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Marija Jurić Zagorka

Croatia

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

history

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Nora Roberts/J. D. Robb

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translation

emotions

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psychology

(2012) Francophone Perspectives on Romantic Fiction: From the Academic Field to Reader’s Experience Journal of Popular Romance Studies 2.2:

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Opas, Lisa Lena

Tweedie, Fiona

(1999) The Magic Carpet Ride: Reader Involvement in Romantic Fiction Literary and Linguistic Computing 14.1:89-101 DOI: 10.1093/llc/14.1.89

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Margaret Evans Porter

(2002) "Harlequin Presents: That '70s Shakespeare and Beyond " Shakespeare after Mass Media 127-149 DOI:10.1007/978-1-137-09277-9_6

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Shakespeare

(2000) "Sweet, Savage Shakespeare " Shakespeare without Class: Misappropriations of Cultural Capital 135-151

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Shakespeare

Osborne, Gwendolyn E.

(2003) "In Search of Women Who Look Like Me: A Brief History of the African-American Romance " The 2000-2003 Proceedings of the SW/Texas PCA/ACA Conference 2020-2044

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

Osborne, Gwendolyn E.

(2004) ""Women Who Look Like Me": Cultural Identity and Reader Responses to African American Romance Novels " Race/Gender/Media: Considering Diversity Across Audiences, Content, and Producers 61-68

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Onoto Watanna/Winnifred Eaton

Ouyang, Huining

(2003) "Behind the Mask of Coquetry: The Trickster Narrative in Miss Numè of Japan: A Japanese-American Romance " Doubled Plots: Romance and History 86-106

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

Japan

Owen, Mairead

(1990) Women's Reading of Popular Romantic Fiction: A Case Study in the Mass Media: A Key to the Ideology of Women PhD, University of Liverpool

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(1997) Re-inventing romance: Reading popular romantic fiction Women's Studies International Forum 20.4:537-546 DOI: 10.1016/S0277-5395(97)00042-3

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Zamorano Llena, Carmen

(2002) The Aesthetics of Ageing: Critical Approaches to Literary Representations of the Ageing Process Lleida: Universitat de Lleida

Pagliassotti, Dru

(2010) "Better than Romance? Japanese BL Manga and the Subgenre of Male/Male Romantic Fiction " Boys’ Love Manga: Essays on the Sexual Ambiguity and Cross-Cultural Fandom of the Genre 59-83

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Pagliassotti, Dru

(2013) "Love and the Machine: Technology and Human Relationships in Steampunk Romance and Erotica " Steaming Into a Victorian Future: A Steampunk Anthology 65-87

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(2018) The Gothic Romance Wave: A Critical History of the Mass Market Novels, 1960-1993 Jefferson, North Carolina: McFarland & Company

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

(1986) 'Reine ou esclave .... ': conflicting images of women in the contemporary 'romantic novel' in France PhD, University of London, Birkbeck

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(1987) "Putting People First" or the contemporary romantic novel, critical discourse and ideology La Chouette 18:38-46

(1987) That's Romance Socialist Review July:

(1994) Love, Ideology and Reality: the popular romantic novel and the reader Journal of the Institute of Romance Studies 3:357-368

(1998) Category Romances: Translation, Realism and Myth The Translator 4.1:1-24 DOI: 10.1080/13556509.1998.10799004

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translation

(1998) Love and the Novel: The Poetics and Politics of Romantic Fiction Houndmills, Basingstoke: Macmillan

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(2006) "Category Romance in the Era of Globalization: The Story of Harlequin " The Global Literary Field 126-151

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comics/manga

Palewska, Marie

(2011) "Féeries orientales : l’Inde chez Delly " L’Œuvre de Delly 139-162

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Delly

Palmer, Susan

(1996) Romance Fiction and the Avon Ladies The Acquisitions Librarian 8.16:119-131 DOI: 10.1300/J101v08n16_12

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Palmer, Paulina

(1998) "Girl Meets Girl: Changing Approaches to the Lesbian Romance " Fatal Attractions: Rescripting Romance in Contemporary Literature and Film 189-204

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(1999) Languages of Sentiment: Cultural constructions of emotional substrates Amsterdam: John Benjamins Publishing Company

Panizza, Letizia

Wood, Sharon

(2000) A History of Women’s Writing in Italy Cambridge: Cambridge University Press

Papargyriou, Eleni

Assinder, Semele

Holton, David

(2017) Greece in British Women’s Literary Imagination, 1913-2013 New York: Peter Lang

Paradis, Kenneth

(2020) Types and Tropes: History and Moral Agency in Evangelical Inspirational Fiction Christianity & Literature 69.1:73-90

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Christian romance

Francine Rivers

history

metafiction

Parameswaran, Radhika E.

(1994) "Romance Reading in the Third World: A Postcolonial Intersection of Gender, Ethnicity, and Sexuality " Proceedings of the Annual Meeting of the Association for Education in Journalism and Mass Communication (77th, Atlanta, Georgia, August 10-13, 1994). Part IV: International Media 71-102

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Parameswaran, Radhika E.

(1997) Public Images, Private Pleasures: Romance Reading at the Intersection of Gender, Class, and National Identities in Urban India PhD, University of Iowa

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Parameswaran, Radhika

(1999) Western Romance Fiction as English-Language Media in Postcolonial India Journal of Communication 49.3:84-105 DOI: 10.1111/j.1460-2466.1999.tb02806.x

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Parameswaran, Radhika

(2002) Reading Fictions of Romance: Gender, Sexuality, and Nationalism in Postcolonial India Journal of Communication 52.4:832-851 DOI: 10.1111/j.1460-2466.2002.tb02576.x

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Pardo Fernández, Rodrigo

(2010) Caleidoscopio hispánico: estudios lingüísticos y literarios Morelia, Michoacán, México: Universidad Michoacana de San Nicolás de Hidalgo, Escuela de Lengua y Literaturas Hispánicas, Seminario de Estudios Semióticos y de Literatura Comparada

Parisot, Eric

(2024) Jane Austen and Vampires: Love, Sex and Immortality in the New Millennium Cham, Switzerland: Palgrave Macmillan

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(2011) Theorizing Twilight: Critical Essays on What's at Stake in a Post-Vampire World Jefferson, North Carolina: McFarland & Company

Parks, Amy Noelle

(2023) The Feminist Possibilities of Heteroglossic Spaces in Contemporary Young Adult Romance Novels Journal of Popular Romance Studies 12: DOI: 10.70138/PVPQ4885

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(2021) The Bride in the Cultural Imagination: Screen, Stage, and Literary Productions Lanham, Maryland: Lexington Books

(2018) Models of Publishing and Opportunities for Change: Representations in Harlequin, Montlake and Self-Published Romance Novels Australian Literary Studies 33.4: DOI: 10.20314/als.1cd73e2f68

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Trinidad, Andrea Anne

McAlister, Jodi

(2021) Hello, Ever After: #RomanceClass and Online-Only Live Literature in the Philippines in 2020 M/C Journal 24.3: DOI: 10.5204/mcj.2769

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Philippines

(2021) Independent Authors’ Dependence on Big Tech: Categorization and Governance of Authors Of Color on Amazon AoIR Selected Papers of Internet Research : DOI: 10.5210/spir.v2021i0.12005

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authors

(2022) "Reading and writing Muslim romance on Wattpad " The Routledge Companion to Romantic Love DOI:10.4324/9781003022343-26

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Muslim romance

(2023) Algospeak and algo-design in platformed book publishing: Revolutionary creative tactics in digital paratext to circumvent content moderation AoIR Selected Papers of Internet Research Paper presented at AoIR2023: The 24th Annual Conference of the Association of Internet Researchers. Philadelphia, PA, USA: DOI: 10.5210/spir.v2023i0.13477

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pornography

Trinidad, Andrea Anne

McAlister, Jodi

(2023) Live literature in the Philippines: an ethnographic study of #RomanceClass and reading as performance Creative Industries Journal 16.1:56-75 DOI: 10.1080/17510694.2021.1939544

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(2013) Trivialidades literarias: Reflexiones en torno a la literatura de entretenimiento Madrid: Visor

Parrish, Berta

Atwood, Karen

(1984) Enticing Readers: The Teen Romance Craze :

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Parv, Valerie

(2007) Healing Writes: Restorying the Authorial Self through Creative Practice: and Birthright, a speculative fiction novel Masters by Research, University of Queensland

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(1998) "Le bel ailleurs, le bon hier " Amours, aventures et mystères ou : les romans qu’on ne peut pas lâcher 48-61

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(1993) "Fantasy and Identity: The Double Life of a Victorian Sexual Radical " Rediscovering Forgotten Radicals: British Women Writers 1889-1939 265-302

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

Irene Clyde

Williams, Deborah Lindsay

Patell, Cyrus R. K.

(2024) The Oxford History of the Novel in English: Volume 8: American Fiction since 1940 Oxford: Oxford University Press

Pates, Giuliana

(2023) Reading Practices and Gender Politicization: How do Young Argentinean Women Read Romantic Novels Revista Interdisciplinaria de Estudios de Género de El Colegio de México 9.1:1–26 DOI: 10.24201/reg.v9i1.1056

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Argentina

Pattee, Amy S.

(2011) Reading the Adolescent Romance: Sweet Valley High and the Popular Young Adult Romance Novel New York: Routledge

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Patterson, Janet

(1981) Consuming Passion Fireweed 11:19-33

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Patthey-Chavez, G. Genevieve

Clare, Lindsay

Youmans, Madeleine

(1996) Watery Passion: The Struggle between Hegemony and Sexual Liberation in Erotic Fiction for Women Discourse and Society 7.1:77-106 DOI: 10.1177/0957926596007001004

Paulvé, Dominique

Guérin, Marie

(1994) Le roman du roman rose Paris: Éditions Jean-Claude Lattès

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Delly

Max du Veuzit

Berthe Bernage

Magali, pen name of Jeanne Philbert

Pawling, Christopher

(1984) Popular Fiction and Social Change New York: St. Martin’s

Peabody, Rebecca

(2016) "Kara Walker: American Romance in Black and White " Romance Fiction and American Culture: Love as the Practice of Freedom? 131-150

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Barbara Ferry Johnson

Pearce, Susan C.

Sojka, Eugenia

(2021) Cultural Change in East-Central European and Eurasian Spaces: Post-1989 Revisions and Re-imaginings Cham: Springer

Pearce, Lynne

Stacey, Jackie

(1995) Romance Revisited New York and London: New York University Press

Pearce, Lynne

Wisker, Gina

(1998) Fatal Attractions: Rescripting Romance in Contemporary Literature and Film London: Pluto Press

Pearce, Lynne

(2004) "Popular Romance and Its Readers " A Companion to Romance: From Classical to Contemporary 521-538

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(2007) Romance Writing Cambridge: Polity Press

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Jane Rule

(2011) Romance and Repetition: Testing the Limits of Love Journal of Popular Romance Studies 2.1:

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Pearce, Elizabeth Florence

psychology

philosophy

(2004) Reading the Lesbian Romance: Re-imagining Love, Sex, Relationships, and Community PhD, University of Iowa

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lesbian romance

Peaty, Gwyneth

(2015) "Rock Hard: Gargoyles in Contemporary Gothic Romance " New Directions in 21st Century Gothic: The Gothic Compass 54-70 DOI:10.4324/9781315749419

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war/armed forces

(1999) "Identity by Design: The Corporate Construction of Teen Romance Novels " Growing Up Girls: Popular Culture and the Construction of Identity 49-86

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fashion/clothing

food, drink

Peinado Rodríguez, Matilde

Anta Félez, José Luis

(2013) Educar para el matrimonio en femenino: modelos y prácticas en la literatura de posguerra Athenea Digita 13.2:35-46 DOI: 10.5565/rev/athenead/v13n2.892

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fascism/right-wing authoritarianism

marriage

(1988) Le rêve ou l'ordure. Du Roman sentimental et de ce qu'en disent certains. Psychologie médicale 20.8:1124-1128

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(1990) "Le roman sentimental, un objet pour quelle sociologie? " Le roman sentimental: actes du colloque des 14-15-16 mars 1989 à la Faculté des lettres de Limoges, volume 1 185-198

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sociology

(1991) La relation amoureuse: analyse sociologique du roman sentimental moderne Paris: L’Harmattan

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(1991) Les femmes dans le roman sentimental moderne L'Homme et la société 99-100:115-125 DOI: 10.3406/homso.1991.2542

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Delly

(1993) "Eau de rose et air du temps " La Rencontre: figures du destin 96-104

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

(1997) "Le sentimental e(s)t le populaire " Le Roman Populaire en Question(s): Actes du colloque international de mai 1995 à Limoges 65-81

Percec, Dana

(2011) “The Pink Ghetto”. The Avatars of Romantic Fiction Brukenthalia. Romanian Cultural History Review. Supplement of Brukenthal. Acta Musei 1.1:92-102

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das Neves, Thiago Tavares

Jane Austen

Percec, Dana

(2012) Romance: The History of a Genre Newcastle upon Tyne: Cambridge Scholars Publishing

Percec, Dana

(2014) Reading the Fantastic Imagination: The Avatars of a Literary Genre Newcastle upon Tyne: Cambridge Scholars Publishing

Pereira, Simone Luci

Budag, Fernanda Elouise

(2021) Comunicação e Culturas Urbanas: temas, debates e perspectivas São Paulo: INTERCOM

Pérez, María Mercedes

(2009) Es la historia de un amor: la edición de novelas románticas en el mercado de habla hispana Páginas de Guarda: Revista de Lenguaje, Edición y Cultura Escrita 8:

Topic

(2016) Love in Times of Crisis: An Approach to Contemporary Romance Novels in Spain Journal of Artistic Creation and Literary Research 4.2:62-70

Topic

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

(2018) Mass-market romance and the question of genre: N. Sparks, E. L. James and D. Gabaldon Oceánide 10:

Topic

(2018) "The Romance Novel as Bildungsroman in the Works of Rosamunde Pilcher and Lisa Kleypas " Taking Stock to Look Ahead: Celebrating Forty Years of English Studies in Spain 139-144

Topic

(2019) Antecedents and Development of the Contemporary Romance Novel in English: A Study of the Contribution to the Genre by Rosamunde Pilcher and Lisa Kleypas PhD, Universidade de Santiago de Compostela

Topic

Lisa Kleypas

Rosamunde Pilcher

(2020) "“There’s Something Charming about a Man with an Accent, Isn’t There?”: The Representation of Otherness in Three Novels by Lisa Kleypas " Love, Language, Place, and Identity in Popular Culture: Romancing the Other 145-156

Topic

Pérez Fernández, Irene

(2021) Romantic Escapes: Post-Millennial Trends in Contemporary Popular Romance Fiction Bern, Switzerland: Peter Lang

Pérez Fernández, Irene

(2021) "Romantic Escapes in Contemporary Popular Romance Fiction " Romantic Escapes: Post-Millennial Trends in Contemporary Popular Romance Fiction 11-25

Topic

(2021) "Romance Reading as Fandom in the Context of Convergence Culture " Romantic Escapes: Post-Millennial Trends in Contemporary Popular Romance Fiction 147-174

Topic

(2024) "Language, Sexuality and “Necessary” Anachronism in Lorraine Heath’s Neo-Victorian Popular Romance Series Scandalous Gentlemen of St. James " Conflict and Colonialism in 21st Century Romantic Historical Fiction: Repairing the Past, Repurposing History DOI:10.4324/9781003493792-5

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Lorraine Heath

(2020) "Business-like Lords and Gentlemanly Businessmen: The Romance Hero in Lisa Kleypas's Wallflowers Series " Love Across the Atlantic: US-UK Romance in Popular Culture 194-208

Topic

Lisa Kleypas

capitalism/business

(2021) "Marketplace Feminism? The Writing and Selling of Lisa Kleypas’s Ravenels Series " Romantic Escapes: Post-Millennial Trends in Contemporary Popular Romance Fiction 121-146

Topic

Lisa Kleypas

(2022) "La novela rosa o romántica: pasado, presente y futuro " Discursos e Identidades en la Ficción Romántica: Visiones Anglófonas de Madeira y Canarias / Discourses and Identities in Romance Fiction: Anglophone Visions from Madeira and the Canaries 37-52

Topic

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

(2022) "Popular romance novels: past, present and future " Discursos e Identidades en la Ficción Romántica: Visiones Anglófonas de Madeira y Canarias / Discourses and Identities in Romance Fiction: Anglophone Visions from Madeira and the Canaries 233-246

Topic

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

Pérez-Fernández, Irene

(2024) Black British love matters: Asserting the transformative power of love in Bolu Babalola’s Love in Colour: Mythical Tales Around the World Retold Journal of Postcolonial Writing ONLINE FIRST:ONLINE FIRST DOI: 10.1080/17449855.2024.2312359

Topic

Bolu Babalola

myth

(2018) Exoticism, Ethnocentrism, and Englishness in Popular Romance Fiction: Constructing the European Other Journal of Popular Culture 51.4:940-955 DOI: 10.1111/jpcu.12710

Topic

(2019) Representations of Nation and Spanish Masculinity in Popular Romance Novels: The Alpha Male as “Other” The Journal of Men’s Studies 27.2:169-182 DOI: 10.1177/1060826518801531

Topic

Lilian Warren as Kathryn Blair/Rosalind Brett/Celine Conway

(2020) "Britannia’s Daughters: Popular Romance Fiction and the Ideology of National Superiority (1950s–1970s) " Love, Language, Place, and Identity in Popular Culture: Romancing the Other 13-24

Topic

Kay Thorpe

Greece

Jean S. MacLeod/Catherine Airlie

(2022) "Imperfect paradise: Madeira in the novels of Margaret Rome, Katrina Britt, and Sally Wentworth " Discursos e Identidades en la Ficción Romántica: Visiones Anglófonas de Madeira y Canarias / Discourses and Identities in Romance Fiction: Anglophone Visions from Madeira and the Canaries 247-256

Topic

Ethel Connell as Katrina Britt

Doreen Hornsblow as Sally Wentworth

Sara Wood

(2022) Mass Tourism, Ecocriticism, and Mills & Boon Romances (1970s-1980s) Green Letters: Studies in Ecocriticism 26.4:383-396 DOI: 10.1080/14688417.2023.2202190

Topic

Doreen Hornsblow as Sally Wentworth

history

Ethel Connell as Katrina Britt

Kay Thorpe

Iris Danbury

ecocriticism/environmentalism/climate change

(2022) "Paraísos imperfectos: Madeira en las novelas de Margaret Rome, Katrina Britt y Sally Wentworth " Discursos e Identidades en la Ficción Romántica: Visiones Anglófonas de Madeira y Canarias / Discourses and Identities in Romance Fiction: Anglophone Visions from Madeira and the Canaries 53-64

Topic

Ethel Connell as Katrina Britt

Doreen Hornsblow as Sally Wentworth

Sara Wood

(2025) Tourists not welcome: perceptions of tourism in popular romance novels Journal of Tourism and Cultural Change ONLINE FIRST:ONLINE FIRST DOI: https://doi.org/10.1080/14766825.2024.2448189

Topic

ecocriticism/environmentalism/climate change

Perkins, Lori

(2012) Fifty Writers on Fifty Shades of Grey Dallas: BenBella Books

Perriam, Geraldine

(2021) "The not so silly ass: Freddy Standen, his fictional contemporaries and alternative masculinity " Georgette Heyer, History, and Historical Fiction 36-52 DOI:10.2307/j.ctv15d818n.8

Topic

Georgette Heyer

Perrin-Naffakh, Anne-Marie

(1998) "Amours - toujours : l'écriture clichée dans le roman sentimental " Le cliché 167-183

Topic

Perrot, Jean

(2004) Les métamorphoses du conte Bruxelles: P.I.E - Peter Lang

Pesonen, Sini

(2024) Romance Novels and Possibilities in Life : Analyzing Ethical Aspects in Happiness and Happy Place Masters thesis, University of Helsinki

Topic

(2014) En berättelse tar form - en studie i hur geometrisk form på bokomslag indikerar populärlitterär genre Bachelor, Linköping University

Topic

Petrović, Janja

(2023) Breaking the stereotype – romance novel today Masters thesis, University of Zagreb

Topic

(2018) Digital Disintermediation and Efficiency in the Market for Ideas CESifo Working Papers 6880:

Topic

Philadelphoff-Puren, Nina

(2004) The Mark of Refusal: Sexual Violence and the Politics of Recontextualization Feminist Theory 5.3:243–256 DOI: 10.1177/1464700104046975

Topic

Philadelphoff-Puren, Nina

Charlotte Lamb

(2005) Contextualising Consent: The Problem of Rape and Romance Australian Feminist Studies 20.46:31-42 DOI: 10.1080/0816464042000334519

Topic

Charlotte Lamb

(1985) Marketing Moonshine Women's Review 2:16-17

(1990) "Mills and Boon: The Marketing of Moonshine " Consumption, Identity, and Style: Marketing, Meanings, and the Packaging of Pleasure 139-152

Topic

(1992) "Homeward Bound: Leisure, popular culture and consumer capitalism " Come on Down?: Popular Media Culture in Post-War Britain 9-45

Topic

capitalism/business

(1998) Brave New Causes: Women in British Postwar Fictions London: Leicester University Press

Topic

(2011) "The Empire of Romance: Love in a Postcolonial Climate " End of Empire and the English Novel since 1945 114-133

Topic

Pamela Kent

Juliet Shore/Anne Vinton

Jean Herbert

Lilian Warren as Kathryn Blair/Rosalind Brett/Celine Conway

work

Africa

medical romance

(2020) In defence of reading (and watching) trash: Feminists reading the romance European Journal of Cultural Studies 23.6:900–914 DOI: 10.1177/1367549420957334

Topic

(2021) "Fifty Shades of Romance: The intertextualities of Fifty Shades of Grey " Romantic Escapes: Post-Millennial Trends in Contemporary Popular Romance Fiction 55-74

Topic

Fifty Shades

Leonard Noel Barker writing as L. Noel

Twilight

Phillips, Kristen

(2015) Women and Erotic Fiction: Critical Essays on Genres, Markets & Readers Jefferson, North Carolina: McFarland & Company

Phipps, Catherine

(2023) Sex, race and power: colonial and interracial sexuality in the French Empire in Morocco, 1912-1956 DPhil, University of Oxford

Topic

(2023) "‘The Machine for Showing Desire’: Desert Romance Fiction and Knowing Sexual Desire " Historical Research, Creative Writing, and the Past: Methods of Knowing DOI:10.4324/9781003252801-4

Topic

Phumithammarat, Nanphatchaon

(2023) The Cultural Politics of Chinese-Thai Identities in Ethnic Romance Novels by Female Authors PhD, Silpakorn University

Topic

Thailand

China

Piatti-Farnell, Lorna

Brien, Donna Lee

(2015) New Directions in 21st Century Gothic: The Gothic Compass New York: Routledge

Piatti-Farnell, Lorna

Johnson-Hunt, Nancy

(2023) "Vampires and Desire: Blood, Sex, and Ritual in Paranormal Romance and Urban Fantasy Fiction " The Palgrave Handbook of the Vampire 1161-1179 DOI:10.1007/978-3-030-82301-6_95-1

Topic

(2020) Olive Skin, Chocolate Eyes: The Legacy of The Sheik on Descriptive Patterns of the Italian Romantic Hero in Harlequin Short Contemporaries Journal of Popular Romance Studies 9: DOI: 10.70138/ZQZO7017

Topic

Italy

(2020) “He Looks like He’s Stepped out of a Painting:” The Idealization and Appropriation of Italian Timelessness through the Experience of Romantic Love Journal of Popular Romance Studies 9: DOI: 10.70138/ICPI2621

Topic

(2021) “Sharing the Same Soil:” Sally Rooney’s Normal People and the Coming-of-Age Romance Prospero. Rivista di letterature e culture straniere :141-166 DOI: 10.13137/2283-6438/33293

Topic

Sally Rooney

(2022) Critical Approaches to the Modern and Contemporary Anglophone Romance Novel (From A Room with a View to Fifty Shades of Grey) Journal of Popular Romance Studies 11: DOI: 10.70138/MHSY2470

Topic

(2022) Romance and Metagenre: A Response to Burkhard Niederhoff Connotations: A Journal for Critical Debate 31:100-111

Topic

(2022) "“Roma” spelled backwards: love and heterotopic space in contemporary romance novels set in Italy " The Routledge Companion to Romantic Love DOI:10.4324/9781003022343-28

Topic

Italy

(2023) Literary Fiction from the Perspective of Romance: Normal People Journal of Popular Romance Studies 12: DOI: 10.70138/VQOD1919

Topic

Sally Rooney

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

(2023) Towards a Regime of Authenticity. Reading A Room with a View through the Lens of Contemporary Romance Scholarship LEA - Lingue E Letterature D'Oriente E D'Occidente 12:217-228 DOI: 10.36253/lea-1824-484x-14273

Topic

E. M. Forster

Pierre, Zakiya

(2021) Browsing in nuances: Using ethnographic research to design for the experience of browsing. Bachelor, Malmö University

Topic

Pierre-Robertson, Petronetta

(2021) "Literature as an Agent of Change " Gender and Domestic Violence in the Caribbean 87-103 DOI:10.1007/978-3-030-73472-5_6

Topic

Caribbean

Petra Pierre-Robertson

Pierre-Robertson, Petronetta

(2023) Librarian as Creator Caribbean Library Journal 7:1-16

Topic

Rutigliano-Daspet, Sandrine

Petra Pierre-Robertson

Caribbean

Pifarré, Alexandra-Flora

(2010) Re- Répéter - Répétitions Chambéry, France: Presses universitaires Savoie Mont Blanc

Pilz, Anna

Standlee, Whitney

(2016) Irish women's writing, 1878-1922: Advancing the cause of liberty Manchester: Manchester University Press

Piper, Andrew

Portelance, Eva

(2016) How Cultural Capital Works: Prizewinning Novels, Bestsellers, and the Time of Reading Post45 :

Topic

Po-Yu, Rick Wei

(2018) “She is a Jade”: A Georgian Gaming Woman Re-imagined in Georgette Heyer’s Faro’s Daughter Crossings 9:122-131

Topic

Pöhls, R. L. Victoria

Utudji, Mariane

(2021) Powerful Prose: How Textual Features Impact Readers Bielefeld: transcript Verlag

Poirel, Carole

(2024) "The long tail business model in publishing: The case of Hachette's romance division in France " Business Model Innovation in Creative and Cultural Industries 69-88 DOI:10.4324/9781032714462-5

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Pokrywka, Rafał

(2015) Temperaturen des Begehrens als konventionelle Metaphern im Hard-Core-Liebesroman 36:159-174 DOI: 10.14746/sgp.2015.36.12

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(1992) What's in a Pseudonym? Romance Slaves of Harlequin The Nation 254.10:

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authors

Popova, Milena

(2018) Rewriting the Romance: Emotion Work and Consent in Arranged Marriage Fanfiction Journal of Popular Romance Studies 7:

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(2019) Sexual Consent : MIT Press

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Pöppel, Hubert

(2014) Las reinas de la novela rosa en España y Alemania: Corín Tellado y Hedwig Courths-Mahler Lingüística y Literatura 66:153-170

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Germany

Corín Tellado

Hedwig Courths-Mahler

Porter, J. D.

Eimannsberger, Angelina

English, James

Hathaway, May

Yakoob, Ashna

(2023) Genre Juggernaut: Measuring “Romance” Public Books :

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Porter, David

(1997) Internet Culture New York and London: Routledge

Portut, Vanessa

(2001) Évolution du roman sentimental contemporain en France: diversité et spécificité des collections chez Harlequin Mémoire de maîtrise, Université de Cergy-Pontoise

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Posti, Piia K

(2024) "‘I Get to Exist as a Black Person in the World’: Bridgerton as Speculative Romance and Alternate History on Screen " History and Speculative Fiction 123-149 DOI:10.1007/978-3-031-42235-5_7

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(1999) American Women Readers Encounter Turkey in the Shadow of Popular Romance Journal of American Studies of Turkey 9:71-82

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Greece

Turkey

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

Demetra Vaka

Potter, Jane Elizabeth

(1998) Boys in khaki, girls in print: women's literary responses to the great war, 1914-1918 D.Phil, University of Oxford

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war/armed forces

Mary Ward/Mrs. Humphry Ward

Potter, Jane

(1997) ""A great purifier": The Great War in Women's Romances and Memoirs 1914-1918 " Women's Fiction and The Great War 85-106

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(2005) Boys in Khaki, Girls in Print: Women's Literary Responses to the Great War 1914-1918 Oxford: Clarendon Press

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war/armed forces

Ruby M. Ayres

Berta Ruck

Florence Barclay

disability

Potter, Jane

(2015) "‘Khaki and Kisses’: Reading the Romance Novel in the Great War " Reading and the First World War: Readers, Texts, Archives 29-44 DOI:10.1057/9781137302717_2

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(2015) "Romance Fiction in Florida: The Crisscross of Jane Austen and Angela Hunt " Women of Florida Fiction: Essays on 12 Sunshine State Writers 123-132

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(2015) Women of Florida Fiction: Essays on 12 Sunshine State Writers Jefferson, North Carolina: McFarland & Company

Pozzato, Maria Pia

(1982) Il romanzo rosa Rome: Edizioni L’Espresso

Pozzato, Maria Pia

(1986) "Letteratura popolare e livelli di qualità. Un confronto fra Georgette Heyer e Barbara Cartland " Maestre d'amore: eroine e scrittrici nell'impero del rosa inglese 93-118

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Georgette Heyer

Barbara Cartland

Pozzato, Maria Pia

(1987) "Il rosa e la regola " Intorno al rosa

Pradhan, Anil

(2021) The literary field of queer cultural production in contemporary India: considering popular queer texts via Bourdieu Runas: Journal of Education & Culture 2.4: DOI: 10.46652/runas.v2i4.48

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De Ferras, Rayhan Romombe

Prayuana, Ratu

Ramadhan, Fitra Wahyu

(2023) The Rules of Romance Manifested in the Textual Structure of the Novel Fireside JIIP (Jurnal Ilmiah Ilmu Pendidikan) 6.8:6450-6454

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Susan Wiggs

Préfontaine, Clémence

(1991) Le roman d’amour à l’école Québec: Les Éditions Logiques

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teaching romance

Press, Andrea L.

(1986) New Views on the Mass Production of Women's Culture Communication Research 13.1:139-149 DOI: 10.1177/009365028601300108

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Preston, Cathy Lynn

(1995) Folklore, Literature, and Cultural Theory: Collected Essays New York and London: Garland Publishing

Pritchard, Jamee Nicole

(2021) That 90's Kind of Love: the Rise of African American Romance Novels in Traditional Romance Publishing Master of Arts, University of Wisconsin Milwaukee

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Pritchard, Jamee N.

(2022) Reading the Black Romance: Exploring Black Sexual Politics in the Romance Fiction of Rebekah Weatherspoon Journal of Popular Romance Studies 11: DOI: 10.70138/YQAY5668

Topic

Rebekah Weatherspoon

Ann Allen Shockley

Priya, S Vishnu

Saravanan, P

(2025) Exploring Gender Roles in Nora Roberts’ Northern Lights: A Critical Analysis Language in India 25.1:1-16

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Nora Roberts/J. D. Robb

Priyatna, Aquarini

Wardiani, Sri Rijati

(2022) Naturalization and Romanticization of Violence in Indonesian Teen Lit Jingga Series by Esti Kinasih Journal of International Women's Studies 24.5:

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Esti Kinasih

Indonesia

Proctor, Candice

(2007) "The Romance Genre Blues or Why We Don't Get No Respect " Empowerment versus Oppression: Twenty-First Century Views of Popular Romance Novels 12-19

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(1982) Avez-vous déjà lu IXE-13, Albert Brien, Guy Verchères…? Études littéraires 15.2:133–164 DOI: 10.7202/500571ar

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dime novels

Canada

Pryde, Jessica P.

(2022) Black Love Matters: Real Talk on Romance, Being Seen, and Happily Ever After New York: Berkley

Topic

(2022) Judging a Book by its Back Cover: Spoken/Informal Register as Found in Happily-Ever-After Women’s Novel Blurbs Journal of Studies in the English Language 17.2:1–31

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Pupipat, Apisak

(2023) Should a Book Be Judged by its Back Cover? Some Written/Formal Features as Observed in Happily- Ever-After Women’s Novel Blurbs LEARN Journal: Language Education and Acquisition Research Network 16.1:604-630

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Puren, Nina

(1995) Hymeneal Acts: Interrogating the Hegemony of Rape and Romance Australian Feminist Law Journal 5:15-26 DOI: 10.1080/13200968.1995.11077171

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(1997) Reading Romance Novels in Postcolonial India Gender & Society 11.4:434-452 DOI: 10.1177/089124397011004004

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family

Pustz, Matthew

(2012) Comic Books and American Cultural History: An Anthology New York: Continuum Books

Pylkkänen, Merita

(2013) Didactic Fulfillment and the Popular Romance: Jude Deveraux’s The Mulberry Tree MA thesis, University of Eastern Finland

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Jude Deveraux

Pyrhönen, Heta

(2017) "Love under Threat: The Emotional Valences of the Twilight Saga " Writing Emotions: Theoretical Concepts and Selected Case Studies in Literature 347-362

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(2014) Pursuit of Empowerment: The Evolution of the Romance Novel and Its Readership in Fifty Shades of Grey MA, Minnesota State University

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Fifty Shades

Quilliam, Susan

(2011) “He seized her in his manly arms and bent his lips to hers…”. The surprising impact that romantic novels have on our work Journal of Family Planning and Reproductive Health Care 37.3:179-181 DOI: 10.1136/jfprhc-2011-100152

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Quiroga Fernández de Soto, Alejandro

del Arco Blanco, Miguel Ángel

(2010) Soldados de Dios y apóstoles de la patria: Las derechas españolas en la Europa de entreguerras Granada: Comares

Rabanal, Hayley

(2018) Courting convivencia: Hispano-Arab identity and Spanish women’s Orientalism in the Franco regime’s years of “unbearable solitude” (1946–1950) Journal of Spanish Cultural Studies 19.3:339-364 DOI: 10.1080/14636204.2018.1493891

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fascism/right-wing authoritarianism

sheikh romance

María Adela Durango

Ana Marcela García

María del Pilar Carré

Rabine, Leslie W.

(1985) Reading the Romantic Heroine: Text, History, Ideology Ann Arbor: University of Michigan Press

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(1985) Romance in the Age of Electronics: Harlequin Enterprises Feminist Studies 11.1:39-60 DOI: 10.2307/3180131

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() Oxford Research Encyclopedia of Literature : Oxford University Press

Radcliffe, Polly

(1991) Accounting for romance: Women's explanations for reading romance fiction Master of Arts, University of Toronto

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(2021) “Are You Clean?” Encouraging STI Communication in Casual Encounters through Narrative Messages in Romance Novels Communication Studies 72.3:333-346 DOI: 10.1080/10510974.2021.1899006

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(1986) "Introduction " The Progress of Romance: The Politics of Popular Fiction 1-20

Topic

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

socialism and/or communism

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

Radford, Jean

(1986) The Progress of Romance: The Politics of Popular Fiction London and New York: Routledge & Kegan Paul

Radford, Jean

(1992) "A Certain Latitude: Romance as Genre " Gender, Language, and Myth: Essays on Popular Narrative 3-19

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socialism and/or communism

(2004) Narratives of Fractured Conjugality: Women’s Romance Novels in Kannada, 1950s-1960s Journal of Karnataka Studies 2.1:

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Radhika, P.

(2014) Inaugurating a (Feminine) Public: Women’s Romances in Kannada, 1950s–1960s Indian Journal of Gender Studies 21.1:85-110 DOI: 10.1177/0971521513511201

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psychology

Radick, Caryn

(2016) Romance Writers’ Use of Archives Archivaria, the Journal of the Association of Canadian Archivists 81:45-73

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authors

Radner, Hilary

(1995) Shopping Around: Feminine Culture and the Pursuit of Pleasure New York and London: Routledge

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(1988) Sweet Dreams: Sexuality, Gender and Popular Fiction London: Lawrence & Wishart

Radway, Janice A.

(1982) "The Aesthetic in Mass Culture: Reading the "Popular" Literary Text " The Structure of the Literary Process Studies dedicated to the Memory of Felix Vodička 397-429 DOI:10.1075/llsee.8.19rad

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Victoria Holt/Jean Plaidy/Eleanor Burford Hibbert

fashion/clothing

Radway, Janice A.

(1983) Women Read the Romance: The Interaction of Text and Context Feminist Studies 9.1:53-78 DOI: 10.2307/3177683

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(1984) Interpretive Communities And Variable Literacies: The Functions Of Romance Reading Daedalus 113.3:49-73

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Radway, Janice A.

(1984) Reading the Romance: Women, Patriarchy, and Popular Literature Chapel Hill: University of North Carolina Press

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(1981) The Utopian Impulse in Popular Literature: Gothic Romances and "Feminist" Protest American Quarterly 33.2:140-162 DOI: 10.2307/2712313

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Victoria Holt/Jean Plaidy/Eleanor Burford Hibbert

Annie Vivanti/Annie Vivanti Chartres

(1994) "Romance and the Work of Fantasy: Struggles over Feminine Sexuality and Subjectivity at Century's End " Viewing, Reading, Listening: Audiences and Cultural Reception 213-231

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(2019) Verde bianco e rosa. Il romanzo 'femminile' e l'educazione sentimentale delle italiane (1911-1946) PhD, Università degli Studi di Palermo

Topic

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

(1997) Women's Fiction and The Great War Oxford: Clarendon Press

Rak, Michele

(1999) Rosa: La letteratura del divertimento amoroso Rome: Donzelli

Ramos-García, María Teresa

(2022) "Definiciones transatlánticas de la raza blanca en las novelas góticas de Louise Bergstrom en Canarias (1971-1972) " Discursos e Identidades en la Ficción Romántica: Visiones Anglófonas de Madeira y Canarias / Discourses and Identities in Romance Fiction: Anglophone Visions from Madeira and the Canaries 127-147

Topic

Louise Bergstrom

Ramos-García, María Teresa

(2022) "Transatlantic definitions of Whiteness in Louise Bergstrom’s Gothic romances in the Canary Islands (1971-1972) " Discursos e Identidades en la Ficción Romántica: Visiones Anglófonas de Madeira y Canarias / Discourses and Identities in Romance Fiction: Anglophone Visions from Madeira and the Canaries 313-331

Topic

Louise Bergstrom

Vivanco, Laura

(2020) "Introduction " Love, Language, Place, and Identity in Popular Culture: Romancing the Other 1-9

Topic

Vivanco, Laura

(2020) Love, Language, Place, and Identity in Popular Culture: Romancing the Other Lanham, Maryland: Lexington

(2020) "Representations of Otherness in Paranormal Romance: Race and Wealth in Nalini Singh and J. R. Ward " Love, Language, Place, and Identity in Popular Culture: Romancing the Other 127-144

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Nalini Singh

J. R. Ward

capitalism/business

(2021) "Paranormal romance and urban fantasy " The Routledge Research Companion to Popular Romance Fiction 141-167 DOI:10.4324/9781315613468-6

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happy ending

Rampoldi Hnilo, Lynn A.

(1996) The effects of romance in young adult fiction on pre-adolescent African-American females MA thesis, Michigan State University

Topic

(2007) "Étude de cas : «Harlequin a bâti un empire» " Histoire du livre et de l'imprimé au Canada, Vol. III: De 1918 à 1980 198-199 DOI:10.1515/9782760631311-012

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Ramsdell, Kristin

(1999) Romance Fiction: A Guide to the Genre Englewood, Colorado: Libraries Unlimited

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