| Tatum, Charles |
Lágrimas, risas y amor: Mexico's Most Popular Romance Comic Book |
1980 |
comics/manga, Mexico |
| Taylor, Jessica Anne |
Write the Book of Your Heart: Career, Passion and Publishing in the Romance Writing Community |
2013 |
authors, Publishing, race/ethnicity, social class, gender, love, work |
| Taylor, Jessica |
And You Can Be My Sheikh: Gender, Race, and Orientalism in Contemporary Romance Novels |
2007 |
gender, race/ethnicity, sheikh romance, settings, paratext |
| Taylor, Jessica |
Romance and the Female Gaze Obscuring Gendered Violence in The Twilight Saga |
2014 |
gender, rape and/or intimate partner violence/abuse, Twilight |
| Taylor, Jessica |
Love the Market: Discourses of Passion and Professionalism in Romance Writing Communities |
2016 |
authors, work, emotions, Publishing |
| Taylor, Jessica |
Animating Creative Selves: Pen Names as Property in the Careers of Canadian and American Romance Writers |
2018 |
authors, Publishing, work |
| Taylor, Jessica |
Flexible Nations: Canadian Romance Writers, American Romance, and the Romance of Canada |
2018 |
Canada, authors, national identity, Kate Bridges, settings, Publishing, Harlequin Mills & Boon, race/ethnicity, historical romance, history |
| Taylor, Helen |
Romantic Readers |
1989 |
readers, gender, race/ethnicity, Barbara Taylor Bradford, LGBT+ characters, readers and/or authors, lesbian romance, Margaret Mitchell, social class |
| Taylor, Helen |
Why Women Read Fiction: The Stories of Our Lives |
2019 |
readers, Harlequin Mills & Boon, Fifty Shades |
| Teague, Anna Sophia Wester |
“If my hubby ever did half the stuff my book boyfriends did… I’d put him six ft in the ground” : narratives of interpersonal and gendered violence as discussed in romance novel review websites |
2015 |
readers, rape and/or intimate partner violence/abuse, psychology, pornography, gender, sex/sexuality |
| Tegan, Mary Beth |
Becoming Both Poet and Poem: Feminists Repossess the Romance |
2007 |
feminism, Mary Stewart, Jennifer Crusie, Vicki Lewis Thompson, Georgette Heyer |
| Tennenhouse, Tracy Shana |
Female Fantasies in Women's Popular Fiction |
1996 |
precursors of modern romance, gender, lesbian romance, erotic romance |
| Teo, Hsu-Ming |
Shanghaied By Sheiks: Orientalism and hybridity in women's romance writing |
1999 |
sheikh romance, race/ethnicity |
| Teo, Hsu-Ming |
The Romance of White Nations: Imperialism, Popular Culture and National Histories |
2003 |
national identity, race/ethnicity, UK, history, Africa, gender, Mary Gaunt, with John Ridgwell Essex, E. M. Hull, sheikh romance, Harlequin Mills & Boon, United States of America, Native American romance |
| Teo, Hsu-Ming |
Romancing the Raj: Interracial Relations in Anglo-Indian Romance Novels |
2004 |
India, UK, social class, history, race/ethnicity, gender, Flora Annie Steel, Mrs F. E. Penny, Alice Perrin, Maud Diver, Alice Eustace, Juliet Armstrong, Harlequin Mills & Boon, national identity |
| Teo, Hsu-Ming |
Orientalism and Mass Market Romance Novels in the Twentieth Century |
2007 |
sheikh romance, gender, race/ethnicity, sex/sexuality, history, E. M. Hull, UK, United States of America, work, feminism, family |
| Teo, Hsu-Ming |
Historicizing The Sheik: Comparisons of the British Novel and the American Film |
2010 |
E. M. Hull, film/movies, UK, United States of America, race/ethnicity, history, gender, sex/sexuality, war/armed forces, rape and/or intimate partner violence/abuse |
| Teo, Hsu-Ming |
"Bertrice teaches you about history, and you don't even mind!": History and Revisionist Historiography in Bertrice Small's The Kadin |
2012 |
history, historical romance, Bertrice Small, gender, feminism, readers |
| Teo, Hsu-Ming |
Desert Passions: Orientalism and Romance Novels |
2012 |
history, sheikh romance, precursors of modern romance, race/ethnicity, E. M. Hull, United States of America, historical romance, gender, Islam, sex/sexuality, rape and/or intimate partner violence/abuse |
| Teo, Hsu-Ming |
“We have to learn to love imperially”: Love in Late Colonial and Federation Australian Romance Novels |
2014 |
Australia, precursors of modern romance, love, gender, marriage, national identity, Mary Bradford Whiting, UK, race/ethnicity, family, sex/sexuality, rape and/or intimate partner violence/abuse, Broda Reynolds, Mabel Forrest, Marie Bjelke Petersen, Alice Grant Rosman, Rosa Praed, rural romance, settings, work, Ada Cambridge |
| Teo, Hsu-Ming |
Imperial Affairs: The British Empire and the Romantic Novel, 1890-1939 |
2016 |
precursors of modern romance, UK, history, national identity, Harlequin Mills & Boon, Australia, Canada, New Zealand, Africa, India, E. M. Hull, race/ethnicity, gender, sheikh romance, Nora K. Strange, settings, Rosa Praed, Mary Gaunt, Gertrude Page, Florence Riddell, Flora Annie Steel, Ouida, Marie Corelli, Kathlyn Rhodes, Joan Conquest, Mrs F. E. Penny, Maud Diver, Alice Perrin, Alice Eustace, rural romance |
| Teo, Hsu-Ming |
Orientalism, Freedom, and Feminism in Popular Culture |
2016 |
United States of America, Islam, history, E. M. Hull, historical romance, sheikh romance, sex/sexuality, gender, feminism, work, race/ethnicity, Barbara Faith, Elizabeth Mayne, Dana Marton, romantic suspense, war/armed forces, national identity |
| Teo, Hsu-Ming |
The Popular Culture of Romantic Love in Australia |
2017 |
|
| Teo, Hsu-Ming |
The Contemporary Anglophone Romance Genre |
2018 |
gender, sex/sexuality, Publishing, race/ethnicity |
| Teo, Hsu-Ming |
Cultural Authenticity, the Family, and East Asian American Romance Novels |
2020 |
race/ethnicity, Asia, China, authors, Publishing, United States of America, family, Jade Lee, Jeannie Lin, Onoto Watanna/Winnifred Eaton, precursors of modern romance, historical romance, history, love, Elizabeth Lowell, Marie Donovan, Dorien Kelly, Vicki Essex, Camy Tang, Christian romance, Ruby Lang, Jennifer Lewis, Helen Hoang, Courtney Milan |
| Teo, Hsu-Ming; Selinger, Eric Murphy; Kamblé, Jayashree |
The Routledge Research Companion to Popular Romance Fiction |
2020 |
UK, United States of America, Australia, gothic romance, historical romance, paranormal/fantasy/time-travel romance, YA/teenage romance, Christian romance, erotic romance, African American romance, sheikh romance, romance scholarship, Publishing, libraries/librarians, social class, wealth/prosperity, sex/sexuality, gender, love, religion/spirituality, race/ethnicity, Harlequin Mills & Boon |
| Therrien, Kathleen M. |
Trembling at Her Own Response: Resistance and Reconciliation in Mass-Market Romance Novels |
1997 |
Julie Garwood, Jayne Ann Krentz/Amanda Quick/Jayne Castle, Susan Wiggs, gender, national identity |
| Therrien, Kathleen M. |
"One Would Die Rather Than Speak ... about Such Subjects": Exploring Class, Gender, and Hegemony in Anya Seton's Dragonwyck |
2015 |
teaching romance, Anya Seton, gothic romance, social class, gender, sex/sexuality, rape and/or intimate partner violence/abuse |
| Therrien, Kathleen |
Straight to the Edges: Gay and Lesbian Characters and Cultural Conflict in Popular Romance Fiction |
2012 |
LGBT+ characters, readers and/or authors, Diana Gabaldon, Julie Garwood, rape and/or intimate partner violence/abuse, Jayne Ann Krentz/Amanda Quick/Jayne Castle, Susan Wiggs, Emma Holly, social class, gender, BDSM |
| Thierauf, Doreen |
Forever After: Desire in the 21st-Century Romance Blockbuster |
2016 |
Jane Austen, sex/sexuality, marriage, gender, feminism, readers, psychology, Twilight, Fifty Shades, rape and/or intimate partner violence/abuse, BDSM |
| Thomas, Patrick; Takayoshi, Pamela |
Literacy in Practice: Writing in Private, Public and Working Lives |
2016 |
|
| Thomas, Glen; James, Bridie |
The Romance Industry: A Study of Reading and Writing Romance |
2006 |
authors, readers |
| Thomas, Glen |
Romance: The Perfect Creative Industry? A Case Study of Harlequin-Mills and Boon Australia |
2007 |
Harlequin Mills & Boon, Publishing, Australia, readers, authors |
| Thomas, Glen |
The Best Australian Romance Novelist: Emma Darcy |
2007 |
Emma Darcy, Helen Bianchin, settings, Australia, sex/sexuality, family, metafiction |
| Thomas, Glen |
"And I Deliver": An Interview with Emma Darcy |
2008 |
Emma Darcy, Harlequin Mills & Boon, authors, Australia, sex/sexuality, settings, emotions, Publishing |
| Thomas, Glen |
Happy Readers or Sad Ones? Romance Fiction and the Problems of the Media Effects Model |
2012 |
readers, psychology, Anna Campbell, rape and/or intimate partner violence/abuse |
| Thomas, Audrey |
A Fine Romance, My Dear, This Is |
1986 |
Harlequin Mills & Boon, readers, pornography, rape and/or intimate partner violence/abuse, Charlotte Lamb, work |
| Thompson, Marcella; Koski, Patricia; Holyfield, Lori |
Romance and agency: An argument revisited |
1997 |
romance scholarship, readers, feminism |
| Thompson, Anne B. |
Rereading Fifties Teen Romance: Reflections on Janet Lambert |
2005 |
Janet Lambert, YA/teenage romance, family, war/armed forces |
| Thurlow, Michelle |
“A Whisper of Satin”: The Infant Dress Leitmotif |
2010 |
Christian romance, Beverly Lewis, religion/spirituality, gender, fashion/clothing, music |
| Thurston, Carol M. |
Popular Historical Romances: Agent for Social Change? An Exploration of Methodologies |
1985 |
historical romance, sex/sexuality, gender |
| Thurston, Carol |
The Romance Revolution: Erotic Novels for Women and the Quest for a New Sexual Identity |
1987 |
erotic romance, United States of America, readers, historical romance, sex/sexuality, Publishing, feminism, work, Harlequin Mills & Boon, gender, pornography, rape and/or intimate partner violence/abuse, Rosemary Rogers, virginity, gothic romance, Bertrice Small, LaVyrle Spencer, Kathleen Woodiwiss |
| Tidwell, Christy |
“A Little Wildness”: Negotiating Relationships between Human and Nonhuman in Historical Romance |
2016 |
animals, paratext, historical romance, Bertrice Small, Patricia Gaffney, metaphor/symbolism, gender, rape and/or intimate partner violence/abuse, family, sex/sexuality, happy ending |
| Tienkamp, Aaf |
New Adult Romance: An Emerging Genre |
2016 |
NA romance, sex/sexuality, genre definitions |
| Timson, Beth S. |
The Drug Store Novel: Popular Romantic Fiction and the Mainstream Tradition |
1983 |
gothic romance, Jane Austen, Martha Finley, United States of America, gender |
| Tirkkonen-Condit, Sonja; Condit, Stephen |
Empirical Studies in Translation and Linguistics |
1989 |
|
| Tobin-McClain, Lee |
Paranormal Romance: Secrets of the Female Fantastic |
2000 |
paranormal/fantasy/time-travel romance, authors, Susan Carroll, Kathleen Kane, Catherine Mulvany, Susan Plunkett, Emilie Richards, genre definitions, gender, readers |
| Tokley, Anne-Marie |
Where is my Happy Ending and Why am I Looking for it? The Romance Myth in Contemporary Popular Australian Women’s Fiction |
2008 |
Australia, love, feminism, gender, romances in magazines/romance magazines, national identity, Harlequin Mills & Boon, chick lit, Marion Lennox |
| Tomlinson, Alan |
Consumption, Identity, and Style: Marketing, Meanings, and the Packaging of Pleasure |
1990 |
|
| Toscano, Angela |
A Parody of Love: the Narrative Uses of Rape in Popular Romance |
2012 |
rape and/or intimate partner violence/abuse, Kathleen Woodiwiss, Carolyn Jewel, Anna Campbell, Catherine Coulter, Anne Stuart, Patricia Gaffney, love |
| Toscano, Angela |
The Idolatry of the Real: Form, Formula, and Happy Endings in Romance Literature |
2019 |
trash/literary quality, genre definitions, readers, Jennifer Crusie, happy ending |
| Towheed, Shafquat; King, Edmund G. C. |
Reading and the First World War: Readers, Texts, Archives |
2015 |
|
| Trachsel, Mary |
Horse Stories and Romance Fiction: Variants or Alternative Texts of Female Identity? |
1997 |
gender, animals |
| Travis, Melissa E. |
Assume the Position: Exploring Discipline Relationships |
2013 |
BDSM |
| Treacher, Amal |
What is Life Without My Love?: Desire and Romantic Fiction |
1988 |
Harlequin Mills & Boon, psychology, readers, emotions, feminism, love, Sally Wentworth, sex/sexuality |
| Trower, Shelley; Tooth Murphy, Amy; Smith, Graham |
‘Me mum likes a book, me dad’s a newspaper man’: Reading, gender and domestic life in ‘100 Families’ |
2019 |
gender, readers |
| Turnbull, Sue |
'Nice Dress, Take It Off': Crime, Romance and the Pleasure of the Text |
2002 |
Janet Evanovich, readers |
| Turner, Katherine |
Daphne Du Maurier's Mary Anne: Rewriting the Regency Romance as Feminist History |
2017 |
history, Daphne du Maurier |
| Turner, Graeme |
Nation, Culture, Text: Australian Cultural and Media Studies |
1993 |
|
| Turner, Ellen |
The Sheik Returns: Imitations and Parodies of the Desert Romance |
2014 |
E. M. Hull, sheikh romance, trash/literary quality, sex/sexuality, Harlequin Mills & Boon, rape and/or intimate partner violence/abuse |
| Turner, Ellen |
E. M. Hull's Camping in the Sahara: desert romance meets desert reality |
2015 |
E. M. Hull |
| Ty, Eleanor |
Desire and Temptation: Dialogism and the Carnivalesque in Category Romances Desire and Temptation: Dialogism and the Carnivalesque in Category Romances |
1994 |
readers, metafiction, Harlequin Mills & Boon, gender, metaphor/symbolism, sex/sexuality, fashion/clothing, disability |
| Uddin-Khan, Evelyn Angelina |
Gender, Ethnicity and the Romance Novel |
1995 |
readers, gender, race/ethnicity |
| Uparkar, Shilpa |
Desi love stories: Harlequin Mills & Boon’s Indian enterprise |
2014 |
Harlequin Mills & Boon, India, languages |
| Uszkurat, Carol Ann |
Mid Twentieth Century Lesbian Romance: Reception and Redress |
1993 |
lesbian romance, Publishing, precursors of modern romance, history, feminism, psychology, gender, sex/sexuality, LGBT+ characters, readers and/or authors |
| Valeo, Christina A. |
Crusie and the Con |
2012 |
Jennifer Crusie, metafiction, happy ending, readers |
| Valeo, Christina A. |
The Power of Three: Nora Roberts and Serial Magic |
2012 |
Nora Roberts/J. D. Robb, paranormal/fantasy/time-travel romance, religion/spirituality, community, family, love |
| Valovirta, Elina |
No Ordinary Love: The Romantic Formula of Stepsibling Erotica |
2019 |
NA romance, erotic romance, family |
| Valverde, Mariana |
Sex, Power and Pleasure |
1985 |
pornography, sex/sexuality, gender, BDSM, wealth/prosperity, lesbian romance, Jane Rule, marriage, LGBT+ characters, readers and/or authors |
| van der Putten, Jan; Arnez, Monika; Wieringa, Edwin P.; Graf, Arndt |
Traditions Redirecting Contemporary Indonesian Cultural Productions |
2017 |
|
| van Lent, Peter |
“Her Beautiful Savage”: The Current Sexual Image of the Native American Male |
1996 |
Native American romance, race/ethnicity, sex/sexuality, gender, United States of America |
| Vani, Christina |
Immortal Words: The Language and Style of the Contemporary Italian Undead-Romance Novel |
2018 |
paranormal/fantasy/time-travel romance, Italy |
| Veldman-Genz, Carole |
The More the Merrier? Transformations of the Love Triangle Across the Romance |
2012 |
love, Lisa Kleypas, Christina Dodd, Linda Howard, Catherine George, Isabelle Holland, Jude Deveraux, Amanda Scott, Catherine Coulter, Maggie Osborne/Margaret St. George, Karen Ranney, Sandra Brown, Nicole Jordan, LaVyrle Spencer, Penelope Williamson, Susan Elizabeth Phillips, feminism, erotic romance, Emma Holly, Rachel Bo, marriage, Mardi Ballou, Ellora's Cave, Samantha Kane, LGBT+ characters, readers and/or authors |
| Veldman-Genz, Carole |
Selling Gay Sex to Women: The Romance of M/M and M/M/F Romantica |
2015 |
sex/sexuality, erotic romance, m/m romance, Ellora's Cave, gender, BDSM, LGBT+ characters, readers and/or authors |
| Vera-Cazorla, María Jesús |
“And they Drive on the Wrong Side of the Road”: The Anglo- centric Vision of the Canary Islands in Mills & Boon Romance Novels (1955–1987) |
2020 |
UK, Spain, Harlequin Mills & Boon, settings, national identity, history, gender, fascism/right-wing authoritarianism, family, marriage, religion/spirituality |
| Veros, Vassiliki |
The Romance Reader and the Public Library |
2012 |
libraries/librarians, trash/literary quality, readers, Australia |
| Veros, Vassiliki |
A Matter of Meta: Category Romance Fiction and the Interplay of Paratext and Library Metadata |
2015 |
libraries/librarians, Harlequin Mills & Boon, paratext |
| Veros, Vassiliki |
Keepers: Marking the Value of the Books on my Shelves |
2017 |
readers, trash/literary quality |
| Veros, Vassiliki |
Metatextual Conversations: The Exclusion/Inclusion of Genre Fiction in Public Libraries and Social Media Book Groups |
2019 |
libraries/librarians, trash/literary quality, readers |
| Veros, Vassiliki |
The selective tradition, the role of romance fiction donations, and public library practices in New South Wales, Australia |
2020 |
Australia, libraries/librarians |
| Villar-Argáiz, Pilar |
Ireland and the Popular Genre of Historical Romance: The Novels of Karen Robards |
2018 |
Ireland, historical romance, Karen Robards, UK, race/ethnicity, gender, cross-dressing, settings, rape and/or intimate partner violence/abuse, sex/sexuality |
| Vitackova, Martina |
Representation of racial and sexual ‘others’ in Afrikaans popular romantic fiction by Sophia Kapp |
2018 |
Sophia Kapp, race/ethnicity, sex/sexuality, Africa |
| Vivanco, Laura; Kramer, Kyra |
There Are Six Bodies in This Relationship: An Anthropological Approach to the Romance Genre |
2010 |
gender, Harlequin Mills & Boon, Christian romance, family, sex/sexuality, lesbian romance, LGBT+ characters, readers and/or authors |
| Vivanco, Laura |
For Love and Money: The Literary Art of the Harlequin Mills & Boon Romance |
2011 |
Harlequin Mills & Boon, trash/literary quality, metafiction, Shakespeare, Jane Austen, fairytales, myth, metaphor/symbolism |
| Vivanco, Laura |
Feminism and Early Twenty-First Century Harlequin Mills & Boon Romances |
2012 |
feminism, Harlequin Mills & Boon |
| Vivanco, Laura |
Jennifer Crusie's Literary Lingerie |
2012 |
Jennifer Crusie, sex/sexuality, fashion/clothing, metaphor/symbolism |
| Vivanco, Laura |
One Ring to Bind Them: Ring Symbolism in Popular Romance Fiction |
2012 |
fashion/clothing, marriage, Lisa Kleypas, Jennifer Crusie, Loretta Chase, Melissa McClone, Jayne Ann Krentz/Amanda Quick/Jayne Castle, Jessica Hart, Dorie Graham, Roslyn Hardy Holcomb, Margot Early, Laura Abbot, sex/sexuality, metaphor/symbolism |
| Vivanco, Laura |
Georgette Heyer: The Nonesuch of Regency Romance |
2013 |
social class, race/ethnicity, Georgette Heyer, history, historical romance |
| Vivanco, Laura |
Pursuing Happiness: Reading American Romance as Political Fiction |
2016 |
United States of America, gender, disability, race/ethnicity, history, national identity, Linnea Sinclair, Pamela Morsi, Nora Roberts/J. D. Robb, Sharon Shinn, LaVyrle Spencer, Beverly Jenkins, Karin Kallmaker, work, community, historical romance, Sharon Brondos, Mary Burton, Ruth Jean Dale, Joan Johnston, Ruth Wind/Barbara Samuel/Barbara O'Neal, Joan Wolf, LGBT+ characters, readers and/or authors |
| Vivanco, Laura |
A Place “We All Dream About”: Greece in Mills & Boon Romances |
2017 |
Greece, race/ethnicity, Harlequin Mills & Boon, sex/sexuality, science/technology, myth |
| Vivanco, Laura |
Changing Attitudes to Others: Meljean Brook’s Riveted (2012) and its Context |
2020 |
Meljean Brook, Publishing, authors, readers, race/ethnicity, disability, gender, steampunk, LGBT+ characters, readers and/or authors, Zoë Archer, war/armed forces |
| Voaden, Rosalynn |
The Language of Love: Medieval Erotic Vision and Modern Romance Fiction |
1995 |
gender, religion/spirituality |
| Wagner, Wendy |
Jennifer Crusie |
2008 |
Jennifer Crusie, fairytales, romantic suspense, rom-com romance, LGBT+ characters, readers and/or authors |
| Waldschmidt, Anne; Berressem, Hanjo; Ingwersen, Moritz |
Culture - Theory – Disability: Encounters between Disability Studies and Cultural Studies |
2017 |
|
| Walker, Lisa |
Polar bears and evil scientists: Romance, comedy and climate change |
2014 |
science/technology, romance and, or as, activism, authors, settings |
| Wallace, Doris B. |
Education, Arts, and Morality: Creative Journeys |
2005 |
|
| Wallace, Diana |
The Woman's Historical Novel: British Women Writers, 1900-2000 |
2005 |
Georgette Heyer, Daphne du Maurier, Mary Renault, Victoria Holt/Jean Plaidy/Eleanor Burford Hibbert, Catherine Cookson, Jeanette Winterson, A. S. Byatt, historical romance |
| Waller, Philip |
Writers, Readers, and Reputations: Literary Life in Britain 1870-1918 |
2006 |
Charles Garvice, Florence Barclay, precursors of modern romance, authors |
| Wardrop, Stephanie |
The Heroine is Being Beaten: Freud, Sadomasochism, and Reading the Romance |
1995 |
Kathleen Woodiwiss, rape and/or intimate partner violence/abuse, psychology, BDSM, Linda Howard, gender, family, virginity, readers |
| Wardrop, Stephanie |
Last of the Red Hot Mohicans: Miscegenation in the Popular American Romance |
1997 |
United States of America, Native American romance, race/ethnicity, religion/spirituality, precursors of modern romance, Colleen Faulkner, gender, Genell Dellin |
| Warner, Celeste R. |
Heyer’s heroes: An investigation into Georgette Heyer and her literary ‘mark’ on the Regency hero |
2010 |
Georgette Heyer |
| Warnes, Christopher |
Desired State: Black Economic Empowerment and the South African Popular Romance |
2014 |
Africa, work, race/ethnicity, South Africa, gender |
| Washington, AlTonya |
An Indie Author in a Library World |
2015 |
Publishing, authors, readers, libraries/librarians |
| Waters, Chris |
New Women and Socialist-Feminist Fiction: The Novels of Isabella Ford and Katharine Bruce Glasier |
1993 |
socialism and/or communism, LGBT+ characters, readers and/or authors, precursors of modern romance, Katharine Bruce Glasier |
| Watson, Daphne |
Their Own Worst Enemies: Women Writers of Women's Fiction |
1995 |
Daphne du Maurier, Mary Stewart, Harlequin Mills & Boon, fairytales, gender, Charlotte Brontë, BDSM, social class, food, alcohol, fashion/clothing, work |
| Weaver-Zercher, Valerie |
Tracing the Backstory of Amish Romance Novels |
2012 |
Christian romance, rural romance, precursors of modern romance, religion/spirituality, paratext, Helen Reimensnyder Martin, Beverly Lewis, Cora Gottschalk Welty, race/ethnicity, Ruth Lininger Dobson, Joseph W. Yoder, Clara Bernice Miller, Janette Oke, Publishing |
| Weaver-Zercher, Valerie |
Thrill of the Chaste: the Allure of Amish Romance Novels |
2013 |
Christian romance, United States of America, religion/spirituality, paratext, Publishing, Beverly Lewis, Wanda Brunstetter, Cindy Woodsmall, sex/sexuality, virginity, readers, gender, Helen Reimensnyder Martin, precursors of modern romance, Clara Bernice Miller, Cora Gottschalk Welty, rural romance, Ruth Lininger Dobson, Joseph W. Yoder, Janette Oke, settings, happy ending, marriage, family, Linda Byler, race/ethnicity |
| Weibel, Kathryn |
Mirror Mirror: Images of Women Reflected in Popular Culture |
1977 |
Harlequin Mills & Boon, gothic romance |
| Weir, Angela; Wilson, Elizabeth |
The Greyhound Bus Station in the Evolution of Lesbian Popular Culture |
1992 |
LGBT+ characters, readers and/or authors, precursors of modern romance, Ann Bannon, Valerie Taylor, Claire Morgan/Patricia Highsmith, history, March Hastings, marriage, psychology, cross-dressing, Gale Wilhelm, Radclyffe Hall, Randy Salem, gender, sex/sexuality |
| Weis, Lois; Fine, Michelle |
Beyond Silenced Voices: Class, Race, and Gender in United States Schools |
1993 |
|
| Weisser, Susan Ostrov; Fleischner, Jennifer |
Feminist Nightmares: Women at Odds: Feminism and the Problem of Sisterhood |
1994 |
|
| Weisser, Susan Ostrov |
The Wonderful-Terrible Bitch Figure in Harlequin Novels |
1994 |
Harlequin Mills & Boon, gender, Anne Hampson, sex/sexuality, Charlotte Lamb |
| Weisser, Susan Ostrov |
The Glass Slipper: Women and Love Stories |
2013 |
love, gender, feminism, Twilight, romance scholarship, Isabel Sharpe, African American romance, race/ethnicity, Harlequin Mills & Boon, pornography |
| Wendell, Sarah |
"You call me a bitch like that's a bad thing": Romance Criticism and Redefining the Word "Bitch" |
2012 |
readers, gender, feminism, fashion/clothing, authors |
| Westman, Karin E. |
A Story of Her Weaving: The Self-Authoring Heroines of Georgette Heyer's Regency Romance |
2003 |
Georgette Heyer, trash/literary quality, historical romance |
| Weston, Louise C.; Ruggiero, Josephine A. |
Male-Female Relationships in Best-Selling "Modern Gothic" Novels |
1978 |
gothic romance, romantic suspense, gender, Mary Stewart, Victoria Holt/Jean Plaidy/Eleanor Burford Hibbert, Phyllis A. Whitney, Jane Blackmore, Dorothy Eden, Susan Howatch, Anne Maybury |
| Whalen, Kacey |
A Consumption of Gay Men: Navigating the Shifting Boundaries of M/M Romantic Readership |
2017 |
m/m romance, readers, gender, sex/sexuality, K. J. Charles, LGBT+ characters, readers and/or authors |
| Wherry, Maryan |
More than a Love Story: The Complexities Of the Popular Romance |
2015 |
genre definitions, precursors of modern romance, fairytales, Jennifer Crusie, sex/sexuality |
| Whissell, Cynthia |
Objective Analysis of Text: I. A Comparison of Adventure and Romance Novels |
1994 |
linguistics |
| Whissell, Cynthia |
Mate Selection in Popular Women's Fiction |
1996 |
evolutionary psychology, family, gender |
| Whissell, Cynthia |
The Formula Behind Women's Romantic Formula Fiction (Statistical survey of 50 Harlequin-Presents novels) |
1998 |
Harlequin Mills & Boon, genre definitions |
| White, Ann Yvonne |
Genesis Press: Cultural Representation and the Production of African American Romance Novels |
2008 |
African American romance, Publishing, readers, race/ethnicity, precursors of modern romance, Dyanne Davis, sex/sexuality |
| Whitehead, Frances |
Love Makes the World Go Round (?): The Romantic Novel as a Publishing Phenomenon |
1992 |
precursors of modern romance, genre definitions, Harlequin Mills & Boon, Japan, Africa, readers, Publishing |
| Whitsitt, Novian |
Islamic-Hausa Feminism and Kano Market Literature: Qur'anic Reinterpretation in the Novels of Balaraba Yakubu |
2002 |
Nigeria, Africa, Islam, gender, marriage, feminism, religion/spirituality, Balaraba Ramat Yakubu, sex/sexuality, family, health/medical |
| Whitsitt, Novian |
Hausa Women Writers Confronting the Traditional Status of Women in Modern Islamic Society: Feminist Thought in Nigerian Popular Fiction |
2003 |
Nigeria, Africa, Islam, religion/spirituality, gender, Bilkisu Ahmed Funtuwa, marriage, love, work, Balaraba Ramat Yakubu |
| Whitsitt, Novian |
Islamic-Hausa Feminism Meets Northern Nigerian Romance: The Cautious Rebellion of Bilkisu Funtuwa |
2003 |
Nigeria, Africa, Islam, Bilkisu Ahmed Funtuwa, marriage, gender, religion/spirituality, feminism, work, love, family |
| Whyte, Tamara Lynn |
Shakespeare in Love: Appropriation of Shakespeare in Popular Romance Novels |
2013 |
Shakespeare |
| Whyte, Tamara |
"A consummation devoutly to be wished": Shakespeare in Popular Historical Romance Fiction |
2012 |
Shakespeare, Jacquie D'Allessandro, Sabrina Jefferies, Kalen Hughes/Isobel Carr, readers, Eloisa James, Susan Wiggs, Andrea Pickens, Kathryn Caskie, Suzanne Enoch, historical romance, Kasey Michaels, Mary Balogh, Margaret Moore |
| Wiebe, Laura |
Speculative Matter: Generic Affinities, Posthumanisms and Science-Fictional Imaginings |
2012 |
paranormal/fantasy/time-travel romance, Christine Feehan |
| Wilbur, Shawn P. |
An Archaeology of Cyberspaces: Virtuality, Community, Identity |
1997 |
Harlequin Mills & Boon, Publishing |
| Wilkins, Kim |
“Ravished by Vikings”: The Pre-modern and the Paranormal in Viking Romance Fiction |
2016 |
historical romance, paranormal/fantasy/time-travel romance, sex/sexuality, history, feminism, gender, war/armed forces, rape and/or intimate partner violence/abuse |
| Williams, Jeffrey J. |
The Culture of Books: An Interview with Janice Radway |
2006 |
romance scholarship, Publishing |
| Williams, Elizabeth W. |
Queering Settler Romance: The Reparative Eugenic Landscape in Nora Strange's Kenyan Novels |
2019 |
Nora K. Strange, sex/sexuality, race/ethnicity, Kenya, Africa, family, science/technology, history, settings, rural romance, rape and/or intimate partner violence/abuse |
| Williams, Clover; Freedman, Jean R. |
Shakespeare's Step-Sisters: Romance Novels and the Community of Women |
1995 |
readers, feminism, gender, trash/literary quality |
| Williams, Clover |
Keepers of the Flame: The Romance Novel and Its Fans |
1998 |
readers |
| Williamson, Val |
Labour of Love: Gender and the Delivery of the Nineties Mills & Boon "Medical" |
1998 |
medical romance, Harlequin Mills & Boon, work, paratext, health/medical, Gil Sanderson, Margaret Holt |
| Williamson, Margaret |
The Greek romance |
1986 |
precursors of modern romance, Chariton, Xenophon of Ephesus, Achilles Tatius, Longus, Heliodorus, love, rural romance |
| Willinsky, John; Hunniford, R. Mark |
Reading the Romance Younger: The Mirrors and Fears of a Preparatory Literature |
1993 |
Canada, YA/teenage romance, readers, gender |
| Wilson, Nicola |
The Book World: Selling and Distributing British Literature, 1900-1940 |
2016 |
|
| Wilson, Frances |
Byromania: Portraits of the Artist in Nineteenth- and Twentieth-Century Culture |
1999 |
|
| Wilson, Elizabeth Suzanne |
Women creating men: the history of the hero in contemporary category romance fiction since the 1950s |
1986 |
gender |
| Wilt, Judith |
Women Writers and the Hero of Romance |
2014 |
precursors of modern romance, E. M. Hull, gender |
| Winks, Robin W.; Corrigan, Maureen |
Mystery and Suspense Writers: The Literature of Crime, Detection, and Espionage, Volume 2 |
1998 |
|
| Wintle, Sarah |
The Sheik: What Can be Made of a Daydream |
1996 |
E. M. Hull, film/movies, sex/sexuality, gender, race/ethnicity, Robert Hitchens, animals |
| Wirtén, Eva Hemmungs |
"They Seek It Here, They Seek It There, They Seek It Everywhere": Looking for the "Global" Book |
1998 |
Harlequin Mills & Boon, translation, Sweden, Sandra Canfield, Sally Wentworth, Janice Kaiser, sex/sexuality, national identity |
| Wirtén, Eva Hemmungs |
Global Infatuation: Explorations in Transnational Publishing and Texts: The case of Harlequin Enterprises and Sweden |
1998 |
Sweden, translation, Harlequin Mills & Boon |
| Wirtén, Eva Hemmungs |
Harlequin romances in Swedish: a case study in globalized publishing |
2000 |
translation, Sweden, Harlequin Mills & Boon, Publishing |
| Wood, Christine V. |
Tender Heroes and Twilight Lovers: Re-Reading the Romance in Mass-Market Pulp Novels, 1950–1965 |
2014 |
LGBT+ characters, readers and/or authors, gender, United States of America, precursors of modern romance, Paula Christian, Ann Bannon, Randy Salem, sex/sexuality |
| Wood, Andrea |
Radicalizing Romance: Subculture, Sex, and Media at the Margins |
2008 |
LGBT+ characters, readers and/or authors, m/m romance, lesbian romance, comics/manga, race/ethnicity, pornography, sex/sexuality |
| Wood, Andrea |
Making the Invisible Visible: Lesbian Romance Comics for Women |
2015 |
sex/sexuality, comics/manga, lesbian romance, LGBT+ characters, readers and/or authors |
| Woodruff, Juliette |
A spate of words, full of sound & fury, signifying nothing: or, How to read in Harlequin |
1985 |
gothic romance, Harlequin Mills & Boon, historical romance, Barbara Cartland, Georgette Heyer, marriage |
| Woods, Robert H. |
Evangelical Christians and Popular Culture: Pop Goes the Gospel. Volume 2: Literature, Music, Popular Art, and Merchandise |
2013 |
|
| Wu, Yan; Mallan, Kerry; McGillis, Roderick |
(Re)Imagining the World: Children’s Literature’s Response to Changing Times |
2013 |
|
| Wu, Huei-Hsia |
Gender, Romance Novels and Plastic Sexuality in the United States: A Focus on Female College Students |
2006 |
sex/sexuality, readers, gender, psychology |
| Wu, Huei-Hsia |
Reading Romance Novels and Female Sexuality among American Heterosexual and Lesbian College Students |
2007 |
readers, LGBT+ characters, readers and/or authors, sex/sexuality, gender, psychology |
| Wyatt, Neal; Olsen, Georgine; Ramsdell, Kristin; Saricks, Joyce; Welch, Lynne |
Core Collections in Genre Studies: Romance Fiction 101 |
2007 |
libraries/librarians, historical romance, romantic suspense, paranormal/fantasy/time-travel romance, genre definitions |
| York, Chris; York, Rafiel |
Comic Books and the Cold War, 1946-1962: Essays on Graphic Treatment of Communism, the Code and Social Concerns |
2012 |
|
| Young, Whitney A. |
Monsters in My Bed: Accounting for the Popularity of Young Adult Paranormal Romances |
2013 |
YA/teenage romance, paranormal/fantasy/time-travel romance, gender, Twilight |
| Young, Helen |
The Middle Ages in Popular Culture: Medievalism and Genre |
2015 |
|
| Young, Erin S. |
Corporate Heroines and Utopian Individualism: A Study of the Romance Novel in Global Capitalism |
2010 |
work, paranormal/fantasy/time-travel romance, capitalism/business, Jayne Ann Krentz/Amanda Quick/Jayne Castle, Nora Roberts/J. D. Robb, Elizabeth Lowell, Katherine Stone, Laurell K. Hamilton, Charlaine Harris, Kelley Armstrong, Carrie Vaughn, race/ethnicity, national identity |
| Young, Erin S. |
Escaping the “Time Bind”: Negotiations of Love and Work in Jayne Ann Krentz's “Corporate Romances” |
2010 |
Jayne Ann Krentz/Amanda Quick/Jayne Castle, work, capitalism/business, family, gender, marriage, race/ethnicity, food, alcohol |
| Young, Erin S. |
Flexible Heroines, Flexible Narratives: The Werewolf Romances of Kelley Armstrong and Carrie Vaughn |
2011 |
Kelley Armstrong, Carrie Vaughn, paranormal/fantasy/time-travel romance, capitalism/business, wealth/prosperity, sex/sexuality, family, health/medical, gender, food, alcohol, rape and/or intimate partner violence/abuse |
| Young, Erin S. |
Saving China: The Transformative Power of Whiteness in Elizabeth Lowell's Jade Island and Katherine Stone's Pearl Moon |
2016 |
race/ethnicity, China, Elizabeth Lowell, Katherine Stone, capitalism/business, national identity, work, family, love, United States of America, wealth/prosperity, settings |
| Young, Beth Rapp |
But are they any good? Women readers, formula fiction, and the sacralization of the literary canon |
1995 |
trash/literary quality, readers, Jayne Ann Krentz/Amanda Quick/Jayne Castle |
| Young, Beth Rapp |
Accidental Authors, Random Readers, and the Art of Popular Romance |
1997 |
trash/literary quality, romance scholarship, authors, readers |
| Zachik-Smith, Susie |
Romance by the book: a morphological analysis of the popular romance |
1993 |
genre definitions, readers, psychology, fairytales |
| Zakreski, Patricia |
Tell Me Lies: Lying, Storytelling, and the Romance Novel as Feminist Fiction |
2012 |
Jennifer Crusie, feminism, gender, metafiction |
| Zeiger, Melissa F. |
"Less Than Perfect": Negotiating Breast Cancer in Popular Romance Novels |
2013 |
health/medical, feminism |
| Zhou, Yanyan; Paul, Bryant; Sherman, Ryland |
Still a Hetero-Gendered World: A Content Analysis of Gender Stereotypes and Romantic Ideals in Chinese Boy Love Stories |
2018 |
m/m romance, gender, China, LGBT+ characters, readers and/or authors |
| Zidle, Abby |
From Bodice-Ripper to Baby-Sitter: The New Hero in Mass-Market Romance |
1999 |
gender, emotions, psychology, readers, sex/sexuality, wealth/prosperity |
| [Sigroha], Suman |
Gendered Migrations and Literary Narratives: Writing Communities in South Asian Diaspora |
2018 |
authors, work, family, gender, Publishing |
| Γραφανάκη, Ρωξάνη |
Γυναίκες και ροζ λογοτεχνία: η περίπτωση των εκδόσεων Άρλεκιν |
2019 |
Harlequin Mills & Boon, feminism, capitalism/business, gender, sex/sexuality |
| Στάμου, Εύα |
Η επέλαση της ροζ λογοτεχνίας. Δοκίμιο για την Ευδοκίμηση μιας Μορφής Αφηγηματικού Λόγου |
2014 |
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