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

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

Reitemeier, Rebecca (2019) Romance Novels and Higher Education Inter-Text: An Undergraduate Journal for Social Sciences and Humanities 2.2:

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Rempel, Valerie Gale (2003) “The soft white strong hand of God”: Gender and the expression of evangelical piety in the religious fiction of Grace Livingston Hill, 1897–1948 PhD, Vanderbilt University

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Grace Livingston Hill

Christian romance

marriage

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Elinor Glyn

Rafael Pérez y Pérez

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Richlin, Amy (1992) Pornography and Representation in Greece and Rome Oxford: Oxford University Press

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Roach, Catherine M. (2014) 'Going Native': Aca-Fandom and Deep Participant Observation in Popular Romance Studies Mosaic 47.2:33-49

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Roach, Catherine M. (2016) " Love as the Practice of Bondage: Popular Romance Narratives and the Conundrum of Erotic Love " Romance Fiction and American Culture: Love as the Practice of Freedom? 369-387

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m/m romance

Roach, Catherine M. (2018) " Erotica " The Routledge Companion to Media, Sex and Sexuality 107-116

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BDSM

Alexis Hall

Roberts, Sherron Killingsworth (2002) Meet Jessica and Elizabeth from Sweet Valley: Who Are the Female Role Models in Popular Romance Novels for Children? Paper presented at the Annual Meeting of the American Educational Research Association (New Orleans, LA, April 1-5,2002) ERIC document ED470819:

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Roberts, Sherron Killingsworth (2010) Twenty-five years and counting of Sweet Valley: Jessica and Elizabeth in romance novels for young children? Journal of Research in Childhood Education 24.2:123-139

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Robertson, Rachel (2014) ‘Driven by Tens’: Obsession and cognitive difference in Toni Jordan’s romantic comedy Addition Australasian Journal of Popular Culture 3.3:311-320

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disability

Toni Jordan

Robine, Nicole (1995) " Roman sentimental et jeunes travailleuses " Guimauve et fleurs d’oranger: Delly 21-54

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sociology

Robinson, Lillian S. (1978) Sex, Class, and Culture Bloomington, Indiana: Indiana University Press

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Liala, pen name of Amalia Liana Cambiasi Negretti Odescalchi

Roccella, Eugenia (1998) La letteratura rosa Rome: Editori Riuniti

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Roces, Mina (2012) Women's Movements and the Filipina 1986-2008 Honolulu: University of Hawai'i Press

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Rodriguez, Simone Meirelles (2005) Leitoras com coração: usos de leitura dos romances sentimentais de massa Letras 65:23-37

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Brazil

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Roman, Leslie G. Christian-Smith, Linda K. Ellsworth, Elizabeth (1988) Becoming Feminine: The Politics of Popular Culture London: Falmer Press

Romera Pintor, Angela Magdalena (2019) L’enfance dans l’œuvre de Delly Le Rocambole 86-87:169-202

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Maryan, pen name of Marie Cadiou

Romera Pintor, Angela Magdalena (2020) " Maryan (1847-1927) et le déclassement du roman sentimental " Documentando la memoria cultural: las mujeres en las (auto)narraciones exocanónicas 201-215

Topic

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

Romney, Rebecca (2021) The Romance Novel in English: A Survey in Rare Books, 1769-1999 : Type Punch Matrix

Topic

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

work

African American romance

Onoto Watanna/Winnifred Eaton

Judaism

Pauline Hopkins

Kathleen Thompson Norris

Lilian Warren as Kathryn Blair/Rosalind Brett/Celine Conway

Elizabeth Carfrae

Frances Shelley Wees

Jean S. MacLeod/Catherine Airlie

Alice Lent Covert

Joyce Dingwell/Kate Starr

Mary Burchell, pen name of Ida Cook

Juliet Shore/Anne Vinton

Della Field, pseudonym of Fanny Howe

Jayne Ann Krentz/Amanda Quick/Jayne Castle

science fiction/futuristic romance

Marisa de Zavala/Ana Lisa de Leon/Rachel Scott/Celina Rios Mullan

Victoria Holt/Jean Plaidy/Eleanor Burford Hibbert

Tracy West/Joyce McGill/Chassie West

Roper, Holly N. (2020) Representing the Romance: Diversity and Inclusion in the Romance Collections of Public Libraries M.S. in Library Science, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill

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disability

Rosanowski, Annika (2019) Can She Have It All? Pregnancy Narratives in Contemporary Category Romance Journal of Popular Romance Studies 8:

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marriage

Rose, Suzanna (1985) Is Romance Dysfunctional? International Journal of Women's Studies 8.3:250-265

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Rosier, Laurence Pollet, Marie-Christine (2007) Les mauvais genres en classe de français?: Retour sur la question. Namur: Presses universitaires de Namur

Ross, Marlon B. (2013) “What’s Love But a Second Hand Emotion?”: Man-on-Man Passion in the Contemporary Black Gay Romance Novel Callaloo 36.3:669-687

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African American romance

Ross, Catherine Sheldrick (2009) Reader on Top: Public Libraries, Pleasure Reading, and Models of Reading Library Trends 57.4:632-656

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Ross, Catherine Bourland (2005) Carmen de Icaza: Novela rosa as Feminist Discourse? Letras peninsulares 18.1:99-108

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Ross, Catherine Bourland (2006) Carmen de Icaza: Novela Rosa as Feminist Discourse? Brown Working Papers :

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work

Rudisill, Kristen (2018) Full-Blooded Desi Romance: Contemporary English-Language Romance Novels in India Journal of Popular Culture 51.3:754-775

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Victoria Holt/Jean Plaidy/Eleanor Burford Hibbert

Ruggiero, Josephine A. Weston, Louise C. (1977) Sex-Role Characterization of Women in "Modern Gothic Novels" The Pacific Sociological Review 20.2:279-300

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Ruggiero, Josephine A. Weston, Louise C. (1983) Conflicting Images of Women in Romance Novels International Journal of Women's Studies 6.1:18-25

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Rush, Ramona R. Allen, Donna (1989) Communications at the Crossroads: The Gender Gap Connection Norwood, New Jersey: Ablex Publishing Corporation

Russ, Joanna (1973) Somebody's Trying to Kill Me and I Think It's My Husband: The Modern Gothic Journal of Popular Culture 6.4:666-691

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Russ, Joanna (1985) Magic Mommas, Trembling Sisters, Puritans & Perverts: Femininst Essays Trumansburg, NY: The Crossing Press

Russ, Joanna (1985) " Pornography By Women For Women, With Love " Magic Mommas, Trembling Sisters, Puritans & Perverts: Femininst Essays 79–99 DOI:10.2307/j.ctt20p58d6.10

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science fiction/futuristic romance

Russell, Shannon (2014) Dangerous Young Men: Themes of Female Sexuality and Masculinity in Paranormal Romance Novels for Young Adults Masters, University of Ottawa

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Russo, Stephanie (2022) " These old shades: Georgette Heyer’s unruly eighteenth century " The Routledge Companion to Romantic Love 48-?? DOI:10.4324/9781003022343-4

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Ryan, Mary (2011) Amongst women: Male romance authors and Irish chick lit author, Andrew O’Connor Australasian Journal of Popular Culture 1.2:209-225

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Ryden, Wendy (2007) Bourgeois Realism or Working Class Kitsch?: The Aesthetics of Class in Composition Open Words: Access and English Studies 1.2:4-23

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Ryder, Mary Ellen (1999) Smoke and mirrors: Event patterns in the discourse structure of a romance novel Journal of Pragmatics 31.8:1067-1080

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linguistics

Sabino, Rosimeri Ferraz Bezerra, Antônio Ponciano (2020) Romance-folhetim em tela: linguagem, personagens e sentidos sociais DELTA: Documentação de Estudos em Lingüística Teórica e Aplicada 36.4:

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Sagun, Karryl Kim Abella (2019) Book Mavens of Manila: an interpretative phenomenological analysis of contemporary niche publishers in the Philippines PhD, Nanyang Technological University, Singapore

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Philippines

Mina V. Esguerra

Saint-Jacques, Denis (1990) " La recherche sur le roman sentimental au CRELIQ de l'Université de Laval " Le roman sentimental: actes du colloque des 14-15-16 mars 1989 à la Faculté des lettres de Limoges, volume 1 175-183

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Saint-Jacques, Denis de la Garde, Roger (1992) Les pratiques culturelles de grande consommation. Le marché francophone Québec: Nuit blanche éditeur

Saint-Jacques, Denis Bettinotti, Julia des Rivières, Marie-José Bleton, Paul Savoie, Chantal (1998) Femmes de rêve au travail : les femmes et le travail dans les productions écrites de grande consommation, au Québec, de 1945 à aujourd'hui Québec: Les Éditions Nota bene

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

Charlotte Lamb

Janet Dailey

Saint-Jacques, Denis (1998) L'acte de lecture Québec: Les Éditions Nota bene

Saint-Jacques, Denis (2000) Que vaut la littérature? Québec: Éditions Nota bene

Saint-Jacques, Denis des Rivières, Marie-José (2011) Le féminisme problématique d’un roman d’amour, Anne Mérival Recherches féministes 24.1:61–76

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Salamone, Frank A. (2009) Global Cultures Newcastle upon Tyne: Cambridge Scholars Publishing

Sales, Roger (1999) " The Loathsome Lord and the Disdainful Dame: Byron, Cartland and the Regency Romance " Byromania: Portraits of the Artist in Nineteenth- and Twentieth-Century Culture 166-183 DOI:10.1007/978-1-349-27107-8_10

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Salmon, Catherine Symons, Donald (2003) Warrior Lovers: Erotic Fiction, Evolution and Female Sexuality New Haven, Connecticut: Yale University Press

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m/m romance

Salmon, Catherine (2005) " Crossing the Abyss: Erotica and the Intersection of Evolutionary Psychology and Literary Studies " The Literary Animal: Evolution and the Nature of Narrative 244-257 DOI:10.2307/j.ctvw1d5h1.19

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Salmon, Catherine (2012) The Pop Culture of Sex: An Evolutionary Window on the Worlds of Pornography and Romance Review of General Psychology 16.2:152-160

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pornography

Salmon, Catherine (2016) " What Do Romance Novels, Pro Wrestling, and Mack Bolan Have in Common?: Consilience and the Pop Culture of Storytelling " Darwin's Bridge: Uniting the Humanities and Sciences 167-182 DOI:10.1093/acprof:oso/9780190231217.003.0010

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computer/video/digital games

Salter, Anastasia (2020) Plundered Hearts: Infocom, Romance, and the History of Feminist Game Design Feminist Media Histories 6.1:66-92

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pirates and outlaws

fashion/clothing

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

Salvador Miguel, Nicasio (1995) Letras de la España contemporánea. Homenaje a José Luis Varela Alcalá de Henares: Centro de Estudios Cervantinos

Salvador Miguel, Nicasio (1995) " ¿Hay precedentes de la novela rosa? " Letras de la España contemporánea. Homenaje a José Luis Varela 319-327

Topic

Ruth Wind/Barbara Samuel/Barbara O'Neal

Sama, Lisa Mary (1982) Love's Ardent Writer Wavelength 4.1:50-51

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Barbara Delinsky

Samuel, Barbara (1997) The Art of Romance Novels Para.doxa: Studies in World Literary Genres 3.1-2:78-80

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Sánchez Alvarez-Insúa, Alberto (2009) " Entre la aristocracia y el falangismo: Carmen de Icaza, una escritora falangista representante del fascismo español del primer franquismo y su novela Cristina Guzmán, profesora de idiomas " Escritoras y figuras femeninas (literatura en castellano) 499-510

Topic

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

Sánchez Calle, Pilar Malcolm, David López-Peláez Casellas, Jesús (2004) Masquerades: Disguise in Literature in English from the Middle Ages to the Present Gdańsk: Wydawnictwo Uniwersytetu Gdańskiego

Sánchez-Palencia Carazo, Carolina (1994) El discurso femenino de la novela rosa en lengua inglesa la mujer como protagonista, autora y lectora del género PhD, Universidad de Sevilla

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Sánchez-Palencia Carazo, Carolina (1997) El discurso femenino de la novela rosa en lengua inglesa Cádiz, Spain: Servicio de Publicaciones de la Universidad de Cádiz

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Sanconie, Maïca (2001) Au-delà du vertige. Mises en abyme ou la traduction des réseaux de clichés dans les romans Harlequin Palimpsestes 13:155-166

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translation

emotions

Sanconie, Maïca (2010) « Tout un monde d’évasion » : adapter les romans sentimentaux pour un lectorat français Meta 55.4:732–751

Topic

Sandbakken, Asta Margrethe (2016) Feeling Men: Masculinity, Sexuality, and Emotion in the Contemporary Romance MA thesis, University of Oslo

Topic

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

Susan Elizabeth Phillips

emotions

Sanders, Lise Shapiro (2006) Consuming Fantasies: Labor, Leisure, and the London Shopgirl, 1880-1920 Columbus: Ohio State University Press

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work

Sanders, Lise Shapiro (2018) " Making the Modern Girl: Fantasy, Consumption, and Desire in Romance Weeklies of the 1920s " Women's Periodicals and Print Culture in Britain, 1918-1939: The Interwar Period 87-102 DOI:10.3366/edinburgh/9781474412537.003.0008

Topic

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

Sanna, Antonio (2018) Pirates in History and Popular Culture Jefferson, North Carolina: McFarland & Company

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pirates and outlaws

Santa, Angels (2011) " Delly et ses illustrateurs " L’Œuvre de Delly 233-244

Topic

Santa, Angels Buard, Jean-Luc (2011) " Delly romancière " L’Œuvre de Delly 13-16

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Santaemilia, José (2005) Gender, Sex and Translation: The Manipulation of Identities Manchester: St. Jerome Publishing

Santaulària, Isabel (2002) " The Fallacy of Eternal Love: Romance, Vampires and the Deconstruction of Love in Linda Lael Miller's Forever and the Night and For All Eternity " The Aesthetics of Ageing: Critical Approaches to Literary Representations of the Ageing Process 111-126

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Sanyal, Madhuparna (2008) Re-imagining the late-colonial Anglo-Indian woman's romance: Reading Maud Diver PhD, Drew University

Topic

Maud Diver

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

Sarwal, Amit Sarwal, Reema (2009) Reading Down Under: Australian Literary Studies Reader New Delhi: SSS Publications

Satoh, Kyoko (2013) Ideologically Constructed Intimacy: Personal Address in Japanese Romance Novels 横浜市立大学論叢. 人文科学系列 64.3:127-148

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Japan

linguistics

Saunders, Corinne (2004) A Companion to Romance: From Classical to Contemporary Malden, MA: Blackwell

Savinainen, Raija (2001) Gender-specific features of male/female interaction in a popular romantic novel by Barbara Cartland Pro gradu thesis, University of Jyväskylä

Topic

linguistics

Saxena, Vandana (2021) Afterlives of Colonialism: Nostalgia, Reader’s Response and the Case of Noel Barber’s Tanamera The Journal of Commonwealth Literature ONLINE FIRST:ONLINE FIRST

Topic

Saxena, Vandana (2022) Memory and Nation-Building: World War II in Malaysian Literature New York: Routledge

Topic

Malaysia

Noel Barber

Sceats, Sarah Cunningham, Gail (1996) Image & Power: Women in Fiction in the Twentieth Century New York: Longman

Schalk, Sami (2016) Happily Ever After for Whom? Blackness and Disability in Romance Narratives Journal of Popular Culture 49.6:1241–1260

Topic

disability

African American romance

Schell, Heather (2007) The Big Bad Wolf: Masculinity and Genetics in Popular Culture Literature and Medicine 26.1:109-125

Topic

animals

health/medical

Schell, Heather (2011) " The Love Life of a Fact " How Well Do Facts Travel? The Dissemination of Reliable Knowledge 429-453

Topic

Schell, Heather (2013) " Bringing the Mid-West to the Middle-East: An Analysis of a Harlequin Romance in English and Turkish " The Silk Road of Adaptation: Transformations across Disciplines and Cultures 160-171

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translation

Schell, Heather Brown, Ann K. G. (2018) Romancelandia on Twitter: Designing a Digital Humanities Research Assignment for First-Year Writing Students Researching the Romance, conference held at Bowling Green State University, on 13 April :

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teaching romance

Schell, Heather Larsen, Katherine (2019) How the Story Ends: Gender, Sexuality, and Nation in the Happy Ending Writing from Below 4.2:

Topic

happy ending

Sonali Dev

Radclyffe

Schell, Heather (2020) After “I Do”: Turkish Harlequin Readers Re-Imagine the Happy Ending Journal of Popular Romance Studies 9:

Topic

Turkey

Schiffman, Leon G. Schnaars, Steven P. (1981) " The Consumption of Historical Romance Novels: Consumer Aesthetics in Popular Literature " SV - Symbolic Consumer Behavior 46-51

Topic

Schoene, Berthold (2007) The Edinburgh Companion to Contemporary Scottish Literature Edinburgh: Edinburgh University Press

Schopp, Claude (2011) " Delly. Les Trois châteaux d’Ourida " L’Œuvre de Delly 113-122

Topic

Schultz Nybacka, Pamela (2011) Bookonomy: The Consumption Practice and Value of Book Reading PhD, Stockholm University

Topic

Sweden

Schurman, Lydia Cushman Johnson, Deidre (2002) Scorned Literature: Essays on the History and Criticism of Popular Mass-Produced Fiction in America Westport, Connecticut: Greenwood Press

Schwab, Sandra Martina (2013) Of Dragons, Knights, and Virgin Maidens: Dragonslaying and Gender Roles from Richard Johnson to Modern Popular Fiction Trier: Wissenschaftlicher Verlag Trier

Topic

Schwab, Sandra (2012) “It Is Only with One’s Heart That One Can See Clearly”: The Loss of Sight in Teresa Medeiros’s The Bride and the Beast and Yours until Dawn Journal of Literary and Cultural Disability Studies 6.3:275-289

Topic

Scott, Alison M. (2002) " Romance in the Stacks; or, Popular Romance Fiction Imperiled " Scorned Literature: Essays on the History and Criticism of Popular Mass-Produced Fiction in America 213-224

Topic

Seale, Maura (2007) " "I find some Hindu practices like burning widows, utterly bizarre": Representations of Sati and Questions of Choice in Veils of Silk " Empowerment versus Oppression: Twenty-First Century Views of Popular Romance Novels 129-147

Topic

death

marriage

Seidel, Kathleen Gilles (1992) " Judge Me by the Joy I Bring " Dangerous Men and Adventurous Women: Romance Writers on the Appeal of the Romance 159-179

Topic

Seifert, Christine (2015) Virginity in Young Adult Literature after Twilight Lanham, Maryland: Rowman & Littlefield

Topic

Seifrit, Rachel Joy (2021) Come Out, Come Out, Wherever You Are: Sexuality and Gender Exploration in Contemporary Slash Fanfiction M.A. English, Kutztown University

Topic

fanfiction

Selinger, Eric Murphy (2006) Foils and Fakers, Monsters and Makers Parnassus: Poetry in Review 29.1-2:64-91

Topic

Georgette Heyer

Eloisa James

A. S. Byatt

Selinger, Eric Murphy (2007) Rereading the Romance Contemporary Literature 48.2:307-324

Topic

Selinger, Eric Murphy (2012) " How to Read a Romance Novel (and Fall in Love with Popular Romance) " New Approaches to Popular Romance Fiction: Critical Essays 33-46

Topic

close reading

Selinger, Eric Murphy Frantz, Sarah S. G. (2012) " Introduction: New Approaches to Popular Romance Fiction " New Approaches to Popular Romance Fiction: Critical Essays 1-19

Topic

Loretta Chase

Selinger, Eric Murphy (2012) Nothing But Good Times Ahead: A Special Forum on Jennifer Crusie (Editor’s Introduction) Journal of Popular Romance Studies 2.2:

Topic

Selinger, Eric Murphy (2014) My Metatextual Romance: Thinking With (and About) Jaane Tu Ya Janne Na Mosaic 47.2:51-66

Topic

film/movies

Selinger, Eric Murphy (2015) An Interview with Susan Elizabeth Phillips Journal of Popular Romance Studies 5.1:

Topic

Susan Elizabeth Phillips

Selinger, Eric Murphy (2015) " Erotica: romance novels " The International Encyclopedia of Human Sexuality DOI:10.1002/9781118896877.wbiehs137

Topic

Selinger, Eric Murphy Gleason, William A. (2016) " Introduction: Love as the Practice of Freedom? " Romance Fiction and American Culture: Love as the Practice of Freedom? 1-21

Topic

Nell Stark

Selinger, Eric Murphy (2016) " When I Paint My Masterpiece: Bob Dylan, Ekphrasis, and the Art of Susan Elizabeth Phillips " Romance Fiction and American Culture: Love as the Practice of Freedom? 297-319

Topic

Susan Elizabeth Phillips

close reading

music

Selinger, Eric Murphy (2018) Use Heart in Your (Re)Search: The Invitations of Popular Romance Researching the Romance, conference held at Bowling Green State University, on 13 April :

Topic

teaching romance

Sherry Thomas

Selinger, Eric Murphy (2020) On Teaching, Not Teaching, and Teaching The Sheik Journal of Popular Romance Studies 9:

Topic

Selinger, Eric Murphy (2021) " Literary approaches " The Routledge Research Companion to Popular Romance Fiction 294-319 DOI:10.4324/9781315613468-13

Topic

Selinger, Eric Murphy Vivanco, Laura (2021) " Romance and/as religion " The Routledge Research Companion to Popular Romance Fiction 485-510 DOI:10.4324/9781315613468-22

Topic

Selinger, Eric Murphy (2022) " Disaggregating attraction: asexuality and genre critique in Alex Beecroft's Blue Steel Chain " The Routledge Companion to Romantic Love DOI:10.4324/9781003022343-29

Topic

Alex Beecroft

Christian romance

food, drink

metaphor/symbolism

Selinger, Eric Murphy (2022) " Disenchantment and its discontents: “modern love” and irony in popular romance fiction " The Routledge Companion to Romantic Love DOI:10.4324/9781003022343-30

Topic

Jennifer Crusie

science/technology

Selinger, Eric Murphy (2022) " The wild heart of the continent: love and place in the Silk Road novels of Sherry Thomas " The Routledge Companion to Romantic Love DOI:10.4324/9781003022343-20

Topic

Sherry Thomas

Buddhism

Sequeiros, Paula (2018) “Holding the Dream”: Women’s Favorite Reading Matter in a Portuguese Prison Qualitative Sociology Review 14.1:110-128

Topic

Portugal

Serafine, Amelia (2016) " "He Filled My Heart with Doubt": The Southern Belle's Love and Duty in the Civil War " Romance Fiction and American Culture: Love as the Practice of Freedom? 41-55

Topic

history

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

Augusta Jane Evans

death

war/armed forces

Edward Bulwer-Lytton

Şerban, Andreea (2012) " Romancing the Paranormal: A Case Study of J.R. Ward’s The Black Dagger Brotherhood " Romance: The History of a Genre 89-110

Topic

J. R. Ward

Serisier, Tanya (2015) " On Not Reading Fifty Shades: Feminism and the Fantasy of Romantic Immunity " Women and Erotic Fiction: Critical Essays on Genres, Markets & Readers 117-132

Topic

Fifty Shades

Servén, Carmen (2005) Éxito y olvido de Carmen de Icaza Letras peninsulares 18.1:109-126

Topic

Servén, Carmen (2020) " Mujer y persona narrativa en tres novelas de siglo XX: Carmen de Icaza, Carmen Martín Gaite y Rosa Montero " Mujeres novelistas en el panorama literario del siglo XX: I Congreso de narrativa española (en lengua castellana). 201-209

Topic

Servén Díez, Carmen (1996) Novela rosa, novela blanca y escritura femenina en los años cuarenta: la evolución de Carmen de Icaza Asparkía: Investigació feminista 7:91-102

Topic

Service, Alexandra (1998) Popular Vikings: Constructions of Viking Identity in Twentieth Century Britain PhD, University of York

Topic

history

war/armed forces

Sevilla, Florencio Alvar, Carlos (2000) Actas del XIII Congreso de la Asociación Internacional de Hispanistas: Madrid 1998: IV: Historia y sociedad comparada y otros estudios Madrid: Editorial Castalia

Shachar, Hila (2011) " A Post-Feminist Romance: Love, Gender and Intertextuality in Stephenie Meyer's Saga " Theorizing Twilight: Critical Essays on What's at Stake in a Post-Vampire World 147-161

Topic

Twilight

Emily Brontë

Charlotte Brontë

Shapiro, Joan Kroeger, Lee (1991) Is Life a Romantic Novel? The Relationship Between Attitudes About Intimate Relationships and the Popular Media American Journal of Family Therapy 19.3:226-236

Topic

psychology

Sheehan, Sarah E. Stevens, Jen (2015) Creating a Popular Romance Collection in an Academic Library Journal of Popular Romance Studies 5.1:

Topic

Sherman, Jen (2016) Reading Infrastructures in the Contemporary City: A Study of Three Public Libraries in Sydney PhD, University of Western Sydney

Topic

Australia

Sherwood, Kim (2021) " Pride and prejudice: metafiction and the value of historical romance in Georgette Heyer " Georgette Heyer, History, and Historical Fiction 75-87 DOI:10.2307/j.ctv15d818n.10

Topic

Georgette Heyer

Shibamoto Smith, Janet S. (2004) " Language and Gender in the (Hetero)Romance: "Reading" the Ideal Hero/ine through Lovers' Dialogue in Japanese Romance Fiction " Japanese Language, Gender, and Ideology: Cultural Models and Real People 113-130

Topic

Japan

Shibamoto Smith, Janet S. (2005) " Translating True Love: Japanese Romance Fiction, Harlequin-Style " Gender, Sex and Translation: The Manipulation of Identities 97-116

Topic

Japan

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

Shibamoto Smith, Janet S. (2008) Changing Lovestyles: Fictional Representations of Contemporary Japanese Men in Love Positions 16.2:359-387

Topic

Shields, Juliet (2019) Preaching without Practicing: Middle-Class Domesticity in Annie S. Swan's Serial Fiction Victorian Periodicals Review 52.3:566-587

Topic

Annie S. Swan

Shields, Juliet (2021) Scottish Women's Writing in the Long Nineteenth Century: The Romance of Everyday Life Cambridge: Cambridge University Press

Topic

Annie S. Swan

Flora Annie Steel

Scotland

Sir Walter Scott

Shore, Z. Lesley (2000) Essay Review: Girls Learning, Women Teaching: Dancing to Different Drummers Educational Studies 31.2:132-145

Topic

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

Short, Christopher Brown (1996) The history of romance illustration and the romance novel cover MA thesis, Syracuse University

Topic

paratext

Shumway, David R. (1999) Romance in the Romance: Love and Marriage in Turn-of-the-Century Best Sellers Journal of Narrative Theory 29.1:110-134

Topic

Sichelschmidt, Gustav (1967) Hedwig Courths-Mahler. Deutschlands erfolgreichste Autorin. Eine literatursoziologische Studie Bonn: Bouvier

Topic

Hedwig Courths-Mahler

Silliman, Daniel (2016) Fictions of Belief: Reading Evangelical Novels in A Secular Age PhD, Ruprecht-Karls-Universität Heidelberg

Topic

Christian romance

Janette Oke

Beverly Lewis

Silva, Erotilde Honório Andrade, Roberta Manuela Barros de (2015) Os romances sentimentais e a revolução digital: os processos de criação dos projetos de democratização da leitura nos livros do coração Revista de Estudos da Comunicação 16.41:345-361

Topic

Brazil

Simon, Jenni M. (2018) Consuming Agency and Desire in Romance: Stories of Love, Laughter, and Empowerment Lanham, Maryland: Lexington

Topic

romance and, or as, activism

Sinha, Mona (2022) " Reading Mills and Boon in India From the Post-Colonial to the Millennial Experience " Indian Popular Fiction: Redefining the Canon

Topic

chick lit

Sinner, Carsten (2012) " Fictional orality in romance novels: Between linguistic reality and editorial requirements " The Translation of Fictive Dialogue 119–136 DOI:10.1163/9789401207805_009

Topic

translation

languages

Slušná, Zuzana (2014) Paranormal and Religious as Part of Pop Cultural Consumerism European Journal of Science and Theology 10.1:99-110

Topic

Slušná, Zuzana (2015) Postfeminism, Post-romantic and New Patterns of Feminity [sic] in Popular Culture European Journal of Science and Theology 11.6:229-238

Topic

Slusser, George E. Rabkin, Eric S. (1987) Intersections: Fantasy and Science Fiction Carbondale and Edwardsville: Southern Illinois University Press

Smáradóttir, Helena María (2009) Love as a Commodity: Brand-Name Romantic Fiction and its Readers. The Domain and Readership of Harlequin Enterprises, Both in Iceland and Abroad Masters, University of Iceland

Topic

Iceland

Šmídová, Monika Markéta (2021) Five Thousand for Justice: The Use of English Folklore in the Novels of KJ Charles Masters, Masaryk University

Topic

K. J. Charles

fairytales/folktales

Smith, William Clay Kinchen (2002) Revising Captivity Narratives PhD, University of Florida

Topic

Native American romance

Smith, Michelle J. Moruzi, Kristine (2018) Vampires and Witches Go to School: Contemporary Young Adult Fiction, Gender, and the Gothic Children's Literature in Education 49:6–18

Topic

gothic romance

Smith, Michelle J. Moruzi, Kristine (2021) Young Adult Gothic Fiction: Monstrous Selves/Monstrous Others Cardiff: University of Wales Press

Smith, Janet S. (Shibamoto) (1999) " From Hiren to Happî-endo: Romantic Expression in the Japanese Love Story " Languages of Sentiment: Cultural constructions of emotional substrates 131-150 DOI:10.1075/aicr.18.08shi

Topic

Smith, Faith (1999) " Beautiful Indians, Troublesome Negroes, and Nice White Men: Caribbean Romances and the Invention of Trinidad " Caribbean Romances: The Politics of Regional Representation 163-182

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Smith, Clarissa Attwood, Feona McNair, Brian (2018) The Routledge Companion to Media, Sex and Sexuality Abingdon, Oxon: Routledge

Snitow, Ann Barr (1979) Mass Market Romance: Pornography for Women is Different Radical History Review 20:141-161

Topic

Snodgrass, Mary Ellen (2010) Reading Nora Roberts Santa Barbara, California: Greenwood Press

Topic

Snyman, Maritha Penzhorn, Cecilia (2011) Leser en Konteks: ’n resepsiestudie oor Afrikaanse romanselesers Tydskrif vir Geesteswetenskappe 51.2:238-250

Topic

South Africa

Soedibio, Sari M. R. D. Djundjung, Jenny M. (2013) The Hypermasculine and Ubersexual Men in the Harlequin Novels of the 1980s and 2000s Kata Kita 1.1:86-93

Topic

Penny Jordan/Caroline Courtney

Diana Palmer

Debbie Macomber

Linda Lael Miller

Robyn Carr

Soler Gallo, Miguel (2013) " La novela romántica falangista femenina de los años cuarenta " Trivialidades literarias: Reflexiones en torno a la literatura de entretenimiento 487-511

Topic

Soler Gallo, Miguel (2014) " El Bien y el Mal: Modelos de conducta femeninos en la novela rosa de los 40 " Variaciones de lo metarreal en la España de los siglos XX y XXI 83-93

Topic

Soler Gallo, Miguel (2015) Vencer a Medusa: el modelo de mujer angelical en la primera novela rosa de Carmen de Icaza. Feminidad y tradicionalismo Verba Hispanica 23.1:247-260

Topic

Soler Gallo, Miguel (2016) " El ideal de la mujer de la Sección Femenina de Falange a través de las ilustraciones de la novela rosa de los años cuarenta " Images of Women in Hispanic Culture 48-73

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paratext

Soler Gallo, Miguel (2016) Novela rosa y fantasía amorosa en la España de los años Cuarenta: análisis de La rival de Julieta de Josefina de la Torre Cuadernos de Aleph 8:128-148

Topic

Laura de Cominges/Josefina de la Torre

SylviaVisconti/Mercedes Ballesteros Gaibrois

Soler Gallo, Miguel (2017) El ideal de masculinidad en la novela romántica falangista: análisis de Una mujer de veinte años de Mercedes Ballesteros Tonos digital: Revista de estudios filológicos 33:

Topic

Elena Puerto/Mercedes Formica

Soler Gallo, Miguel (2017) " El juego amoroso en la novela rosa española femenina de los años cuarenta " O jogo do mundo: ensaios sobre o imaginário lúdico 433-454

Topic

Sonnet, Esther (1999) 'Erotic Fiction by Women for Women': The Pleasures of Post-Feminist Heterosexuality Sexualities 2.2:167-187

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pornography

Sonnet, Esther (2000) " What the Woman Reads: Categorising Contemporary Popular Erotica for Women " 246-267

Topic

Sonnet, Esther (2002) " '"Just a book", she said ...': Refiguring Ethnography for the Female Readers of Sexual Fiction " The Audience Studies Reader 254-273

Topic

Spears, Jessica D. (2018) The Romance Novel Cover MA thesis, City University of New York (CUNY), Hunter College

Topic

Spehner, Norbert (1997) L'Amour, toujours l'amour ...: The Popular Love Story and Romance: A Basic Checklist of Secondary Sources Para.doxa: Studies in World Literary Genres 3.1-2:253-268

Topic

Spillman, K. Elizabeth (2012) " The "Managing Female" in the Novels of Georgette Heyer " New Approaches to Popular Romance Fiction: Critical Essays 84-98

Topic

Spinazzola, Vittorio (1977) Pubblico 1977 Milano: Il Saggiatore

Spinazzola, Vittorio (1977) " Qualche ipotesi sulla narrativa “rosa”. Conversazione con Brunella Gasperini " Pubblico 1977 126-143

Topic

Brunella Gasperini

Spinazzola, Vittorio (1995) L'immaginazione divertente. Il giallo, il rosa, il porno e il fumetto Milano: Rizzoli

Spraggs, Gillian (1992) " Hell and the Mirror: A Reading of Desert of the Heart " New Lesbian Criticism: Literary and Cultural Readings 115-131

Topic

Jane Rule

Radclyffe Hall

psychology

Stacey, Jackie Pearce, Lynne (1995) " The Heart of the Matter: Feminists Revisit the Romance " Romance Revisited 11-45

Topic

Stapleton, Rachel F. Viselli, Antonio (2019) Iconoclasm: The Breaking and Making of Images Montreal and Kingston: McGill-Queen's University Press

Stavropoulou, Marina (2016) Romance Fiction: At the Frontline of Digital Publishing Journal of Publishing Culture 6:

Topic

Steiner, Peter Červenka, Miroslav Vroon, Ronald (1982) The Structure of the Literary Process Studies dedicated to the Memory of Felix Vodička Amsterdam: John Benjamins Publishing Company

Sterk, Helen Mae (1986) Functioning fictions: the adjustment rhetoric of Silhouette romance novels PhD, University of Iowa

Topic

Sterling, Alexandra (2020) Love in the Ton: Georgette Heyer’s Legacy in Regency Romance World-Building Nursing Clio :

Topic

Stern, Stephanie C. Robbins, Brianne Black, Jessica E. Barnes, Jennifer L. (2019) What You Read and What You Believe: Genre Exposure and Beliefs About Relationships Psychology of Aesthetics, Creativity, and the Arts 13.4:450–461

Topic

Stern, Barbara B. (1991) " Two Pornographies: a Feminist View of Sex in Advertising " NA - Advances in Consumer Research Volume 18 384-391

Topic

Stetson, Suzanne (2022) Reconciling Reader Response and Feminism in Late Twentieth-Century Erotic Historical Romances INCITE: Journal of Undergraduate Scholarship 13:

Topic

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

Stieg, Margaret F. (1985) Indian Romances: Tracts for the Times Journal of Popular Culture 18.4:2-15

Topic

Still, Julie (2005) Reading Between the Lines: Librarians as Authors of Fiction Libres: Library and Information Science Research e-journal 15.1:

Topic

Jayne Ann Krentz/Amanda Quick/Jayne Castle

Stille Luse, Marcia L. (1991) Secondary educators' attitudes and professional assessment of the place for contemporary young adult series romance novels in the low-end and reluctant readers' curriculum Masters, Pacific University

Topic

teaching romance

Stinson, Emmett Mannion, Aaron (2016) The Return of Print?: Contemporary Australian Publishing Clayton, Victoria: Monash University Publishing

Stoneley, Peter (1999) " 'Never Love a Cowboy': Romance Fiction and Fantasy Families " Writing and Fantasy 223-235

Topic

Stotesbury, John A. (1994) Language and Mindstyle in Anglophone Popular Romantic Fiction under Apartheid Logos 14:18-32

Topic

Africa

Stotesbury, John A. (2004) " Genre and Islam in Recent Anglophone Romantic Fiction " Refracting the Canon in Contemporary British Literature and Film 69-82 DOI:10.1163/9789401208307_005

Topic

Islam

Leila Aboulela

Rayda Jacobs

Stowers, Eva (2007) " City of Fantasy: Romance Novels in Las Vegas " Empowerment versus Oppression: Twenty-First Century Views of Popular Romance Novels 198-205

Topic

Street, Amy (2021) " Georgette Heyer – guilty pleasures " Georgette Heyer, History, and Historical Fiction 240-249 DOI:10.2307/j.ctv15d818n.18

Topic

Strehle, Susan Carden, Mary Paniccia (2003) Doubled Plots: Romance and History Jackson: University Press of Mississippi

Strinati, Dominic Wagg, Stephen (1992) Come on Down?: Popular Media Culture in Post-War Britain London: Routledge

Struve, Laura (2011) Sisters of Sorts: Reading Romantic Fiction and the Bonds Among Female Readers Journal of Popular Culture 44.6:1289-1306

Topic

paratext

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

Suárez Coalla, Paquita Rivera Valdés, Sonia Íñigo, Ainoa (2018) Repercusión de la lectura y otras formas de arte en nuestra vida y nuestra obra: Memorias del VII coloquio de LART, Centro Español de Manhattan, Nueva York, 26-28 de octubre de 2016 West Hurley, NY: Editorial Campana

Sughi, Laura (1977) Evasione e conformismo nella narrativa rosa Messina-Firenze: D'Anna

Topic

Liala, pen name of Amalia Liana Cambiasi Negretti Odescalchi

Sujaya, I Made Suarka, I Nyoman Sudewa, I Ketut (2021) Representation of Balinese Exoticism: Analysis of Inter-ethnic Relations Novels in Pre-independence Period The International Journal of Language and Cultural 3.2:46–56

Topic

Indonesia

Sule, Sani (2019) Exploring the Benefit and Significance of Reading Hausa Popular Romance Genre: A Thematic Analysis International Journal of Management and Applied Science 5.9:165-168

Topic

Nigeria

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

Suleiman, Michael W. Joseph, Suad Cainkar, Louise (2021) Arab American Women: Representation and Refusal : Syracuse University Press

Sullivan, Larry E. Schurman, Lydia Cushman (1996) Pioneers, Passionate Ladies, and Private Eyes: Dime Novels, Series Books, and Paperbacks New York: Haworth Press

Sullivan, Ceri White, Barbara (1999) Writing and Fantasy London: Addison Wesley Longman Limited

Sutherland, Kathryn (2021) " ‘Where History says little, Fiction may say much’ (Anna Barbauld): the historical novel in women’s hands in the mid-twentieth century " Georgette Heyer, History, and Historical Fiction 17-35 DOI:10.2307/j.ctv15d818n.7

Topic

Sutherland, John (2009) The Longman Companion to Victorian Fiction (Second Edition) London: Routledge

Topic

Sutton, Roger (1985) Librarians and the Paperback Romance: Trying to Do the Right Thing School Library Journal 32.3:25-29

Topic

Sutton, Denise Hardesty (2021) Marketing Love: Romance Publishers Mills & Boon and Harlequin Enterprises, 1930–1990 Enterprise & Society ONLINE FIRST:ONLINE FIRST

Topic

capitalism/business

Suwanban, Pauline (2018) From Exhalation to Transformation: The Female Body in the Orientalist Romance Dandelion: Postgraduate Arts Journal & Research Network 9.1:

Topic

Suwanban, Pauline (2020) The Oriental Beast: The Sheik and Fairy Tales Journal of Popular Romance Studies 9:

Topic

Swaffield, Audrey-Claire (1981) Paperbacks Promoting Passion! What Is Harlequin Really Presenting? Canadian Woman Studies/Les Cahiers de la Femme 3.2:4-6

Topic

Swaminathan, Srividhya (2016) " J. D. Robb’s Police Procedurals and the Critique of Modernity " New Perspectives on Detective Fiction: Mystery Magnified 141-156

Topic

science fiction/futuristic romance

romantic suspense

Taddeo, Julie Anne (2013) " Corsets of Steel: Steampunk's Reimagining of Victorian Femininity " Steaming Into a Victorian Future: A Steampunk Anthology 43-63

Topic

Taddeo, Julie Anne Miller, Cynthia J. (2013) Steaming Into a Victorian Future: A Steampunk Anthology Lanham, Maryland: Scarecrow Press

Talbot, Mary M. (1995) Fictions at Work: Language and Social Practice in Fiction London and New York: Longman

Topic

Talbot, Mary M. (1997) " ‘An Explosion Deep inside Her’: Women’s Desire and Popular Romance Fiction " Language and Desire: Encoding Sex, Romance, and Intimacy 106-122

Topic

Tang, Yang (2014) Between Fantasy and Reality: Time-Travel Romance and Media Fandom in Chinese Cyberspace MA thesis, Simon Fraser University

Topic

China

Tang, Ning (2022) Reading Online Romance Novels Is Related To Chinese Readers' View of Love Academic Journal of Humanities & Social Science 5.2:32-45

Topic

China

Tanner, David (2016) " Literary Success and Popular Romantic Fiction: Ethel M. Dell, a Case Study " The Book World: Selling and Distributing British Literature, 1900-1940 83-94 DOI:10.1163/9789004315884_006

Topic

Ethel M. Dell

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

Tapper, Olivia (2014) Romance and Innovation in Twenty-First Century Publishing Publishing Research Quarterly 30.2:249-59

Topic

Tatlock, Lynne (2012) German Writing, American Reading: Women and the Import of Fiction, 1866-1917 Columbus: Ohio State University Press

Topic

Germany

Wilhelmine Heimburg/Bertha Behrens

E. Marlitt/Eugenie John

Fanny Lewald

Wilhelmine von Hillern

Claire von Glümer

Ursula Zöge von Manteuffel

E. Werner/Elisabeth Bürstenbinder

Moritz von Reichenbach/Valeska von Reiswitz, Gräfin von Bethusy-Huc

Nataly von Eschstruth

Golo Raimund/Bertha [Heyn] Frederich

Tatlock, Kristen Doris (1986) Raised on romance: a cultural study of romance fiction MA thesis, University of Virginia

Tatum, James (1994) The Search for the Ancient Novel Baltimore and London: The Johns Hopkins University Press

Tatum, Charles (1980) Lágrimas, risas y amor: Mexico's Most Popular Romance Comic Book Journal of Popular Culture 14.3:413-423

Topic

comics/manga

Mexico

Taylor, Jessica Anne (2013) Write the Book of Your Heart: Career, Passion and Publishing in the Romance Writing Community PhD, University of Toronto

Topic

Taylor, Jessica (2007) And You Can Be My Sheikh: Gender, Race, and Orientalism in Contemporary Romance Novels Journal of Popular Culture 40.6:1032-1051

Topic