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
Lovelock, K (1995) ""If you're in the mood": femininity and romance in a New Zealand rural town " Communication and Culture in Rural Areas 127-149 Topic New Zealand readers
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 DOI: 10.3138/utq.87.1.196 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 DOI: 10.21001/luc.21.22.09 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
Lukas, Iwan Muarifuddin, Azi, Rahmawati (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 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: DOI: 10.4000/contextes.7903 Topic religion/spirituality Christian romance race/ethnicity Canada Publishing
Luneau, Marie-Pier Warren, Jean-Philippe (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 dime novels Canada wealth/prosperity
Luneau, Marie-Pier Warren, Jean-Philippe (2022) L’amour comme un roman. Le roman sentimental au Québec d’hier à aujourd’hui Montréal: Presses de l’Université de Montréal Topic Canada Older and/or precursor texts (may not be "romance" as now defined) Harlequin Mills & Boon sociology love marriage sex/sexuality
Luneau, Marie-Pier Warren, Jean-Philippe (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) Canada love dime novels wealth/prosperity family
Luneau, Marie-Pier Warren, Jean-Philippe Boivin, Karol'Ann Bérubé, Harold (2023) Amour à 10 sous: Le roman sentimental québécois de l'après-guerre : Septentrion Topic Older and/or precursor texts (may not be "romance" as now defined) Canada dime novels
Luneau, Marie-Pier Warren, Jean-Philippe (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 paratext dime novels Canada
Luneau, Marie-Pier Warren, Jean-Philippe (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 wealth/prosperity capitalism/business Canada
Luneau, Marie-Pier Warren, Jean-Philippe (2024) Love Stories Now and Then: A History of Les romans d'amour : Baraka Topic Canada Older and/or precursor texts (may not be "romance" as now defined) sociology love marriage sex/sexuality history Philippe Aubert de Gaspé Jr. Joseph Doutre metafiction Pierre-Joseph-Olivier Chauveau social/economic class religion/spirituality race/ethnicity Rosanna Leprohon Ernest Choquette family Virginie Dussault Albertine Laperle-Bernier dime novels Harlequin Mills & Boon YA/young adult/teenage/new adult/NA romance chick lit Marie-Claude Bussières-Tremblay Micheline Perron rape and/or intimate partner violence/abuse Raymond Plante Bertrand Gauthier LGBTQ+ characters, readers and/or authors chick lit Suzanne Roy Chloé Duval BDSM
Luneau, Marie-Pier Warren, Jean-Philippe (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 Canada settings race/ethnicity social/economic class
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: DOI: 10.7771/1481-4374.1194 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 LGBTQ+ 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
Maddox, Lucy (2011) Beyond Trembling Manhood and Heaving Bosoms Gender and Sexuality in the Historical Romance Novel Bachelors, New College of Florida Topic gender sex/sexuality
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 LGBTQ+ 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
Mahony, Jane Patten, Eve (2016) "‘Breaking away’: Beatrice Grimshaw and the commercial woman writer " 82–99 DOI:10.7228/manchester/9780719097584.003.0006 Topic Beatrice Grimshaw Older and/or precursor texts (may not be "romance" as now defined) Harlequin Mills & Boon
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: DOI: 10.70138/OMMB6082 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 LGBTQ+ 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 LGBTQ+ 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 DOI: 10.1111/j.0022-3840.1981.00009.x 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 DOI: 10.1016/0304-422X(85)90006-3 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 DOI: 10.7202/500620ar 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
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 paranormal/fantasy/time-travel romance YA/young adult/teenage/new adult/NA romance gender
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 DOI: 10.1016/0304-422X(85)90005-1 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 DOI: 10.1007/BF02683612 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 LGBTQ+ 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
Markova, M. V. (2024) Georgette Heyer, history, and historical fiction. Voprosy literatury 1:198-203 DOI: 10.31425/0042-8795-2024-1-198-203 Topic Georgette Heyer history historical 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
Martín, Sara Santaulària, M. Isabel (2024) Detoxing Masculinity in Anglophone Literature and Culture: In Search of Good Men Cham: Palgrave Macmillan
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
Martín Coloma, Ricardo (2025) On Activist Mothers and Gentrifying Lovers: From the Legacy of the Civil Rights Movement to the Model-Minority Myth in the Caribbean Romance Novel Journal of American Studies ONLINE FIRST:ONLINE FIRST DOI: 10.1017/S0021875825101138 Topic race/ethnicity social/economic class United States of America capitalism/business family Xochitl González romance and, or as, activism
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
Martínez-Falquina, Silvia (2024) "Historical Reparation, Emotional Justice: The Navajo Long Walk in Evangeline Parsons Yazzie’s Her Land, Her Love " Conflict and Colonialism in 21st Century Romantic Historical Fiction: Repairing the Past, Repurposing History DOI:10.4324/9781003493792-8 Topic Evangeline Parsons Yazzie Native American romance United States of America historical romance race/ethnicity
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 LGBTQ+ 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
Matthews, Amy Ashman, Justina Heffernan, Millie Hogan, Payton Guy, Abby Stewart, Harrison Stanley, Kathleen Cothren, Alex Duffield, Elizabeth (2025) Editorial: Degrees of Love and Trope Actually TEXT 29, Special Issue 75: DOI: 10.52086/001c.142608 Topic romance scholarship
Matthews, Amy Cothren, Alex Hennessy, Rachel (2025) Happily ever after in the age of climate crisis: The argument for “cli-ro” TEXT 29, Special Issue 75: DOI: 10.52086/001c.142614 Topic ecocriticism/environmentalism/climate change Sally Rooney Rachel Griffin Aya de León romance and, or as, activism
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
Mayer, Claude-Hélène Vanderheiden, Elisabeth (2025) International Handbook of Love: Transcultural and Transdisciplinary Perspectives (2nd edition) : Springer Cham
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 DOI: 10.31390/taboo.14.1.07 Topic feminism Publishing gender erotic romance LGBTQ+ 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 DOI: 10.1093/tcbh/1.3.264 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 DOI: 10.1386/ajpc.3.3.299_1 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 LGBTQ+ 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: DOI: 10.20314/als.0fd566d109 Topic genre definitions YA/young adult/teenage/new adult/NA 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 DOI: 10.1163/2208522X-02010005 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 DOI: 10.1007/s12109-020-09733-1 Topic Philippines genre definitions Publishing readers authors Mina V. Esguerra LGBTQ+ 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: DOI: 10.70138/PSGT6480 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 LGBTQ+ characters, readers and/or authors settings authors paratext
McAlister, Jodi Cuthbert, Kate (2025) Romantasy: An overview and a history Synergy 23.2: Topic paranormal/fantasy/time-travel romance
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 DOI: 10.1111/j.0022-3840.1994.2704_43.x 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 (2023) Self-conscious, unapologetic, and straight: fat protagonists in romantic fiction Fat Studies 12.2:233-242 DOI: 10.1080/21604851.2022.2047337 Topic fat, fatness paratext race/ethnicity LGBTQ+ 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 DOI: 10.1093/alh/ajab004 Topic Publishing capitalism/business trash/literary and or intellectual quality readers sex/sexuality BDSM Fifty Shades erotic romance LGBTQ+ characters, readers and/or authors genre definitions fanfiction
McInnis, Lauren (2024) Filing The Serial Numbers Off: The Role Of The Author In Fanfiction Published As Original FictionFanfiction Published As Original Fiction Master of Arts, University of Alabama at Birmingham Topic fanfiction paratext Fifty Shades Christina Lauren Ali Hazelwood
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
McNamara, Emma K (2024) Young Adult Contemporary Realistic Romance: Rhetorical and Intersectional Narratologies PhD, Ohio State University Topic YA/young adult/teenage/new adult/NA romance readers Rachael Allen Gayle Forman Jas Hammonds Jenny Han Emiko Jean Kekla Magoon Crystal Maldonado Morgan Matson Sandhya Menon Julie Murphy Sally Rooney Ismée Williams
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 DOI: 10.1080/10304310802710488 Topic Publishing Harlequin Mills & Boon Australia
Medrano-González, Claudia (2024) On the Convergence Between Femme Theory and Popular Feminine Fiction: Adolescent Girls’ (Re)territorialisation Of Fem(me)ininity Through Young Adult Erotic Romance Journal of Femininities ONLINE FIRST:ONLINE FIRST DOI: 10.1163/29501229-bja10005 Topic YA/young adult/teenage/new adult/NA romance Spain gender readers sex/sexuality feminism
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 DOI: 10.1007/s12119-011-9092-3 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
Meredith, Tami Fisher, Maryanne Giddens, Nicole (2025) Babies, Brides, and Billionaires: Computational and Linguistic Analysis of Harlequin Romance Novel Cover Text Evolutionary Behavioral Sciences ONLINE FIRST:ONLINE FIRST DOI: 10.1037/ebs0000390 Topic paratext Harlequin Mills & Boon linguistics evolutionary psychology
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 - 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 DOI: 10.1057/s41290-020-00126-7 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 94:--- DOI: 10.1016/j.poetic.2022.101729 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 LGBTQ+ 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
Michelson, Anna (2025) "Romance Reading as a Social Activity " Still Reading Romance: Identity and Engagement with Popular Romance Fiction 129-142 DOI:10.5040/9798881847616.ch-008 Topic readers
Miclea, Adelina-Cerasela (2024) The Scientification of Love: A Cognitive Literary Approach to Romance Novels PhD, Universitatea de Vest din Timișoara Topic linguistics psychology Elena Armas Ali Hazelwood Emily Henry Helen Hoang Colleen Hoover Casey McQuiston Lynn Painter Kate Robb
Miclea, Adelina (2023) Colleen Hoover’s Formulas for Best-Sellers as Seen in Reminders of Him and it Ends with Us Romanian Journal of English Studies 20.1:72-79 DOI: 10.2478/rjes-2023-0008 Topic Colleen Hoover United States of America
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 DOI: 10.1353/lm.2015.0010 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 DOI: 10.1080/0013838X.2014.983786 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 DOI: 10.1353/tt.1996.0005 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: DOI: 10.21061/alan.v22i2.a.3 Topic YA/young adult/teenage/new adult/NA 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 DOI: 10.1086/493729 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 LGBTQ+ 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 DOI: 10.1111/j.1468-2885.1993.tb00072.x Topic readers
Moffitt, Mary Anne (1993) Leisure Fiction and the Audience: Meaning and Communication Strategies Women's Studies in Communication 16.2:27-61 DOI: 10.1080/07491409.1993.11089773 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)
Montebello, Sophie (2024) The Representation and Self-Representation of Anglo-Indians in Literature from 1885 to the Present Day PhD, The Open University Topic Flora Annie Steel Maud Diver India 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 DOI: 10.1215/15314200-3158669 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: DOI: 10.70138/KUMM2566 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: DOI: 10.70138/MCKL2088 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 erotic romance
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
Moore, Jeania Ree V. (2025) The Religious Work of Beverly Jenkins’s Black Historical Romance Journal of Popular Romance Studies 14: DOI: 10.70138/KBQG2589 Topic Beverly Jenkins religion/spirituality African American romance feminism romance and, or as, activism historical romance history community readers race/ethnicity sex/sexuality
Moran, Albert (1990) "No More Virgins": Writing Romance ‐ an Interview with Emma Darcy Continuum: The Australian Journal of Media & Culture 4.1:37-53 DOI: 10.1080/10304319009388180 Topic Emma Darcy Harlequin Mills & Boon emotions readers authors
Morden, Christina (2023) Innovations in Romance Novel Distribution at Harlequin, Sourcebooks, and Raincoast Books Master of Publishing, Simon Fraser University Topic Publishing Canada Harlequin Mills & Boon
Moreau, Charles (2011) "Influence de l’histoire et de l’exotisme dans l’œuvre de Delly ou la conversion contrariée " L’Œuvre de Delly 123-138 Topic Delly
Moreno-Álvarez, Alejandra (2020) "India, Heat, Dust, and Tea? Alienness and Marketability in Ruth Prawer Jhabvala and Nicole C. Vosseler " Diasporic Inquiries into South Asian Women’s Narratives: Alien Domiciles 39-51 Topic India trash/literary and or intellectual quality Nicole C. Vosseler Ruth Prawer Jhabvala happy ending race/ethnicity
Moreno-Álvarez, Alejandra (2021) "Romance Novels in Postcolonial India: From Mills & Boon to Pageturn’s Red Romance Series " Romantic Escapes: Post-Millennial Trends in Contemporary Popular Romance Fiction 223-241 Topic India Harlequin Mills & Boon readers
Moretto, Shirley Weidenburner, Kathleen (1984) We’ll Take Romance! Library Journal 109.15:1727-1728 Topic libraries/librarians
Morey, Ann-Janine (1990) The Reverend Idol and Other Parsonage Secrets: Women Write Romances about Ministers, 1880-1950 Journal of Feminist Studies in Religion 6.1:87-103 Topic religion/spirituality Christian romance Older and/or precursor texts (may not be "romance" as now defined)
Morey, Ann-Janine (1992) Religion and Sexuality in American Literature Cambridge: Cambridge University Press Topic religion/spirituality Christian romance Older and/or precursor texts (may not be "romance" as now defined)
Morgan, Paula (2003) “Like Bush Fire in My Arms”: Interrogating the World of Caribbean Romance Journal of Popular Culture 36.4:804-827 DOI: 10.1111/1540-5931.00046 Topic Caribbean race/ethnicity Valerie Belgrave Dorothy Jolly Deidre D'Allan Lynn-Ann Ali Lucille Colleton Annette Charles settings social/economic class sex/sexuality work Islam
Morrison, Kevin A. Rantala, Pälvi (2023) Historical Research, Creative Writing, and the Past: Methods of Knowing New York: Routledge
Morrissey, Katherine (2008) Fanning the Flames of Romance: An Exploration of Fan Fiction and the Romance Novel MA thesis, Georgetown University Topic fanfiction
Morrissey, Katherine (2014) Fifty Shades of Remix: The Intersecting Pleasures of Commercial and Fan Romances Journal of Popular Romance Studies 4.1: Topic Fifty Shades fanfiction
Morrissey, Katherine (2015) "Steamy, Spicy, Sensual: Tracing the Cycles of Erotic Romance " Women and Erotic Fiction: Critical Essays on Genres, Markets & Readers 42-58 Topic erotic romance Publishing genre definitions Kathleen Woodiwiss Avon historical romance BDSM LGBTQ+ characters, readers and/or authors
Morrissey, Katherine (2016) Romance Networks: Aspiration & Desire in Today’s Digital Culture PhD, University of Wisconsin, Milwaukee Topic fanfiction Publishing readers genre definitions Fifty Shades Twilight sex/sexuality love pornography Harlequin Mills & Boon erotic romance
Morton, Leith (2015) The reinvention of romance: The rewriting, reception and censorship of 'ninjobon' in modern Japan Journal of the Oriental Society of Australia 47:85-115 Topic genre definitions readers Japan love Older and/or precursor texts (may not be "romance" as now defined)
Moruzi, Kristine Rodgers, Beth Smith, Michelle J. (2024) The Edinburgh History of Children's Periodicals Edinburgh: Edinburgh University Press
Mosley, Shelley Charles, John Havir, Julie (1995) The Librarian as Effete Snob: Why Romance? Wilson Library Bulletin 69: Topic libraries/librarians Ginger Chambers
Moss, Madi Markle (2020) Review: When Was the Last Time You Read a Romance Novel? Dialogue: A Journal of Mormon Thought 53.1:189-193 DOI: 10.5406/dialjmormthou.53.1.0189 Topic Christian romance race/ethnicity Ilima Todd
Moss, Gemma (1989) Un/Popular Fictions London: Virago Topic readers authors YA/young adult/teenage/new adult/NA romance race/ethnicity feminism gender teaching romance
Moss, Gemma (1993) "Girls Tell the Teen Romance: Four Reading Histories " Reading Audiences: Young People and the Media 116-134 Topic YA/young adult/teenage/new adult/NA romance readers
Moss, Gemma (1993) "The Place for Romance in Young People's Writing " Texts of Desire: Essays on Fiction, Femininity and Schooling 106–125 DOI:10.4324/9781315810119 Topic YA/young adult/teenage/new adult/NA romance readers race/ethnicity
Mostow, Joshua S. (2003) The Columbia Companion to Modern East Asian Literature New York: Columbia University Press
Motte, Warren (2012) A Walk on the Sheikh Side Formes Poétiques Contemporaines 9:119-134 Topic sheikh romance paratext Harlequin Mills & Boon Sharon Kendrick trash/literary and or intellectual quality animals metaphor/symbolism
Motyl, Katya (2025) Embodied Histories: New Womanhood in Vienna, 1894–1934 Chicago: University of Chicago Press Topic Austria history sex/sexuality Older and/or precursor texts (may not be "romance" as now defined) E. Marlitt/Eugenie John Hedwig Courths-Mahler love marriage
Moudileno, Lydie (2002) Pas de romance sans finance: la construction du couple moderne dans les romans sentimentaux de l'Afrique de l'Ouest Sites: The Journal of Twentieth-Century/Contemporary French Studies revue d'études français 6.1:67-78 DOI: 10.1080/10260210290021789 Topic Africa settings love sex/sexuality gender fashion/clothing wealth/prosperity
Moudileno, Lydie (2005) L’invention du romantique. La littérature rose révolutionne l'édition africaine Africultures 63: Topic Africa settings
Moudileno, Lydie (2008) The Troubling Popularity of West African Romance Novels Research in African Literatures 39.4:120-132 Topic Africa settings trash/literary and or intellectual quality
Mouritsen, Maren M. (1981) Ye Are Free to Choose: Agency and the Latter-Day Saint Woman Provo, Utah: Brigham Young University
Moussaoui, Abdelghani (2024) Gender as a ‘Discursive Practice’ in Romance Discourse International Journal of Language and Literary Studies 6.2:654–665 DOI: 10.36892/ijlls.v6i2.1745 Topic Morocco Rebecca Stratton race/ethnicity gender
Moussaoui, Abdelghani Benlamine, Abdellah (2024) Gender, Identity, and the Politics of Difference in Popular Romance Arab World English Journal for Translation & Literary Studies 8.3:78-89 DOI: 10.24093/awejtls/vol8no3.7 Topic race/ethnicity Rebecca Stratton Morocco gender
Moussaoui, Abdelghani (2024) On the Racialization of the Moroccan ‘Other’ in Orientalist Romance International Journal of Language and Literary Studies 6.2:103–116 DOI: https://doi.org/10.36892/ijlls.v6i2.1662 Topic Rebecca Stratton race/ethnicity Morocco
Moussaoui, Abdelghani Benlamine, Abdellah (2024) Race as a 'Sign of Difference' in Romance Discourse Journal of Applied Language and Culture Studies 7.2:114-128 Topic race/ethnicity Rebecca Stratton
Moussaoui, Abdelghani (2024) The Discursive Formation of Ethnic Subjectivities and Identities in Popular Romance International Journal of Language and Literary Studies 6.3:106-119 DOI: 10.36892/ijlls.v6i3.1769 Topic race/ethnicity Rebecca Stratton
Moy, Patricia Matheson, Donald (2019) Voices: Exploring the Shifting Contours of Communication New York: Peter Lang
Muhomah, Catherine (2002) What do women want?: Versions of masculinity in Kenyan romantic fiction English Studies in Africa 45.2:77-90 Topic Kenya Asenath Odaga marriage gender sex/sexuality family wealth/prosperity
Mukherjea, Ananya (2011) My Vampire Boyfriend: Postfeminism, “Perfect” Masculinity, and the Contemporary Appeal of Paranormal Romance Studies in Popular Culture 33.2:1-20 Topic paranormal/fantasy/time-travel romance feminism gender YA/young adult/teenage/new adult/NA romance
Mulhern, Chieko Irie (1989) Japanese Harlequin Romances as Transcultural Woman's Fiction The Journal of Asian Studies 48.1:50-70 DOI: 10.2307/2057664 Topic Japan metaphor/symbolism sex/sexuality family work rape and/or intimate partner violence/abuse food, drink
Mulvey, Alexandra Hazel (2023) Gender and Sex Stereotypes in Sports Romance Fiction Masters thesis, Macquarie University Topic sport gender LGBTQ+ characters, readers and/or authors Mariana Zapata Tijan Hannah Grace Rachel Spangler Kelly Quindlen Katia Rose food, drink happy ending family
Mulvey, Alexandra Teo, Hsu-Ming (2025) “You’re a total dick sometimes, but it’s a tolerable kind of dickishness”: Hegemonic masculinity and sports romances TEXT 29, Special Issue 75: DOI: 10.52086/001c.142612 Topic sport gender
Munt, Sally (1992) New Lesbian Criticism: Literary and Cultural Readings New York: Columbia University Press
Muram, David Rosenthal, Ted L. Tolley, Elizabeth A. Peeler, Molly M. Pitts, Bridget (1992) Teenage Pregnancy: Dating and Sexual Attitudes Journal of Sex Education and Therapy 18.4:264-276 DOI: 10.1080/01614576.1992.11074059 Topic readers sex/sexuality race/ethnicity
Murias, Rosana (2021) "In Grey and Pink: The Image of the Bride through the Spanish Postwar Novela Rosa " The Bride in the Cultural Imagination: Screen, Stage, and Literary Productions 17-34 DOI:10.5771/9781793616142-17 Topic Spain fascism/right-wing authoritarianism marriage Carlota O'Neill/Laura de Noves gender film/movies history
Murphy, Bernice M. Matterson, Stephen (2018) Twenty-First-Century Popular Fiction Edinburgh: Edinburgh University Press
Muryn, Teresa (2019) Rougir / devenir rouge : l’expression linguistique du langage corporel et ce qu’elle laisse inférer dans un genre textuel Studia Romanica Posnaniensia 46.1:137-151 DOI: 10.14746/strop.2019.461.008 Topic linguistics emotions Harlequin Mills & Boon
Muryn, Teresa Niziołek, Małgorzata Hajok, Alicja (2020) "Que dit la main dans le roman sentimental et policier? " Phraséologie et stylistique de la langue littéraire/Phraseology and Stylistics of Literary Language; Approches interdisciplinaires/Interdisciplinary Approaches 127-142 DOI:10.3726/b17628 Topic linguistics
Mussell, Kay Johnson (1973) The World of Modern Gothic Fiction: American Women and Their Social Myths PhD, University of Iowa Topic gothic romance
Mussell, Kay J. (1975) Beautiful and Damned: The Sexual Woman in Gothic Fiction Journal of Popular Culture 9.1:84-89 DOI: 10.1111/j.0022-3840.1975.0901_84.x Topic United States of America sex/sexuality gothic romance gender family
Mussell, Kay J. (1983) ""But Why Do They Read Those Things?": The Female Audience and the Gothic Novel " The Female Gothic 57-68 Topic gothic romance readers
Mussell, Kay (1981) Women’s Gothic and Romantic Fiction: A Reference Guide Westport, Connecticut: Greenwood Press Topic gothic romance Older and/or precursor texts (may not be "romance" as now defined) United States of America Catharine Maria Sedgwick Augusta Jane Evans E. D. E. N. Southworth Margaret Mitchell Daphne du Maurier Victoria Holt/Jean Plaidy/Eleanor Burford Hibbert Mary Stewart Phyllis A. Whitney Rosemary Rogers Harlequin Mills & Boon Kathleen Thompson Norris Grace Livingston Hill film/movies readers romance scholarship
Mussell, Kay (1982) "Preface " Twentieth Century Romance and Gothic Writers v-ix Topic gothic romance United States of America Publishing
Mussell, Kay (1984) Fantasy and Reconciliation: Contemporary Formulas of Women’s Romance Fiction Westport, Connecticut: Greenwood Press Topic Mary Stewart Victoria Holt/Jean Plaidy/Eleanor Burford Hibbert Phyllis A. Whitney Roberta Gellis Anya Seton Georgette Heyer Barbara Cartland feminism romantic suspense historical romance gender sex/sexuality marriage Older and/or precursor texts (may not be "romance" as now defined) erotic romance readers romance scholarship Harlequin Mills & Boon gothic romance Jane Austen history settings social/economic class UK United States of America fairytales/folktales family Charlotte Brontë psychology
Mussell, Kay (1990) "Preface " Twentieth-Century Romance and Historical Writers (2nd edition) vii-xii Topic historical romance