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Twilight

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history

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Radclyffe Hall

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Barbara Taylor Bradford

Margaret Mitchell

social class

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Fifty Shades

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

Tegan, Mary Beth (2007) " Becoming Both Poet and Poem: Feminists Repossess the Romance " Empowerment versus Oppression: Twenty-First Century Views of Popular Romance Novels 231-263

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Tennenhouse, Tracy Shana (1996) Female Fantasies in Women's Popular Fiction PhD, University of California, Santa Barbara

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erotic romance

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Mary Gaunt, with John Ridgwell Essex

Teo, Hsu-Ming (2003) " The Romance of White Nations: Imperialism, Popular Culture and National Histories " After the Imperial Turn: Thinking with and through the Nation 279-292 DOI:10.1215/9780822384397-018

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Native American romance

Teo, Hsu-Ming (2004) Romancing the Raj: Interracial Relations in Anglo-Indian Romance Novels History of Intellectual Culture 4.1:

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Teo, Hsu-Ming (2007) " Orientalism and Mass Market Romance Novels in the Twentieth Century " Edward Said: The Legacy of a Public Intellectual 241-262

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Teo, Hsu-Ming (2010) Historicizing The Sheik: Comparisons of the British Novel and the American Film Journal of Popular Romance Studies 1.1:

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film/movies

Teo, Hsu-Ming (2012) " "Bertrice teaches you about history, and you don't even mind!": History and Revisionist Historiography in Bertrice Small's The Kadin " New Approaches to Popular Romance Fiction: Critical Essays 21-32

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Teo, Hsu-Ming (2012) Desert Passions: Orientalism and Romance Novels Austin, Texas: University of Texas Press

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history

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

Teo, Hsu-Ming (2016) " Imperial Affairs: The British Empire and the Romantic Novel, 1890-1939 " New Directions in Popular Fiction: Genre, Distribution, Reproduction 87-110 DOI:10.1057/978-1-137-52346-4_5

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

love

Jane Austen

Barbara Cartland

Teo, Hsu-Ming (2017) The Popular Culture of Romantic Love in Australia North Melbourne, Victoria: Australian Scholarly Publishing

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Teo, Hsu-Ming (2020) Cultural Authenticity, the Family, and East Asian American Romance Novels Journal of Popular Romance Studies 9:

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Julie Garwood

Susan Wiggs

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Therrien, Kathleen (2012) " Straight to the Edges: Gay and Lesbian Characters and Cultural Conflict in Popular Romance Fiction " New Approaches to Popular Romance Fiction: Critical Essays 164-177

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Diana Gabaldon

Julie Garwood

Thiel, Christian (1991) Liebe, Sex, Karriere: die Modernisierung des trivialen Liebesromans Hamburg: Argument

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Germany

Thierauf, Doreen (2016) Forever After: Desire in the 21st-Century Romance Blockbuster Journal of Popular Culture 49.3:604-26

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BDSM

Thirard, Marie-Agnès (2004) " Les romans "Adoras" ou les nouveaux contes de fées à l’africaine " Les métamorphoses du conte 255-270

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Africa

fairytales/folktales

paratext

Thomas, Patrick Takayoshi, Pamela (2016) Literacy in Practice: Writing in Private, Public and Working Lives New York: Routledge

Thomas, Glen James, Bridie (2006) " The Romance Industry: A Study of Reading and Writing Romance " The Reinvention of Everyday Life: Culture in the twenty-first century 164-174

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Thomas, Glen (2007) " Romance: The Perfect Creative Industry? A Case Study of Harlequin-Mills and Boon Australia " Empowerment versus Oppression: Twenty-First Century Views of Popular Romance Novels 20-29

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Thomas, Glen (2007) " The Best Australian Romance Novelist: Emma Darcy " Beautiful Things in Popular Culture 64–78

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Thomas, Glen (2008) "And I Deliver": An Interview with Emma Darcy Continuum: Journal of Media and Cultural Studies 22.1:113-126

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Emma Darcy

Thomas, Glen (2012) " Happy Readers or Sad Ones? Romance Fiction and the Problems of the Media Effects Model " New Approaches to Popular Romance Fiction: Critical Essays 206-217

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psychology

Anna Campbell

Thomas, Audrey (1986) A Fine Romance, My Dear, This Is Canadian Literature 108:5-12

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pornography

Charlotte Lamb

Thompson, Marcella Koski, Patricia Holyfield, Lori (1997) Romance and agency: An argument revisited Sociological Spectrum 17.4:437-451

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Thompson, Jennifer K. (2010) Romance in the Stacks: The Prevalence of Romance Fiction in Academic Libraries M.S. in Library Science, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill

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Thompson, Anne B. (2005) Rereading Fifties Teen Romance: Reflections on Janet Lambert The Lion and the Unicorn 29.3:373-396

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Thurlow, Michelle (2010) “A Whisper of Satin”: The Infant Dress Leitmotif The Journal of Mennonite Writing (CMW) 2.4:

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Christian romance

Beverly Lewis

fashion/clothing

music

Thurston, Carol M. (1985) Popular Historical Romances: Agent for Social Change? An Exploration of Methodologies Journal of Popular Culture 19.1:35-45

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Thurston, Carol (1987) The Romance Revolution: Erotic Novels for Women and the Quest for a New Sexual Identity Urbana and Chicago: University of Illinois Press

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erotic romance

pornography

Tidwell, Christy (2016) " “A Little Wildness”: Negotiating Relationships between Human and Nonhuman in Historical Romance " Creatural Fictions: Human-Animal Relationships in Twentieth- and Twenty-First-Century Literature 151-171 DOI:10.1007/978-1-137-51811-8_8

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happy ending

Tienkamp, Aaf (2016) New Adult Romance: An Emerging Genre Masters, University of Groningen

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NA romance

Timson, Beth S. (1983) The Drug Store Novel: Popular Romantic Fiction and the Mainstream Tradition Studies in Popular Culture 6:88-96

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Jane Austen

Martha Finley

Tindall, Natalie T. J. (2022) Black Romance Authors and Community Cultural Wealth: A Case Study of Brenda Jackson’s Career Journal of Popular Romance Studies 11:

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African American romance

Tirkkonen-Condit, Sonja Condit, Stephen (1989) Empirical Studies in Translation and Linguistics Savonlinna: University of Joensuu, Faculty of Arts

Tobin-McClain, Lee (2000) Paranormal Romance: Secrets of the Female Fantastic Journal of the Fantastic in the Arts 11.3 (43):294-306

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romances in magazines and newspapers

Tokley, Anne-Marie (2008) Where is my Happy Ending and Why am I Looking for it? The Romance Myth in Contemporary Popular Australian Women’s Fiction PhD, Griffith University

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chick lit

Marion Lennox

Tomlinson, Alan (1990) Consumption, Identity, and Style: Marketing, Meanings, and the Packaging of Pleasure London and New York: Routledge

Toscano, Angela (2012) A Parody of Love: the Narrative Uses of Rape in Popular Romance Journal of Popular Romance Studies 2.2:

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Toscano, Angela (2019) " The Idolatry of the Real: Form, Formula, and Happy Endings in Romance Literature " Iconoclasm: The Breaking and Making of Images 173-192 DOI:10.2307/j.ctvnb7s6p.13

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Toscano, Angela (2021) " Gothic romance " The Routledge Research Companion to Popular Romance Fiction 99-117 DOI:10.4324/9781315613468-4

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Mary Stewart

Toth, Emily (1984) Who'll Take Romance? The Women's Review of Books 1.5:12-13

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Emily Toth

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Emily Toth

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Trachsel, Mary (1997) Horse Stories and Romance Fiction: Variants or Alternative Texts of Female Identity? Reader: Essays in Reader-Oriented Theory, Criticism, and Pedagogy 38-39:20-41

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animals

Travis, Melissa E. (2013) Assume the Position: Exploring Discipline Relationships PhD, Georgia State University

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BDSM

Treacher, Amal (1988) " What is Life Without My Love?: Desire and Romantic Fiction " Sweet Dreams: Sexuality, Gender and Popular Fiction 73-90

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Doreen Hornsblow as Sally Wentworth

Trevenen, Claire (2014) Fifty Shades of “Mommy Porn”: A Post-GFC Renegotiation of Paternal Law Journal of Popular Romance Studies 4.1:

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Trower, Shelley Tooth Murphy, Amy Smith, Graham (2019) ‘Me mum likes a book, me dad’s a newspaper man’: Reading, gender and domestic life in ‘100 Families’ Participations 16.1:554-581

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Tuñón, Johanna (1995) A Fine Romance: How to Select Romances for Your Collection Wilson Library Bulletin 69.9:31-34

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Tuñón, Johanna (1995) An Appetite for Romance: How to Understand, Buy, Display, and Promote Romance Fiction Library Acquisitions: Practice & Theory 19.4:471-475

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Turnbull, Sue (2002) 'Nice Dress, Take It Off': Crime, Romance and the Pleasure of the Text International Journal of Cultural Studies 5.1:67-82

Topic

Janet Evanovich

Turner, Katherine (2017) Daphne Du Maurier's Mary Anne: Rewriting the Regency Romance as Feminist History University of Toronto Quarterly: A Canadian Journal of the Humanities 86.4:54-77

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history

Daphne du Maurier

Turner, Graeme (1993) Nation, Culture, Text: Australian Cultural and Media Studies London: Routledge

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Turner, Ellen (2014) " The Sheik Returns: Imitations and Parodies of the Desert Romance " Hype: Bestsellers and Literary Cultures 185-202

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Turner, Ellen (2015) E. M. Hull's Camping in the Sahara: desert romance meets desert reality Studies in Travel Writing 19.2:127-146

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Turner, Ellen (2020) The Sheik and Modernism Journal of Popular Romance Studies 9:

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Ty, Eleanor (1994) " Desire and Temptation: Dialogism and the Carnivalesque in Category Romances " A Dialogue of Voices: Feminist Literary Theory and Bakhtin 97-113

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metafiction

Ty, Eleanor (1995) " Amour, sexe et carnaval: le plaisir du texte Harlequin " Armes, larmes, charmes: sérialité et paralittérature 23-48

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Uddin-Khan, Evelyn Angelina (1995) Gender, Ethnicity and the Romance Novel Ed.D., Teachers College, Columbia University

Topic

Uparkar, Shilpa (2014) Desi love stories: Harlequin Mills & Boon’s Indian enterprise Australasian Journal of Popular Culture 3.3:321-333

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India

languages

Uszkurat, Carol Ann (1993) " Mid Twentieth Century Lesbian Romance: Reception and Redress " Outwrite: Lesbianism and Popular Culture 26-47

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

Valeo, Christina A. (2012) Crusie and the Con Journal of Popular Romance Studies 2.2:

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Valeo, Christina A. (2012) " The Power of Three: Nora Roberts and Serial Magic " New Approaches to Popular Romance Fiction: Critical Essays 229-239

Topic

Valovirta, Elina (2019) " No Ordinary Love: The Romantic Formula of Stepsibling Erotica " Thinking with the Familiar in Contemporary Literature and Culture 'Out of the Ordinary' 161–180 DOI:10.1163/9789004406742_010

Topic

NA romance

erotic romance

Valovirta, Elina (2021) " Repeated Pleasure: Reading the Threesome Ménage Romance as Digital Literature " Powerful Prose: How Textual Features Impact Readers 45-61

Topic

Valovirta, Elina (2021) " The Stuff of Which Fairy Tales Are Made: Royal Romance, Ordinariness, and Affectivity in the Literary Market " Romantic Escapes: Post-Millennial Trends in Contemporary Popular Romance Fiction 75-94

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social class

Valverde, Mariana (1985) Sex, Power and Pleasure Toronto: The Women's Press

Topic

van Buuren, Johanna Maria (2005) De taal van het hart : retorica en receptie van de hedendaagse streekroman PhD, University of Groningen

Topic

Netherlands

love

van der Putten, Jan Arnez, Monika Wieringa, Edwin P. Graf, Arndt (2017) Traditions Redirecting Contemporary Indonesian Cultural Productions Newcastle upon Tyne: Cambridge Scholars

van Halteren, Hans (2022) " Automatic Authorship Investigation " Language as Evidence: Doing Forensic Linguistics 219-255 DOI:10.1007/978-3-030-84330-4_8

Topic

Stephanie Howard

van Lent, Peter (1996) " “Her Beautiful Savage”: The Current Sexual Image of the Native American Male " Dressing in Feathers: The Construction of the Indian in American Popular Culture 211-227

Topic

Native American romance

Vani, Christina (2018) Immortal Words: The Language and Style of the Contemporary Italian Undead-Romance Novel PhD, University of Toronto

Topic

Italy

Vany, Romain (2013) Les mauvais genres en bibliothèques publiques: quelle place pour le roman sentimental paralittéraire? Masters, Enssib, Université de Lyon

Topic

Effie Adelaide Rowlands, also known as Madame Albanesi

Vasudevan, Aruna Henderson, Lesley (1994) Twentieth-Century Romance and Historical Writers (3rd edition) London: St. James Press

Topic

Mary Burchell, pen name of Ida Cook

Shirlee Busbee

Barbara Cartland

Fay Chandos/Jan Tempest

Marie Corelli

Penny Jordan/Caroline Courtney

Roberta Leigh/Rachel Lindsay

Charlotte Lamb

Johanna Lindsey

Elizabeth Lowell

Jean S. MacLeod/Catherine Airlie

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

Kathleen Thompson Norris

Kate Norway/Olive Norton

Baroness Orczy

Diana Palmer

Margaret Pargeter

Mary Renault

Emilie Richards

Mary Roberts Rinehart

Francine Rivers

Doreen Hornsblow as Sally Wentworth

Denise Robins

Rosemary Rogers

Berta Ruck

Kathleen Gilles Seidel

Mary Lutyens/Esther Wyndham

Veibæk, Eva (1983) Gift dig og bliv lykkelig: romantikkens kærlighedsmyte og triviallitteraturen Århus: Arkona

Veldman-Genz, Carole (2012) " The More the Merrier? Transformations of the Love Triangle Across the Romance " New Approaches to Popular Romance Fiction: Critical Essays 108-120

Veldman-Genz, Carole (2015) " Selling Gay Sex to Women: The Romance of M/M and M/M/F Romantica " Women and Erotic Fiction: Critical Essays on Genres, Markets & Readers 133-149

Topic

Vera-Cazorla, María Jesús (2018) Cultural symbols, myth and identity in four 20th-century English popular romance fiction novels set in Tenerife Anuario de Estudios Atlánticos 64:1-16

Topic

settings

Vera-Cazorla, María Jesús (2020) " “And they Drive on the Wrong Side of the Road”: The Anglo-centric Vision of the Canary Islands in Mills & Boon Romance Novels (1955–1987) " Love, Language, Place, and Identity in Popular Culture: Romancing the Other 25-39

Topic

fascism/right-wing authoritarianism

Vera-Cazorla, María Jesús (2022) " Canarian culture and identity and their representation in the novels of the FFI2014-53962-P corpus " Discursos e Identidades en la Ficción Romántica: Visiones Anglófonas de Madeira y Canarias / Discourses and Identities in Romance Fiction: Anglophone Visions from Madeira and the Canaries 275-???

Topic

metaphor/symbolism

Vera-Cazorla, María Jesús (2022) " La cultura y la identidad canarias y su representación en las novelas del corpus FFI2014-53962-P " Discursos e Identidades en la Ficción Romántica: Visiones Anglófonas de Madeira y Canarias / Discourses and Identities in Romance Fiction: Anglophone Visions from Madeira and the Canaries 85-??

Topic

metaphor/symbolism

Veros, Vassiliki (2012) The Romance Reader and the Public Library Australian Library Journal 61.4:298-306

Topic

Veros, Vassiliki (2015) A Matter of Meta: Category Romance Fiction and the Interplay of Paratext and Library Metadata Journal of Popular Romance Studies 5.1:

Topic

paratext

Veros, Vassiliki (2017) Keepers: Marking the Value of the Books on my Shelves Proceedings from the Document Academy 4.1:

Topic

Veros, Vassiliki (2019) Metatextual Conversations: The Exclusion/Inclusion of Genre Fiction in Public Libraries and Social Media Book Groups Journal of the Australian Library and Information Association 68.3:254-267

Topic

Veros, Vassiliki (2020) The selective tradition, the role of romance fiction donations, and public library practices in New South Wales, Australia Information Research 25.2:

Topic

Veros, Vassiliki (2020) What the Librarians Did: The Marginalisation of Romance Fiction Through the Practices of Public Librarianship PhD, University of Technology, Sydney

Topic

Vidotto, Ilaria Goossens, Vannina (2020) " D’une fenêtre à l’autre. Étude d’un motif spécifique à la littérature blanche et au roman sentimental " Phraséologie et stylistique de la langue littéraire/Phraseology and Stylistics of Literary Language; Approches interdisciplinaires/Interdisciplinary Approaches 49-70 DOI:10.3726/b17628

Topic

Villalba Álvarez, Marina (2000) Mujeres novelistas en el panorama literario del siglo XX: I Congreso de narrativa española (en lengua castellana). Cuenca: Ediciones de la Universidad de Castilla-La Mancha

Villar-Argáiz, Pilar (2018) Ireland and the Popular Genre of Historical Romance: The Novels of Karen Robards ABEI: Brazilian Journal of Irish Studies 20.2:97-109

Topic

Effie Adelaide Rowlands, also known as Madame Albanesi

Vinson, James Kirkpatrick, D. L. (1982) Twentieth Century Romance and Gothic Writers Detroit, Michigan: Gale Research Company

Topic

Jane Aiken Hodge

Lilian Warren as Kathryn Blair/Rosalind Brett/Celine Conway

Mary Burchell, pen name of Ida Cook

Joyce Dingwell/Kate Starr

Grace Livingston Hill

Roberta Leigh/Rachel Lindsay

Jean S. MacLeod/Catherine Airlie

Anne Mather

Patricia Matthews

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

Margaret Mitchell

Netta Muskett

Betty Neels

Kathleen Thompson Norris

Kate Norway/Olive Norton

Baroness Orczy

Margaret Pargeter

Mary Roberts Rinehart

Mary Lutyens/Esther Wyndham

Violi, Patrizia (2020) Breve storia della letteratura rosa Perugia: Graphe.it Edizioni

Topic

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

Carolina Invernizio

Liala, pen name of Amalia Liana Cambiasi Negretti Odescalchi

romances in magazines and newspapers

Fifty Shades

fanfiction

Vitackova, Martina (2018) Representation of racial and sexual ‘others’ in Afrikaans popular romantic fiction by Sophia Kapp Tydskrif vir letterkunde 55.1:122-133

Topic

Vivanco, Laura Kramer, Kyra (2010) There Are Six Bodies in This Relationship: An Anthropological Approach to the Romance Genre Journal of Popular Romance Studies 1.1:

Topic

Vivanco, Laura (2011) For Love and Money: The Literary Art of the Harlequin Mills & Boon Romance Tirril, Penrith: Humanities-Ebooks

Topic

Mary Burchell, pen name of Ida Cook

Fay Robinson/Carmel Parsons Thomaston

Vivanco, Laura (2012) Feminism and Early Twenty-First Century Harlequin Mills & Boon Romances Journal of Popular Culture 45.5:1060–1089

Topic

Vivanco, Laura (2012) Jennifer Crusie's Literary Lingerie Journal of Popular Romance Studies 2.2:

Topic

Vivanco, Laura (2012) " One Ring to Bind Them: Ring Symbolism in Popular Romance Fiction " New Approaches to Popular Romance Fiction: Critical Essays 99-107

Topic

Vivanco, Laura (2013) Georgette Heyer: The Nonesuch of Regency Romance Journal of Popular Romance Studies 3.2:

Topic

Vivanco, Laura (2016) Pursuing Happiness: Reading American Romance as Political Fiction Tirril, Penrith: Humanities-Ebooks

Vivanco, Laura (2017) " A Place “We All Dream About”: Greece in Mills & Boon Romances " Greece in British Women’s Literary Imagination, 1913-2013 81-98

Topic

Greece

science/technology

myth

Vivanco, Laura (2020) " Changing Attitudes to Others: Meljean Brook’s Riveted (2012) and its Context " Love, Language, Place, and Identity in Popular Culture: Romancing the Other 113-126

Topic

Zoë Archer

war/armed forces

Vivanco, Laura (2020) Faith, Love, Hope and Popular Romance Fiction Online:

Topic

romance and, or as, activism

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

Justine Davis/Justine Dare

Suleikha Snyder

community

happy ending

Vivanco, Laura (2020) Let’s Not Get Carried Away by The Sheik Journal of Popular Romance Studies 9:

Topic

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

Berta Ruck

Vivanco, Laura (2022) Historical Accuracy, Racism, Courtney Milan, and The Duke Who Didn’t Conform to Genre Norms Journal of Popular Romance Studies 11:

Topic

humour

Voaden, Rosalynn (1995) " The Language of Love: Medieval Erotic Vision and Modern Romance Fiction " Romance Revisited 78-88

Topic

Wagner, Wendy (2008) Jennifer Crusie Teaching American Literature: A Journal of Theory and Practice 2.2/3:1-16

Topic

romance and, or as, activism

Wagner, Wendy (2022) " The “Grandly and Inhospitably Strange” World of Autistic Heroines in Romance Fiction " New Frontiers in Popular Romance: Essays on the Genre in the 21st Century 150-???

Waldschmidt, Anne Berressem, Hanjo Ingwersen, Moritz (2017) Culture - Theory – Disability: Encounters between Disability Studies and Cultural Studies Bielefeld, Germany: transcript

Walker, Lisa (2014) Polar bears and evil scientists: Romance, comedy and climate change Australasian Journal of Popular Culture 3.3:363-374

Topic

science/technology

settings

Wallace, Jennifer (2022) " Army trenches and school benches: the Philippine-American War in the Sugar Sun series " The Routledge Companion to Romantic Love DOI:10.4324/9781003022343-17

Topic

Jennifer Hallock

war/armed forces

Philippines

Wallace, Doris B. (2005) Education, Arts, and Morality: Creative Journeys New York: Kluwer Academic Publishers

Wallace, Diana (2005) The Woman's Historical Novel: British Women Writers, 1900-2000 Houndmills, Basingstoke: Palgrave Macmillan

Topic

Daphne du Maurier

Mary Renault

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

Waller, Philip (2006) Writers, Readers, and Reputations: Literary Life in Britain 1870-1918 Oxford: Oxford University Press

Topic

Charles Garvice

Florence Barclay

Wardrop, Stephanie (1995) The Heroine is Being Beaten: Freud, Sadomasochism, and Reading the Romance Style: A Quarterly Journal of Aesthetics, Poetics, Stylistics, and Literary Criticism 29.3:459-473

Topic

Kathleen Woodiwiss

Wardrop, Stephanie (1997) Last of the Red Hot Mohicans: Miscegenation in the Popular American Romance MELUS 22.2:61-74

Topic

Native American romance

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

Colleen Faulkner

Genell Dellin

Warner, Celeste R. (2010) Heyer’s heroes: An investigation into Georgette Heyer and her literary ‘mark’ on the Regency hero Master of Arts, University of Waikato, New Zealand

Topic

socialism and/or communism

Warnes, Christopher (2014) " Desired State: Black Economic Empowerment and the South African Popular Romance " Popular Culture in Africa: The Episteme of the Everyday 154-171

Topic

Warren, Jean-Philippe Luneau, Marie-Pier (2021) The Best Romance Dime Novels on the (French-Canadian) Market: The Promotional Strategies of Police-Journal, 1944-1963 Journal of Popular Romance Studies 10:

Topic

Washington, AlTonya (2015) " An Indie Author in a Library World " Self-Publishing and Collection Development: Opportunities and Challenges for Libraries 139-147

Topic

Waters, Chris (1993) " New Women and Socialist-Feminist Fiction: The Novels of Isabella Ford and Katharine Bruce Glasier " Rediscovering Forgotten Radicals: British Women Writers 1889-1939 25-42

Topic

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

Katharine Bruce Glasier

Watson, Daphne (1995) Their Own Worst Enemies: Women Writers of Women's Fiction London: Pluto Press

Topic

Daphne du Maurier

Mary Stewart

Watson, Courtney (2022) " I Thought You’d Never Ask: Consent in Contemporary Romance " New Frontiers in Popular Romance: Essays on the Genre in the 21st Century 62-75

Topic

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

Weaver-Zercher, Valerie (2012) Tracing the Backstory of Amish Romance Novels Mennonite Quarterly Review 86.4:409-435

Topic

Christian romance

rural romance

Helen Reimensnyder Martin

paratext

Beverly Lewis

Cora Gottschalk Welty

Weaver-Zercher, Valerie (2013) Thrill of the Chaste: the Allure of Amish Romance Novels Baltimore: The Johns Hopkins University Press

Weibel, Kathryn (1977) Mirror Mirror: Images of Women Reflected in Popular Culture Garden City, New York: Anchor Press/Doubleday

Topic

Weil, Françoise (1990) " La lecture du roman sentimental dans les bibliothèques publiques: l’exemple de Dijon " Le roman sentimental: actes du colloque des 14-15-16 mars 1989 à la Faculté des lettres de Limoges, volume 1 317-3??

Topic

France

Weimer, Christopher (2021) Romancing Weird Fiction: Lovecraftian Reinscriptions in Jordan L. Hawk's Whyborne and Griffin Aeternum: The Journal of Contemporary Gothic Studies 8.1:61-76

Topic

Jordan L. Hawk

m/m romance

Weintraub, Andrew N. (2011) Islam and Popular Culture in Indonesia and Malaysia Abingdon, Oxon: Routledge

Weir, Angela Wilson, Elizabeth (1992) " The Greyhound Bus Station in the Evolution of Lesbian Popular Culture " New Lesbian Criticism: Literary and Cultural Readings 95-113

Topic

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

Ann Bannon

Valerie Taylor

Claire Morgan/Patricia Highsmith

Weis, Lois Fine, Michelle (1993) Beyond Silenced Voices: Class, Race, and Gender in United States Schools Albany: State University of New York Press

Weisser, Susan Ostrov Fleischner, Jennifer (1994) Feminist Nightmares: Women at Odds: Feminism and the Problem of Sisterhood New York and London: New York University Press

Weisser, Susan Ostrov (1994) " The Wonderful-Terrible Bitch Figure in Harlequin Novels " Feminist Nightmares: Women at Odds: Feminism and the Problem of Sisterhood 269-282

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Weisser, Susan Ostrov (2013) The Glass Slipper: Women and Love Stories New Brunswick, New Jersey: Rutgers University Press

Topic

African American romance

pornography

Wendell, Sarah (2012) " "You call me a bitch like that's a bad thing": Romance Criticism and Redefining the Word "Bitch" " New Approaches to Popular Romance Fiction: Critical Essays 178-194

Topic

Westman, Karin E. (2003) " A Story of Her Weaving: The Self-Authoring Heroines of Georgette Heyer's Regency Romance " Doubled Plots: Romance and History 165-184

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Weston, Louise C. Ruggiero, Josephine A. (1978) Male-Female Relationships in Best-Selling "Modern Gothic" Novels Sex Roles 4.5:647-655

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Whalen, Kacey (2017) A Consumption of Gay Men: Navigating the Shifting Boundaries of M/M Romantic Readership MA thesis, DePaul University

Topic

Wheeler, Duncan (2020) Following Franco: Spanish culture and politics in transition, 1962–92 Manchester: Manchester University Press

Topic

fascism/right-wing authoritarianism

Corín Tellado

Wherry, Maryan (2015) " More than a Love Story: The Complexities Of the Popular Romance " The Bloomsbury Introduction to Popular Fiction 53-69

Topic

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

fairytales/folktales

Jennifer Crusie

Whissell, Cynthia (1994) Objective Analysis of Text: I. A Comparison of Adventure and Romance Novels Perceptual and Motor Skills 79:1567-1570

Topic

Whissell, Cynthia (1996) Mate Selection in Popular Women's Fiction Human Nature 7:427-447

Topic

evolutionary psychology

Whissell, Cynthia (1998) The Formula Behind Women's Romantic Formula Fiction (Statistical survey of 50 Harlequin-Presents novels) Arachne 5.1:89-119

Topic

White, Mimi (1989) Representing Romance: Reading/Writing/Fantasy and the "Liberated" Heroine of Recent Hollywood Films Cinema Journal 28.3:41-56

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film/movies

White, Bonnie Pope, Johnathan H. (2018) Spinsters, war widows, and wounded soldiers: the Great War novels of Berta Ruck Women's History Review 27.7:1085-1102

Topic

White, Bonnie (2022) Freedom, Sincerity, and the Modern Woman in the Interwar Romances of Berta Ruck Journal of Popular Romance Studies 11:

Topic

fashion/clothing

emotions

White, Ann Yvonne (2008) Genesis Press: Cultural Representation and the Production of African American Romance Novels PhD, University of Iowa

Topic

African American romance

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

Dyanne Davis

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

Whitehead, Frances (1992) Love Makes the World Go Round (?): The Romantic Novel as a Publishing Phenomenon Logos 3.2:62-68

Topic

Whitsitt, Novian (2002) Islamic-Hausa Feminism and Kano Market Literature: Qur'anic Reinterpretation in the Novels of Balaraba Yakubu Research in African Literatures 33.2:119-136

Topic

Balaraba Ramat Yakubu

health/medical

Whitsitt, Novian (2003) Hausa Women Writers Confronting the Traditional Status of Women in Modern Islamic Society: Feminist Thought in Nigerian Popular Fiction Tulsa Studies In Women's Literature 22.2:387-408

Topic

Nigeria

Africa

Islam

Bilkisu Ahmed Funtuwa

love

Balaraba Ramat Yakubu

Whitsitt, Novian (2003) Islamic-Hausa Feminism Meets Northern Nigerian Romance: The Cautious Rebellion of Bilkisu Funtuwa African Studies Review 46.1:137-153

Topic

Nigeria

Africa

Islam

Bilkisu Ahmed Funtuwa

Whitsitt, Novian (2021) " Northern Nigerian Popular Literature and the Boundaries of Hausa Feminism: The Works of Balaraba Yakubu and Bilkisu Funtuwa " Hausa Prose-Fiction: A Reader 184-205

Topic

Balaraba Ramat Yakubu

Bilkisu Ahmed Funtuwa

Nigeria

Whyte, Tamara Lynn (2013) Shakespeare in Love: Appropriation of Shakespeare in Popular Romance Novels PhD, University of Alabama

Topic

Shakespeare

Whyte, Tamara (2012) " "A consummation devoutly to be wished": Shakespeare in Popular Historical Romance Fiction " New Approaches to Popular Romance Fiction: Critical Essays 218-228

Topic

Shakespeare

Jacquie D'Allessandro

Sabrina Jefferies

Kalen Hughes/Isobel Carr

Wiebe, Laura (2012) Speculative Matter: Generic Affinities, Posthumanisms and Science-Fictional Imaginings PhD, McMaster University

Topic

Christine Feehan

Wiegand, Wayne A. (2015) A Part of Our Lives: A People’s History of the American Public Library Oxford: Oxford University Press

Topic

Wilbur, Shawn P. (1997) " An Archaeology of Cyberspaces: Virtuality, Community, Identity " Internet Culture 5-22

Topic

Wilcox, Vanda (2021) " Georgette Heyer, Wellington’s Army and the First World War " Georgette Heyer, History, and Historical Fiction 162-186 DOI:10.2307/j.ctv15d818n.15

Topic

Wilkins, Kim (2016) “Ravished by Vikings”: The Pre-modern and the Paranormal in Viking Romance Fiction Journal of Popular Romance Studies 5.2:

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Wilkins, Kim Driscoll, Beth Fletcher, Lisa (2022) Genre Worlds: Popular Fiction and 21st-Century Book Culture Amherst and Boston: University of Massachusetts Press

Topic

Williams, Mary (2021) Consent Is Sexy: A Look Into the Influence the ‘Me Too.’ Movement Had On the Romance Genre Through Smart Bitches Trashy Books Master of Arts in Book Publishing, Portland State University

Topic

Williams, Jeffrey J. (2006) The Culture of Books: An Interview with Janice Radway Minnesota Review: A Journal of Committed Writing ns 65-66:133-148

Topic

Williams, Elizabeth W. (2019) " Queering Settler Romance: The Reparative Eugenic Landscape in Nora Strange's Kenyan Novels " Archiving Settler Colonialism: Culture, Space and Race 190-204

Topic

Williams, Clover Freedman, Jean R. (1995) " Shakespeare's Step-Sisters: Romance Novels and the Community of Women " Folklore, Literature, and Cultural Theory: Collected Essays 135-168

Topic

Williams, Clover (1998) Keepers of the Flame: The Romance Novel and Its Fans Lore and Language 16.1-2:115-138

Topic

Williamson, Val (1998) " Labour of Love: Gender and the Delivery of the Nineties Mills & Boon "Medical" " Medical Fictions 103-116

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medical romance

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

Williamson, Margaret (1986) " The Greek romance " The Progress of Romance: The Politics of Popular Fiction 23-45

Topic

Willinsky, John Hunniford, R. Mark (1993) " Reading the Romance Younger: The Mirrors and Fears of a Preparatory Literature " Texts of Desire: Essays on Fiction, Femininity and Schooling 87–105 DOI:10.4324/9781315810119

Topic

Wilson, Nicola (2016) The Book World: Selling and Distributing British Literature, 1900-1940 Leiden: Brill

Wilson, Frances (1999) Byromania: Portraits of the Artist in Nineteenth- and Twentieth-Century Culture Houndmills, Basingstoke: Macmillan

Wilson, Elizabeth Suzanne (1986) Women creating men: the history of the hero in contemporary category romance fiction since the 1950s MA thesis, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill

Topic

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

Wilt, Judith (2014) Women Writers and the Hero of Romance Houndmills, Basingstoke: Palgrave Macmillan

Topic

Winks, Robin W. Corrigan, Maureen (1998) Mystery and Suspense Writers: The Literature of Crime, Detection, and Espionage, Volume 2 New York: Charles Scribner's Sons

Wintle, Sarah (1996) The Sheik: What Can be Made of a Daydream Women: A Cultural Review 7.3:291-302

Topic

Wood, Christine V. (2014) Tender Heroes and Twilight Lovers: Re-Reading the Romance in Mass-Market Pulp Novels, 1950–1965 Journal of Lesbian Studies 18.4:372-392

Topic

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

Wood, Andrea (2008) Radicalizing Romance: Subculture, Sex, and Media at the Margins PhD, University of Florida

Topic

Wood, Andrea (2015) Making the Invisible Visible: Lesbian Romance Comics for Women Feminist Studies 41.2:293-334

Topic

comics/manga

science fiction/futuristic romance

Wood, Andrea (2022) " His Baby Daddy is an Alien?!: Mpreg Fantasies and Queer Reproductive Intimacies in Contemporary M/M Science Fiction Romance " Imagining "We" in the Age of "I": Romance and Social Bonding in Contemporary Culture

Topic

m/m romance

health/medical

Lyn Gala

Lexi Ander

Woodruff, Juliette (1985) A spate of words, full of sound & fury, signifying nothing: or, How to read in Harlequin Journal of Popular Culture 19.2:25-32

Topic

Woods, Robert H. (2013) Evangelical Christians and Popular Culture: Pop Goes the Gospel. Volume 2: Literature, Music, Popular Art, and Merchandise Santa Barbara: Praeger

Worpole, Ken (1984) Reading by Numbers: Contemporary Publishing & Popular Fiction London: Comedia Publishing Group

Topic

romances in magazines and newspapers

Wright, Laura Bell (2003) The Appeal of Vampire Romance: Why Do Readers Like These Stories? Masters, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill

Topic

Wu, Yan Mallan, Kerry McGillis, Roderick (2013) (Re)Imagining the World: Children’s Literature’s Response to Changing Times Heidelberg: Springer

Wu, Huei-Hsia Walsh, Anthony (2005) Romance Novels and Female Sexuality: Vicarious Participation? Free Inquiry in Creative Sociology 33.2:105-109

Topic

sociology

Wu, Huei-Hsia (2006) Gender, Romance Novels and Plastic Sexuality in the United States: A Focus on Female College Students Journal of International Women’s Studies 8.1:125-134

Topic

Wu, Huei-Hsia (2007) Reading Romance Novels and Female Sexuality among American Heterosexual and Lesbian College Students The International Journal of Diversity in Organisations, Communities and Nations 6.6:31-38

Topic

psychology

Wyatt, Neal Olsen, Georgine Ramsdell, Kristin Saricks, Joyce Welch, Lynne (2007) Core Collections in Genre Studies: Romance Fiction 101 Reference & User Services Quarterly 47.2:120-126

Topic

romantic suspense

York, Chris York, Rafiel (2012) Comic Books and the Cold War, 1946-1962: Essays on Graphic Treatment of Communism, the Code and Social Concerns Jefferson, North Carolina: McFarland & Company

Young, Whitney A. (2013) Monsters in My Bed: Accounting for the Popularity of Young Adult Paranormal Romances MA thesis, Georgia State University

Topic

YA/teenage romance

Twilight

Young, Helen (2015) The Middle Ages in Popular Culture: Medievalism and Genre Amhurst, NY: Cambria Press

Young, Erin S. (2010) Corporate Heroines and Utopian Individualism: A Study of the Romance Novel in Global Capitalism PhD, University of Oregon

Topic

capitalism/business

Young, Erin S. (2010) Escaping the “Time Bind”: Negotiations of Love and Work in Jayne Ann Krentz's “Corporate Romances” The Journal of American Culture 33.2:92–106

Topic

Young, Erin S. (2011) Flexible Heroines, Flexible Narratives: The Werewolf Romances of Kelley Armstrong and Carrie Vaughn Extrapolation: A Journal of Science Fiction and Fantasy 52.2:204-226

Topic

Kelley Armstrong

Carrie Vaughn

Young, Erin S. (2016) " Saving China: The Transformative Power of Whiteness in Elizabeth Lowell's Jade Island and Katherine Stone's Pearl Moon " Romance Fiction and American Culture: Love as the Practice of Freedom? 205-221

Topic

wealth/prosperity

settings

romantic suspense

Young, Erin S. (2021) " Race, ethnicity, and whiteness " The Routledge Research Companion to Popular Romance Fiction 511-528 DOI:10.4324/9781315613468-23

Topic

Mary Balogh

Young, Beth Rapp (1995) But are they any good? Women readers, formula fiction, and the sacralization of the literary canon PhD, University of Southern California

Topic

Young, Beth Rapp (1997) Accidental Authors, Random Readers, and the Art of Popular Romance Para.doxa: Studies in World Literary Genres 3.1-2:29-45

Topic

Zachik-Smith, Susie (1993) Romance by the book: a morphological analysis of the popular romance MA thesis, California State University, San Bernardino

Topic

Zakreski, Patricia (2012) Tell Me Lies: Lying, Storytelling, and the Romance Novel as Feminist Fiction Journal of Popular Romance Studies 2.2:

Topic

Zeiger, Melissa F. (2013) "Less Than Perfect": Negotiating Breast Cancer in Popular Romance Novels Tulsa Studies In Women's Literature 32.2/33.1:107-128

Topic

health/medical

Zhaboriuk, I. A. Rukshtel, Yu. A. (2021) The Artistic Detail in the Novel "The Reluctant Widow" by G. Heyer Education and science of today: intersectoral issues and development of sciences 1:121-122

Topic

Zhou, Yanyan Paul, Bryant Sherman, Ryland (2018) Still a Hetero-Gendered World: A Content Analysis of Gender Stereotypes and Romantic Ideals in Chinese Boy Love Stories Sex Roles 78.1-2:107–118

Topic

m/m romance

China

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

Zibrak, Arielle (2021) Avidly Reads Guilty Pleasures New York: New York University Press

Topic

Susan Warner

E. D. E. N. Southworth

Zidle, Abby (1999) " From Bodice-Ripper to Baby-Sitter: The New Hero in Mass-Market Romance " Romantic Conventions 23-34

Topic

Zille, Tom (2021) " Georgette Heyer and the language of the historical novel " Georgette Heyer, History, and Historical Fiction 187-211 DOI:10.2307/j.ctv15d818n.16

Topic

Zwar, Jan Lawson, Airlie (2021) Success Story - International Rights Sales of Australian- Authored Books: Case Studies Australia: Macquarie University

Topic

Kylie Scott

[Sigroha], Suman (2018) Gendered Migrations and Literary Narratives: Writing Communities in South Asian Diaspora Millennial Asia 9.1:93-108

Topic

Γραφανάκη, Ρωξάνη (2019) Γυναίκες και ροζ λογοτεχνία: η περίπτωση των εκδόσεων Άρλεκιν Masters, Πανεπιστημίου Αιγαίου

Topic

Στάμου, Εύα (2014) Η επέλαση της ροζ λογοτεχνίας. Δοκίμιο για την Ευδοκίμηση μιας Μορφής Αφηγηματικού Λόγου Αθήνα: Gutenberg

尾崎, 俊介 (2005) ハーレクイン対フェミニズム－フォーミュラ・ロマンス批評史をめぐる一考察－ The Journal of the Chubu American Literature Society 8:

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