Bibliography

Victoria Holt/Jean Plaidy/Eleanor Burford Hibbert

Daphne du Maurier

Mary Renault

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

Topic

Charles Garvice

Florence Barclay

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

authors

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

United States of America

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

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

social/economic class

food, drink

fashion/clothing

work

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

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

gothic romance

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

libraries/librarians

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

Topic

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

Topic

African American romance

pornography

Wells, Juliette (2008) True Love Waits: Austen and the Christian Romance in the Contemporary U. S. Persuasions 28.2:

Topic

Jane Austen

Christian romance

Debra White Smith

Wells, Juliette (2022) " Afterword: Sex, Romance, and Representation in Uzma Jalaluddin’s Ayesha at Last " Jane Austen, Sex, and Romance: Engaging with Desire in the Novels and Beyond 243-252 DOI:10.1017/9781800106758.017

Topic

Uzma Jamaluddin

Jane Austen

Islam

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

Topic

Victoria Holt/Jean Plaidy/Eleanor Burford Hibbert

historical romance

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

Topic

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

Topic

fascism/right-wing authoritarianism

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

Topic

Spain

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

linguistics

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

Topic

evolutionary psychology

family

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

Topic

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

family

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

marriage

love

work

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

marriage

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

libraries/librarians

Wijanarka, Hirmawan (2022) Cinderella Formula: The Romance Begins Journal of Language and Literature 22.2:481-489

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:

Topic

historical romance

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

romance scholarship

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

Topic

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)

United States of America

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

lesbian romance

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

family

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

gothic romance

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

libraries/librarians

historical romance

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

work

Jayne Ann Krentz/Amanda Quick/Jayne Castle

capitalism/business

Nora Roberts/J. D. Robb

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

Jayne Ann Krentz/Amanda Quick/Jayne Castle

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

United States of America

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

Jayne Ann Krentz/Amanda Quick/Jayne Castle

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

romance scholarship

authors

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

linguistics

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

Australia

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:

Topic