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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 Jeffries Kalen Hughes/Isobel Carr readers Eloisa James Susan Wiggs Andrea Pickens Kathryn Caskie Suzanne Enoch historical romance Kasey Michaels Mary Balogh Margaret Moore
Wiebe, Laura (2012) Speculative Matter: Generic Affinities, Posthumanisms and Science-Fictional Imaginings PhD, McMaster University Topic paranormal/fantasy/time-travel romance 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 libraries/librarians
Wijanarka, Hirmawan (2022) Cinderella Formula: The Romance Begins Journal of Language and Literature 22.2:481-489 DOI: 10.24071/joll.v22i2.5121 Topic Harlequin Mills & Boon genre definitions
Wilbur, Shawn P. (1997) "An Archaeology of Cyberspaces: Virtuality, Community, Identity " Internet Culture 5-22 Topic Harlequin Mills & Boon Publishing
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 Topic Georgette Heyer war/armed forces history gender
Wilder, Mims (2025) (Wo)Men in Love: An Analysis of Sexual Scripts, Escapism, and Queer Explorations Among Woman Readers and Authors of Male/Male Romance Novels Doctor of Philosophy in Human Sexuality, California Institute of Integral Studies Topic m/m romance readers LGBTQ+ characters, readers and/or authors gender sex/sexuality health/medical disability race/ethnicity BDSM
Wilkins, Kim (2016) “Ravished by Vikings”: The Pre-modern and the Paranormal in Viking Romance Fiction Journal of Popular Romance Studies 5.2: Topic historical romance paranormal/fantasy/time-travel romance sex/sexuality history feminism gender war/armed forces rape and/or intimate partner violence/abuse
Wilkins, Kim Driscoll, Beth Fletcher, Lisa (2022) Genre Worlds: Popular Fiction and 21st-Century Book Culture Amherst and Boston: University of Massachusetts Press Topic Publishing readers
Williams, Mary (2021) Consent Is Sexy: A Look Into the Influence the ‘Me Too.’ Movement Had On the Romance Genre Through Smart Bitches Trashy Books Master of Arts in Book Publishing, Portland State University Topic sex/sexuality readers
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 DOI: 10.1215/00265667-2006-65-66-133 Topic romance scholarship Publishing
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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 Topic readers feminism gender trash/literary and or intellectual quality
Williams, Clover (1998) Keepers of the Flame: The Romance Novel and Its Fans Lore and Language 16.1-2:115-138 Topic readers
Williamson, Val (1998) "Labour of Love: Gender and the Delivery of the Nineties Mills & Boon "Medical" " Medical Fictions 103-116 Topic medical romance Harlequin Mills & Boon work paratext health/medical Gil Sanderson Margaret Holt
Williamson, Margaret (1986) "The Greek romance " The Progress of Romance: The Politics of Popular Fiction 23-45 Topic Older and/or precursor texts (may not be "romance" as now defined) Chariton Xenophon of Ephesus Achilles Tatius Longus Heliodorus love rural romance
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 Topic Canada YA/young adult/teenage/new adult/NA romance readers gender
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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 gender
Wilson, Bernard Osman, Sharifah Aishah (2024) The Asian Family in Literature and Film: Challenges and Contestations-South Asia, Southeast Asia and Asian Diaspora, Volume II Singapore: Palgrave Macmillan
Wilt, Judith (2014) Women Writers and the Hero of Romance Houndmills, Basingstoke: Palgrave Macmillan Topic Older and/or precursor texts (may not be "romance" as now defined) E. M. Hull gender Baroness Orczy Twilight Fifty Shades
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 DOI: 10.1080/09574049608578285 Topic E. M. Hull film/movies sex/sexuality gender race/ethnicity Robert Hitchens animals
Wiseman, Sarah Rose (2024) Hearts and Hashtags: How BookTok is Reshaping Romance Literature Honors Program in English and Media Studies, Guilford College Topic feminism gender work readers
Witherspoon, Steve (2025) Women Running from Houses: How Gothic Romance Paperbacks of the 1960s and 1970s Adapted a Romantic-era Visual Language of Women in Danger Capstone, The UNC Asheville Journal of Undergraduate Scholarship 38.2: Topic paratext gothic romance
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 DOI: 10.1080/10894160.2014.901846 Topic LGBTQ+ characters, readers and/or authors gender United States of America Older and/or precursor texts (may not be "romance" as now defined) Paula Christian Ann Bannon Randy Salem sex/sexuality
Wood, Andrea (2008) Radicalizing Romance: Subculture, Sex, and Media at the Margins PhD, University of Florida Topic LGBTQ+ characters, readers and/or authors m/m romance lesbian romance comics/manga race/ethnicity pornography sex/sexuality
Wood, Andrea (2015) Making the Invisible Visible: Lesbian Romance Comics for Women Feminist Studies 41.2:293-334 DOI: 10.15767/feministstudies.41.2.293 Topic sex/sexuality comics/manga lesbian romance LGBTQ+ characters, readers and/or authors
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 191-207 DOI:10.4324/9781003039365-12 Topic m/m romance science fiction/futuristic romance family health/medical LGBTQ+ characters, readers and/or authors Lyn Gala Lexi Ander gender
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 DOI: 10.1111/j.0022-3840.1985.00025.x Topic gothic romance Harlequin Mills & Boon historical romance Barbara Cartland Georgette Heyer marriage
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 UK Harlequin Mills & Boon trash/literary and or intellectual quality feminism 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 paranormal/fantasy/time-travel romance readers
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 sex/sexuality readers
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 sex/sexuality readers gender psychology
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 DOI: 10.18848/1447-9532/CGP/v06i06/39300 Topic readers LGBTQ+ characters, readers and/or authors sex/sexuality gender 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 paranormal/fantasy/time-travel romance genre definitions
Yáñez-Bouza, Nuria Rodríguez-Gil, María E. Pérez-Guerra, Javier (2024) New Horizons in Prescriptivism Research Bristol: Multilingual Matters Topic linguistics
Ya’u, Mohammed Sani Rashid, Sabariah Md Ali, Afida Mohamad Singh, Hardev Kaur Jujar (2023) Semantic Extensions of Hausa Visual and Auditory Perception Verbs gani and ji in Romance Fiction Pertanika Journal of Social Science and Humanities 31.4:1441-1464 DOI: 10.47836/pjssh.31.4.06 Topic linguistics
Yeung, Jessica Siu-yin (2023) Hong Kong Literature and the Taiwanese Encounter: Literary Magazines, Popular Literature and Shih Shu-Ching’s Hong Kong Stories Cultural History 12.2:224–250 DOI: 10.3366/cult.2023.0288 Topic romances in magazines and newspapers Older and/or precursor texts (may not be "romance" as now defined) Taiwan China
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/young adult/teenage/new adult/NA romance paranormal/fantasy/time-travel romance gender 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 paranormal/fantasy/time-travel romance capitalism/business Jayne Ann Krentz/Amanda Quick/Jayne Castle Nora Roberts/J. D. Robb Elizabeth Lowell Katherine Stone Laurell K. Hamilton Charlaine Harris Kelley Armstrong Carrie Vaughn race/ethnicity national identity
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 DOI: 10.1111/j.1542-734X.2010.00736.x Topic Jayne Ann Krentz/Amanda Quick/Jayne Castle work capitalism/business family gender marriage race/ethnicity food, drink romantic suspense
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 DOI: 10.3828/extr.2011.52.2.5 Topic Kelley Armstrong Carrie Vaughn paranormal/fantasy/time-travel romance capitalism/business wealth/prosperity sex/sexuality family health/medical gender food, drink 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 race/ethnicity China Elizabeth Lowell Katherine Stone capitalism/business national identity work family love 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 trash/literary and or intellectual quality readers 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 trash/literary and or intellectual quality romance scholarship authors readers
Yulianti, Fiki Indah (2025) Digital Wattpad Culture In Indonesia: Youth, Romance, And The Changing Practices Of Reading And Writing Journal of Literary Prose and Society 2.2: DOI: 10.59261/jlps.v2i2.44 Topic Indonesia readers YA/young adult/teenage/new adult/NA romance authors Islam
Zachik-Smith, Susie (1993) Romance by the book: a morphological analysis of the popular romance MA thesis, California State University, San Bernardino Topic genre definitions readers psychology fairytales/folktales
Zaini, Ahmad Zuhdi (2024) Personality structure of the main character Reid Buchanan in Susan Mallery's Sizzling Undergraduate, Universitas Islam Negeri Maulana Malik Ibrahim Topic psychology Susan Mallery
Zakreski, Patricia (2012) Tell Me Lies: Lying, Storytelling, and the Romance Novel as Feminist Fiction Journal of Popular Romance Studies 2.2: Topic Jennifer Crusie feminism gender metafiction
Zaragoza Ninet, Gora Martínez Sierra, Juan José Cerezo Merchán, Beatriz Richart Marset, Mabel (2018) Traducción, género y censura en la literatura y en los medios de comunicación Granada: Editorial Comares
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 Topic health/medical feminism
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 DOI: 10.36074/logos-29.10.2021.v1.37 Topic Georgette Heyer linguistics
Zhang, Yue (2026) A Semantic and Communicative Translation Analysis of Chapter Eight of The Love Hypothesis Literature, Language and Cultural Studies 4.3:104-110 DOI: 10.63313/LLCS.9149 Topic translation Ali Hazelwood China
Zhang, Wenqian He, Sui (2026) Translating Chinese Internet Literature: Global Dissemination and Adaptation London: Routledge
Zhang, Chunjie Krimmer, Elisabeth (2023) Gender and German Colonialism: Intimacies, Accountabilities, Intersections New York: Routledge
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 DOI: 10.1007/s11199-017-0762-y Topic m/m romance gender China LGBTQ+ characters, readers and/or authors
Zibrak, Arielle (2021) Avidly Reads Guilty Pleasures New York: New York University Press Topic readers sex/sexuality historical romance gender Older and/or precursor texts (may not be "romance" as now defined) Susan Warner E. D. E. N. Southworth Rosemary Rogers Jill Marie Landis fairytales/folktales feminism
Zidle, Abby (1999) "From Bodice-Ripper to Baby-Sitter: The New Hero in Mass-Market Romance " Romantic Conventions 23-34 Topic gender emotions psychology readers sex/sexuality wealth/prosperity
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 Topic Georgette Heyer linguistics history historical romance
Zimmermann, Hans Dieter (1979) Schema-Literatur: ästhetische Norm und literarisches System Stuttgart: W. Kohlhammer Topic genre definitions trash/literary and or intellectual quality dime novels Germany
Zwar, Jan Lawson, Airlie (2021) Success Story - International Rights Sales of Australian- Authored Books: Case Studies Australia: Macquarie University Topic Publishing Australia Kylie Scott
[Sigroha], Suman (2018) Gendered Migrations and Literary Narratives: Writing Communities in South Asian Diaspora Millennial Asia 9.1:93-108 DOI: 10.1177/0976399617753755 Topic authors work family gender Publishing
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Στάμου, Εύα (2014) Η επέλαση της ροζ λογοτεχνίας. Δοκίμιο για την Ευδοκίμηση μιας Μορφής Αφηγηματικού Λόγου Αθήνα: Gutenberg
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