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fashion/clothing

marriage

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Caribbean

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

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Edwina Shore

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Anita Richmond Bunkley

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Beverly Jenkins

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wealth/prosperity

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Topic

Vivian Stephens

Rosalind Welles - pen name of Elsie B. Washington

Amii Lorin

Jayne Ann Krentz/Amanda Quick/Jayne Castle

disability

Sandra Kitt

ageism

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E. M. Hull

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Topic

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Topic

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Topic

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Topic

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Davies, Ben Lupton, Christina Gormsen Schmidt, Johanne (2022) Reading Novels During the Covid-19 Pandemic Oxford: Oxford University Press

Topic

Sally Rooney

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Topic

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Topic

teaching romance

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Topic

Davisson, Amber Hunting, Kyra (2023) From private pleasure to erotic spectacle: Adapting Bridgerton to female audience desires Journal of Popular Television 11.1:7-25

Topic

Julia Quinn

pornography

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Topic

marriage

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Topic

De Groot, Jerome (2010) The Historical Novel Abingdon, Oxon: Routledge

Topic

de Jesús, Melinda L. (2001) "Two’s Company, Three’s a Crowd?": Reading Interracial Romance in Contemporary Asian American Young Adult Fiction LIT: Literature Interpretation Theory 12.3:313–334

Topic

Haemi Balgassi

Kate Emberg

Lois-Ann Yamanaka

de los Heros, Susana (2022) " Ideologías lingüísticas, paisaje y voz narrativa en The Wind off the Small Isles " 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 149-160

Topic

de los Heros, Susana (2022) " Language ideologies, landscape and narrative voice in The Wind off the Small Isles " 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 333-343

Topic

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Topic

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Topic

Deffenbacher, Kristina (2014) Rape Myths' Twilight and Women's Paranormal Revenge in Romantic and Urban Fantasy Fiction Journal of Popular Culture 47.5:923-936

Topic

Del Grosso Destreri, Luigi Brodesco, Alberto Giovanetti, Silvia Zanatta, Sara (2009) Una galassia rosa: Ricerche sulla letteratura femminile di consumo Milan: Franco Angeli

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Topic

cross-dressing

Marie Bjelke Petersen

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Topic

Deller, Ruth A. Smith, Clarissa (2013) Reading the BDSM romance: Reader responses to Fifty Shades Sexualities 16.8:932–950

Topic

Fifty Shades

BDSM

Delpech, Jeanine (2019) Le cas Delly Le Rocambole 86-87:203-206

Topic

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Topic

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Topic

Deputter, Barbara Anne (1992) Les romans Harlequin, leur contenu et leurs lectrices québécoises M. Sc, Université de Montréal

Topic

Canada

Derbyshire, Valerie Grace (2023) “Do you think I haven’t paid for what I did?”: Rape in the Mills & Boon Romantic Novels of Penny Jordan Journal of Popular Romance Studies 12:

Topic

Penny Jordan/Caroline Courtney

history

Derbyshire, Val (2016) Why Read Mills & Boon Romances? : WroCAH

Topic

Penny Jordan/Caroline Courtney

settings

des Rivières, Marie-José (1992) " Le mariage ou la réconciliation comme mauvais genre " Actes du colloque "Les mauvais genres" organisé au Centre culturel canadien de Paris les 23, 24 et 25 novembre 1989

Topic

Desai, Gaurav (2009) Teaching the African Novel New York: Modern Language Association

Desmet, Christy Sawyer, Robert (1999) Shakespeare and Appropriation London and New York: Routledge

DeVries, Susan Dunlop, Margaret Goopy, Suzanne Moyle, Wendy Sutherland‐Lockhart, Diane (1995) Discipline and passion: meaning, masochism and mythology in popular medical romances Nursing Inquiry 2.4:203-210

Topic

Dexl, Carmen Gerlsbeck, Silvia (2022) The Male Body in Representation: Returning to Matter Cham, Switzerland: Palgrave Macmillan

Di Leo, Jeffrey (2020) The Speed of Publishing American Book Review 41.4:2, 26-27

Topic

Alexa Riley

I. T. Lucas

Diamond, Geneva (2015) " Medievalism and the Courtship Plot in Julie Garwood's Popular Romance Novels " The Middle Ages in Popular Culture: Medievalism and Genre

Topic

Dickson, Beth (1997) " Annie S. Swan and O. Douglas: Legacies of the Kailyard " A History of Scottish Women’s Writing 329-346

Topic

Annie S. Swan

O. Douglas/Anna Buchan

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Topic

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Topic

Spain

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Topic

DiVisconte, Jessica (2009) The Recession and Its Effect on the Romance Genre Master of Science in Publishing, Dyson College of Arts & Sciences, Pace University

Topic

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Topic

languages

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Topic

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Topic

Dixon, jay (1999) The Romance Fiction of Mills & Boon 1909-1990s London: UCL Press

Topic

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

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Topic

Dixon, jay (2021) " History of English romance novels, 1621-1975 " The Routledge Research Companion to Popular Romance Fiction 27-50 DOI:10.4324/9781315613468-1

Topic

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

Doğan Yıldız, Alpay (2010) Popüler Türk Romanları ( 1930-1950): Kerime Nadir, Esat Mahmut Karakurt, Muazzez Tahsin Berkand : Dergah Yayınları

Topic

Turkey

Kerime Nadir

Muazzez Tahsin Berkand

Donalson, Tara A. (2005) The Parody of Romance MA thesis, University of Texas at Arlington

Topic

Douglas, Ann (1980) Soft-Porn Culture: Punishing the Liberated Woman The New Republic 183.9:25-29

Topic

BDSM

pornography

Downey, Kristin (2005) Irony, Ideology, and Resistance: The Amazing Double Life of Harlequin Presents PhD, McMaster University

Topic

Doyle, Marsha Vanderford (1985) The Rhetoric of Romance: A Fantasy Theme Analysis of Barbara Cartland Novels Southern Speech Communication Journal 51.1:24-48

Topic

love

Drakulić-Ilić, Slavenka (1984) Smrtni grijesi feminizma. Ogledi u mudologiji Zagreb: Znanje

Topic

Drayton, Arthur D. Ajayi-Soyinka, Omofolabo Ukpokodu, I. Peter (2007) African Literatures at the Millennium Trenton, NJ and Asmara, Eritrea: Africa World Press

Dreimane, Jana (2015) Authors, Publishers and Readers of Popular Literature in Latvia in the Late 1980s and Early 1990s Interlitteraria 20.2:56–70

Topic

Hedwig Courths-Mahler

Ethel M. Dell

Drescher, Horst W. Hagemann, Susanne (1996) Scotland to Slovenia: European Identities and Transcultural Communication. Proceedings of the Fourth International Scottish Studies Symposium Frankfurt am Main: Peter Lang

Drew, Bernard A. (2007) 100 Most Popular African American Authors: Biographical Sketches and Bibliographies Westport, Connecticut: Libraries Unlimited

Driscoll, Catherine (2006) " One True Pairing: The Romance of Pornography and the Pornography of Romance " Fan Fiction and Fan Communities in the Age of the Internet: New Essays 79–96

Topic

Driscoll, Beth Fletcher, Lisa Wilkins, Kim (2011) " Women, Akubras and Ereaders: Romance Fiction and Australian Publishing " The Return of Print?: Contemporary Australian Publishing 67-87

Topic

rural romance

Driscoll, Beth (2014) Genre, Author, Text, Reader: Teaching Nora Roberts’s Spellbound Journal of Popular Romance Studies 4.2:

Topic

teaching romance

Driscoll, Beth Fletcher, Lisa Wilkins, Kim Carter, David (2018) The Publishing Ecosystems of Contemporary Australian Genre Fiction Creative Industries Journal 11.2:203-221

Topic

Driscoll, Beth (2019) Book Blogs as Tastemakers Participations 16.1:280-305

Topic

Driscoll, Beth Wilkins, Kim (2023) " Australian Fantasy, Crime and Romance Fiction in the Twentieth and Twenty-First Centuries " The Cambridge History of the Australian Novel 540-556 DOI:10.1017/9781009090049.033

Topic

Dryden, Therese Michelle (2011) Bachelor Dad on Her Doorstep Masters, University of Newcastle, Australia

Topic

Dryden, Therese (2019) The Valentine Wars PhD, University of Newcastle, Australia

Topic

Susan Elizabeth Phillips

Dryden, Therese (2022) " The single-mother and the law: romance novels making room for female voices in patriarchal spaces " The Routledge Companion to Romantic Love DOI:10.4324/9781003022343-31

Topic

Robyn Carr

Dubino, Jeanne (1993) The Cinderella Complex: Romance Fiction, Patriarchy, and Capitalism Journal of Popular Culture 27.3:103-118

Topic

Dubrûle, Marie-Andrée (1984) Systèmes narratifs et systèmes de valeurs dans le roman sentimental paralittéraire MA, Université de Montréal

Dubrûle, Marie-Andrée (1986) Le cas Harlequin : la mise à l’épreuve du sujet femme : une analyse des procédés narratifs et littéraires Québec: Groupe de recherche multidisciplinaire féministe, Université Laval

Topic

Janet Dailey

Ducoulombier, Martine (2005) La comédie romantique – un genre mal-aimé? Africultures 63.2:43-45

Topic

Africa

Dudek, Debra Reid Boyd, Elizabeth Grobbelaar, Madalena Williams, Rose (2022) " Tingles and Shivers: First Kisses and Intimate Civility in Eliza Redgold’s Historical Harlequin Romances Pre–and Post-#MeToo " New Frontiers in Popular Romance: Essays on the Genre in the 21st Century 47-61

Topic

Elizabeth Reid Boyd (pen name Eliza Redgold)

Duder, C. J. D. (1991) Love and the Lions: The Image of White Settlement in Kenya in Popular Fiction, 1919-1939 African Affairs 90.360:427-438

Topic

Dudovitz, Resa L. (1990) The Myth of Superwoman: Women's Bestsellers in France and the United States New York: Routledge

Topic

France

Dugger, Julie M. (2014) “I’m a Feminist, But…” Popular Romance in the Women’s Literature Classroom Journal of Popular Romance Studies 4.2:

Topic

Dulong, Delphine Neveu, Erik Guionnet, Christine (2012) Boys Don't Cry! Les coûts de la domination masculine Rennes: Presses universitaires de Rennes

Dummer, Kathleen Ann (1990) A study of character development of main characters in young adult category romance literature Master of Science, University of Wyoming

Topic

Dunnion, Janne May (1997) Mapping Normalcy: Romance and the Postmodern Body MA thesis, University of Toronto

Topic

Duranti, Daniela (2008) Le soglie del genere: identità femminile e modelli semiotici nel paratesto editoriale ,

Topic

Dutton, Lucie Bea (2021) " A reluctant movie? The Reluctant Widow on screen " Georgette Heyer, History, and Historical Fiction 215-239 DOI:10.2307/j.ctv15d818n.17

Topic

Duvezin-Caubet, Caroline (2020) Gaily Ever After: Neo-Victorian M/M Genre Romance for the Twenty-First Century Neo-Victorian Studies 13.1:242-269

Topic

Dyhouse, Carol (2017) Hearthrobs: A History of Women and Desire Oxford: Oxford University Press

Topic

Dymock, Alex (2013) Flogging sexual transgression: Interrogating the costs of the ‘Fifty Shades effect’ Sexualities 16.8:880-895

Topic

Ebert, Teresa L. (1986) Language/Sexuality/Power in Harlequin Romances Indian Journal of American Studies 16.1:71-80

Topic

Ebert, Teresa L. (1988) The Romance of Patriarchy: Ideology, Subjectivity, and Postmodern Feminist Cultural Theory Cultural Critique 10:19-57

Topic

Ebert, Teresa L. (2006) Romance Novels, Class and Abu Ghraib Against the Current 121:

Topic

Ebert, Teresa L. (2009) The Task of Cultural Critique Urbana: University of Illinois Press

Topic

chick lit

Elizabeth Lowell

Ebert, Teresa L. (2014) Hegel's “picture-thinking” as the interpretive logic of the popular Textual Practice 28.1:9-33

Topic

Linda Howard

philosophy

Liala, pen name of Amalia Liana Cambiasi Negretti Odescalchi

Eco, Umberto Federzoni, Marina Pezzini, Isabella Pozzato, Maria Pia (1979) Carolina Invernizio, Matilde Serao, Liala Firenze: La nuova Italia

Topic

Eden, Edward Goertz, Dee (2003) Carol Shields, Narrative Hunger, and the Possibilities of Fiction Toronto: University of Toronto Press

Edlins, Mariglynn (2016) Superhero, Sleeping Beauty, or Devil? The Making of Orphan Myths and Public Administration Public Voices 14.2:67-84

Topic

Edmondson, Belinda (1999) Caribbean Romances: The Politics of Regional Representation Charlottesville: University of Virginia Press

Edmondson, Belinda (2007) The Black Romance Women's Studies Quarterly 35.1/2:191-211

Topic

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

Frances Watkins Harper

Caribbean

national identity

Edwards, Holly (2000) Noble Dreams, Wicked Pleasures: Orientalism in America, 1870-1930 Princeton: Princeton University Press

Edwin, Shirin (2016) Privately Empowered: Expressing Feminism in Islam in Northern Nigerian Fiction Evanston, Illinois: Northwestern University Press

Topic

Egan, Jesi (2016) Cultural Futurity and the Politics of Recovery: Mary Renault's Ambivalent Romances MFS Modern Fiction Studies 62.3:462-80

Topic

Mary Renault

modernism

Egilsdatter Sleire, Maria (2021) “Only I shall taste your body’s joys:” The Erotic Function of Female Corporeality in The Flame and the Flower and Fifty Shades of Grey Master's Thesis, University of Bergen

Topic

Ehnenn, Jill (1998) Desperately Seeking Susan Among the Trash: Reinscription, Subversion and Visibility in the Lesbian Romance Novel Atlantis 23.1:120-127

Topic

lesbian romance

Eickelman, Dale F. Anderson, Jon W. (1999) New Media in the Muslim World: The Emerging Public Sphere Bloomington: Indiana University Press

Eike, Ann M. (1986) An Investigation of the Market for Paperback Romance Novels Journal of Cultural Economics 10.1:25-36

Topic

Eiss, Harry (1994) Images of the Child Bowling Green, Ohio: Bowling Green State University Popular Press

Elliott, Margaret A. (1996) The Librarian's Stereotyped Image in Romance Novels, 1980-1995: Has the Image Changed? Masters, Kent State University

Topic

Elliott, Jack (2014) " Patterns and Trends in Harlequin Category Romance " Advancing Digital Humanities: Research, Methods, Theories 54-67 DOI:10.1057/9781137337016_4

Topic

Elliott, Jack (2016) Vocabulary decay in category romance Digital Scholarship in the Humanities 31.2:321–332

Topic

Jane Austen

Elliott, Jack (2017) Whole genre sequencing Digital Scholarship in the Humanities 32.1:65–79

Topic

Ellis, Sarah (1990) " Innocence and Experience in the Young Adult Romance " Lands of Pleasure: Essays on Lillian H. Smith and the Development of Children's Libraries 117-129

Topic

Ellis, Kate (1987) " Gimme Shelter: Feminism, Fantasy, and Women's Popular Fiction " American Media and Mass Culture: Left Perspectives 216-230

Topic

gothic romance

virginity

Victoria Holt/Jean Plaidy/Eleanor Burford Hibbert

Emrys, A. B. (1994) Magic Regencies: How Fantasy Forms a Hybrid Popular Culture Review 5.1:85-93

Topic

Encanto, Georgina Reyes (1996) The development of the Filipino romance novel as written by women (1922-1992) PhD, University of the Philippines, College of Mass Communication

Topic

Philippines

Encanto, Georgina R. (2008) Savoring Romance Pinoy Style in Foreign Climes: Why Women Migrants Love Reading Tagalog Romance Novels Review of Women's Studies 18.1:27-52

Topic

Philippines

Engelking, Tama Lea (2017) Reading the Romance with Colette in ‘La Lune de pluie' Modern Language Studies 47.1:26-45

Topic

Colette

Engler, Sandra (2005) "A Career's Wonderful, but Love is More Wonderful Still": Femininity and Masculinity in the Fiction of Mills & Boon Tübingen: Francke

Topic

English, Jessica (2017) Reading the Romance: Through the Eyes of a Millenial Feminist Masters of Science in Communication, Eastern Washington University

Topic

English Studies Group, 1978–9, The (1980) " Recent Developments in English Studies at the Centre " Culture, Media, Language: Working Papers in Cultural Studies, 1972-79 227-262 DOI:10.4324/9780203381182

Topic

Erekli, Arzu (2006) Medeni ya da müslüman: popüler aşk romanlarında Feyza olmak Yayınlanmamış Yüksek Lisans Tezi, Bilkent University, Ankara

Topic

Erhart, Virginia (1973) " Amor, ideología y enmascaramiento en Corín Tellado " Imperialismo y medios masivos de comunicación 93-101

Topic

Erhart, Virginia (1974) " Amor, ideología y enmascaramiento en Corín Tellado " Penetración cultural imperialista en América Latina: comics y revistas femeninas 71-123

Topic

Erhart, Virginia (1974) Corín Tellado: la Cenicienta en la sociedad de consumo Crisis 1.9:71-80

Topic

Erhart, Virginia (1976) Amor y consumo en las novelas de Corin Tellado Cuadernos de Comunicación 17:16-21

Topic

Escandell Montiel, Daniel Oliveira Dias, Sofia Raquel (2020) Voces e identidades exocanónicas (1880-1920): recuperando (auto) narrativas femeninas de los márgenes Valencia: Tirant Humanidades

Escolar, Marisa (2015) Marry the Allies? Luciana Peverelli’s ‘True’ Romanzo Rosa in ‘Liberated’ Rome Italian Studies 70.2:228-248

Topic

Luciana Peverelli

Italy

national identity

Escolar, Marisa (2019) Allied Encounters: The Gendered Redemption of World War II Italy New York: Fordham University Press

Topic

Luciana Peverelli

Italy

Esquibel, Catrióna Rueda (1991) Loving the other woman: contemporary lesbian romance novels Masters, University of Colorado

Topic

lesbian romance

Esquibel, Catrióna Rueda (1992) " A Duel of Wits and the Lesbian Romance Novel or Verbal Intercourse in Fictional Regency England " New Perspectives on Women and Comedy 123-133

Topic

lesbian romance

Michelle Martin

Esser, Linda Adkins, Denice Velasquez, Diane L. (2008) “The Red Dot District”: Uncommon Ground in Reader Advisory Education and Professional Practice Educational Media and Technology Yearbook 33:105–111

Topic

pornography

Evans, Julie (1993) Beatrice Grimshaw and Australia - White Women in the Pacific Olive Pink Society Bulletin 5.1:34-39

Topic

Oceania

Fahnestock-Thomas, Mary (2001) Georgette Heyer: A Critical Retrospective Saraland, Alabama: PrinnyWorld Press

Topic

Faktorovich, Anna (2014) The Formulas of Popular Fiction: Elements of Fantasy, Science Fiction, Romance, Religious and Mystery Novels Jefferson, North Carolina: McFarland & Company

Faktorovich, Anna (2015) Gender Bias in Mystery and Romance Novel Publishing: Mimicking Masculinity and Femininity Stone Mountain, GA: Anaphora Literary Press

Topic

Faktorovich, Anna (2015) Interview with Mary Jo Putney, Best-Selling Romance Author Pennsylvania Literary Journal 7.2:

Topic

Mary Jo Putney

Fallon, Eileen (1984) Words of Love: A Complete Guide to Romance Fiction New York and London: Garland Publishing

Topic

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

Fanetti, Susan (2022) " Introduction—Popular Romance in the 21st Century: Time to Claim Its Due " New Frontiers in Popular Romance: Essays on the Genre in the 21st Century 1-13

Topic

Fanetti, Susan (2022) New Frontiers in Popular Romance: Essays on the Genre in the 21st Century Jefferson, North Carolina: McFarland & Company

Topic

Diana Gabaldon

India

Farooqui, Javaria Ashraf, Rabia (2019) Reconnaissance of ‘Difference’ in Cognitive Maps: Authenticating Happily Ever After in Julia Quinn’s To Sir Philip with Love Khazar Journal of Humanities and Social Sciences 22.2:71-82

Topic

Julia Quinn

romances in magazines and newspapers

Farooqui, Javaria (2020) The Kitchen and Beyond: The Romantic Chronotope in Pakistani Popular Fiction Journal of Popular Romance Studies 9:

Topic

Farooqui, Javaria (2022) On Loving Popular Fiction in Pakistan The Aleph Review :

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Pakistan

Farooqui, Javaria (2022) Reading historical popular romance in 21st-century Pakistan PhD thesis, University of Tasmania

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Pakistan

Farooqui, Javaria (2022) Romance in an Old Bookshop The Bridge Magazine 1:66-69

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Pakistan

Farooqui, Javaria (2022) " Romance, Austen, and English-Medium Schooling in Pakistan " Language, Education, and Identity: Medium in South Asia

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Fasick, Adele M. Johnston, Margaret Osler, Ruth (1990) Lands of Pleasure: Essays on Lillian H. Smith and the Development of Children's Libraries Metuchen, N.J.: Scarecrow Press

Faura, Salvador Godsland, Shelley Moody, Nickianne (2004) " The Romance Novel, or, the Generalisimo's Control of the Popular Imagination " Reading the Popular in Contemporary Spanish Texts 46-58

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Spain

Faust, Meredith S. (2010) "Love of the purest kind": Heteronormative rigidity in the homoerotic fiction of Ann Herendeen Master of Arts, DePaul University

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Ann Herendeen

Faust, Beatrice (1980) Women, Sex and Pornography London: Melbourne House

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Fekete, Maleah (2022) Confluent Love and the Evolution of Ideal Intimacy: Romance Reading in 1980 and 2016 Journal of Popular Romance Studies 11:

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Felski, Rita (1990) Kitsch, Romance Fiction and Male Paranoia: Stephen King meets the Frankfurt School Continuum: The Australian Journal of Media & Culture 4.1:54-70

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Feng, Jin (2009) "Addicted to Beauty": Consuming and Producing Web-based Chinese Danmei Fiction at Jinjiang Modern Chinese Literature and Culture 21.2:1-41

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m/m romance

Feng, Jin (2011) Men Conquer the World and Women Save Mankind: Rewriting Patriarchal Traditions through Web-based Matriarchal Romances Journal of Popular Romance Studies 1.2:

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Feng, Jin (2013) Romancing the Internet: Producing and Consuming Chinese Web Romance Leiden: Brill

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Fenske, Emma K. (2022) Romancing the New Evangelical Woman Master of Arts, Baylor University

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Fenty, Linda D. (1987) A Comparative Analysis of Female Role Models in Selected Contemporary Teen Romances Educat.D., Auburn University

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

Fera-VanGent, Tania (2005) Popular Romance Novels: Seeking out the 'Sisterhood' MA thesis, Brock University

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chick lit

Fernández Rodríguez, Carolina (2018) " Del cuento de hadas a la novela romántica: Una visión de la sub/literatura como gimnasio mental y laboratorio de sub/versión cultural " 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 69-95

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fairytales/folktales

Fernández Rodríguez, Carolina (2019) Chamorro WWII Romances: Combating Erasure with Tales of Survival and Vitality Journal of Popular Romance Studies 8:

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Guam

languages

Fernández Rodríguez, Carolina (2021) American Quaker Romances: Building the Myth of the White Christian Nation Valencia: Universitat de València

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Fernández Rodríguez, Carolina (2021) " Nora Roberts’s Boonsboro Empire: Boosting Business through Romance, Invigorating Romance with Affective Capitalism " Romantic Escapes: Post-Millennial Trends in Contemporary Popular Romance Fiction 97-119

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metaphor/symbolism

Fernández Ulloa, Teresa Morazzani, Joanne Schmidt (2016) Images of Women in Hispanic Culture Newcastle upon Tyne: Cambridge Scholars Publishing

Fernández Ulloa, Teresa Soler Gallo, Miguel (2020) Aproximaciones a la configuración de la identidad en la cultura y sociedad hispanas e italianas contemporáneas Madrid: Liceus

Ferrández San Miguel, María Neumann, Claus-Peter (2018) Taking Stock to Look Ahead: Celebrating Forty Years of English Studies in Spain Zaragoza: Prensas Universitarias de la Universidad de Zaragoza

Fesenmeier, Ludwig Novakova, Iva (2020) Phraséologie et stylistique de la langue littéraire/Phraseology and Stylistics of Literary Language; Approches interdisciplinaires/Interdisciplinary Approaches Berlin: Peter Lang

Fialkoff, Francine (1992) Romancing the Patron: Romance novels don't get equal review treatment Library Journal 117.21:118

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Ficke, Sarah H. (2021) " The historical romance " The Routledge Research Companion to Popular Romance Fiction 118-140 DOI:10.4324/9781315613468-5

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history

Beverly Jenkins

Ficke, Sarah (2022) " House, home and husband in historical romance fiction " The Routledge Companion to Romantic Love DOI:10.4324/9781003022343-11

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Fife, Leslie (2003) The 2000-2003 Proceedings of the SW/Texas PCA/ACA Conference : SW/TEX PCA/ACA

Figuerola, M. Carme (2011) " Le roman dellyen et les structures du roman populaire : quelques réflexions " L’Œuvre de Delly 91-112

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Finn, Geraldine (1988) " Women, Fantasy, and Popular Culture: The Wonderful World of Harlequin Romance " Popular Cultures and Political Practices 51-68 DOI:10.3138/9781442602861-006

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Fischer, Heinz-Dietrich Melnik, Stefan Reinhard (1979) Entertainment: A Cross-Cultural Examination New York: Hastings House

Fisher, Maryanne L. Meredith, Tami M. (2012) The Success behind the Candy-Colored Covers: An Evolutionary Perspective on Romance Novels Evolutionary Review 3.1:154-167

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Fisher, Maryanne L. Meredith, Tami M. (2021) Evolutionary and sociocultural themes in cover art on Harlequin romance novels: A temporal analysis Evolutionary Behavioral Sciences ONLINE FIRST:ONLINE FIRST

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Fisher, Maryanne Cox, Anthony (2010) Man Change Thyself: Hero Versus Heroine Development in Harlequin Romance Novels Journal of Social, Evolutionary, and Cultural Psychology 4.4:305-316

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Fitzsimmons, Rebekah Wilson, Casey Alane (2020) Beyond the Blockbusters: Themes and Trends in Contemporary Young Adult Fiction Jackson: University Press of Mississippi

Fjelkestam, Kristina Hill, Helena Tjeder, David (2013) Kvinnorna gör mannen: maskulinitetskonstruktioner i kvinnors text och bild 1500-2000 Göteborg: Makadam förlag

Fleenor, Juliann E. (1983) The Female Gothic Montreal: Eden Press

Flegel, Monica Roth, Jenny (2010) Annihilating love and heterosexuality without women: Romance, generic difference, and queer politics in "Supernatural" fan fiction Transformative Works and Cultures 4:

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fanfiction

Fleites-Lear, Marisela (2009) ¿Victoria contra Corín Tellado?: La novela rosa revolucionaria cubana y la ficción en Mujeres Romance Notes 49.1:91-100

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Cuba

Flesch, Juliet (1995) Love Brought to Book: A Bio-Bibliography of 20th Century Australian Romance Novels Melbourne: National Centre for Australian Studies

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Flesch, Juliet (1996) A Labour of Love? Compiling a Bibliography of Twentieth Century Australian Romance Novels Australasian Public Libraries and Information Services 9.3-4:170-178

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Flesch, Juliet (1996) A Labour of Love? The Story Behind the Compilation of Love Brought to Book: A Bio-bibliography of 20th Century Australian Romance Novels Australian Academic & Research Libraries 27.3:182-190

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Flesch, Juliet (1997) Not just housewives and old maids Collection Building 16.3:119-124

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Flesch, Juliet (2005) Blushing Bride to Bush Matriarch: Women in the Fiction of Lucy Walker Journal of Publishing 1:37-52

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Lucy Walker

Flesch, Juliet (2007) " Love under the Coolabah: Australian Romance Publishing since 1990 " Making Books: Contemporary Australian Publishing 279-285

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Flesch, Juliet (2009) " ”Feminists Talk about Sisterhood: I Do Not Know How Deeply They Feel It”: Australian Mass Market Romance Novels and Their Critics " Reading Down Under: Australian Literary Studies Reader 419-428

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Flesch, Juliet (2012) " The Wide Brown Land and the Big Smoke: The Setting of Australian Popular Romance " Sold by the Millions: Australia's Bestsellers 82-95

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settings

Fletcher, Lisa (2002) I love you: historical romance fiction and heterosexuality PhD, University of Melbourne

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Fletcher, Lisa (2004) " “Mere Costumery”? Georgette Heyer’s Cross-Dressing Novels " Masquerades: Disguise in Literature in English from the Middle Ages to the Present 196-212

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Fletcher, Lisa (2008) Historical Romance Fiction: Heterosexuality and Performativity Burlington: Ashgate

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Fletcher, Lisa Gaby, Rosemary Kloester, Jennifer (2011) Pedagogy Report: Embedding Popular Romance Studies in Undergraduate English Units: Teaching Georgette Heyer’s Sylvester Journal of Popular Romance Studies 1.2:

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Fletcher, Lisa (2013) The Scholarship of Teaching and Learning Popular Romance Studies: What is it, and why does it matter? Journal of Popular Romance Studies 3.2:

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teaching romance

Fletcher, Lisa (2014) Writing the Happy Ever After: An Interview with Anne Gracie Journal of Popular Romance Studies 4.2:

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Anne Gracie

Fletcher, Lisa (2016) Popular Fiction and Spatiality: Reading Genre Settings New York: Palgrave Macmillan

Fletcher, Lisa Driscoll, Beth Wilkins, Kim (2018) Genre Worlds and Popular Fiction: The Case of Twenty-First-Century Australian Romance Journal of Popular Culture 51.4:997-1015

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Fletcher, Lisa Driscoll, Beth Wilkins, Kim (2018) What is Australian Popular Fiction? Australian Literary Studies 33.4:1-11

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national identity

settings

Fletcher, Lisa McAlister, Jodi Temple, Kurt Williams, Kathleen (2019) #loveyourshelfie: Mills & Boon books and how to find them Mémoires du livre / Studies in Book Culture 11.1:

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Flora, Cornelia Butler Flora, Jan L. (1978) The Fotonovela As a Tool for Class and Cultural Domination Latin American Perspectives 5.1:134-150

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wealth/prosperity

fotonovela

Foley, J. A. (2007) Critical Awareness: Romance Novels in English for the Asian Market. A Critical Study of Locally Published "Romance Novels" in English Asian Journal of Literature, Culture and Society 3.2:93-108

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Singapore

Folie, Sandra (2020) " The Ethnic Labelling of a Genre Gone Global: A Distant Comparison of African-American and African Chick Lit " Literary Translation, Reception, and Transfer: The Many Languages of Comparative Literature 313–326 DOI:10.1515/9783110641998-026

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Fong, Katrina Mullin, Justin B. Mar, Raymond A. (2013) What You Read Matters: The Role of Fiction Genre in Predicting Interpersonal Sensitivity Psychology of Aesthetics, Creativity, and the Arts 7.4:370-376

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Fong, Katrina Mullin, Justin B. Mar, Raymond A. (2015) How Exposure to Literary Genres Relates to Attitudes Toward Gender Roles and Sexual Behavior Psychology of Aesthetics, Creativity, and the Arts 9.3:274–285

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Forbes, Curdella (2006) X Press Publications: Pop Culture, “Pop Lit” and Caribbean Literary Criticism: An Essay of Provocation Anthurium: A Caribbean Studies Journal 4.1:

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Fordham, Helen (2014) ‘That’s love for you’: Destabilizing divides and re-imaging subjectivities in the romantic fiction of Eloisa James Australasian Journal of Popular Culture 3.3:273-284

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romances in magazines and newspapers

Eloisa James

Shakespeare

Forte, Gioacchino (1966) I persuasori rosa: sociologia curiosa del rotocalco femminile in Italia Naples: Edizioni Scientifiche Italiane

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Italy

sociology

Fortunati, Vita Franci, Giovanna (1982) 'Ma c'è sempre un arcobaleno': La 'romantic fiction' di Barbara Cartland Quaderni di Filologia Germanica della Facolta di Lettere e Filosofia dell'Universita di Bologna 2:167-192

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Victoria Holt/Jean Plaidy/Eleanor Burford Hibbert

Fortunati, Vita Franci, Giovanna Mangaroni, Rosella (1986) " Prefazione " Maestre d'amore: eroine e scrittrici nell'impero del rosa inglese 5-16

Fortunati, Vita Franci, Giovanna (1986) " Tre romantiche ‘figlie d’Inghilterra’ alla conquista della storia: Eleanor Hibbert, Georgette Heyer e Barbara Cartland " Maestre d'amore: eroine e scrittrici nell'impero del rosa inglese 17-53

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Fortunati, Vita Franci, Giovanna (1987) " Barbara Cartland, la regina del rosa " Intorno al rosa

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Foss, Kimberly Kay (1997) An Analysis to Determine if Popular Romance Novels, Read by Today’s High School Students, Reflect the Characteristics and Roles of Women in Current Society M.S. in Education with Emphasis in Library Science, University of Wyoming

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Foster, Guy Mark (2007) " How Dare a Black Woman Make Love to a White Man! Black Women Romance Novelists and the Taboo of Interracial Desire " Empowerment versus Oppression: Twenty-First Century Views of Popular Romance Novels 103-128

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