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Kelly, Brendan D.

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Kelman, Suanne

(1995) Heroine addiction Chatelaine 68.9:59-63

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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

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 DOI: 10.26180/5df1974e1cb20

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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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Keran, Molly

(2024) The Genre of Rape: Women’s Popular Literature and Contemporary Representations of Sexual Violence PhD, University of Michigan

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health/medical

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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(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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(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

Kies, Bridget

(2024) Saying “I Don’t”: Queer Romance in the Post–Marriage Equality World Journal of Popular Romance Studies 13: DOI: 10.70138/YKLZ4173

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marriage

happy ending

film/movies

Alexis Hall

Killeen, Jarlath

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

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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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romance and, or as, activism

(2024) Broken Hearts: Writing The Representation of Trauma and Trauma Recovery in a Post-Trauma Romance Novel PhD, Central Queensland University

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myth

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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(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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Kirkland, Catherine Elisabeth

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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(1995) War Culture: Social Change and Changing Experience in World War Two Britain London: Lawrence and Wishart

(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 DOI: 10.1080/23337486.2016.1235761

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war/armed forces

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 DOI: 10.47631/ijecls.v2i1.199

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

Klein, Ula Lukszo

(2020) "Fifty Shades of Pamela in the Undergraduate Classroom " Adapting the Eighteenth Century: A Handbook of Pedagogies and Practices 158–168 DOI:10.2307/j.ctvrdf1s9.14

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teaching romance

Samuel Richardson

Fifty Shades

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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history

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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Kluger, Johanna

(2024) ""On Thursdays We Shoot": Guns and Gender Binaries in Regency Romance Novels " Ladies in Arms: Women, Guns, and Feminisms in Contemporary Popular Culture 163-179

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(2024) Post-Trump masculinity in popular romance novels Neohelicon ONLINE FIRST:ONLINE FIRST DOI: 10.1007/s11059-024-00731-2

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romance and, or as, activism

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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(2011) Virtuous Vampires and Voluptuous Vamps: Romance Conventions Reconsidered in Stephenie Meyer’s ‘‘Twilight’’ Series Children's Literature in Education 42.2:165-179 DOI: 10.1007/s10583-010-9125-9

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Twilight

Kollman, Kathleen W. Taylor

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

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(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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(2021) Harlequin Resistance? Romance Novels as a Model for Resisting Objectification The Journal of Aesthetics and Art Criticism 79.1:30–41 DOI: 10.1093/jaac/kpaa004

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(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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linguistics

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 79:--- DOI: 10.1016/j.poetic.2020.101439

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(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

Kousholt, Moa

(2024) A Time, A Place, and A Person: A comparative literary analysis of Red, White & Royal Blue and One Last Stop by Casey McQuiston and how queer representation can be problematized in a classroom context Teacher Education Programme for Upper Secondary School, Linnaeus University

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Casey McQuiston

teaching romance

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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(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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romantic suspense

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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(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 DOI: 10.2466/pr0.2001.88.1.29

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(2001) Gender Roles, Romantic Fiction and Family Therapy Psycoloquy 12.24:

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psychology

marriage

Jayne Ann Krentz/Amanda Quick/Jayne Castle

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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Menninghaus, Winfried

(2021) Who reads contemporary erotic novels and why? Humanities and Social Sciences Communications 8: DOI: 10.1057/s41599-021-00764-3

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(1987) Deconstructive Laughter: Romance Author as Subject, The Pleasure of Writing the Text Journal of Communication Inquiry 11.2:26-46 DOI: 10.1177/019685998701100203

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(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

psychology

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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Kress, Gunther

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

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

Topic

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 DOI: 10.1353/vpr.2017.0039

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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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Kuchta, Estella Carolye

(2024) The Epistemological Possibilities of Love: Towards Relational and Ecological Healing PhD, Simon Fraser University

Topic

(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

Kuehn, Julia

(2014) A Female Poetics of Empire: From Eliot to Woolf New York: Routledge

Topic

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

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

Topic

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

(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 DOI: 10.1111/1542-734X.00098

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(1986) "I Won't Grow up"—Yet: Teen Formula Romance Children's Literature Association Quarterly 11.2:90-95 DOI: 10.1353/chq.0.0557

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(1982) Sweet Dreams for Sleeping Beauties: Pre-Teen Romances Children's Literature Association Quarterly 7.1:28-32 DOI: 10.1353/chq.0.0230

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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.

Topic

fascism/right-wing authoritarianism

Labanyi, Jo

(2004) Romancing the Early Franco Regime: the Novelas Románticas of Concha Linares-Becerra and Luisa-María Linares UC Berkeley: Institute of European Studies: Occasional Papers Working Paper OP-13:

Topic

Concha Linares-Becerra

Luisa-María Linares

(2022) Language, Education, and Identity: Medium in South Asia Abingdon, Oxon: Routledge

Laframboise, Donna

(1996) The Princess at the Window: A New Gender Morality Toronto: Penguin

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(1986) Reading the sweet dream: adolescent girls and romance fiction M.Ed. thesis, University of Melbourne

Topic

Lam, Maylyn

(1994) The romance of feminism: feminism on and as popular romance PhD, University of Melbourne

Topic

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

Anne Singe et Marine Ange

Lambert Barr, DeAnn M.

(1996) Romance-novel genre Master of Arts, California State University, Dominguez Hills

Topic

(2011) Translated Romances: the Effect of Cultural Textual Norms on the Communication of Emotions Journal of Popular Romance Studies 2.1:

Topic

(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

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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 DOI: 10.7202/1017331ar

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paratext

Alice Williamson/A. M. Williamson/Mrs. C. N. Williamson

(2020) Venetia: Georgette Heyer’s Pastoral Romance Journal of Popular Romance Studies 9: DOI: 10.70138/YUAX4643

Topic

(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

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

Lancaster, Guy

(2024) "God loves you nearly as much as I do": Toward a Poetics of Natality in Maureen Bronson's Delta Pearl, a 1989 Harlequin Historical Romance. Arkansas Review: A Journal of Delta Studies 55.1:27–39

Topic

(2025) ‘It had turned them all into voyeurs’: Celebrity as the Antithesis of Community in Molly O’Keefe’s Wild Child Arkansas Review: A Journal of Delta Studies 56:25–36

Lang, Miriam

(2003) "Taiwanese Romance: San Mao and Qiong Yao " The Columbia Companion to Modern East Asian Literature 515-519

Topic

Langeveld, Cornelis H. (Kees)

Qiongyao/Qiong Yao

(2011) Medische missers in doktersromans Nederlands Tijdschrift voor Geneeskunde 155:A4372:1-5

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health/medical

Laquintano, Timothy

(2013) The Legacy of the Vanity Press and Digital Transitions The Journal of Electronic Publishing 16.1: DOI: 10.3998/3336451.0016.104

Topic

Larcombe, Wendy

(2005) Compelling Engagements: Feminism, Rape Law and Romance Fiction Sydney: The Federation Press

Topic

Larkin, Brian

(1997) Indian Films and Nigerian Lovers: Media and the Creation of Parallel Modernities Africa 67.3:406-440 DOI: 10.2307/1161182

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(2007) ""Quand la lecture devient passion": Romance Novels and Literacy in Abidjan " African Literatures at the Millennium 315-324

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Ivory Coast

Africa

(2017) An Economy of Words: Precarity, Solidarity and Innovation in Digital Book Publishing PhD, Stanford University

Topic

(2019) Open networks, open books: gender, precarity and solidarity in digital publishing Information, Communication & Society : DOI: 10.1080/1369118X.2019.1621922

Topic

(2019) "The Color of Romance: Gatekeeping in the Age of Digital Media " Voices: Exploring the Shifting Contours of Communication 99-??? DOI:10.3726/b14771

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(2022) Networking down: Networks, innovation, and relational labor in digital book publishing New Media & Society ONLINE FIRST:ONLINE FIRST DOI: 10.1177/14614448221090195

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(2022) Streaming books: confluencers, Kindle Unlimited and the platform imaginary Communication, Culture and Critique 15.4:520–530 DOI: 10.1093/ccc/tcac032

Topic

(2023) Love is love: Reverse isomorphism and the rise of LGBTQ+ romance publishing New Media & Society ONLINE FIRST:ONLINE FIRST DOI: 10.1177/14614448231218991

Topic

(2024) Love in the Time of Self-Publishing: How Romance Writers Changed the Rules of Writing and Success : Princeton University Press

Topic

Vivian Stephens

Rita Clay Estrada

romances in magazines and newspapers

(1989) En annan historia: om kvinnors läsning och svensk veckopress , Lund University

Topic

Sweden

(2024) Arrivals and Departures: The Human Relationship with Changing Biodiversity Berlin/Boston: De Grutyer

Lawrence, Kelsey

(2020) No Happy Ending: Leadership Falls Apart at the Romance Writers of America SAGE Business Cases : DOI: 10.4135/9781529741117

Topic

(2020) On the problem of oppressive tastes in the public library Journal of Documentation 76.5:1091-1107 DOI: 10.1108/JD-01-2020-0002

Topic

(2020) The trouble with diverse books, part I: on the limits of conceptual analysis for political negotiation in Library & Information Science Journal of Documentation 76.6:1473-1491 DOI: 10.1108/JD-04-2020-0057

Topic

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

(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

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 DOI: 10.3828/extr.2009.50.3.5

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fanfiction

J. R. Ward

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

Violet Winspear

Jane Austen

Ledford-Miller, Linda

(2011) Gender and Genre Bending: The Futuristic Detective Fiction of J.D. Robb Reconstruction: Studies in Contemporary Culture 11.3:

Topic

science fiction/futuristic romance

romantic suspense

Lee, Zi-Ying

Liao, Min-Hsiu

(2018) The “Second” Bride: The Retranslation of Romance Novels Babel 64.2:186-204 DOI: 10.1075/babel.00030.lee

Topic

(2008) Guilty Pleasures: Reading Romance Novels as Reworked Fairy Tales Marvels & Tales 22.1:52-66

Topic

fairytales/folktales

Christine Feehan

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

(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 DOI: 10.4000/lidil.3950

Topic

linguistics

Leith, Murray Stewart

Sim, Duncan

(2014) The Modern Scottish Diaspora: Contemporary Debates and Perspectives Edinburgh: Edinburgh University Press

Lemay, Catherine

(2016) La traduction de la scène de sexe dans le roman sentimental érotique: Analyse descriptive et comparative Mémoire de maîtrise, l’Université Laval

Topic

(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

(2007) Of Modern Dragons and other essays on Genre Fiction Tirril, Penrith: Humanities-Ebooks

Topic

romantic suspense

science fiction/futuristic romance

Lennard, John

(2010) Of Sex and Faerie: Further essays on Genre Fiction Tirril, Penrith: Humanities-Ebooks

Topic

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

Liala, pen name of Amalia Liana Cambiasi Negretti Odescalchi

pornography

Lepschy, Anna Laura

(2000) "The Popular Novel, 1850-1920 " A History of Women’s Writing in Italy 177-189

Topic

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

(2011) "« La petite pâquerette était morte ». Sérialités éditoriales et réception de l’œuvre de Delly " L’Œuvre de Delly 163-186

Topic

(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

Levina, Mariia

(2003) Readers of Mass Literature, 1994-2000: From Paternalism to Individualism? Russian Studies in Literature 40.1:79-95 DOI: 10.1080/10611975.2003.11062126

Topic

(1987) Up From Under, or On Not Marrying the Racist Aussie Boss: Strategies for Reading Romantic Fiction Hecate 13.1:7-20

Topic

romance scholarship

Australia

Margaret Way

Liang, William Tham Wai

(2020) Paper & Text: The Trials and Trade of Malaysian Literature Petaling Jaya, Malaysia: Gerakbudaya Enterprise

Lienhard, Alissa

(2024) “I’ll Call it Platonic Magic”: Queer Joy, Metafiction, and Aro-Ace Autofictional Selves in Alice Oseman’s Loveless In Progress: A Graduate Journal of North American Studies 2.1:59-72 DOI: 10.15488/17355

Topic

Alice Oseman

(2008) "A very Glamorized Picture, that": Images of Scottish Female Herring Workers on Romance Novel Covers Social Semiotics 18.3:349-361 DOI: 10.1080/10350330802217121

Topic

(1984) Returning to Manderley – Romance Fiction, Female Sexuality and Class Feminist Review 16:7-25 DOI: 10.1057/fr.1984.2

Topic

Daphne du Maurier

psychology

Light, Alison

(1994) "Preface (to the third edition) " Twentieth-Century Romance and Historical Writers (3rd edition) xi-xvi

Topic

history

Limond, Verity

(2023) ‘The door is open to everyone’: The public libraries of Gozo Omertaa, Journal for applied anthropology :745-754

Topic

Malta

Lin, Pei-yin

Kim, Su Yun

(2019) East Asian Transwar Popular Culture: Literature and Film from Taiwan and Korea Singapore: Palgrave Macmillan

Topic

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

Korea

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

(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

(2020) A model of romance fiction search behavior iConference 2020 Proceedings :

Topic

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

(2002) Översättning som social praktik: Toni Morrison och Harlequinserien Passion på svenska Doctoral Thesis,

Topic

linguistics

Lindström Kruse, Miranda

(2022) Pinsamma läsningar: En affektteoretisk studie av #SpicyBooks på TikTok Masters thesis, Uppsala universitet

Topic

(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

national identity

(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

settings

(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

(2003) Populärliteratur als kulturelles Gedächtnis: Eine vergleichende Studie zu zeitgenössischen britischen und amerikanischen popular romances der Verlagsgruppe Harlequin Mills & Boon Heidelberg: Universitätsverlag Winter

Topic

Linz, Cathie

Bouricius, Ann

Byrnes, Carole

(1995) Exploring the World of Romance Novels Public Libraries 34.3:144–151

Topic

paratext

(1987) Double Date to Double Love: Female Sex Roles in Teen Romances ALAN Review 14.3:45-46, 55

Topic

(1991) Sunfire Historical Romances ALAN Review 19.1:22

Topic

(1991) The Wild West, Floods, Wars and Boys: Sunfire Historical Romances for Young Adults ALAN Review 19.1:22-25

Topic

(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

(1995) Dreams, Guys, Lies, and Occasionally Books: The Young Women of the Freshman Dorm Series ALAN Review 22.2:10 DOI: 10.21061/alan.v22i2.a.4

Topic

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

Liu, Su-hsen

(2013) Modern Female Gothic and Its Translation in Taiwan: Based on a Case Study of the Chinese Translation of Mistress of Mellyn Spectrum: NCUE Studies in Language, Literature, Translation, and Interpretation 11:121-147

Topic

Victoria Holt/Jean Plaidy/Eleanor Burford Hibbert

Livingston, Eric

(2006) The Textuality of Pleasure New Literary History 37.3:655-672

Topic

close reading

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 DOI: 10.1177/0891243215584603

Topic

(2019) Aspirational Emotion Work: Calling, Emotional Capital, and Becoming a 'Real' Writer Journal of Contemporary Ethnography 48.1:51-79 DOI: 10.1177/0891241617749011

Topic

(2022) Individuation and the Romance Novel PhD thesis, Pacifica Graduate Institute

Topic

(2021) Modern Love: Reading, Writing, and Publishing the Romance Novel Master's Thesis, Purdue University

Topic

(2006) Romance novels: women's motivation for readership and effects of reading MA, Central Michigan University

Topic

Long, Bridget L.

(2007) "Women's Romance Novel Readership: Motivations, Expectations, and Relationship Satisfaction "

Topic

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 DOI: 10.1515/jls-2015-0009

Topic

Loranger, Caroline

(2022) Parcours amoureux et économiques dans le roman sentimental publié par les éditions Édouard Garand Études françaises 58.1:15–31 DOI: 10.7202/1089739ar

Topic

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

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

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

Susan Elizabeth Phillips

E. M. Hull

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

Lowery, Karalyne

(2018) The Militarized Shapeshifter: Authorized Violence and Military Connections as an Antidote to Monstrosity University of Toronto Quarterly 87.1:196-213 DOI: 10.3138/utq.87.1.196

Topic

war/armed forces

(2011) "La réception de Delly en Espagne et en Amérique Latine " L’Œuvre de Delly 209-232

Topic

Spain

(2012) La recepción de Delly en España NERTER 17-18:34-36

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

(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

(2018) Pour une typologie de la marginalité dans les romans de Delly: la fonction de la femme L'Ull crític 21-22:137-152 DOI: 10.21001/luc.21.22.09

Topic

(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

wealth/prosperity

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

(2024) Formula Romance dalam Roman Mes Amis Mes Amours Karya Marc Lévy LE PARIS: Journal de Langue, Litterature, et Culture 5.1:15-33

Topic

Marc Levy

Luneau, Marie-Pier

(2008) « Tant d’amour à donner »: Le biographique, l’œuvre, et la figure de l’auteur Harlequin COnTEXTES 3: DOI: 10.4000/contextes.2413

Topic

(2019) Ce que le roman catholique fait au roman sentimental : le cas de la collection « Amour et aventure » COnTEXTES 23: DOI: 10.4000/contextes.7903

Topic

(2022) D’amour et d’or pur. Les impératifs matérialistes du bonheur amoureux dans le roman sentimental québécois de l’après-guerre Études françaises 58.1:33–53 DOI: 10.7202/1089740ar

Topic

(2022) L’amour comme un roman. Le roman sentimental au Québec d’hier à aujourd’hui Montréal: Presses de l’Université de Montréal

Topic

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

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

(2022) Une littérature qui refuse de se laisser parler d’amour ? Les romans québécois et l’expression de la passion avant 1960 Captures 7.1: DOI: 10.7202/1091535ar

Topic

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

Boivin, Karol'Ann

Bérubé, Harold

(2023) Amour à 10 sous: Le roman sentimental québécois de l'après-guerre : Septentrion

Topic

dime novels

Luneau, Marie-Pier

(2023) Le temps des fascicules: Entre pratiques périodiques et pratiques livresques Cahiers de la Société bibliographique du Canada 60: DOI: 10.33137/pbsc.v60i1.34677

Topic

(2024) Affaires et sentiments : la figure de l’homme d’affaires dans le roman sentimental québécois de l’après-guerre Tangence 134:43–70 DOI: https://doi.org/10.7202/1112213ar

Topic

(2024) Love Stories Now and Then: A History of Les romans d'amour : Baraka

Topic

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

Philippe Aubert de Gaspé Jr.

Joseph Doutre

metafiction

Pierre-Joseph-Olivier Chauveau

Albertine Laperle-Bernier

dime novels

Marie-Claude Bussières-Tremblay

chick lit

Micheline Perron

Raymond Plante

Bertrand Gauthier

(2025) Exoticism Without Cosmopolitanism: The Quebec Romance Novel of the 1940s and 1950s Contemporary French and Francophone Studies 29.1:154-166 DOI: 10.1080/17409292.2025.2454174

Topic

settings

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

Luther, Amy Victoria

(2010) Men reading fiction: A study of the relationship between reader, (con)text, consumption and gender identity. PhD, Cardiff University

Topic

(2003) Heidegger, the Erotics of Ontology, and the Mass-Market Romance Comparative Literature and Culture 5.3: DOI: 10.7771/1481-4374.1194

Topic

(2004) The Dangerous Lover and the Erotics of Failure: Nineteenth-century Byronism and the Contemporary Romance PhD, City University of New York

Topic

(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)

Victoria Holt/Jean Plaidy/Eleanor Burford Hibbert

(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

(2012) Queering the Romantic Heroine: Where Her Power Lies Journal of Popular Romance Studies 3.1:

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

lesbian romance

Radclyffe Hall

Mabee, Norma Augusta

(1993) La novela rosa de Corín Tellado: Desorden, conflicto y escape de la ectopia PhD, Arizona State University

Topic

(2000) Shape-shifting: Images of Native Americans in Recent Popular Fiction Westport, Connecticut: Greenwood Press

Topic

Native American romance

Magenya, Sheena Gimase

(2020) Reading between the lines: A review of Dark Juices and Afrodisiacs: Erotic Diaries Vol 1 Agenda 34.3:137-144 DOI: 10.1080/10130950.2020.1782756

Topic

Africa

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

(2001) Ripping the Bodice: Eating, Reading, and Revolt College Literature 28.1:64-83

Topic

(2016) "‘Breaking away’: Beatrice Grimshaw and the commercial woman writer " 82–99 DOI:10.7228/manchester/9780719097584.003.0006

Topic

Beatrice Grimshaw

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

(2021) Reading Response in Mary Balogh: A Critical Engagement Journal of Popular Romance Studies 10: DOI: 10.70138/OMMB6082

Topic

(2001) Feminist Popular Fiction Houndmills, Basingstoke: Palgrave

Topic

love

Malinowska, Anna

(2017) Paternal Structures of the Romance Romanica Silesiana 12:40-52

Topic

(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

(2017) Remnants of the Bodice Ripper: How Consent is Characterized in Heterosexual and Lesbian Erotic Romance Novels Undergraduate, Bard College

Topic

lesbian romance

Mangat, T. K.

(1998) The surgeon in popular fiction - The Mills and Boon doctor-nurse romance Theoretical Surgery 3.2:89-92

Topic

(1969) The Romantic Novel: A Survey of Reading Habits London: Mills & Boon

Topic

(1974) A New Survey: The Facts About Romantic Fiction London: Mills & Boon

Topic

(1979) "Romantic Fiction and Its Readers " Entertainment: A Cross-Cultural Examination 34-42

Topic

(1981) The Romantic Novel and its Readers Journal of Popular Culture 15.1:9-18 DOI: 10.1111/j.0022-3840.1981.00009.x

Topic

(1985) Romantic Fiction and Its Readership Poetics 14.1-2:95-105 DOI: 10.1016/0304-422X(85)90006-3

Topic

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

fascism/right-wing authoritarianism

Spain

wealth/prosperity

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 DOI: 10.7202/500620ar

Topic

(1982) Mills & Boon: guilt without sex Red Letters 14:5-13

Topic

work

emotions

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

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

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

(2009) In Defense of Romantic Fiction Master of Science in Publishing, Pace University

Topic

Markasović, Valentina

(2023) Challenging Gender Stereotypes in Holly Black’s The Folk of the Air Trilogy Breaking Stereotypes in American Popular Culture: Proceedings of the 10th Annual Conference of the Croatian Association for American Studies :41-56 DOI: 10.17234/9789533791258.03

Topic

Holly Black

Markert, John

(1984) Beyond Gatekeepers: Romance Publishing and the Production of Culture PhD, Vanderbilt University

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