| Palmer, Gary B.; Occhi, Debra J. |
Languages of Sentiment: Cultural constructions of emotional substrates |
1999 |
|
| Panizza, Letizia; Wood, Sharon |
A History of Women’s Writing in Italy |
2000 |
|
| Papargyriou, Eleni; Assinder, Semele; Holton, David |
Greece in British Women’s Literary Imagination, 1913-2013 |
2017 |
|
| Paradis, Kenneth |
Types and Tropes: History and Moral Agency in Evangelical Inspirational Fiction |
2020 |
Christian romance, Francine Rivers, religion/spirituality, history, United States of America, settings, metafiction, historical romance |
| Parameswaran, Radhika E. |
Public Images, Private Pleasures: Romance Reading at the Intersection of Gender, Class, and National Identities in Urban India |
1997 |
Harlequin Mills & Boon, India, readers, gender, social class, national identity |
| Parameswaran, Radhika |
Western Romance Fiction as English-Language Media in Postcolonial India |
1999 |
Harlequin Mills & Boon, India, readers, social class, libraries/librarians, sex/sexuality, gender, trash/literary quality |
| Parameswaran, Radhika |
Reading Fictions of Romance: Gender, Sexuality, and Nationalism in Postcolonial India |
2002 |
India, gender, social class, national identity, sex/sexuality, readers, Publishing, paratext, historical romance, race/ethnicity, marriage, virginity, family |
| Parke, Maggie; Wilson, Natalie |
Theorizing Twilight: Critical Essays on What's at Stake in a Post-Vampire World |
2011 |
|
| Parnell, Claire |
Models of Publishing and Opportunities for Change: Representations in Harlequin, Montlake and Self-Published Romance Novels |
2018 |
Publishing, Harlequin Mills & Boon, gender, sex/sexuality, social class |
| Parv, Valerie |
Healing Writes: Restorying the Authorial Self through Creative Practice: and Birthright, a speculative fiction novel |
2007 |
authors, psychology, Valerie Parv |
| Patai, Daphne; Ingram, Angela |
Fantasy and Identity: The Double Life of a Victorian Sexual Radical |
1993 |
gender, paranormal/fantasy/time-travel romance, Irene Clyde, precursors of modern romance, LGBT+ characters, readers and/or authors |
| Pattee, Amy S. |
Reading the Adolescent Romance: Sweet Valley High and the Popular Young Adult Romance Novel |
2011 |
YA/teenage romance |
| Patterson, Janet |
Consuming Passion |
1981 |
Harlequin Mills & Boon, readers |
| Patthey-Chavez, G. Genevieve; Clare, Lindsay; Youmans, Madeleine |
Watery Passion: The Struggle between Hegemony and Sexual Liberation in Erotic Fiction for Women |
1996 |
metaphor/symbolism, erotic romance, gender, sex/sexuality, linguistics, Shirlee Busbee, Julie Garwood, Roberta Gellis, Johanna Lindsey, Jayne Ann Krentz/Amanda Quick/Jayne Castle, Bertrice Small, Rachel Lee/Sue Civil-Brown, Elizabeth Lowell, Emma Merritt, Fayrene Preston, Kasey Stuart, Linda Turner, virginity, food, alcohol, war/armed forces, rape and/or intimate partner violence/abuse, work |
| Paulvé, Dominique; Guérin, Marie |
Le roman du roman rose |
1994 |
Delly, Max du Veuzit, Berthe Bernage, Magali, pen name of Jeanne Philbert |
| Pawling, Christopher |
Popular Fiction and Social Change |
1984 |
|
| Peabody, Rebecca |
Kara Walker: American Romance in Black and White |
2016 |
historical romance, race/ethnicity, sex/sexuality, Barbara Ferry Johnson |
| Pearce, Lynne; Stacey, Jackie |
Romance Revisited |
1995 |
|
| Pearce, Lynne; Wisker, Gina |
Fatal Attractions: Rescripting Romance in Contemporary Literature and Film |
1998 |
|
| Pearce, Lynne |
Popular Romance and Its Readers |
2004 |
Jeanette Winterson, food, alcohol, settings, psychology, Violet Winspear, readers, sex/sexuality |
| Pearce, Lynne |
Romance Writing |
2007 |
love, Jane Rule, LGBT+ characters, readers and/or authors, Ann Bannon, Margaret Mitchell, Daphne du Maurier, Jeanette Winterson |
| Pearce, Lynne |
Romance and Repetition: Testing the Limits of Love |
2011 |
love, psychology, philosophy |
| Pearce, Elizabeth Florence |
Reading the Lesbian Romance: Re-imagining Love, Sex, Relationships, and Community |
2004 |
lesbian romance |
| Peaty, Gwyneth |
Rock Hard: Gargoyles in Contemporary Gothic Romance |
2015 |
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 |
Identity by Design: The Corporate Construction of Teen Romance Novels |
1999 |
YA/teenage romance, fashion/clothing, sex/sexuality, rape and/or intimate partner violence/abuse, food, alcohol, LGBT+ characters, readers and/or authors, race/ethnicity |
| Percec, Dana |
Romance: The History of a Genre |
2012 |
|
| Pérez Casal, Inmaculada |
Love in Times of Crisis: An Approach to Contemporary Romance Novels in Spain |
2016 |
Spain, Publishing, precursors of modern romance |
| Pérez Casal, Inmaculada |
Mass-market romance and the question of genre: N. Sparks, E. L. James and D. Gabaldon |
2018 |
Diana Gabaldon, Fifty Shades, Nicholas Sparks, genre definitions, film/movies |
| Pérez Casal, Inmaculada |
The Romance Novel as Bildungsroman in the Works of Rosamunde Pilcher and Lisa Kleypas |
2018 |
gender, Rosamunde Pilcher, Lisa Kleypas, historical romance |
| Pérez Casal, Inmaculada |
“There’s Something Charming about a Man with an Accent, Isn’t There?”: The Representation of Otherness in Three Novels by Lisa Kleypas |
2020 |
Lisa Kleypas, race/ethnicity, historical romance, languages, social class, UK |
| Pérez-Casal, Inmaculada |
Business-like Lords and Gentlemanly Businessmen: The Romance Hero in Lisa Kleypas's Wallflowers Series |
2020 |
Lisa Kleypas, capitalism/business, historical romance, United States of America, UK, national identity, social class |
| Pérez-Gil, María del Mar |
Exoticism, Ethnocentrism, and Englishness in Popular Romance Fiction: Constructing the European Other |
2018 |
Spain, national identity, UK, race/ethnicity, islands, Harlequin Mills & Boon |
| Pérez-Gil, María del Mar |
Representations of Nation and Spanish Masculinity in Popular Romance Novels: The Alpha Male as “Other” |
2019 |
Spain, gender, national identity, Harlequin Mills & Boon, UK |
| Pérez-Gil, María del Mar |
Britannia’s Daughters: Popular Romance Fiction and the Ideology of National Superiority (1950s–1970s) |
2020 |
national identity, race/ethnicity, UK, history, Violet Winspear, Lilian Warren as Rosalind Brett/Kathryn Blair/Celine Conway, Kay Thorpe, Greece, Spain, Jean S. MacLeod/Catherine Airlie, gender, feminism |
| Perkins, Lori |
Fifty Writers on Fifty Shades of Grey |
2012 |
|
| Peukert, Christian; Reimers, Imke |
Digital Disintermediation and Efficiency in the Market for Ideas |
2018 |
Publishing |
| Philadelphoff-Puren, Nina |
The Mark of Refusal: Sexual Violence and the Politics of Recontextualization |
2004 |
rape and/or intimate partner violence/abuse, Charlotte Lamb |
| Philadelphoff-Puren, Nina |
Contextualising Consent: The Problem of Rape and Romance |
2005 |
rape and/or intimate partner violence/abuse, Charlotte Lamb |
| Philips, Deborah |
Marketing Moonshine |
1985 |
|
| Philips, Deborah |
Mills and Boon: The Marketing of Moonshine |
1990 |
Harlequin Mills & Boon, Publishing, paratext |
| Philips, Deborah |
The Empire of Romance: Love in a Postcolonial Climate |
2011 |
Harlequin Mills & Boon, UK, race/ethnicity, Pamela Kent, Juliet Shore/Anne Vinton, Jean Herbert, settings, work, Lilian Warren as Rosalind Brett/Kathryn Blair/Celine Conway, Africa, medical romance |
| Phillips, Kristen |
Women and Erotic Fiction: Critical Essays on Genres, Markets & Readers |
2015 |
|
| Piatti-Farnell, Lorna; Brien, Donna Lee |
New Directions in 21st Century Gothic: The Gothic Compass |
2015 |
|
| Pierini, Francesca |
“He Looks like He’s Stepped out of a Painting:” The Idealization and Appropriation of Italian Timelessness through the Experience of Romantic Love |
2020 |
Italy, history, Shakespeare, Marina Fiorato, Anne Fortier, work, race/ethnicity |
| Po-Yu, Rick Wei |
“She is a Jade”: A Georgian Gaming Woman Re-imagined in Georgette Heyer’s Faro’s Daughter |
2018 |
Georgette Heyer, history, feminism, historical romance |
| Popova, Milena |
Rewriting the Romance: Emotion Work and Consent in Arranged Marriage Fanfiction |
2018 |
fanfiction, sex/sexuality, marriage, emotions |
| Pöppel, Hubert |
Las reinas de la novela rosa en España y Alemania: Corín Tellado y Hedwig Courths-Mahler |
2014 |
Germany, Spain, Corín Tellado, Hedwig Courths-Mahler, trash/literary quality |
| Porter, David |
Internet Culture |
1997 |
|
| Postma, Kathlene |
American Women Readers Encounter Turkey in the Shadow of Popular Romance |
1999 |
United States of America, Greece, Turkey, national identity, precursors of modern romance, Demetra Vaka, race/ethnicity |
| Potter, Jane Elizabeth |
Boys in khaki, girls in print: women's literary responses to the great war, 1914-1918 |
1998 |
war/armed forces, national identity |
| Potter, Jane |
"A great purifier": The Great War in Women's Romances and Memoirs 1914-1918 |
1997 |
war/armed forces, Berta Ruck, Ruby M. Ayres |
| Potter, Jane |
Boys in Khaki, Girls in Print: Women's Literary Responses to the Great War 1914-1918 |
2005 |
war/armed forces, Ruby M. Ayres, Berta Ruck, Mary Ward/Mrs. Humphry Ward, Florence Barclay, disability, gender, social class, paratext, Bessie Marchant, Janet Laing, Marie Belloc Lowndes, religion/spirituality, national identity |
| Potter, Jane |
‘Khaki and Kisses’: Reading the Romance Novel in the Great War |
2015 |
war/armed forces, readers, national identity, gender |
| Powley, Tammy |
Romance Fiction in Florida: The Crisscross of Jane Austen and Angela Hunt |
2015 |
Angela Hunt, Jane Austen |
| Powley, Tammy; Van Camp, April |
Women of Florida Fiction: Essays on 12 Sunshine State Writers |
2015 |
|
| Pozzato, Maria Pia |
Il romanzo rosa |
1982 |
|
| Press, Andrea L. |
New Views on the Mass Production of Women's Culture |
1986 |
romance scholarship |
| Preston, Cathy Lynn |
Folklore, Literature, and Cultural Theory: Collected Essays |
1995 |
|
| Proctor, Candice |
The Romance Genre Blues or Why We Don't Get No Respect |
2007 |
trash/literary quality, emotions, gender, pornography |
| Puren, Nina |
Hymeneal Acts: Interrogating the Hegemony of Rape and Romance |
1995 |
rape and/or intimate partner violence/abuse, Charlotte Lamb, race/ethnicity, virginity |
| Puri, Jyoti |
Reading Romance Novels in Postcolonial India |
1997 |
India, readers, marriage, sex/sexuality, gender, social class, family |
| Pustz, Matthew |
Comic Books and American Cultural History: An Anthology |
2012 |
|
| Pylkkänen, Merita |
Didactic Fulfillment and the Popular Romance: Jude Deveraux’s The Mulberry Tree |
2013 |
Jude Deveraux |
| Quilliam, Susan |
“He seized her in his manly arms and bent his lips to hers…”. The surprising impact that romantic novels have on our work |
2011 |
sex/sexuality, readers |
| Rabine, Leslie W. |
Reading the Romantic Heroine: Text, History, Ideology |
1985 |
Harlequin Mills & Boon, work, Charlotte Brontë, emotions, Publishing, authors |
| Rabine, Leslie W. |
Romance in the Age of Electronics: Harlequin Enterprises |
1985 |
Harlequin Mills & Boon, work, Charlotte Brontë, emotions, Publishing, authors |
| Rabinowitz, Paula |
Oxford Research Encyclopedia of Literature |
|
|
| Radford, Jean |
Introduction |
1986 |
trash/literary quality, romance scholarship, genre definitions, precursors of modern romance, socialism and/or communism, feminism, readers |
| Radford, Jean |
The Progress of Romance: The Politics of Popular Fiction |
1986 |
|
| Radford, Jean |
A Certain Latitude: Romance as Genre |
1992 |
genre definitions |
| Radhika, P. |
Narratives of Fractured Conjugality: Women’s Romance Novels in Kannada, 1950s-1960s |
2004 |
India |
| Radhika, P. |
Inaugurating a (Feminine) Public: Women’s Romances in Kannada, 1950s–1960s |
2014 |
India, psychology |
| Radick, Caryn |
Romance Writers’ Use of Archives |
2016 |
libraries/librarians, authors, historical romance, trash/literary quality |
| Radner, Hilary |
Shopping Around: Feminine Culture and the Pursuit of Pleasure |
1995 |
gender, feminism, readers, sex/sexuality, Barbara Delinsky, metafiction, Roumelia Lane, psychology, pornography, BDSM, Kathleen Woodiwiss, historical romance, race/ethnicity, LaVyrle Spencer, settings |
| Radstone, Susannah |
Sweet Dreams: Sexuality, Gender and Popular Fiction |
1988 |
|
| Radway, Janice A. |
The Aesthetic in Mass Culture: Reading the "Popular" Literary Text |
1982 |
gothic romance, Victoria Holt/Jean Plaidy/Eleanor Burford Hibbert, fashion/clothing |
| Radway, Janice A. |
Women Read the Romance: The Interaction of Text and Context |
1983 |
readers, psychology, gender |
| Radway, Janice A. |
Interpretive Communities And Variable Literacies: The Functions Of Romance Reading |
1984 |
readers, linguistics |
| Radway, Janice A. |
Reading the Romance: Women, Patriarchy, and Popular Literature |
1984 |
Publishing, feminism, readers, genre definitions, marriage, psychology, gender |
| Radway, Janice |
The Utopian Impulse in Popular Literature: Gothic Romances and "Feminist" Protest |
1981 |
gothic romance, readers, genre definitions, Victoria Holt/Jean Plaidy/Eleanor Burford Hibbert, United States of America, gender, feminism, Kathleen Woodiwiss, sex/sexuality |
| Radway, Janice |
Romance and the Work of Fantasy: Struggles over Feminine Sexuality and Subjectivity at Century's End |
1994 |
authors, feminism, gender, sex/sexuality, romance scholarship, Publishing, work, Jude Deveraux |
| Raitt, Suzanne; Tate, Trudi |
Women's Fiction and The Great War |
1997 |
|
| Rak, Michele |
Rosa: La letteratura del divertimento amoroso |
1999 |
|
| Ramos-García, María T.; Vivanco, Laura |
Introduction |
2020 |
|
| Ramos-García, María T.; Vivanco, Laura |
Love, Language, Place, and Identity in Popular Culture: Romancing the Other |
2020 |
|
| Ramos-García, María T. |
Representations of Otherness in Paranormal Romance: Race and Wealth in Nalini Singh and J.R. Ward |
2020 |
Nalini Singh, J. R. Ward, paranormal/fantasy/time-travel romance, race/ethnicity, United States of America, capitalism/business |
| Rampoldi Hnilo, Lynn A. |
The effects of romance in young adult fiction on pre-adolescent African-American females |
1996 |
readers, YA/teenage romance, psychology |
| Rampure, Archana |
Doctors in the Darkness: Reading Race, Gender, and History in the Popular Medical Romance |
2005 |
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 Rosalind Brett/Kathryn Blair/Celine Conway, Charlotte Lamb, Africa, war/armed forces |
| Ramsdell, Kristin |
Encyclopedia of Romance Fiction |
2018 |
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 |
| Randell, Karen; Weedon, Alexis |
Atlantic Liners, It Girls and Old Europe in Elinor Glyn’s Romantic Adventures |
2020 |
Elinor Glyn, social class, wealth/prosperity, precursors of modern romance, marriage, United States of America, history |
| Rani, Mohd. Zariat Abdul |
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 |
2012 |
Indonesia, Habiburrahman El-Shirazy, Taufiqurrahman Al-Azizy, Islam, religion/spirituality, paratext, film/movies, Publishing, marriage |
| Rani, Mohd. Zariat Abdul |
The Conflict of Love and Islam: The Main Ingredients in the Popular Islamic Novels of Malaysia |
2014 |
Malaysia, Islam, religion/spirituality, Zaid Akhtar, Ilham Hamdani, paratext, Publishing |
| Rapp, Adrian; Dodgen, Lynda; Kaler, Anne K. |
A Romance Writer Gets Away with Murder |
2000 |
Sandra Brown, romantic suspense, death |
| Rata, Georgeta |
Linguistic Studies of Human Language |
2013 |
|
| Raub, Patricia |
Issues of Passion and Power in E. M. Hull's The Sheik |
1992 |
E. M. Hull, sex/sexuality, United States of America, history, gender, precursors of modern romance, Elinor Glyn, Harlequin Mills & Boon |
| Raw, Laurence |
The Silk Road of Adaptation: Transformations across Disciplines and Cultures |
2013 |
|
| Reed, Eleanor |
Domestic Culture in Woman's Weekly, 1918-1958 |
2018 |
history, social class, romances in magazines/romance magazines, precursors of modern romance, UK |
| Reep, Diana |
The Rescue And Romance: Popular Novels Before World War I |
1982 |
precursors of modern romance, United States of America, gender, race/ethnicity, social class |
| Reeves, Anne R. |
Adolescents Talk about Reading: Exploring Resistance to and Engagement with Text |
2004 |
readers |
| Regan, Lisa |
Women and the 'War Machine' in the Desert Romances of E. M. Hull and Rosita Forbes |
2017 |
E. M. Hull, UK, war/armed forces, national identity |
| Regis, Pamela |
Complicating Romances and their Readers: Barrier and Point of Ritual Death in Nora Roberts's Category Fiction |
1997 |
Nora Roberts/J. D. Robb, romance scholarship, genre definitions |
| Regis, Pamela |
A Natural History of the Romance Novel |
2003 |
genre definitions, trash/literary quality, Samuel Richardson, Jane Austen, precursors of modern romance, 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 |
Female genre fiction in the twentieth century |
2011 |
genre definitions, Samuel Richardson, precursors of modern romance, 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 |
What Do Critics Owe the Romance? Keynote Address at the Second Annual Conference of the International Association for the Study of Popular Romance |
2011 |
feminism, trash/literary quality, pornography, readers, emotions, romance scholarship |
| Reid Boyd, Elizabeth |
Romancing feminism: From women’s studies to women’s fiction |
2014 |
feminism, love, readers |
| Reid-Walsh, Jacqueline |
Adolescent Girls' Romance Fiction: Contemporary Conduct Books? |
1993 |
YA/teenage romance, readers, precursors of modern romance, gender |
| Reitemeier, Rebecca |
Romance Novels and Higher Education |
2019 |
precursors of modern romance, feminism, readers, psychology, teaching romance |
| Rholetter, Wylene |
Nora Roberts |
2008 |
Nora Roberts/J. D. Robb, rape and/or intimate partner violence/abuse, family, romantic suspense, feminism, work, Janet Dailey, fairytales, paranormal/fantasy/time-travel romance, Harlequin Mills & Boon |
| Richlin, Amy |
Pornography and Representation in Greece and Rome |
1992 |
|
| Ricker-Wilson, Carol |
Busting Textual Bodices: Gender, Reading, and the Popular Romance |
1999 |
gender, Danielle Steel, readers, feminism, work, social class, trash/literary quality |
| Rix, Robert W. |
“Love in the Clouds”: Barbara Cartland’s Religious Romances |
2009 |
Barbara Cartland, religion/spirituality, love, gender, Christian romance, Marie Corelli, Ethel M. Dell |
| Roach, Catherine M. |
Getting a Good Man to Love: Popular Romance Fiction and the Problem of Patriarchy |
2010 |
love, religion/spirituality, happy ending, sex/sexuality, BDSM, Maya Banks, Joey W. Hill, J. R. Ward |
| Roach, Catherine M. |
'Going Native': Aca-Fandom and Deep Participant Observation in Popular Romance Studies |
2014 |
authors, romance scholarship |
| Roach, Catherine M. |
Happily Ever After: The Romance Story in Popular Culture |
2016 |
authors, religion/spirituality, love, sex/sexuality, Beverly Jenkins, gender, rape and/or intimate partner violence/abuse, genre definitions |
| Roach, Catherine M. |
Love as the Practice of Bondage: Popular Romance Narratives and the Conundrum of Erotic Love |
2016 |
love, BDSM, Beverly Jenkins, James Buchanan, J. R. Ward, gender, LGBT+ characters, readers and/or authors, m/m romance |
| Roach, Catherine M. |
Erotica |
2018 |
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 |
Meet Jessica and Elizabeth from Sweet Valley: Who Are the Female Role Models in Popular Romance Novels for Children? |
2002 |
YA/teenage romance |
| Roberts, Sherron Killingsworth |
Twenty-five years and counting of Sweet Valley: Jessica and Elizabeth in romance novels for young children? |
2010 |
YA/teenage romance |
| Roberts, Gillian |
Reading between the Borderlines: Cultural Production and Consumption across the 49th Parallel |
2018 |
|
| Robertson, Rachel |
‘Driven by Tens’: Obsession and cognitive difference in Toni Jordan’s romantic comedy Addition |
2014 |
disability, Toni Jordan |
| Robinson, Lillian S. |
Sex, Class, and Culture |
1978 |
historical romance, history, Jane Austen, Georgette Heyer, fashion/clothing, sex/sexuality, social class, gender, trash/literary quality |
| Roccella, Eugenia |
La letteratura rosa |
1998 |
|
| Rollins, Shannon Marie |
Crafting women’s narratives: the material impact of twenty-first century romance fiction on contemporary steampunk dress |
2019 |
steampunk, fashion/clothing, gender, Gail Carriger, feminism, race/ethnicity, Adrienne Kress |
| Roman, Leslie G.; Christian-Smith, Linda K.; Ellsworth, Elizabeth |
Becoming Feminine: The Politics of Popular Culture |
1988 |
|
| Rosa, Alberto Asor |
Letteratura italiana. Storia e geografia, III, L'età contemporanea |
1989 |
|
| Rosanowski, Annika |
Can She Have It All? Pregnancy Narratives in Contemporary Category Romance |
2019 |
family, gender, Harlequin Mills & Boon, marriage |
| Rose, Suzanna |
Is Romance Dysfunctional? |
1985 |
sex/sexuality, gender, psychology, fairytales, readers |
| Ross, Marlon B. |
“What’s Love But a Second Hand Emotion?”: Man-on-Man Passion in the Contemporary Black Gay Romance Novel |
2013 |
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 |
Reader on Top: Public Libraries, Pleasure Reading, and Models of Reading |
2009 |
libraries/librarians, readers, trash/literary quality |
| Rudisill, Kristen |
Full-Blooded Desi Romance: Contemporary English-Language Romance Novels in India |
2018 |
India, readers, Publishing, national identity, Harlequin Mills & Boon, family |
| Ruggiero, Josephine A.; Weston, Louise C. |
Sex-Role Characterization of Women in "Modern Gothic Novels" |
1977 |
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 class, work, readers |
| Ruggiero, Josephine A.; Weston, Louise C. |
Conflicting Images of Women in Romance Novels |
1983 |
gothic romance, historical romance, gender, readers |
| Rush, Ramona R.; Allen, Donna |
Communications at the Crossroads: The Gender Gap Connection |
1989 |
|
| Russ, Joanna |
Somebody's Trying to Kill Me and I Think It's My Husband: The Modern Gothic |
1973 |
gothic romance, genre definitions, settings, Phyllis A. Whitney, Margaret Summerton, Helen Arvonen, Susan Howatch, Anne Maybury, Dorothy Eden, food, alcohol, fashion/clothing, sex/sexuality, gender |
| Russell, Shannon |
Dangerous Young Men: Themes of Female Sexuality and Masculinity in Paranormal Romance Novels for Young Adults |
2014 |
YA/teenage romance, paranormal/fantasy/time-travel romance, sex/sexuality, gender, rape and/or intimate partner violence/abuse |
| Ryan, Mary |
Amongst women: Male romance authors and Irish chick lit author, Andrew O’Connor |
2011 |
authors, gender, chick lit, Andrew O’Connor |
| Ryder, Mary Ellen |
Smoke and mirrors: Event patterns in the discourse structure of a romance novel |
1999 |
linguistics, Barbara Cartland |
| Sagun, Karryl Kim Abella |
Book Mavens of Manila: an interpretative phenomenological analysis of contemporary niche publishers in the Philippines |
2019 |
Philippines, Publishing, Mina V. Esguerra |
| Salamone, Frank A. |
Global Cultures |
2009 |
|
| Sales, Roger |
The Loathsome Lord and the Disdainful Dame: Byron, Cartland and the Regency Romance |
1999 |
Barbara Cartland, historical romance |
| Salmon, Catherine; Symons, Donald |
Warrior Lovers: Erotic Fiction, Evolution and Female Sexuality |
2003 |
evolutionary psychology, m/m romance, sex/sexuality |
| Salmon, Catherine |
Crossing the Abyss: Erotica and the Intersection of Evolutionary Psychology and Literary Studies |
2005 |
evolutionary psychology, sex/sexuality, feminism, pornography, fanfiction |
| Salmon, Catherine |
The Pop Culture of Sex: An Evolutionary Window on the Worlds of Pornography and Romance |
2012 |
evolutionary psychology, pornography, gender, feminism |
| Salmon, Catherine |
What Do Romance Novels, Pro Wrestling, and Mack Bolan Have in Common?: Consilience and the Pop Culture of Storytelling |
2016 |
evolutionary psychology |
| Salter, Anastasia |
Plundered Hearts: Infocom, Romance, and the History of Feminist Game Design |
2020 |
computer/video/digital games, pirates, fashion/clothing, feminism |
| Salvador Miguel, Nicasio |
Letras de la España contemporánea. Homenaje a José Luis Varela |
1995 |
|
| Salvador Miguel, Nicasio |
¿Hay precedentes de la novela rosa? |
1995 |
precursors of modern romance, genre definitions, trash/literary quality |
| Samuel, Barbara |
The Art of Romance Novels |
1997 |
Ruth Wind/Barbara Samuel/Barbara O'Neal, authors, feminism, emotions, gender, readers |
| Sánchez Calle, Pilar; Malcolm, David; López-Peláez Casellas, Jesús |
Masquerades: Disguise in Literature in English from the Middle Ages to the Present |
2004 |
|
| Sánchez-Palencia Carazo, Carolina |
El discurso femenino de la novela rosa en lengua inglesa la mujer como protagonista, autora y lectora del género |
1994 |
gender, authors, readers, genre definitions, precursors of modern romance, gothic romance, historical romance, erotic romance, Katherine V. Forrest |
| Sánchez-Palencia Carazo, Carolina |
El discurso femenino de la novela rosa en lengua inglesa |
1997 |
gender |
| Sandbakken, Asta Margrethe |
Feeling Men: Masculinity, Sexuality, and Emotion in the Contemporary Romance |
2016 |
sex/sexuality, gender, Nora Roberts/J. D. Robb, Susan Elizabeth Phillips, emotions |
| Sanders, Lise Shapiro |
Consuming Fantasies: Labor, Leisure, and the London Shopgirl, 1880-1920 |
2006 |
social class, history, gender, readers, precursors of modern romance, Publishing, romances in magazines/romance magazines, work |
| Sanders, Lise Shapiro |
Making the Modern Girl: Fantasy, Consumption, and Desire in Romance Weeklies of the 1920s |
2018 |
romances in magazines/romance magazines, gender, social class, fashion/clothing, work, precursors of modern romance |
| Sanna, Antonio |
Pirates in History and Popular Culture |
2018 |
pirates, historical romance |
| Santaemilia, José |
Gender, Sex and Translation: The Manipulation of Identities |
2005 |
|
| Santaulària, Isabel |
The Fallacy of Eternal Love: Romance, Vampires and the Deconstruction of Love in Linda Lael Miller's Forever and the Night and For All Eternity |
2002 |
paranormal/fantasy/time-travel romance, death, happy ending, Linda Lael Miller, gender, religion/spirituality |
| Sanyal, Madhuparna |
Re-imagining the late-colonial Anglo-Indian woman's romance: Reading Maud Diver |
2008 |
Maud Diver, India, UK, race/ethnicity, precursors of modern romance |
| Sarwal, Amit; Sarwal, Reema |
Reading Down Under: Australian Literary Studies Reader |
2009 |
|
| Saunders, Corinne |
A Companion to Romance: From Classical to Contemporary |
2004 |
|
| Savinainen, Raija |
Gender-specific features of male/female interaction in a popular romantic novel by Barbara Cartland |
2001 |
linguistics, Barbara Cartland, gender |
| Sceats, Sarah; Cunningham, Gail |
Image & Power: Women in Fiction in the Twentieth Century |
1996 |
|
| Schalk, Sami |
Happily Ever After for Whom? Blackness and Disability in Romance Narratives |
2016 |
disability, race/ethnicity, sex/sexuality, African American romance, Gwynne Forster, gender, war/armed forces, N. K. Jemisin, paranormal/fantasy/time-travel romance |
| Schell, Heather |
The Big Bad Wolf: Masculinity and Genetics in Popular Culture |
2007 |
animals, health/medical, gender, evolutionary psychology, paranormal/fantasy/time-travel romance |
| Schell, Heather |
The Love Life of a Fact |
2011 |
gender, evolutionary psychology, authors, feminism, romance scholarship, sex/sexuality, animals, Linda Howard, paranormal/fantasy/time-travel romance |
| Schell, Heather |
Bringing the Mid-West to the Middle-East: An Analysis of a Harlequin Romance in English and Turkish |
2013 |
translation, Harlequin Mills & Boon, Turkey, Shirley Jump, readers, family, social class, gender |
| Schell, Heather; Larsen, Katherine |
How the Story Ends: Gender, Sexuality, and Nation in the Happy Ending |
2019 |
happy ending, Sonali Dev, Radclyffe, United States of America, gender, trash/literary quality |
| Schell, Heather |
After “I Do”: Turkish Harlequin Readers Re-Imagine the Happy Ending |
2020 |
Turkey, Harlequin Mills & Boon, happy ending, Shirley Jump, family, readers, love, work |
| Schiffman, Leon G.; Schnaars, Steven P. |
The Consumption of Historical Romance Novels: Consumer Aesthetics in Popular Literature |
1981 |
historical romance, Publishing, readers |
| Schoene, Berthold |
The Edinburgh Companion to Contemporary Scottish Literature |
2007 |
|
| Schurman, Lydia Cushman; Johnson, Deidre |
Scorned Literature: Essays on the History and Criticism of Popular Mass-Produced Fiction in America |
2002 |
|
| Schwab, Sandra Martina |
Of Dragons, Knights, and Virgin Maidens: Dragonslaying and Gender Roles from Richard Johnson to Modern Popular Fiction |
2013 |
historical romance, Teresa Medeiros, Gaelen Foley, Stephanie Laurens, metaphor/symbolism, genre definitions, Harlequin Mills & Boon, happy ending, Sandra Schwab, gender, Penelope Williamson, animals, Julia Ross, virginity, romance scholarship |
| Schwab, Sandra |
“It Is Only with One’s Heart That One Can See Clearly”: The Loss of Sight in Teresa Medeiros’s The Bride and the Beast and Yours until Dawn |
2012 |
disability, Teresa Medeiros, metaphor/symbolism, fairytales, settings, Charlotte Brontë, myth |
| Scott, Alison M. |
Romance in the Stacks; or, Popular Romance Fiction Imperiled |
2002 |
libraries/librarians, trash/literary quality, romance scholarship |
| Seale, Maura |
"I find some Hindu practices like burning widows, utterly bizarre": Representations of Sati and Questions of Choice in Veils of Silk |
2007 |
Mary Jo Putney, India, historical romance, feminism, race/ethnicity, gender, religion/spirituality, death, family, marriage |
| Seidel, Kathleen Gilles |
Judge Me by the Joy I Bring |
1992 |
readers, happy ending, love, settings, emotions, feminism |
| Selinger, Eric Murphy |
Foils and Fakers, Monsters and Makers |
2006 |
Georgette Heyer, Eloisa James, A. S. Byatt |
| Selinger, Eric Murphy |
Rereading the Romance |
2007 |
romance scholarship |
| Selinger, Eric Murphy |
How to Read a Romance Novel (and Fall in Love with Popular Romance) |
2012 |
close reading, trash/literary quality, Laura Kinsale, marriage, Milton, disability, religion/spirituality, love |
| Selinger, Eric Murphy; Frantz, Sarah S. G. |
Introduction: New Approaches to Popular Romance Fiction |
2012 |
Loretta Chase, romance scholarship |
| Selinger, Eric Murphy |
Nothing But Good Times Ahead: A Special Forum on Jennifer Crusie (Editor’s Introduction) |
2012 |
Jennifer Crusie, romance scholarship, marriage, family, feminism |
| Selinger, Eric Murphy |
My Metatextual Romance: Thinking With (and About) Jaane Tu Ya Janne Na |
2014 |
film/movies |
| Selinger, Eric Murphy |
An Interview with Susan Elizabeth Phillips |
2015 |
Susan Elizabeth Phillips, rape and/or intimate partner violence/abuse, romance scholarship, United States of America, religion/spirituality, authors |
| Selinger, Eric Murphy; Gleason, William A. |
Introduction: Love as the Practice of Freedom? |
2016 |
genre definitions, Nell Stark, romance scholarship |
| Selinger, Eric Murphy |
When I Paint My Masterpiece: Bob Dylan, Ekphrasis, and the Art of Susan Elizabeth Phillips |
2016 |
Susan Elizabeth Phillips, metafiction, close reading, trash/literary quality, gender, music |
| Sequeiros, Paula |
“Holding the Dream”: Women’s Favorite Reading Matter in a Portuguese Prison |
2018 |
readers, Portugal |
| Serafine, Amelia |
"He Filled My Heart with Doubt": The Southern Belle's Love and Duty in the Civil War |
2016 |
history, United States of America, precursors of modern romance, Augusta Jane Evans, death, war/armed forces, religion/spirituality, gender, Edward Bulwer-Lytton, readers |
| Şerban, Andreea |
Romancing the Paranormal: A Case Study of J.R. Ward’s The Black Dagger Brotherhood |
2012 |
paranormal/fantasy/time-travel romance, J. R. Ward, LGBT+ characters, readers and/or authors, sex/sexuality |
| Serisier, Tanya |
On Not Reading Fifty Shades: Feminism and the Fantasy of Romantic Immunity |
2015 |
Fifty Shades, readers, feminism, rape and/or intimate partner violence/abuse |
| Shachar, Hila |
A Post-Feminist Romance: Love, Gender and Intertextuality in Stephenie Meyer's Saga |
2011 |
Twilight, Emily Brontë, Charlotte Brontë, Harlequin Mills & Boon |
| Shapiro, Joan; Kroeger, Lee |
Is Life a Romantic Novel? The Relationship Between Attitudes About Intimate Relationships and the Popular Media |
1991 |
psychology, readers |
| Sheehan, Sarah E.; Stevens, Jen |
Creating a Popular Romance Collection in an Academic Library |
2015 |
libraries/librarians |
| Shibamoto Smith, Janet S. |
Language and Gender in the (Hetero)Romance: "Reading" the Ideal Hero/ine through Lovers' Dialogue in Japanese Romance Fiction |
2004 |
Japan |
| Shibamoto Smith, Janet S. |
Translating True Love: Japanese Romance Fiction, Harlequin-Style |
2005 |
Japan, Harlequin Mills & Boon, linguistics, gender, emotions, translation |
| Shibamoto Smith, Janet S. |
Changing Lovestyles: Fictional Representations of Contemporary Japanese Men in Love |
2008 |
love, gender, Japan, marriage, linguistics |
| Shore, Z. Lesley |
Essay Review: Girls Learning, Women Teaching: Dancing to Different Drummers |
2000 |
readers |
| Short, Christopher Brown |
The history of romance illustration and the romance novel cover |
1996 |
paratext |
| Shumway, David R. |
Romance in the Romance: Love and Marriage in Turn-of-the-Century Best Sellers |
1999 |
precursors of modern romance, love, marriage, history, national identity |
| Sichelschmidt, Gustav |
Hedwig Courths-Mahler. Deutschlands erfolgreichste Autorin. Eine literatursoziologische Studie |
1967 |
Hedwig Courths-Mahler |
| Simon, Jenni M. |
Consuming Agency and Desire in Romance: Stories of Love, Laughter, and Empowerment |
2018 |
feminism, authors, romance and, or as, activism, rape and/or intimate partner violence/abuse |
| Sinner, Carsten |
Fictional orality in romance novels: Between linguistic reality and editorial requirements |
2012 |
translation, languages |
| Slušná, Zuzana |
Paranormal and Religious as Part of Pop Cultural Consumerism |
2014 |
paranormal/fantasy/time-travel romance, religion/spirituality |
| Slušná, Zuzana |
Postfeminism, Post-romantic and New Patterns of Feminity [sic] in Popular Culture |
2015 |
readers, gender, sex/sexuality, pornography, trash/literary quality |
| Slusser, George E.; Rabkin, Eric S. |
Intersections: Fantasy and Science Fiction |
1987 |
|
| Smáradóttir, Helena María |
Love as a Commodity: Brand-Name Romantic Fiction and its Readers. The Domain and Readership of Harlequin Enterprises, Both in Iceland and Abroad |
2009 |
Harlequin Mills & Boon, Iceland, readers |
| Smith, William Clay Kinchen |
Revising Captivity Narratives |
2002 |
United States of America, historical romance, Native American romance, Fern Michaels, race/ethnicity, Nan Ryan, Karen A. Bale |
| Smith, Janet S. (Shibamoto) |
From Hiren to Happî-endo: Romantic Expression in the Japanese Love Story |
1999 |
Japan, marriage, love, linguistics, family, metaphor/symbolism, emotions |
| Smith, Faith |
Beautiful Indians, Troublesome Negroes, and Nice White Men: Caribbean Romances and the Invention of Trinidad |
1999 |
Caribbean, race/ethnicity, Valerie Belgrave, feminism, national identity |
| Smith, Clarissa; Attwood, Feona; McNair, Brian |
The Routledge Companion to Media, Sex and Sexuality |
2018 |
|
| Snitow, Ann Barr |
Mass Market Romance: Pornography for Women is Different |
1979 |
Harlequin Mills & Boon, readers, gender, virginity, fashion/clothing, food, alcohol, sex/sexuality, religion/spirituality, settings, work, pornography, Anne Mather |
| Snodgrass, Mary Ellen |
Reading Nora Roberts |
2010 |
Nora Roberts/J. D. Robb |
| Sonnet, Esther |
'Erotic Fiction by Women for Women': The Pleasures of Post-Feminist Heterosexuality |
1999 |
sex/sexuality, feminism, pornography |
| Sonnet, Esther |
What the Woman Reads: Categorising Contemporary Popular Erotica for Women |
2000 |
sex/sexuality, feminism |
| Sonnet, Esther |
'"Just a book", she said ...': Refiguring Ethnography for the Female Readers of Sexual Fiction |
2002 |
readers, sex/sexuality |
| Spears, Jessica D. |
The Romance Novel Cover |
2018 |
paratext, Publishing, gender, sex/sexuality, pornography |
| Spehner, Norbert |
L'Amour, toujours l'amour ...: The Popular Love Story and Romance: A Basic Checklist of Secondary Sources |
1997 |
romance scholarship |
| Spillman, K. Elizabeth |
The "Managing Female" in the Novels of Georgette Heyer |
2012 |
Georgette Heyer, gender, metafiction, marriage |
| Spraggs, Gillian |
Hell and the Mirror: A Reading of Desert of the Heart |
1992 |
Jane Rule, religion/spirituality, LGBT+ characters, readers and/or authors, settings, Radclyffe Hall, psychology |
| Stacey, Jackie; Pearce, Lynne |
The Heart of the Matter: Feminists Revisit the Romance |
1995 |
feminism |
| Stapleton, Rachel F.; Viselli, Antonio |
Iconoclasm: The Breaking and Making of Images |
2019 |
|
| Steiner, Peter; Červenka, Miroslav; Vroon, Ronald |
The Structure of the Literary Process Studies dedicated to the Memory of Felix Vodička |
1982 |
|
| Sterk, Helen Mae |
Functioning fictions: the adjustment rhetoric of Silhouette romance novels |
1986 |
readers, gender |
| Stern, Stephanie C.; Robbins, Brianne; Black, Jessica E.; Barnes, Jennifer L. |
What You Read and What You Believe: Genre Exposure and Beliefs About Relationships |
2018 |
psychology, readers, love, gender |
| Stern, Barbara B. |
Two Pornographies: a Feminist View of Sex in Advertising |
1991 |
pornography, feminism, sex/sexuality, gender |
| Stieg, Margaret F. |
Indian Romances: Tracts for the Times |
1985 |
precursors of modern romance, India, settings, race/ethnicity, gender, UK |
| Still, Julie |
Reading Between the Lines: Librarians as Authors of Fiction |
2005 |
libraries/librarians, Jayne Ann Krentz/Amanda Quick/Jayne Castle |
| Stinson, Emmett; Mannion, Aaron |
The Return of Print?: Contemporary Australian Publishing |
2016 |
|
| Stoneley, Peter |
'Never Love a Cowboy': Romance Fiction and Fantasy Families |
1999 |
United States of America, Ann Major, Lindsay McKenna, Robin Morgan, family, gender |
| Stotesbury, John A. |
Language and Mindstyle in Anglophone Popular Romantic Fiction under Apartheid |
1994 |
Africa |
| Stotesbury, John A. |
Genre and Islam in Recent Anglophone Romantic Fiction |
2004 |
Islam, Leila Aboulela, Rayda Jacobs, religion/spirituality |
| Stowers, Eva |
City of Fantasy: Romance Novels in Las Vegas |
2007 |
settings |
| Strehle, Susan; Carden, Mary Paniccia |
Doubled Plots: Romance and History |
2003 |
|
| Struve, Laura |
Sisters of Sorts: Reading Romantic Fiction and the Bonds Among Female Readers |
2011 |
readers, paratext, Publishing, precursors of modern romance |
| Suárez Coalla, Paquita; Rivera Valdés, Sonia; Íñigo, Ainoa |
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 |
2018 |
|
| Sullivan, Larry E.; Schurman, Lydia Cushman |
Pioneers, Passionate Ladies, and Private Eyes: Dime Novels, Series Books, and Paperbacks |
1996 |
|
| Sullivan, Ceri; White, Barbara |
Writing and Fantasy |
1999 |
|
| Sutton, Roger |
Librarians and the Paperback Romance: Trying to Do the Right Thing |
1985 |
libraries/librarians, YA/teenage romance, sex/sexuality, trash/literary quality |
| Suwanban, Pauline |
From Exhalation to Transformation: The Female Body in the Orientalist Romance |
2018 |
E. M. Hull, gender, sex/sexuality, race/ethnicity |
| Swaffield, Audrey-Claire |
Paperbacks Promoting Passion! What Is Harlequin Really Presenting? |
1981 |
Harlequin Mills & Boon |
| Swaminathan, Srividhya |
J. D. Robb’s Police Procedurals and the Critique of Modernity |
2016 |
Nora Roberts/J. D. Robb, romantic suspense, science fiction/futuristic romance |
| Taddeo, Julie Anne |
Corsets of Steel: Steampunk's Reimagining of Victorian Femininity |
2013 |
fashion/clothing, steampunk, feminism, gender, history |
| Taddeo, Julie Anne; Miller, Cynthia J. |
Steaming Into a Victorian Future: A Steampunk Anthology |
2013 |
|
| Talbot, Mary M. |
Fictions at Work: Language and Social Practice in Fiction |
1995 |
readers, Harlequin Mills & Boon, sex/sexuality, gender, Kate Walker, fashion/clothing, linguistics, metafiction, social class, romances in magazines/romance magazines, YA/teenage romance, feminism |
| Talbot, Mary M. |
‘An Explosion Deep inside Her’: Women’s Desire and Popular Romance Fiction |
1997 |
Harlequin Mills & Boon, sex/sexuality, gender, Robyn Donald, Diana Hamilton, linguistics |
| Tang, Yang |
Between Fantasy and Reality: Time-Travel Romance and Media Fandom in Chinese Cyberspace |
2014 |
China, paranormal/fantasy/time-travel romance |
| Tanner, David |
Literary Success and Popular Romantic Fiction: Ethel M. Dell, a Case Study |
2016 |
Ethel M. Dell, trash/literary quality, precursors of modern romance, Publishing, romances in magazines/romance magazines, India, settings |
| Tapper, Olivia |
Romance and Innovation in Twenty-First Century Publishing |
2014 |
Publishing, Harlequin Mills & Boon |
| Tatlock, Lynne |
German Writing, American Reading: Women and the Import of Fiction, 1866-1917 |
2012 |
Germany, United States of America, translation, gender, work, marriage, fairytales, family, Publishing, E. Marlitt/Eugenie John, Wilhelmine Heimburg/Bertha Behrens, Fanny Lewald, Wilhelmine von Hillern, Claire von Glümer, Ursula Zöge von Manteuffel, E. Werner/Elisabeth Bürstenbinder, religion/spirituality, Nataly von Eschstruth, metafiction, social class, Charlotte Brontë, E. Juncker, Moritz von Reichenbach/Valeska von Reiswitz, Gräfin von Bethusy-Huc, Golo Raimund/Bertha [Heyn] Frederich, history, national identity, war/armed forces, race/ethnicity, Louisa May Alcott |
| Tatlock, Kristen Doris |
Raised on romance: a cultural study of romance fiction |
1986 |
|
| Tatum, James |
The Search for the Ancient Novel |
1994 |
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