Bibliography

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

(1979) The Ugly-Pretty, Dull-Bright, Weak-Strong Girl in the Gothic Mansion Journal of Popular Culture 13.2:257-263 DOI: 10.1111/j.0022-3840.1979.1302_257.x

Topic

gothic romance

Charlotte Brontë

Daphne du Maurier

Victoria Holt/Jean Plaidy/Eleanor Burford Hibbert

Claudette Nicole

Abdul Majid, Amrah

(2025) Faith, Love and Spiritual Growth in Norhafsah Hamid’s Will You Stay? and Will You Love Me? Akademika 95.2:319-332 DOI: 10.17576/akad-2025-9502-18

Topic

Norhafsah Hamid

Abdullah-Poulos, Layla

(2016) Muslim Love American Style: Islamic-American Hybrid Culture and Native-Born American Black Muslim Romance MA thesis, SUNY Empire State College

Topic

Islam

Muslim romance

Abdullah-Poulos, Layla

(2018) The Stable Muslim Love Triangle - Triangular Desire in African American Muslim Romance Fiction Journal of Popular Romance Studies 7:

Topic

Islam

marriage

Muslim romance

Abdullah-Poulos, Layla

(2023) "Sisters, Skanks, and Jezebels: American Muslim Fiction and the Other Woman " The Bloomsbury Handbook of Muslims and Popular Culture 205-214

Topic

Islam

Abrahamsson, Elin

(2018) Enahanda läsning: En queer tolkning av romancegenren PhD, Stockholm University

Topic

Abrahamsson, Elin

(2021) Superwomen, Latte Dads and Feminist Alphas: Negotiations on Feminism in Contemporary Swedish Popular Romance Novels Journal of Popular Romance Studies 10: DOI: 10.70138/XOQE8663

Topic

Abrahamsson, Elin

(2022) "Rättvisemärkt romantik: Feelgood, flärd och feminism i samtida svensk romance " Speglingar av feelgood: Genre, etikett eller känsla? 185-230

Topic

(2025) Teaching Feminist Cultural Studies Using Popular Romance Journal of Popular Romance Studies 14: DOI: 10.70138/EQCS5346

Topic

teaching romance

Achieng’, Okang’a Nancy

(2017) A Cosmopolitan National Romance: A Study of In Dependence by Sarah Ladipo Manyika MA thesis, University of the Witwatersrand, Johannesburg

Topic

Sarah Ladipo Manyika

Nigeria

Africa

Ackley, Katherine Anne

(1990) Women and Violence in Literature: An Essay Collection New York: Garland

Acosta, Leonardo

(1974) Penetración cultural imperialista en América Latina: comics y revistas femeninas Bogotá: Ediciones Los Comuneros

Adair, Joshua G.

Levin, Amy K.

(2020) Museums, Sexuality, and Gender Activism Abingdon, Oxon: Routledge

Adair, Joshua G.

(2020) "“A Battlefield All Their Own”: Selling Women’s Fictions as Fact at Plantation Museums " Museums, Sexuality, and Gender Activism 239-251 DOI:10.4324/9780429202889-20

Topic

(2020) Communicative Behavior via Gender Identity (Based on the English language “Love Stories”) Psycholinguistics 27.2:44-70 DOI: 10.31470/2309-1797-2020-27-2-44-70

Topic

Adams, Kathleen Barzun

(2003) Thirty years of change: heroes, heroines, and the popular romance MA thesis, Trinity College, Hartford, Connecticut

Topic

Adamu, Yusuf M.

(2021) Hausa Prose-Fiction: A Reader Kano, Nigeria: Bayero University Press

Adkins, Denice

Esser, Linda

Velasquez, Diane

(2004) Perceptions of Romance Readers: An Analysis of Missouri Librarians Paper presented at Library Research Seminar III, Kansas City, MO. :

Topic

(2006) Relations Between Librarians and Romance Readers: A Missouri Survey Public Libraries 45.4:54-64

Topic

libraries/librarians

(2008) Romance novels in American public libraries: A study of collection development practices Library Collections, Acquisitions, & Technical Services 32.2:59-67 DOI: 10.1016/j.lcats.2008.08.014

Topic

libraries/librarians

romances in magazines and newspapers

Adkins, Denice

Esser, Linda

Velasquez, Diane

(2010) Promoting Romance Novels in American Public Libraries Public Libraries 49.4:41-48

Topic

(2010) Romance promotion in American public libraries Public Libraries 49.4:41-48

Ahmed, Kiran Nazir

(2016) Attachment, Articulation and Agency: A Glimpse into the World of Women Digest Writers in Pakistan PhD, University of Texas at Austin

Topic

Küllenberg, Charmaine

Bøglund Strand, Julie

(2025) A “Messy Complexity”? On Coming-Out, Identity Formation, and Community in Queer YA Romance Novels :

Topic

(1984) The Private World of Georgette Heyer London: Bodley Head

Topic

Al Thobaiti, Fatmah

(2019) Afterlife of the Romance Hero: Readers’ Reproduction of Romance Journal of Popular Romance Studies 8:

Topic

Al-Bataineh, Afaf Badr

(1998) The modern Arabic novel: a literary and linguistic analysis of the genre of popular fiction, with special reference to translation from English PhD, Heriot-Watt

Topic

translation

(1986) Maestre d'amore: eroine e scrittrici nell'impero del rosa inglese Bari: Edizioni Dedalo

Topic

Elinor Glyn

E. M. Hull

Alberto, Maria

(2022) "Original Slash, Romance, and C.S. Pacat’s Captive Prince " New Frontiers in Popular Romance: Essays on the Genre in the 21st Century 216-232

Topic

C. S. Pacat

fanfiction

Publishing

Alberts, J. K.

(1986) The Role of Couples' Conversations in Relational Development: A Content Analysis of Courtship Talk in Harlequin Romance Novels Communication Quarterly 34.2:127-142 DOI: 10.1080/01463378609369628

Topic

psychology

Alcala Gonzalez, Antonio

Sederholm, Carl H.

(2022) Lovecraft in the 21st Century: Dead, But Still Dreaming New York and Abingdon, Oxon, UK: Routledge

Alexander, Camille S.

(2022) "“The Realness” in Jasmine Guillory’s Sista Lit Rom Com Novels " New Frontiers in Popular Romance: Essays on the Genre in the 21st Century 121-135

Topic

Jasmine Guillory

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

(1994) A Mortal Flame: Marie Bjelke Petersen, Australian Romance Writer 1874-1969 Hobart: Blubber Head Press

Topic

Marie Bjelke Petersen

Australia

Alexi, Sarah

(2020) Girl, woman, spinster—‘desire, fear, ridicule’: the feminine and the failed in twentieth-century Australian women’s writing PhD, University of New South Wales

Topic

Alfonso García, María del Carmen

(2000) "Sobre novela rosa y condición femenina en la España de posguerra " Homenaje a José María Martínez Cachero: investigación y crítica, Vol. 2 23-40

Topic

(2017) Human in Death: Morality and Mortality in J. D. Robb's Novels Waco, Texas: Baylor University Press

Topic

science fiction/futuristic romance

police officers/police forces

(2017) Troubleshooting Post-9/11 America: Religion, Racism, and Stereotypes in Suzanne Brockmann’s Into the Night and Gone Too Far Journal of Popular Romance Studies 6:

Topic

Suzanne Brockmann

(2018) Romance Fiction in the Archives Journal of Popular Romance Studies 7:

Topic

romance scholarship

(2019) Sacrifices, Sidekicks, and Scapegoats: Black Characters and White Stories in Nora Roberts’s Romances Journal of Asia-Pacific Pop Culture 4.2:149-168 DOI: 10.5325/jasiapacipopcult.4.2.0149

Topic

death

romantic suspense

police officers/police forces

(2021) "Author studies and popular romance fiction " The Routledge Research Companion to Popular Romance Fiction 320-334 DOI:10.4324/9781315613468-14

Topic

romance scholarship

Marie Bjelke Petersen

Suzanne Brockmann

Jennifer Crusie

ecocriticism/environmentalism/climate change

(2023) The End of the World as We Know It: Climate Catastrophe in Nalini Singh's Paranormal Romance Fiction The Journal of the Core Curriculum: An Annual Literary and Academic Anthology in the College of Arts and Sciences at Boston University 32:81-86

Topic

Nalini Singh

(2011) Theorising Male Virginity in Popular Romance Novels Journal of Popular Romance Studies 2.1:

Topic

(2016) Reading from Behind: A Cultural Analysis of the Anus Regina: University of Regina Press

Topic

m/m romance

Anne Tenino

(2016) The Purity of His Maleness: Masculinity in Popular Romance Novels The Journal of Men's Studies 24.1:24-41 DOI: 10.1177/1060826515624382

Topic

virginity

Santos, Cristina

Spahr, Adriana

(2016) Virgin Envy: The Cultural Insignificance of the Hymen London: Zed

(2020) Men, Masculinities, and Popular Romance Abingdon, Oxon: Routledge

Topic

(2020) Mourning and Sentimental Heroism in Maureen Child's Lost in Sensation The Journal of Popular Culture 53.5:1160-1178 DOI: 10.1111/jpcu.12956

Topic

(2020) “And he absolutely fascinated me”: Masculinity and Virginity in Sherilee Gray’s Breaking Him Journal of Popular Romance Studies 9: DOI: 10.70138/EGUW2220

Topic

(2021) "Gender and sexuality " The Routledge Research Companion to Popular Romance Fiction 428-453 DOI:10.4324/9781315613468-20

Topic

pornography

lesbian romance

m/m romance

(2022) "Healing Toxic Masculinity in Sweatpants Season by Danielle Allen " New Frontiers in Popular Romance: Essays on the Genre in the 21st Century 17-30

Topic

(2022) Men, Masculinities, and Infertilities Abingdon, Oxon: Routledge

Topic

(2022) "One Sexy Daddy: Desirable Dad "Bods" and the Popular Romance Novel " Fashionable Masculinities: Queers, Pimp Daddies, and Lumbersexuals 83-95

Topic

(2022) "Self-improvement as proof of love in The Bromance Book Club " The Routledge Companion to Romantic Love DOI:10.4324/9781003022343-13

Topic

(2022) ‘Impossibly erotic things’: On men’s underwear in Brief Encounters by Suzanne Forster Critical Studies in Men's Fashion 9.2:207-222 DOI: 10.1386/csmf_00060_1

Topic

fashion/clothing

(2022) "“A Most Unlikely Hero”: Disability, Masculinity, and Sexuality in Harlequin Superromance Novels " The Male Body in Representation: Returning to Matter 215-235 DOI:https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-88604-2_10

Topic

disability

Fay Robinson/Carmel Parsons Thomaston

(2023) Softcore romance: on naked heroes and beefcakes in popular romance novels Porn Studies 10:3: 283-298 DOI: 10.1080/23268743.2023.2189899

Topic

Annabeth Albert

K. C. Wells

(2024) “Condoms Break. Birth Control Fails.” Heroes in the Procreative Realm and Jessica Scott’s “Anything for You” Journal of Popular Romance Studies 13: DOI: 10.70138/AQLE2548

Topic

war/armed forces

(2024) Forever Amber, Censorship, and Popular Romance Studies Journal of Popular Romance Studies 13: DOI: 10.70138/GJPP2402

Topic

(1990) The Romantic Reading Process: Towards a New Definition Master of Arts, University of Alberta

Topic

(1984) All Her Labours: Embroidering the Framework Sydney: Hale and Iremonger

Allen, Amanda Kirstin

(2010) The Girls’ Guide to Power: Romancing the Cold War PhD, University of Alberta

Topic

(2009) The Cinderella-Makers: Postwar Adolescent Girl Fiction as Commodity Tales Lion and the Unicorn 33.3:282-299 DOI: 10.1353/uni.0.0479

Topic

Allen, Amanda K.

(2012) Charm the Boys, Win the Girls: Power Struggles in Mary Stolz’s Cold War Adolescent Girl Romance Novels Journal of Popular Romance Studies 3.1:

Topic

Mary Stolz

Allen, Amanda K.

(2016) “Dear Miss Daly”: 1940s Fan Letters to Maureen Daly and the Age-Grading and Gendering of Seventeenth Summer Children's Literature Association Quarterly 41.1:24-40 DOI: 10.1353/chq.2016.0001

Topic

(2021) "Young adult romance " The Routledge Research Companion to Popular Romance Fiction 168-190 DOI:10.4324/9781315613468-7

Topic

Allen, Amanda K.

(2024) Ruling the Court: Reflections on Midcentury Junior Novel Romances Journal of Popular Romance Studies 13: DOI: 10.70138/BJAO4841

Topic

Allport, Tanya

(1988) Female journeys: the place of Jane Eyre and "Mills and Boon" in the search for women's existential space MA thesis, University of Auckland

Topic

Alonso Valero, Encarna

(2011) Cincuenta años de usos amorosos: El amor y la novela rosa Ogigia: Revista electrónica de estudios hispánicos 9:33-43

Topic

Alonso Valero, Encarna

(2012) Corín Tellado y la novela rosa Ogigia: Revista electrónica de estudios hispánicos 12:33-44

Topic

Alpalhão, Margarida Santos

Carreto, Carlos F. Clamote

Dias, Isabel de Barros

(2017) O jogo do mundo: ensaios sobre o imaginário lúdico : Instituto de Estudos de Literatura e Tradição (IELT)/NOVA FCSH

Altus, Marilyn

(1984) Sugar-coated Pills Orana 20.2-3:71-90

Álvarez, Marta

Hekmat, Ida

Lauret-Taft, Sabine

(2017) L’amour. Création et société Paris: Michel Houdiard Editeur

Álvarez, Blanca

(1992) Corín Tellado ¿Yo soy así? Madrid: Grupo Libro 88

Topic

Álvarez, Blanca

(2000) "Corín Tellado: mantilla y matrimonio " La novela popular en España (vol 1.) 147-154

Topic

Amaya García, Marcela

(2011) Análisis discursivo de la construcción identitaria femenina y masculina en fotonovelas de Corín Tellado Sociedad & Equidad 2:103-122 DOI: 10.5354/rse.v0i2.15284

Topic

(2021) Romance Writers of America Rescind Award for Lakota Genocide Redemption Narrative Library Journal :

Topic

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

Native American romance

Amorós, Andrés

(1968) Sociología de una novela rosa Madrid: Taurus

Topic

(1974) The Purple Heart Throbs: The Sub-Literature of Love London: Hodder and Stoughton

Topic

Rita, pen name of Mrs. Eliza Margaret Humphreys

Ouida

Mary Elizabeth Braddon

Effie Adelaide Rowlands, also known as Madame Albanesi

Margaret Baillie-Saunders

Joan Butler, pen name of R. W. Alexander

Kate Norway/Olive Norton

(1981) Mills and Boon: love and oppression Broadway [N.S.W.]: New South Wales Institute of Technology, Faculty of Humanities and Social Sciences

Topic

Anderton, Gretchen E.

(2009) Excitement, adventure, indifference: Romance readers' perceptions of how romance reading impacts their sex lives Doctor of Education, Widener University

Topic

Andeweg, Agnes

(2024) "Recording Now: Dutch Lesbian Cultural Politics in the 1980s " Transnational Feminism in Non-English Speaking Europe, c.1960-1990 109-133 DOI:10.1007/978-3-031-69138-6_6

Topic

Netherlands

lesbian romance

Andeweg, Agnes

Kurvinen, Heidi

(2024) Transnational Feminism in Non-English Speaking Europe, c.1960-1990 Cham: Palgrave Macmillan

(2008) Os Livros do Coração: uma análise dos romances sentimentais do Século XX Contracampo 18:203-224 DOI: 10.22409/contracampo.v0i18.343

Topic

(2010) A vida em cor de rosa: o romance sentimental e a ditadura militar no Brasil Famecos 17.2:41-48 DOI: 10.15448/1980-3729.2010.2.7541

Topic

(2010) Corpos que falam: erotismo, amor e paixão no romance sentimental Comunicarte 30.41:9-25

Topic

Elinor Glyn

(2013) A pedagogia social dos romances de amor dos “tempos da vovó” Tensões Mundias 9.21:251-274

Topic

(2013) O Consumo de Romances e o Universo Feminino: As Práticas de Leitura dos Livros do Coração Interin 15.1:50-63

Topic

(2013) O que é o romance ideal? Uma cartografia dos romances mais populares publicados pela Harlequim-Silhouette entre 1977 e 2012 Intercom –Sociedade Brasileira de Estudos Interdisciplinares da ComunicaçãoXXXVI Congresso Brasileiro de Ciências da Comunicação –Manaus, AM–4a 7/9/2013 :

Topic

(2014) Os Romances Sentimentais e suas Comunidades de Leitura O público e o privado 24:119-134

Topic

Nascimento, Antonio Marcos Fonseca do

Freitas, Tatiane Lima de

(2015) As representações de masculinidades e feminilidades nos romances de banca de Diana Palmer nos anos de 1990 Linguagem em Foco 7.2:119-131

Topic

Diana Palmer

(2017) O casamento em perigo no romance sentimental de Corin Tellado e a imprensa feminina na ditadura militar brasileira 18º Congresso Brasileiro de Sociologia26 a 29 de julho de 2017, Brasília-DFGrupo de Trabalho: Literatura e Sociedade :

Topic

marriage

(2018) A cultura emotiva das comunidades virtuais de leitura de livros de amor RBSE Revista Brasileira de Sociologia da Emoção 17.51:91-104

Topic

(2019) Emoção e moralidade em tempos de ruptura: o estupro nas relações conjugais nos romances sentimentais e suas comunidades de leitura O público e o privado 34:137-161

Topic

marriage

Viana, Thiago Mena Barreto

(2020) Prazer, Emoção e Cotidiano na Leitura de Romances Sentimentais Intercom–Sociedade Brasileira de Estudos Interdisciplinares da Comunicação43º Congresso Brasileiro de Ciências da Comunicação –VIRTUAL–1ºa 10/12/2020 :

Topic

Viana, Thiago Mena Barreto

(2020) Um século de romances de amor: A trajetória da literatura sentimental no Brasil (1920 - 2020) :

Topic

Andresen, Julie Tetel

(1999) "Postmodern Identity (Crisis): Confessions of a Linguistic Historiographer and Romance Writer " Romantic Conventions 173-186

Topic

(1998) La obra de Carmen de Icaza en la difusión de un "nuevo" concepto de nación española Revista Hispánica Moderna 51.1:64-71

Topic

Carmen de Icaza

national identity

(2000) "Literatura popular española fascista: discurso de la nación " Actas del XIII Congreso de la Asociación Internacional de Hispanistas: Madrid 1998: IV: Historia y sociedad comparada y otros estudios 45-50

Topic

Carmen de Icaza

cross-dressing

(2002) La Sección Femenina de la Falange en la obra de Carmen Martín Gaite: La popularidad de las novelas rosa en la posguerra española Revista de Estudios Hispánicos 36.1:145-157

Topic

(2009) Difusión y distribución de Corín Tellado en Hispanoamérica Hispania 92.3:624-634

Topic

(2010) La construcción editorial de Corín Tellado Vigo: Editorial Academia del Hispanismo

Topic

Publishing

(2011) Corín Tellado y el discurso popular: “Peculiares confidencias” Romance Quarterly 58.1:16-26 DOI: 10.1080/08831157.2011.525139

Topic

Andrews, Maggie

Talbot, Mary M.

(2000) All the World and Her Husband: Women in Twentieth-Century Consumer Culture London: Cassell

Ang, Ien

(1996) Living Room Wars: Rethinking Media Audiences for a Postmodern World London and New York: Routledge

Topic

Nababan, Mangatur Rudolf

Santosa, Riyadi

Wibowo, Agus Hari

(2020) Shift on Functions of Sexual Euphemisms in English-Indonesian Translation of Duke of Her Own by Eloisa James International Journal of Innovation, Creativity and Change 13.4:92-107

Topic

Anta Félez, José Luis

(2009) "Para una antropología del amor. La novela rosa y los productos de la cultura de masas " Poder, poderes y empoderamiento… ¿Y el amor? ¡Ah, el amor!: Actas 5º Congreso Estatal Isonomía sobre Igualdad entre mujeres y hombres 100-108

Topic

capitalism/business

Antonel, Emanuela

(1983) Attraverso "il rosa" : un'avventura nel sentimento Laurea in lingue e letterature straniere e moderne, Università degli studi di Bologna

Anyiwo, U. Melissa

(2015) Race in the Vampire Narrative Rotterdam: Sense Publishers

Anzaldúa, Saraliza

(2015) Teratophilia: An Inquiry into Monster Erotica and the Feminine Psyche , National Taiwan University

Topic

Aprieska, Rizkana

Kristianto, Bayu

(2025) Penerjemahan Portmanteau dari Bahasa Inggris ke dalam Bahasa Indonesia dalam Novel Seri The Ravenels 1–4 Linguistik Indonesia 43.2:263-280 DOI: 10.26499/li.v43i2.779

Topic

Lisa Kleypas

Arargüç, M. Fikret

(2012) Empire and Romance: John Masters's Nightrunners of Bengal Interactions: Ege Journal of British and American Studies 21.1-2:1-14

Topic

(2009) Living to read romance: The transformative potential of interpretive practice in romance reading MA thesis, California State University, Fullerton

Topic

Aravind, G. S.

Dwivedi, Laxmi Dhar

(2021) The Representation of Female Characters in the Romances of Hawthorne: A Comparison with the Popular Romance Fiction of America in the Twentieth Century International Journal of Mechanical Engineering 6.3:1703-1706

Topic

Ardis, Ann

(1996) E. M. Hull, Mass Market Romance and the New Woman Novel in the Early Twentieth Century Women's Writing 3.3:287-296 DOI: 10.1080/0969908960030307

Topic

Arimbi, Diah Ariani

(2017) "Women in Indonesian Popular Fiction: Romance, Beauty, and Identity Politics in Metropop Novels " Traditions Redirecting Contemporary Indonesian Cultural Productions 247-271

Topic

(2014) Love works: Reading and writing romance in the twenty-first century Australasian Journal of Popular Culture 3.3:257-261 DOI: 10.1386/ajpc.3.3.257_7

Topic

Arnold, Marilyn

(1981) "Pornography, Romance, and the Paradox of Freedom " Ye Are Free to Choose: Agency and the Latter-Day Saint Woman 50-62

Arnold-Forster, Agnes

Moulds, Alison

(2018) Medical women in popular fiction The BMJ Opinion September 26, 2018:

Topic

health/medical

history

medical romance

Arnold-Forster, Agnes

(2021) Racing Pulses: Gender, Professionalism and Health Care in Medical Romance Fiction History Workshop Journal 91.1:157–181 DOI: 10.1093/hwj/dbab011

Topic

medical romance

work

romance and, or as, activism

romances in magazines and newspapers

Elizabeth Gilzean

Alex Stuart

Hilda Pressley, pseudonym of Hilda Nickson

Arnold-Forster, Agnes

(2023) Cold, Hard Steel: The Myth of the Modern Surgeon Manchester: Manchester University Press

Topic

health/medical

Elizabeth Gilzean

Aronowitz, Beverly-Lynne

(1988) Women's Fiction and Popular Romance: Student Audience and Teaching Dilemma Paper presented at the Annual National Literature Conference (3rd, Chicago, IL, October 14-15, 1988) :

Topic

Cruzado Rodríguez, Ángeles

teaching romance

Arriaga Flórez, Mercedes

González de Sande, Estela

González de Sande, Mercedes

(2009) Escritoras y figuras femeninas (literatura en castellano) Sevilla: Arcibel Editores

Arslan, Antonia

(1987) "Vivere in rosa per vivere in casa " Intorno al rosa

Arslan, Antonia

Pozzato, Maria Pia

(1989) "Il rosa " Letteratura italiana. Storia e geografia, III, L'età contemporanea 1027-1046

Topic

Italy

Arthur, Paul Longley

Bode, Katherine

(2014) Advancing Digital Humanities: Research, Methods, Theories Houndmills, Basingstoke: Palgrave Macmillan

Arvanitaki, Eirini

(2017) Postmillennial femininities in the popular romance novel Journal of Gender Studies 28.1:18-28 DOI: 10.1080/09589236.2017.1368370

Topic

Arvanitaki, Eirini

(2019) "Gender in Recent Romance Novels: A Third Wave Feminist Mills and Boon Love Affair? " Re/Presenting Gender and Love 159–170 DOI:10.1163/9781848883437_016

Topic

(2022) Masculinities in Post-Millennial Popular Romance New York: Routledge

Topic

Arvanitaki, Eirini

(2024) Emotionality: Heterosexual Love and Emotional Development in Popular Romance New York: Routledge

Topic

Asor Rosa, Alberto

(1989) Letteratura italiana. Storia e geografia, III, L'età contemporanea Turin: Einaudi

Assiter, Alison

(1988) "Romance Fiction: Porn for Women? " Perspectives on Pornography: Sexuality in Film and Literature 101-109

Topic

(1989) Pornography, Feminism and the Individual London: Pluto Press

Topic

pornography

Atkinson, Jacqueline M.

(1994) The Psychiatrist, the Hero and the Romance Genre Psychiatric Bulletin 18.2:97–98 DOI: 10.1192/pb.18.2.97

Topic

(2005) Ecrire l'amour kitsch - Approches narratologiques de l'oeuvre romanesque de Hedwig Courths-Mahler (1867-1950) Bern: Peter Lang

Topic

Hedwig Courths-Mahler

Austin, Allan W.

(2024) Courting Tragedy: Romance and the Liberal Redemption of Japanese American Mass Incarceration Journal of Popular Romance Studies 13: DOI: 10.70138/YEVW1299

Topic

Alice Ogando writing as Mary Love

(2005) The Romance Novel of the 1930s and 1940s in Spain and Portugal: The Cases of Carmen de Icaza and Alice Ogando PhD, University of California, Irvine

Topic

Carmen de Icaza

Alice Ogando writing as Mary Love

Ávila, Debbie Maria

(2014) Conflicting Images of Womanhood in the Novels of Alice Ogando Cincinnati Romance Review 38:245-259

Topic

Ayala Rodríguez, Ida María

(2021) Desert dreamings and sheikh-lit Meanjin 80.3:114-118

Topic

Almaral Cereijo, Iraida Thalia

(2022) Deconstructionism of the heroine in the novel The Grand Sophy by Georgette Heyer Sincronia 82:536-564 DOI: 10.32870/sincronia.axxvi.n82.25b22

Topic

Jane Austen

Azorín Fernández, María Dolores

Ayres, Brenda

(2020) ""A Necessary Madness": PTSD in Mary Balogh's Survivors' Club Novels " Neo-Victorian Madness: Rediagnosing Nineteenth-Century Mental Illness in Literature and Other Media 97-120 DOI:10.1007/978-3-030-46582-7_5

Topic

(1983) La obra novelística de Rafael Pérez y Pérez Alicante: Instituto de Estudios Alicantinos

Topic

Rafael Pérez y Pérez

Babu, Christina M.

(2025) "Retellings and Re-readings - Romance, Representation, and Reimaginations in Self-Made Boys: A Great Gatsby Remix (2022) " Still Reading Romance: Identity and Engagement with Popular Romance Fiction 233–246 DOI:10.5040/9798881847616.ch-013

Topic

Anna-Marie McLemore

Bach, Evelyn

(1997) Sheik Fantasies: Orientalism and Feminine Desire in the Desert Romance Hecate 23.1:9-40

Topic

(2020) Literary Translation, Reception, and Transfer: The Many Languages of Comparative Literature Berlin: Walter de Gruyter GmbH

Backman, Nelina Esther

(1999) Evangelism Embarrassed: Christian Literature in a post-Christian Culture PhD, Brown University

Topic

Rachel Lee/Sue Civil-Brown

Bacon, Simon

(2024) The Palgrave Handbook of the Vampire Cham, Switzerland: Palgrave Macmillan

Badik, Victoria L.

(1997) On Using Genre Fiction in Bibliotherapy Para.doxa: Studies in World Literary Genres 3.1-2:242-245

Topic

JoAnn Ross

Susan Elizabeth Phillips

Eileen Dreyer/Kathleen Korbel

Bagchi, Jayeeta

(2000) Looking for Reality in Romance Social Scientist 28.3/4:30-39

Topic

(2011) Blood Ties: The Vampire Lover in the Popular Romance The Journal of American Culture 34.2:141-148 DOI: 10.1111/j.1542-734X.2011.00770.x

Topic

family

Balducci, Federica

(2011) A Different Shade of Pink: Literary Thresholds and Cultural Intersections in Italian Chick Lit PhD, Victoria University of Wellington

Topic

Italy

Balducci, Federica

(2011) Rethinking Romanzo Rosa: The first person narrator and changing gender roles in Brunella Gasperini’s Rosso di sera Italian Studies in Southern Africa/Studi d'Italianistica nell'Africa Australe 24.1:103-126 DOI: 10.4314/ISSA.V24I1.66622

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Liala, pen name of Amalia Liana Cambiasi Negretti Odescalchi

Balducci, Federica

(2011) When chick lit meets romanzo rosa: Intertextual narratives in Stefania Bertola’s romantic fiction Journal of Popular Romance Studies 2.1:

Topic

Baldus, Kimberly

(2012) Gossip, Liminality, and Erotic Display: Jennifer Crusie’s Links to Eighteenth-Century Amatory Fiction Journal of Popular Romance Studies 2.2:

Topic

(2012) Disabled Sexuality, Incorporated: The Compulsions of Popular Romance Journal of Literary & Cultural Disability Studies 6.2:125-141

Topic

(2021) Oil Fictions: World Literature and Our Contemporary Petrosphere Pennsylvania: Pennsylvania State University Press

Balteskard, Susanna

(2022) Feminism in Romance: How the romance genre has(n't) changed since the 1950s Bachelor thesis, Norwegian University of Science and Technology

Topic

Peggy Gaddis Dern with many pseudonyms including Perry Lindsay

Charlotte Lamb

Susan Elizabeth Phillips

Banti, Anna

(1961) Opinioni Milan: il Saggiatore

Banti, Anna

(1961) "Storia e ragioni del romanzo rosa " Opinioni 75-82

Topic

Italy

Banzon-Mooney, Isabela

(1997) ‘Cinderella,’ ‘Snow White’ and Romance Fiction Journal of English Studies and Comparative Literature 2.1:4-18

Topic

(2017) The Ascendance of Harley Quinn: Essays on DC's Enigmatic Villain Jefferson, North Carolina: McFarland & Company

Barber, Karin

(1997) Readings in African Popular Culture Bloomington and Indianapolis: The International African Institute in association with Indiana University Press

Barbour, Catherine

Kardak, Karunika

(2025) Women’s Historical Fiction Across the Globe Cham: Palgrave Macmillan

Barker, Clare

Murray, Stuart

(2017) The Cambridge Companion to Literature and Disability Cambridge: Cambridge University Press

Barkman, Adam

Sanna, Antonio

(2020) A Critical Companion to Robert Zemeckis Lanham, Maryland: Lexington Books

Barletta, Sandra A.

(2014) Cougars, Grannies, Evil Stepmothers, and Menopausal Hot Flashers: Roles, Representations of Age, and the Non-traditional Romance Heroine PhD, Queensland University of Technology

Topic

ageism

Sandra Antonelli/Sandra A. Barletta

Barletta, Sandra

(2008) A first kiss is still a first kiss: romancing the mid-life reader and heroine: A basic renovation MA thesis, Queensland University of Technology

Topic

ageism

Sandra Antonelli/Sandra A. Barletta

Barot, Len

(2016) "Queer Romance in Twentieth- and Twenty-First-Century America: Snapshots of a Revolution " Romance Fiction and American Culture: Love as the Practice of Freedom? 389-404

Topic

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

Marion Zimmer Bradley

(2013) “Who the devil wrote that?”: Intertextuality and Authorial Reputation in Georgette Heyer’s Venetia Journal of Popular Romance Studies 3.2:

Topic

Shakespeare

Barra, Andrea Cipriano

(2014) Beyond the Bodice Ripper: Innovation and Change in the Romance Novel Industry PhD, Rutgers, The State University of New Jersey

Topic

Publishing

Barra, Andrea

(2025) "Escaping the Negativity of "Escapism": Rethinking Romance Reader Notions of Why They Read " Still Reading Romance: Identity and Engagement with Popular Romance Fiction 143-164 DOI:10.5040/9798881847616.ch-009

Topic

Barreca, Regina

(1992) New Perspectives on Women and Comedy Philadelphia: Gordon and Breach

Barrett, Rebecca Kaye

(2003) Higher Love: What Women Gain from Christian Romance Novels Journal of Religion and Popular Culture 4: DOI: 10.3138/jrpc.4.1.001

Topic

Barrett, Caroline

(1979) La femme et la société dans la littérature sentimentale populaire québécoise, 1940-1960 Mémoire de maîtrise, Université Laval

Topic

Canada

Barrett, Caroline

(1984) Qui a peur des petits romans à l’eau de rose? Nuit blanche 15:56

Topic

Barrett-Fox, Rebecca

(2007) "Hope, Faith and Toughness: An Analysis of the Christian Hero " Empowerment versus Oppression: Twenty-First Century Views of Popular Romance Novels 93-102

Topic

family

Barrett-Fox, Rebecca

(2015) Review: When Mercy Rains Mennonite Life 69:

Topic

Kim Vogel Sawyer

Barrett-Fox, Rebecca

(2016) "Christian Romance Novels: Inspiring Convention and Challenge " Romance Fiction and American Culture: Love as the Practice of Freedom? 347-368

Topic

(2021) "Inspirational Romance " The Routledge Research Companion to Popular Romance Fiction 191-211 DOI:10.4324/9781315613468-8

Topic

Grace Livingston Hill

Janette Oke

Francine Rivers

(2001) Ang aking Prince Charming at iba pang noveleta ng pag-ibig Quezon City: University of the Philippines Press

Topic

Joi Barrios

Barta, Orsolya

(2024) Surprise Babies, Bad Mothers & Happily Ever Afters: Pregnancy Narratives and the Concept of Motherhood In Eight Contemporary Romance Novels Masters thesis, University of Uppsala

Topic

(2025) Between Desire and Responsibility: Unplanned Pregnancies in Contemporary Romance Novels Journal of Popular Romance Studies 14: DOI: 10.70138/NMNY8442

Topic

(2016) Review of Love Between the Covers by Laurie Kahn (Blueberry Hill Productions, 2015) Dialogue: The Interdisciplinary Journal of Popular Culture and Pedagogy 3.2:

Topic

Basu, Soumi Sinha Ray

(2019) The Allure and the Shame of Popular Fiction: An Analysis of Mills & Boon Romances Asian Quarterly: An International Journal of Contemporary Issues 16.4:24-

Topic

Basu, Balaka

Broad, Katherine R.

Hintz, Carrie

(2013) Contemporary Dystopian Fiction for Young Adults: Brave New Teenagers New York: Routledge

Basu, Aparna

(1995) Perspectives on Women: Canada and India Bombay: Allied Publishers

Baticle, Yveline

(1984) Delly: autopsie du roman rose Communication et langages 61:77-86 DOI: 10.3406/colan.1984.1634

Topic

settings

Batsleer, Janet

(1981) Pulp in the Pink Spare Rib 109:52-55

Topic

(1985) Rewriting English: Cultural Politics of Gender and Class London: Methuen

Topic

fashion/clothing

Båtstrand, Johanne Marie

(2024) Bringing the Male to his Knees - Taming the Dangerous Lover: Charlotte Brontë's Jane Eyre as the blueprint for love relations in Sarah J. Maas's A Court of Thorns and Roses. Masters thesis, Norwegian University of Science and Technology

Topic

Charlotte Brontë

Sarah J. Maas

genre definitions

(2018) Exploring the Fantastic: Genre, Ideology, and Popular Culture Bielefeld: transcript

Baum, Thomas

(2012) Working the Skies: Changing Representations of Gendered Work in the Airline Industry, 1930-2011 Tourism Management 33.5:1185-1194 DOI: 10.1016/j.tourman.2011.11.012

Topic

Bausela Buccianti, Lucía

(2025) Demisexuality in Ali Hazelwood’s STEMinist Series: The Love Hypothesis (2021) and Love, Theoretically (2023) REDEN. Revista Española De Estudios Norteamericanos 6.2:52–69 DOI: 10.37536/reden.2025.6.2738

Topic

Ali Hazelwood

Victoria Holt/Jean Plaidy/Eleanor Burford Hibbert

Bayer-Berenbaum, Linda

(1982) The Gothic Imagination: Expansion in Gothic Literature and Art Rutherford, New Jersey: Fairleigh Dickinson University Press

Topic

gothic romance

Bazenga, Aline

(2019) "Turismo e Romance na Literatura Popular Cor-de-rosa Tendo por Cenário a Ilha da Madeira " Memoria e Identidade Insular: Religiosidade, Festividades e Turismo nos Arquipélagos da Madeira e Açores 323-335

Topic

languages

settings

Bazenga, Aline

(2020) "Language Awareness in Four Romances Set on the Island of Madeira " Love, Language, Place, and Identity in Popular Culture: Romancing the Other 69-82

Topic

languages

Bazenga, Aline

(2022) "Paisaje sociocultural y lingüístico de la isla de Madeira: Visiones anglocéntricas en una muestra de seis novelas rosa " 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 65-83

Topic

(2022) "The sociocultural and linguistic landscape of Madeira: Anglocentric visions in a sample of six romance novels " 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 257-274

Topic

(1983) A Very Great Profession: The Woman’s Novel 1914-39 London: Virago

Topic

Bédard-Cazabon, Hélène

Provost, Christiane

(1983) Harlequin: Quand l'amour est une guerre Etudes Littéraires 16.3:399-427 DOI: 10.7202/500623ar

Topic

Bédard-Cazabon, Hélène

Provost, Christiane

(1984) "Un subtil parfum de mensonge": essai d'analyse d'un corpus de romans harlequin Mémoire de maîtrise, Université du Québec à Montréal

Topic

socialism and/or communism

Beers, Laura

(2011) Feminism and Sexuality in Ellen Wilkinson's Fiction Parliamentary Affairs 64.2:248–262 DOI: 10.1093/pa/gsq060

Topic

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

history

Befeler, Paige

(2022) LGBTQ(NA), Queer New Adult Fiction: The Emergence of a New Genre and Its Impact on the LGBTQIA+ Community Honors in Comparative Literary Studies, Wellesley College

Topic

(1991) The Contemporary Indian Romance: A Review Essay American Indian Culture and Research Journal 15.4:97-101 DOI: 10.17953/aicr.15.4.3364826673xm74t7

Topic

Native American romance

historical romance

(2019) La new romance et ses nuances. Marché littéraire, sexualité imaginaire et condition féminine Revue du Crieur 12.1:106-121 DOI: 10.3917/crieu.012.0106

Topic

(1990) "On Combining Batik Art and Novel Writing " Caribbean Women Writers: Essays from the First International Conference 317-324

Topic

(1990) "Thoughts on the Choice of Theme and Approach in Writing Ti Marie " Caribbean Women Writers: Essays from the First International Conference 325-327

Topic

(2025) #MeToo TV: Essays on Streaming Rape Culture Jefferson, North Carolina: McFarland

Belk, Jaime

(2022) Save Our Love Creative Writing Masters Thesis, Liberty University

Topic

happy ending

Bell, Kathleen

(1995) "Cross-dressing in Wartime: Georgette Heyer's The Corinthian in its 1940 Context " War Culture: Social Change and Changing Experience in World War Two Britain 151-159

Topic

historical romance

Bell, Carole V.

(2022) "I'm Rooting for Everybody Black: Black Solidarity, Black World-Building, and Black Love " Black Love Matters: Real Talk on Romance, Being Seen, and Happily Ever After 29-64

Topic

romance and, or as, activism

(2014) A Masculine Romance: The Sentimental Bloke and Australian Culture in the War-and Early Interwar Years Journal of Popular Romance Studies 4.2:

Topic

(1993) Writing About Desire The Glasgow Review 2:

Topic

Belsey, Catherine

(1994) Desire: Love Stories in Western Culture Oxford: Blackwell

Topic

Belsey, Catherine

(1998) Popular Fiction and the Feminine Masquerade European Journal of English Studies 2.3:343-358 DOI: 10.1080/13825579808574422

Topic

Benito del Valle Eskauriaza, Amelia

(2025) Writing about Desire: Cultural Contexts Cairo Studies in English 1:68-84 DOI: 10.21608/cse.2025.393347.1218

Topic

(2024) Otherhood: Essays on being childless, childfree and child-adjacent Aukland: Massey University Press

(1995) " La lectura, una práctica de ocio enfocada al turismo: el caso de la novela rosa Harlequin " Turismo y tiempo libre: actividades, métodos y organización 135-160

Topic

Benito del Valle Eskauriaza, Amelia

(1996) La reproducción ideológica de la información y el rol social femenino en la novela rosa PhD, Universidad del País Vasco - Euskal Herriko Unibertsitatea

Topic

Benjamin, Sarah

(1999) The Theory of 'Identity Dissonance': Mass Communication, Romance Fiction, and the Self-Concept MA thesis, York University, Canada

Topic

(1999) Accounting for Tastes: Australian Everyday Cultures Cambridge: Cambridge University Press

Topic

Australia

Bennett, Susan G.

Kuhn, Alice

(1987) Love and Lust in the Secondary School: Do Formula Romances Have a Place in the Schools? ALAN Review 14.3:42-44

Bennett-Kapusniak, Renee

McCleer, Adriana

(2015) Love in the Digital Library: A Search for Racial Heterogeneity in E-Books Journal of Popular Romance Studies 5.1:

Topic

libraries/librarians

Benson, Stephen

(1996) "Stories of Love and Death: Reading and Writing the Fairy Tale Romance " Image & Power: Women in Fiction in the Twentieth Century 103-113

Topic

(2014) The Bloomsbury Introduction to Popular Fiction London: Bloomsbury

Béres, Laura

(2001) Romance, suffering and hope, reflective practice with abused women PhD, University of Toronto

Topic

psychology

fairytales/folktales

Michele Hauf

V. C. Andrews

Béres, Laura

(2002) Negotiating Images: Popular Culture, Imagination, and Hope in Clinical Social Work Practice Affilia 17.4:429–447 DOI: 10.1177/088610902237360

Topic

psychology

Michele Hauf

Bereska, Tami M.

(1992) Adolescent Romance Novels: Changes Over Time Master of Arts, University of Alberta

Topic

Bereska, Tami M.

(1994) Adolescent Sexuality and the Changing Romance Novel Market The Canadian Journal of Human Sexuality 3.1:35-44

Topic

Bédard-Cazabon, Hélène

Gagnon, Jocelyn

Noizet, Pascale

Provost, Christiane

(1986) La corrida de l'amour: Le Roman Harlequin Montréal: Université du Québec à Montréal

Topic

(1986) "Les stratégies de dévalorisation de la littérature populaire: l’exemple du roman Harlequin " Cahiers pour la littérature populaire. Recherches québécoises 87-101

Topic

Noizet, Pascale

(1989) Le récit en littérature populaire: répétition et invention dans le roman d’amour Protée 17.2:35-40

Topic

sheikh romance

(1989) Les débuts du roman Harlequin : l’année 1949 Les cahiers de l’imaginaire 27-28:6-19

Topic

(1990) "Répétition et invention dans le roman d'amour: L'Evolution des collections Harlequin " Le roman sentimental: actes du colloque des 14-15-16 mars 1989 à la Faculté des lettres de Limoges, volume 1 201-208

Topic

Noizet, Pascale

(1990) Ægritudo amoris : le topos d’un piège somato-physiologique Recherches sémiotiques / Semiotic Inquiry 10.1-2-3:89-102

Topic

Bleton, Paul

(1992) "Le mauvais goût, ça s'apprend " Actes du colloque "Les mauvais genres" organisé au Centre culturel canadien de Paris les 23, 24 et 25 novembre 1989 99-108

Topic

(1992) "Un Harlequin de A à Z: création ou production industrielle? " Les pratiques culturelles de grande consommation. Le marché francophone 53-69

Topic

Bérard, Sylvie

(1993) Quand Éros flirte avec Thanatos. La perception de la mort dans le roman Harlequin Frontières 6.1:56-59

Topic

death

(1994) "Crime et châtiment dans l'oeuvre de Delly: une lecture "gothique" " Crime et châtiment dans le roman populaire de langue française du XIXe siècle: actes du colloque international de mai 1992 à Limoges 411-???

Topic

des Rivières, Marie-José

Saint-Jacques, Denis

(1994) Lecture paralittéraire québécoise : les femmes et le travail de 1945 à aujourd’hui Recherches féministes 7.2:135–144 DOI: 10.7202/057796ar

Topic

Canada

(1995) "Crime et châtiment dans l’oeuvre de Delly: une lecture ‘gothique’ " Guimauve et fleurs d’oranger: Delly 137-156

Topic

(1995) Guimauve et fleurs d’oranger: Delly Québec: Nuit blanche éditeur

Topic

(1996) Medieval romances in today's popular culture: The feminist in the castle The European Legacy 1.3:1146-1152 DOI: 10.1080/10848779608579542

Topic

(1997) "Du bon sauvage au beau sauvage : un roman d’amour "politically correct" " Les hauts et les bas de l'imaginaire western dans la culture médiatique 95–106

Topic

Native American romance

Truel, Marie-Françoise

(1997) Lust and Dust: Desert Fabula in Romances and Media Para.doxa: Studies in World Literary Genres 3.1-2:184-194

Topic

sheikh romance

E. M. Hull