Disavowal, and Displacement in E. M. Hull's The Sheik " Must Read: Rediscovering American Bestsellers from Charlotte Temple to The Da Vinci Code 197-216

Topic

E. M. Hull