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Jayne Ann Krentz/Amanda Quick/Jayne Castle

Native American romance

McCann, Hannah Roach, Catherine M. (2021) "Sex and sexuality " The Routledge Research Companion to Popular Romance Fiction 411-427 DOI:10.4324/9781315613468-19

Topic

McCay, Mary A. (2001) Love's Labors Won: Romance Fiction and the Politics of Love New Orleans Review 27.1:171-183

Topic

Laura Kinsale

Mary Jo Putney

McCracken, Scott (1998) Pulp: Reading Popular Fiction Manchester: Manchester University Press

Topic

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

Penny Jordan/Caroline Courtney

McGurl, Mark (2021) Unspeakable Conventionality: The Perversity of the Kindle American Literary History ONLINE FIRST:ONLINE FIRST

Topic

capitalism/business

fanfiction

McKay, Jade Parsons, Elizabeth (2009) Out of Wedlock: The Consummation and Consumption of Marriage in Contemporary Romance Fiction Genders 50:

Topic

McKee, Alan (2007) Beautiful Things in Popular Culture Malden, MA: Blackwell

McKinley, Tracey Lynn (2007) The Female Quest: An Analysis of Archetypal Layering in Harlequin Presents Master of Education, Queen's University

Topic

McKnight-Trontz, Jennifer (2002) The Look of Love: The Art of the Romance Novel New York: Princeton Architectural Press

Topic

paratext

McLennon, Leigh (2014) Defining Urban Fantasy and Paranormal Romance: Crossing Boundaries of Genre, Media, Self and Other in New Supernatural Worlds Refractory: a Journal of Entertainment Media 23:

Topic

McLennon, Leigh (2017) Contemporary vampire genre fiction: ethical feeding and the posthuman vampire in urban fantasy and paranormal romance PhD, University of Melbourne

Topic

McNamara, Sallie (2000) "Georgette Heyer: The Historical Romance and the Consumption of the Erotic, 1918-1939 " All the World and Her Husband: Women in Twentieth-Century Consumer Culture 82-96

Topic

McNeil, Helen (1981) She trembled at his touch Quarto May:17-18

Topic

social class

McWilliam, Kelly (2009) Romance in foreign accents: Harlequin-Mills & Boon in Australia Continuum: Journal of Media & Cultural Studies 23.2:137-145

Topic

Meirelles, Simone Regina Ferreira (2002) Das bancas ao coraçao: romances sentimentais e leitura hoje Mestre em Letras, Universidade Federal do Paraná

Topic

Brazil

Meirelles, Simone (2008) Romances com coração: leitura e edição de romances sentimentais no Brasil PhD, Universidade Federal do Paraná

Topic

Brazil

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

Melman, Billie (1988) Women and the Popular Imagination in the Twenties: Flappers and Nymphs Houndmills, Basingstoke: Macmillan

Topic

romances in magazines/romance magazines

pornography

social class

community

Ménard, A. Dana Cabrera, Christine (2011) ‘Whatever the Approach, Tab B Still Fits into Slot A’: Twenty Years of Sex Scripts in Romance Novels Sexuality & Culture 15.3:240–255

Topic

Ménard, A. Dana (2013) Note from the Field: Reflecting on Romance Novel Research: Past, Present and Future Journal of Popular Romance Studies 3.2:

Topic

Méndez, José Luis (1986) The Novels of Corín Tellado Studies in Latin American Popular Culture 5:31-40

Topic

Corín Tellado

Meyer, Michaela D. E. (2015) Living the Romance through Castle: Exploring Autoethnography, Popular Culture and Romantic Television Narratives The Popular Culture Studies Journal 3.1&2:245-269

Topic

Meyer, Michael (2002) The Bedford Introduction to Literature: Reading, Thinking, Writing (Sixth Edition) Boston: Bedford/St Martin's

Topic

Karen van der Zee

Michel, Anita (1997) Re-reading the (series) romance: toward a typology of recent series romance novels MA thesis, Bowling Green State University

Micheletti, Ellen (2010) Wandering the Web Wandering-Reviews of Romance Novels: Online Sources for Evaluating Popular Fiction Against the Grain 22.4:48

Topic

romance and, or as, activism

Michelson, Anna (2021) The politics of happily-ever-after: romance genre fiction as aesthetic public sphere American Journal of Cultural Sociology ONLINE FIRST:ONLINE FIRST

Topic

sociology

Migozzi, Jacques (1997) Le Roman Populaire en Question(s): Actes du colloque international de mai 1995 à Limoges Limoges: PULIM (Presses universitaires de Limoges)

Mikals-Adachi, Eileen B. (2012) Romantic Adventures in Prose: Ren'ai Shõsetsu (Romance Novels) by Yuikawa Kei U.S.-Japan Women's Journal 43:85-105

Topic

Miles, Angela (1988) Confessions of a Harlequin Reader: Romance and the Myth of Male Mothers Canadian Journal of Political and Social Theory 12. 1-2:1-37

Topic

Miller, Kathleen (2010) A Little Extra Bite: Dis/Ability and Romance in Tanya Huff and Charlaine Harris’s Vampire Fiction Journal of Popular Romance Studies 1.1:

Topic

disability

Miller, Jessica (2015) Passionate Virtue: Conceptions of Medical Professionalism in Popular Romance Fiction Literature and Medicine 33.1:70-90

Topic

medical romance

health/medical

rural romance

Mirmohamadi, Kylie (2015) Love on the Land: Australian Rural Romance in Place English Studies 96.2:204-224

Topic

Mitchell, Karen S. (1996) Ever After: Reading the Women Who Read (and Re-Write) Romances Theatre Topics 6.1:51-69

Topic

Lisa Gregory

Mitchell, Diana (1995) If You Can't Beat'em, Join 'em: Using the Romance Series to Confront Gender Stereotypes The ALAN Review 22.2:

Topic

Mizzau, Marina (1987) "Strategie narrative: il non detto e il troppo detto " Intorno al rosa 47-57

Topic

Modleski, Tania (1980) Popular Feminine Narratives: A Study of Romances, Gothics, and Soap Operas PhD, Stanford University

Topic

Modleski, Tania (1980) The Disappearing Act: A Study of Harlequin Romances Signs: Journal of Women in Culture and Society 5.3:435-448

Topic

Modleski, Tania (1982) Loving with a Vengeance: Mass‐Produced Fantasies for Women Hamden, Connecticut: Archon

Topic

Modleski, Tania (1986) Studies in Entertainment: Critical Approaches to Mass Culture Bloomington: Indiana University Press

Modleski, Tania (1997) My Life as a Romance Reader Para.doxa: Studies in World Literary Genres 3.1-2:15-28

Topic

Brenda Joyce

Modleski, Tania (1998) My Life as a Romance Writer Para.doxa: Studies in World Literary Genres 4.9:134-144

Topic

BDSM

Jayne Ann Krentz/Amanda Quick/Jayne Castle

Jennifer Crusie

Susan Elizabeth Phillips

Linda Howard

evolutionary psychology

Moffitt, Mary Anne Smeltzer (1990) Understanding Middle-Class Adolescent Leisure: A Cultural Studies Approach to Romance Novel Reading PhD, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign

Topic

Moffitt, Mary Anne (1993) Articulating Meaning: Reconceptions of the Meaning Process, Fantasy/Reality, and Identity in Leisure Activities Communication Theory 3.3:231-251

Topic

Moffitt, Mary Anne (1993) Leisure Fiction and the Audience: Meaning and Communication Strategies Women's Studies in Communication 16.2:27-61

Topic

Monnet, Georges (2011) "Delly et la Maison de la Bonne Presse " L’Œuvre de Delly 17-44

Topic

Montague, Holly W. (1994) "From Interlude in Arcady to Daphnis and Chloe: Two Thousand Years of Erotic Fantasy " The Search for the Ancient Novel 391-401

Topic

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

Heliodorus

Montague, Holly (1992) "Sweet and Pleasant Passion: Female and Male Fantasy in Ancient Romance Novels " Pornography and Representation in Greece and Rome 231-249

Topic

Longus

Montejo Gurruchaga, Lucía (2005) "El discurso de la novela rosa de autora en la narrativa española de mediados del siglo XX. La transgresión del canon oficial " Ad amicam amicissime scripta: homenaje a la profesora María José López de Ayala y Genovés (Volumen II) 265-274

Topic

Montejo Gurruchaga, Lucía (2010) Discurso de autora: género y censura en la narrativa española de posguerra Madrid: UNED

Topic

Carmen de Icaza

Moody, Stephanie Lee (2013) Affecting Genre: Women's Participation with Popular Romance Fiction PhD, University of Michigan

Topic

Moody, Stephanie (2010) "Women's Leadership in Romance Fiction Scholarship " Gender and Women's Leadership: A Reference Handbook 941-947 DOI:10.4135/9781412979344.n98

Topic

Samuel Richardson

Jane Austen

Georgette Heyer

Susan Elizabeth Phillips

Moody, Stephanie (2016) "Building Social Worlds: Examining Women’s Uses of Romance Novels " Literacy in Practice: Writing in Private, Public and Working Lives 32-45

Topic

Moody, Stephanie (2016) Identification, Affect, and Escape: Theorizing Popular Romance Reading Pedagogy 16.1:105-123

Topic

Susan Elizabeth Phillips

Moody, Nickianne Hallam, Julia (1997) Medical Fictions Liverpool: Liverpool John Moores University and the Association for Research in Popular Fictions

Moody, Nickianne (1998) "Mills & Boon’s Temptations: Sex and the Single Couple in the 1990s " Fatal Attractions: Rescripting Romance in Contemporary Literature and Film 141-156

Topic

Moody-Freeman, Julie E. (2016) "Scripting Black Love in the 1990s: Pleasure, Respectability, and Responsibility in an Era of HIV/AIDS " Romance Fiction and American Culture: Love as the Practice of Freedom? 111-127

Topic

health/medical

Brenda Jackson

romance and, or as, activism

Moody-Freeman, Julie E. (2021) "African American romance " The Routledge Research Companion to Popular Romance Fiction 229-251 DOI:10.4324/9781315613468-10

Topic

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

Rosalind Welles - pen name of Elsie B. Washington

Lia Sanders - pen name of Angela Jackson and Sandra Jackson-Opoku

Alyssa Cole

Moore, Michael Kramer, Daniela (1999) SATIR FOR BEGINNERS: Incongruent Communication Patterns in Romantic Fiction ETC: A Review of General Semantics 56.4:429-437

Topic

Moore, Laura M. (2019) Sexual Agency, Safe Sex, and Consent Negotiations in Erotic Romance Novels European Journal of Social Sciences 2.2:92-96

Topic

Moore, Kate Selinger, Eric Murphy (2012) The Heroine as Reader, the Reader as Heroine: Jennifer Crusie’s Welcome to Temptation Journal of Popular Romance Studies 2.2:

Topic

Moran, Albert (1990) "No More Virgins": Writing Romance ‐ an Interview with Emma Darcy Continuum: The Australian Journal of Media & Culture 4.1:37-53

Topic

Emma Darcy

Moreau, Charles (2011) "Influence de l’histoire et de l’exotisme dans l’œuvre de Delly ou la conversion contrariée " L’Œuvre de Delly 123-138

Topic

Moreno-Álvarez, Alejandra (2020) "India, Heat, Dust, and Tea? Alienness and Marketability in Ruth Prawer Jhabvala and Nicole C. Vosseler " Diasporic Inquiries into South Asian Women’s Narratives: Alien Domiciles 39-51

Topic

Moreno-Álvarez, Alejandra (2021) "Romance Novels in Postcolonial India: From Mills & Boon to Pageturn’s Red Romance Series " Romantic Escapes: Post-Millennial Trends in Contemporary Popular Romance Fiction

Topic

Moretto, Shirley Weidenburner, Kathleen (1984) We’ll Take Romance! Library Journal 109.15:1727-1728

Topic

Morey, Ann-Janine (1990) The Reverend Idol and Other Parsonage Secrets: Women Write Romances about Ministers, 1880-1950 Journal of Feminist Studies in Religion 6.1:87-103

Topic

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

Morey, Ann-Janine (1992) Religion and Sexuality in American Literature Cambridge: Cambridge University Press

Topic

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

Morgan, Paula (2003) “Like Bush Fire in My Arms”: Interrogating the World of Caribbean Romance Journal of Popular Culture 36.4:804-827

Topic

Morrissey, Katherine (2008) Fanning the Flames of Romance: An Exploration of Fan Fiction and the Romance Novel MA thesis, Georgetown University

Topic

fanfiction

Morrissey, Katherine (2014) Fifty Shades of Remix: The Intersecting Pleasures of Commercial and Fan Romances Journal of Popular Romance Studies 4.1:

Topic

Fifty Shades

fanfiction

Morrissey, Katherine (2015) "Steamy, Spicy, Sensual: Tracing the Cycles of Erotic Romance " Women and Erotic Fiction: Critical Essays on Genres, Markets & Readers 42-58

Topic

Morrissey, Katherine (2016) Romance Networks: Aspiration & Desire in Today’s Digital Culture PhD, University of Wisconsin, Milwaukee

Topic

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

erotic romance

Morton, Leith (2015) The reinvention of romance: The rewriting, reception and censorship of 'ninjobon' in modern Japan Journal of the Oriental Society of Australia 47:85-115

Topic

Mosley, Shelley Charles, John Havir, Julie (1995) The Librarian as Effete Snob: Why Romance? Wilson Library Bulletin 69:

Topic

Ginger Chambers

Moss, Madi Markle (2020) Review: When Was the Last Time You Read a Romance Novel? Dialogue: A Journal of Mormon Thought 53.1:189-193

Topic

Ilima Todd

Moss, Gemma (1989) Un/Popular Fictions London: Virago

Topic

Moss, Gemma (1993) "Girls Tell the Teen Romance: Four Reading Histories " Reading Audiences: Young People and the Media 116-134

Topic

Moss, Gemma (1993) "The Place for Romance in Young People's Writing " Texts of Desire: Essays on Fiction, Femininity and Schooling 106–125 DOI:10.4324/9781315810119

Topic

Mostow, Joshua S. (2003) The Columbia Companion to Modern East Asian Literature New York: Columbia University Press

Motte, Warren (2012) A Walk on the Sheikh Side Formes Poétiques Contemporaines 9:119-134

Topic

sheikh romance

paratext

Sharon Kendrick

animals

metaphor/symbolism

Moudileno, Lydie (2002) Pas de romance sans finance: la construction du couple moderne dans les romans sentimentaux de l'Afrique de l'Ouest Sites: The Journal of Twentieth-Century/Contemporary French Studies revue d'études français 6.1:67-78

Topic

Moudileno, Lydie (2005) L’invention du romantique. La littérature rose révolutionne l'édition africaine Africultures 63:

Topic

Moudileno, Lydie (2008) The Troubling Popularity of West African Romance Novels Research in African Literatures 39.4:120-132

Topic

Mouritsen, Maren M. (1981) Ye Are Free to Choose: Agency and the Latter-Day Saint Woman Provo, Utah: Brigham Young University

Moy, Patricia Matheson, Donald (2019) Voices: Exploring the Shifting Contours of Communication New York: Peter Lang

Muhomah, Catherine (2002) What do women want?: Versions of masculinity in Kenyan romantic fiction English Studies in Africa 45.2:77-90

Topic

Mukherjea, Ananya (2011) My Vampire Boyfriend: Postfeminism, “Perfect” Masculinity, and the Contemporary Appeal of Paranormal Romance Studies in Popular Culture 33.2:1-20

Topic

Mulhern, Chieko Irie (1989) Japanese Harlequin Romances as Transcultural Woman's Fiction The Journal of Asian Studies 48.1:50-70

Topic

food, drink

Munt, Sally (1992) New Lesbian Criticism: Literary and Cultural Readings New York: Columbia University Press

Muram, David Rosenthal, Ted L. Tolley, Elizabeth A. Peeler, Molly M. Pitts, Bridget (1992) Teenage Pregnancy: Dating and Sexual Attitudes Journal of Sex Education and Therapy 18.4:264-276

Topic

Murias, Rosana (2021) "In Grey and Pink: The Image of the Bride through the Spanish Postwar Novela Rosa " The Bride in the Cultural Imagination: Screen, Stage, and Literary Productions 17-34

Topic

Carlota O'Neill/Laura de Noves

film/movies

Murphy, Bernice M. Matterson, Stephen (2018) Twenty-First-Century Popular Fiction Edinburgh: Edinburgh University Press

Muryn, Teresa (2019) Rougir / devenir rouge : l’expression linguistique du langage corporel et ce qu’elle laisse inférer dans un genre textuel Studia Romanica Posnaniensia 46.1:137-151

Topic

Muryn, Teresa Niziołek, Małgorzata Hajok, Alicja (2020) "Que dit la main dans le roman sentimental et policier? " Phraséologie et stylistique de la langue littéraire/Phraseology and Stylistics of Literary Language; Approches interdisciplinaires/Interdisciplinary Approaches 127-142 DOI:10.3726/b17628

Topic

Mussell, Kay Johnson (1973) The World of Modern Gothic Fiction: American Women and Their Social Myths PhD, University of Iowa

Topic

Mussell, Kay J. (1975) Beautiful and Damned: The Sexual Woman in Gothic Fiction Journal of Popular Culture 9.1:84-89

Topic

Mussell, Kay J. (1983) ""But Why Do They Read Those Things?": The Female Audience and the Gothic Novel " The Female Gothic 57-68

Topic

Mussell, Kay (1981) Women’s Gothic and Romantic Fiction: A Reference Guide Westport, Connecticut: Greenwood Press

Topic

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

Victoria Holt/Jean Plaidy/Eleanor Burford Hibbert

Catharine Maria Sedgwick

Augusta Jane Evans

E. D. E. N. Southworth

Margaret Mitchell

Daphne du Maurier

Mary Stewart

Phyllis A. Whitney

Rosemary Rogers

Kathleen Thompson Norris

Grace Livingston Hill

film/movies

Mussell, Kay (1982) "Preface " Twentieth Century Romance and Gothic Writers v-ix

Topic

Mussell, Kay (1984) Fantasy and Reconciliation: Contemporary Formulas of Women’s Romance Fiction Westport, Connecticut: Greenwood Press

Mussell, Kay (1990) "Preface " Twentieth-Century Romance and Historical Writers (2nd edition) vii-xii

Topic

Mussell, Kay (1994) "Preface (revised from the second edition) " Twentieth-Century Romance and Historical Writers (3rd edition) vii-x

Mussell, Kay (1997) On-Line Romance Para.doxa: Studies in World Literary Genres 3.1-2:246-249

Topic

Barbara Michaels a.k.a. Elizabeth Peters a.k.a. Barbara Mertz

Mussell, Kay (1997) Para.doxa 3.1-2: Where's Love Gone? Transformations in the Romance Genre :

Mussell, Kay (1997) Paradoxa Interview with Barbara G. Mertz Para.doxa: Studies in World Literary Genres 3.1-2:180-183

Topic

Mary Stewart

Mussell, Kay (1997) Paradoxa Interview with Janet Dailey Para.doxa: Studies in World Literary Genres 3.1-2:214-218

Topic

Janet Dailey

Jayne Ann Krentz/Amanda Quick/Jayne Castle

disability

Mussell, Kay (1997) Paradoxa Interview with Jayne Ann Krentz Para.doxa: Studies in World Literary Genres 3.1-2:46-57

Topic

Mussell, Kay (1997) Paradoxa Interview with Nora Roberts Para.doxa: Studies in World Literary Genres 3.1-2:155-163

Topic

Nora Roberts/J. D. Robb

Mussell, Kay (1997) Where's Love Gone? Transformations in Romance Fiction and Scholarship Para.doxa: Studies in World Literary Genres 3.1-2:3-14

Topic

Mussell, Kay (1998) Kay Mussell Replies to Tania Modleski Para.doxa: Studies in World Literary Genres 4.9:145-147

Topic

Mussell, Kay Tuñón, Johanna (1999) North American Romance Writers Lanham, Maryland: Scarecrow Press

Topic

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

Mussell, Kay (2002) "Are Feminism and Romance Novels Mutually Exclusive? " The Bedford Introduction to Literature: Reading, Thinking, Writing (Sixth Edition) 40-41

Topic

Mussell, Kay (2002) "Romance Fiction " The Greenwood Guide to American Popular Culture: Volume Four (Pulps and Dime Novels through Young Adult Fiction) 1559-1600

Topic

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

Naber, Christine Marie (1995) Rape myths are the theory--romance novels are the practice: The impact of exposure to images of women in popular culture PhD, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign

Topic

paratext

Nachbar, Jack Lause, Kevin (1992) Popular Culture: An Introductory Text Bowling Green, Ohio: Bowling Green State University Popular Press

Nahrebecky, George (1990) Forme, fureur, fonction: le roman Harlequin à l'oeuvre Dalhousie French Studies 18:115-127

Topic

Nakagawa, Chiho (2011) Safe Sex with Defanged Vampires: New Vampire Heroes in Twilight and the Southern Vampire Mysteries Journal of Popular Romance Studies 2.1:

Topic

Charlaine Harris

Twilight

virginity

metafiction

Nash, Walter (1990) Language in Popular Fiction London: Routledge

Topic

Nash, Jennifer C. (2016) Gender: Love : Macmillan

Nayrou, Félicie Rudy, Alain (1993) La Rencontre: figures du destin Paris: Autrement

Ndalianis, Angela (2012) The Horror Sensorium: Media and the Senses Jefferson, North Carolina: McFarland & Company

Topic

Laurell K. Hamilton

Charlaine Harris

Christine Feehan

Ndiaye, Christiane (2009) L’imaginaire du poisson amoureux chez les romancières francophones de la Caraïbe Présence Francophone: Revue internationale de langue et de littérature 72.1:11-32

Topic

Caribbean

fairytales

Neal, Lynn S. (2000) Romancing God: Reading Evangelical Romance Novels PhD, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill

Topic

Neal, Lynn S. (2006) Romancing God: Evangelical Women and Inspirational Fiction Chapel Hill: University of North Carolina Press

Topic

Grace Livingston Hill

Neal, Lynn S. (2013) "Evangelical Love Stories: The Triumphs and Temptations of Romantic Fiction " Evangelical Christians and Popular Culture: Pop Goes the Gospel. Volume 2: Literature, Music, Popular Art, and Merchandise 1–20

Topic

Neale, Gillian (2020) Annie S. Swan, Publishing Phenomenon: A Book Historical Perspective Scottish Literary Review 12.2:91-109

Topic

Annie S. Swan

Nelson, Elizabeth (2015) "The Romance of Self-Publishing " Self-Publishing and Collection Development: Opportunities and Challenges for Libraries 149-157

Topic

Neuhaus, Jessamyn Neuhaus, John (2015) 'Sometimes It Feels More Like a Commune Than a Town': Envisioning Utopian Possibilities in Robyn Carr's Virgin River Romance Novels Studies in Popular Culture 37.2:25-42

Topic

Neuman, Susan B. (1985) The Uses of Reading Mass-Produced Romance Fiction Annual Meeting of the International Reading Association (30th, New Orleans, LA, May 5-9, 1985): ERIC document ED263528

Topic

Sue Byfield

Neuman, Shirley Stephenson, Glennis (1993) ReImagining Women: Representations of Women in Culture Toronto: University of Toronto Press

Neves, Mariana Brasileiro (2014) ROMANCES DE BOLSO: A novela romântica da Harlequin Books no mercado editorial brasileiro Bacharelado, Universidade Católica de Pernambuco

Topic

Brazil

Neville, Lucy (2018) Girls Who Like Boys Who Like Boys: Women and Gay Male Pornography and Erotica Cham, Switzerland: Palgrave Macmillan

Topic

pornography

m/m romance

Newell, Stephanie Okome, Onookome (2014) Popular Culture in Africa: The Episteme of the Everyday New York and London: Routledge

Newns, Lucinda (2018) Renegotiating romantic genres: Textual resistance and Muslim chick lit Journal of Commonwealth Literature 53.2:284-300

Topic

chick lit

Islam

Newton, Marlo Leigh (1991) Romancing the tome: the novels of Georgette Heyer MA thesis, University of Melbourne

Topic

Georgette Heyer

Neylon, Virginia Lyn (2003) Reading and Writing the Romance Novel: An Analysis of Romance Fiction and Its Place in the Community College Classroom Paper presented at the Annual Meeting of the Conference on College Composition and Communication (54th, New York, NY, March 19-22, 2003): ERIC Document ED477339

Topic

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

Nibafasha, Spes (2020) The politics of the popular: Definitions and uses of African popular fiction Hybrid Journal of Literary and Cultural Studies 2.4:59-75

Topic

Nielsen, Inge (2000) Caught in the Web of Love: Intercepting the Young Adult Reception of Qiongyao's Romances On-Line Acta Orientalia Academiae Scientiarum Hungaricae 53.3-4:235-253

Topic

Nikbakht, H. (2019) Female Agency in the Harlequin Romance Formula: developments within the timeframe of second wave feminism Bachelor’s thesis, Utrecht University

Topic

Roberta Leigh/Rachel Lindsay

virginity

health/medical

Nilson, Maria (2013) From The Flame and the Flower to Fifty Shades of Grey: Sex, Power and Desire in the Romance Novel Akademisk Kvarter/Academic Quarter 7:119-131

Topic

Nilson, Maria (2016) Kärlek, passion och begär – om romance Lund: BTJ förlag

Topic

Nilson, Maria (2017) Kärlek i kyligt klimat: Om nordisk romance Tidskrift för Nordisk litteratur 76:22-31

Topic

Nilson, Maria (2017) Nådens tuttar : Om skönheter, odjur och den frälsande kvinnokroppen i modern romance HumaNetten 39:110-123

Topic

fairytales

Fifty Shades

Twilight

Nilson, Maria Ehriander, Helene (2020) Love in a Cold Climate? Teaching Popular Romance at a Swedish University Journal of Popular Romance Studies 9:

Topic

Sweden

Simona Ahrnstedt

chick lit

Nobert, Margo (1983) Le titre comme séduction dans le roman Harlequin: une lecture sociosémiotique Études littéraires 16.3:379–398

Topic

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

Noizet, Pascale (1986) La coopération interprétative dans le roman d'amour populaire de la langue française de 1880 à nos jours Mémoire de maîtrise, Université du Québec à Montréal

Noizet, Pascale (1990) "Naissance du roman d'amour de grande consommation: Harlequin à la recherche de ses aïeux " Le roman sentimental: actes du colloque des 14-15-16 mars 1989 à la Faculté des lettres de Limoges, volume 1 95-100

Topic

Noizet, Pascale (1995) "Delly, l’équation d’une illustre inconnue " Guimauve et fleurs d’oranger: Delly 71-93

Topic

Noizet, Pascale (1996) L’idée moderne d’amour. Entre sexe et genre: vers une théorie du sexologème Paris: Éditions Kimé

Topic

love

Samuel Richardson

Nolan, Michelle (2008) Love on the Racks: a History of American Romance Comics Jefferson, North Carolina: McFarland & Company

Topic

comics/manga

Noone, Kristin (2019) "Succulent Texts: Desire, Outlaws, and Consumption in Popular Romance " Food and Feast in Modern Outlaw Tales 167-187 DOI:10.4324/9780429061301-9

Topic

community

rural romance

Novak, Julia (2014) Nell Gwyn in Contemporary Romance Novels: Biography and the Dictates of 'Genre Literature' Contemporary Women's Writing 8.3:373–390

Topic

Novakova, Iva Siepmann, Dirk (2020) Phraseology and Style in Subgenres of the Novel: A Synthesis of Corpus and Literary Perspectives Cham, Switzerland: Palgrave Macmillan

Topic

languages

Nowacki, Dariusz (2020) Access Paths: On Popular Women’s Literature and Criticism Tematy i Konteksty Special Issue in English, No. 1: A Selection of the Decade:

Topic

Nowicka, Katarzyna (2013) "How to Romance the Masses – Problems of Translating Light Romantic Fiction in Poland " Linguistic Studies of Human Language 483-494

Topic

Poland

Núñez Cubero, Luis Romero Pérez, Clara (2009) Emociones, cultura y educación: Un enfoque interdisciplinar : Universidad de Sevilla

Núñez Puente, Sonia (2007) Novela rosa y cultura popular: Carmen de Icaza y Concha Linares Becerra Sincronia 12:42:

Topic

Carmen de Icaza

Concha Linares-Becerra

Núñez Puente, Sonia (2008) La novela rosa como mascarada de la muerte de lo social: Concha Linares Becerra y María Mercedes Ortoll Asparkía: Investigació feminista 19:105-122

Topic

Concha Linares-Becerra

María Mercedes Ortoll

fashion/clothing

Núñez Puente, Sonia (2008) The Romance Novel and Popular Culture during the Early Franco Regime in Spain: Towards the Construction of Other Discourses of Femininity Journal of Gender Studies 17.3:225-236

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Nyquist, Mary (1993) "Romance in the Forbidden Zone " ReImagining Women: Representations of Women in Culture 160-181

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Native American romance

Arlene James

O'Byrne, Patricia (2008) Popular fiction in postwar Spain: the soothing, subversive novela rosa Journal of Romance Studies 8.2:37-57

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María Morgan/Rosa María Cajal

María Mercedes Ortoll

war/armed forces

Ángeles Villarta Tuñón

O'Byrne, Patricia (2014) Post-War Spanish Women Novelists and the Recuperation of Historical Memory Woodbridge, Suffolk: Tamesis

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O'Connor, Karen (2010) Gender and Women's Leadership: A Reference Handbook Thousand Oaks, California: Sage

O'Mahony, Lauren Kate (2015) In search of feminist romance in Australian 'Chick Lit' PhD, Murdoch University

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chick lit

O'Mahony, Lauren (2014) Australian rural romance as feminist romance? Australasian Journal of Popular Culture 3.3:285-298

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O'Mahony, Lauren (2014) Teaching an Old Dog New Tricks?: Romance, Ethics and Human-Dog Relationships in a Rural Australian Novel Journal of Popular Romance Studies 4.2:

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O'Mahony, Lauren (2017) Death and the Australian Rural Romance Novel TEXT: Journal of Writing and Writing Courses 45:

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rural romance

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

death

O'Mahony, Lauren Murphy, Olivia (2018) From polite society to the Pilbara: The ingénue abroad in Evelina and The Girl in Steel-Capped Boots Outskirts 38:1-23

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Frances Burney

Loretta Hill

O'Mahony, Lauren (2021) "Australian romance fiction " The Routledge Research Companion to Popular Romance Fiction 72-96 DOI:10.4324/9781315613468-3

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national identity

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

Stella Eromonsere-Ajanaku

Rosa Praed

Marie Bjelke Petersen

O'Neil, Kathryn M. (2016) Women's rhetoric and the romance novel genre Master of Arts, University of Texas Rio Grande Valley

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O'Toole, Patricia (1979) Paperback Virgins Human Behavior 8.2:62-67

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Ohmann, Richard (1990) Reading the Romance: Women, Patriarchy, and Popular Literature Radical Teacher 37:

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Okamoto, Shigeko Shibamoto Smith, Janet S. (2004) Japanese Language, Gender, and Ideology: Cultural Models and Real People New York: Oxford University Press

OKell, Eleanor Regina (2020) "Hercules as Romantic Hero in Twenty-first-century Historical Fiction " The Modern Hercules: Images of the Hero from the Nineteenth to the Early Twenty-First Century 121–145 DOI:10.1163/9789004440067_008

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Stephanie Laurens

myth

Oklopčić, Biljana (2016) Medieval heresy in Croatian historical romances: a case study of Marija Jurić Zagorka’s Plameni inkvizitori Neohelicon 43.2:559–576

Topic

Marija Jurić Zagorka

Croatia

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

national identity

Okome, Onookome (2009) "Reading the Popular: Onitsha Market Romance and the Practice of Everyday Life " Teaching the African Novel 386-401

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Olivarez, Omar Hardie, Ryan Blackburn, Kate G. (2018) The Language of Romance: An Open Vocabulary Analysis of the Highest Rated Words Used in Romance Novels Journal of Language and Social Psychology 37.6:680-691

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languages

Olivier, Séverine (2005) Passionnément, à la folie...: Lecteurs et modes de lecture du roman d'amour contemporain Belphégor 4.2:

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Olivier, Séverine (2007) "Lecture d'un «mauvais genre»: le «roman sentimental» " Les mauvais genres en classe de français?: Retour sur la question. 53-69

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Olivier, Séverine (2008) «Femme, je vous aime...»? Nora Roberts, une inconnue sortie de l'ombre dans l'univers sentimental" Belphégor 7.2:

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Nora Roberts/J. D. Robb

Olivier, Séverine (2009) Les prémices d'une histoire d'amour ou comment écrire un roman sentimental Recto/Verso 4:

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France

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

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Olivier, Séverine (2012) Francophone Perspectives on Romantic Fiction: From the Academic Field to Reader’s Experience Journal of Popular Romance Studies 2.2:

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Omissi, Dominic (1995) The Mills and Boon memsahibs: women's romantic Indian fiction 1877-1947 PhD, University of Lancaster

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Onega, Susana Gutleben, Christian (2004) Refracting the Canon in Contemporary British Literature and Film Amsterdam: Rodopi

Opas, Lisa Lena Tweedie, Fiona (1999) The Magic Carpet Ride: Reader Involvement in Romantic Fiction Literary and Linguistic Computing 14.1:89-101

Topic

Danielle Steel

Osborne, Laurie E. (1999) "Romancing the Bard " Shakespeare and Appropriation 47-64

Topic

Margaret Evans Porter

Osborne, Laurie E. (2002) "Harlequin Presents: That '70s Shakespeare and Beyond " Shakespeare after Mass Media 127-149 DOI:10.1007/978-1-137-09277-9_6

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

Topic

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

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

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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

Topic

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

Japan

Owen, Mairead (1990) Women's Reading of Popular Romantic Fiction: A Case Study in the Mass Media: A Key to the Ideology of Women PhD, University of Liverpool

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Owen, Mairead (1997) Re-inventing romance: Reading popular romantic fiction Women's Studies International Forum 20.4:537-546

Topic

O’Neill, Maria Zamorano Llena, Carmen (2002) The Aesthetics of Ageing: Critical Approaches to Literary Representations of the Ageing Process Lleida: Universitat de Lleida

Pagliassotti, Dru (2010) "Better than Romance? Japanese BL Manga and the Subgenre of Male/Male Romantic Fiction " Boys’ Love Manga: Essays on the Sexual Ambiguity and Cross-Cultural Fandom of the Genre 59-83

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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

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Paige, Lori A. (2018) The Gothic Romance Wave: A Critical History of the Mass Market Novels, 1960-1993 Jefferson, North Carolina: McFarland & Company

Topic

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

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

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

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

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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

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

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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. (1994) "Romance Reading in the Third World: A Postcolonial Intersection of Gender, Ethnicity, and Sexuality " Proceedings of the Annual Meeting of the Association for Education in Journalism and Mass Communication (77th, Atlanta, Georgia, August 10-13, 1994). Part IV: International Media 71-102

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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

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

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

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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:

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social class

Parnell, Claire (2022) "Reading and Writing Muslim Romances on Wattpad " The Routledge Companion to Romantic Love

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Islam

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

Parrish, Berta Atwood, Karen (1984) Enticing Readers: The Teen Romance Craze :

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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

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

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

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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, Susan C. Sojka, Eugenia (2021) Cultural Change in East-Central European and Eurasian Spaces: Post-1989 Revisions and Re-imaginings Cham: Springer

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

love

Jane Rule

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

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love

philosophy

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

Topic

lesbian romance

Peaty, Gwyneth (2015) "Rock Hard: Gargoyles in Contemporary Gothic Romance " New Directions in 21st Century Gothic: The Gothic Compass 54-70 DOI:10.4324/9781315749419

Topic

war/armed forces

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

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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

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

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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

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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

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France

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

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:

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