Bibliography

rape and/or intimate partner violence/abuse

Williams, Jeffrey J. (2006) The Culture of Books: An Interview with Janice Radway Minnesota Review: A Journal of Committed Writing ns 65-66:133-148

Topic

romance scholarship

Publishing

Williams, Elizabeth W. (2019) " Queering Settler Romance: The Reparative Eugenic Landscape in Nora Strange's Kenyan Novels " Archiving Settler Colonialism: Culture, Space and Race 190-204

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Williams, Clover Freedman, Jean R. (1995) " Shakespeare's Step-Sisters: Romance Novels and the Community of Women " Folklore, Literature, and Cultural Theory: Collected Essays 135-168

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Williams, Clover (1998) Keepers of the Flame: The Romance Novel and Its Fans Lore and Language 16.1-2:115-138

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Williamson, Val (1998) " Labour of Love: Gender and the Delivery of the Nineties Mills & Boon "Medical" " Medical Fictions 103-116

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medical romance

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

Williamson, Margaret (1986) " The Greek romance " The Progress of Romance: The Politics of Popular Fiction 23-45

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Willinsky, John Hunniford, R. Mark (1993) " Reading the Romance Younger: The Mirrors and Fears of a Preparatory Literature " Texts of Desire: Essays on Fiction, Femininity and Schooling 87–105 DOI:10.4324/9781315810119

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Wilson, Nicola (2016) The Book World: Selling and Distributing British Literature, 1900-1940 Leiden: Brill

Wilson, Frances (1999) Byromania: Portraits of the Artist in Nineteenth- and Twentieth-Century Culture Houndmills, Basingstoke: Macmillan

Wilson, Elizabeth Suzanne (1986) Women creating men: the history of the hero in contemporary category romance fiction since the 1950s MA thesis, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill

Topic

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

Wilt, Judith (2014) Women Writers and the Hero of Romance Houndmills, Basingstoke: Palgrave Macmillan

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Winks, Robin W. Corrigan, Maureen (1998) Mystery and Suspense Writers: The Literature of Crime, Detection, and Espionage, Volume 2 New York: Charles Scribner's Sons

Wintle, Sarah (1996) The Sheik: What Can be Made of a Daydream Women: A Cultural Review 7.3:291-302

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Wood, Christine V. (2014) Tender Heroes and Twilight Lovers: Re-Reading the Romance in Mass-Market Pulp Novels, 1950–1965 Journal of Lesbian Studies 18.4:372-392

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

United States of America

Wood, Andrea (2008) Radicalizing Romance: Subculture, Sex, and Media at the Margins PhD, University of Florida

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Wood, Andrea (2015) Making the Invisible Visible: Lesbian Romance Comics for Women Feminist Studies 41.2:293-334

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comics/manga

lesbian romance

science fiction/futuristic romance

Wood, Andrea (2022) " His Baby Daddy is an Alien?!: Mpreg Fantasies and Queer Reproductive Intimacies in Contemporary M/M Science Fiction Romance " Imagining "We" in the Age of "I": Romance and Social Bonding in Contemporary Culture

Topic

m/m romance

family

health/medical

Lyn Gala

Lexi Ander

Woodruff, Juliette (1985) A spate of words, full of sound & fury, signifying nothing: or, How to read in Harlequin Journal of Popular Culture 19.2:25-32

Topic

gothic romance

Woods, Robert H. (2013) Evangelical Christians and Popular Culture: Pop Goes the Gospel. Volume 2: Literature, Music, Popular Art, and Merchandise Santa Barbara: Praeger

Worpole, Ken (1984) Reading by Numbers: Contemporary Publishing & Popular Fiction London: Comedia Publishing Group

Topic

Publishing

romances in magazines and newspapers

Wright, Laura Bell (2003) The Appeal of Vampire Romance: Why Do Readers Like These Stories? Masters, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill

Topic

Wu, Yan Mallan, Kerry McGillis, Roderick (2013) (Re)Imagining the World: Children’s Literature’s Response to Changing Times Heidelberg: Springer

Wu, Huei-Hsia Walsh, Anthony (2005) Romance Novels and Female Sexuality: Vicarious Participation? Free Inquiry in Creative Sociology 33.2:105-109

Topic

sociology

Wu, Huei-Hsia (2006) Gender, Romance Novels and Plastic Sexuality in the United States: A Focus on Female College Students Journal of International Women’s Studies 8.1:125-134

Topic

Wu, Huei-Hsia (2007) Reading Romance Novels and Female Sexuality among American Heterosexual and Lesbian College Students The International Journal of Diversity in Organisations, Communities and Nations 6.6:31-38

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psychology

Wyatt, Neal Olsen, Georgine Ramsdell, Kristin Saricks, Joyce Welch, Lynne (2007) Core Collections in Genre Studies: Romance Fiction 101 Reference & User Services Quarterly 47.2:120-126

Topic

libraries/librarians

historical romance

romantic suspense

genre definitions

York, Chris York, Rafiel (2012) Comic Books and the Cold War, 1946-1962: Essays on Graphic Treatment of Communism, the Code and Social Concerns Jefferson, North Carolina: McFarland & Company

Young, Whitney A. (2013) Monsters in My Bed: Accounting for the Popularity of Young Adult Paranormal Romances MA thesis, Georgia State University

Topic

YA/teenage romance

Twilight

Young, Helen (2015) The Middle Ages in Popular Culture: Medievalism and Genre Amhurst, NY: Cambria Press

Young, Erin S. (2010) Corporate Heroines and Utopian Individualism: A Study of the Romance Novel in Global Capitalism PhD, University of Oregon

Topic

work

Jayne Ann Krentz/Amanda Quick/Jayne Castle

capitalism/business

Nora Roberts/J. D. Robb

Young, Erin S. (2010) Escaping the “Time Bind”: Negotiations of Love and Work in Jayne Ann Krentz's “Corporate Romances” The Journal of American Culture 33.2:92–106

Topic

Jayne Ann Krentz/Amanda Quick/Jayne Castle

Young, Erin S. (2011) Flexible Heroines, Flexible Narratives: The Werewolf Romances of Kelley Armstrong and Carrie Vaughn Extrapolation: A Journal of Science Fiction and Fantasy 52.2:204-226

Topic

Kelley Armstrong

Carrie Vaughn

rape and/or intimate partner violence/abuse

Young, Erin S. (2016) " Saving China: The Transformative Power of Whiteness in Elizabeth Lowell's Jade Island and Katherine Stone's Pearl Moon " Romance Fiction and American Culture: Love as the Practice of Freedom? 205-221

Topic

United States of America

wealth/prosperity

settings

romantic suspense

Young, Erin S. (2021) " Race, ethnicity, and whiteness " The Routledge Research Companion to Popular Romance Fiction 511-528 DOI:10.4324/9781315613468-23

Topic

race/ethnicity

Mary Balogh

Young, Beth Rapp (1995) But are they any good? Women readers, formula fiction, and the sacralization of the literary canon PhD, University of Southern California

Topic

Jayne Ann Krentz/Amanda Quick/Jayne Castle

Young, Beth Rapp (1997) Accidental Authors, Random Readers, and the Art of Popular Romance Para.doxa: Studies in World Literary Genres 3.1-2:29-45

Topic

romance scholarship

authors

Zachik-Smith, Susie (1993) Romance by the book: a morphological analysis of the popular romance MA thesis, California State University, San Bernardino

Topic

Zakreski, Patricia (2012) Tell Me Lies: Lying, Storytelling, and the Romance Novel as Feminist Fiction Journal of Popular Romance Studies 2.2:

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Zeiger, Melissa F. (2013) "Less Than Perfect": Negotiating Breast Cancer in Popular Romance Novels Tulsa Studies In Women's Literature 32.2/33.1:107-128

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health/medical

Zhaboriuk, I. A. Rukshtel, Yu. A. (2021) The Artistic Detail in the Novel "The Reluctant Widow" by G. Heyer Education and science of today: intersectoral issues and development of sciences 1:121-122

Topic

Georgette Heyer

linguistics

Zhou, Yanyan Paul, Bryant Sherman, Ryland (2018) Still a Hetero-Gendered World: A Content Analysis of Gender Stereotypes and Romantic Ideals in Chinese Boy Love Stories Sex Roles 78.1-2:107–118

Topic

m/m romance

China

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

Zibrak, Arielle (2021) Avidly Reads Guilty Pleasures New York: New York University Press

Topic

Susan Warner

E. D. E. N. Southworth

Zidle, Abby (1999) " From Bodice-Ripper to Baby-Sitter: The New Hero in Mass-Market Romance " Romantic Conventions 23-34

Topic

Zille, Tom (2021) " Georgette Heyer and the language of the historical novel " Georgette Heyer, History, and Historical Fiction 187-211 DOI:10.2307/j.ctv15d818n.16

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Zwar, Jan Lawson, Airlie (2021) Success Story - International Rights Sales of Australian- Authored Books: Case Studies Australia: Macquarie University

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Publishing

Australia

Kylie Scott

[Sigroha], Suman (2018) Gendered Migrations and Literary Narratives: Writing Communities in South Asian Diaspora Millennial Asia 9.1:93-108

Topic

Γραφανάκη, Ρωξάνη (2019) Γυναίκες και ροζ λογοτεχνία: η περίπτωση των εκδόσεων Άρλεκιν Masters, Πανεπιστημίου Αιγαίου

Topic

Στάμου, Εύα (2014) Η επέλαση της ροζ λογοτεχνίας. Δοκίμιο για την Ευδοκίμηση μιας Μορφής Αφηγηματικού Λόγου Αθήνα: Gutenberg

尾崎, 俊介 (2005) ハーレクイン対フェミニズム－フォーミュラ・ロマンス批評史をめぐる一考察－ The Journal of the Chubu American Literature Society 8:

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