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Australia

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

history

national identity

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

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(2020) The Consummate Virgin: Female Virginity Loss and Love in Anglophone Popular Literatures Cham, Switzerland: Palgrave Macmillan

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

(2021) "Erotic romance " The Routledge Research Companion to Popular Romance Fiction 212-228 DOI:10.4324/9781315613468-9

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(2021) New Adult Fiction Cambridge: Cambridge University Press

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(2022) Isn’t It Iconic: Canonical Logics and the Romance Genre Journal of Popular Romance Studies 11:

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Trinidad, Andrea Anne

(2023) Publishing Romance Fiction in the Philippines Cambridge: Cambridge University Press

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Philippines

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historical romance

Jayne Ann Krentz/Amanda Quick/Jayne Castle

Native American romance

(2021) "Sex and sexuality " The Routledge Research Companion to Popular Romance Fiction 411-427 DOI:10.4324/9781315613468-19

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(2001) Love's Labors Won: Romance Fiction and the Politics of Love New Orleans Review 27.1:171-183

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Laura Kinsale

Mary Jo Putney

McCracken, Scott

(1998) Pulp: Reading Popular Fiction Manchester: Manchester University Press

Topic

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

Penny Jordan/Caroline Courtney

(2023) California Dreams and American Contradictions: Women Writers and the Western Ideal Lincoln: University of Nebraska Press

Topic

Eva Rutland

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

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fat, fatness

paratext

(2021) Everything and Less: The Novel in the Age of Amazon London: Verso

Topic

Fifty Shades

capitalism/business

McGurl, Mark

(2021) Unspeakable Conventionality: The Perversity of the Kindle American Literary History 33.2:394–415 DOI: 10.1093/alh/ajab004

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capitalism/business

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

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(2009) Out of Wedlock: The Consummation and Consumption of Marriage in Contemporary Romance Fiction Genders 50:

Topic

(2007) Beautiful Things in Popular Culture Malden, MA: Blackwell

McKinley, Tracey Lynn

(2007) The Female Quest: An Analysis of Archetypal Layering in Harlequin Presents Master of Education, Queen's University

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McKnight-Trontz, Jennifer

(2002) The Look of Love: The Art of the Romance Novel New York: Princeton Architectural Press

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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:

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McLennon, Leigh

(2017) Contemporary vampire genre fiction: ethical feeding and the posthuman vampire in urban fantasy and paranormal romance PhD, University of Melbourne

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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

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(1981) She trembled at his touch Quarto May:17-18

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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

Medrano-González, Claudia

Australia

(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

Meirelles, Simone Regina Ferreira

(2002) Das bancas ao coraçao: romances sentimentais e leitura hoje Mestre em Letras, Universidade Federal do Paraná

Topic

(2008) Romances com coração: leitura e edição de romances sentimentais no Brasil PhD, Universidade Federal do Paraná

Topic

Brazil

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

Melman, Billie

(1988) Women and the Popular Imagination in the Twenties: Flappers and Nymphs Houndmills, Basingstoke: Macmillan

Topic

romances in magazines and newspapers

pornography

(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

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

(1986) The Novels of Corín Tellado Studies in Latin American Popular Culture 5:31-40

Topic

Corín Tellado

Meyer, Michaela D. E.

(2015) Living the Romance through Castle: Exploring Autoethnography, Popular Culture and Romantic Television Narratives The Popular Culture Studies Journal 3.1&2:245-269

Topic

Meyer, Michael

(2002) The Bedford Introduction to Literature: Reading, Thinking, Writing (Sixth Edition) Boston: Bedford/St Martin's

Topic

Karen van der Zee

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

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

(2022) Pushing the boundaries: Erotic romance and the symbolic boundary nexus Poetics 94:--- DOI: 10.1016/j.poetic.2022.101729

Topic

(2022) Redefining the Romance: Classification and Community in a Popular Fiction Genre PhD thesis, Northwestern University

Topic

sociology

authors

Native American romance

Miclea, Adelina-Cerasela

(2024) The Scientification of Love: A Cognitive Literary Approach to Romance Novels PhD, Universitatea de Vest din Timișoara

Topic

(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

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

(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

(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:

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disability

(2015) Passionate Virtue: Conceptions of Medical Professionalism in Popular Romance Fiction Literature and Medicine 33.1:70-90 DOI: 10.1353/lm.2015.0010

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medical romance

health/medical

work

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

(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

Lisa Gregory

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

(1987) "Strategie narrative: il non detto e il troppo detto " Intorno al rosa 47-57

Topic

Mocná, Dagmar

(1996) Červená knihovna: studie kulturně a literárně historická : pohled do dějin pokleslého žánru Praha: Paseka

Topic

Czech Republic

(1980) Popular Feminine Narratives: A Study of Romances, Gothics, and Soap Operas PhD, Stanford University

Topic

(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

(1982) Loving with a Vengeance: Mass‐Produced Fantasies for Women Hamden, Connecticut: Archon

Topic

(1986) Studies in Entertainment: Critical Approaches to Mass Culture Bloomington: Indiana University Press

(1997) My Life as a Romance Reader Para.doxa: Studies in World Literary Genres 3.1-2:15-28

Topic

Brenda Joyce

(1998) My Life as a Romance Writer Para.doxa: Studies in World Literary Genres 4.9:134-144

Topic

BDSM

Jayne Ann Krentz/Amanda Quick/Jayne Castle

Jennifer Crusie

Susan Elizabeth Phillips

Linda Howard

evolutionary psychology

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

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

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

Mogin-Martin, Roselyne

(2010) Corín Tellado : ¿de la novela rosa a la novela comprometida? Revista Arbor 186, Anexo 3:327-347

Topic

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

Monnet, Georges

(2011) "Delly et la Maison de la Bonne Presse " L’Œuvre de Delly 17-44

Topic

Delly

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

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

(1992) "Sweet and Pleasant Passion: Female and Male Fantasy in Ancient Romance Novels " Pornography and Representation in Greece and Rome 231-249

Topic

Longus

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

Montejo Gurruchaga, Lucía

(2010) Discurso de autora: género y censura en la narrativa española de posguerra Madrid: UNED

Topic

Carmen de Icaza

Moody, Stephanie Lee

(2013) Affecting Genre: Women's Participation with Popular Romance Fiction PhD, University of Michigan

Topic

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

Georgette Heyer

Susan Elizabeth Phillips

(2016) "Building Social Worlds: Examining Women’s Uses of Romance Novels " Literacy in Practice: Writing in Private, Public and Working Lives 32-45

Topic

Moody, Stephanie

(2016) Identification, Affect, and Escape: Theorizing Popular Romance Reading Pedagogy 16.1:105-123 DOI: 10.1215/15314200-3158669

Topic

Susan Elizabeth Phillips

(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

(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

history

(2021) "African American romance " The Routledge Research Companion to Popular Romance Fiction 229-251 DOI:10.4324/9781315613468-10

Topic

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

Rosalind Welles - pen name of Elsie B. Washington

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

Alyssa Cole

(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

(2022) Response to Eric Selinger’s “Cant and Canonicity” Journal of Popular Romance Studies 11:

Topic

Gwyneth Bolton/Gwendolyn Pough

(2022) Romance, Hip-Hop Feminism, and Black Love: From Theory to Praxis Journal of Popular Romance Studies 11:

Topic

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

(1999) SATIR FOR BEGINNERS: Incongruent Communication Patterns in Romantic Fiction ETC: A Review of General Semantics 56.4:429-437

Topic

Moore, Maureen

(1973) Romantic love, ecstasy, and deprivation Master of Arts, The University of British Columbia

Topic

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

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

(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

(2023) Innovations in Romance Novel Distribution at Harlequin, Sourcebooks, and Raincoast Books Master of Publishing, Simon Fraser University

Topic

Canada

Moreno-Álvarez, Alejandra

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

(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

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

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

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

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

(2023) Historical Research, Creative Writing, and the Past: Methods of Knowing New York: Routledge

(2008) Fanning the Flames of Romance: An Exploration of Fan Fiction and the Romance Novel MA thesis, Georgetown University

Topic

fanfiction

(2014) Fifty Shades of Remix: The Intersecting Pleasures of Commercial and Fan Romances Journal of Popular Romance Studies 4.1:

Topic

Fifty Shades

fanfiction

(2015) "Steamy, Spicy, Sensual: Tracing the Cycles of Erotic Romance " Women and Erotic Fiction: Critical Essays on Genres, Markets & Readers 42-58

Topic

(2016) Romance Networks: Aspiration & Desire in Today’s Digital Culture PhD, University of Wisconsin, Milwaukee

Topic

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

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

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

(1989) Un/Popular Fictions London: Virago

Topic

(1993) "Girls Tell the Teen Romance: Four Reading Histories " Reading Audiences: Young People and the Media 116-134

Topic

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

(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

Sharon Kendrick

animals

metaphor/symbolism

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

(2005) L’invention du romantique. La littérature rose révolutionne l'édition africaine Africultures 63:

Topic

settings

Moudileno, Lydie

(2008) The Troubling Popularity of West African Romance Novels Research in African Literatures 39.4:120-132

Topic

settings

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

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

Morocco

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

(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

(2011) My Vampire Boyfriend: Postfeminism, “Perfect” Masculinity, and the Contemporary Appeal of Paranormal Romance Studies in Popular Culture 33.2:1-20

Topic

(1989) Japanese Harlequin Romances as Transcultural Woman's Fiction The Journal of Asian Studies 48.1:50-70 DOI: 10.2307/2057664

Topic

food, drink

Mulvey, Alexandra Hazel

(2023) Gender and Sex Stereotypes in Sports Romance Fiction Masters thesis, Macquarie University

Topic

sport

(1992) New Lesbian Criticism: Literary and Cultural Readings New York: Columbia University Press

(1992) Teenage Pregnancy: Dating and Sexual Attitudes Journal of Sex Education and Therapy 18.4:264-276 DOI: 10.1080/01614576.1992.11074059

Topic

(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

Carlota O'Neill/Laura de Noves

(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

emotions

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

Musila, Grace A.

(2022) Routledge Handbook of African Popular Culture London: Routledge

Mussell, Kay Johnson

(1973) The World of Modern Gothic Fiction: American Women and Their Social Myths PhD, University of Iowa

Topic

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

(1983) ""But Why Do They Read Those Things?": The Female Audience and the Gothic Novel " The Female Gothic 57-68

Topic

(1981) Women’s Gothic and Romantic Fiction: A Reference Guide Westport, Connecticut: Greenwood Press

Topic

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

Victoria Holt/Jean Plaidy/Eleanor Burford Hibbert

Catharine Maria Sedgwick

Augusta Jane Evans

E. D. E. N. Southworth

Margaret Mitchell

Daphne du Maurier

Mary Stewart

Phyllis A. Whitney

Rosemary Rogers

Kathleen Thompson Norris

Grace Livingston Hill

(1982) "Preface " Twentieth Century Romance and Gothic Writers v-ix

Topic

(1984) Fantasy and Reconciliation: Contemporary Formulas of Women’s Romance Fiction Westport, Connecticut: Greenwood Press

(1990) "Preface " Twentieth-Century Romance and Historical Writers (2nd edition) vii-xii

Topic

historical romance

(1994) "Preface (revised from the second edition) " Twentieth-Century Romance and Historical Writers (3rd edition) vii-x

(1997) On-Line Romance Para.doxa: Studies in World Literary Genres 3.1-2:246-249

Topic

(1997) Para.doxa 3.1-2: Where's Love Gone? Transformations in the Romance Genre :

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

(1997) Paradoxa Interview with Barbara G. Mertz Para.doxa: Studies in World Literary Genres 3.1-2:180-183

Topic

Mary Stewart

(1997) Paradoxa Interview with Janet Dailey Para.doxa: Studies in World Literary Genres 3.1-2:214-218

Topic

Janet Dailey

disability

Jayne Ann Krentz/Amanda Quick/Jayne Castle

(1997) Paradoxa Interview with Jayne Ann Krentz Para.doxa: Studies in World Literary Genres 3.1-2:46-57

Topic

(1997) Paradoxa Interview with Nora Roberts Para.doxa: Studies in World Literary Genres 3.1-2:155-163

Topic

Nora Roberts/J. D. Robb

settings

(1997) Where's Love Gone? Transformations in Romance Fiction and Scholarship Para.doxa: Studies in World Literary Genres 3.1-2:3-14

Topic

(1998) Kay Mussell Replies to Tania Modleski Para.doxa: Studies in World Literary Genres 4.9:145-147

Topic

Tuñón, Johanna

(1999) North American Romance Writers Lanham, Maryland: Scarecrow Press

Topic

authors

Rachel Lee/Sue Civil-Brown

Judith Ivory/Judy Cuevas

Sharon and Tom Curtis

Justine Davis/Justine Dare

Eileen Dreyer/Kathleen Korbel

Kathleen Eagle

Patricia Gaffney

Jennifer Greene/Jeanne Grant/Jessica Massey/Alison Hart

Maggie Osborne/Margaret St. George

Nora Roberts/J. D. Robb

Ruth Wind/Barbara Samuel/Barbara O'Neal

Kathleen Gilles Seidel

Jennifer Crusie

(2002) "Are Feminism and Romance Novels Mutually Exclusive? " The Bedford Introduction to Literature: Reading, Thinking, Writing (Sixth Edition) 40-41

Topic

(2002) "Romance Fiction " The Greenwood Guide to American Popular Culture: Volume Four (Pulps and Dime Novels through Young Adult Fiction) 1559-1600

Topic

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

Mwangi, Serah Wanjiru

(1992) An analysis of romance fiction and its probable impact among young girls Master of Arts, University of Nairobi

Topic

Kenya

Naber, Christine Marie

(1995) Rape myths are the theory--romance novels are the practice: The impact of exposure to images of women in popular culture PhD, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign

Topic

Fattaneh Haj Seyyed Javadi

(1992) Popular Culture: An Introductory Text Bowling Green, Ohio: Bowling Green State University Popular Press

Nachumi, Nora

Oppenheim, Stephanie

(2022) Jane Austen, Sex, and Romance: Engaging with Desire in the Novels and Beyond Rochester, NY: University of Rochester Press

Naeej, Elham

(2021) Parting the Curtain: The Virgin Heroine and the ‘Westoxified’ Villain in Contemporary Iranian Romance Novels Journal of Popular Romance Studies 10:

Topic

Iran

virginity

national identity

(1990) Forme, fureur, fonction: le roman Harlequin à l'oeuvre Dalhousie French Studies 18:115-127

Topic

translation

Nakagawa, Chiho

(2011) Safe Sex with Defanged Vampires: New Vampire Heroes in Twilight and the Southern Vampire Mysteries Journal of Popular Romance Studies 2.1:

Topic

Charlaine Harris

Twilight

Penny Jordan/Caroline Courtney

virginity

metafiction

Namysłowska, Karolina

(2022) Romance novels in translation: Focus on defining features of selected texts translated from English into Polish. Masters, Jagiellonian University

Topic

Poland

translation

(2022) Diversity in Romance Novels: Race, Sexuality, Neurodivergence, Disability, and Fat Representation Publishing Research Quarterly 38:349–363 DOI: 10.1007/s12109-022-09881-6

Topic

disability

fat, fatness

Nash, Walter

(1990) Language in Popular Fiction London: Routledge

Topic

(2016) Gender: Love : Macmillan

Nayrou, Félicie

Rudy, Alain

(1993) La Rencontre: figures du destin Paris: Autrement

Ndalianis, Angela

(2012) The Horror Sensorium: Media and the Senses Jefferson, North Carolina: McFarland & Company

Topic

(2009) L’imaginaire du poisson amoureux chez les romancières francophones de la Caraïbe Présence Francophone: Revue internationale de langue et de littérature 72.1:11-32

Topic

Caribbean

fairytales/folktales

Neal, Lynn S.

(2000) Romancing God: Reading Evangelical Romance Novels PhD, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill

Topic

authors

(2006) Romancing God: Evangelical Women and Inspirational Fiction Chapel Hill: University of North Carolina Press

Topic

Grace Livingston Hill

(2013) "Evangelical Love Stories: The Triumphs and Temptations of Romantic Fiction " Evangelical Christians and Popular Culture: Pop Goes the Gospel. Volume 2: Literature, Music, Popular Art, and Merchandise 1–20

Topic

(2020) Annie S. Swan, Publishing Phenomenon: A Book Historical Perspective Scottish Literary Review 12.2:91-109

Topic

Annie S. Swan

Neely, Diana

(2023) Who Says Women Can’t Love and Empower?: How Representations of Women Have Progressed in Medical Romance Fiction Honors Thesis, Eastern Kentucky University

Topic

medical romance

Elizabeth Stuart Phelps

(2015) "The Romance of Self-Publishing " Self-Publishing and Collection Development: Opportunities and Challenges for Libraries 149-157

Topic

(2015) 'Sometimes It Feels More Like a Commune Than a Town': Envisioning Utopian Possibilities in Robyn Carr's Virgin River Romance Novels Studies in Popular Culture 37.2:25-42

Topic

(1985) The Uses of Reading Mass-Produced Romance Fiction Annual Meeting of the International Reading Association (30th, New Orleans, LA, May 5-9, 1985): ERIC document ED263528

Topic

Sue Byfield

Neves, Mariana Brasileiro

Neuman, Shirley

Stephenson, Glennis

(1993) ReImagining Women: Representations of Women in Culture Toronto: University of Toronto Press

(2014) ROMANCES DE BOLSO: A novela romântica da Harlequin Books no mercado editorial brasileiro Bacharelado, Universidade Católica de Pernambuco

Topic

Brazil

Neville, Lucy

(2018) Girls Who Like Boys Who Like Boys: Women and Gay Male Pornography and Erotica Cham, Switzerland: Palgrave Macmillan

Topic

pornography

m/m romance

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

Newell, Stephanie

Okome, Onookome

(2014) Popular Culture in Africa: The Episteme of the Everyday New York and London: Routledge

Newell, Stephanie

(2023) Newsprint Literature and Local Literary Creativity in West Africa, 1900s-1960s Woodbridge, Suffolk: James Currey (imprint of Boydell & Brewer)

Topic

Nigeria

Newns, Lucinda

(2018) Renegotiating romantic genres: Textual resistance and Muslim chick lit Journal of Commonwealth Literature 53.2:284-300 DOI: 10.1177/0021989416686156

Topic

chick lit

Islam

Newton, Marlo Leigh

(1991) Romancing the tome: the novels of Georgette Heyer MA thesis, University of Melbourne

Topic

Georgette Heyer

Neylon, Virginia Lyn

(2003) Reading and Writing the Romance Novel: An Analysis of Romance Fiction and Its Place in the Community College Classroom Paper presented at the Annual Meeting of the Conference on College Composition and Communication (54th, New York, NY, March 19-22, 2003): ERIC Document ED477339

Topic

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

Ngoshi, Hazel Tafadzwa

(2021) Repression, Literary Dissent and the Paradox of Censorship in Zimbabwe Journal of Southern African Studies 47.5:799-815 DOI: https://doi.org/10.1080/03057070.2021.1959780

Topic

Zimbabwe

Nibafasha, Spes

(2020) The politics of the popular: Definitions and uses of African popular fiction Hybrid Journal of Literary and Cultural Studies 2.4:59-75

Topic

Nichols, Sue

(2023) Love matters: the case for an inclusive, contemporary approach to romance themes and texts in subject English The Australian Journal of Language and Literacy : DOI: 10.1007/s44020-023-00041-7

Topic

Nickel, Eleanor Hersey

(2020) Christian Popular Culture from The Chronicles of Narnia to Duck Dynasty Eugene, Oregon: Wipf and Stock Publishers

Topic

(2000) Caught in the Web of Love: Intercepting the Young Adult Reception of Qiongyao's Romances On-Line Acta Orientalia Academiae Scientiarum Hungaricae 53.3-4:235-253

Topic

(2019) Female Agency in the Harlequin Romance Formula: developments within the timeframe of second wave feminism Bachelor’s thesis, Utrecht University

Topic

Roberta Leigh/Rachel Lindsay

virginity

health/medical

Nilson, Maria

(2013) From The Flame and the Flower to Fifty Shades of Grey: Sex, Power and Desire in the Romance Novel Akademisk Kvarter/Academic Quarter 7:119-131 DOI: 10.5278/ojs.academicquarter.v0i7.2824

Topic

Nilson, Maria

(2016) Kärlek, passion och begär – om romance Lund: BTJ förlag

Topic

(2017) Kärlek i kyligt klimat: Om nordisk romance Tidskrift för Nordisk litteratur 76:22-31

Topic

(2017) Nådens tuttar : Om skönheter, odjur och den frälsande kvinnokroppen i modern romance HumaNetten 39:110-123 DOI: 10.15626/hn.20173911

Topic

fairytales/folktales

(2020) Love in a Cold Climate? Teaching Popular Romance at a Swedish University Journal of Popular Romance Studies 9:

Topic

Sweden

Simona Ahrnstedt

chick lit

Nilson, Maria

Posti, Piia K

(2022) Speglingar av feelgood: Genre, etikett eller känsla? Växjö: Linnaeus University Press

Nobert, Margo

(1983) Le titre comme séduction dans le roman Harlequin: une lecture sociosémiotique Études littéraires 16.3:379–398 DOI: 10.7202/500622ar

Topic

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

(1986) La coopération interprétative dans le roman d'amour populaire de la langue française de 1880 à nos jours Mémoire de maîtrise, Université du Québec à Montréal

Noizet, Pascale

(1990) "Naissance du roman d'amour de grande consommation: Harlequin à la recherche de ses aïeux " Le roman sentimental: actes du colloque des 14-15-16 mars 1989 à la Faculté des lettres de Limoges, volume 1 95-100

Topic

Noizet, Pascale

(1995) "Delly, l’équation d’une illustre inconnue " Guimauve et fleurs d’oranger: Delly 71-93

Topic

Delly

Noizet, Pascale

(1996) L’idée moderne d’amour. Entre sexe et genre: vers une théorie du sexologème Paris: Éditions Kimé

Topic

Samuel Richardson

Nolan, Michelle

(2008) Love on the Racks: a History of American Romance Comics Jefferson, North Carolina: McFarland & Company

Topic

comics/manga

Noone, Kristin

(2019) "Succulent Texts: Desire, Outlaws, and Consumption in Popular Romance " Food and Feast in Modern Outlaw Tales 167-187 DOI:10.4324/9780429061301-9

Topic

community

rural romance

Novak, Julia

(2014) Nell Gwyn in Contemporary Romance Novels: Biography and the Dictates of 'Genre Literature' Contemporary Women's Writing 8.3:373–390 DOI: 10.1093/cww/vpu007

Topic

(2020) Phraseology and Style in Subgenres of the Novel: A Synthesis of Corpus and Literary Perspectives Cham, Switzerland: Palgrave Macmillan

Topic

(2021) Les motifs phraséologiques pour distinguer les genres littéraires. Sur l’exemple des motifs de la communication verbale et non verbale Kalbotyra 74:160–181 DOI: 10.15388/Kalbotyra.2021.74.9

Topic

Nowacki, Dariusz

(2020) Access Paths: On Popular Women’s Literature and Criticism Tematy i Konteksty Special Issue in English, No. 1: A Selection of the Decade: DOI: 10.15584/tik.spec.eng.2020.20

Topic

Nowicka, Katarzyna

(2013) "How to Romance the Masses – Problems of Translating Light Romantic Fiction in Poland " Linguistic Studies of Human Language 483-494

Topic

translation

Poland

Ntelia, Renata Elizabetta

(2021) How Damsels Love: The Transgressive Pleasure of Romance New Horizons in English Studies 6:146-159 DOI: 10.17951/nh.2021.6.146-159

Topic

(2009) Emociones, cultura y educación: Un enfoque interdisciplinar : Universidad de Sevilla

Núñez Puente, Sonia

(2007) Novela rosa y cultura popular: Carmen de Icaza y Concha Linares Becerra Sincronia 12:42:

Topic

Carmen de Icaza

Concha Linares-Becerra

Núñez Puente, Sonia

(2008) La novela rosa como mascarada de la muerte de lo social: Concha Linares Becerra y María Mercedes Ortoll Asparkía: Investigació feminista 19:105-122

Topic

Concha Linares-Becerra

María Mercedes Ortoll

fashion/clothing

Núñez Puente, Sonia

(2008) The Romance Novel and Popular Culture during the Early Franco Regime in Spain: Towards the Construction of Other Discourses of Femininity Journal of Gender Studies 17.3:225-236 DOI: 10.1080/09589230802204258

Topic

(1993) "Romance in the Forbidden Zone " ReImagining Women: Representations of Women in Culture 160-181

Topic

Native American romance

Arlene James

work

O'Brien, Lee

(2022) Telling Gaps and Domestic Tyranny: Georgette Heyer’s Regency Romances Journal of Popular Romance Studies 11:

Topic

O'Byrne, Patricia

(2008) Popular fiction in postwar Spain: the soothing, subversive novela rosa Journal of Romance Studies 8.2:37-57 DOI: 10.3828/jrs.8.2.37

Topic

work

María Morgan/Rosa María Cajal

María Mercedes Ortoll

war/armed forces

Ángeles Villarta Tuñón

O'Byrne, Patricia

(2014) Post-War Spanish Women Novelists and the Recuperation of Historical Memory Woodbridge, Suffolk: Tamesis

Topic

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

O'Connor, Karen

(2010) Gender and Women's Leadership: A Reference Handbook Thousand Oaks, California: Sage

O'Mahony, Lauren Kate

(2015) In search of feminist romance in Australian 'Chick Lit' PhD, Murdoch University

Topic

(2014) Australian rural romance as feminist romance? Australasian Journal of Popular Culture 3.3:285-298 DOI: 10.1386/ajpc.3.3.285_1

Topic

(2014) Teaching an Old Dog New Tricks?: Romance, Ethics and Human-Dog Relationships in a Rural Australian Novel Journal of Popular Romance Studies 4.2:

Topic

(2017) Death and the Australian Rural Romance Novel TEXT: Journal of Writing and Writing Courses 45:

Topic

(2018) From polite society to the Pilbara: The ingénue abroad in Evelina and The Girl in Steel-Capped Boots Outskirts 38:1-23

Topic

Frances Burney

(2021) "Australian romance fiction " The Routledge Research Companion to Popular Romance Fiction 72-96 DOI:10.4324/9781315613468-3

Topic

Australia

national identity

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

Stella Eromonsere-Ajanaku

Rosa Praed

Marie Bjelke Petersen

(2016) Women's rhetoric and the romance novel genre Master of Arts, University of Texas Rio Grande Valley

Topic

O'Toole, Patricia

(1979) Paperback Virgins Human Behavior 8.2:62-67

Topic

(2006) Critiques of the "Novela Rosa": Martín Gaite, Almodóvar, and Etxebarría Letras Femeninas 32.1:189-203

Topic

Ohmann, Richard

(1990) Reading the Romance: Women, Patriarchy, and Popular Literature Radical Teacher 37: DOI: 10.5195/rt.2019.575

Topic

Shibamoto Smith, Janet S.

Okamoto, Shigeko

(2004) Japanese Language, Gender, and Ideology: Cultural Models and Real People New York: Oxford University Press

OKell, Eleanor Regina

(2020) "Hercules as Romantic Hero in Twenty-first-century Historical Fiction " The Modern Hercules: Images of the Hero from the Nineteenth to the Early Twenty-First Century 121–145 DOI:10.1163/9789004440067_008

Topic

(2016) Medieval heresy in Croatian historical romances: a case study of Marija Jurić Zagorka’s Plameni inkvizitori Neohelicon 43.2:559–576 DOI: 10.1007/s11059-016-0346-9

Topic

Marija Jurić Zagorka

historical romance

Croatia