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New Zealand

Veldman-Genz, Carole

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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

(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

(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

(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 275-296

Topic

national identity

metaphor/symbolism

(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 85-107

Topic

(2023) The Affective Power of Intimacy: A Case Study of a Men’s Hockey Real Person Fan Fiction’s Literary and Social Contexts Master of Arts, Trent University

Topic

fanfiction

(2012) Scholarship-In-Practice: The Romance Reader and the Public Library Australian Library Journal 61.4:298-306 DOI: 10.1080/00049670.2012.10739063

Topic

(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

(2017) Keepers: Marking the Value of the Books on my Shelves Proceedings from the Document Academy 4.1: DOI: 10.35492/docam/4/1/4

Topic

(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 DOI: 10.1080/24750158.2019.1654741

Topic

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

Topic

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

Topic

(2023) Nobody Puts Romance Fiction in the Corner: Public Librarians in New South Wales and Their Dalliance with Romance Fiction Journal of Popular Romance Studies 12: DOI: 10.70138/VTOU1871

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

linguistics

Viklund, Julia

(2025) Romantiska städer och spöken: Genreanvändning i samtida romance med magiska inslag Bachelor’s thesis, Umeå University

Topic

Abby Jimenez

Ashley Poston

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 DOI: 10.37389/abei.v20i2.3204

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

Victoria Holt/Jean Plaidy/Eleanor Burford Hibbert

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

Vişan, Nadina

(2024) Untranslatability in Regency Romances: Explicitation or Implicitation? British and American Studies 30:233-241 DOI: 10.35923/BAS.30.21

Topic

(2018) Representation of racial and sexual ‘others’ in Afrikaans popular romantic fiction by Sophia Kapp Tydskrif vir letterkunde 55.1:122-133 DOI: 10.17159/2309-9070/tvl.v.55i1.3480

Topic

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

Topic

(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

ecocriticism/environmentalism/climate change

(2012) Feminism and Early Twenty-First Century Harlequin Mills & Boon Romances Journal of Popular Culture 45.5:1060–1089 DOI: 10.1111/j.1540-5931.2012.00973.x

Topic

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

Topic

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

Topic

(2013) Georgette Heyer: The Nonesuch of Regency Romance Journal of Popular Romance Studies 3.2: DOI: 10.17613/4nan-1375

Topic

social/economic class

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

(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

(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

(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

Nora Roberts/J. D. Robb

community

happy ending

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

(2020) Let’s Not Get Carried Away by The Sheik Journal of Popular Romance Studies 9: DOI: 10.70138/MSZX3922

Topic

E. M. Hull

Berta Ruck

(2022) Historical Accuracy, Racism, Courtney Milan, and The Duke Who Didn’t Conform to Genre Norms Journal of Popular Romance Studies 11: DOI: 10.70138/VVGT3522

Topic

humour

(2024) Feeling Judged: Reflections on Pornography and Romance from a Minotaur Milking Farm Journal of Popular Romance Studies 13: DOI: 10.70138/DZWB7360

Topic

pornography

(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 150-164

Topic

(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 DOI: 10.1386/ajpc.3.3.363_1

Topic

science/technology

authors

settings

ecocriticism/environmentalism/climate change

Walker, Alyssa Chen

(2013) Bringing the Laboratory Dog Home: Elizabeth Stuart Phelps and the Antivivisection Narrative Humanimalia 4.2: DOI: 10.52537/humanimalia.9995

Topic

Elizabeth Stuart Phelps

animals

romance and, or as, activism

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

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

Victoria Holt/Jean Plaidy/Eleanor Burford Hibbert

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

Georgette Heyer

Daphne du Maurier

Mary Renault

(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

(1997) Last of the Red Hot Mohicans: Miscegenation in the Popular American Romance MELUS 22.2:61-74 DOI: 10.2307/468135

Topic

Native American romance

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

(2023) Dresses and Drapery: The Material Essie Summers Scope: Contemporary Research Topics art & design 25:91-96 DOI: 10.34074/scop.1025005

Topic

Essie Summers

fashion/clothing

New Zealand

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

Georgette Heyer

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: DOI: 10.70138/IYHC9382

Topic

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

Topic

(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

(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

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

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

(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

Wellié, Delphine Marie

(2024) Queer and in Love: The Radical Potential of Queer Historical Romances - Disruptions of Cis- and Heteronormativity. Past and Present in A Lady for a Duke and The Doctor's Discretion Bachelor's thesis, University of Bonn

Topic

Alexis Hall

E. E. Ottoman

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 Jalaluddin

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

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

Topic

Georgette Heyer

Victoria Holt/Jean Plaidy/Eleanor Burford Hibbert

Weston, Louise C.

Ruggiero, Josephine A.

(1978) Male-Female Relationships in Best-Selling "Modern Gothic" Novels Sex Roles 4.5:647-655 DOI: 10.1007/BF00287330

Topic

(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)

(1994) Objective Analysis of Text: I. A Comparison of Adventure and Romance Novels Perceptual and Motor Skills 79:1567-1570 DOI: 10.2466/pms.1994.79.3f.1567

Topic

linguistics

Whissell, Cynthia

(1996) Mate Selection in Popular Women's Fiction Human Nature 7:427-447 DOI: 10.1007/BF02732902

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 DOI: 10.2307/1224860

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 DOI: 10.1080/09612025.2018.1430003

Topic

(2022) Freedom, Sincerity, and the Modern Woman in the Interwar Romances of Berta Ruck Journal of Popular Romance Studies 11: DOI: 10.70138/JYCA1921

Topic

(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 DOI: 10.2959/logo.1992.3.2.62

Topic

(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

(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 DOI: 10.2307/20059159

Topic

Nigeria

Africa

Islam

Bilkisu Ahmed Funtuwa

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 DOI: 10.2307/1514984

Topic

Nigeria

Africa

Islam

Bilkisu Ahmed Funtuwa

(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 Jeffries

Kalen Hughes/Isobel Carr

(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

Wijanarka, Hirmawan

(2022) Cinderella Formula: The Romance Begins Journal of Language and Literature 22.2:481-489 DOI: 10.24071/joll.v22i2.5121

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

(2025) (Wo)Men in Love: An Analysis of Sexual Scripts, Escapism, and Queer Explorations Among Woman Readers and Authors of Male/Male Romance Novels Doctor of Philosophy in Human Sexuality, California Institute of Integral Studies

Topic

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

Topic

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 DOI: 10.1215/00265667-2006-65-66-133

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)

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

Topic

(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

Canada

YA/young adult/teenage/new adult/NA romance

Wilson, Elizabeth Suzanne

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

(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)

Wilson, Bernard

Osman, Sharifah Aishah

(2024) The Asian Family in Literature and Film: Challenges and Contestations-South Asia, Southeast Asia and Asian Diaspora, Volume II Singapore: Palgrave Macmillan

Wilt, Judith

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

Topic

(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 DOI: 10.1080/09574049608578285

Topic

(2024) Hearts and Hashtags: How BookTok is Reshaping Romance Literature Honors Program in English and Media Studies, Guilford College

Topic

(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 DOI: 10.1080/10894160.2014.901846

Topic

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

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

Topic

(2015) Making the Invisible Visible: Lesbian Romance Comics for Women Feminist Studies 41.2:293-334 DOI: 10.15767/feministstudies.41.2.293

Topic

comics/manga

lesbian 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 191-207 DOI:10.4324/9781003039365-12

Topic

science fiction/futuristic romance

health/medical

(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 DOI: 10.1111/j.0022-3840.1985.00025.x

Topic

gothic romance

(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

(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

(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

(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 DOI: 10.18848/1447-9532/CGP/v06i06/39300

Topic

(2007) Core Collections in Genre Studies: Romance Fiction 101 Reference & User Services Quarterly 47.2:120-126

Topic

romantic suspense

romances in magazines and newspapers

Yáñez-Bouza, Nuria

Rodríguez-Gil, María E.

Pérez-Guerra, Javier

(2024) New Horizons in Prescriptivism Research Bristol: Multilingual Matters

Topic

Singh, Hardev Kaur Jujar

(2023) Semantic Extensions of Hausa Visual and Auditory Perception Verbs gani and ji in Romance Fiction Pertanika Journal of Social Science and Humanities 31.4:1441-1464 DOI: 10.47836/pjssh.31.4.06

Topic

linguistics

Yeung, Jessica Siu-yin

(2023) Hong Kong Literature and the Taiwanese Encounter: Literary Magazines, Popular Literature and Shih Shu-Ching’s Hong Kong Stories Cultural History 12.2:224–250 DOI: 10.3366/cult.2023.0288

Topic

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

(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/young adult/teenage/new adult/NA 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

capitalism/business

Nora Roberts/J. D. Robb

(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 DOI: 10.1111/j.1542-734X.2010.00736.x

Topic

(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 DOI: 10.3828/extr.2011.52.2.5

Topic

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