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Lam, Adam McNaughton, Howard D. (2006) The Reinvention of Everyday Life: Culture in the twenty-first century Christchurch, New Zealand: Canterbury University Press
Lambert, Jérémy (2016) Le roman sentimental gay francophone Revue critique de fixxion française contemporaine 12:18-26 Topic LGBT+ characters, readers and/or authors Anne Singe et Marine Ange
Lambert Barr, DeAnn M. (1996) Romance-novel genre Master of Arts, California State University, Dominguez Hills Topic readers Danielle Steel Kathleen Eagle Julie Garwood
Lamprinou, Artemis (2011) Translated Romances: the Effect of Cultural Textual Norms on the Communication of Emotions Journal of Popular Romance Studies 2.1: Topic translation emotions Greece
Lamprinou, Artemis (2012) A Study on the Cultural Variations in the Verbalisation of Near-Universal Emotions: Translating Emotions from British English into Greek in Popular Bestseller Romances PhD, University of Surrey Topic translation Greece
Lamy, Odile (1997) La représentation du couple à travers les pages couvertures des romans Harlequin Cahiers de la recherche en éducation 4.2:269–297 Topic paratext Harlequin Mills & Boon fashion/clothing settings metaphor/symbolism sex/sexuality emotions
Lancashire, Anne (2020) Venetia: Georgette Heyer’s Pastoral Romance Journal of Popular Romance Studies 9: Topic Georgette Heyer rural romance Shakespeare settings
Lancaster, Rosemary (2020) " Fact and Fiction: Alice Williamson’s Monte Carlo " Women Writing on the French Riviera: Travellers and Trendsetters, 1870-1970 83–112 DOI:10.1163/9789004433922_005 Topic Alice Williamson/A. M. Williamson/Mrs. C. N. Williamson Older and/or precursor texts (may not be "romance" as now defined)
Lancaster, Rosemary (2020) Women Writing on the French Riviera: Travellers and Trendsetters, 1870-1970 Leiden: Brill Rodopi
Lang, Miriam (2003) " Taiwanese Romance: San Mao and Qiong Yao " The Columbia Companion to Modern East Asian Literature 515-519 Topic Taiwan Qiongyao/Qiong Yao
Langeveld, Cornelis H. (Kees) (2011) Medische missers in doktersromans Nederlands Tijdschrift voor Geneeskunde 155:A4372:1-5 Topic medical romance health/medical
Laquintano, Timothy (2013) The Legacy of the Vanity Press and Digital Transitions The Journal of Electronic Publishing 16.1: Topic Publishing Harlequin Mills & Boon
Larcombe, Wendy (2005) Compelling Engagements: Feminism, Rape Law and Romance Fiction Sydney: The Federation Press Topic rape and/or intimate partner violence/abuse feminism gender
Larkin, Brian (1997) Indian Films and Nigerian Lovers: Media and the Creation of Parallel Modernities Africa 67.3:406-440 Topic Nigeria film/movies Ado Ahmad Maryam Sahabi Liman
Larrier, Renée (2007) " "Quand la lecture devient passion": Romance Novels and Literacy in Abidjan " African Literatures at the Millennium 315-324 Topic Ivory Coast Africa
Larson, Christine (2017) An Economy of Words: Precarity, Solidarity and Innovation in Digital Book Publishing PhD, Stanford University Topic Publishing authors work
Larson, Christine (2019) Open networks, open books: gender, precarity and solidarity in digital publishing Information, Communication & Society : Topic authors Publishing
Larson, Christine (2019) " The Color of Romance: Gatekeeping in the Age of Digital Media " Voices: Exploring the Shifting Contours of Communication 99-??? DOI:10.3726/b14771 Topic Publishing race/ethnicity
Larson, Christine Ready, Elspeth (2022) Networking down: Networks, innovation, and relational labor in digital book publishing New Media & Society ONLINE FIRST:ONLINE FIRST Topic authors Publishing
Larson, Christine (2022) Streaming books: confluencers, Kindle Unlimited and the platform imaginary Communication, Culture and Critique ONLINE FIRST:ONLINE FIRST Topic Publishing authors
Larsson, Lisbeth (1989) En annan historia: om kvinnors läsning och svensk veckopress , Lund University Topic Sweden romances in magazines and newspapers
Lawrence, Kelsey (2020) No Happy Ending: Leadership Falls Apart at the Romance Writers of America SAGE Business Cases : Topic capitalism/business authors race/ethnicity
Lawrence, E. E. (2020) On the problem of oppressive tastes in the public library Journal of Documentation ONLINE FIRST:ONLINE FIRST Topic libraries/librarians race/ethnicity philosophy
Lawrence, E. E. (2020) The trouble with diverse books, part I: on the limits of conceptual analysis for political negotiation in Library & Information Science Journal of Documentation ONLINE FIRST:ONLINE FIRST Topic libraries/librarians Publishing race/ethnicity sheikh romance philosophy LGBT+ characters, readers and/or authors
Lawrey, Jeffrey A. McLuckie, Alyx Mulberry, Benjamin J. Mullins, Erin K. Shuler, Autumn R. Kratzer, Jessica M. W. (2018) " Communication, Kink, and Sexual Education: What Young Women Learned from Fifty Shades of Grey " Communication in Kink: Understanding the Influence of the Fifty Shades of Grey Phenomenon 77-96 Topic Fifty Shades readers sex/sexuality erotic romance BDSM
Lazere, Donald (1987) American Media and Mass Culture: Left Perspectives Berkeley: University of California Press
Lazzarato, Francesca Moretti, Valeria (1981) La fiaba rosa: itinerari di lettura attraverso i romanzi per signorine Roma: Bulzoni Topic fairytales/folktales Delly Liala, pen name of Amalia Liana Cambiasi Negretti Odescalchi
Leavenworth, Maria Lindgren (2009) Lover Revamped: Sexualities and Romance in the Black Dagger Brotherhood and Slash Fan Fiction Extrapolation: A Journal of Science Fiction and Fantasy 50.3:442-462 Topic fanfiction J. R. Ward paranormal/fantasy/time-travel romance gender
Lecercle, Jean-Jacques (2022) " Interpellation and Counter-Interpellation in the Novel " The Rhetoric of Literary Communication: From Classical English Novels to Contemporary Digital Fiction DOI:10.4324/9781003094050-7 Topic readers Violet Winspear Jane Austen trash/literary and or intellectual quality
Ledford-Miller, Linda (2011) Gender and Genre Bending: The Futuristic Detective Fiction of J.D. Robb Reconstruction: Studies in Contemporary Culture 11.3: Topic Nora Roberts/J. D. Robb romantic suspense science fiction/futuristic romance genre definitions
Lee, Zi-Ying Liao, Min-Hsiu (2018) The “Second” Bride: The Retranslation of Romance Novels Babel 64.2:186-204 Topic translation Publishing Taiwan
Lee, Linda J. (2008) Guilty Pleasures: Reading Romance Novels as Reworked Fairy Tales Marvels & Tales 22.1:52-66 Topic fairytales/folktales paranormal/fantasy/time-travel romance Christine Feehan sex/sexuality
Lee, Amy (2007) " Forming a Local Identity: Romance Novels in Hong Kong " Empowerment versus Oppression: Twenty-First Century Views of Popular Romance Novels 174-197 Topic Hong Kong
Leedy, Helen (1985) The Portrayal of Women in Romance Novels Michigan Sociological Review 1:61-71 Topic Rosemary Rogers Kathleen Woodiwiss
Leenstra, Lisa (2023) Covers of Lovers: A Multimodal Comparison of the Front Covers of Romance Novels in 2011 and 2021 Masters thesis, Universiteit Utrecht Topic paratext
Leetsch, Jennifer (2021) Love and Space in Contemporary African Diasporic Women’s Writing: Making Love, Making Worlds Cham: Palgrave Macmillan Topic Chimamanda Adichie Africa Nigeria
Legallois, Dominique Charnois, Thierry Poibeau, Thierry (2016) Repérer les clichés dans les romans sentimentaux grâce à la méthode des ‘motifs’ Lidil. Revue de linguistique et de didactique des langues 53:95–117 Topic trash/literary and or intellectual quality Harlequin Mills & Boon linguistics
Leith, Murray Stewart Sim, Duncan (2014) The Modern Scottish Diaspora: Contemporary Debates and Perspectives Edinburgh: Edinburgh University Press
Lemay, Catherine (2016) La traduction dela scène de sexe dans le roman sentimental érotique: Analyse descriptive et comparative Mémoire de maîtrise, l’Université Laval Topic translation sex/sexuality erotic romance Sylvia Day
Lencevičienė, Lina (2011) Selected Problems of Translation of the Romance Genre: Analysis of Barbara Cartland's Romance Novel Bewitched Translation into Lithuanian Masters, Vytauto Didžiojo universitetas Topic Barbara Cartland translation paratext linguistics
Lennard, John (2007) Of Modern Dragons and other essays on Genre Fiction Tirril, Penrith: Humanities-Ebooks Topic Nora Roberts/J. D. Robb romantic suspense paranormal/fantasy/time-travel romance genre definitions gender sex/sexuality rape and/or intimate partner violence/abuse science fiction/futuristic romance
Lennard, John (2010) Of Sex and Faerie: Further essays on Genre Fiction Tirril, Penrith: Humanities-Ebooks Topic sex/sexuality paranormal/fantasy/time-travel romance rape and/or intimate partner violence/abuse
Leonzini, Alexandra (2018) " “All the Better to Eat You With”: The Eroticization of the Werewolf and the Rise of Monster Porn in the Digital Age " Exploring the Fantastic: Genre, Ideology, and Popular Culture 269-294 Topic paranormal/fantasy/time-travel romance sex/sexuality pornography
Lepschy, Anna Laura (2000) " The Popular Novel, 1850-1920 " A History of Women’s Writing in Italy 177-189 Topic Liala, pen name of Amalia Liana Cambiasi Negretti Odescalchi
Lessard, Victoria (2017) Marketing Desire: The "Normative/Other" Male Body and the "Pure" White Female Body on the Cover Art of Cassie Edwards' Savage Dream (1990), Savage Persuasion (1991), and Savage Mists (1992) MA thesis, McGill University Topic Cassie Edwards Native American romance paratext race/ethnicity historical romance
Letourneux, Matthieu (2011) " « La petite pâquerette était morte ». Sérialités éditoriales et réception de l’œuvre de Delly " L’Œuvre de Delly 163-186 Topic Delly
Levi, Antonia McHarry, Mark Pagliassotti, Dru (2010) Boys’ Love Manga: Essays on the Sexual Ambiguity and Cross-Cultural Fandom of the Genre Jefferson, North Carolina: McFarland & Company
Levi, Anna (2013) Delly: la Cenerentola di Versailles : vita di Jeanne Marie Henriette Petitjean de la Rosière Pontedera: Bibliografia e informazione Topic Delly
Levina, Mariia (2003) Readers of Mass Literature, 1994-200: From Paternalism to Individualism? Russian Studies in Literature 40.1:79-95 Topic Russia Publishing readers
Levy, Bronwen (1987) Up From Under, or On Not Marrying the Racist Aussie Boss: Strategies for Reading Romantic Fiction Hecate 13.1:7-20 Topic feminism social/economic class romance scholarship Australia race/ethnicity Harlequin Mills & Boon Margaret Way
Liang, William Tham Wai (2020) Paper & Text: The Trials and Trade of Malaysian Literature Petaling Jaya, Malaysia: Gerakbudaya Enterprise
Liffen, Jane (2008) "A very Glamorized Picture, that": Images of Scottish Female Herring Workers on Romance Novel Covers Social Semiotics 18.3:349-361 Topic paratext psychology work
Light, Alison (1984) Returning to Manderley – Romance Fiction, Female Sexuality and Class Feminist Review 16:7-25 Topic Daphne du Maurier readers psychology social/economic class sex/sexuality UK
Light, Alison (1994) " Preface (to the third edition) " Twentieth-Century Romance and Historical Writers (3rd edition) xi-xvi Topic history genre definitions gender trash/literary and or intellectual quality
Lin, Pei-yin Kim, Su Yun (2019) East Asian Transwar Popular Culture: Literature and Film from Taiwan and Korea Singapore: Palgrave Macmillan Topic Taiwan Korea Older and/or precursor texts (may not be "romance" as now defined)
Lin, Fang-mei (1992) Social Change and Romantic Ideology: The Impact of the Publishing Industry, Family Organization, and Gender Roles on the Reception and Interpretation of Romance Fiction in Taiwan, 1960-1990 PhD, University of Pennsylvania Topic love family Publishing Taiwan
Lin, Fang-mei (2016) 性別化東方主義 : 女性沙漠羅曼史的重層東方想像 = Gendering orientalism: women's desert romance and the multiplicity of oriental imagination Journal of Modern Literature in Chinese 13.1-2:174-200 Topic sheikh romance translation Taiwan
Lin, Chi-Shiou Liang, Yu-Tzu (2020) A model of romance fiction search behavior iConference 2020 Proceedings : Topic readers
Lind, Rebecca Ann (2004) Race/Gender/Media: Considering Diversity Across Audiences, Content, and Producers Boston: Pearson
Lindfors, Bernth (1993) " Romances for the Office Worker: Aubrey Kalitera and Malawi's White-Collar Reading Public " Major Minorities: English Literatures in Transit 77-88 Topic Malawi Africa Publishing metafiction
Lindqvist, Yvonne (2002) Översättning som social praktik: Toni Morrison och Harlequinserien Passion på svenska Doctoral Thesis, Topic Harlequin Mills & Boon linguistics translation
Lindström Kruse, Miranda (2022) Pinsamma läsningar: En affektteoretisk studie av #SpicyBooks på TikTok Masters thesis, Uppsala universitet Topic readers libraries/librarians
Linke, Gabriele (1997) Contemporary Mass Market Romances as National and International Culture: A Comparative Study of Mills & Boon and Harlequin Romances Para.doxa: Studies in World Literary Genres 3.1-2:195-213 Topic Harlequin Mills & Boon United States of America UK national identity race/ethnicity
Linke, Gabriele (1997) Local Color in Contemporary Harlequin and Silhouette Romances: Popular Imagery of the American South and West Mid-Atlantic Almanack: The Journal of the Mid-Atlantic Popular/American Culture Association 6:15-30 Topic United States of America settings Harlequin Mills & Boon
Linke, Gabriele (2000) Visions and Versions of Parenthood in British and American Series Romances Diegesis: Journal of the Association for Research in Popular Fictions 6:18-29 Topic family
Linke, Gabriele (2003) Populärliteratur als kulturelles Gedächtnis: Eine vergleichende Studie zu zeitgenössischen britischen und amerikanischen popular romances der Verlagsgruppe Harlequin Mills & Boon Heidelberg: Universitätsverlag Winter Topic Harlequin Mills & Boon
Linz, Cathie Bouricius, Ann Byrnes, Carole (1995) Exploring the World of Romance Novels Public Libraries 34.3:144–151 Topic libraries/librarians paranormal/fantasy/time-travel romance Publishing paratext race/ethnicity trash/literary and or intellectual quality
Litton, Joyce A. (1987) Double Date to Double Love: Female Sex Roles in Teen Romances ALAN Review 14.3:45-46, 55 Topic YA/teenage romance gender
Litton, Joyce A. (1991) Sunfire Historical Romances ALAN Review 19.1:22 Topic YA/teenage romance historical romance
Litton, Joyce A. (1991) The Wild West, Floods, Wars and Boys: Sunfire Historical Romances for Young Adults ALAN Review 19.1:22-25 Topic YA/teenage romance historical romance
Litton, Joyce A. (1994) " From Seventeenth Summer to Miss Teen Sweet Valley: Female and Male Sex Roles in Teen Romances, 1942-91 " Images of the Child 19-34 Topic YA/teenage romance gender Rosamond du Jardin Betty Cavanna Maureen Daly family
Litton, Joyce A. (1995) Dreams, Guys, Lies, and Occasionally Books: The Young Women of the Freshman Dorm Series ALAN Review 22.2:10 Topic YA/teenage romance
Liu, Su-hsen (2012) The Translation/Mutation of Romantic Love: An Exploration of the Translation History of Modern Romances in Taiwan after 1960 PhD, National Taiwan Normal University Topic translation Taiwan
Livingston, Eric (2006) The Textuality of Pleasure New Literary History 37.3:655-672 Topic close reading readers trash/literary and or intellectual quality Gina Wilkins
Lohmann, Jennifer (2006) 'Beauty and the Beast' Themes in Romance Novels Master of Science in Library Science, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill Topic fairytales/folktales
Lois, Jennifer Gregson, Joanna (2015) Sneers and Leers: Romance Writers and Gendered Sexual Stigma Gender & Society 29.4:459-483 Topic authors sex/sexuality gender sociology
Lois, Jennifer Gregson, Joanna (2019) Aspirational Emotion Work: Calling, Emotional Capital, and Becoming a 'Real' Writer Journal of Contemporary Ethnography 48.1:51-79 Topic authors work emotions sociology
Long, Veronica Lee (2022) Individuation and the Romance Novel PhD thesis, Pacifica Graduate Institute Topic gender myth psychology love readers Jane Austen
Long, Eileen M. (2021) Modern Love: Reading, Writing, and Publishing the Romance Novel Master's Thesis, Purdue University Topic feminism Jennifer Crusie Jane Austen authors Publishing
Long, Bridget L. (2006) Romance novels: women's motivation for readership and effects of reading MA, Central Michigan University Topic readers
Long, Bridget L. (2007) " Women's Romance Novel Readership: Motivations, Expectations, and Relationship Satisfaction " Topic readers
López-Maestre, María D. (2015) 'Man the hunter': A critical reading of hunt-based conceptual metaphors of love and sexual desire Journal of Literary Semantics 44.2:89-113 Topic metaphor/symbolism gender animals love linguistics Harlequin Mills & Boon
Lorinc, John (1994) Romance Language: How Harlequin Became Synonymous with Romance and then Translated that Success Around the World Quill & Quire 60.5:1-13, 14-15 Topic Harlequin Mills & Boon
Losano, Antonia (2015) " Sneaking It In at the End: Teaching Popular Romance in the Liberal Arts Classroom " Teaching Tainted Lit: Popular American Fiction in Today's Classroom 77-88 Topic teaching romance Georgette Heyer Susan Elizabeth Phillips E. M. Hull Nora Roberts/J. D. Robb Jennifer Crusie
Lovell, Stephen Menzel, Birgit (2005) Reading for Entertainment in Contemporary Russia: Post-Soviet Popular Literature in Historical Perspective Munich: Otto Sagner
Lövgren, Karin (1991) " Farlig lockelse - tonårsflickors läsning av romantikböcker " Om unga kvinnor: identitet, kultur och livsvillkor 97-117 Topic readers
Lowery, Karalyne (2018) The Militarized Shapeshifter: Authorized Violence and Military Connections as an Antidote to Monstrosity University of Toronto Quarterly 87.1:196-213 Topic paranormal/fantasy/time-travel romance war/armed forces United States of America
Lozano Sampedro, Mª Teresa (2011) " La réception de Delly en Espagne et en Amérique Latine " L’Œuvre de Delly 209-232 Topic Delly Spain
Lozano Sampedro, Mª Teresa (2014) La culture et le travail de la femme. Une approche comparative entre Delly et Corín Tellado L'Ull crític 17-18:235-248 Topic Delly Corín Tellado work marriage fairytales/folktales Older and/or precursor texts (may not be "romance" as now defined)
Lozano Sampedro, Mª Teresa (2018) Pour une typologie de la marginalité dans les romans de Delly: la fonction de la femme L'Ull crític 21-22:137-152 Topic Delly religion/spirituality gender social/economic class
Lozano Sampedro, Mª Teresa (2020) " Las clases sociales y el poder económico en la obra de Delly: la mujer y su triunfo sobre la opresión " Voces e identidades exocanónicas (1880-1920): recuperando (auto) narrativas femeninas de los márgenes 137-153 Topic Delly social/economic class wealth/prosperity gender
Lugan-Dardigna, Anne-Marie (1984) " Presse du cœur et roman rose: la quête de l'amour vrai ou comment se trouver un maître " Le récit amoureux: Colloque de Cerisy-la-Salle 284-296 Topic gender religion/spirituality love
Luneau, Marie-Pier (2008) « Tant d’amour à donner »: Le biographique, l’œuvre, et la figure de l’auteur Harlequin COnTEXTES 3: Topic authors Harlequin Mills & Boon paratext family work
Luneau, Marie-Pier Warren, Jean-Philippe (2019) Ce que le roman catholique fait au roman sentimental : le cas de la collection « Amour et aventure » COnTEXTES 23: Topic religion/spirituality Christian romance race/ethnicity Canada Publishing
Luther, Amy Victoria (2010) Men reading fiction: A study of the relationship between reader, (con)text, consumption and gender identity. PhD, Cardiff University Topic gender readers pornography
Lutz, Deborah (2003) Heidegger, the Erotics of Ontology, and the Mass-Market Romance Comparative Literature and Culture 5.3: Topic love death philosophy
Lutz, Deborah (2004) The Dangerous Lover and the Erotics of Failure: Nineteenth-century Byronism and the Contemporary Romance PhD, City University of New York Topic Older and/or precursor texts (may not be "romance" as now defined) love historical romance death philosophy
Lutz, Deborah (2006) The Dangerous Lover: Gothic Villains, Byronism, and the Nineteenth-Century Seduction Narrative Columbus: Ohio State University Press Topic love death philosophy Older and/or precursor texts (may not be "romance" as now defined) historical romance Rosemary Rogers Daphne du Maurier E. M. Hull Victoria Holt/Jean Plaidy/Eleanor Burford Hibbert Georgette Heyer Emily Brontë Charlotte Brontë Samuel Richardson
Lutz, Deborah (2007) " The Haunted Space of the Mind: The Revival of the Gothic Romance in the Twenty-First Century " Empowerment versus Oppression: Twenty-First Century Views of Popular Romance Novels 81-92 Topic gothic romance settings Evelyn Rogers
Lynch, Katherine E. Sternglantz, Ruth E. Barot, Len (2012) Queering the Romantic Heroine: Where Her Power Lies Journal of Popular Romance Studies 3.1: Topic LGBT+ characters, readers and/or authors lesbian romance Radclyffe Hall Older and/or precursor texts (may not be "romance" as now defined) Katherine V. Forrest Radclyffe/Len Barot Lea Santos gender paranormal/fantasy/time-travel romance
Mabee, Norma Augusta (1993) La novela rosa de Corín Tellado: Desorden, conflicto y escape de la ectopia PhD, Arizona State University Topic Corín Tellado
Macdonald, Andrew Macdonald, Gina Sheridan, Mary Ann (2000) Shape-shifting: Images of Native Americans in Recent Popular Fiction Westport, Connecticut: Greenwood Press Topic Native American romance race/ethnicity
Magenya, Sheena Gimase (2020) Reading between the lines: A review of Dark Juices and Afrodisiacs: Erotic Diaries Vol 1 Agenda ONLINE FIRST:ONLINE FIRST Topic Africa LGBT+ characters, readers and/or authors sex/sexuality feminism race/ethnicity
Maher, Jennifer (2001) Ripping the Bodice: Eating, Reading, and Revolt College Literature 28.1:64-83 Topic food, drink romance scholarship feminism readers fat, fatness
Maier, Sarah E. Ayres, Brenda (2020) Neo-Victorian Madness: Rediagnosing Nineteenth-Century Mental Illness in Literature and Other Media Cham, Switzerland: Palgrave Macmillan
Mäkelä, Veera (2020) " "World Turned Upside Down": The Role of Revolutions in Maya Rodale's Regency-Set Romances " Love Across the Atlantic: US-UK Romance in Popular Culture 38-52 Topic Maya Rodale United States of America UK historical romance social/economic class gender race/ethnicity emotions feminism
Mäkelä, Veera (2021) Reading Response in Mary Balogh: A Critical Engagement Journal of Popular Romance Studies 10: Topic Mary Balogh romance scholarship gender sex/sexuality
Makinen, Merja (2001) Feminist Popular Fiction Houndmills, Basingstoke: Palgrave Topic feminism romance scholarship Susan Napier work sex/sexuality gender Lisa Shapiro LGBT+ characters, readers and/or authors love family
Malinowska, Anna (2017) Paternal Structures of the Romance Romanica Silesiana 12:40-52 Topic family love gender
Malinowska, Ania (2021) " Global Popular Culture for Local Infrastructures: Migration of Texts and Problems of Transferability (the Polish Case) " Cultural Change in East-Central European and Eurasian Spaces: Post-1989 Revisions and Re-imaginings 103-114 DOI:10.1007/978-3-030-63197-0_7 Topic translation Fifty Shades Poland
Malloy, Audrey Miles (2017) Remnants of the Bodice Ripper: How Consent is Characterized in Heterosexual and Lesbian Erotic Romance Novels Undergraduate, Bard College Topic gender sex/sexuality lesbian romance rape and/or intimate partner violence/abuse LGBT+ characters, readers and/or authors
Mangat, T. K. (1998) The surgeon in popular fiction - The Mills and Boon doctor-nurse romance Theoretical Surgery 3.2:89-92 Topic Harlequin Mills & Boon medical romance
Mann, Peter H. (1969) The Romantic Novel: A Survey of Reading Habits London: Mills & Boon Topic Harlequin Mills & Boon readers
Mann, Peter H. (1974) A New Survey: The Facts About Romantic Fiction London: Mills & Boon Topic Harlequin Mills & Boon readers
Mann, Peter H. (1979) " Romantic Fiction and Its Readers " Entertainment: A Cross-Cultural Examination 34-42 Topic readers Harlequin Mills & Boon trash/literary and or intellectual quality
Mann, Peter H. (1981) The Romantic Novel and its Readers Journal of Popular Culture 15.1:9-18 Topic trash/literary and or intellectual quality sex/sexuality readers
Mann, Peter H. (1985) Romantic Fiction and Its Readership Poetics 14.1-2:95-105 Topic readers genre definitions
Manzano Badía, Benjamín (2000) " Carmen de Icaza, una apología pequeño-burguesa y conservadora de la familia " Mujeres novelistas en el panorama literario del siglo XX: I Congreso de narrativa española (en lengua castellana). 107-121 Topic Carmen de Icaza family Spain fascism/right-wing authoritarianism work gender marriage feminism religion/spirituality wealth/prosperity social/economic class capitalism/business
Mao, Douglas Walkowitz, Rebecca L. (2006) Bad Modernisms Durham, North Carolina: Duke University Press
Marchand, Jacques (1983) Harlequin et Colombine : l’industrie plafonne, l’amour aussi Études littéraires 16.3:351–362 Topic Harlequin Mills & Boon Publishing settings readers
Margolies, David (1982) Mills & Boon: guilt without sex Red Letters 14:5-13 Topic Harlequin Mills & Boon work gender emotions rape and/or intimate partner violence/abuse
Margolis, Harriet (1992) " Feminist Irony or Poisonous FANTASY?: Category Romance and the Conscious Reader " Yearbook of Interdisciplinary Studies in the Fine Arts, Volume 3 165-178 Topic readers feminism
Margolis, Harriet (1995) The Lover's Value(s): Women's Romance Novels in an Exchange-Based Society Conference Papers (New Zealand Women's Studies Association Annual Meeting, 1994) :78-82 Topic feminism readers
Margolis, Harriet (1997) A Childe in Love, Or Is It Just Fantasy? The Values of Women's Genres Para.doxa: Studies in World Literary Genres 3.1-2:121-144 Topic Emma Darcy emotions work family love
Margolis, Ann (2009) In Defense of Romantic Fiction Master of Science in Publishing, Pace University Topic Publishing genre definitions
Markert, John (1984) Beyond Gatekeepers: Romance Publishing and the Production of Culture PhD, Vanderbilt University Topic Publishing
Markert, John (1985) Romance Publishing and the Production of Culture Poetics 14.1-2:69-93 Topic Publishing Harlequin Mills & Boon United States of America sex/sexuality historical romance Kathleen Woodiwiss
Markert, John (1987) The publishing decision: Managerial policy and its effect on editorial decision making—The case of romance publishing Book Research Quarterly 3.2:33-59 Topic Publishing
Markert, John (2016) Publishing Romance: The History of an Industry, 1940s to the Present Jefferson, North Carolina: McFarland & Company Topic Publishing Harlequin Mills & Boon historical romance erotic romance m/m romance lesbian romance gothic romance romantic suspense African American romance paranormal/fantasy/time-travel romance Avon Ellora's Cave LGBT+ characters, readers and/or authors BDSM paratext
Markert, John (2017) God is Love: The Christian Romance Market Publishing Research Quarterly 33.3:268–28 Topic Christian romance Publishing sex/sexuality
Markert, John (2021) " Publishing the romance novel " The Routledge Research Companion to Popular Romance Fiction 352-370 DOI:10.4324/9781315613468-16 Topic Publishing Harlequin Mills & Boon United States of America historical romance Kathleen Woodiwiss contemporary romance
Marks, Pamela (1999) " The Good Provider in Romance Novels " Romantic Conventions 10-22 Topic marriage wealth/prosperity emotions history United States of America Older and/or precursor texts (may not be "romance" as now defined) Susan Warner disability sex/sexuality work
Martens, Debra (1993) Weaving Alliances: Selected Papers Presented For The Canadian Women's Studies Association at the 1991 and 1992 Learned Societies Conferences Ottawa: Canadian Women's Studies Association
Martin, Michèle (1991) Communication et médias de masse : culture, domination et opposition Québec: Presses de l'Université du Québec Topic romance scholarship Harlequin Mills & Boon feminism gender rape and/or intimate partner violence/abuse
Martin, Darcy (2003) " 'Womanhood Reinvented: Eve Dallas, Protagonist in J. D. Robb's "In Death" Series " The 2000-2003 Proceedings of the SW/Texas PCA/ACA Conference 1989-2019 Topic Nora Roberts/J. D. Robb feminism science fiction/futuristic romance gender work rape and/or intimate partner violence/abuse marriage community
Martínez Garrido, Elisa (2000) Bildungsroman y crítica de género: Novela rosa y narrativa de mujeres Cuadernos de filología italiana :529-546 Topic Italy Older and/or precursor texts (may not be "romance" as now defined) gender love fairytales/folktales
Mason, Gillian (2008) Rosemary Rogers Teaching American Literature: A Journal of Theory and Practice 2.2/3:1-8 Topic Rosemary Rogers historical romance rape and/or intimate partner violence/abuse sex/sexuality erotic romance BDSM
Masteller, Jean Carwile (1996) " Romancing the Reader: From Laura Jean Libbey to Harlequin Romance and Beyond " Pioneers, Passionate Ladies, and Private Eyes: Dime Novels, Series Books, and Paperbacks 263-284 Topic Older and/or precursor texts (may not be "romance" as now defined) Laura Jean Libbey romances in magazines and newspapers Publishing work social/economic class Harlequin Mills & Boon sex/sexuality Jayne Ann Krentz/Amanda Quick/Jayne Castle metafiction
Matelski, Elizabeth (2016) " "I'm Not the Only Lesbian Who Wears a Skirt": Lesbian Romance Fiction and Identity in Post-World War II America " Romance Fiction and American Culture: Love as the Practice of Freedom? 71-88 Topic LGBT+ characters, readers and/or authors fashion/clothing United States of America gender Older and/or precursor texts (may not be "romance" as now defined) history metafiction Claire Morgan/Patricia Highsmith lesbian romance Valerie Taylor Ann Bannon Rita Mae Brown
Matter, Laura Sewell (2007) Pursuing the Great Bad Novelist The Georgia Review 61.3:444-459 Topic Charles Garvice trash/literary and or intellectual quality Older and/or precursor texts (may not be "romance" as now defined)
Matthews, Amy T. (2016) Entangled: the exegetical process of a romance writer Arts and Humanities as Higher Education : Topic authors feminism genre definitions trash/literary and or intellectual quality
Maunder, Andrew (2016) " Berta Ruck " British Literature of World War I: The Short Story and the Novella 35-39 Topic Berta Ruck war/armed forces
Maunder, Andrew (2016) British Literature of World War I: The Short Story and the Novella Abingdon, Oxon: Routledge
Mayer, Claude-Hélène Vanderheiden, Elisabeth (2021) International Handbook of Love: Transcultural and Transdisciplinary Perspectives Cham: Springer Topic love
Mayfield, Kerrita K. (2014) Liminal eRoticism: Emerging Forms of Gender Identity and Performance in e-Romances and Their Feminist Electronic Communities Taboo: The Journal of Culture and Education 14.1:53-70 Topic feminism Publishing gender erotic romance LGBT+ characters, readers and/or authors Jeanne Laws chick lit Shelly Laurenston race/ethnicity paranormal/fantasy/time-travel romance happy ending BDSM m/m romance
Mayhew, Lilybeth M. (1994) The series romance: the changing representation of gender relationships within a popular genre Master of Arts (Hons.), University of Wollongong Topic Harlequin Mills & Boon gender readers feminism trash/literary and or intellectual quality genre definitions psychology pornography sex/sexuality work Connie Rinehold Elda Minger JoAnn Ross
Maynard, Lee Anna (2008) LaVyrle Spencer Teaching American Literature: A Journal of Theory and Practice 2.2/3:1-17 Topic LaVyrle Spencer historical romance metafiction race/ethnicity food, drink disability war/armed forces rape and/or intimate partner violence/abuse family death settings
Mazloomian, Maryam Mohammadi, Nahid (2018) Discursive Vulnerability and Identity Development: A Triangular Model of Bio-Forces in Cultural Ecological Analysis of American Romance Fiction Forum for World Literature Studies 10.3:413–432 Topic Debbie Macomber psychology
Mazzarella, Sharon R. Pecora, Norma Odom (1999) Growing Up Girls: Popular Culture and the Construction of Identity New York: Peter Lang
McAleer, Joseph (1989) Popular Literature and Reading Habits in Britain, 1914-1950 D.Phil. (also referred to as a PhD thesis), St John's College, University of Oxford Topic readers Publishing UK Harlequin Mills & Boon
McAleer, Joseph (1990) Scenes from Love and Marriage: Mills and Boon and the Popular Publishing Industry in Britain, 1908-1950 Twentieth Century British History 1.3:264-288 Topic Publishing Harlequin Mills & Boon romances in magazines and newspapers Mary Burchell, pen name of Ida Cook Jean S. MacLeod/Catherine Airlie Barbara Cartland virginity marriage family social/economic class
McAleer, Joseph (1992) Popular Reading and Publishing in Britain, 1914-1950 Oxford: Clarendon Press Topic Harlequin Mills & Boon Publishing libraries/librarians romances in magazines and newspapers Mary Burchell, pen name of Ida Cook Jean S. MacLeod/Catherine Airlie Sara Seale Louise Gerard Barbara Cartland virginity sex/sexuality family social/economic class
McAleer, Joseph (1999) Passion's Fortune: The Story of Mills & Boon Oxford: Oxford University Press Topic Harlequin Mills & Boon Publishing UK Betty Beaty Mary Burchell, pen name of Ida Cook Elizabeth Carfrae Fay Chandos/Jan Tempest Sophie Cole Lilian Warren as Kathryn Blair/Rosalind Brett/Celine Conway Iris Danbury Joyce Dingwell/Kate Starr Constance M. Evans Eleanor Farnes Louise Gerard Elizabeth Gilzean romances in magazines and newspapers Roberta Leigh/Rachel Lindsay libraries/librarians Jean S. MacLeod/Catherine Airlie Phyllis Matthewman medical romance sex/sexuality work marriage race/ethnicity happy ending family religion/spirituality readers Marjorie Moore Betty Neels Valerie K. Nelson Kate Norway/Olive Norton Denise Robins Sara Seale Juliet Shore/Anne Vinton gender Alex Stuart Essie Summers Joan Sutherland Anne Weale Hilary Wilde Violet Winspear Mary Lutyens/Esther Wyndham Ireland
McAleer, Joseph (2011) " Love, Romance, and the National Health Service " Classes, Cultures, & Politics: Essays on British History for Ross McKibbin 173-191 DOI:10.1093/acprof:osobl/9780199579884.003.0011 Topic Harlequin Mills & Boon UK medical romance health/medical work Elizabeth Gilzean Marjorie Moore Fay Chandos/Jan Tempest Kate Norway/Olive Norton Jean S. MacLeod/Catherine Airlie Juliet Shore/Anne Vinton Valerie K. Nelson Alex Stuart Joan Blair Betty Beaty Ireland Marguerite Lees Norrey Ford Anne Lorraine Mary Burchell, pen name of Ida Cook
McAlister, Jodi Ann (2015) Romancing the Virgin: Female Virginity Loss and Love in Popular Literature in the West PhD, Macquarie University Topic love sex/sexuality gender Twilight Fifty Shades Harlequin Mills & Boon virginity
McAlister, Jodi (2014) ‘That complete fusion of spirit as well as body’: Heroines, heroes, desire and compulsory demisexuality in the Harlequin Mills & Boon romance novel Australasian Journal of Popular Culture 3.3:299-310 Topic Harlequin Mills & Boon sex/sexuality love gender Denise Robins Lynne Graham
McAlister, Jodi (2015) Breaking the Hard Limits: Romance, Pornography, and the Question of Genre in the Fifty Shades Trilogy Analyses/Rereadings/Theories 3.2:23-33 Topic Fifty Shades pornography E. M. Hull sex/sexuality
McAlister, Jodi (2016) " Between Pleasure and Pain: The Textual Politics of the Hymen " Virgin Envy: The Cultural Insignificance of the Hymen 45-64 Topic history sex/sexuality virginity
McAlister, Jodi (2016) " Traveling Through Time and Genre: Are the Outlander Books Romance Novels? " Adoring Outlander: Essays on Fandom, Genre and the Female Audience 94-105 Topic Diana Gabaldon genre definitions
McAlister, Jodi (2016) “You and I are humans, and there is something complicated between us”: Untamed and queering the heterosexual historical romance Journal of Popular Romance Studies 5.2: Topic Anna Cowan gender historical romance Georgette Heyer readers cross-dressing fashion/clothing LGBT+ characters, readers and/or authors
McAlister, Jodi Teo, Hsu-Ming (2017) " Love in Australian Romance Novels " The Popular Culture of Romantic Love in Australia 194-222 Topic national identity Australia love rural romance gender sex/sexuality history Publishing genre definitions race/ethnicity settings feminism
McAlister, Jodi (2018) Defining and Redefining Popular Genres: The Evolution of ‘New Adult’ Fiction Australian Literary Studies 33.4: Topic genre definitions YA/teenage romance
McAlister, Jodi (2018) The literary text as historical artifact: The colonial couple in Australian romantic fiction by women, 1838-1860 Lilith: A Feminist History Journal 24:38-51 Topic Australia love Older and/or precursor texts (may not be "romance" as now defined) history national identity
McAlister, Jodi (2018) “Feelings Like the Women in Books”: Declarations of Love in Australian Romance Novels, 1859–1891 Emotions: History, Culture, Society 2.1:91-112 Topic Older and/or precursor texts (may not be "romance" as now defined) Australia love history national identity marriage
McAlister, Jodi Parnell, Claire Trinidad, Andrea Anne (2020) #RomanceClass: Genre World, Intimate Public, Found Family Publishing Research Quarterly 36:403–417 Topic Philippines genre definitions Publishing readers authors Mina V. Esguerra LGBT+ characters, readers and/or authors sex/sexuality
McAlister, Jodi (2020) The Consummate Virgin: Female Virginity Loss and Love in Anglophone Popular Literatures Cham, Switzerland: Palgrave Macmillan Topic sex/sexuality love virginity history romance scholarship historical romance rape and/or intimate partner violence/abuse Harlequin Mills & Boon Twilight Fifty Shades race/ethnicity Kathleen Woodiwiss Catherine Coulter Loretta Chase Teresa Medeiros Julia Quinn Lisa Kleypas Stephanie Laurens Courtney Milan Johanna Lindsey Denise Robins Sophie Cole Louise Gerard Lilian Warren as Kathryn Blair/Rosalind Brett/Celine Conway national identity UK readers
McAlister, Jodi (2021) " Erotic romance " The Routledge Research Companion to Popular Romance Fiction 212-228 DOI:10.4324/9781315613468-9 Topic erotic romance genre definitions Fifty Shades sex/sexuality Sylvia Day happy ending Older and/or precursor texts (may not be "romance" as now defined) John Cleland Publishing fanfiction Alisha Rai Harlequin Mills & Boon
McAlister, Jodi (2021) New Adult Fiction Cambridge: Cambridge University Press Topic NA romance genre definitions Publishing readers contemporary romance Jamie McGuire Colleen Hoover paratext
McAlister, Jodi (2022) Isn’t It Iconic: Canonical Logics and the Romance Genre Journal of Popular Romance Studies 11: Topic romance scholarship
McAlister, Jodi (2022) " Love and listening: the erotics of talk in the popular romance novel " The Routledge Companion to Romantic Love DOI:10.4324/9781003022343-9 Topic feminism gender Jennifer Crusie Diana Gabaldon Alissa Johnson Courtney Milan
McAlister, Jodi Parnell, Claire Trinidad, Andrea Anne (2023) Publishing Romance Fiction in the Philippines Cambridge: Cambridge University Press Topic Philippines Publishing social/economic class Mina V. Esguerra wealth/prosperity Keene Alicante sex/sexuality work LGBT+ characters, readers and/or authors settings authors paratext
McAlpine, Rachel (1998) The Passionate Pen: New Zealand’s Romance Writers Talk to Rachel McAlpine Christchurch, New Zealand: Hazard Press Topic New Zealand Victoria Aldridge Rilla Berg Gloria Bevan Eva Burfield Daphne Clair Robyn Donald Catherine Hay Rosalie Henaghan Miriam Macgregor Mary Moore Susan Napier Jessie Nichols Ivy Preston Essie Summers Rachelle Swift feminism
McCafferty, Kate (1994) Palimpsest of Desire: The Re-Emergence of the American Captivity Narrative as Pulp Romance Journal of Popular Culture 27.4:43-56 Topic historical romance United States of America trash/literary and or intellectual quality Native American romance race/ethnicity family rural romance wealth/prosperity gender
McCann, Hannah Roach, Catherine M. (2021) " Sex and sexuality " The Routledge Research Companion to Popular Romance Fiction 411-427 DOI:10.4324/9781315613468-19 Topic sex/sexuality pornography feminism gender
McCay, Mary A. (2001) Love's Labors Won: Romance Fiction and the Politics of Love New Orleans Review 27.1:171-183 Topic Laura Kinsale Mary Jo Putney Jayne Ann Krentz/Amanda Quick/Jayne Castle
McCracken, Scott (1998) Pulp: Reading Popular Fiction Manchester: Manchester University Press Topic Older and/or precursor texts (may not be "romance" as now defined) Harlequin Mills & Boon Penny Jordan/Caroline Courtney feminism psychology Elizabeth Power gender Emma Richmond Catherine Cookson metaphor/symbolism settings
McDade, Monique (2023) California Dreams and American Contradictions: Women Writers and the Western Ideal Lincoln: University of Nebraska Press Topic Eva Rutland African American romance
McDavis-Conway, Shana (2022) Self-conscious, unapologetic, and straight: fat protagonists in romantic fiction Fat Studies ONLINE FIRST:ONLINE FIRST Topic fat, fatness paratext race/ethnicity LGBT+ characters, readers and/or authors Talia Hibbert Rebekah Weatherspoon Rose Lerner Xan West
McGurl, Mark (2021) Everything and Less: The Novel in the Age of Amazon London: Verso Topic Publishing Fifty Shades trash/literary and or intellectual quality capitalism/business
McGurl, Mark (2021) Unspeakable Conventionality: The Perversity of the Kindle American Literary History 33.2:394–415 Topic Publishing capitalism/business trash/literary and or intellectual quality readers sex/sexuality BDSM Fifty Shades erotic romance LGBT+ characters, readers and/or authors genre definitions fanfiction
McKay, Jade Parsons, Elizabeth (2009) Out of Wedlock: The Consummation and Consumption of Marriage in Contemporary Romance Fiction Genders 50: Topic marriage Harlequin Mills & Boon sex/sexuality virginity wealth/prosperity work feminism family
McKinley, Tracey Lynn (2007) The Female Quest: An Analysis of Archetypal Layering in Harlequin Presents Master of Education, Queen's University Topic teaching romance Lynne Graham Diana Hamilton gender Harlequin Mills & Boon
McKnight-Trontz, Jennifer (2002) The Look of Love: The Art of the Romance Novel New York: Princeton Architectural Press Topic paratext
McLennon, Leigh (2014) Defining Urban Fantasy and Paranormal Romance: Crossing Boundaries of Genre, Media, Self and Other in New Supernatural Worlds Refractory: a Journal of Entertainment Media 23: Topic paranormal/fantasy/time-travel romance genre definitions
McLennon, Leigh (2017) Contemporary vampire genre fiction: ethical feeding and the posthuman vampire in urban fantasy and paranormal romance PhD, University of Melbourne Topic paranormal/fantasy/time-travel romance
McNamara, Sallie (2000) " Georgette Heyer: The Historical Romance and the Consumption of the Erotic, 1918-1939 " All the World and Her Husband: Women in Twentieth-Century Consumer Culture 82-96 Topic Georgette Heyer gender sex/sexuality historical romance fashion/clothing cross-dressing settings
McNeil, Helen (1981) She trembled at his touch Quarto May:17-18 Topic Harlequin Mills & Boon social/economic class
McWilliam, Kelly (2009) Romance in foreign accents: Harlequin-Mills & Boon in Australia Continuum: Journal of Media & Cultural Studies 23.2:137-145 Topic Publishing Harlequin Mills & Boon Australia
Meirelles, Simone Regina Ferreira (2002) Das bancas ao coraçao: romances sentimentais e leitura hoje Mestre em Letras, Universidade Federal do Paraná Topic Brazil gender readers
Meirelles, Simone (2008) Romances com coração: leitura e edição de romances sentimentais no Brasil PhD, Universidade Federal do Paraná Topic readers Publishing Brazil Harlequin Mills & Boon
Melman, Billie (1988) Women and the Popular Imagination in the Twenties: Flappers and Nymphs Houndmills, Basingstoke: Macmillan Topic Older and/or precursor texts (may not be "romance" as now defined) Ethel M. Dell E. M. Hull sex/sexuality gender race/ethnicity settings metaphor/symbolism animals rape and/or intimate partner violence/abuse pornography romances in magazines and newspapers social/economic class work community
Ménard, A. Dana Cabrera, Christine (2011) ‘Whatever the Approach, Tab B Still Fits into Slot A’: Twenty Years of Sex Scripts in Romance Novels Sexuality & Culture 15.3:240–255 Topic sex/sexuality psychology
Ménard, A. Dana (2013) Note from the Field: Reflecting on Romance Novel Research: Past, Present and Future Journal of Popular Romance Studies 3.2: Topic sex/sexuality psychology romance scholarship
Méndez, José Luis (1986) The Novels of Corín Tellado Studies in Latin American Popular Culture 5:31-40 Topic Corín Tellado
Meyer, Michaela D. E. (2015) Living the Romance through Castle: Exploring Autoethnography, Popular Culture and Romantic Television Narratives The Popular Culture Studies Journal 3.1&2:245-269 Topic readers
Meyer, Michael (2002) The Bedford Introduction to Literature: Reading, Thinking, Writing (Sixth Edition) Boston: Bedford/St Martin's Topic Karen van der Zee teaching romance
Michel, Anita (1997) Re-reading the (series) romance: toward a typology of recent series romance novels MA thesis, Bowling Green State University
Micheletti, Ellen (2010) Wandering the Web Wandering-Reviews of Romance Novels: Online Sources for Evaluating Popular Fiction Against the Grain 22.4:48 Topic readers
Michelson, Anna (2021) The politics of happily-ever-after: romance genre fiction as aesthetic public sphere American Journal of Cultural Sociology 9:177–210 Topic sociology romance and, or as, activism emotions feminism readers authors fascism/right-wing authoritarianism United States of America Casey McQuiston happy ending Roni Loren Sarah MacLean sex/sexuality Alyssa Cole race/ethnicity Publishing Courtney Milan Suzanne Brockmann health/medical
Michelson, Anna (2022) Pushing the boundaries: Erotic romance and the symbolic boundary nexus Poetics ONLINE FIRST:ONLINE FIRST Topic genre definitions erotic romance authors sex/sexuality Fifty Shades Publishing fanfiction sociology
Michelson, Anna (2022) Redefining the Romance: Classification and Community in a Popular Fiction Genre PhD thesis, Northwestern University Topic genre definitions sociology authors romance and, or as, activism sex/sexuality LGBT+ characters, readers and/or authors race/ethnicity erotic romance happy ending readers Publishing fanfiction Fifty Shades Suzanne Brockmann m/m romance African American romance Native American romance
Migozzi, Jacques (1997) Le Roman Populaire en Question(s): Actes du colloque international de mai 1995 à Limoges Limoges: PULIM (Presses universitaires de Limoges)
Mikals-Adachi, Eileen B. (2012) Romantic Adventures in Prose: Ren'ai Shõsetsu (Romance Novels) by Yuikawa Kei U.S.-Japan Women's Journal 43:85-105 Topic Yuikawa Kei Japan genre definitions friendship chick lit
Miles, Angela (1988) Confessions of a Harlequin Reader: Romance and the Myth of Male Mothers Canadian Journal of Political and Social Theory 12. 1-2:1-37 Topic readers psychology Harlequin Mills & Boon feminism love family sex/sexuality emotions
Miller, Kathleen (2010) A Little Extra Bite: Dis/Ability and Romance in Tanya Huff and Charlaine Harris’s Vampire Fiction Journal of Popular Romance Studies 1.1: Topic disability paranormal/fantasy/time-travel romance Tanya Huff Charlaine Harris feminism metaphor/symbolism metafiction
Miller, Jessica (2015) Passionate Virtue: Conceptions of Medical Professionalism in Popular Romance Fiction Literature and Medicine 33.1:70-90 Topic medical romance health/medical work Harlequin Mills & Boon rape and/or intimate partner violence/abuse race/ethnicity rural romance
Mirmohamadi, Kylie (2015) Love on the Land: Australian Rural Romance in Place English Studies 96.2:204-224 Topic Australia rural romance genre definitions paratext settings race/ethnicity Kerry McGinnis Fiona Palmer
Mitchell, Karen S. (1996) Ever After: Reading the Women Who Read (and Re-Write) Romances Theatre Topics 6.1:51-69 Topic readers Lisa Gregory trash/literary and or intellectual quality rape and/or intimate partner violence/abuse
Mitchell, Diana (1995) If You Can't Beat'em, Join 'em: Using the Romance Series to Confront Gender Stereotypes The ALAN Review 22.2: Topic YA/teenage romance gender teaching romance
Mizzau, Marina (1987) " Strategie narrative: il non detto e il troppo detto " Intorno al rosa 47-57 Topic genre definitions
Mocná, Dagmar (1996) Červená knihovna: studie kulturně a literárně historická : pohled do dějin pokleslého žánru Praha: Paseka Topic Czech Republic
Modleski, Tania (1980) Popular Feminine Narratives: A Study of Romances, Gothics, and Soap Operas PhD, Stanford University Topic Harlequin Mills & Boon gothic romance psychology
Modleski, Tania (1980) The Disappearing Act: A Study of Harlequin Romances Signs: Journal of Women in Culture and Society 5.3:435-448 Topic Harlequin Mills & Boon readers psychology gender
Modleski, Tania (1982) Loving with a Vengeance: Mass‐Produced Fantasies for Women Hamden, Connecticut: Archon Topic Harlequin Mills & Boon gothic romance gender psychology readers rape and/or intimate partner violence/abuse
Modleski, Tania (1986) Studies in Entertainment: Critical Approaches to Mass Culture Bloomington: Indiana University Press
Modleski, Tania (1997) My Life as a Romance Reader Para.doxa: Studies in World Literary Genres 3.1-2:15-28 Topic readers rape and/or intimate partner violence/abuse sex/sexuality feminism Brenda Joyce African American romance Eboni Snoe Beverly Jenkins historical romance gender Nancy Martin Suzanne Robinson LGBT+ characters, readers and/or authors
Modleski, Tania (1998) My Life as a Romance Writer Para.doxa: Studies in World Literary Genres 4.9:134-144 Topic BDSM romance scholarship Jennifer Crusie Jayne Ann Krentz/Amanda Quick/Jayne Castle Susan Elizabeth Phillips gender Linda Howard evolutionary psychology sex/sexuality feminism
Moffitt, Mary Anne Smeltzer (1990) Understanding Middle-Class Adolescent Leisure: A Cultural Studies Approach to Romance Novel Reading PhD, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign Topic readers emotions
Moffitt, Mary Anne (1993) Articulating Meaning: Reconceptions of the Meaning Process, Fantasy/Reality, and Identity in Leisure Activities Communication Theory 3.3:231-251 Topic readers
Moffitt, Mary Anne (1993) Leisure Fiction and the Audience: Meaning and Communication Strategies Women's Studies in Communication 16.2:27-61 Topic readers
Mogin-Martin, Roselyne (2010) Corín Tellado : ¿de la novela rosa a la novela comprometida? Revista Arbor 186, Anexo 3:327-347 Topic Corín Tellado work marriage sex/sexuality race/ethnicity
Mogin-Martin, Roselyne (2016) " La revolución sexual de Corín Tellado " Miradas sobre una obra polifacética: Homenaje a Jean Louis Guereña 255-270 Topic Corín Tellado Spain fascism/right-wing authoritarianism sex/sexuality
Montague, Holly W. (1994) " From Interlude in Arcady to Daphnis and Chloe: Two Thousand Years of Erotic Fantasy " The Search for the Ancient Novel 391-401 Topic Longus Achilles Tatius Margery Hilton rural romance social/economic class paratext disability metaphor/symbolism sex/sexuality rape and/or intimate partner violence/abuse feminism gender Heliodorus
Montague, Holly (1992) " Sweet and Pleasant Passion: Female and Male Fantasy in Ancient Romance Novels " Pornography and Representation in Greece and Rome 231-249 Topic Longus Older and/or precursor texts (may not be "romance" as now defined)
Montejo Gurruchaga, Lucía (2005) " El discurso de la novela rosa de autora en la narrativa española de mediados del siglo XX. La transgresión del canon oficial " Ad amicam amicissime scripta: homenaje a la profesora María José López de Ayala y Genovés (Volumen II) 265-274 Topic Spain
Montejo Gurruchaga, Lucía (2010) Discurso de autora: género y censura en la narrativa española de posguerra Madrid: UNED Topic Spain fascism/right-wing authoritarianism Carmen de Icaza
Moody, Stephanie Lee (2013) Affecting Genre: Women's Participation with Popular Romance Fiction PhD, University of Michigan Topic readers teaching romance
Moody, Stephanie (2010) " Women's Leadership in Romance Fiction Scholarship " Gender and Women's Leadership: A Reference Handbook 941-947 DOI:10.4135/9781412979344.n98 Topic Samuel Richardson Jane Austen Harlequin Mills & Boon Georgette Heyer Susan Elizabeth Phillips Linda Howard Janet Evanovich Jennifer Crusie Anna Campbell Deidre Knight Lora Leigh Ann Herendeen romance scholarship
Moody, Stephanie (2016) " Building Social Worlds: Examining Women’s Uses of Romance Novels " Literacy in Practice: Writing in Private, Public and Working Lives 32-45 Topic readers
Moody, Stephanie (2016) Identification, Affect, and Escape: Theorizing Popular Romance Reading Pedagogy 16.1:105-123 Topic readers emotions Jennifer Crusie J. R. Ward Judith McNaught Susan Elizabeth Phillips Teresa Medeiros sex/sexuality race/ethnicity gender
Moody, Nickianne Hallam, Julia (1997) Medical Fictions Liverpool: Liverpool John Moores University and the Association for Research in Popular Fictions
Moody, Nickianne (1998) " Mills & Boon’s Temptations: Sex and the Single Couple in the 1990s " Fatal Attractions: Rescripting Romance in Contemporary Literature and Film 141-156 Topic Harlequin Mills & Boon work family marriage Jo Morrison LaVyrle Spencer Mary Tate Engels Alicia Fox Cathy Gillen Thacker Rita Clay Estrada Cara McLean Candace Schuler Carla Neggers gender feminism
Moody-Freeman, Julie E. (2016) " Scripting Black Love in the 1990s: Pleasure, Respectability, and Responsibility in an Era of HIV/AIDS " Romance Fiction and American Culture: Love as the Practice of Freedom? 111-127 Topic health/medical Brenda Jackson African American romance sex/sexuality gender race/ethnicity United States of America history romance and, or as, activism
Moody-Freeman, Julie E. (2021) " African American romance " The Routledge Research Companion to Popular Romance Fiction 229-251 DOI:10.4324/9781315613468-10 Topic African American romance Older and/or precursor texts (may not be "romance" as now defined) race/ethnicity Publishing Rosalind Welles - pen name of Elsie B. Washington Lia Sanders - pen name of Angela Jackson and Sandra Jackson-Opoku Alyssa Cole
Moody-Freeman, Julie E. (2022) " Black Cultural Studies and Black Love: Why Black Love Matters " Black Love Matters: Real Talk on Romance, Being Seen, and Happily Ever After 127-141 Topic love race/ethnicity teaching romance
Moody-Freeman, Julie E. (2022) Response to Eric Selinger’s “Cant and Canonicity” Journal of Popular Romance Studies 11: Topic romance scholarship Publishing race/ethnicity Brenda Jackson Rochelle Alers teaching romance
Moody-Freeman, Julie E. (2022) Romance, Hip-Hop Feminism, and Black Love: From Theory to Praxis Journal of Popular Romance Studies 11: Topic Gwyneth Bolton/Gwendolyn Pough feminism African American romance gender teaching romance sex/sexuality music romance and, or as, activism race/ethnicity
Moolla, F. Fiona (2021) Her Heart Lies at the Feet of the Mother: Transformations of the Romance Plot in Leila Aboulela’s Minaret African Journal of Gender and Religion 27.2:1-21 Topic Leila Aboulela Islam family Muslim romance
Moore, Michael Kramer, Daniela (1999) SATIR FOR BEGINNERS: Incongruent Communication Patterns in Romantic Fiction ETC: A Review of General Semantics 56.4:429-437 Topic linguistics Harlequin Mills & Boon psychology
Moore, Maureen (1973) Romantic love, ecstasy, and deprivation Master of Arts, The University of British Columbia Topic love gender Harlequin Mills & Boon Violet Winspear Isobel Chace pornography BDSM religion/spirituality
Moore, Laura M. (2019) Sexual Agency, Safe Sex, and Consent Negotiations in Erotic Romance Novels European Journal of Social Sciences 2.2:92-96 Topic sex/sexuality rape and/or intimate partner violence/abuse
Moore, Kate Selinger, Eric Murphy (2012) The Heroine as Reader, the Reader as Heroine: Jennifer Crusie’s Welcome to Temptation Journal of Popular Romance Studies 2.2: Topic Jennifer Crusie readers metafiction romance scholarship sex/sexuality marriage
Moran, Albert (1990) "No More Virgins": Writing Romance ‐ an Interview with Emma Darcy Continuum: The Australian Journal of Media & Culture 4.1:37-53 Topic Emma Darcy Harlequin Mills & Boon emotions readers authors