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metafiction

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Brunella Gasperini

Spinazzola, Vittorio (1995) L'immaginazione divertente. Il giallo, il rosa, il porno e il fumetto Milano: Rizzoli

Spraggs, Gillian (1992) " Hell and the Mirror: A Reading of Desert of the Heart " New Lesbian Criticism: Literary and Cultural Readings 115-131

Topic

Jane Rule

Radclyffe Hall

psychology

Stacey, Jackie Pearce, Lynne (1995) " The Heart of the Matter: Feminists Revisit the Romance " Romance Revisited 11-45

Topic

Stapleton, Rachel F. Viselli, Antonio (2019) Iconoclasm: The Breaking and Making of Images Montreal and Kingston: McGill-Queen's University Press

Stavropoulou, Marina (2016) Romance Fiction: At the Frontline of Digital Publishing Journal of Publishing Culture 6:

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Steiner, Peter Červenka, Miroslav Vroon, Ronald (1982) The Structure of the Literary Process Studies dedicated to the Memory of Felix Vodička Amsterdam: John Benjamins Publishing Company

Sterk, Helen Mae (1986) Functioning fictions: the adjustment rhetoric of Silhouette romance novels PhD, University of Iowa

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Sterling, Alexandra (2020) Love in the Ton: Georgette Heyer’s Legacy in Regency Romance World-Building Nursing Clio :

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Stern, Stephanie C. Robbins, Brianne Black, Jessica E. Barnes, Jennifer L. (2019) What You Read and What You Believe: Genre Exposure and Beliefs About Relationships Psychology of Aesthetics, Creativity, and the Arts 13.4:450–461

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Stern, Barbara B. (1991) " Two Pornographies: a Feminist View of Sex in Advertising " NA - Advances in Consumer Research Volume 18 384-391

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Stetson, Suzanne (2022) Reconciling Reader Response and Feminism in Late Twentieth-Century Erotic Historical Romances INCITE: Journal of Undergraduate Scholarship 13:

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

Stieg, Margaret F. (1985) Indian Romances: Tracts for the Times Journal of Popular Culture 18.4:2-15

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Still, Julie (2005) Reading Between the Lines: Librarians as Authors of Fiction Libres: Library and Information Science Research e-journal 15.1:

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Stille Luse, Marcia L. (1991) Secondary educators' attitudes and professional assessment of the place for contemporary young adult series romance novels in the low-end and reluctant readers' curriculum Masters, Pacific University

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YA/teenage romance

teaching romance

Stinson, Emmett Mannion, Aaron (2016) The Return of Print?: Contemporary Australian Publishing Clayton, Victoria: Monash University Publishing

Stoneley, Peter (1999) " 'Never Love a Cowboy': Romance Fiction and Fantasy Families " Writing and Fantasy 223-235

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Stotesbury, John A. (1994) Language and Mindstyle in Anglophone Popular Romantic Fiction under Apartheid Logos 14:18-32

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Stotesbury, John A. (2004) " Genre and Islam in Recent Anglophone Romantic Fiction " Refracting the Canon in Contemporary British Literature and Film 69-82 DOI:10.1163/9789401208307_005

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Islam

Leila Aboulela

Rayda Jacobs

Stowers, Eva (2007) " City of Fantasy: Romance Novels in Las Vegas " Empowerment versus Oppression: Twenty-First Century Views of Popular Romance Novels 198-205

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Street, Amy (2021) " Georgette Heyer – guilty pleasures " Georgette Heyer, History, and Historical Fiction 240-249 DOI:10.2307/j.ctv15d818n.18

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Strehle, Susan Carden, Mary Paniccia (2003) Doubled Plots: Romance and History Jackson: University Press of Mississippi

Strinati, Dominic Wagg, Stephen (1992) Come on Down?: Popular Media Culture in Post-War Britain London: Routledge

Struve, Laura (2011) Sisters of Sorts: Reading Romantic Fiction and the Bonds Among Female Readers Journal of Popular Culture 44.6:1289-1306

Topic

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

Suárez Coalla, Paquita Rivera Valdés, Sonia Íñigo, Ainoa (2018) Repercusión de la lectura y otras formas de arte en nuestra vida y nuestra obra: Memorias del VII coloquio de LART, Centro Español de Manhattan, Nueva York, 26-28 de octubre de 2016 West Hurley, NY: Editorial Campana

Sughi, Laura (1977) Evasione e conformismo nella narrativa rosa Messina-Firenze: D'Anna

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Liala, pen name of Amalia Liana Cambiasi Negretti Odescalchi

Sujaya, I Made Suarka, I Nyoman Sudewa, I Ketut (2021) Representation of Balinese Exoticism: Analysis of Inter-ethnic Relations Novels in Pre-independence Period The International Journal of Language and Cultural 3.2:46–56

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Indonesia

Sule, Sani (2019) Exploring the Benefit and Significance of Reading Hausa Popular Romance Genre: A Thematic Analysis International Journal of Management and Applied Science 5.9:165-168

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Suleiman, Michael W. Joseph, Suad Cainkar, Louise (2021) Arab American Women: Representation and Refusal : Syracuse University Press

Sullivan, Larry E. Schurman, Lydia Cushman (1996) Pioneers, Passionate Ladies, and Private Eyes: Dime Novels, Series Books, and Paperbacks New York: Haworth Press

Sullivan, Ceri White, Barbara (1999) Writing and Fantasy London: Addison Wesley Longman Limited

Sullivan, Ashleigh Taylor (2022) " From Darcy to Dickheads: Why Do Women Love the Bad Boy? " New Frontiers in Popular Romance: Essays on the Genre in the 21st Century 31-44

Topic

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

Sutherland, Kathryn (2021) " ‘Where History says little, Fiction may say much’ (Anna Barbauld): the historical novel in women’s hands in the mid-twentieth century " Georgette Heyer, History, and Historical Fiction 17-35 DOI:10.2307/j.ctv15d818n.7

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Sutherland, John (2009) The Longman Companion to Victorian Fiction (Second Edition) London: Routledge

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Sutton, Roger (1985) Librarians and the Paperback Romance: Trying to Do the Right Thing School Library Journal 32.3:25-29

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YA/teenage romance

Sutton, Denise Hardesty (2021) Marketing Love: Romance Publishers Mills & Boon and Harlequin Enterprises, 1930–1990 Enterprise & Society ONLINE FIRST:ONLINE FIRST

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capitalism/business

Suwanban, Pauline (2018) From Exhalation to Transformation: The Female Body in the Orientalist Romance Dandelion: Postgraduate Arts Journal & Research Network 9.1:

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Suwanban, Pauline (2020) The Oriental Beast: The Sheik and Fairy Tales Journal of Popular Romance Studies 9:

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Swaffield, Audrey-Claire (1981) Paperbacks Promoting Passion! What Is Harlequin Really Presenting? Canadian Woman Studies/Les Cahiers de la Femme 3.2:4-6

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Swaminathan, Srividhya (2016) " J. D. Robb’s Police Procedurals and the Critique of Modernity " New Perspectives on Detective Fiction: Mystery Magnified 141-156

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science fiction/futuristic romance

romantic suspense

Søndberg Spaabæk, Anne Sofie (2022) The “Infernal” Value of the Gothic: A Reading of Gothicness and Romanceness in Cassandra Clare’s The Infernal Devices Masters, Aalborg University

Topic

Cassandra Clare

Taddeo, Julie Anne (2013) " Corsets of Steel: Steampunk's Reimagining of Victorian Femininity " Steaming Into a Victorian Future: A Steampunk Anthology 43-63

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Taddeo, Julie Anne Miller, Cynthia J. (2013) Steaming Into a Victorian Future: A Steampunk Anthology Lanham, Maryland: Scarecrow Press

Talbot, Mary M. (1995) Fictions at Work: Language and Social Practice in Fiction London and New York: Longman

Topic

YA/teenage romance

Talbot, Mary M. (1997) " ‘An Explosion Deep inside Her’: Women’s Desire and Popular Romance Fiction " Language and Desire: Encoding Sex, Romance, and Intimacy 106-122

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Tang, Yang (2014) Between Fantasy and Reality: Time-Travel Romance and Media Fandom in Chinese Cyberspace MA thesis, Simon Fraser University

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China

Tang, Ning (2022) Reading Online Romance Novels Is Related To Chinese Readers' View of Love Academic Journal of Humanities & Social Science 5.2:32-45

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China

Tanner, David (2016) " Literary Success and Popular Romantic Fiction: Ethel M. Dell, a Case Study " The Book World: Selling and Distributing British Literature, 1900-1940 83-94 DOI:10.1163/9789004315884_006

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Ethel M. Dell

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

India

Tapper, Olivia (2014) Romance and Innovation in Twenty-First Century Publishing Publishing Research Quarterly 30.2:249-59

Topic

Tatlock, Lynne (2012) German Writing, American Reading: Women and the Import of Fiction, 1866-1917 Columbus: Ohio State University Press

Topic

Germany

Wilhelmine Heimburg/Bertha Behrens

E. Marlitt/Eugenie John

Fanny Lewald

Wilhelmine von Hillern

Claire von Glümer

Ursula Zöge von Manteuffel

E. Werner/Elisabeth Bürstenbinder

Moritz von Reichenbach/Valeska von Reiswitz, Gräfin von Bethusy-Huc

Nataly von Eschstruth

Golo Raimund/Bertha [Heyn] Frederich

Tatlock, Kristen Doris (1986) Raised on romance: a cultural study of romance fiction MA thesis, University of Virginia

Tatum, James (1994) The Search for the Ancient Novel Baltimore and London: The Johns Hopkins University Press

Tatum, Charles (1980) Lágrimas, risas y amor: Mexico's Most Popular Romance Comic Book Journal of Popular Culture 14.3:413-423

Topic

comics/manga

Mexico

Taylor, Jessica Anne (2013) Write the Book of Your Heart: Career, Passion and Publishing in the Romance Writing Community PhD, University of Toronto

Topic

Taylor, Jessica (2007) And You Can Be My Sheikh: Gender, Race, and Orientalism in Contemporary Romance Novels Journal of Popular Culture 40.6:1032-1051

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Taylor, Jessica (2014) Romance and the Female Gaze Obscuring Gendered Violence in The Twilight Saga Feminist Media Studies 14.3:388-402

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Twilight

Taylor, Jessica (2016) " Love the Market: Discourses of Passion and Professionalism in Romance Writing Communities " Romance Fiction and American Culture: Love as the Practice of Freedom? 273-295

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Taylor, Jessica (2018) Animating Creative Selves: Pen Names as Property in the Careers of Canadian and American Romance Writers American Ethnologist 45.1:112-123

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Taylor, Jessica (2018) " Flexible Nations: Canadian Romance Writers, American Romance, and the Romance of Canada " Reading between the Borderlines: Cultural Production and Consumption across the 49th Parallel 199-221 DOI:10.2307/j.ctv941x2b.12

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history

Taylor, Jessica (2020) Garçon Manqué: A Queer Rereading (of) The Sheik Journal of Popular Romance Studies 9:

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Radclyffe Hall

Taylor, Helen (1989) " Romantic Readers " From My Guy to Sci-Fi: Genre and Women's Writing in the Postmodern World 58-77

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Barbara Taylor Bradford

lesbian romance

Margaret Mitchell

social class

Taylor, Helen (2019) Why Women Read Fiction: The Stories of Our Lives Oxford: Oxford University Press

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Fifty Shades

Taylor, Anthea (2012) ‘The urge towards love is an urge towards (un)death’: Romance, masochistic desire and postfeminism in the Twilight novels International Journal of Cultural Studies 15.1:31-46

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Teague, Anna Sophia Wester (2015) “If my hubby ever did half the stuff my book boyfriends did… I’d put him six ft in the ground” : narratives of interpersonal and gendered violence as discussed in romance novel review websites Honors thesis, Whitman College

Topic

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

Tegan, Mary Beth (2007) " Becoming Both Poet and Poem: Feminists Repossess the Romance " Empowerment versus Oppression: Twenty-First Century Views of Popular Romance Novels 231-263

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Tennenhouse, Tracy Shana (1996) Female Fantasies in Women's Popular Fiction PhD, University of California, Santa Barbara

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lesbian romance

erotic romance

Teo, Hsu-Ming (1999) Shanghaied By Sheiks: Orientalism and hybridity in women's romance writing Olive Pink Society Bulletin 11.1:12–21

Topic

Mary Gaunt, with John Ridgwell Essex

Teo, Hsu-Ming (2003) " The Romance of White Nations: Imperialism, Popular Culture and National Histories " After the Imperial Turn: Thinking with and through the Nation 279-292 DOI:10.1215/9780822384397-018

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Native American romance

Teo, Hsu-Ming (2004) Romancing the Raj: Interracial Relations in Anglo-Indian Romance Novels History of Intellectual Culture 4.1:

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Teo, Hsu-Ming (2007) " Orientalism and Mass Market Romance Novels in the Twentieth Century " Edward Said: The Legacy of a Public Intellectual 241-262

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Teo, Hsu-Ming (2010) Historicizing The Sheik: Comparisons of the British Novel and the American Film Journal of Popular Romance Studies 1.1:

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film/movies

Teo, Hsu-Ming (2012) " "Bertrice teaches you about history, and you don't even mind!": History and Revisionist Historiography in Bertrice Small's The Kadin " New Approaches to Popular Romance Fiction: Critical Essays 21-32

Topic

Teo, Hsu-Ming (2012) Desert Passions: Orientalism and Romance Novels Austin, Texas: University of Texas Press

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history

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

Teo, Hsu-Ming (2016) " Imperial Affairs: The British Empire and the Romantic Novel, 1890-1939 " New Directions in Popular Fiction: Genre, Distribution, Reproduction 87-110 DOI:10.1057/978-1-137-52346-4_5

Teo, Hsu-Ming (2016) " The Romance Novel " Gender: Love 255-270

Topic

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

Jane Austen

Barbara Cartland

Teo, Hsu-Ming (2017) The Popular Culture of Romantic Love in Australia North Melbourne, Victoria: Australian Scholarly Publishing

Teo, Hsu-Ming (2018) " The Contemporary Anglophone Romance Genre " Oxford Research Encyclopedia of Literature DOI:10.1093/acrefore/9780190201098.013.415

Topic

Teo, Hsu-Ming (2020) Cultural Authenticity, the Family, and East Asian American Romance Novels Journal of Popular Romance Studies 9:

Teo, Hsu-Ming Selinger, Eric Murphy Kamblé, Jayashree (2021) The Routledge Research Companion to Popular Romance Fiction Abingdon, Oxon: Routledge

Topic

romance scholarship

Teo, Hsu-Ming (2022) " Transported for life, transported by love: love and the Australian convict romance novel " The Routledge Companion to Romantic Love DOI:10.4324/9781003022343-15

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Therrien, Kathleen M. (1997) Trembling at Her Own Response: Resistance and Reconciliation in Mass-Market Romance Novels PhD, University of Delaware

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Julie Garwood

Susan Wiggs

Therrien, Kathleen M. (2015) " "One Would Die Rather Than Speak ... about Such Subjects": Exploring Class, Gender, and Hegemony in Anya Seton's Dragonwyck " Teaching Tainted Lit: Popular American Fiction in Today's Classroom 51-76

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Therrien, Kathleen (2012) " Straight to the Edges: Gay and Lesbian Characters and Cultural Conflict in Popular Romance Fiction " New Approaches to Popular Romance Fiction: Critical Essays 164-177

Topic

Diana Gabaldon

Julie Garwood

Thiel, Christian (1991) Liebe, Sex, Karriere: die Modernisierung des trivialen Liebesromans Hamburg: Argument

Topic

Germany

Thierauf, Doreen (2016) Forever After: Desire in the 21st-Century Romance Blockbuster Journal of Popular Culture 49.3:604-26

Topic

BDSM

Thirard, Marie-Agnès (2004) " Les romans "Adoras" ou les nouveaux contes de fées à l’africaine " Les métamorphoses du conte 255-270

Topic

fairytales/folktales

Thomas, Patrick Takayoshi, Pamela (2016) Literacy in Practice: Writing in Private, Public and Working Lives New York: Routledge

Thomas, Glen James, Bridie (2006) " The Romance Industry: A Study of Reading and Writing Romance " The Reinvention of Everyday Life: Culture in the twenty-first century 164-174

Topic

Thomas, Glen (2007) " Romance: The Perfect Creative Industry? A Case Study of Harlequin-Mills and Boon Australia " Empowerment versus Oppression: Twenty-First Century Views of Popular Romance Novels 20-29

Topic

Thomas, Glen (2007) " The Best Australian Romance Novelist: Emma Darcy " Beautiful Things in Popular Culture 64–78

Topic

Thomas, Glen (2008) "And I Deliver": An Interview with Emma Darcy Continuum: Journal of Media and Cultural Studies 22.1:113-126

Topic

Emma Darcy

Thomas, Glen (2012) " Happy Readers or Sad Ones? Romance Fiction and the Problems of the Media Effects Model " New Approaches to Popular Romance Fiction: Critical Essays 206-217

Topic

psychology

Anna Campbell

Thomas, Audrey (1986) A Fine Romance, My Dear, This Is Canadian Literature 108:5-12

Topic

pornography

Charlotte Lamb

Thompson, Marcella Koski, Patricia Holyfield, Lori (1997) Romance and agency: An argument revisited Sociological Spectrum 17.4:437-451

Topic

romance scholarship

Thompson, Jennifer K. (2010) Romance in the Stacks: The Prevalence of Romance Fiction in Academic Libraries M.S. in Library Science, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill

Topic

Thompson, Anne B. (2005) Rereading Fifties Teen Romance: Reflections on Janet Lambert The Lion and the Unicorn 29.3:373-396

Topic

Thurlow, Michelle (2010) “A Whisper of Satin”: The Infant Dress Leitmotif The Journal of Mennonite Writing (CMW) 2.4:

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Christian romance

Beverly Lewis

fashion/clothing

music

Thurston, Carol M. (1985) Popular Historical Romances: Agent for Social Change? An Exploration of Methodologies Journal of Popular Culture 19.1:35-45

Topic

Thurston, Carol (1987) The Romance Revolution: Erotic Novels for Women and the Quest for a New Sexual Identity Urbana and Chicago: University of Illinois Press

Topic

erotic romance

pornography

Tidwell, Christy (2016) " “A Little Wildness”: Negotiating Relationships between Human and Nonhuman in Historical Romance " Creatural Fictions: Human-Animal Relationships in Twentieth- and Twenty-First-Century Literature 151-171 DOI:10.1007/978-1-137-51811-8_8

Topic

happy ending

Tienkamp, Aaf (2016) New Adult Romance: An Emerging Genre Masters, University of Groningen

Topic

NA romance

Timson, Beth S. (1983) The Drug Store Novel: Popular Romantic Fiction and the Mainstream Tradition Studies in Popular Culture 6:88-96

Topic

Jane Austen

Martha Finley

Tindall, Natalie T. J. (2022) Black Romance Authors and Community Cultural Wealth: A Case Study of Brenda Jackson’s Career Journal of Popular Romance Studies 11:

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African American romance

Tirkkonen-Condit, Sonja Condit, Stephen (1989) Empirical Studies in Translation and Linguistics Savonlinna: University of Joensuu, Faculty of Arts

Tobin-McClain, Lee (2000) Paranormal Romance: Secrets of the Female Fantastic Journal of the Fantastic in the Arts 11.3 (43):294-306

Topic

Tokley, Anne-Marie (2008) Where is my Happy Ending and Why am I Looking for it? The Romance Myth in Contemporary Popular Australian Women’s Fiction PhD, Griffith University

Topic

chick lit

Marion Lennox

Tomlinson, Alan (1990) Consumption, Identity, and Style: Marketing, Meanings, and the Packaging of Pleasure London and New York: Routledge

Toscano, Angela (2012) A Parody of Love: the Narrative Uses of Rape in Popular Romance Journal of Popular Romance Studies 2.2:

Topic

Toscano, Angela (2019) " The Idolatry of the Real: Form, Formula, and Happy Endings in Romance Literature " Iconoclasm: The Breaking and Making of Images 173-192 DOI:10.2307/j.ctvnb7s6p.13

Topic

Toscano, Angela (2021) " Gothic romance " The Routledge Research Companion to Popular Romance Fiction 99-117 DOI:10.4324/9781315613468-4

Topic

Mary Stewart

Toth, Emily (1984) Who'll Take Romance? The Women's Review of Books 1.5:12-13

Topic

Emily Toth

Toth, Emily (1993) Labors of Love The Women's Review of Books 10.4:10–11

Topic

Emily Toth

Towheed, Shafquat King, Edmund G. C. (2015) Reading and the First World War: Readers, Texts, Archives Houndmills, Basingstoke: Palgrave Macmillan

Trachsel, Mary (1997) Horse Stories and Romance Fiction: Variants or Alternative Texts of Female Identity? Reader: Essays in Reader-Oriented Theory, Criticism, and Pedagogy 38-39:20-41

Topic

animals

Travis, Melissa E. (2013) Assume the Position: Exploring Discipline Relationships PhD, Georgia State University

Topic

BDSM

Treacher, Amal (1988) " What is Life Without My Love?: Desire and Romantic Fiction " Sweet Dreams: Sexuality, Gender and Popular Fiction 73-90

Topic

Doreen Hornsblow as Sally Wentworth

Trevenen, Claire (2014) Fifty Shades of “Mommy Porn”: A Post-GFC Renegotiation of Paternal Law Journal of Popular Romance Studies 4.1:

Topic

Trower, Shelley Tooth Murphy, Amy Smith, Graham (2019) ‘Me mum likes a book, me dad’s a newspaper man’: Reading, gender and domestic life in ‘100 Families’ Participations 16.1:554-581

Topic

Tuñón, Johanna (1995) A Fine Romance: How to Select Romances for Your Collection Wilson Library Bulletin 69.9:31-34

Topic

Tuñón, Johanna (1995) An Appetite for Romance: How to Understand, Buy, Display, and Promote Romance Fiction Library Acquisitions: Practice & Theory 19.4:471-475

Topic

Turnbull, Sue (2002) 'Nice Dress, Take It Off': Crime, Romance and the Pleasure of the Text International Journal of Cultural Studies 5.1:67-82

Topic

Janet Evanovich

Turner, Katherine (2017) Daphne Du Maurier's Mary Anne: Rewriting the Regency Romance as Feminist History University of Toronto Quarterly: A Canadian Journal of the Humanities 86.4:54-77

Topic

history

Daphne du Maurier

Turner, Graeme (1993) Nation, Culture, Text: Australian Cultural and Media Studies London: Routledge

Turner, Ellen (2011) E.M. Hull and the Valentino cult: gender reversal after The sheik Journal of Gender Studies 20.2:171–182

Topic

Turner, Ellen (2014) " The Sheik Returns: Imitations and Parodies of the Desert Romance " Hype: Bestsellers and Literary Cultures 185-202

Topic

Turner, Ellen (2015) E. M. Hull's Camping in the Sahara: desert romance meets desert reality Studies in Travel Writing 19.2:127-146

Topic

Turner, Ellen (2020) The Sheik and Modernism Journal of Popular Romance Studies 9:

Topic

Turner, Ellen Wadsö Lecaros, Cecilia (2022) The desert-governess romance: Regency England meets exotic Arabia Lund Journal of English Studies 4:1-24

Topic

Ty, Eleanor (1994) " Desire and Temptation: Dialogism and the Carnivalesque in Category Romances " A Dialogue of Voices: Feminist Literary Theory and Bakhtin 97-113

Topic

metafiction

Ty, Eleanor (1995) " Amour, sexe et carnaval: le plaisir du texte Harlequin " Armes, larmes, charmes: sérialité et paralittérature 23-48

Topic

Uddin-Khan, Evelyn Angelina (1995) Gender, Ethnicity and the Romance Novel Ed.D., Teachers College, Columbia University

Topic

Uparkar, Shilpa (2014) Desi love stories: Harlequin Mills & Boon’s Indian enterprise Australasian Journal of Popular Culture 3.3:321-333

Topic

India

languages

Uszkurat, Carol Ann (1993) " Mid Twentieth Century Lesbian Romance: Reception and Redress " Outwrite: Lesbianism and Popular Culture 26-47

Topic

lesbian romance

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

Valeo, Christina A. (2012) Crusie and the Con Journal of Popular Romance Studies 2.2:

Topic

Valeo, Christina A. (2012) " The Power of Three: Nora Roberts and Serial Magic " New Approaches to Popular Romance Fiction: Critical Essays 229-239

Topic

Valovirta, Elina (2019) " No Ordinary Love: The Romantic Formula of Stepsibling Erotica " Thinking with the Familiar in Contemporary Literature and Culture 'Out of the Ordinary' 161–180 DOI:10.1163/9789004406742_010

Topic

NA romance

erotic romance

Valovirta, Elina (2021) " Repeated Pleasure: Reading the Threesome Ménage Romance as Digital Literature " Powerful Prose: How Textual Features Impact Readers 45-61

Topic

Valovirta, Elina (2021) " The Stuff of Which Fairy Tales Are Made: Royal Romance, Ordinariness, and Affectivity in the Literary Market " Romantic Escapes: Post-Millennial Trends in Contemporary Popular Romance Fiction 75-94

Topic

social class

Valverde, Mariana (1985) Sex, Power and Pleasure Toronto: The Women's Press

Topic

van Buuren, Johanna Maria (2005) De taal van het hart : retorica en receptie van de hedendaagse streekroman PhD, University of Groningen

Topic

Netherlands

van der Putten, Jan Arnez, Monika Wieringa, Edwin P. Graf, Arndt (2017) Traditions Redirecting Contemporary Indonesian Cultural Productions Newcastle upon Tyne: Cambridge Scholars

van Halteren, Hans (2022) " Automatic Authorship Investigation " Language as Evidence: Doing Forensic Linguistics 219-255 DOI:10.1007/978-3-030-84330-4_8

Topic

linguistics

Stephanie Howard

van Lent, Peter (1996) " “Her Beautiful Savage”: The Current Sexual Image of the Native American Male " Dressing in Feathers: The Construction of the Indian in American Popular Culture 211-227

Topic

Native American romance

Vani, Christina (2018) Immortal Words: The Language and Style of the Contemporary Italian Undead-Romance Novel PhD, University of Toronto

Topic

Italy

Vany, Romain (2013) Les mauvais genres en bibliothèques publiques: quelle place pour le roman sentimental paralittéraire? Masters, Enssib, Université de Lyon

Topic

Effie Adelaide Rowlands, also known as Madame Albanesi

Vasudevan, Aruna Henderson, Lesley (1994) Twentieth-Century Romance and Historical Writers (3rd edition) London: St. James Press

Topic

Mary Burchell, pen name of Ida Cook

Shirlee Busbee

Barbara Cartland

Fay Chandos/Jan Tempest

Marie Corelli

Penny Jordan/Caroline Courtney

Roberta Leigh/Rachel Lindsay

Charlotte Lamb

Johanna Lindsey

Elizabeth Lowell

Jean S. MacLeod/Catherine Airlie

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

Kathleen Thompson Norris

Kate Norway/Olive Norton

Baroness Orczy

Diana Palmer

Margaret Pargeter

Mary Renault

Emilie Richards

Mary Roberts Rinehart

Francine Rivers

Doreen Hornsblow as Sally Wentworth

Denise Robins

Rosemary Rogers

Berta Ruck

Kathleen Gilles Seidel

Mary Lutyens/Esther Wyndham

Veibæk, Eva (1983) Gift dig og bliv lykkelig: romantikkens kærlighedsmyte og triviallitteraturen Århus: Arkona

Veldman-Genz, Carole (2012) " The More the Merrier? Transformations of the Love Triangle Across the Romance " New Approaches to Popular Romance Fiction: Critical Essays 108-120

Veldman-Genz, Carole (2015) " Selling Gay Sex to Women: The Romance of M/M and M/M/F Romantica " Women and Erotic Fiction: Critical Essays on Genres, Markets & Readers 133-149

Topic

Vera-Cazorla, María Jesús (2018) Cultural symbols, myth and identity in four 20th-century English popular romance fiction novels set in Tenerife Anuario de Estudios Atlánticos 64:1-16

Topic

Vera-Cazorla, María Jesús (2020) " “And they Drive on the Wrong Side of the Road”: The Anglo-centric Vision of the Canary Islands in Mills & Boon Romance Novels (1955–1987) " Love, Language, Place, and Identity in Popular Culture: Romancing the Other 25-39

Topic

fascism/right-wing authoritarianism

Vera-Cazorla, María Jesús (2022) " Canarian culture and identity and their representation in the novels of the FFI2014-53962-P corpus " 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 275-296

Topic

metaphor/symbolism

Vera-Cazorla, María Jesús (2022) " La cultura y la identidad canarias y su representación en las novelas del corpus FFI2014-53962-P " 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 85-107

Topic

metaphor/symbolism

Veros, Vassiliki (2012) The Romance Reader and the Public Library Australian Library Journal 61.4:298-306

Topic

Australia

Veros, Vassiliki (2015) A Matter of Meta: Category Romance Fiction and the Interplay of Paratext and Library Metadata Journal of Popular Romance Studies 5.1:

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Veros, Vassiliki (2017) Keepers: Marking the Value of the Books on my Shelves Proceedings from the Document Academy 4.1:

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Veros, Vassiliki (2019) Metatextual Conversations: The Exclusion/Inclusion of Genre Fiction in Public Libraries and Social Media Book Groups Journal of the Australian Library and Information Association 68.3:254-267

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Veros, Vassiliki (2020) The selective tradition, the role of romance fiction donations, and public library practices in New South Wales, Australia Information Research 25.2:

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Australia

Veros, Vassiliki (2020) What the Librarians Did: The Marginalisation of Romance Fiction Through the Practices of Public Librarianship PhD, University of Technology, Sydney

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Australia

Vidotto, Ilaria Goossens, Vannina (2020) " D’une fenêtre à l’autre. Étude d’un motif spécifique à la littérature blanche et au roman sentimental " Phraséologie et stylistique de la langue littéraire/Phraseology and Stylistics of Literary Language; Approches interdisciplinaires/Interdisciplinary Approaches 49-70 DOI:10.3726/b17628

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linguistics

Villalba Álvarez, Marina (2000) Mujeres novelistas en el panorama literario del siglo XX: I Congreso de narrativa española (en lengua castellana). Cuenca: Ediciones de la Universidad de Castilla-La Mancha

Villar-Argáiz, Pilar (2018) Ireland and the Popular Genre of Historical Romance: The Novels of Karen Robards ABEI: Brazilian Journal of Irish Studies 20.2:97-109

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Effie Adelaide Rowlands, also known as Madame Albanesi

Vinson, James Kirkpatrick, D. L. (1982) Twentieth Century Romance and Gothic Writers Detroit, Michigan: Gale Research Company

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Jane Aiken Hodge

Lilian Warren as Kathryn Blair/Rosalind Brett/Celine Conway

Mary Burchell, pen name of Ida Cook

Joyce Dingwell/Kate Starr

Grace Livingston Hill

Roberta Leigh/Rachel Lindsay

Jean S. MacLeod/Catherine Airlie

Anne Mather

Patricia Matthews

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

Margaret Mitchell

Netta Muskett

Betty Neels

Kathleen Thompson Norris

Kate Norway/Olive Norton

Baroness Orczy

Margaret Pargeter

Mary Roberts Rinehart

Mary Lutyens/Esther Wyndham

Violi, Patrizia (2020) Breve storia della letteratura rosa Perugia: Graphe.it Edizioni

Topic

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

Carolina Invernizio

Liala, pen name of Amalia Liana Cambiasi Negretti Odescalchi

Fifty Shades

fanfiction

Vitackova, Martina (2018) Representation of racial and sexual ‘others’ in Afrikaans popular romantic fiction by Sophia Kapp Tydskrif vir letterkunde 55.1:122-133

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Vivanco, Laura Kramer, Kyra (2010) There Are Six Bodies in This Relationship: An Anthropological Approach to the Romance Genre Journal of Popular Romance Studies 1.1:

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Vivanco, Laura (2011) For Love and Money: The Literary Art of the Harlequin Mills & Boon Romance Tirril, Penrith: Humanities-Ebooks

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Mary Burchell, pen name of Ida Cook

Fay Robinson/Carmel Parsons Thomaston

Vivanco, Laura (2012) Feminism and Early Twenty-First Century Harlequin Mills & Boon Romances Journal of Popular Culture 45.5:1060–1089

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Vivanco, Laura (2012) Jennifer Crusie's Literary Lingerie Journal of Popular Romance Studies 2.2:

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Vivanco, Laura (2012) " One Ring to Bind Them: Ring Symbolism in Popular Romance Fiction " New Approaches to Popular Romance Fiction: Critical Essays 99-107

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Vivanco, Laura (2013) Georgette Heyer: The Nonesuch of Regency Romance Journal of Popular Romance Studies 3.2:

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Vivanco, Laura (2016) Pursuing Happiness: Reading American Romance as Political Fiction Tirril, Penrith: Humanities-Ebooks

Vivanco, Laura (2017) " A Place “We All Dream About”: Greece in Mills & Boon Romances " Greece in British Women’s Literary Imagination, 1913-2013 81-98

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Greece

science/technology

myth

Vivanco, Laura (2020) " Changing Attitudes to Others: Meljean Brook’s Riveted (2012) and its Context " Love, Language, Place, and Identity in Popular Culture: Romancing the Other 113-126

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Zoë Archer

war/armed forces

Vivanco, Laura (2020) Faith, Love, Hope and Popular Romance Fiction Online:

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romance and, or as, activism

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

Justine Davis/Justine Dare

Suleikha Snyder

community

happy ending

Vivanco, Laura (2020) Let’s Not Get Carried Away by The Sheik Journal of Popular Romance Studies 9:

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

Berta Ruck

Vivanco, Laura (2022) Historical Accuracy, Racism, Courtney Milan, and The Duke Who Didn’t Conform to Genre Norms Journal of Popular Romance Studies 11:

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humour

Voaden, Rosalynn (1995) " The Language of Love: Medieval Erotic Vision and Modern Romance Fiction " Romance Revisited 78-88

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Wagner, Wendy (2008) Jennifer Crusie Teaching American Literature: A Journal of Theory and Practice 2.2/3:1-16

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romance and, or as, activism

Wagner, Wendy (2022) " The “Grandly and Inhospitably Strange” World of Autistic Heroines in Romance Fiction " New Frontiers in Popular Romance: Essays on the Genre in the 21st Century 150-164

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Waldschmidt, Anne Berressem, Hanjo Ingwersen, Moritz (2017) Culture - Theory – Disability: Encounters between Disability Studies and Cultural Studies Bielefeld, Germany: transcript

Walker, Lisa (2014) Polar bears and evil scientists: Romance, comedy and climate change Australasian Journal of Popular Culture 3.3:363-374

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science/technology

Wallace, Jennifer (2022) " Army trenches and school benches: the Philippine-American War in the Sugar Sun series " The Routledge Companion to Romantic Love DOI:10.4324/9781003022343-17

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Jennifer Hallock

war/armed forces

Philippines

Wallace, Doris B. (2005) Education, Arts, and Morality: Creative Journeys New York: Kluwer Academic Publishers

Wallace, Diana (2005) The Woman's Historical Novel: British Women Writers, 1900-2000 Houndmills, Basingstoke: Palgrave Macmillan

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Daphne du Maurier

Mary Renault

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

Waller, Philip (2006) Writers, Readers, and Reputations: Literary Life in Britain 1870-1918 Oxford: Oxford University Press

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Charles Garvice

Florence Barclay

Wardrop, Stephanie (1995) The Heroine is Being Beaten: Freud, Sadomasochism, and Reading the Romance Style: A Quarterly Journal of Aesthetics, Poetics, Stylistics, and Literary Criticism 29.3:459-473

Topic

Kathleen Woodiwiss

Wardrop, Stephanie (1997) Last of the Red Hot Mohicans: Miscegenation in the Popular American Romance MELUS 22.2:61-74

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Native American romance

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

Colleen Faulkner

Genell Dellin

Warner, Celeste R. (2010) Heyer’s heroes: An investigation into Georgette Heyer and her literary ‘mark’ on the Regency hero Master of Arts, University of Waikato, New Zealand

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socialism and/or communism

Warnes, Christopher (2014) " Desired State: Black Economic Empowerment and the South African Popular Romance " Popular Culture in Africa: The Episteme of the Everyday 154-171

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Warren, Jean-Philippe Luneau, Marie-Pier (2021) The Best Romance Dime Novels on the (French-Canadian) Market: The Promotional Strategies of Police-Journal, 1944-1963 Journal of Popular Romance Studies 10:

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Washington, AlTonya (2015) " An Indie Author in a Library World " Self-Publishing and Collection Development: Opportunities and Challenges for Libraries 139-147

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Waters, Chris (1993) " New Women and Socialist-Feminist Fiction: The Novels of Isabella Ford and Katharine Bruce Glasier " Rediscovering Forgotten Radicals: British Women Writers 1889-1939 25-42

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

Katharine Bruce Glasier

Watson, Daphne (1995) Their Own Worst Enemies: Women Writers of Women's Fiction London: Pluto Press

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Daphne du Maurier

Mary Stewart

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

Watson, Courtney (2022) " I Thought You’d Never Ask: Consent in Contemporary Romance " New Frontiers in Popular Romance: Essays on the Genre in the 21st Century 62-75

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Weaver-Zercher, Valerie (2012) Tracing the Backstory of Amish Romance Novels Mennonite Quarterly Review 86.4:409-435

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Christian romance

rural romance

Helen Reimensnyder Martin

Beverly Lewis

Cora Gottschalk Welty

Weaver-Zercher, Valerie (2013) Thrill of the Chaste: the Allure of Amish Romance Novels Baltimore: The Johns Hopkins University Press

Weibel, Kathryn (1977) Mirror Mirror: Images of Women Reflected in Popular Culture Garden City, New York: Anchor Press/Doubleday

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Weil, Françoise (1990) " La lecture du roman sentimental dans les bibliothèques publiques: l’exemple de Dijon " Le roman sentimental: actes du colloque des 14-15-16 mars 1989 à la Faculté des lettres de Limoges, volume 1 317-3??

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France

Weimer, Christopher (2021) Romancing Weird Fiction: Lovecraftian Reinscriptions in Jordan L. Hawk's Whyborne and Griffin Aeternum: The Journal of Contemporary Gothic Studies 8.1:61-76

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Jordan L. Hawk

m/m romance

Weintraub, Andrew N. (2011) Islam and Popular Culture in Indonesia and Malaysia Abingdon, Oxon: Routledge

Weir, Angela Wilson, Elizabeth (1992) " The Greyhound Bus Station in the Evolution of Lesbian Popular Culture " New Lesbian Criticism: Literary and Cultural Readings 95-113

Topic

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

Ann Bannon

Valerie Taylor

Claire Morgan/Patricia Highsmith

Weis, Lois Fine, Michelle (1993) Beyond Silenced Voices: Class, Race, and Gender in United States Schools Albany: State University of New York Press

Weisser, Susan Ostrov Fleischner, Jennifer (1994) Feminist Nightmares: Women at Odds: Feminism and the Problem of Sisterhood New York and London: New York University Press

Weisser, Susan Ostrov (1994) " The Wonderful-Terrible Bitch Figure in Harlequin Novels " Feminist Nightmares: Women at Odds: Feminism and the Problem of Sisterhood 269-282

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Weisser, Susan Ostrov (2013) The Glass Slipper: Women and Love Stories New Brunswick, New Jersey: Rutgers University Press

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African American romance

pornography

Wendell, Sarah (2012) " "You call me a bitch like that's a bad thing": Romance Criticism and Redefining the Word "Bitch" " New Approaches to Popular Romance Fiction: Critical Essays 178-194

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Westman, Karin E. (2003) " A Story of Her Weaving: The Self-Authoring Heroines of Georgette Heyer's Regency Romance " Doubled Plots: Romance and History 165-184

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Weston, Louise C. Ruggiero, Josephine A. (1978) Male-Female Relationships in Best-Selling "Modern Gothic" Novels Sex Roles 4.5:647-655

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Whalen, Kacey (2017) A Consumption of Gay Men: Navigating the Shifting Boundaries of M/M Romantic Readership MA thesis, DePaul University

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Wheeler, Duncan (2020) Following Franco: Spanish culture and politics in transition, 1962–92 Manchester: Manchester University Press

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fascism/right-wing authoritarianism

Corín Tellado

Wherry, Maryan (2015) " More than a Love Story: The Complexities Of the Popular Romance " The Bloomsbury Introduction to Popular Fiction 53-69

Topic

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

fairytales/folktales

Jennifer Crusie

Whissell, Cynthia (1994) Objective Analysis of Text: I. A Comparison of Adventure and Romance Novels Perceptual and Motor Skills 79:1567-1570

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linguistics

Whissell, Cynthia (1996) Mate Selection in Popular Women's Fiction Human Nature 7:427-447

Topic

evolutionary psychology

Whissell, Cynthia (1998) The Formula Behind Women's Romantic Formula Fiction (Statistical survey of 50 Harlequin-Presents novels) Arachne 5.1:89-119

Topic

White, Mimi (1989) Representing Romance: Reading/Writing/Fantasy and the "Liberated" Heroine of Recent Hollywood Films Cinema Journal 28.3:41-56

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film/movies

White, Bonnie Pope, Johnathan H. (2018) Spinsters, war widows, and wounded soldiers: the Great War novels of Berta Ruck Women's History Review 27.7:1085-1102

Topic

White, Bonnie (2022) Freedom, Sincerity, and the Modern Woman in the Interwar Romances of Berta Ruck Journal of Popular Romance Studies 11:

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fashion/clothing

emotions

White, Ann Yvonne (2008) Genesis Press: Cultural Representation and the Production of African American Romance Novels PhD, University of Iowa

Topic

African American romance

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

Dyanne Davis

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

Whitehead, Frances (1992) Love Makes the World Go Round (?): The Romantic Novel as a Publishing Phenomenon Logos 3.2:62-68

Topic

Whitsitt, Novian (2002) Islamic-Hausa Feminism and Kano Market Literature: Qur'anic Reinterpretation in the Novels of Balaraba Yakubu Research in African Literatures 33.2:119-136

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Balaraba Ramat Yakubu

health/medical

Whitsitt, Novian (2003) Hausa Women Writers Confronting the Traditional Status of Women in Modern Islamic Society: Feminist Thought in Nigerian Popular Fiction Tulsa Studies In Women's Literature 22.2:387-408

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Islam

Bilkisu Ahmed Funtuwa

Balaraba Ramat Yakubu

Whitsitt, Novian (2003) Islamic-Hausa Feminism Meets Northern Nigerian Romance: The Cautious Rebellion of Bilkisu Funtuwa African Studies Review 46.1:137-153

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Islam

Bilkisu Ahmed Funtuwa

Whitsitt, Novian (2021) " Northern Nigerian Popular Literature and the Boundaries of Hausa Feminism: The Works of Balaraba Yakubu and Bilkisu Funtuwa " Hausa Prose-Fiction: A Reader 184-205

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Balaraba Ramat Yakubu

Bilkisu Ahmed Funtuwa

Whyte, Tamara Lynn (2013) Shakespeare in Love: Appropriation of Shakespeare in Popular Romance Novels PhD, University of Alabama

Topic

Shakespeare

Whyte, Tamara (2012) " "A consummation devoutly to be wished": Shakespeare in Popular Historical Romance Fiction " New Approaches to Popular Romance Fiction: Critical Essays 218-228

Topic

Shakespeare

Jacquie D'Allessandro

Sabrina Jefferies

Kalen Hughes/Isobel Carr

Wiebe, Laura (2012) Speculative Matter: Generic Affinities, Posthumanisms and Science-Fictional Imaginings PhD, McMaster University

Topic

Christine Feehan

Wiegand, Wayne A. (2015) A Part of Our Lives: A People’s History of the American Public Library Oxford: Oxford University Press

Topic

Wijanarka, Hirmawan (2022) Cinderella Formula: The Romance Begins Journal of Language and Literature 22.2:481-489

Topic

Wilbur, Shawn P. (1997) " An Archaeology of Cyberspaces: Virtuality, Community, Identity " Internet Culture 5-22

Topic

Wilcox, Vanda (2021) " Georgette Heyer, Wellington’s Army and the First World War " Georgette Heyer, History, and Historical Fiction 162-186 DOI:10.2307/j.ctv15d818n.15

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Wilkins, Kim (2016) “Ravished by Vikings”: The Pre-modern and the Paranormal in Viking Romance Fiction Journal of Popular Romance Studies 5.2:

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Wilkins, Kim Driscoll, Beth Fletcher, Lisa (2022) Genre Worlds: Popular Fiction and 21st-Century Book Culture Amherst and Boston: University of Massachusetts Press

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