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Rapp, Adrian Dodgen, Lynda Kaler, Anne K. (2000) A Romance Writer Gets Away with Murder Clues: A Journal of Detection 21.1:17–21 Topic Sandra Brown romantic suspense death
Rashid, Hussein Petersen, Kristian (2023) The Bloomsbury Handbook of Muslims and Popular Culture London: Bloomsbury
Rastier, François Ballabriga, Michel (2007) Corpus en Lettres et Sciences sociales : des documents numériques à l'interprétation, Actes du colloque international d'Albi, juillet 2006 Toulouse: CALS-CPST
Rata, Georgeta (2013) Linguistic Studies of Human Language Athens: Athens Institute for Education and Research
Rattanamathuwong, Bancha (2023) Time Is on Our Side?: Homo Economicus in Time-Travel Romance Critique: Studies in Contemporary Fiction ONLINE FIRST:ONLINE FIRST DOI: 10.1080/00111619.2023.2186212 Topic paranormal/fantasy/time-travel romance capitalism/business Jude Deveraux Rompaeng Thomyantri Thailand Audrey Niffenegger
Raub, Patricia (1992) Issues of Passion and Power in E. M. Hull's The Sheik Women's Studies 21:119-128 DOI: 10.1080/00497878.1992.9978930 Topic E. M. Hull sex/sexuality United States of America history gender Older and/or precursor texts (may not be "romance" as now defined) Elinor Glyn Harlequin Mills & Boon
Raub, Patricia (1994) Yesterday's Stories: Popular Women's Novels of the Twenties and Thirties Westport, Connecticut: Greenwood Press Topic Older and/or precursor texts (may not be "romance" as now defined) Temple Bailey Kathleen Thompson Norris E. M. Hull Gene Stratton-Porter Viña Delmar sex/sexuality marriage family work Dorothy Canfield United States of America history Faith Baldwin fashion/clothing Daphne du Maurier Margaret Mitchell gender
Raw, Laurence (2013) The Silk Road of Adaptation: Transformations across Disciplines and Cultures Newcastle upon Tyne: Cambridge Scholars Publishing
Raymundo, Sarah Jane S. (2004) In the Concrete Now: Investigating Feminist Challenges to Popular Romance Production Plaridel: A Philippine Journal of Communication, Media, and Society 1.2:91-118 Topic Philippines feminism gender Joi Barrios Lualhati Bautista
Rayner, Samantha J. Wilkins, Kim (2021) Georgette Heyer, History, and Historical Fiction : UCL Press Topic Georgette Heyer
Rayner, Samantha J. Wilkins, Kim (2021) "Introduction: the persistence of Georgette Heyer " Georgette Heyer, History, and Historical Fiction 1-13 DOI:10.2307/j.ctv15d818n.6 Topic Georgette Heyer
Reed, Eleanor (2018) Domestic Culture in Woman's Weekly, 1918-1958 PhD, University of Roehampton Topic history social/economic class romances in magazines and newspapers Older and/or precursor texts (may not be "romance" as now defined) UK
Reed, Eleanor (2020) Romance in Woman’s Weekly and Woman’s Weekly as Romance, 1918–39 Journal of European Periodical Studies 5.2:80–94 DOI: 10.21825/jeps.v5i2.17039 Topic romances in magazines and newspapers social/economic class UK readers work
Reed, Eleanor (2023) Woman's Weekly and Lower-Middle-Class Domestic Culture in Britain, 1918-1958: Making Homemakers Liverpool: Liverpool University Press Topic romances in magazines and newspapers UK readers social/economic class
Reep, Diana (1982) The Rescue And Romance: Popular Novels Before World War I Bowling Green, Ohio: Bowling Green State University Popular Press Topic Older and/or precursor texts (may not be "romance" as now defined) United States of America gender race/ethnicity social/economic class
Reese, Tracy H.Z. (2024) "Beyond the Pale: Genre, Race, and Intersectional Feminist Tensions in Bridgerton " Adapting Bridgerton: Essays on the Netflix Show in Context 9-21 Topic Julia Quinn race/ethnicity rape and/or intimate partner violence/abuse
Reeves, Anne R. (2004) Adolescents Talk about Reading: Exploring Resistance to and Engagement with Text : International Reading Association Topic readers
Regan, Lisa (2017) Women and the 'War Machine' in the Desert Romances of E. M. Hull and Rosita Forbes Women's Writing 24.1:109-122 DOI: 10.1080/09699082.2016.1233773 Topic E. M. Hull UK war/armed forces national identity
Regis, Pamela (1997) Complicating Romances and their Readers: Barrier and Point of Ritual Death in Nora Roberts's Category Fiction Para.doxa: Studies in World Literary Genres 3.1-2:145-154 Topic Nora Roberts/J. D. Robb romance scholarship genre definitions
Regis, Pamela (2003) A Natural History of the Romance Novel Philadelphia: University of Pennsylvania Press Topic genre definitions trash/literary and or intellectual quality Samuel Richardson Jane Austen Older and/or precursor texts (may not be "romance" as now defined) Charlotte Brontë Anthony Trollope E. M. Forster Georgette Heyer Mary Stewart Harlequin Mills & Boon Janet Dailey Jayne Ann Krentz/Amanda Quick/Jayne Castle Nora Roberts/J. D. Robb rape and/or intimate partner violence/abuse E. M. Hull
Regis, Pamela (2011) "Female genre fiction in the twentieth century " The Cambridge History of the American Novel 847-860 DOI:10.1017/CHOL9780521899079.056 Topic genre definitions Samuel Richardson Older and/or precursor texts (may not be "romance" as now defined) E. D. E. N. Southworth religion/spirituality Kathleen Thompson Norris Faith Baldwin Claire Morgan/Patricia Highsmith LGBTQ+ characters, readers and/or authors Kathleen Woodiwiss Jennifer Crusie Beverly Jenkins Ann Herendeen Nora Roberts/J. D. Robb marriage
Regis, Pamela (2011) What Do Critics Owe the Romance? Keynote Address at the Second Annual Conference of the International Association for the Study of Popular Romance Journal of Popular Romance Studies 2.1: Topic feminism trash/literary and or intellectual quality pornography readers emotions romance scholarship
Regis, Pamela (2016) "Pamela Crosses the Atlantic; or, Pamela Andrews's Story Inaugurates the American Romance Novel " Romance Fiction and American Culture: Love as the Practice of Freedom? 25-40 Topic Samuel Richardson United States of America
Regis, Pamela (2021) "The evolution of the American romance novel " The Routledge Research Companion to Popular Romance Fiction 51-71 DOI:10.4324/9781315613468-2 Topic United States of America Older and/or precursor texts (may not be "romance" as now defined) romance scholarship Charles Brockden Brown Sukey Vickery Catharine Maria Sedgwick Lydia Maria Child E. D. E. N. Southworth Louisa May Alcott Frances Watkins Harper race/ethnicity Onoto Watanna/Winnifred Eaton Jean Webster Kathleen Thompson Norris Viña Delmar family Claire Morgan/Patricia Highsmith LGBTQ+ characters, readers and/or authors
Reid, Charlotte (1990) A Cursory Visit of Inspection to Annie S. Swan Cencrastus: The Curly Snake 38:28-31 Topic Annie S. Swan
Reid Boyd, Elizabeth (2014) Romancing feminism: From women’s studies to women’s fiction Australasian Journal of Popular Culture 3.3:263-272 DOI: 10.1386/ajpc.3.3.263_1 Topic feminism love readers Elizabeth Reid Boyd (pen name Eliza Redgold)
Reid-Walsh, Jacqueline (1993) "Adolescent Girls' Romance Fiction: Contemporary Conduct Books? " Weaving Alliances: Selected Papers Presented For The Canadian Women's Studies Association at the 1991 and 1992 Learned Societies Conferences 303-318 Topic YA/teenage romance readers Older and/or precursor texts (may not be "romance" as now defined) gender
Reitemeier, Rebecca (2019) Romance Novels and Higher Education Inter-Text: An Undergraduate Journal for Social Sciences and Humanities 2.2: Topic Older and/or precursor texts (may not be "romance" as now defined) feminism readers psychology teaching romance
Rempel, Valerie Gale (2003) “The soft white strong hand of God”: Gender and the expression of evangelical piety in the religious fiction of Grace Livingston Hill, 1897–1948 PhD, Vanderbilt University Topic Grace Livingston Hill Christian romance religion/spirituality gender marriage family
Reuter, Yves (1990) "Le roman sentimental: système de personnages et circulation sociale de la thématique amoureuse " Le roman sentimental: actes du colloque des 14-15-16 mars 1989 à la Faculté des lettres de Limoges, volume 1 209-223 Topic love gender genre definitions
Reyes, Daisy Verduzco Speer, Annika C. Denes, Amanda (2021) White Women and Latina Readers’ Ambivalence Toward Fifty Shades of Grey Sexuality & Culture 25:852–870 DOI: 10.1007/s12119-020-09797-3 Topic Fifty Shades erotic romance pornography sex/sexuality race/ethnicity gender readers United States of America rape and/or intimate partner violence/abuse
Rholetter, Wylene (2008) Nora Roberts Teaching American Literature: A Journal of Theory and Practice 2.2/3:1-35 Topic Nora Roberts/J. D. Robb rape and/or intimate partner violence/abuse family romantic suspense feminism work Janet Dailey fairytales/folktales paranormal/fantasy/time-travel romance Harlequin Mills & Boon
Riba, Caterina Sanmartí, Carme (2018) " La traducción de literatura sentimental entre 1920 y 1960. El rosario de Florence Barclay: versiones, adaptaciones y censura " Traducción, género y censura en la literatura y en los medios de comunicación 99–110 Topic Florence Barclay translation Spain
Riba, Caterina Sanmartí, Carme (2018) The Reception of Elinor Glyn's Work in Spain (1926–57) Women: A Cultural Review 29.2:188-215 DOI: 10.1080/09574042.2018.1447040 Topic Elinor Glyn Spain Rafael Pérez y Pérez religion/spirituality sex/sexuality
Riba, Caterina Sanmartí, Carme (2021) Semblanza de La Novela Rosa (Barcelona, 1924-1937, Madrid, 1939-1948) Biblioteca Virtual Miguel de Cervantes - Portal Editores y Editoriales Iberoamericanos (siglos XIX-XXI) - EDI-RED : Topic Publishing translation Spain Older and/or precursor texts (may not be "romance" as now defined)
Riba Sanmartí, Caterina Sanmartí Roset, Carme (2017) Censura moral en la novela rosa. El caso de Elinor Glyn. Represura 2:40-55 Topic Elinor Glyn Spain fascism/right-wing authoritarianism translation Older and/or precursor texts (may not be "romance" as now defined)
Richaudeau, François (1986) La galaxie Harlequin, des auteurs et des romans Communication et langages 67:9-24 DOI: 10.3406/colan.1986.1733 Topic Harlequin Mills & Boon linguistics translation Margaret Rome Delly Barbara Cartland metaphor/symbolism
Riche, Martha Farnsworth (1986) Why Romance Novels Are Like the Rustbelt American Demographics 8.8:46-48 Topic readers Publishing
Richey, Weston (2023) (Loves) Me, (Loves) Me Not: Unbuilding of Selfhood in the Romance of the Present Journal of Popular Romance Studies 12: DOI: 10.70138/UBMV6841 Topic readers LGBTQ+ characters, readers and/or authors gender psychology Kris Ripper
Richey, Emily (2024) Southern Charmed: The Stigma Surrounding the Contemporary Romance Novel Master’s thesis, University of Texas at San Antonio
Richlin, Amy (1992) Pornography and Representation in Greece and Rome Oxford: Oxford University Press
Ricker-Wilson, Carol (1999) Busting Textual Bodices: Gender, Reading, and the Popular Romance The English Journal 88.3:57-64 DOI: 10.2307/821580 Topic gender Danielle Steel readers feminism work social/economic class trash/literary and or intellectual quality
Rihoit, Catherine (1984) Regards de femmes Paris: Presses de la Renaissance Topic Harlequin Mills & Boon readers
Rimmer, Abi (2024) Can I have a side hustle as a doctor? BMJ 385: DOI: 10.1136/bmj.q1136 Topic Fearne Hill
Ripoll Fonollar, Mariana (2023) Wording deeds: the figure of the suffragette in contemporary british fiction , Universitat de les Illes Balears Topic feminism historical romance Katie MacAlister Courtney Milan Evie Dunmore
Ripoll Fonollar, Mariana (2024) "Suffragette Historical Romances: Re-Purposing Women’s Suffrage in a Postfeminist Context " Conflict and Colonialism in 21st Century Romantic Historical Fiction: Repairing the Past, Repurposing History DOI:10.4324/9781003493792-6 Topic historical romance
Riseman, Noah (2020) Intimatopias and the queering of Australian war fiction Continuum: Journal of Media & Cultural Studies 34.6:940-954 DOI: 10.1080/10304312.2020.1827371 Topic Australia history war/armed forces m/m romance LGBTQ+ characters, readers and/or authors
Rix, Robert W. (2009) “Love in the Clouds”: Barbara Cartland’s Religious Romances The Journal of Religion and Popular Culture 21.2: DOI: 10.3138/jrpc.21.2.002 Topic Barbara Cartland religion/spirituality love gender Christian romance Marie Corelli Ethel M. Dell
Rizkyane Machmuri, Alya Nurulaen, Yuyun Priyawan, Pepen (2025) Romance Formula in Zoulfa Katouh’s Novel As Long As The Lemon Trees Grow ELS Journal on Interdisciplinary Studies in Humanities 8.1:224–234 DOI: 10.34050/elsjish.v8i1.43544 Topic Zoulfa Katouh
Roach, David (2023) A Very British Affair – The Best of Classic Romance Comics Oxford: Rebellion Topic comics/manga UK
Roach, Catherine M. (2010) Getting a Good Man to Love: Popular Romance Fiction and the Problem of Patriarchy Journal of Popular Romance Studies 1.1: Topic love religion/spirituality happy ending sex/sexuality BDSM Maya Banks Joey W. Hill J. R. Ward
Roach, Catherine M. (2014) 'Going Native': Aca-Fandom and Deep Participant Observation in Popular Romance Studies Mosaic 47.2:33-49 DOI: 10.1353/mos.2014.0011 Topic authors romance scholarship
Roach, Catherine M. (2016) Happily Ever After: The Romance Story in Popular Culture Bloomington, Indiana: Indiana University Press Topic authors religion/spirituality love sex/sexuality Beverly Jenkins gender rape and/or intimate partner violence/abuse genre definitions BDSM J. R. Ward readers LGBTQ+ characters, readers and/or authors happy ending romance scholarship marriage pornography Publishing feminism
Roach, Catherine M. (2016) "Love as the Practice of Bondage: Popular Romance Narratives and the Conundrum of Erotic Love " Romance Fiction and American Culture: Love as the Practice of Freedom? 369-387 Topic love BDSM Beverly Jenkins James Buchanan J. R. Ward gender LGBTQ+ characters, readers and/or authors m/m romance
Roach, Catherine M. (2018) "Erotica " The Routledge Companion to Media, Sex and Sexuality 107-116 Topic erotic romance sex/sexuality pornography love LGBTQ+ characters, readers and/or authors feminism rape and/or intimate partner violence/abuse BDSM Alexis Hall
Roach, Catherine M. (2024) Fantasy and Desire: From my Mother’s Stack of Trashy Novels to an Experiment in Writing at Field’s Edge Journal of Popular Romance Studies 13: DOI: 10.70138/VAWK7743 Topic romance scholarship
Roberts, Sherron Killingsworth (2002) Meet Jessica and Elizabeth from Sweet Valley: Who Are the Female Role Models in Popular Romance Novels for Children? Paper presented at the Annual Meeting of the American Educational Research Association (New Orleans, LA, April 1-5,2002) ERIC document ED470819: Topic YA/teenage romance
Roberts, Sherron Killingsworth (2010) Twenty-five years and counting of Sweet Valley: Jessica and Elizabeth in romance novels for young children? Journal of Research in Childhood Education 24.2:123-139 DOI: 10.1080/02568541003635201 Topic YA/teenage romance
Roberts, Gillian (2018) Reading between the Borderlines: Cultural Production and Consumption across the 49th Parallel Montreal and Kingston: McGill-Queen's University Press
Robertson, Rachel (2014) ‘Driven by Tens’: Obsession and cognitive difference in Toni Jordan’s romantic comedy Addition Australasian Journal of Popular Culture 3.3:311-320 DOI: 10.1386/ajpc.3.3.311_1 Topic disability Toni Jordan
Robine, Nicole (1995) "Roman sentimental et jeunes travailleuses " Guimauve et fleurs d’oranger: Delly 21-54 Topic sociology readers
Robinson, Rachel (2023) Reading and writing dogs in popular romance fiction PhD, University of Tasmania Topic animals
Robinson, Lillian S. (1978) Sex, Class, and Culture Bloomington, Indiana: Indiana University Press Topic historical romance history Jane Austen Georgette Heyer fashion/clothing sex/sexuality social/economic class gender trash/literary and or intellectual quality
Roccella, Eugenia (1998) La letteratura rosa Rome: Editori Riuniti Topic Liala, pen name of Amalia Liana Cambiasi Negretti Odescalchi
Roces, Mina (2012) Women's Movements and the Filipina 1986-2008 Honolulu: University of Hawai'i Press Topic Philippines feminism health/medical family Lualhati Bautista Carmen Cabiling
Roche, Emma (2023) Women, Violence and Postmillennial Romance Fiction Abingdon, Oxon: Routledge Topic Twilight Fifty Shades feminism rape and/or intimate partner violence/abuse capitalism/business
Rodriguez, Simone Meirelles (2005) Leitoras com coração: usos de leitura dos romances sentimentais de massa Letras 65:23-37 DOI: 10.5380/rel.v65i0.4294 Topic Brazil readers
Roger, Isabel M. (1986) Recreación crítica de la novela rosa en El cuarto de atrás Romance Notes 27.2:121-126 Topic metafiction
Rollins, Shannon Marie (2019) Crafting women’s narratives: the material impact of twenty-first century romance fiction on contemporary steampunk dress PhD, University of Edinburgh Topic steampunk fashion/clothing gender Gail Carriger feminism race/ethnicity Adrienne Kress
Roman, Leslie G. Christian-Smith, Linda K. Ellsworth, Elizabeth (1988) Becoming Feminine: The Politics of Popular Culture London: Falmer Press
Romera Pintor, Angela Magdalena (2019) L’enfance dans l’œuvre de Delly Le Rocambole 86-87:169-202 Topic Delly family
Romera Pintor, Angela Magdalena (2020) "Maryan (1847-1927) et le déclassement du roman sentimental " Documentando la memoria cultural: las mujeres en las (auto)narraciones exocanónicas 201-215 Topic Maryan, pen name of Marie Cadiou Older and/or precursor texts (may not be "romance" as now defined)
Romney, Rebecca (2021) The Romance Novel in English: A Survey in Rare Books, 1769-1999 : Type Punch Matrix Topic Publishing Older and/or precursor texts (may not be "romance" as now defined) work Harlequin Mills & Boon historical romance Christian romance gothic romance romantic suspense paranormal/fantasy/time-travel romance YA/teenage romance African American romance LGBTQ+ characters, readers and/or authors Frances Brooke Canada Elizabeth Inchbald Frances Burney Sydney Owenson national identity Ireland Ouida May Agnes Fleming Laura Jean Libbey Emma Wolf religion/spirituality Judaism Pauline Hopkins Onoto Watanna/Winnifred Eaton Japan Elinor Glyn Louise Gerard Barbara Cartland Laura Lou Brookman Kathleen Thompson Norris romances in magazines and newspapers Elizabeth Carfrae Frances Shelley Wees Lilian Warren as Kathryn Blair/Rosalind Brett/Celine Conway Jean S. MacLeod/Catherine Airlie Alice Lent Covert Joyce Dingwell/Kate Starr Australia Faith Baldwin Mary Renault medical romance Mary Burchell, pen name of Ida Cook Juliet Shore/Anne Vinton Della Field, pseudonym of Fanny Howe Janet Dailey Lydia Maria Child Charlotte M. Yonge Mary Johnston Susa Young Gates Kathleen Woodiwiss Rosemary Rogers June Lund Shiplett paratext Jayne Ann Krentz/Amanda Quick/Jayne Castle science fiction/futuristic romance Valerie Belgrave Caribbean Beverly Jenkins Jane Austen Susan Ferrier Georgette Heyer Amii Lorin Nora Roberts/J. D. Robb Marisa de Zavala/Ana Lisa de Leon/Rachel Scott/Celina Rios Mullan Sandra Kitt Maureen Wartski Augusta Jane Evans Florence Barclay Ethel M. Dell Janette Oke Beverly Lewis Charlotte Brontë Harriet Lewis Virginia Coffman Victoria Holt/Jean Plaidy/Eleanor Burford Hibbert Phyllis A. Whitney Mary Stewart Daoma Winston Chelsea Quinn Yarbro Rita Clay Estrada Lori Herter Jean Webster Robin McKinley Tracy West/Joyce McGill/Chassie West Marie G. Lee race/ethnicity Paula Christian Isabel Miller Gordon Merrick Ann Allen Shockley Vincent Virga Nancy Garden Katherine V. Forrest Loretta Chase Brenda Jackson
Roper, Holly N. (2020) Representing the Romance: Diversity and Inclusion in the Romance Collections of Public Libraries M.S. in Library Science, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill Topic libraries/librarians disability race/ethnicity LGBTQ+ characters, readers and/or authors
Rosanowski, Annika (2019) Can She Have It All? Pregnancy Narratives in Contemporary Category Romance Journal of Popular Romance Studies 8: Topic family gender Harlequin Mills & Boon marriage
Rose, Suzanna (1985) Is Romance Dysfunctional? International Journal of Women's Studies 8.3:250-265 Topic sex/sexuality gender psychology fairytales/folktales readers
Rosier, Laurence Pollet, Marie-Christine (2007) Les mauvais genres en classe de français?: Retour sur la question. Namur: Presses universitaires de Namur
Ross, Marlon B. (2013) “What’s Love But a Second Hand Emotion?”: Man-on-Man Passion in the Contemporary Black Gay Romance Novel Callaloo 36.3:669-687 DOI: 10.1353/cal.2013.0159 Topic African American romance LGBTQ+ characters, readers and/or authors race/ethnicity Larry Duplechan James Earl Hardy m/m romance family E. Lynn Harris
Ross, Catherine Sheldrick (2009) Reader on Top: Public Libraries, Pleasure Reading, and Models of Reading Library Trends 57.4:632-656 DOI: 10.1353/lib.0.0059 Topic libraries/librarians readers trash/literary and or intellectual quality
Ross, Catherine Bourland (2005) Carmen de Icaza: Novela rosa as Feminist Discourse? Letras peninsulares 18.1:99-108 Topic Carmen de Icaza
Ross, Catherine Bourland (2006) Carmen de Icaza: Novela Rosa as Feminist Discourse? Brown Working Papers : Topic Carmen de Icaza feminism Spain fascism/right-wing authoritarianism work
Rowe, Simone (2025) The Map to Black Love: The Information Behaviours of Black Readers Seeking Romance Books with Black Character Representation The IJournal: Student Journal of the Faculty of Information 10.2:107–120 DOI: 10.33137/ijournal.v10i2.45414 Topic libraries/librarians readers race/ethnicity
Roy, Pierre Pellegrin-Boucher, Estelle (2024) Business Model Innovation in Creative and Cultural Industries Abingdon, Oxon: Routledge
Rudisill, Kristen (2018) Full-Blooded Desi Romance: Contemporary English-Language Romance Novels in India Journal of Popular Culture 51.3:754-775 DOI: 10.1111/jpcu.12652 Topic India readers Publishing national identity Harlequin Mills & Boon family
Ruggiero, Josephine A. Weston, Louise C. (1977) Sex-Role Characterization of Women in "Modern Gothic Novels" The Pacific Sociological Review 20.2:279-300 DOI: 10.2307/1388936 Topic gender gothic romance feminism Mary Stewart Victoria Holt/Jean Plaidy/Eleanor Burford Hibbert Phyllis A. Whitney Jane Blackmore Dorothy Eden Susan Howatch Anne Maybury social/economic class work readers
Ruggiero, Josephine A. Weston, Louise C. (1983) Conflicting Images of Women in Romance Novels International Journal of Women's Studies 6.1:18-25 Topic gothic romance historical romance gender readers
Rush, Ramona R. Allen, Donna (1989) Communications at the Crossroads: The Gender Gap Connection Norwood, New Jersey: Ablex Publishing Corporation
Russ, Joanna (1973) Somebody's Trying to Kill Me and I Think It's My Husband: The Modern Gothic Journal of Popular Culture 6.4:666-691 DOI: 10.1111/j.0022-3840.1973.00666.x Topic gothic romance genre definitions settings Phyllis A. Whitney Margaret Summerton Helen Arvonen Susan Howatch Anne Maybury Dorothy Eden food, drink fashion/clothing sex/sexuality gender
Russ, Joanna (1985) Magic Mommas, Trembling Sisters, Puritans & Perverts: Femininst Essays Trumansburg, NY: The Crossing Press
Russ, Joanna (1985) "Pornography By Women For Women, With Love " Magic Mommas, Trembling Sisters, Puritans & Perverts: Femininst Essays 79–99 DOI:10.2307/j.ctt20p58d6.10 Topic fanfiction m/m romance pornography readers gender sex/sexuality rape and/or intimate partner violence/abuse science fiction/futuristic romance
Russell, Shannon (2014) Dangerous Young Men: Themes of Female Sexuality and Masculinity in Paranormal Romance Novels for Young Adults Masters, University of Ottawa Topic YA/teenage romance paranormal/fantasy/time-travel romance sex/sexuality gender rape and/or intimate partner violence/abuse
Russo, Stephanie (2022) "These old shades: Georgette Heyer’s unruly eighteenth century " The Routledge Companion to Romantic Love 48-?? DOI:10.4324/9781003022343-4 Topic Georgette Heyer gender history fashion/clothing
Ryan, Mary (2011) Amongst women: Male romance authors and Irish chick lit author, Andrew O’Connor Australasian Journal of Popular Culture 1.2:209-225 DOI: 10.1386/ajpc.1.2.209_1 Topic authors gender chick lit Andrew O’Connor
Ryden, Wendy (2007) Bourgeois Realism or Working Class Kitsch?: The Aesthetics of Class in Composition Open Words: Access and English Studies 1.2:4-23 Topic trash/literary and or intellectual quality social/economic class Karen van der Zee teaching romance family marriage
Ryder, Mary Ellen (1999) Smoke and mirrors: Event patterns in the discourse structure of a romance novel Journal of Pragmatics 31.8:1067-1080 DOI: 10.1016/S0378-2166(99)80001-0 Topic linguistics Barbara Cartland
Sabino, Rosimeri Ferraz Bezerra, Antônio Ponciano (2020) Romance-folhetim em tela: linguagem, personagens e sentidos sociais DELTA: Documentação de Estudos em Lingüística Teórica e Aplicada 36.4: DOI: 10.1590/1678-460X2020360406 Topic Brazil Faith Baldwin gender film/movies
Sabo, Oana (2024) Translingualism 2.0 Contemporary French and Francophone Studies 28.2:302–316 DOI: 10.1080/17409292.2024.2311539 Topic France linguistics
Sagun, Karryl Kim Abella (2019) Book Mavens of Manila: an interpretative phenomenological analysis of contemporary niche publishers in the Philippines PhD, Nanyang Technological University, Singapore Topic Philippines Publishing Mina V. Esguerra
Saint-Jacques, Denis (1990) "La recherche sur le roman sentimental au CRELIQ de l'Université de Laval " Le roman sentimental: actes du colloque des 14-15-16 mars 1989 à la Faculté des lettres de Limoges, volume 1 175-183 Topic romance scholarship
Saint-Jacques, Denis de la Garde, Roger (1992) Les pratiques culturelles de grande consommation. Le marché francophone Québec: Nuit blanche éditeur
Saint-Jacques, Denis Bettinotti, Julia des Rivières, Marie-José Bleton, Paul Savoie, Chantal (1998) Femmes de rêve au travail : les femmes et le travail dans les productions écrites de grande consommation, au Québec, de 1945 à aujourd'hui Québec: Les Éditions Nota bene Topic Canada work gender Delly Barbara Cartland Harlequin Mills & Boon Charlotte Lamb Janet Dailey
Saint-Jacques, Denis des Rivières, Marie-José (2011) Le féminisme problématique d’un roman d’amour, Anne Mérival Recherches féministes 24.1:61–76 DOI: 10.7202/1006077ar Topic Older and/or precursor texts (may not be "romance" as now defined) feminism work marriage war/armed forces Canada trash/literary and or intellectual quality Delly religion/spirituality romances in magazines and newspapers
Sales, Roger (1999) "The Loathsome Lord and the Disdainful Dame: Byron, Cartland and the Regency Romance " Byromania: Portraits of the Artist in Nineteenth- and Twentieth-Century Culture 166-183 DOI:10.1007/978-1-349-27107-8_10 Topic Barbara Cartland historical romance
Salmon, Catherine Symons, Donald (2003) Warrior Lovers: Erotic Fiction, Evolution and Female Sexuality New Haven, Connecticut: Yale University Press Topic evolutionary psychology m/m romance sex/sexuality
Salmon, Catherine (2005) "Crossing the Abyss: Erotica and the Intersection of Evolutionary Psychology and Literary Studies " The Literary Animal: Evolution and the Nature of Narrative 244-257 DOI:10.2307/j.ctvw1d5h1.19 Topic evolutionary psychology sex/sexuality feminism pornography fanfiction
Salmon, Catherine (2012) The Pop Culture of Sex: An Evolutionary Window on the Worlds of Pornography and Romance Review of General Psychology 16.2:152-160 DOI: 10.1037/a0027910 Topic evolutionary psychology pornography gender feminism
Salmon, Catherine (2016) "What Do Romance Novels, Pro Wrestling, and Mack Bolan Have in Common?: Consilience and the Pop Culture of Storytelling " Darwin's Bridge: Uniting the Humanities and Sciences 167-182 DOI:10.1093/acprof:oso/9780190231217.003.0010 Topic evolutionary psychology
Salter, Anastasia (2020) Plundered Hearts: Infocom, Romance, and the History of Feminist Game Design Feminist Media Histories 6.1:66-92 DOI: 10.1525/fmh.2020.6.1.66 Topic computer/video/digital games pirates and outlaws fashion/clothing feminism
Salvador Miguel, Nicasio (1995) Letras de la España contemporánea. Homenaje a José Luis Varela Alcalá de Henares: Centro de Estudios Cervantinos
Salvador Miguel, Nicasio (1995) "¿Hay precedentes de la novela rosa? " Letras de la España contemporánea. Homenaje a José Luis Varela 319-327 Topic Older and/or precursor texts (may not be "romance" as now defined) genre definitions trash/literary and or intellectual quality
Samuel, Barbara (1997) The Art of Romance Novels Para.doxa: Studies in World Literary Genres 3.1-2:78-80 Topic Ruth Wind/Barbara Samuel/Barbara O'Neal authors feminism emotions gender readers
Sánchez Alvarez-Insúa, Alberto (2009) "Entre la aristocracia y el falangismo: Carmen de Icaza, una escritora falangista representante del fascismo español del primer franquismo y su novela Cristina Guzmán, profesora de idiomas " Escritoras y figuras femeninas (literatura en castellano) 499-510 Topic Carmen de Icaza Spain fascism/right-wing authoritarianism
Sánchez Calle, Pilar Malcolm, David López-Peláez Casellas, Jesús (2004) Masquerades: Disguise in Literature in English from the Middle Ages to the Present Gdańsk: Wydawnictwo Uniwersytetu Gdańskiego
Sánchez Díaz-Aldagalán, Carlos (2018) María de la O Lejárragala: imagen de la mujer en su literatura PhD, Universidad de la Rioja Topic Spain feminism María de la O Lejárragala/ Gregorio Martínez Sierra
Sánchez-Palencia Carazo, Carolina (1994) El discurso femenino de la novela rosa en lengua inglesa la mujer como protagonista, autora y lectora del género PhD, Universidad de Sevilla Topic gender authors readers genre definitions Older and/or precursor texts (may not be "romance" as now defined) gothic romance historical romance erotic romance Katherine V. Forrest
Sánchez-Palencia Carazo, Carolina (1997) El discurso femenino de la novela rosa en lengua inglesa Cádiz, Spain: Servicio de Publicaciones de la Universidad de Cádiz Topic gender
Sanconie, Maïca (2001) Au-delà du vertige. Mises en abyme ou la traduction des réseaux de clichés dans les romans Harlequin Palimpsestes 13:155-166 DOI: 10.4000/palimpsestes.1564 Topic Harlequin Mills & Boon translation emotions
Sanconie, Maïca (2010) « Tout un monde d’évasion » : adapter les romans sentimentaux pour un lectorat français Meta 55.4:732–751 DOI: 10.7202/045688ar Topic historical romance translation settings Julie Anne Long Pamela Britton France UK United States of America
Sandbakken, Asta Margrethe (2016) Feeling Men: Masculinity, Sexuality, and Emotion in the Contemporary Romance MA thesis, University of Oslo Topic sex/sexuality gender Nora Roberts/J. D. Robb Susan Elizabeth Phillips emotions
Sanders, Lise Shapiro (2006) Consuming Fantasies: Labor, Leisure, and the London Shopgirl, 1880-1920 Columbus: Ohio State University Press Topic social/economic class history gender readers Older and/or precursor texts (may not be "romance" as now defined) Publishing romances in magazines and newspapers work
Sanders, Lise Shapiro (2018) "Making the Modern Girl: Fantasy, Consumption, and Desire in Romance Weeklies of the 1920s " Women's Periodicals and Print Culture in Britain, 1918-1939: The Interwar Period 87-102 DOI:10.3366/edinburgh/9781474412537.003.0008 Topic romances in magazines and newspapers gender social/economic class fashion/clothing work Older and/or precursor texts (may not be "romance" as now defined) readers
Sanders, Lise Shapiro (2024) "Girls Growing Up: Reading ‘Erotic Bloods’ in Interwar Britain " The Edinburgh History of Children's Periodicals 93-111 Topic romances in magazines and newspapers Older and/or precursor texts (may not be "romance" as now defined) readers
Sanmartí i Roset, Carme Sanmartí Roset, Montserrat (2008) La transmisión de los valores femeninos a través de la lectura (1900-1939) Salina. Revista de Lletres 22:153-160 Topic Spain readers gender religion/spirituality social/economic class work marriage
Sanna, Antonio (2018) Pirates in History and Popular Culture Jefferson, North Carolina: McFarland & Company Topic pirates and outlaws historical romance
Santaemilia, José (2005) Gender, Sex and Translation: The Manipulation of Identities Manchester: St. Jerome Publishing
Santaulària, M. Isabel (2023) "The Part of the Iceberg That Doesn’t Show: Romance, Good Husbands, and Mr Julia Child " Detoxing Masculinity in Anglophone Literature and Culture: In Search of Good Men 283-298 DOI:10.1007/978-3-031-22144-6_17 Topic film/movies gender marriage
Santaulària, Isabel (2002) "The Fallacy of Eternal Love: Romance, Vampires and the Deconstruction of Love in Linda Lael Miller's Forever and the Night and For All Eternity " The Aesthetics of Ageing: Critical Approaches to Literary Representations of the Ageing Process 111-126 Topic paranormal/fantasy/time-travel romance death happy ending Linda Lael Miller gender religion/spirituality
Sanyal, Madhuparna (2008) Re-imagining the late-colonial Anglo-Indian woman's romance: Reading Maud Diver PhD, Drew University Topic Maud Diver India UK race/ethnicity Older and/or precursor texts (may not be "romance" as now defined)
Sarwal, Amit Sarwal, Reema (2009) Reading Down Under: Australian Literary Studies Reader New Delhi: SSS Publications
Satoh, Kyoko (2013) Ideologically Constructed Intimacy: Personal Address in Japanese Romance Novels 横浜市立大学論叢. 人文科学系列 64.3:127-148 DOI: 10.15015/00000251 Topic Japan linguistics love
Saunders, Corinne (2004) A Companion to Romance: From Classical to Contemporary Malden, MA: Blackwell
Savchuk, O. H. Marchenko, N. M. (2018) The concept of LOVE and its conceptualization in modern English romance novels Science and Education a New Dimension 151:54-57 DOI: 10.31174/SEND-Ph2018-151VI44-12 Topic love metaphor/symbolism linguistics
Savinainen, Raija (2001) Gender-specific features of male/female interaction in a popular romantic novel by Barbara Cartland Pro gradu thesis, University of Jyväskylä Topic linguistics Barbara Cartland gender
Saxena, Vandana (2022) Memory and Nation-Building: World War II in Malaysian Literature New York: Routledge Topic Malaysia Noel Barber
Saxena, Vandana (2023) Afterlives of Colonialism: Nostalgia, Reader’s Response and the Case of Noel Barber’s Tanamera The Journal of Commonwealth Literature 58.2:340-358 DOI: 10.1177/0021989420971331 Topic historical romance history race/ethnicity UK Singapore national identity readers Malaysia war/armed forces settings Noel Barber
Sceats, Sarah Cunningham, Gail (1996) Image & Power: Women in Fiction in the Twentieth Century New York: Longman
Schalk, Sami (2016) Happily Ever After for Whom? Blackness and Disability in Romance Narratives Journal of Popular Culture 49.6:1241–1260 DOI: 10.1111/jpcu.12491 Topic disability race/ethnicity sex/sexuality African American romance Gwynne Forster gender war/armed forces N. K. Jemisin paranormal/fantasy/time-travel romance
Schell, Heather (2007) The Big Bad Wolf: Masculinity and Genetics in Popular Culture Literature and Medicine 26.1:109-125 DOI: 10.1353/lm.2008.0003 Topic animals health/medical gender evolutionary psychology paranormal/fantasy/time-travel romance
Schell, Heather (2011) "The Love Life of a Fact " How Well Do Facts Travel? The Dissemination of Reliable Knowledge 429-453 Topic gender evolutionary psychology authors feminism romance scholarship sex/sexuality animals Linda Howard paranormal/fantasy/time-travel romance
Schell, Heather (2013) "Bringing the Mid-West to the Middle-East: An Analysis of a Harlequin Romance in English and Turkish " The Silk Road of Adaptation: Transformations across Disciplines and Cultures 160-171 Topic translation Harlequin Mills & Boon Turkey Shirley Jump readers family social/economic class gender
Schell, Heather Brown, Ann K. G. (2018) Romancelandia on Twitter: Designing a Digital Humanities Research Assignment for First-Year Writing Students Researching the Romance, conference held at Bowling Green State University, on 13 April : Topic teaching romance authors
Schell, Heather Larsen, Katherine (2019) How the Story Ends: Gender, Sexuality, and Nation in the Happy Ending Writing from Below 4.2: Topic happy ending Sonali Dev Radclyffe/Len Barot United States of America gender trash/literary and or intellectual quality
Schell, Heather (2020) After “I Do”: Turkish Harlequin Readers Re-Imagine the Happy Ending Journal of Popular Romance Studies 9: DOI: 10.70138/KCOO7755 Topic Turkey Harlequin Mills & Boon happy ending Shirley Jump family readers love work
Schiffman, Leon G. Schnaars, Steven P. (1981) "The Consumption of Historical Romance Novels: Consumer Aesthetics in Popular Literature " SV - Symbolic Consumer Behavior 46-51 Topic historical romance Publishing readers
Schoene, Berthold (2007) The Edinburgh Companion to Contemporary Scottish Literature Edinburgh: Edinburgh University Press
Schultz Nybacka, Pamela (2011) Bookonomy: The Consumption Practice and Value of Book Reading PhD, Stockholm University Topic Sweden Harlequin Mills & Boon readers trash/literary and or intellectual quality Publishing
Schurman, Lydia Cushman Johnson, Deidre (2002) Scorned Literature: Essays on the History and Criticism of Popular Mass-Produced Fiction in America Westport, Connecticut: Greenwood Press
Schwab, Sandra Martina (2013) Of Dragons, Knights, and Virgin Maidens: Dragonslaying and Gender Roles from Richard Johnson to Modern Popular Fiction Trier: Wissenschaftlicher Verlag Trier Topic historical romance Teresa Medeiros Gaelen Foley Stephanie Laurens metaphor/symbolism genre definitions Harlequin Mills & Boon happy ending Sandra Schwab gender Penelope Williamson animals Julia Ross virginity romance scholarship
Schwab, Sandra (2012) “It Is Only with One’s Heart That One Can See Clearly”: The Loss of Sight in Teresa Medeiros’s The Bride and the Beast and Yours until Dawn Journal of Literary and Cultural Disability Studies 6.3:275-289 DOI: 10.3828/jlcds.2012.23 Topic disability Teresa Medeiros metaphor/symbolism fairytales/folktales settings Charlotte Brontë myth
Scott, Alison M. (2002) "Romance in the Stacks; or, Popular Romance Fiction Imperiled " Scorned Literature: Essays on the History and Criticism of Popular Mass-Produced Fiction in America 213-224 Topic libraries/librarians trash/literary and or intellectual quality romance scholarship
Scupham, Hannah Elizabeth (2022) “Reader, I Married Him”: Readership, Imagination, and Politics of the Marriage Plot in the Nineteenth-Century Novel PhD, University of Kansas Topic historical romance Older and/or precursor texts (may not be "romance" as now defined) readers Jane Austen Elizabeth Gaskell George Eliot
Seale, Maura (2007) ""I find some Hindu practices like burning widows, utterly bizarre": Representations of Sati and Questions of Choice in Veils of Silk " Empowerment versus Oppression: Twenty-First Century Views of Popular Romance Novels 129-147 Topic Mary Jo Putney India historical romance feminism race/ethnicity gender religion/spirituality death family marriage
Secrease, Cassandra L (2000) A comparative analysis of lesbian romance novels and heterosexual romance novel themes Master of Arts, Central Missouri State University Topic LGBTQ+ characters, readers and/or authors Karin Kallmaker Peggy Herring Lyn Denison Katherine V. Forrest Diana Simmonds
Seidel, Kathleen Gilles (1992) "Judge Me by the Joy I Bring " Dangerous Men and Adventurous Women: Romance Writers on the Appeal of the Romance 159-179 Topic readers happy ending love settings emotions feminism
Seifert, Christine (2015) Virginity in Young Adult Literature after Twilight Lanham, Maryland: Rowman & Littlefield Topic YA/teenage romance paranormal/fantasy/time-travel romance sex/sexuality virginity Twilight contemporary romance
Seifrit, Rachel Joy (2021) Come Out, Come Out, Wherever You Are: Sexuality and Gender Exploration in Contemporary Slash Fanfiction M.A. English, Kutztown University Topic LGBTQ+ characters, readers and/or authors fanfiction gender sex/sexuality
Selinger, Margaret (2021) “Midsummer Nights’ Affaires:” Shakespeare in the Work of Eloisa James Honors Thesis, Wellesley College Topic Eloisa James Shakespeare trash/literary and or intellectual quality gender
Selinger, Eric Murphy (2006) Foils and Fakers, Monsters and Makers Parnassus: Poetry in Review 29.1-2:64-91 Topic Georgette Heyer Eloisa James A. S. Byatt
Selinger, Eric Murphy (2007) Rereading the Romance Contemporary Literature 48.2:307-324 DOI: 10.1353/cli.2007.0033 Topic romance scholarship
Selinger, Eric Murphy (2012) "How to Read a Romance Novel (and Fall in Love with Popular Romance) " New Approaches to Popular Romance Fiction: Critical Essays 33-46 Topic close reading trash/literary and or intellectual quality Laura Kinsale marriage Milton disability religion/spirituality love
Selinger, Eric Murphy Frantz, Sarah S. G. (2012) "Introduction: New Approaches to Popular Romance Fiction " New Approaches to Popular Romance Fiction: Critical Essays 1-19 Topic Loretta Chase romance scholarship
Selinger, Eric Murphy (2012) Nothing But Good Times Ahead: A Special Forum on Jennifer Crusie (Editor’s Introduction) Journal of Popular Romance Studies 2.2: Topic Jennifer Crusie romance scholarship marriage family feminism
Selinger, Eric Murphy (2014) My Metatextual Romance: Thinking With (and About) Jaane Tu Ya Janne Na Mosaic 47.2:51-66 DOI: 10.1353/mos.2014.0013 Topic film/movies metafiction
Selinger, Eric Murphy (2015) An Interview with Susan Elizabeth Phillips Journal of Popular Romance Studies 5.1: Topic Susan Elizabeth Phillips rape and/or intimate partner violence/abuse romance scholarship United States of America religion/spirituality authors
Selinger, Eric Murphy (2015) "Erotica: romance novels " The International Encyclopedia of Human Sexuality DOI:10.1002/9781118896877.wbiehs137 Topic genre definitions
Selinger, Eric Murphy Gleason, William A. (2016) "Introduction: Love as the Practice of Freedom? " Romance Fiction and American Culture: Love as the Practice of Freedom? 1-21 Topic genre definitions Nell Stark romance scholarship
Selinger, Eric Murphy (2016) "When I Paint My Masterpiece: Bob Dylan, Ekphrasis, and the Art of Susan Elizabeth Phillips " Romance Fiction and American Culture: Love as the Practice of Freedom? 297-319 Topic Susan Elizabeth Phillips metafiction close reading trash/literary and or intellectual quality gender music
Selinger, Eric Murphy (2018) Use Heart in Your (Re)Search: The Invitations of Popular Romance Researching the Romance, conference held at Bowling Green State University, on 13 April : Topic teaching romance readers Sherry Thomas trash/literary and or intellectual quality romance scholarship
Selinger, Eric Murphy (2020) On Teaching, Not Teaching, and Teaching The Sheik Journal of Popular Romance Studies 9: DOI: 10.70138/CYUD2149 Topic teaching romance E. M. Hull music race/ethnicity
Selinger, Eric Murphy (2021) "Literary approaches " The Routledge Research Companion to Popular Romance Fiction 294-319 DOI:10.4324/9781315613468-13 Topic trash/literary and or intellectual quality romance scholarship
Selinger, Eric Murphy Vivanco, Laura (2021) "Romance and/as religion " The Routledge Research Companion to Popular Romance Fiction 485-510 DOI:10.4324/9781315613468-22 Topic religion/spirituality love history happy ending Christian romance Judaism Islam Buddhism Hinduism Paganism/Wicca Jennifer Crusie
Selinger, Eric Murphy (2022) Cant and Canonicity Journal of Popular Romance Studies 11: DOI: 10.70138/BLEJ1448 Topic romance scholarship trash/literary and or intellectual quality teaching romance genre definitions
Selinger, Eric Murphy (2022) "Disaggregating attraction: asexuality and genre critique in Alex Beecroft's Blue Steel Chain " The Routledge Companion to Romantic Love DOI:10.4324/9781003022343-29 Topic Alex Beecroft LGBTQ+ characters, readers and/or authors sex/sexuality religion/spirituality love marriage Ann Herendeen metafiction trash/literary and or intellectual quality Christian romance food, drink metaphor/symbolism
Selinger, Eric Murphy (2022) "Disenchantment and its discontents: “modern love” and irony in popular romance fiction " The Routledge Companion to Romantic Love DOI:10.4324/9781003022343-30 Topic love Jennifer Crusie science/technology religion/spirituality marriage Alisha Rai feminism emotions Alexis Hall metafiction Francine Rivers fairytales/folktales health/medical
Selinger, Eric Murphy (2022) "The wild heart of the continent: love and place in the Silk Road novels of Sherry Thomas " The Routledge Companion to Romantic Love DOI:10.4324/9781003022343-20 Topic Sherry Thomas settings trash/literary and or intellectual quality love Buddhism religion/spirituality historical romance race/ethnicity China Asia
Sequeiros, Paula (2018) “Holding the Dream”: Women’s Favorite Reading Matter in a Portuguese Prison Qualitative Sociology Review 14.1:110-128 DOI: 10.18778/1733-8077.14.1.06 Topic readers Portugal
Serafine, Amelia (2016) ""He Filled My Heart with Doubt": The Southern Belle's Love and Duty in the Civil War " Romance Fiction and American Culture: Love as the Practice of Freedom? 41-55 Topic history United States of America Older and/or precursor texts (may not be "romance" as now defined) Augusta Jane Evans death war/armed forces religion/spirituality gender Edward Bulwer-Lytton readers
Şerban, Andreea (2012) "Romancing the Paranormal: A Case Study of J.R. Ward’s The Black Dagger Brotherhood " Romance: The History of a Genre 89-110 Topic paranormal/fantasy/time-travel romance J. R. Ward LGBTQ+ characters, readers and/or authors sex/sexuality
Serisier, Tanya (2015) "On Not Reading Fifty Shades: Feminism and the Fantasy of Romantic Immunity " Women and Erotic Fiction: Critical Essays on Genres, Markets & Readers 117-132 Topic Fifty Shades readers feminism rape and/or intimate partner violence/abuse
Servén, Carmen (2005) Éxito y olvido de Carmen de Icaza Letras peninsulares 18.1:109-126 Topic Carmen de Icaza
Servén, Carmen (2020) " Mujer y persona narrativa en tres novelas de siglo XX: Carmen de Icaza, Carmen Martín Gaite y Rosa Montero " Mujeres novelistas en el panorama literario del siglo XX: I Congreso de narrativa española (en lengua castellana). 201-209 Topic Carmen de Icaza
Servén Díez, Carmen (1996) Novela rosa, novela blanca y escritura femenina en los años cuarenta: la evolución de Carmen de Icaza Asparkía: Investigació feminista 7:91-102 Topic Carmen de Icaza Spain work Rafael Pérez y Pérez marriage
Service, Alexandra (1998) Popular Vikings: Constructions of Viking Identity in Twentieth Century Britain PhD, University of York Topic historical romance Heather Graham Johanna Lindsey Catherine Coulter Betina Krahn rape and/or intimate partner violence/abuse history war/armed forces
Sevilla, Florencio Alvar, Carlos (2000) Actas del XIII Congreso de la Asociación Internacional de Hispanistas: Madrid 1998: IV: Historia y sociedad comparada y otros estudios Madrid: Editorial Castalia
Shachar, Hila (2011) "A Post-Feminist Romance: Love, Gender and Intertextuality in Stephenie Meyer's Saga " Theorizing Twilight: Critical Essays on What's at Stake in a Post-Vampire World 147-161 Topic Twilight Emily Brontë Charlotte Brontë Harlequin Mills & Boon
Shapiro, Joan Kroeger, Lee (1991) Is Life a Romantic Novel? The Relationship Between Attitudes About Intimate Relationships and the Popular Media American Journal of Family Therapy 19.3:226-236 DOI: 10.1080/01926189108250854 Topic psychology readers
Sharma, Vishal Bray, Kirsten E. Kumar, Neha Grinter, Rebecca E. (2022) Romancing the Algorithm: Navigating Constantly, Frequently, and Silently Changing Algorithms for Digital Work Proceedings of the Association for Computing Machinery on Human-Computer Interaction Volume 6 Issue CSCW:1–29 DOI: 10.1145/3555651 Topic Publishing authors
Sharma, Vishal Bray, Kirsten E. Kumar, Neha Grinter, Rebecca E. (2023) It Takes (at least) Two: The Work to Make Romance Work Proceedings of the 2023 CHI Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems (CHI ’23), April 23–28, 2023, Hamburg, Germany : DOI: 10.1145/3544548.3580709 Topic Publishing authors readers
Sheehan, Sarah E. Stevens, Jen (2015) Creating a Popular Romance Collection in an Academic Library Journal of Popular Romance Studies 5.1: Topic libraries/librarians
Sheehan, Sarah E. (2022) The “Popular Romance Canon”: An Academic Librarian’s Response Journal of Popular Romance Studies 11: DOI: 10.70138/BHSR3256 Topic romance scholarship libraries/librarians
Sheerman, Lucy (2022) "“Place the glass before you, and draw in chalk your own picture”: The Recasting of Jane Eyre " New Frontiers in Popular Romance: Essays on the Genre in the 21st Century 97-117 Topic Charlotte Brontë Beverly Jenkins Alyssa Cole race/ethnicity
Sherman, Jen (2016) Reading Infrastructures in the Contemporary City: A Study of Three Public Libraries in Sydney PhD, University of Western Sydney Topic libraries/librarians Australia
Sherwood, Kim (2021) "Pride and prejudice: metafiction and the value of historical romance in Georgette Heyer " Georgette Heyer, History, and Historical Fiction 75-87 DOI:10.2307/j.ctv15d818n.10 Topic Georgette Heyer metafiction trash/literary and or intellectual quality
Shibamoto Smith, Janet S. (2004) "Language and Gender in the (Hetero)Romance: "Reading" the Ideal Hero/ine through Lovers' Dialogue in Japanese Romance Fiction " Japanese Language, Gender, and Ideology: Cultural Models and Real People 113-130 Topic Japan
Shibamoto Smith, Janet S. (2005) "Translating True Love: Japanese Romance Fiction, Harlequin-Style " Gender, Sex and Translation: The Manipulation of Identities 97-116 Topic Japan Harlequin Mills & Boon linguistics gender emotions translation
Shibamoto Smith, Janet S. (2008) Changing Lovestyles: Fictional Representations of Contemporary Japanese Men in Love Positions 16.2:359-387 DOI: 10.1215/10679847-2008-005 Topic love gender Japan marriage linguistics
Shields, Juliet (2019) Preaching without Practicing: Middle-Class Domesticity in Annie S. Swan's Serial Fiction Victorian Periodicals Review 52.3:566-587 DOI: 10.1353/vpr.2019.0035 Topic Annie S. Swan
Shields, Juliet (2021) Scottish Women's Writing in the Long Nineteenth Century: The Romance of Everyday Life Cambridge: Cambridge University Press Topic Annie S. Swan Flora Annie Steel Older and/or precursor texts (may not be "romance" as now defined) Scotland India Sir Walter Scott
Shore, Z. Lesley (2000) Essay Review: Girls Learning, Women Teaching: Dancing to Different Drummers Educational Studies 31.2:132-145 DOI: 10.1207/S15326993ES3102_4 Topic readers
Short, Christopher Brown (1996) The history of romance illustration and the romance novel cover MA thesis, Syracuse University Topic paratext
Shumway, David R. (1999) Romance in the Romance: Love and Marriage in Turn-of-the-Century Best Sellers Journal of Narrative Theory 29.1:110-134 Topic Older and/or precursor texts (may not be "romance" as now defined) love marriage history national identity
Sichelschmidt, Gustav (1967) Hedwig Courths-Mahler. Deutschlands erfolgreichste Autorin. Eine literatursoziologische Studie Bonn: Bouvier Topic Hedwig Courths-Mahler
Silliman, Daniel (2016) Fictions of Belief: Reading Evangelical Novels in A Secular Age PhD, Ruprecht-Karls-Universität Heidelberg Topic Christian romance religion/spirituality United States of America Janette Oke Beverly Lewis Publishing
Silliman, Daniel (2021) Reading Evangelicals: How Christian Fiction Shaped a Culture and a Faith Grand Rapids, Michigan: Wm. B. Eerdmans Publishing Co. Topic Christian romance Janette Oke Beverly Lewis United States of America Publishing religion/spirituality
Silva, Erotilde Honório Andrade, Roberta Manuela Barros de (2015) Os romances sentimentais e a revolução digital: os processos de criação dos projetos de democratização da leitura nos livros do coração Revista de Estudos da Comunicação 16.41:345-361 DOI: 10.7213/rec.v16i41.22534 Topic Publishing Brazil
Simon, Jenni M. (2018) Consuming Agency and Desire in Romance: Stories of Love, Laughter, and Empowerment Lanham, Maryland: Lexington Topic feminism authors romance and, or as, activism rape and/or intimate partner violence/abuse
Simón Brumos, Ana (2024) Jane Austen’s Influence on Contemporary Romance Novels Honours Dissertation, Universidad de Zaragoza Topic Jane Austen Brigid Coady Julia Quinn
Sinha, Mona (2022) "Reading Mills and Boon in India From the Post-Colonial to the Millennial Experience " Indian Popular Fiction: Redefining the Canon Topic India Harlequin Mills & Boon readers chick lit
Sinner, Carsten (2012) "Fictional orality in romance novels: Between linguistic reality and editorial requirements " The Translation of Fictive Dialogue 119–136 DOI:10.1163/9789401207805_009 Topic translation languages
Slušná, Zuzana (2014) Paranormal and Religious as Part of Pop Cultural Consumerism European Journal of Science and Theology 10.1:99-110 Topic paranormal/fantasy/time-travel romance religion/spirituality
Slušná, Zuzana (2015) Postfeminism, Post-romantic and New Patterns of Feminity [sic] in Popular Culture European Journal of Science and Theology 11.6:229-238 Topic readers gender sex/sexuality pornography trash/literary and or intellectual quality
Slusser, George E. Rabkin, Eric S. (1987) Intersections: Fantasy and Science Fiction Carbondale and Edwardsville: Southern Illinois University Press
Smáradóttir, Helena María (2009) Love as a Commodity: Brand-Name Romantic Fiction and its Readers. The Domain and Readership of Harlequin Enterprises, Both in Iceland and Abroad Masters, University of Iceland Topic Harlequin Mills & Boon Iceland readers
Šmídová, Monika Markéta (2021) Five Thousand for Justice: The Use of English Folklore in the Novels of KJ Charles Masters, Masaryk University Topic K. J. Charles fairytales/folktales LGBTQ+ characters, readers and/or authors paranormal/fantasy/time-travel romance historical romance social/economic class community family
Šmídová, Monika Markéta (2024) “Oh, my friend, those weren’t angels”: Trauma, Recovery and Folklore in The Secret Casebook of Simon Feximal and Spectred Isle by KJ Charles Journal of Popular Romance Studies 13: DOI: 10.70138/QXRQ7362 Topic K. J. Charles paranormal/fantasy/time-travel romance health/medical war/armed forces family fairytales/folktales
Smith, William Clay Kinchen (2002) Revising Captivity Narratives PhD, University of Florida Topic United States of America historical romance Native American romance Fern Michaels race/ethnicity Nan Ryan Karen A. Bale
Smith, Michelle J. Moruzi, Kristine (2018) Vampires and Witches Go to School: Contemporary Young Adult Fiction, Gender, and the Gothic Children's Literature in Education 49:6–18 DOI: 10.1007/s10583-018-9343-0 Topic YA/teenage romance gothic romance paranormal/fantasy/time-travel romance
Smith, Michelle J. Moruzi, Kristine (2021) Young Adult Gothic Fiction: Monstrous Selves/Monstrous Others Cardiff: University of Wales Press
Smith, Lindsay Lea (2006) Feminism and romance novels : is Irigaray's utopia found in bestselling romance novels? MA thesis, University of Oklahoma Topic feminism
Smith, Josefine Kollman, Kathleen W. Taylor (2025) Still Reading Romance: Identity and Engagement with Popular Romance Fiction : Rowman & Littlefield Topic readers
Smith, Janet S. (Shibamoto) (1999) " From Hiren to Happî-endo: Romantic Expression in the Japanese Love Story " Languages of Sentiment: Cultural constructions of emotional substrates 131-150 DOI:10.1075/aicr.18.08shi Topic Japan marriage love linguistics family metaphor/symbolism emotions
Smith, Faith (1999) "Beautiful Indians, Troublesome Negroes, and Nice White Men: Caribbean Romances and the Invention of Trinidad " Caribbean Romances: The Politics of Regional Representation 163-182 Topic Caribbean race/ethnicity Valerie Belgrave feminism national identity
Smith, Clarissa Attwood, Feona McNair, Brian (2018) The Routledge Companion to Media, Sex and Sexuality Abingdon, Oxon: Routledge
Snitow, Ann Barr (1979) Mass Market Romance: Pornography for Women is Different Radical History Review 20:141-161 DOI: 10.1215/01636545-1979-20-141 Topic Harlequin Mills & Boon readers gender virginity fashion/clothing food, drink sex/sexuality religion/spirituality settings work pornography Anne Mather
Snodgrass, Mary Ellen (2010) Reading Nora Roberts Santa Barbara, California: Greenwood Press Topic Nora Roberts/J. D. Robb
Snyman, Maritha Penzhorn, Cecilia (2011) Leser en Konteks: ’n resepsiestudie oor Afrikaanse romanselesers Tydskrif vir Geesteswetenskappe 51.2:238-250 Topic readers South Africa
Soedibio, Sari M. R. D. Djundjung, Jenny M. (2013) The Hypermasculine and Ubersexual Men in the Harlequin Novels of the 1980s and 2000s Kata Kita 1.1:86-93 Topic gender Harlequin Mills & Boon Nora Roberts/J. D. Robb Diana Palmer Penny Jordan/Caroline Courtney Debbie Macomber Linda Lael Miller Robyn Carr
Soler Gallo, Miguel (2013) "La novela romántica falangista femenina de los años cuarenta " Trivialidades literarias: Reflexiones en torno a la literatura de entretenimiento 487-511 Topic Spain fascism/right-wing authoritarianism
Soler Gallo, Miguel (2014) " El Bien y el Mal: Modelos de conducta femeninos en la novela rosa de los 40 " Variaciones de lo metarreal en la España de los siglos XX y XXI 83-93 Topic fascism/right-wing authoritarianism Spain gender
Soler Gallo, Miguel (2015) Vencer a Medusa: el modelo de mujer angelical en la primera novela rosa de Carmen de Icaza. Feminidad y tradicionalismo Verba Hispanica 23.1:247-260 DOI: 10.4312/vh.23.1.247-260 Topic Carmen de Icaza fascism/right-wing authoritarianism gender family
Soler Gallo, Miguel (2016) "El ideal de la mujer de la Sección Femenina de Falange a través de las ilustraciones de la novela rosa de los años cuarenta " Images of Women in Hispanic Culture 48-73 Topic gender fascism/right-wing authoritarianism Spain paratext Carmen de Icaza
Soler Gallo, Miguel (2016) Novela rosa y fantasía amorosa en la España de los años Cuarenta: análisis de La rival de Julieta de Josefina de la Torre Cuadernos de Aleph 8:128-148 Topic Spain fascism/right-wing authoritarianism Laura de Cominges/Josefina de la Torre gender
Soler Gallo, Miguel (2017) El ideal de masculinidad en la novela romántica falangista: análisis de Una mujer de veinte años de Mercedes Ballesteros Tonos digital: Revista de estudios filológicos 33: Topic SylviaVisconti/Mercedes Ballesteros Gaibrois Spain fascism/right-wing authoritarianism gender war/armed forces history Rosa María Aranda Elena Puerto/Mercedes Formica
Soler Gallo, Miguel (2017) "El juego amoroso en la novela rosa española femenina de los años cuarenta " O jogo do mundo: ensaios sobre o imaginário lúdico 433-454 Topic Spain love fascism/right-wing authoritarianism gender family marriage history
Sonnet, Esther (1999) 'Erotic Fiction by Women for Women': The Pleasures of Post-Feminist Heterosexuality Sexualities 2.2:167-187 DOI: 10.1177/136346079900200202 Topic sex/sexuality feminism pornography
Sonnet, Esther (2000) "What the Woman Reads: Categorising Contemporary Popular Erotica for Women " 246-267 Topic sex/sexuality feminism
Sonnet, Esther (2002) "'"Just a book", she said ...': Refiguring Ethnography for the Female Readers of Sexual Fiction " The Audience Studies Reader 254-273 Topic readers sex/sexuality
Soubeyroux, Marie-Hélène Zapata, Mónica (2016) Miradas sobre una obra polifacética: Homenaje a Jean Louis Guereña Paris: Indigo
Sparks, Tabitha (2023) Reading the Women’s Sentimental Novel: A Romance Victorian Popular Fictions Journal 5.1:3-20 DOI: 10.46911/FLWG9098 Topic Older and/or precursor texts (may not be "romance" as now defined) metafiction authors Annie S. Swan Sarah Doudney Emily Jolly Adeline Sergeant
Spears, Jessica D. (2018) The Romance Novel Cover MA thesis, City University of New York (CUNY), Hunter College Topic paratext Publishing gender sex/sexuality pornography
Speese, Erin K. Johns (2024) Came for the Smut, Stayed by Consent: Desire and Consent in Sarah J. Maas’s Fictional Worlds Journal of Popular Romance Studies 13: DOI: 10.70138/UJXK7901 Topic Sarah J. Maas paranormal/fantasy/time-travel romance rape and/or intimate partner violence/abuse sex/sexuality
Spehner, Norbert (1997) L'Amour, toujours l'amour ...: The Popular Love Story and Romance: A Basic Checklist of Secondary Sources Para.doxa: Studies in World Literary Genres 3.1-2:253-268 Topic romance scholarship