Bibliography

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

Sarah Aldridge

Katherine V. Forrest

Valerie Taylor

Michelle Martin

Hermes, Joke (1992) Vergnügen oder Aufklärung? Sexualität in lesbischen Liebesromanen? Das Argument - Zeitschrift für Philosophie und Sozialwissenschaften 193:389-402

Topic

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

Valerie Taylor

Katherine V. Forrest

Hernández, María Beatriz Brito, Manuel Monterrey, Tomás (2018) Broadening Horizons: A Peak Panorama of English Studies in Spain Santa Cruz de Tenerife: Universidad de la Laguna

Hernandez, Carmen E. (2022) Romance and Revolution Master of Arts, Texas State University

Topic

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

Sylvain Reynard

Erika Wilde

Carly Phillips

virginity

Eliza Haywood

Hernández Guerrero, María José (2016) Prosumidoras de traducciones: Aproximación al fenómeno de la traducción fan de novela romántica Revista Española de Lingüística Aplicada 29.1:88-114

Topic

Hernandez-Knight, Bianca (2021) Race and Racism in Austen Spaces: Jane Austen and Regency Romance's Racist Legacy ABO: Interactive Journal for Women in the Arts, 1640-1830 11.2:

Topic

Herrera, Carolina M. (2022) Examining the relation between media engagement and developmental outcomes in adolescents and emerging adults: an exploration of engagement with and impact of young adult literature media among youth PhD thesis, Rutgers, the State University of New Jersey

Topic

Heryanto, Ariel (2011) " Upgraded Piety and Pleasure: The New Middle Class and Islam in Indonesian Popular Culture " Islam and Popular Culture in Indonesia and Malaysia 60-82

Topic

Indonesia

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

Habiburrahman El-Shirazy

Hess, Jonathan M. (2010) Middlebrow Literature and the Making of German-Jewish Identity Stanford, California: Stanford University Press

Topic

Judaism

Germany

Ludwig Philippson

Salomon Formstecher

Hess, Beth B. Ferree, Myra Marx (1987) Analyzing Gender: A Handbook of Social Science Research Newbury Park, California: Sage Publications

Hey, Valerie (1983) The Necessity of Romance Canterbury: University of Kent

Heying, Sarah M. (2023) "Sealed With a Kiss on Your Artery": An Archive of Southern Lesbian Desire PhD, University of Mississippi

Topic

Ann Allen Shockley

libraries/librarians

Higashi, Sumiko (2017) Adapting Middlebrow Taste to Sell Stars, Romance, and Consumption Feminist Media Histories 3.4:126-161

Topic

Hijazo-Gascón, Alberto (2009) " Cross-Cultural Differences in Conceptualization and their Application in L2 Instruction " Pragmatics Applied to Language Teaching and Learning 42-59

Topic

Corín Tellado

metaphor/symbolism

Hilton, Linda Ann Wheeler (2000) Half Heaven, Half Heartache: Discovering the Transformative Potential in Women's Popular Fiction Bachelor's degree, Arizona State University West

Topic

Hinks, John Armstrong, Catherine (2008) Book Trade Connections from the Seventeenth to the Twentieth Centuries New Castle, Delaware and London: Oak Knoll Press and British Library

Hinnant, Charles H. (2003) " Desire and the Marketplace: A Reading of Kathleen Woodiwiss's The Flame and the Flower " Doubled Plots: Romance and History 147-164

Topic

Kathleen Woodiwiss

Mary Ward/Mrs. Humphry Ward

fashion/clothing

Hipsky, Martin (2011) Modernism and the Women’s Popular Romance in Britain, 1885–1925 Athens, Ohio: Ohio University Press

Topic

Marie Corelli

Ethel M. Dell

E. M. Hull

Baroness Orczy

Florence Barclay

Elinor Glyn

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

Hirdman, Anja (2013) " 'Det ska bli en ära att få tillfredsställa dig!' Ideal manlighet i Harlequinromanen " Kvinnorna gör mannen: maskulinitetskonstruktioner i kvinnors text och bild 1500-2000 27-51

Topic

Hirdman, Anja (2016) Speaking through the flesh: Affective encounters, gazes and desire in Harlequin romances MedieKultur: Journal of media and communication research 32.61:42-57

Topic

emotions

Hirsbrunner, A. R. (2000) Doomed to become heroines? Identification, women and fiction PhD, The University of Wales College of Cardiff

Topic

Hirschman, Elizabeth C. Holbrook, Morris B. (1981) SV - Symbolic Consumer Behavior New York: Association for Consumer Research

Hirst, Holly (2020) " Georgette Heyer " The Palgrave Handbook of Contemporary Gothic 373-389 DOI:10.1007/978-3-030-33136-8_23

Topic

Hirst, Holly (2020) " The Gothic Romance " The Palgrave Handbook of Contemporary Gothic 357-372 DOI:10.1007/978-3-030-33136-8_22

Topic

Victoria Holt/Jean Plaidy/Eleanor Burford Hibbert

Phyllis A. Whitney

Catherine Cookson

Christine Marion Fraser

Hirst, Holly (2021) " Georgette Heyer and redefining the Gothic romance " Georgette Heyer, History, and Historical Fiction 105-118 DOI:10.2307/j.ctv15d818n.12

Topic

Hobson, Amanda (2015) " Brothers under Covers: Race and the Paranormal Romance Novel " Race in the Vampire Narrative 23–43 DOI:10.1163/9789463002929_004

Topic

Kerrelyn Sparks

J. R. Ward

Hodgson, Kathleen (2006) The representation of the female hero in the romantic fiction of Mills & Boon MPhil, University of Reading

Topic

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

Hofstadter, Beatrice K. (1960) Popular Culture and the Romantic Heroine The American Scholar 30.1:98, 100, 102, 104, 106, 108, 110, 112, 114, 116 (10 pages)

Topic

Hogan, Patrick Colm Irish, Bradley J. Hogan, Lalita Pandit (2022) The Routledge Companion to Literature and Emotion London: Routledge

Hohne, Karen Wussow, Helen (1994) A Dialogue of Voices: Feminist Literary Theory and Bakhtin Minneapolis: University of Minnesota Press

Holden, Stacy E. Tabol, Charity (2015) In Sickness and In Health: Representations of PTSD in Post-9/11 Romance Novels albeit 2.1:

Topic

health/medical

romance and, or as, activism

Holden, Stacy E. (2015) Love in the Desert: Images of Arab-American Reconciliation in Contemporary Sheikh Romance Novels Journal of Popular Romance Studies 5.1:

Topic

Holley, Robert P. (2015) Self-Publishing and Collection Development: Opportunities and Challenges for Libraries West Lafayette, Indiana: Purdue University Press

Hollows, Joanne (2000) Feminism, Femininity and Popular Culture Manchester: Manchester University Press

Topic

romance scholarship

Holman, Rebecca H. Solomon, Michael R. (1991) NA - Advances in Consumer Research Volume 18 Provo, Utah: Association for Consumer Research

Holmes, Diana (2010) The Comfortable Reader: Romantic Bestsellers and Critical Disdain French Cultural Studies 21.4:287-296

Topic

France

Holmes, Diana (2022) " Plaisirs d'amour: Love and popular fiction in contemporary France " Imagining "We" in the Age of "I": Romance and Social Bonding in Contemporary Culture

Topic

France

Hoorenman, Johanna (2020) " Public Conflicts and Private Treaties in Kathleen Eagle’s Fire and Rain " Love, Language, Place, and Identity in Popular Culture: Romancing the Other 97-111

Topic

Kathleen Eagle

Native American romance

Evangeline Parsons Yazzie

Hoorenman, Johanna (2022) " Remembering love: Parsons-Yazzie's historical romance novel and the (re)writing of Navajo history " The Routledge Companion to Romantic Love DOI:10.4324/9781003022343-21

Topic

Native American romance

settings

Hopkins, Lisa (2018) After Austen: Reinventions, Rewritings, Revisitings Cham, Switzerland: Palgrave Macmillan

Hopkins, Lisa (2018) " Georgette Heyer: What Austen Left Out " After Austen: Reinventions, Rewritings, Revisitings 61-79

Topic

Hopkins, Lisa (2018) " Waltzing with Wellington, Biting with Byron: Heroes in Austen Tribute Texts " Jane Austen and Masculinity 173-189

Topic

Hopkins, Lisa (2021) " All’s Well That Ends Well: Shakespearean echoes in Heyer’s Regency novels " Georgette Heyer, History, and Historical Fiction 147-161 DOI:10.2307/j.ctv15d818n.14

Topic

Shakespeare

Horgheim, Celina (2023) From Rape to Romance: Sexual Consent Negotiation in Romantic Retellings of the Myth of Persephone MA Degree Secondary Teacher Programme, University of Oslo

Topic

myth

Hotz-Davies, Ingrid Kirchhofer, Anton Leppänen, Sirpa (2009) Internet Fictions Newcastle upon Tyne: Cambridge Scholars Publishing

Houel, Annik (1990) " L’amant Harlequin " Le roman sentimental: actes du colloque des 14-15-16 mars 1989 à la Faculté des lettres de Limoges, volume 1 277-283

Topic

Houel, Annik (1992) " Les chemins de la passion " Actes du colloque "Les mauvais genres" organisé au Centre culturel canadien de Paris les 23, 24 et 25 novembre 1989 137-145

Topic

Houel, Annik (1997) Le roman d’amour et sa lectrice: une si longue passion: l’exemple Harlequin Paris: L’Harmattan

Topic

computer/video/digital games

Howlett, Peter Morgan, Mary S. (2011) How Well Do Facts Travel? The Dissemination of Reliable Knowledge Cambridge: Cambridge University Press

Hua, Shaoqi Xiao, Chengli (2023) What shapes a parasocial relationship in RVGs? The effects of avatar images, avatar identification, and romantic jealousy among potential, casual, and core players Computers in Human Behavior 139:

Topic

Huang, Yu-ting Weaver-Hightower, Rebecca (2019) Archiving Settler Colonialism: Culture, Space and Race Abingdon, Oxon: Routledge

Hubbard, Rita Cooper (1981) Relationship Styles In Popular Romance Fiction: A Fantasy Theme Analysis Of Harlequin Romances, 1950-1979 PhD, Temple University

Topic

Hubbard, Rita C. (1983) " The Changing-Unchanging Heroines and Heroes of Harlequin Romances, 1950-1979 " The Hero in Transition 171-179

Topic

Lilian Warren as Kathryn Blair/Rosalind Brett/Celine Conway

Hubbard, Rita C. (1985) Relationship Styles in Popular Romance Novels, 1950-1983 Communication Quarterly 33.2:113-125

Topic

Lilian Warren as Kathryn Blair/Rosalind Brett/Celine Conway

Hubbard, Rita C. (1992) " Magic and Transformation: Relationships in Popular Romance Novels, 1950 to the 1980s " Popular Culture: An Introductory Text 476-488

Topic

Hubert, Karen M. (1976) Teaching and Writing Popular Fiction: Horror, Adventure, Mystery and Romance in the American Classroom New York: Teachers & Writers Collaborative

Topic

Hughes, Helen Muriel (1988) Changes in Historical Romance, 1890s to the 1980s: The Development of the Genre from Stanley Weyman to Georgette Heyer and her Successors PhD, University of Bradford

Topic

Hughes, Helen (1993) The Historical Romance London and New York: Routledge

Topic

Sir Arthur Conan Doyle

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

Mira Stables

Rowena Tenet

Hughes, Bill (2013) ‘Two kinds of romance': Generic Hybridity and Epistemological Uncertainty in Contemporary Paranormal Romance :

Topic

Hughes, Bill (2014) Demon Lovers: Embracing the Monster in Paranormal Romance :1-23

Topic

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

Hughes, Bill (2021) " Genre Mutation in Young Adult Gothic: The Dialectics of Dystopia and Romance in Holly Black's The Coldest Girl in Coldtown " Young Adult Gothic Fiction: Monstrous Selves/Monstrous Others

Topic

Holly Black

Huguley, Piper (2022) Her Bodyguard: Sandra Kitt’s The Color of Love as a foundational text for BWWM romance Journal of Popular Romance Studies 11:

Topic

Sandra Kitt

police officers/police forces

Huguley, Piper (2022) " In Search of the Black Historical Hottie: The Sad Situation of the Black Hero in Historical Romance " Black Love Matters: Real Talk on Romance, Being Seen, and Happily Ever After 159-170

Topic

Huntwork, Mary M. (1990) Why Girls Flock to Sweet Valley High School Library Journal 36.3:137-140

Topic

Huq, Maimuna (1999) " From Piety to Romance: Islam-Oriented Texts in Bangladesh " New Media in the Muslim World: The Emerging Public Sphere 133-161

Topic

Bangladesh

Hurley, Frances K. (1999) In the Words of Girls: The Reading of Adolescent Romance Fiction Doctor of Education, Harvard University

Topic

Hurst, Rochelle (2009) The Barrister’s Bedmate: Harlequin Mills & Boon and the Bridget Jones Debate Australian Feminist Studies 24.62:453-468

Topic

chick lit

Helen Fielding

Hutton-Jarvis, C. A. (1998) The educational potential of romantic fiction PhD, University of Leeds

Topic

Hyejin, O (2020) 원본 없는 판타지 : 페미니스트 시각으로 읽는 한국 현대문화사 Seoul: Humanitas

Topic

Korea

Ibarrola-Armendariz, Aitor Ortiz de Urbina Arruabarrena, Jon (2016) On the move: Glancing Backwards To Build a Future in English Studies Bilbao: Universidad de Deusto

Iché, Virginie Sorlin, Sandrine (2022) The Rhetoric of Literary Communication: From Classical English Novels to Contemporary Digital Fiction New York: Routledge

Iesué, Renata (1990) Romance and Reality: Popular Writing by Nigerian Women Commonwealth Essays and Studies 13.1:28-37

Topic

Nigeria

Illouz, Eva (2014) Hard-Core Romance: Fifty Shades of Grey, Best-Sellers, and Society Chicago: University of Chicago Press

Topic

Fifty Shades

BDSM

Inge, M. Thomas Hall, Dennis (2002) The Greenwood Guide to American Popular Culture: Volume Four (Pulps and Dime Novels through Young Adult Fiction) Westport, Connecticut: Greenwood Press

Ingram, Angela Patai, Daphne (1993) Rediscovering Forgotten Radicals: British Women Writers 1889-1939 Chapel Hill: University of North Carolina Press

Innocenti, Daniela C. (2012) L'amore tradotto. Harlequin vs Harmony e l’evoluzione di un romanzo rosa intraduzione: da Plain Jane MacAllister a Il tempo ritrovato Tesi di laurea specialistica, Università di Pisa

Topic

Italy

Joan Elliott Pickart

Intan, Tania (2020) Formula Romance Dalam Perfect Romance Karya Indah Hanaco: Kajian Sastra Feminis Alayasastra 16.2:301-316

Topic

Interracial Books for Children Bulletin, (1981) Romance Series for Young Readers: A Report to Educators and Parents in Concert with the National Education Association New York: The Council on Interracial Books for Children

Topic

disability

libraries/librarians

Iqbal, Kundan (2014) The impact of romance novels on women's sexual and reproductive health Journal of Family Planning & Reproductive Health Care 40:300–302

Topic

Irons, Glenwood (1992) Gender, Language, and Myth: Essays on Popular Narrative Toronto: University of Toronto Press

Irvine, Janice M. (1994) Sexual Cultures and the Construction of Adolescent Identities Philadelphia: Temple University Press

Ivanski, Chantelle Maslej, Marta M. Mar, Raymond A. (2022) " Empirical Approaches to Studying Emotion in Literature: The Case of Gender " The Routledge Companion to Literature and Emotion DOI:10.4324/9780367809843-8

Topic

Iwai, Gaku (2015) Wartime Ideology in 'The Thimble': A Comparative Study of Popular Wartime Romance and the Anti-romance of D. H. Lawrence Études Lawrenciennes 46:

Topic

Izharuddin, Alicia (2020) " Sweet Surrender: The Ethno-Religious Spaces of Malay Romance " Paper & Text: The Trials and Trade of Malaysian Literature 33–50

Topic

Malaysia

Izharuddin, Alicia (2021) Counterpublics of care: making space for mediated intimacy and romantic self-making in Malaysia Gender, Place & Culture :

Topic

Izharuddin, Alicia (2021) Reading the Digital Muslim Romance CyberOrient 15.1:146-171

Topic

Muslim romance

Malaysia

Izharuddin, Alicia (2021) “Redha tu Ikhlas”: The Social–Textual Significance of Islamic Virtue in Malay Forced Marriage Narratives Religions 12.5 (310):

Topic

Muslim romance

Nicole M. Jackson/Katrina Jackson/Brandy Bush

Jackson, Stevi (1995) " Women and Heterosexual Love: Complicity, Resistance and Change " Romance Revisited 49-62

Topic

Jackson, Nicole M. (2022) " Finding Queer Black Women in Romance. Finding Bits and Pieces of Me. " Black Love Matters: Real Talk on Romance, Being Seen, and Happily Ever After 65-77

Topic

Rebekah Weatherspoon

Alyssa Cole

Ann Allen Shockley

Jackson, Nicole M. (2022) Freedom’s Epilogue: Love as Freedom in Alyssa Cole’s Historical Novellas Journal of Popular Romance Studies 11:

Topic

Marguerite Jervis/Oliver Sandys

happy ending

Jackson, Elaine (2005) Riding the tosh horse: women writers of popular romance between the wars PhD, University of Birmingham

Topic

E. M. Hull

Berta Ruck

Jackson, Elaine (2008) " Sievier’s Monthly (1909): Pseudonyms and Readership in Early Twentieth Century Popular Fiction " Book Trade Connections from the Seventeenth to the Twentieth Centuries 245-262

Topic

Marguerite Jervis/Oliver Sandys

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

Jackson, Cia (2017) " Harlequin Romance: The Power of Parody and Subversion " The Ascendance of Harley Quinn: Essays on DC's Enigmatic Villain 16-29

Topic

Jacquot, Clémence Goossens, Vannina Novakova, Iva (2020) " Étude contrastive des motifs spécifiques aux romans sentimentaux et aux romans Harlequin " Phraséologie et stylistique de la langue littéraire/Phraseology and Stylistics of Literary Language; Approches interdisciplinaires/Interdisciplinary Approaches 71-90 DOI:10.3726/b17628

Topic

Jagodzinski, Mallory (2010) Of Bustles and Breeches: Cross-dressing Romance Novel Heroines and the Performance of Gender Ideology Master of Arts, Bowling Green State University

Topic

Jagodzinski, Mallory (2015) Love is (Color) Blind: Historical Romance Fiction and Interracial Relationships in the Twenty-First Century PhD, Bowling Green State University

Topic

James, Edward Mendlesohn, Farah (2012) The Cambridge Companion to Fantasy Literature Cambridge: Cambridge University Press

Jan, Jariah Mohd Ujum, Diana Abu (2022) " Negotiating Conflicts amongst Muslim Female Characters in Malay Romance Novels: A Narratological Perspective " Muslim Women’s Writing from across South and Southeast Asia DOI:10.4324/9781003248064-22

Topic

Malaysia

Muslim romance

Jandl, Ingeborg Knaller, Susanne Schönfellner, Sabine Tockner, Gudrun (2017) Writing Emotions: Theoretical Concepts and Selected Case Studies in Literature Bielefeld: transcript

Janzen, Moira J. (1994) Georgette Heyer's Regency romances: serious literature or popular fiction? MA thesis, University of Auckland

Topic

Jarc, Klara (2019) Ljubezenski roman v Sloveniji: knjižnična izposoja, bralci in produkcija , Univerza v Ljubljani

Topic

Jarmakani, Amira (2010) “The Sheik Who Loved Me”: Romancing the War on Terror Signs: Journal of Women in Culture and Society 35.4:993-1017

Topic

Jarmakani, Amira (2011) Desiring the Big Bad Blade: Racing the Sheikh in Desert Romances American Quarterly 63.4:895-928

Topic

Spain

Jarmakani, Amira (2015) An Imperialist Love Story: Desert Romances and the War on Terror New York: New York University Press

Topic

Jarmakani, Amira (2020) On Eligible Princes: The medieval modernity of sheikh romance Journal of Popular Romance Studies 9:

Topic

Jarmakani, Amira (2021) " Desert Is Just Another Word for Freedom " Arab American Women: Representation and Refusal 386–408 DOI:10.2307/j.ctv16x2bqm.21

Topic

Jarmakani, Amira (2021) " Explorations of the "desert passion industry" " The Routledge Research Companion to Popular Romance Fiction 252-266 DOI:10.4324/9781315613468-11

Topic

Jarvis, Christine A. (2003) Desirable Reading: The Relationship between Women Students' Lives and their Reading Practices Adult Education Quarterly 53.4:261-276

Topic

Jarvis, Christine (1995) Romancing the Curriculum: Empowerment through Popular Culture Convergence 28.3:71-77

Topic

Jarvis, Christine (1999) Love Changes Everything: The Transformative Potential of Popular Romantic Fiction Studies in the Education of Adults 31.2:109-123

Topic

marriage

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

Jarvis, Christine (2000) " Hungry Heroines: The Exploration of a "Generative Theme" in Romantic Fiction " Consuming for Pleasure: Selected Essays on Popular Fiction 171-???

Jarvis, Christine (2006) Using Fiction for Transformation New Directions for Adult and Continuing Education 109:69-77

Topic

Jenkins, Beverly (2022) " A Short History of African American Romance " Black Love Matters: Real Talk on Romance, Being Seen, and Happily Ever After 1-15

Topic

Frances Watkins Harper

Beverly Jenkins

Jennings, Kathleen (2021) " Heyer … in space! The influence of Georgette Heyer on science fiction " Georgette Heyer, History, and Historical Fiction 119-143 DOI:10.2307/j.ctv15d818n.13

Topic

Jensen, Margaret Ann (1980) Women and Romantic Fiction: A Case Study of Harlequin Enterprises, Romances, and Readers PhD, McMaster University

Topic

Jensen, Margaret Ann (1984) Love's $weet Return: The Harlequin Story Toronto: The Women's Educational Press

Joannou, Maroula (2012) Women's Writing, Englishness and National and Cultural Identity: The Mobile Woman and the Migrant Voice, 1938-1962 Houndmills, Basingstoke: Palgrave Macmillan

Topic

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

Daphne du Maurier

Jocks, Yvonne Annette (1988) Adventure and Virtue: Alternating Emphasis in the Popular Romance Tradition Master of Arts, University of Texas at Arlington

Topic

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

Johnson, Valerie B. (2018) " What a Canon Wants: Robin Hood, Romance Novels, and Carrie Lofty’s What a Scoundrel Wants " Robin Hood and the Outlaw/ed Literary Canon 184-204

Topic

Carrie Lofty

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

pirates and outlaws

Johnson, Naomi Ruth (2007) Consuming Desires: A Feminist Analysis of Bestselling Teen Romance Novels PhD, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill

Topic

Johnson, Naomi R. (2010) Consuming Desires: Consumption, Romance, and Sexuality in Best-Selling Teen Romance Novels Women's Studies in Communication 33.1:54-73

Topic

Johnson, Heather (2017) Yorkshire English in Georgette Heyer's The Unknown Ajax Schwa: Language and Linguistics 14:57-70

Topic

languages

Johnson, Emily D. (2020) Exploring His/Her Library: Reading and Books in Russian Romance Journal of Popular Romance Studies 9:

Topic

Russia

metafiction

authors

Galina Kulikova

Natal’ia Mironova

socialism and/or communism

Johnson, Brian (2022) " Weird Bedfellows: H. P. Lovecraft, m/m Romance, and the New Queer Families of Jordan L. Hawk's Whyborne & Griffin Series " Lovecraft in the 21st Century: Dead, But Still Dreaming DOI:10.4324/9780367713065-20

Topic

Jordan L. Hawk

m/m romance

Fabio Lanzoni, also known as Fabio

Johnson-Kurek, Rosemary E. (1999) " "I Am Not a Bimbo": Persona, Promotion, and the Fabulous Fabio " Romantic Conventions 35-50

Topic

Johnson-Kurek, Rosemary E. (1999) " Leading Us into Temptation: The Language of Sex and the Power of Love " Romantic Conventions 113-148

Topic

Johnson-Woods, Toni (2004) Pulp: A Collector's Book of Australian Pulp Fiction Covers Canberra: National Library of Australia

Topic

Johnson-Woods, Toni (2010) 'Adventures of a Squatter': A Colonial Male Romance Southerly 70.2:130-141

Topic

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

m/m romance

Australia

Johnson-Woods, Toni Sarwal, Amit (2012) Sold by the Millions: Australia's Bestsellers Newcastle upon Tyne: Cambridge Scholars Publishing

Jones, Ann Rosalind (1986) " Mills & Boon meets feminism " The Progress of Romance: The Politics of Popular Fiction 195-218

Topic

Victoria Holt/Jean Plaidy/Eleanor Burford Hibbert

Jones, Amanda (2019) Madness, Monks and Mutiny: Neo-Victorianism in the Work of Victoria Holt Neo-Victorian Studies 12.1:1-27

Topic

Mary Elizabeth Braddon

India

Jossart, Deborah A. (2004) Transforming the fairytale: a diachronic study of utopias of popular romance MA thesis, University of North Dakota

Topic

fairytales/folktales

Joyal, Amanda (2012) From Victorian literature to the romance novel: Disability and the courtship plot MA thesis, University of Wyoming

Topic

disability

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

Juhasz, Suzanne (1988) Texts to Grow On: Reading Women’s Romance Fiction Tulsa Studies in Women’s Literature 7.2:239-259

Topic

Juhasz, Suzanne (1994) Reading from the Heart: Women, Literature, and the Search for True Love New York: Viking

Topic

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

Juhasz, Suzanne (1998) Lesbian Romance Fiction and the Plotting of Desire: Narrative Theory, Lesbian Identity, and Reading Practice Tulsa Studies In Women's Literature 17.1:65-82

Topic

lesbian romance

Jumelais, Yann (1990) " De Delly à Dailey : les obstacles dans le roman sentimental " Le roman sentimental: actes du colloque des 14-15-16 mars 1989 à la Faculté des lettres de Limoges, volume 1 225-238

Topic

Delly

Janet Dailey

Jurilla, Patricia May Bantug (2006) Tagalog bestsellers and the history of the book in the Philippines PhD thesis, School of Oriental and African Studies

Topic

Philippines

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

Jurilla, Patricia May Bantug (2008) Tagalog Bestsellers of the Twentieth Century: A History of the Book in the Philippines Quezon City: Ateneo de Manila University Press

Topic

Philippines

Jussawalla, Feroza Omran, Doaa (2022) Muslim Women’s Writing from across South and Southeast Asia New York: Routledge

K., Nikohl Lennard, John (2011) A Reader's Companion to A Civil Campaign by Lois McMaster Bujold, Compiled and Presented to Her by Members of the Official LMB Mailing-List to Celebrate the Silver Anniversary of Shards of Honor 1986–2011 Hassadar: Dendarii Free Mercenary Press

Topic

Lois McMaster Bujold

science fiction/futuristic romance

Kahn, Laurie (2015) Love Between the Covers : Blueberry Hill Productions

Topic

Kaler, Anne K. (1999) " Conventions of Captivity in Romance Novels " Romantic Conventions 86-99

Topic

settings

E. M. Hull

Kaler, Anne K. (1999) " Hero, Heroine, or HERA: A New Name for an Old Problem " Romantic Conventions 187-192

Topic

Kaler, Anne K. (1999) " Introduction: Conventions of the Romance Genre " Romantic Conventions 1-9

Topic

Kaler, Anne K. Johnson-Kurek, Rosemary E. (1999) Romantic Conventions Bowling Green, Ohio: Bowling Green State University Popular Press

Kaler, Anne K. (2000) Dysfunctional Detectives and Romantic P.I.s: Impediments to the Happy Marriage of Mystery and Romance Clues: A Journal of Detection 21.1:61-72

Topic

Kamble, Jayashree (2007) " Female Enfranchisement and the Popular Romance: Employing an Indian Perspective " Empowerment versus Oppression: Twenty-First Century Views of Popular Romance Novels 148-173

Topic

Nora Roberts/J. D. Robb

Kamble, Jayashree (2008) Uncovering and Recovering the Popular Romance Novel PhD, University of Minnesota

Topic

Kamble, Jayashree (2012) " Patriotism, Passion, and PTSD: The Critique of War in Popular Romance Fiction " New Approaches to Popular Romance Fiction: Critical Essays 153-163

Topic

Kamblé, Jayashree (2014) Making Meaning in Popular Romance Fiction: An Epistemology New York: Palgrave Macmillan

Kamblé, Jayashree (2016) " Branding a Genre: A Brief Transatlantic History of Romance Novel Cover Art " Romance Fiction and American Culture: Love as the Practice of Freedom? 241-272

Topic

science fiction/futuristic romance

Kamble, Jayashree (2017) From Barbarized to Disneyfied: Viewing 1990s New York City Through Eve Dallas, J.D. Robb’s Futuristic Homicide Detective Forum for Interamerican Research 10.1:72-86

Topic

Nora Roberts/J. D. Robb

Kamblé, Jayashree (2020) When Wuxia Met Romance: The Pleasures and Politics of Transculturalism in Sherry Thomas’s My Beautiful Enemy Journal of Popular Romance Studies 9:

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Kamblé, Jayashree Selinger, Eric Murphy Teo, Hsu-Ming (2021) " Introduction " The Routledge Research Companion to Popular Romance Fiction 1-23 DOI:10.4324/9781315613468-25

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romance scholarship

Kamblé, Jayashree (2021) " Romance in the media " The Routledge Research Companion to Popular Romance Fiction 269-293 DOI:10.4324/9781315613468-12

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Kamblé, Jayashree (2023) The origins of U.S. mass-market category romance novels: Black editors and writers in the early 1980s The Journal of American Culture FORTHCOMING:FORTHCOMING

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Vivian Stephens

Rosalind Welles - pen name of Elsie B. Washington

Lia Sanders - pen name of Angela Jackson and Sandra Jackson-Opoku

Kamitsuka, Margaret D. (2020) Prolife Christian Romance Novels: A Sign that the Abortion-as-Murder Center Is Not Holding? Christianity & Literature 69.1:36-52

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Christian romance

health/medical

Francine Rivers

family

Kanerick, Caroline (2010) ‘A Jazzed and Patchwork Modern’: ‘future’ girls and modern masculinities in the early popular romances of Berta Ruck Women's History Review 19.5:685-702

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Berta Ruck

Kania, Richard R. E. (2014) Pirates and Piracy in American Popular Culture Romanian Journal of English Studies 11.1:183–194

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pirates and outlaws

Daphne du Maurier

Kapell, Matthew Becker, Suzanne (2005) Patriarchy, the Christian Romance Novel, and the 'Ecosystem of Sex' Popular Culture Review 16.1:147-155

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Christian romance

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

Kapila, Shuchi (2010) Educating Seeta: The Anglo-Indian Family Romance and the Poetics of Indirect Rule Columbus: Ohio State University Press

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India

Kaplan, Deborah (2012) " "Why would any woman want to read such stories?": The Distinctions Between Genre Romances and Slash Fictions " New Approaches to Popular Romance Fiction: Critical Essays 121-132

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fanfiction

Suzanne Brockmann

ecocriticism/environmentalism/climate change

Kapstein, Helen (2021) " Petrofeminism: Love in the Age of Oil " Oil Fictions: World Literature and Our Contemporary Petrosphere 59-79 DOI:10.5325/jj.5233138.9

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Balaraba Ramat Yakubu

Karaminas, Vicki Geczy, Adam Gibson, Pamela Church (2022) Fashionable Masculinities: Queers, Pimp Daddies, and Lumbersexuals New Brunswick, New Jersey: Rutgers, the State University of New Jersey

Kaufman, Alexander L. Vlagopoulos, Penny (2019) Food and Feast in Modern Outlaw Tales New York: Routledge

Kaveney, Roz (2012) " Dark fantasy and paranormal romance " The Cambridge Companion to Fantasy Literature 214-223 DOI:https://doi.org/10.1017/CCOL9780521429597.020

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Charlaine Harris

Laurell K. Hamilton

Twilight

Kaye, Marilyn Janice (1983) The nature of didacticism as related to romance and sexuality in young adult novels 1965-1978 PhD, University of Chicago

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fascism/right-wing authoritarianism

Kebadze, Nino (2007) Fictions of Surrender: Romance and Exemplarity in Post-War Spanish Women's Narratives PhD, University of Kentucky

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Luisa-María Linares

Concha Linares-Becerra

Carmen de Icaza

Spain

Kebadze, Nino (2009) Romance and Exemplarity in Post-War Spanish Women's Narratives Woodbridge, Suffolk: Tamesis

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Luisa-María Linares

Concha Linares-Becerra

Carmen de Icaza

María Mercedes Ortoll

fascism/right-wing authoritarianism

Spain

Keegan, Faye Jessica (2016) Soft metafiction(s) : Mary Stewart and the self-reflective middlebrow PhD, University of Newcastle, UK

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Mary Stewart

Keegan, Faye (2017) ‘Snob Value’: Gender and Literary Value in Mary Stewart Women: A Cultural Review 28.3:240-261

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Mary Stewart

authors

Keen, Suzanne (2018) Probable Impossibilities: Historical Romance Readers Talk Back Style: A Quarterly Journal of Aesthetics, Poetics, Stylistics, and Literary Criticism 52.1-2:127-132

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Diana Gabaldon

Kelly, Patricia P. (1991) Transitional Novels for Readers of Teen Romances ALAN Review 19.1:19-21

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Kelly, Brendan D. (2007) Medical Romance The Lancet 370.9597:1482

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medical romance

Kelly, Brendan D. (2016) Medical romance: love never dies The Lancet 388.10063:2989

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medical romance

Kelman, Suanne (1995) Heroine addiction Chatelaine 68.9:59-63

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Jennifer Crusie

Margaret Moore

Susanna Kearsley

Kelso, Sylvia (1996) Singularities: the interaction of feminism(s) and two strands of popular American fiction, 1968-89 PhD, James Cook University of North Queensland

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

Phyllis A. Whitney

Kelso, Sylvia (1997) Stitching Time: Feminism(s) and Thirty Years of Gothic Romance Para.doxa: Studies in World Literary Genres 3.1-2:164-179

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

family

Kemppinen, Anne-Mari Katriina (1988) Translating for popular literature with special reference to Harlequin books and their Finnish translations , University of Joensuu

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Finland

Kemppinen, Anne (1989) " Translation for Popular Literature with Special Reference to Harlequin Books and their Finnish Translation " Empirical Studies in Translation and Linguistics 25-36

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Finland

Kendal, Evie (2019) The use of free indirect discourse in J. R. Ward's Black Dagger Brotherhood series Colloquy: Text, Theory, Critique 38:20-43

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

Kendra, April (2007) Silver Forks, Stereotypes, and Regency Romance Studies in the Humanities (Indiana) 34.2:142-163

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Kerr, Ashley Elizabeth (2019) Indigenous Lovers and Villainous Scientists: Rewriting Nineteenth-Century Ideas of Race in Argentine Romance Novels Chasqui 48.1:293-310

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Khuankaew, Sasinee (2015) Femininity and masculinity in three selected twentieth-century Thai romance fictions PhD, Cardiff University

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Khuankaew, Sasinee (2017) Femininity and Masculinity in Twenty-First Century Thai Romantic Fictions The Asian Conference on Literature 2017: Official Conference Proceedings :

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Khumwongdee, Yanisa (2021) Reading and Rewriting Fat Romance: A Study of Twenty-First Century Thai and US Fat Romance Novels PhD thesis, University of York

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fat, fatness

Killeen, Jarlath (2018) " Nora Roberts: the Power of Love " Twenty-First-Century Popular Fiction 53-65

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Nora Roberts/J. D. Robb

love

Killing, Peter (1978) Harlequin Enterprises Limited: Case Material of the Western School of Business Administration London, Ontario: University of Western Ontario

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Kinard, Amanda Marette (1999) Forbidden Pleasures: The Romance and Its Readers PhD, Vanderbilt University

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King, Laura (2015) " The Perfect Man: Fatherhood, Masculinity and Romance in Popular Culture in Mid-Twentieth-Century Britain " Love and Romance in Britain, 1918-1970 41–60 DOI:10.1057/9781137328632_3

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Kingston, Elizabeth (2018) History's Been Hijacked: How To Combat White Supremacy Through Popular Literature Researching the Romance, conference held at Bowling Green State University, on 13 April :

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Kinsale, Laura (1992) " The Androgynous Reader: Point of View in the Romance " Dangerous Men and Adventurous Women: Romance Writers on the Appeal of the Romance 31-44

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Kirkham, Pat Thoms, David (1995) War Culture: Social Change and Changing Experience in World War Two Britain London: Lawrence and Wishart

Kirkland, Catherine Elisabeth (1984) For The Love Of It: Women Writers And The Popular Romance PhD, University of Pennsylvania

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Kirtley, William M. Kirtley, Patricia M. (2021) Happily, Ever After: An Analysis of Romance Novels :

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Kirtley, William M. Kirtley, Patricia M. (2021) How About a Little Romance?: An Analysis of Romance Novels National Social Science Proceedings 75.1:76-95

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Kitchen, Veronica (2018) Veterans and Military Masculinity in Popular Romance Fiction Critical Military Studies 4.1:34-51

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disability

Kiyawa, Haruna Alkasim (2021) Female Readers as Literary Critics: Reading Experiences of Kano Market Romance Fiction International Journal of English and Comparative Literary Studies 2.1:34-45

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Nigeria

Klaber, Lara (2014) Taming the Perfect Beast: the Monster as Romantic Hero in Contemporary Fiction Master of Arts, Cleveland State University

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Twilight

Klarich, Morgan L. (2012) Multiculturalism, Sex, and Powerful Women: The New Romance Novel as the Voice of Neofeminism? MA thesis, Dartmouth College

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Kloester, Jennifer V. (2004) Georgette Heyer: writing the Regency. History in fiction from Regency Buck to Lady of Quality 1935-1972 PhD, University of Melbourne

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Kloester, Jennifer V. (2004) " Images of England: Georgette Heyer's Regency World in the Dominions " Exploring the British World: Identity, Cultural Production, Institutions 598-608

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Kloester, Jennifer (2006) Georgette Heyer and the Great Jane Sensibilities 32:101-117

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Jane Austen

Kloester, Jennifer (2011) Georgette Heyer: Biography of a Bestseller London: William Heinemann

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Kohlman, Marla H. Krieg, Dana B. (2017) Discourses on Gender and Sexual Inequality: The Legacy of Sandra L. Bem Bingley: Emerald Publishing

Kohlman, Marla H. Simpson, Samantha N. (2017) " For the Sake of Hearth and Home: Gender Schematicity in the Romance Novel " Discourses on Gender and Sexual Inequality: The Legacy of Sandra L. Bem 115-128 DOI:10.1108/S1529-212620170000023006

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Kokkola, Lydia (2011) Virtuous Vampires and Voluptuous Vamps: Romance Conventions Reconsidered in Stephenie Meyer’s ‘‘Twilight’’ Series Children's Literature in Education 42.2:165-179

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Twilight

Kolko, Beth E. (1994) Writing the Romance: Cultural Studies, Community, and the Teaching of Writing PhD, University of Texas at Austin

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Kollman, Kathleen W. Taylor (2018) Contemporary Paranormal Romance: Theories and Development of the Genre’s Feminism (Or Lack Thereof) Researching the Romance, conference held at Bowling Green State University, on 14 April :

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Kolmes, Sara Hoffman, Matthew A. (2021) Harlequin Resistance? Romance Novels as a Model for Resisting Objectification The Journal of Aesthetics and Art Criticism 79.1:30–41

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Konle, Leonard Jannidis, Fotis (2022) Modeling Plots of Narrative Texts as Temporal Graphs CHR 2022: Computational Humanities Research Conference, December 12 – 14, 2022, Antwerp, Belgium :318-336

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Koolen, Corina van Dalen-Oskam, Karina van Cranenburgh, Andreas Nagelhout, Erica (2020) Literary quality in the eye of the Dutch reader: The National Reader Survey Poetics ONLINE FIRST:ONLINE FIRST

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Netherlands

Koski, Patricia Holyfield, Lori Thompson, Marcella (1997) Romance Novels as Women's Myths Para.doxa: Studies in World Literary Genres 3.1-2:219-232

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myth

emotions

Koster, Cees (1997) Stuiverromans - vertaald? Filter. Tijdschrift over vertalen 4.1:33-37

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Netherlands

Kołodziej, Gaja (2021) Unforgettably in love: uses of the amnesia trope in contemporary romance Doctor of Philosophy in Creative Writing, Massey University

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Kraaykamp, Gerbert Kalmijn, Matthijs (1995) Een stille liefde. Over de lezeressen van romantische lectuur Mens en maatschappij 70.2:120-137

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Netherlands

Kramer, Kyra (2011) Raising Veils and other Bold Acts: The Heroine's Agency in Female Gothic Novels Studies in Gothic Fiction 1.2:23-36

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Victoria Holt/Jean Plaidy/Eleanor Burford Hibbert

Elizabeth Lowell

Kramer, Kyra (2012) Getting Laid, Getting Old, and Getting Fed: The Cultural Resistance of Jennifer Crusie’s Romance Heroines Journal of Popular Romance Studies 2.2:

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Kramer, Devon J. (2010) Truth through the medium of cheerfulness: Romance novels as points of resistance Master of Arts, Kutztown University of Pennsylvania

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

Kramer, Daniela Moore, Michael (2001) Family Myths in Romantic Fiction Psychological Reports 88.1:29-41

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virginity

Kramer, Daniela Moore, Michael (2001) Gender Roles, Romantic Fiction and Family Therapy Psycoloquy 12.24:

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marriage

family

Kramp, Michael (2018) Jane Austen and Masculinity Lewisburg/Lanham, Maryland: Bucknell University Press/Rowman & Littlefield

Kratzer, Jessica M. W. (2020) Communication in Kink: Understanding the Influence of the Fifty Shades of Grey Phenomenon Lanham, Maryland: Lexington

Kraxenberger, Maria (2019) " Erotic Romances: An Emerging Subgenre Succeeding Fifty Shades " Genre Emergence: Developments in Print, TV and Digital Media 13-28

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erotic romance

Fifty Shades

Kraxenberger, Maria Knoop, Christine A. Menninghaus, Winfried (2021) Who reads contemporary erotic novels and why? Humanities and Social Sciences Communications 8:

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Kray, Susan (1987) Deconstructive Laughter: Romance Author as Subject, The Pleasure of Writing the Text Journal of Communication Inquiry 11.2:26-46

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authors

Jayne Ann Krentz/Amanda Quick/Jayne Castle

emotions

Krentz, Jayne Ann (1992) Dangerous Men and Adventurous Women: Romance Writers on the Appeal of the Romance Philadelphia: University of Pennsylvania Press

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Laura Kinsale

Susan Elizabeth Phillips

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

Daphne Clair

Jayne Ann Krentz/Amanda Quick/Jayne Castle

Suzanne Simmons Guntrum

Diana Palmer

Kathleen Gilles Seidel

Krentz, Jayne Ann (1997) All the Right Reasons: Romance Fiction in the Public Library Public Libraries 36, May/June:162–166

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libraries/librarians

Kress, Gunther (1988) " Textual Matters: The Social Effectiveness of Style " Functions of Style 126-141

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Kroeg, Susan M. (2012) 'Truly Our Contemporary Jane Austen': Thinking Like an Austen Fan about Regency Romances Kentucky Philological Review 27:50-58

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

Krueger, Kate (2017) The Woman at Home in the World: Annie Swan's Lady Doctor and the Problem of the Fin de Siècle Working Woman Victorian Periodicals Review 50.3:517-533

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Annie S. Swan

Kuchta, Estella Carolye (2021) " Imagining Love: Teen Romance Novels and American Teen Relational Capacity " International Handbook of Love: Transcultural and Transdisciplinary Perspectives 827-842 DOI:10.1007/978-3-030-45996-3_44

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Küçük, Özlem (2023) Impossible Love in the Hiccup and the Lily of the Valley Novels and the Social Role of the Women Cumhuriyet Üniversitesi Fen-Edebiyat Fakültesi Sosyal Bilimler Dergisi 47.1:109-120

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Kerime Nadir

Turkey

Kundin, Susan G. (1985) Romance versus Reality: A Look at YA Romantic Fiction Top of the News 41.4:361-368

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Jayne Ann Krentz/Amanda Quick/Jayne Castle

Künne, Regina (2015) Eternally Yours - Challenge and Response: Contemporary US American Romance Novels by Jayne Ann Krentz and Barbara Delinsky Zürich: Lit Verlag

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Barbara Delinsky

Kuortti, Joel Ilmonen, Kaisa Valovirta, Elina Korkka, Janne (2019) Thinking with the Familiar in Contemporary Literature and Culture 'Out of the Ordinary' Leiden: Brill Rodopi

Kustritz, Anne (2003) Slashing the Romance Narrative The Journal of American Culture 26.3:371-384

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Kutzer, M. Daphne (1986) "I Won't Grow up"—Yet: Teen Formula Romance Children's Literature Association Quarterly 11.2:90-95

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Kuznets, Lois Zarin, Eve (1982) Sweet Dreams for Sleeping Beauties: Pre-Teen Romances Children's Literature Association Quarterly 7.1:28-32

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settings

La Mothe, Jacques (1992) Actes du colloque "Les mauvais genres" organisé au Centre culturel canadien de Paris les 23, 24 et 25 novembre 1989 Liège: Éditions du C.L.P.C.F.

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