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metaphor/symbolism

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Rachel Lee/Sue Civil-Brown

Judith Ivory/Judy Cuevas

Sharon and Tom Curtis

Justine Davis/Justine Dare

Eileen Dreyer/Kathleen Korbel

Kathleen Eagle

Patricia Gaffney

Jennifer Greene/Jeanne Grant/Jessica Massey/Alison Hart

Maggie Osborne/Margaret St. George

Nora Roberts/J. D. Robb

Ruth Wind/Barbara Samuel/Barbara O'Neal

Kathleen Gilles Seidel

Jennifer Crusie

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Twilight

virginity

metafiction

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Laurell K. Hamilton

Charlaine Harris

Christine Feehan

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Caribbean

fairytales

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Grace Livingston Hill

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Annie S. Swan

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Brazil

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pornography

m/m romance

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chick lit

Islam

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Georgette Heyer

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Roberta Leigh/Rachel Lindsay

virginity

health/medical

marriage

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fairytales

Fifty Shades

Twilight

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Sweden

Simona Ahrnstedt

chick lit

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Topic

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Samuel Richardson

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comics/manga

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community

rural romance

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languages

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Poland

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Carmen de Icaza

Concha Linares-Becerra

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Concha Linares-Becerra

María Mercedes Ortoll

fashion/clothing

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Topic

Native American romance

Arlene James

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Topic

María Mercedes Ortoll

María Morgan/Rosa María Cajal

Ángeles Villarta Tuñón

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Topic

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Topic

chick lit

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Topic

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Topic

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Topic

rural romance

death

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Topic

Frances Burney

Loretta Hill

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Topic

Stella Eromonsere-Ajanaku

Rosa Praed

Marie Bjelke Petersen

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Topic

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Topic

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Topic

Stephanie Laurens

myth

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Topic

Marija Jurić Zagorka

Croatia

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Topic

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languages

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Topic

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Topic

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Nora Roberts/J. D. Robb

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France

emotions

Olivier, Séverine (2009) Le roman sentimental. Productions contemporaines et pratiques de lecture PhD, Université Libre de Bruxelles

Topic

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Topic

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Topic

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Topic

Danielle Steel

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Topic

Margaret Evans Porter

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Topic

Shakespeare

Osborne, Laurie (2000) "Sweet, Savage Shakespeare " Shakespeare without Class: Misappropriations of Cultural Capital 135-151

Topic

Shakespeare

Osborne, Gwendolyn E. (2003) "In Search of Women Who Look Like Me: A Brief History of the African-American Romance " The 2000-2003 Proceedings of the SW/Texas PCA/ACA Conference 2020-2044

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African American romance

Osborne, Gwendolyn E. (2004) ""Women Who Look Like Me": Cultural Identity and Reader Responses to African American Romance Novels " Race/Gender/Media: Considering Diversity Across Audiences, Content, and Producers 61-68

Topic

African American romance

Onoto Watanna/Winnifred Eaton

Ouyang, Huining (2003) "Behind the Mask of Coquetry: The Trickster Narrative in Miss Numè of Japan: A Japanese-American Romance " Doubled Plots: Romance and History 86-106

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Japan

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Topic

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Topic

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Topic

Pagliassotti, Dru (2013) "Love and the Machine: Technology and Human Relationships in Steampunk Romance and Erotica " Steaming Into a Victorian Future: A Steampunk Anthology 65-87

Topic

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Topic

Paizis, George (1986) 'Reine ou esclave .... ': conflicting images of women in the contemporary 'romantic novel' in France PhD, University of London, Birkbeck

Topic

Paizis, George (1987) "Putting People First" or the contemporary romantic novel, critical discourse and ideology La Chouette 18:38-46

Paizis, George (1987) That's Romance Socialist Review July:

Paizis, George (1994) Love, Ideology and Reality: the popular romantic novel and the reader Journal of the Institute of Romance Studies 3:357-368

Paizis, George (1998) Category Romances: Translation, Realism and Myth The Translator 4.1:1-24

Topic

Paizis, George (1998) Love and the Novel: The Poetics and Politics of Romantic Fiction Houndmills, Basingstoke: Macmillan

Topic

Paizis, George (2006) "Category Romance in the Era of Globalization: The Story of Harlequin " The Global Literary Field 126-151

Topic

comics/manga

Palewska, Marie (2011) "Féeries orientales : l’Inde chez Delly " L’Œuvre de Delly 139-162

Topic

Palmer, Susan (1996) Romance Fiction and the Avon Ladies The Acquisitions Librarian 8.16:119-131

Topic

libraries/librarians

Palmer, Paulina (1998) "Girl Meets Girl: Changing Approaches to the Lesbian Romance " Fatal Attractions: Rescripting Romance in Contemporary Literature and Film 189-204

Topic

Palmer, Gary B. Occhi, Debra J. (1999) Languages of Sentiment: Cultural constructions of emotional substrates Amsterdam: John Benjamins Publishing Company

Panizza, Letizia Wood, Sharon (2000) A History of Women’s Writing in Italy Cambridge: Cambridge University Press

Papargyriou, Eleni Assinder, Semele Holton, David (2017) Greece in British Women’s Literary Imagination, 1913-2013 New York: Peter Lang

Paradis, Kenneth (2020) Types and Tropes: History and Moral Agency in Evangelical Inspirational Fiction Christianity & Literature 69.1:73-90

Topic

Francine Rivers

metafiction

Parameswaran, Radhika E. (1997) Public Images, Private Pleasures: Romance Reading at the Intersection of Gender, Class, and National Identities in Urban India PhD, University of Iowa

Topic

Parameswaran, Radhika (1999) Western Romance Fiction as English-Language Media in Postcolonial India Journal of Communication 49.3:84-105

Topic

Parameswaran, Radhika (2002) Reading Fictions of Romance: Gender, Sexuality, and Nationalism in Postcolonial India Journal of Communication 52.4:832-851

Topic

Pardo Fernández, Rodrigo (2010) Caleidoscopio hispánico: estudios lingüísticos y literarios Morelia, Michoacán, México: Universidad Michoacana de San Nicolás de Hidalgo, Escuela de Lengua y Literaturas Hispánicas, Seminario de Estudios Semióticos y de Literatura Comparada

Parke, Maggie Wilson, Natalie (2011) Theorizing Twilight: Critical Essays on What's at Stake in a Post-Vampire World Jefferson, North Carolina: McFarland & Company

Parnell, Jo (2021) The Bride in the Cultural Imagination: Screen, Stage, and Literary Productions Lanham, Maryland: Lexington Books

Parnell, Claire (2018) Models of Publishing and Opportunities for Change: Representations in Harlequin, Montlake and Self-Published Romance Novels Australian Literary Studies 33.4:

Topic

social class

Parra Membrives, Eva (2013) Trivialidades literarias: Reflexiones en torno a la literatura de entretenimiento Madrid: Visor

Parv, Valerie (2007) Healing Writes: Restorying the Authorial Self through Creative Practice: and Birthright, a speculative fiction novel Masters by Research, University of Queensland

Topic

Valerie Parv

Patai, Daphne Ingram, Angela (1993) "Fantasy and Identity: The Double Life of a Victorian Sexual Radical " Rediscovering Forgotten Radicals: British Women Writers 1889-1939 265-302

Topic

Irene Clyde

Pattee, Amy S. (2011) Reading the Adolescent Romance: Sweet Valley High and the Popular Young Adult Romance Novel New York: Routledge

Topic

Patterson, Janet (1981) Consuming Passion Fireweed 11:19-33

Topic

Patthey-Chavez, G. Genevieve Clare, Lindsay Youmans, Madeleine (1996) Watery Passion: The Struggle between Hegemony and Sexual Liberation in Erotic Fiction for Women Discourse and Society 7.1:77-106

Paulvé, Dominique Guérin, Marie (1994) Le roman du roman rose Paris: Éditions Jean-Claude Lattès

Topic

Magali, pen name of Jeanne Philbert

Max du Veuzit

Berthe Bernage

Pawling, Christopher (1984) Popular Fiction and Social Change New York: St. Martin’s

Peabody, Rebecca (2016) "Kara Walker: American Romance in Black and White " Romance Fiction and American Culture: Love as the Practice of Freedom? 131-150

Topic

Barbara Ferry Johnson

Pearce, Lynne Stacey, Jackie (1995) Romance Revisited New York and London: New York University Press

Pearce, Lynne Wisker, Gina (1998) Fatal Attractions: Rescripting Romance in Contemporary Literature and Film London: Pluto Press

Pearce, Lynne (2004) "Popular Romance and Its Readers " A Companion to Romance: From Classical to Contemporary 521-538

Topic

Pearce, Lynne (2007) Romance Writing Cambridge: Polity Press

Topic

Jane Rule

Pearce, Lynne (2011) Romance and Repetition: Testing the Limits of Love Journal of Popular Romance Studies 2.1:

Topic

philosophy

Pearce, Elizabeth Florence (2004) Reading the Lesbian Romance: Re-imagining Love, Sex, Relationships, and Community PhD, University of Iowa

Topic

lesbian romance

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Topic

Pecora, Norma (1999) "Identity by Design: The Corporate Construction of Teen Romance Novels " Growing Up Girls: Popular Culture and the Construction of Identity 49-86

Topic

fashion/clothing

food, drink

Peinado Rodríguez, Matilde Anta Félez, José Luis (2013) Educar para el matrimonio en femenino: modelos y prácticas en la literatura de posguerra Athenea Digita 13.2:35-46

Topic

marriage

Péquignot, Bruno (1988) Le rêve ou l'ordure. Du Roman sentimental et de ce qu'en disent certains. Psychologie médicale 20.8:1124-1128

Topic

Péquignot, Bruno (1990) "Le roman sentimental, un objet pour quelle sociologie? " Le roman sentimental: actes du colloque des 14-15-16 mars 1989 à la Faculté des lettres de Limoges, volume 1 185-198

Topic

sociology

Péquignot, Bruno (1991) La relation amoureuse: analyse sociologique du roman sentimental moderne Paris: L’Harmattan

Topic

Péquignot, Bruno (1991) Les femmes dans le roman sentimental moderne L'Homme et la société 99-100:115-125

Topic

France

Péquignot, Bruno (1993) "Eau de rose et air du temps " La Rencontre: figures du destin 96-104

Péquignot, Bruno (1997) "Le sentimental e(s)t le populaire " Le Roman Populaire en Question(s): Actes du colloque international de mai 1995 à Limoges 65-81

Percec, Dana (2011) “The Pink Ghetto”. The Avatars of Romantic Fiction Brukenthalia. Romanian Cultural History Review. Supplement of Brukenthal. Acta Musei 1.1:92-102

Topic

Jane Austen

Percec, Dana (2012) Romance: The History of a Genre Newcastle upon Tyne: Cambridge Scholars Publishing

Percec, Dana (2014) Reading the Fantastic Imagination: The Avatars of a Literary Genre Newcastle upon Tyne: Cambridge Scholars Publishing

Pérez, María Mercedes (2009) Es la historia de un amor: la edición de novelas románticas en el mercado de habla hispana Páginas de Guarda: Revista de Lenguaje, Edición y Cultura Escrita 8:

Topic

Pérez Casal, Inmaculada (2016) Love in Times of Crisis: An Approach to Contemporary Romance Novels in Spain Journal of Artistic Creation and Literary Research 4.2:62-70

Topic

Pérez Casal, Inmaculada (2018) Mass-market romance and the question of genre: N. Sparks, E. L. James and D. Gabaldon Oceánide 10:

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Pérez Casal, Inmaculada (2018) "The Romance Novel as Bildungsroman in the Works of Rosamunde Pilcher and Lisa Kleypas " Taking Stock to Look Ahead: Celebrating Forty Years of English Studies in Spain 139-144

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Pérez Casal, Inmaculada (2019) Antecedents and Development of the Contemporary Romance Novel in English: A Study of the Contribution to the Genre by Rosamunde Pilcher and Lisa Kleypas PhD, Universidade de Santiago de Compostela

Topic

Lisa Kleypas

Rosamunde Pilcher

Pérez Casal, Inmaculada (2020) "“There’s Something Charming about a Man with an Accent, Isn’t There?”: The Representation of Otherness in Three Novels by Lisa Kleypas " Love, Language, Place, and Identity in Popular Culture: Romancing the Other 145-156

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Pérez-Casal, Inmaculada (2020) "Business-like Lords and Gentlemanly Businessmen: The Romance Hero in Lisa Kleypas's Wallflowers Series " Love Across the Atlantic: US-UK Romance in Popular Culture 194-208

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Lisa Kleypas

capitalism/business

social class

Pérez-Gil, María del Mar (2018) Exoticism, Ethnocentrism, and Englishness in Popular Romance Fiction: Constructing the European Other Journal of Popular Culture 51.4:940-955

Topic

Pérez-Gil, María del Mar (2019) Representations of Nation and Spanish Masculinity in Popular Romance Novels: The Alpha Male as “Other” The Journal of Men’s Studies 27.2:169-182

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Lilian Warren as Rosalind Brett/Kathryn Blair/Celine Conway

Pérez-Gil, María del Mar (2020) "Britannia’s Daughters: Popular Romance Fiction and the Ideology of National Superiority (1950s–1970s) " Love, Language, Place, and Identity in Popular Culture: Romancing the Other 13-24

Topic

Kay Thorpe

Greece

Jean S. MacLeod/Catherine Airlie

Perkins, Lori (2012) Fifty Writers on Fifty Shades of Grey Dallas: BenBella Books

Perrin-Naffakh, Anne-Marie (1998) "Amours - toujours : l'écriture clichée dans le roman sentimental " Le cliché 167-183

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Perrot, Jean (2004) Les métamorphoses du conte Bruxelles: P.I.E - Peter Lang

Petersson, Sara Söderberg, Daniel (2014) En berättelse tar form - en studie i hur geometrisk form på bokomslag indikerar populärlitterär genre Bachelor, Linköping University

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Peukert, Christian Reimers, Imke (2018) Digital Disintermediation and Efficiency in the Market for Ideas CESifo Working Papers 6880:

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Philadelphoff-Puren, Nina (2004) The Mark of Refusal: Sexual Violence and the Politics of Recontextualization Feminist Theory 5.3:243–256

Topic

Charlotte Lamb

Philadelphoff-Puren, Nina (2005) Contextualising Consent: The Problem of Rape and Romance Australian Feminist Studies 20.46:31-42

Topic

Charlotte Lamb

Philips, Deborah () Fifty Shades of Romance: The intertextualities of Fifty Shades of Grey :

Topic

Fifty Shades

Twilight

Philips, Deborah (1985) Marketing Moonshine Women's Review 2:16-17

Philips, Deborah (1990) "Mills and Boon: The Marketing of Moonshine " Consumption, Identity, and Style: Marketing, Meanings, and the Packaging of Pleasure 139-152

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Philips, Deborah Tomlinson, Alan (1992) "Homeward Bound: Leisure, popular culture and consumer capitalism " Come on Down?: Popular Media Culture in Post-War Britain 9-45

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capitalism/business

Philips, Deborah Haywood, Ian (1998) Brave New Causes: Women in British Postwar Fictions London: Leicester University Press

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Philips, Deborah (2011) "The Empire of Romance: Love in a Postcolonial Climate " End of Empire and the English Novel since 1945 114-133

Topic

Pamela Kent

Juliet Shore/Anne Vinton

Jean Herbert

Lilian Warren as Rosalind Brett/Kathryn Blair/Celine Conway

medical romance

Philips, Deborah (2020) In defence of reading (and watching) trash: Feminists reading the romance European Journal of Cultural Studies 23.6:900–914

Topic

Phillips, Kristen (2015) Women and Erotic Fiction: Critical Essays on Genres, Markets & Readers Jefferson, North Carolina: McFarland & Company

Piatti-Farnell, Lorna Brien, Donna Lee (2015) New Directions in 21st Century Gothic: The Gothic Compass New York: Routledge

Pierini, Francesca (2020) Olive Skin, Chocolate Eyes: The Legacy of The Sheik on Descriptive Patterns of the Italian Romantic Hero in Harlequin Short Contemporaries Journal of Popular Romance Studies 9:

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Italy

Pierini, Francesca (2020) “He Looks like He’s Stepped out of a Painting:” The Idealization and Appropriation of Italian Timelessness through the Experience of Romantic Love Journal of Popular Romance Studies 9:

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Pifarré, Alexandra-Flora Rutigliano-Daspet, Sandrine (2010) Re- Répéter - Répétitions Chambéry, France: Presses universitaires Savoie Mont Blanc

Po-Yu, Rick Wei (2018) “She is a Jade”: A Georgian Gaming Woman Re-imagined in Georgette Heyer’s Faro’s Daughter Crossings 9:122-131

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Pokrywka, Rafał (2015) Temperaturen des Begehrens als konventionelle Metaphern im Hard-Core-Liebesroman 36:159-174

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Pollak, Richard (1992) What's in a Pseudonym? Romance Slaves of Harlequin The Nation 254.10:

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Popova, Milena (2018) Rewriting the Romance: Emotion Work and Consent in Arranged Marriage Fanfiction Journal of Popular Romance Studies 7:

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Pöppel, Hubert (2014) Las reinas de la novela rosa en España y Alemania: Corín Tellado y Hedwig Courths-Mahler Lingüística y Literatura 66:153-170

Topic

Germany

Corín Tellado

Hedwig Courths-Mahler

Porter, David (1997) Internet Culture New York and London: Routledge

Portut, Vanessa (2001) Évolution du roman sentimental contemporain en France: diversité et spécificité des collections chez Harlequin Mémoire de maîtrise, Université de Cergy-Pontoise

Topic

France

Postma, Kathlene (1999) American Women Readers Encounter Turkey in the Shadow of Popular Romance Journal of American Studies of Turkey 9:71-82

Topic

Greece

Turkey

Demetra Vaka

Potter, Jane Elizabeth (1998) Boys in khaki, girls in print: women's literary responses to the great war, 1914-1918 D.Phil, University of Oxford

Topic

Potter, Jane (1997) ""A great purifier": The Great War in Women's Romances and Memoirs 1914-1918 " Women's Fiction and The Great War 85-106

Topic

Berta Ruck

Ruby M. Ayres

Potter, Jane (2005) Boys in Khaki, Girls in Print: Women's Literary Responses to the Great War 1914-1918 Oxford: Clarendon Press

Topic

Mary Ward/Mrs. Humphry Ward

Ruby M. Ayres

Berta Ruck

Potter, Jane (2015) "‘Khaki and Kisses’: Reading the Romance Novel in the Great War " Reading and the First World War: Readers, Texts, Archives 29-44 DOI:10.1057/9781137302717_2

Topic

Powley, Tammy (2015) "Romance Fiction in Florida: The Crisscross of Jane Austen and Angela Hunt " Women of Florida Fiction: Essays on 12 Sunshine State Writers 123-132

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Angela Hunt

Jane Austen

Powley, Tammy Van Camp, April (2015) Women of Florida Fiction: Essays on 12 Sunshine State Writers Jefferson, North Carolina: McFarland & Company

Pozzato, Maria Pia (1982) Il romanzo rosa Rome: Edizioni L’Espresso

Pozzato, Maria Pia (1986) "Letteratura popolare e livelli di qualità. Un confronto fra Georgette Heyer e Barbara Cartland " Maestre d'amore: eroine e scrittrici nell'impero del rosa inglese 93-118

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Georgette Heyer

Barbara Cartland

Pozzato, Maria Pia (1987) "Il rosa e la regola " Intorno al rosa

Préfontaine, Clémence (1991) Le roman d’amour à l’école Québec: Les Éditions Logiques

Topic

Press, Andrea L. (1986) New Views on the Mass Production of Women's Culture Communication Research 13.1:139-149

Topic

Preston, Cathy Lynn (1995) Folklore, Literature, and Cultural Theory: Collected Essays New York and London: Garland Publishing

Proctor, Candice (2007) "The Romance Genre Blues or Why We Don't Get No Respect " Empowerment versus Oppression: Twenty-First Century Views of Popular Romance Novels 12-19

Topic

emotions

pornography

Puren, Nina (1995) Hymeneal Acts: Interrogating the Hegemony of Rape and Romance Australian Feminist Law Journal 5:15-26

Topic

Charlotte Lamb

virginity

Puri, Jyoti (1997) Reading Romance Novels in Postcolonial India Gender & Society 11.4:434-452

Topic

Pustz, Matthew (2012) Comic Books and American Cultural History: An Anthology New York: Continuum Books

Pylkkänen, Merita (2013) Didactic Fulfillment and the Popular Romance: Jude Deveraux’s The Mulberry Tree MA thesis, University of Eastern Finland

Topic

Jude Deveraux

Pyrhönen, Heta (2017) "Love under Threat: The Emotional Valences of the Twilight Saga " Writing Emotions: Theoretical Concepts and Selected Case Studies in Literature 347-362

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Quale, Amy E. (2014) Pursuit of Empowerment: The Evolution of the Romance Novel and Its Readership in Fifty Shades of Grey MA, Minnesota State University

Topic

Fifty Shades

Quilliam, Susan (2011) “He seized her in his manly arms and bent his lips to hers…”. The surprising impact that romantic novels have on our work Journal of Family Planning and Reproductive Health Care 37.3:179-181

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Quiroga Fernández de Soto, Alejandro del Arco Blanco, Miguel Ángel (2010) Soldados de Dios y apóstoles de la patria: Las derechas españolas en la Europa de entreguerras Granada: Comares

Rabanal, Hayley (2018) Courting convivencia: Hispano-Arab identity and Spanish women’s Orientalism in the Franco regime’s years of “unbearable solitude” (1946–1950) Journal of Spanish Cultural Studies 19.3:339-364

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sheikh romance

María Adela Durango

Ana Marcela García

María del Pilar Carré

Rabine, Leslie W. (1985) Reading the Romantic Heroine: Text, History, Ideology Ann Arbor: University of Michigan Press

Topic

Rabine, Leslie W. (1985) Romance in the Age of Electronics: Harlequin Enterprises Feminist Studies 11.1:39-60

Topic

Rabinowitz, Paula () Oxford Research Encyclopedia of Literature : Oxford University Press

Radford, Jean (1986) "Introduction " The Progress of Romance: The Politics of Popular Fiction 1-20

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socialism and/or communism

Radford, Jean (1986) The Progress of Romance: The Politics of Popular Fiction London and New York: Routledge & Kegan Paul

Radford, Jean (1992) "A Certain Latitude: Romance as Genre " Gender, Language, and Myth: Essays on Popular Narrative 3-19

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socialism and/or communism

Radhika, P. (2004) Narratives of Fractured Conjugality: Women’s Romance Novels in Kannada, 1950s-1960s Journal of Karnataka Studies 2.1:

Topic

Radhika, P. (2014) Inaugurating a (Feminine) Public: Women’s Romances in Kannada, 1950s–1960s Indian Journal of Gender Studies 21.1:85-110

Topic

Radick, Caryn (2016) Romance Writers’ Use of Archives Archivaria, the Journal of the Association of Canadian Archivists 81:45-73

Topic

libraries/librarians

Radner, Hilary (1995) Shopping Around: Feminine Culture and the Pursuit of Pleasure New York and London: Routledge

Topic

Radstone, Susannah (1988) Sweet Dreams: Sexuality, Gender and Popular Fiction London: Lawrence & Wishart

Radway, Janice A. (1982) "The Aesthetic in Mass Culture: Reading the "Popular" Literary Text " The Structure of the Literary Process Studies dedicated to the Memory of Felix Vodička 397-429 DOI:10.1075/llsee.8.19rad

Topic

Victoria Holt/Jean Plaidy/Eleanor Burford Hibbert

fashion/clothing

Radway, Janice A. (1983) Women Read the Romance: The Interaction of Text and Context Feminist Studies 9.1:53-78

Topic

Radway, Janice A. (1984) Interpretive Communities And Variable Literacies: The Functions Of Romance Reading Daedalus 113.3:49-73

Topic

Radway, Janice A. (1984) Reading the Romance: Women, Patriarchy, and Popular Literature Chapel Hill: University of North Carolina Press

Topic

Radway, Janice (1981) The Utopian Impulse in Popular Literature: Gothic Romances and "Feminist" Protest American Quarterly 33.2:140-162

Topic

Victoria Holt/Jean Plaidy/Eleanor Burford Hibbert

Annie Vivanti/Annie Vivanti Chartres

Radway, Janice (1994) "Romance and the Work of Fantasy: Struggles over Feminine Sexuality and Subjectivity at Century's End " Viewing, Reading, Listening: Audiences and Cultural Reception 213-231

Topic

Raineri, Rosalia (2019) Verde bianco e rosa. Il romanzo 'femminile' e l'educazione sentimentale delle italiane (1911-1946) PhD, Università degli Studi di Palermo

Topic

family

Raitt, Suzanne Tate, Trudi (1997) Women's Fiction and The Great War Oxford: Clarendon Press

Rak, Michele (1999) Rosa: La letteratura del divertimento amoroso Rome: Donzelli

Ramos-García, María T. Vivanco, Laura (2020) "Introduction " Love, Language, Place, and Identity in Popular Culture: Romancing the Other 1-9

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Ramos-García, María T. Vivanco, Laura (2020) Love, Language, Place, and Identity in Popular Culture: Romancing the Other Lanham, Maryland: Lexington

Ramos-García, María T. (2020) "Representations of Otherness in Paranormal Romance: Race and Wealth in Nalini Singh and J. R. Ward " Love, Language, Place, and Identity in Popular Culture: Romancing the Other 127-144

Topic

Nalini Singh

J. R. Ward

capitalism/business

Ramos-García, María T. (2021) "Paranormal romance and urban fantasy " The Routledge Research Companion to Popular Romance Fiction 141-167 DOI:10.4324/9781315613468-6

Topic

happy ending

Rampoldi Hnilo, Lynn A. (1996) The effects of romance in young adult fiction on pre-adolescent African-American females MA thesis, Michigan State University

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