| Parisot, Eric |
Jane Austen and Vampires: Love, Sex and Immortality in the New Millennium |
2024 |
paranormal/fantasy/time-travel romance, Jane Austen, Colleen Gleason, Twilight, Regina Jeffers, Amanda Grange, fanfiction |
| Henderson, Aneeka Ayanna |
Popular Romance and Literary Undergrounds |
2024 |
African American romance |
| Larson, Christine |
Love in the Time of Self-Publishing: How Romance Writers Changed the Rules of Writing and Success |
2024 |
authors, Publishing, United States of America, race/ethnicity, LGBT+ characters, readers and/or authors |
| Spencer, Lynda Gichanda |
“Walk like a chameleon”: Reflecting on my teaching journey at a South African university |
2024 |
teaching romance |
| Bacon, Simon |
The Palgrave Handbook of the Vampire |
2024 |
|
| Kluger, Johanna |
Post-Trump masculinity in popular romance novels |
2024 |
United States of America, gender, sex/sexuality, Tessa Dare, Sarah MacLean, romance and, or as, activism |
| Arvanitaki, Eirini |
Emotionality: Heterosexual Love and Emotional Development in Popular Romance |
2024 |
love |
| Burge, Amy; McAlister, Jodi; Ireland, Charlotte |
“Prince Charming with an Erection”: The Sensational Pleasures of the Bonkbuster |
2024 |
bonkbuster, Jilly Cooper, Jackie Collins, Shirley Conran, Judith Krantz |
| Posti, Piia K |
‘I Get to Exist as a Black Person in the World’: Bridgerton as Speculative Romance and Alternate History on Screen |
2024 |
race/ethnicity, history, historical romance, Julia Quinn |
| Farooqui, Javaria |
Romance Fandom in 21st-Century Pakistan: Reading the Regency |
2024 |
readers, Pakistan, historical romance |
| Burge, Amy; McAlister, Jodi; Ireland, Charlotte |
“Prince Charming with an Erection”: The Sensational Pleasures of the Bonkbuster |
2024 |
bonkbuster, Jilly Cooper, Jackie Collins, Shirley Conran, Judith Krantz |
| Kluger, Johanna |
"On Thursdays We Shoot": Guns and Gender Binaries in Regency Romance Novels |
2024 |
historical romance, gender, Tessa Dare, Julia Quinn |
| Vivanco, Laura |
Feeling Judged: Reflections on Pornography and Romance from a Minotaur Milking Farm |
2024 |
pornography, trash/literary and or intellectual quality, paranormal/fantasy/time-travel romance, sex/sexuality, race/ethnicity, emotions, C. M. Nascosta, metafiction, family |
| Tanner, David |
Riding The Tosh Horse: Ethel M. Dell, A Written Life |
2024 |
Ethel M. Dell, Older and/or precursor texts (may not be "romance" as now defined) |
| Burge, Amy; McAlister, Jodi; Ireland, Charlotte |
“Prince Charming with an Erection”: The Sensational Pleasures of the Bonkbuster |
2024 |
bonkbuster, Jilly Cooper, Jackie Collins, Shirley Conran, Judith Krantz |
| Reese, Tracy H.Z. |
Beyond the Pale: Genre, Race, and Intersectional Feminist Tensions in Bridgerton |
2024 |
Julia Quinn, race/ethnicity, rape and/or intimate partner violence/abuse |
| Kies, Bridget |
Saying “I Don’t”: Queer Romance in the Post–Marriage Equality World |
2024 |
marriage, happy ending, LGBT+ characters, readers and/or authors, film/movies, Alexis Hall |
| Burge, Amy |
A decolonised alpha hero? Negotiating masculinities in Nigerian romance novels |
2024 |
Nigeria, Africa, gender |
| Hiergeist, Teresa; Schäfer, Stefanie |
Ladies in Arms: Women, Guns, and Feminisms in Contemporary Popular Culture |
2024 |
feminism |
| Markova, M. V. |
Georgette Heyer, history, and historical fiction. |
2024 |
Georgette Heyer, history, historical romance |
| Green, Steff |
More schlongs, more cats |
2024 |
family, Steffanie Holmes, pen name of Steff Green, happy ending |
| Allen, Amanda K. |
Ruling the Court: Reflections on Midcentury Junior Novel Romances |
2024 |
YA/teenage romance |
| Hiergeist, Teresa; Schäfer, Stefanie |
Ladies in Arms: Women, Guns, and Feminisms in Contemporary Popular Culture |
2024 |
feminism |
| Johnson, Jacqueline E. |
Lusting out loud: racialized aurality, podcast intimacy, and the uses of thirst |
2024 |
race/ethnicity, happy ending, sex/sexuality |
| Frankel, Valerie Estelle |
Adapting Bridgerton: Essays on the Netflix Show in Context |
2024 |
Julia Quinn |
| Goyal, Yogita |
The Cambridge Companion to Contemporary African American Literature |
2024 |
|
| Benge, Alie; O'Brien, Lil; Van Beek, Kathryn |
Otherhood: Essays on being childless, childfree and child-adjacent |
2024 |
|
| Pérez-Fernández, Irene |
Black British love matters: Asserting the transformative power of love in Bolu Babalola’s Love in Colour: Mythical Tales Around the World Retold |
2024 |
Bolu Babalola, race/ethnicity, UK, myth |
| Sabo, Oana |
Translingualism 2.0 |
2024 |
France, linguistics |
| Benge, Alie; O'Brien, Lil; Van Beek, Kathryn |
Otherhood: Essays on being childless, childfree and child-adjacent |
2024 |
|
| Benge, Alie; O'Brien, Lil; Van Beek, Kathryn |
Otherhood: Essays on being childless, childfree and child-adjacent |
2024 |
|
| Hennessey, John L. |
History and Speculative Fiction |
2024 |
|
| Carter, David |
The Cambridge History of the Australian Novel |
2023 |
|
| Phipps, Catherine |
Sex, race and power: colonial and interracial sexuality in the French Empire in Morocco, 1912-1956 |
2023 |
history, Morocco, sheikh romance, sex/sexuality, race/ethnicity |
| Davisson, Amber; Hunting, Kyra |
From private pleasure to erotic spectacle: Adapting Bridgerton to female audience desires |
2023 |
Julia Quinn, film/movies, sex/sexuality, rape and/or intimate partner violence/abuse, pornography, race/ethnicity |
| Derbyshire, Valerie Grace |
“Do you think I haven’t paid for what I did?”: Rape in the Mills & Boon Romantic Novels of Penny Jordan |
2023 |
rape and/or intimate partner violence/abuse, Penny Jordan/Caroline Courtney, history, Harlequin Mills & Boon |
| Morden, Christina |
Innovations in Romance Novel Distribution at Harlequin, Sourcebooks, and Raincoast Books |
2023 |
Publishing, Canada, Harlequin Mills & Boon |
| Parnell, Claire; Trinidad, Andrea Anne; McAlister, Jodi |
Live literature in the Philippines: an ethnographic study of #RomanceClass and reading as performance |
2023 |
Philippines, readers, authors, Publishing, Mina V. Esguerra |
| Prayuana, Ratu; De Ferras, Rayhan Romombe; Ramadhan, Fitra Wahyu |
The Rules of Romance Manifested in the Textual Structure of the Novel Fireside |
2023 |
Susan Wiggs |
| Miclea, Adelina |
Colleen Hoover’s Formulas for Best-Sellers as Seen in Reminders of Him and it Ends with Us |
2023 |
Colleen Hoover, United States of America |
| Grobbelaar, Madalena; Reid Boyd, Elizabeth; Dudek, Debra |
Contemporary Love Studies in the Arts and Humanities: What's Love Got To Do With It? |
2023 |
|
| Burge, Amy |
Romantic Love across Borders: Marriage Migration in Popular Romance Fiction |
2023 |
Helen Hoang, Brigitte Bautista, United States of America, Philippines, Vietnam, marriage, metaphor/symbolism |
| Henderson, Alex |
Genre-savvy Protagonists in Queer YA Rom-coms |
2023 |
LGBT+ characters, readers and/or authors, rom-com romance, YA/teenage romance, metafiction, Emery Lee, Alice Oseman |
| Arnold-Forster, Agnes |
Cold, Hard Steel: The Myth of the Modern Surgeon |
2023 |
health/medical, Elizabeth Gilzean, Harlequin Mills & Boon |
| Petrović, Janja |
Breaking the stereotype – romance novel today |
2023 |
genre definitions, gender, Mariana Zapata, Abby Jimenez, Christina Lauren, Emily Henry, Colleen Hoover |
| Abdullah-Poulos, Layla |
Sisters, Skanks, and Jezebels: American Muslim Fiction and the Other Woman |
2023 |
United States of America, Islam, religion/spirituality, African American romance |
| Davisson, Amber; Hunting, Kyra |
From private pleasure to erotic spectacle: Adapting Bridgerton to female audience desires |
2023 |
Julia Quinn, film/movies, sex/sexuality, rape and/or intimate partner violence/abuse, pornography, race/ethnicity |
| Prayuana, Ratu; De Ferras, Rayhan Romombe; Ramadhan, Fitra Wahyu |
The Rules of Romance Manifested in the Textual Structure of the Novel Fireside |
2023 |
Susan Wiggs |
| Markasović, Valentina |
Challenging Gender Stereotypes in Holly Black’s The Folk of the Air Trilogy |
2023 |
Holly Black, paranormal/fantasy/time-travel romance, YA/teenage romance, gender |
| Grobbelaar, Madalena; Reid Boyd, Elizabeth; Dudek, Debra |
Contemporary Love Studies in the Arts and Humanities: What's Love Got To Do With It? |
2023 |
|
| Rattanamathuwong, Bancha |
Time Is on Our Side?: Homo Economicus in Time-Travel Romance |
2023 |
paranormal/fantasy/time-travel romance, capitalism/business, Jude Deveraux, Rompaeng, Thomyantri, Thailand, Audrey Niffenegger |
| Garton, Stephen |
Return Fantasies: Martial Masculinity, Misogyny and Homosocial Bonding in the Aftermath of Second World War |
2023 |
war/armed forces, Australia, history, gender, romances in magazines and newspapers, sex/sexuality |
| Roach, David |
A Very British Affair – The Best of Classic Romance Comics |
2023 |
comics/manga, UK |
| Horgheim, Celina |
From Rape to Romance: Sexual Consent Negotiation in Romantic Retellings of the Myth of Persephone |
2023 |
myth, sex/sexuality, rape and/or intimate partner violence/abuse, gender, Rachel Alexander, Ophelia Silk, feminism |
| Limond, Verity |
‘The door is open to everyone’: The public libraries of Gozo |
2023 |
libraries/librarians, Malta, Harlequin Mills & Boon |
| Kamblé, Jayashree |
Creating Identity: The Popular Romance Heroine's Journey to Selfhood and Self-Presentation |
2023 |
gender, sex/sexuality, work, national identity, race/ethnicity, Susan Napier, Nora Roberts/J. D. Robb, Karen Marie Moning, Lisa Kleypas, Beverly Jenkins, Linda Howard, Kresley Cole, Joanna Bourne, Sherry Thomas, Alyssa Cole, metafiction, social/economic class, community, emotions |
| Ripoll Fonollar, Mariana |
Wording deeds: the figure of the suffragette in contemporary british fiction |
2023 |
feminism, historical romance, Katie MacAlister, Courtney Milan, Evie Dunmore |
| Prayuana, Ratu; De Ferras, Rayhan Romombe; Ramadhan, Fitra Wahyu |
The Rules of Romance Manifested in the Textual Structure of the Novel Fireside |
2023 |
Susan Wiggs |
| Larson, Christine; Carter, Ashley |
Love is love: Reverse isomorphism and the rise of LGBTQ+ romance publishing |
2023 |
Publishing, LGBT+ characters, readers and/or authors |
| Grobbelaar, Madalena; Reid Boyd, Elizabeth; Dudek, Debra |
Contemporary Love Studies in the Arts and Humanities: What's Love Got To Do With It? |
2023 |
|
| Phipps, Catherine |
‘The Machine for Showing Desire’: Desert Romance Fiction and Knowing Sexual Desire |
2023 |
sheikh romance, history, race/ethnicity, sex/sexuality, E. M. Hull, Leonard Noel Barker writing as L. Noel |
| Ghosh, Srijani |
Diversity Sells: Uzma Jalaluddin’s Muslim Adaptation of Pride and Prejudice |
2023 |
Uzma Jalaluddin, Islam, religion/spirituality, Jane Austen, race/ethnicity, Canada, marriage |
| Yeung, Jessica Siu-yin |
Hong Kong Literature and the Taiwanese Encounter: Literary Magazines, Popular Literature and Shih Shu-Ching’s Hong Kong Stories |
2023 |
romances in magazines and newspapers, Older and/or precursor texts (may not be "romance" as now defined), Taiwan, China |
| Vermeer, Lina |
The Affective Power of Intimacy: A Case Study of a Men’s Hockey Real Person Fan Fiction’s Literary and Social Contexts |
2023 |
fanfiction, genre definitions, LGBT+ characters, readers and/or authors, emotions, love, pornography, readers, Canada, sport |
| Kamblé, Jayashree |
Romancing the University: BIPOC Scholars in Romance Novels in the 1980s and Now |
2023 |
race/ethnicity, Sandra Kitt, Barbara Stephens, Adriana Herrera, Nicole M. Jackson/Katrina Jackson/Brandy Bush, Talia Hibbert, African American romance, work, romance and, or as, activism |
| Kamblé, Jayashree |
The origins of U.S. mass-market category romance novels: Black editors and writers in the early 1980s |
2023 |
race/ethnicity, Publishing, Vivian Stephens, United States of America, social/economic class, work, Rosalind Welles - pen name of Elsie B. Washington, Lia Sanders - pen name of Angela Jackson and Sandra Jackson-Opoku, Sandra Kitt, Barbara Stephens, Valerie Flournoy, history, sex/sexuality, Rochelle Alers, Donna Hill |
| Larson, Christine; Carter, Ashley |
Love is love: Reverse isomorphism and the rise of LGBTQ+ romance publishing |
2023 |
Publishing, LGBT+ characters, readers and/or authors |
| Reed, Eleanor |
Woman's Weekly and Lower-Middle-Class Domestic Culture in Britain, 1918-1958: Making Homemakers |
2023 |
romances in magazines and newspapers, UK, readers, social/economic class |
| Teo, Hsu-Ming |
Love Is Not Enough: Australian Romantic Fiction from the Mid-Nineteenth to the Early Twentieth Century |
2023 |
Australia, Older and/or precursor texts (may not be "romance" as now defined), Rosa Praed, Marie Bjelke Petersen, marriage, love, work |
| Garciano, Shylyn G.; Cuevas, Gloria Con-ui; Geraldizo-Pabriga, Maria Gemma; Macabodbod, Saira Jay J.; Yu, Jaciah Mae B.; Pinote, Ma. Jezan A. |
Romance-Themed Novels: Influenced on Relationship Satisfaction |
2023 |
readers, psychology |
| van Hattum, Fatima Y. |
Orientalist Public Pedagogy: Visual Representation of Muslims in Pop Culture and Desert Romance Novels |
2023 |
sheikh romance, paratext, Islam, race/ethnicity |
| Ali, Kecia |
The End of the World as We Know It: Climate Catastrophe in Nalini Singh's Paranormal Romance Fiction |
2023 |
Nalini Singh, ecocriticism/environmentalism/climate change, paranormal/fantasy/time-travel romance |
| Golubov, Nattie |
Female Warriors, Social Injustice and the Transformational Force of Anger in Jaye Wells' Sabina Kane Series |
2023 |
paranormal/fantasy/time-travel romance, feminism, emotions, Jaye Wells, gender, settings |
| Neely, Diana |
Who Says Women Can’t Love and Empower?: How Representations of Women Have Progressed in Medical Romance Fiction |
2023 |
medical romance, Elizabeth Stuart Phelps, work, Marjorie Norrell, Alyssa Cole, Ali Hazelwood |
| Sparks, Tabitha |
Reading the Women’s Sentimental Novel: A Romance |
2023 |
Older and/or precursor texts (may not be "romance" as now defined), metafiction, authors, Annie S. Swan, Sarah Doudney, Emily Jolly, Adeline Sergeant |
| Warnaar, Karin |
Dresses and Drapery: The Material Essie Summers |
2023 |
Essie Summers, fashion/clothing, Harlequin Mills & Boon, New Zealand |
| Driscoll, Beth; Wilkins, Kim |
Australian Fantasy, Crime and Romance Fiction in the Twentieth and Twenty-First Centuries |
2023 |
Australia, Publishing |
| Sharma, Vishal; Bray, Kirsten E.; Kumar, Neha; Grinter, Rebecca E. |
It Takes (at least) Two: The Work to Make Romance Work |
2023 |
Publishing, authors, readers |
| Garciano, Shylyn G.; Cuevas, Gloria Con-ui; Geraldizo-Pabriga, Maria Gemma; Macabodbod, Saira Jay J.; Yu, Jaciah Mae B.; Pinote, Ma. Jezan A. |
Romance-Themed Novels: Influenced on Relationship Satisfaction |
2023 |
readers, psychology |
| Veros, Vassiliki |
Nobody Puts Romance Fiction in the Corner: Public Librarians in New South Wales and Their Dalliance with Romance Fiction |
2023 |
libraries/librarians, trash/literary and or intellectual quality, Australia, Harlequin Mills & Boon |
| McDade, Monique |
California Dreams and American Contradictions: Women Writers and the Western Ideal |
2023 |
Eva Rutland, African American romance |
| Zhang, Chunjie; Krimmer, Elisabeth |
Gender and German Colonialism: Intimacies, Accountabilities, Intersections |
2023 |
|
| Griffiths, David |
Hearing Ghosts: Writing a Low Fantasy YA Gothic Fiction for young adult males |
2023 |
YA/teenage romance, paranormal/fantasy/time-travel romance, Twilight, gender |
| Leenstra, Lisa |
Covers of Lovers: A Multimodal Comparison of the Front Covers of Romance Novels in 2011 and 2021 |
2023 |
paratext |
| Driscoll, Beth; Wilkins, Kim |
Australian Fantasy, Crime and Romance Fiction in the Twentieth and Twenty-First Centuries |
2023 |
Australia, Publishing |
| Sharma, Vishal; Bray, Kirsten E.; Kumar, Neha; Grinter, Rebecca E. |
It Takes (at least) Two: The Work to Make Romance Work |
2023 |
Publishing, authors, readers |
| Garciano, Shylyn G.; Cuevas, Gloria Con-ui; Geraldizo-Pabriga, Maria Gemma; Macabodbod, Saira Jay J.; Yu, Jaciah Mae B.; Pinote, Ma. Jezan A. |
Romance-Themed Novels: Influenced on Relationship Satisfaction |
2023 |
readers, psychology |
| Phumithammarat, Nanphatchaon |
The Cultural Politics of Chinese-Thai Identities in Ethnic Romance Novels by Female Authors |
2023 |
Thailand, race/ethnicity, China |
| Piatti-Farnell, Lorna; Johnson-Hunt, Nancy |
Vampires and Desire: Blood, Sex, and Ritual in Paranormal Romance and Urban Fantasy Fiction |
2023 |
paranormal/fantasy/time-travel romance |
| Parks, Amy Noelle |
The Feminist Possibilities of Heteroglossic Spaces in Contemporary Young Adult Romance Novels |
2023 |
feminism, YA/teenage romance, love, sex/sexuality, Jenny Han, Katie Cotugno, Nicola Yoon, Laura Steven |
| Conley, Willow M.; Grinnell, Natalie |
The Queer Temporality of Gail Carriger’s Parasol Protectorate |
2023 |
Gail Carriger, paranormal/fantasy/time-travel romance, LGBT+ characters, readers and/or authors, steampunk, gender, family |
| Zhang, Chunjie; Krimmer, Elisabeth |
Gender and German Colonialism: Intimacies, Accountabilities, Intersections |
2023 |
|
| Bharathi, L. Divya; Muthuraman, K. |
Nicholas Charles Sparks’s The Notebook: A Novel Of Love Or Romance? |
2023 |
Nicholas Sparks, genre definitions, happy ending |
| Sharma, Vishal; Bray, Kirsten E.; Kumar, Neha; Grinter, Rebecca E. |
It Takes (at least) Two: The Work to Make Romance Work |
2023 |
Publishing, authors, readers |
| Garciano, Shylyn G.; Cuevas, Gloria Con-ui; Geraldizo-Pabriga, Maria Gemma; Macabodbod, Saira Jay J.; Yu, Jaciah Mae B.; Pinote, Ma. Jezan A. |
Romance-Themed Novels: Influenced on Relationship Satisfaction |
2023 |
readers, psychology |
| Pates, Giuliana |
Reading Practices and Gender Politicization: How do Young Argentinean Women Read Romantic Novels |
2023 |
Argentina, YA/teenage romance |
| Bradford, Robin |
The Readers’ Advisory Guide to Romance |
2023 |
libraries/librarians |
| Garcia, Christina |
The Race of Publishing: The Troubling Whiteness in Publishing and the Forces Pushing Back |
2023 |
Publishing, race/ethnicity, readers, romance and, or as, activism |
| Piatti-Farnell, Lorna; Johnson-Hunt, Nancy |
Vampires and Desire: Blood, Sex, and Ritual in Paranormal Romance and Urban Fantasy Fiction |
2023 |
paranormal/fantasy/time-travel romance |
| Hua, Shaoqi; Xiao, Chengli |
What shapes a parasocial relationship in RVGs? The effects of avatar images, avatar identification, and romantic jealousy among potential, casual, and core players |
2023 |
computer/video/digital games |
| Richey, Weston |
(Loves) Me, (Loves) Me Not: Unbuilding of Selfhood in the Romance of the Present |
2023 |
readers, LGBT+ characters, readers and/or authors, gender, psychology, Kris Ripper |
| Conley, Willow M.; Grinnell, Natalie |
The Queer Temporality of Gail Carriger’s Parasol Protectorate |
2023 |
Gail Carriger, paranormal/fantasy/time-travel romance, LGBT+ characters, readers and/or authors, steampunk, gender, family |
| Pupipat, Apisak |
Should a Book Be Judged by its Back Cover? Some Written/Formal Features as Observed in Happily- Ever-After Women’s Novel Blurbs |
2023 |
paratext, linguistics |
| Bharathi, L. Divya; Muthuraman, K. |
Nicholas Charles Sparks’s The Notebook: A Novel Of Love Or Romance? |
2023 |
Nicholas Sparks, genre definitions, happy ending |
| Ya’u, Mohammed Sani; Rashid, Sabariah Md; Ali, Afida Mohamad; Singh, Hardev Kaur Jujar |
Semantic Extensions of Hausa Visual and Auditory Perception Verbs gani and ji in Romance Fiction |
2023 |
linguistics |
| Grover, Mary |
Steel City Readers: Reading for Pleasure in Sheffield, 1925-1955 |
2023 |
readers, social/economic class, history, UK, libraries/librarians, Mary Burchell, pen name of Ida Cook, Sophie Cole, Harlequin Mills & Boon |
| Heying, Sarah M. |
"Sealed With a Kiss on Your Artery": An Archive of Southern Lesbian Desire |
2023 |
LGBT+ characters, readers and/or authors, Ann Allen Shockley, libraries/librarians, race/ethnicity |
| Sharma, Vishal; Bray, Kirsten E.; Kumar, Neha; Grinter, Rebecca E. |
It Takes (at least) Two: The Work to Make Romance Work |
2023 |
Publishing, authors, readers |
| Garciano, Shylyn G.; Cuevas, Gloria Con-ui; Geraldizo-Pabriga, Maria Gemma; Macabodbod, Saira Jay J.; Yu, Jaciah Mae B.; Pinote, Ma. Jezan A. |
Romance-Themed Novels: Influenced on Relationship Satisfaction |
2023 |
readers, psychology |
| Roche, Emma |
Women, Violence and Postmillennial Romance Fiction |
2023 |
Twilight, Fifty Shades, feminism, rape and/or intimate partner violence/abuse, capitalism/business |
| Hua, Shaoqi; Xiao, Chengli |
What shapes a parasocial relationship in RVGs? The effects of avatar images, avatar identification, and romantic jealousy among potential, casual, and core players |
2023 |
computer/video/digital games |
| Giovanni, Chiara |
Hetero Ever After? Romance Novels, Race, and the Limits of Social Dreaming |
2023 |
race/ethnicity, Jasmine Guillory, Alisha Rai, romance and, or as, activism, feminism |
| McAlister, Jodi; Parnell, Claire; Trinidad, Andrea Anne |
Publishing Romance Fiction in the Philippines |
2023 |
Philippines, Publishing, social/economic class, Mina V. Esguerra, wealth/prosperity, Keene Alicante, sex/sexuality, work, LGBT+ characters, readers and/or authors, settings, authors, paratext |
| Rashid, Hussein; Petersen, Kristian |
The Bloomsbury Handbook of Muslims and Popular Culture |
2023 |
|
| Saxena, Vandana |
Afterlives of Colonialism: Nostalgia, Reader’s Response and the Case of Noel Barber’s Tanamera |
2023 |
historical romance, history, race/ethnicity, UK, Singapore, national identity, readers, Malaysia, war/armed forces, settings, Noel Barber |
| Ya’u, Mohammed Sani; Rashid, Sabariah Md; Ali, Afida Mohamad; Singh, Hardev Kaur Jujar |
Semantic Extensions of Hausa Visual and Auditory Perception Verbs gani and ji in Romance Fiction |
2023 |
linguistics |
| Morrison, Kevin A.; Rantala, Pälvi |
Historical Research, Creative Writing, and the Past: Methods of Knowing |
2023 |
|
| Stobaugh, Rebecca |
Halfway-Sexual: Exploring Demisexuality in American Literature |
2023 |
sex/sexuality, LGBT+ characters, readers and/or authors, Fifty Shades, Jack Byrne |
| Garciano, Shylyn G.; Cuevas, Gloria Con-ui; Geraldizo-Pabriga, Maria Gemma; Macabodbod, Saira Jay J.; Yu, Jaciah Mae B.; Pinote, Ma. Jezan A. |
Romance-Themed Novels: Influenced on Relationship Satisfaction |
2023 |
readers, psychology |
| Mulvey, Alexandra Hazel |
Gender and Sex Stereotypes in Sports Romance Fiction |
2023 |
sport, gender, LGBT+ characters, readers and/or authors, Mariana Zapata, Tijan, Hannah Grace, Rachel Spangler, Kelly Quindlen, Katia Rose, food, drink, happy ending, family |
| Parnell, Claire; Trinidad, Andrea Anne; McAlister, Jodi |
Live literature in the Philippines: an ethnographic study of #RomanceClass and reading as performance |
2023 |
Philippines, readers, authors, Publishing, Mina V. Esguerra |
| Küçük, Özlem |
Impossible Love in the Hiccup and the Lily of the Valley Novels and the Social Role of the Women |
2023 |
Kerime Nadir, Turkey, Older and/or precursor texts (may not be "romance" as now defined) |
| Pierini, Francesca |
Towards a Regime of Authenticity. Reading A Room with a View through the Lens of Contemporary Romance Scholarship |
2023 |
E. M. Forster, Older and/or precursor texts (may not be "romance" as now defined), Italy, marriage, emotions, happy ending, trash/literary and or intellectual quality |
| Pierre-Robertson, Petronetta |
Librarian as Creator |
2023 |
romance and, or as, activism, libraries/librarians, rape and/or intimate partner violence/abuse, Petra Pierre-Robertson, Caribbean |
| McAlister, Jodi; Parnell, Claire; Trinidad, Andrea Anne |
Publishing Romance Fiction in the Philippines |
2023 |
Philippines, Publishing, social/economic class, Mina V. Esguerra, wealth/prosperity, Keene Alicante, sex/sexuality, work, LGBT+ characters, readers and/or authors, settings, authors, paratext |
| Rashid, Hussein; Petersen, Kristian |
The Bloomsbury Handbook of Muslims and Popular Culture |
2023 |
|
| Fresno-Calleja, Paloma |
Repurposing Fantasy Island: Lani Wendt Young’s Telesā Series and the Politics of Postcolonial Romance |
2023 |
Lani Wendt Young, YA/teenage romance, settings, paranormal/fantasy/time-travel romance, islands, Samoa, metafiction, race/ethnicity, sex/sexuality, romance and, or as, activism |
| Ya’u, Mohammed Sani; Rashid, Sabariah Md; Ali, Afida Mohamad; Singh, Hardev Kaur Jujar |
Semantic Extensions of Hausa Visual and Auditory Perception Verbs gani and ji in Romance Fiction |
2023 |
linguistics |
| Morrison, Kevin A.; Rantala, Pälvi |
Historical Research, Creative Writing, and the Past: Methods of Knowing |
2023 |
|
| Hutter, Verena |
Fire, Savannah, and Passion: The New Africa Novel and the Construction of White Femininity |
2023 |
Africa, Germany, history, historical romance, race/ethnicity, Patricia Mennen, Leah Bach, gender |
| Allan, Jonathan A. |
Softcore romance: on naked heroes and beefcakes in popular romance novels |
2023 |
pornography, sex/sexuality, genre definitions, Kathleen Woodiwiss, Kathleen O’Reilly, Jo Davis, Susan Stephens, LGBT+ characters, readers and/or authors, Annabeth Albert, K. C. Wells |
| Parnell, Claire |
Algospeak and algo-design in platformed book publishing: Revolutionary creative tactics in digital paratext to circumvent content moderation |
2023 |
Publishing, paratext, LGBT+ characters, readers and/or authors, race/ethnicity, pornography |
| Robinson, Rachel |
Reading and writing dogs in popular romance fiction |
2023 |
animals |
| Parnell, Claire; Trinidad, Andrea Anne; McAlister, Jodi |
Live literature in the Philippines: an ethnographic study of #RomanceClass and reading as performance |
2023 |
Philippines, readers, authors, Publishing, Mina V. Esguerra |
| Nichols, Sue |
Love matters: the case for an inclusive, contemporary approach to romance themes and texts in subject English |
2023 |
YA/teenage romance, teaching romance, LGBT+ characters, readers and/or authors |
| Fresno-Calleja, Paloma |
New Romantic Narratives for the Twenty-First Century |
2023 |
romance scholarship |
| McAlister, Jodi; Parnell, Claire; Trinidad, Andrea Anne |
Publishing Romance Fiction in the Philippines |
2023 |
Philippines, Publishing, social/economic class, Mina V. Esguerra, wealth/prosperity, Keene Alicante, sex/sexuality, work, LGBT+ characters, readers and/or authors, settings, authors, paratext |
| McDavis-Conway, Shana |
Self-conscious, unapologetic, and straight: fat protagonists in romantic fiction |
2023 |
fat, fatness, paratext, race/ethnicity, LGBT+ characters, readers and/or authors, Talia Hibbert, Rebekah Weatherspoon, Rose Lerner, Xan West |
| Pierini, Francesca |
Literary Fiction from the Perspective of Romance: Normal People |
2023 |
Sally Rooney |
| Ya’u, Mohammed Sani; Rashid, Sabariah Md; Ali, Afida Mohamad; Singh, Hardev Kaur Jujar |
Semantic Extensions of Hausa Visual and Auditory Perception Verbs gani and ji in Romance Fiction |
2023 |
linguistics |
| Hendricks, Margo; Moody-Freeman, Julie E. |
Journal of Popular Romance Studies: Special Issue: Black Romance |
2022 |
African American romance, Sandra Kitt, Brenda Jackson, Beverly Jenkins, Vivian Stephens, Alyssa Cole, Rebekah Weatherspoon, Gwyneth Bolton/Gwendolyn Pough, Rochelle Alers, Margo Hendricks/Elysabeth Grace |
| Allan, Jonathan |
Self-improvement as proof of love in The Bromance Book Club |
2022 |
gender, love, Lyssa Kay Adams |
| Johnson, Brian |
Weird Bedfellows: H. P. Lovecraft, m/m Romance, and the New Queer Families of Jordan L. Hawk's Whyborne & Griffin Series |
2022 |
Jordan L. Hawk, m/m romance, paranormal/fantasy/time-travel romance, LGBT+ characters, readers and/or authors |
| Hendricks, Margo |
Against Odds: Beverly Jenkins’ Indigo and Black Historical Romance |
2022 |
Beverly Jenkins, historical romance, race/ethnicity, social/economic class, United States of America, African American romance, history |
| Sharma, Vishal; Bray, Kirsten E.; Kumar, Neha; Grinter, Rebecca E. |
Romancing the Algorithm: Navigating Constantly, Frequently, and Silently Changing Algorithms for Digital Work |
2022 |
Publishing, authors |
| Harrod, Mary; Leonard, Suzanne; Negra, Diane |
Imagining "We" in the Age of "I": Romance and Social Bonding in Contemporary Culture |
2022 |
|
| Karaminas, Vicki; Geczy, Adam; Gibson, Pamela Church |
Fashionable Masculinities: Queers, Pimp Daddies, and Lumbersexuals |
2022 |
|
| Selinger, Eric Murphy |
Disenchantment and its discontents: “modern love” and irony in popular romance fiction |
2022 |
love, Jennifer Crusie, science/technology, religion/spirituality, marriage, Alisha Rai, feminism, emotions, Alexis Hall, metafiction, Francine Rivers, fairytales/folktales, health/medical |
| Pérez-Casal, Inmaculada |
Popular romance novels: past, present and future |
2022 |
genre definitions, Older and/or precursor texts (may not be "romance" as now defined), romance and, or as, activism, romance scholarship |
| Dudek, Debra; Reid Boyd, Elizabeth; Grobbelaar, Madalena; Williams, Rose |
Tingles and Shivers: First Kisses and Intimate Civility in Eliza Redgold’s Historical Harlequin Romances Pre–and Post-#MeToo |
2022 |
Harlequin Mills & Boon, sex/sexuality, Elizabeth Reid Boyd (pen name Eliza Redgold), psychology, feminism |
| Buttrick, Nicholas; Westgate, Erin C.; Oishi, Shigehiro |
Reading Literary Fiction Is Associated With a More Complex Worldview |
2022 |
psychology, readers, trash/literary and or intellectual quality |
| Pupipat, Apisak; Rungkaew, Titirut; Meeparp, Lampoon |
Judging a Book by its Back Cover: Spoken/Informal Register as Found in Happily-Ever-After Women’s Novel Blurbs |
2022 |
linguistics, paratext |
| Guillén-Nieto, Victoria; Stein, Dieter |
Language as Evidence: Doing Forensic Linguistics |
2022 |
|
| González-Cruz, María Isabel |
Hispanicisms in Romance Fiction: An Annotated Glossary |
2022 |
linguistics, Spain, Harlequin Mills & Boon |
| Jackson, Nicole M. |
Finding Queer Black Women in Romance. Finding Bits and Pieces of Me. |
2022 |
Nicole M. Jackson/Katrina Jackson/Brandy Bush, LGBT+ characters, readers and/or authors, African American romance, Rebekah Weatherspoon, Alyssa Cole, Ann Allen Shockley |
| Stetson, Suzanne |
Reconciling Reader Response and Feminism in Late Twentieth-Century Erotic Historical Romances |
2022 |
feminism, sex/sexuality |
| Priyatna, Aquarini; Wardiani, Sri Rijati |
Naturalization and Romanticization of Violence in Indonesian Teen Lit Jingga Series by Esti Kinasih |
2022 |
Esti Kinasih, Indonesia, YA/teenage romance, rape and/or intimate partner violence/abuse, gender |
| Musila, Grace A. |
Routledge Handbook of African Popular Culture |
2022 |
|
| Teo, Hsu-Ming |
Transported for life, transported by love: love and the Australian convict romance novel |
2022 |
Australia, historical romance, history, gender, love, Tea Cooper, Lena Dowling, Joanna Lloyd, Candice Proctor |
| González-Cruz, María Isabel |
Introducción |
2022 |
genre definitions, teaching romance |
| Abrahamsson, Elin |
Rättvisemärkt romantik: Feelgood, flärd och feminism i samtida svensk romance |
2022 |
feminism, contemporary romance, Sweden, Simona Ahrnstedt, Sofia Fritzson, Fifty Shades, Twilight, Christina Schiller |
| Jackson, Nicole M. |
Freedom’s Epilogue: Love as Freedom in Alyssa Cole’s Historical Novellas |
2022 |
Alyssa Cole, historical romance, history, race/ethnicity, African American romance, United States of America, emotions, love, family, community, marriage, LGBT+ characters, readers and/or authors, happy ending |
| Sharma, Vishal; Bray, Kirsten E.; Kumar, Neha; Grinter, Rebecca E. |
Romancing the Algorithm: Navigating Constantly, Frequently, and Silently Changing Algorithms for Digital Work |
2022 |
Publishing, authors |
| Harrod, Mary; Leonard, Suzanne; Negra, Diane |
Imagining "We" in the Age of "I": Romance and Social Bonding in Contemporary Culture |
2022 |
|
| Karaminas, Vicki; Geczy, Adam; Gibson, Pamela Church |
Fashionable Masculinities: Queers, Pimp Daddies, and Lumbersexuals |
2022 |
|
| Dryden, Therese |
The single-mother and the law: romance novels making room for female voices in patriarchal spaces |
2022 |
family, Robyn Carr |
| Pérez-Gil, María del Mar |
Imperfect paradise: Madeira in the novels of Margaret Rome, Katrina Britt, and Sally Wentworth |
2022 |
Harlequin Mills & Boon, settings, national identity, race/ethnicity, Portugal, UK, Margaret Rome, Ethel Connell as Katrina Britt, Doreen Hornsblow as Sally Wentworth, Sara Wood, gender |
| Dudek, Debra; Reid Boyd, Elizabeth; Grobbelaar, Madalena; Williams, Rose |
Tingles and Shivers: First Kisses and Intimate Civility in Eliza Redgold’s Historical Harlequin Romances Pre–and Post-#MeToo |
2022 |
Harlequin Mills & Boon, sex/sexuality, Elizabeth Reid Boyd (pen name Eliza Redgold), psychology, feminism |
| Buttrick, Nicholas; Westgate, Erin C.; Oishi, Shigehiro |
Reading Literary Fiction Is Associated With a More Complex Worldview |
2022 |
psychology, readers, trash/literary and or intellectual quality |
| Guillén-Nieto, Victoria; Stein, Dieter |
Language as Evidence: Doing Forensic Linguistics |
2022 |
|
| Cannon, Emanni N |
Contemporary Romance and the Question of Literary Value |
2022 |
trash/literary and or intellectual quality, Jane Austen, Georgette Heyer, Colleen Hoover |
| Hendricks, Margo |
How a Black Author Found Her Romance History |
2022 |
Margo Hendricks/Elysabeth Grace, Older and/or precursor texts (may not be "romance" as now defined), teaching romance, race/ethnicity, African American romance, readers, Beverly Jenkins, Alyssa Cole, paratext, historical romance, Publishing |
| Wells, Juliette |
Afterword: Sex, Romance, and Representation in Uzma Jalaluddin’s Ayesha at Last |
2022 |
Uzma Jalaluddin, Jane Austen, sex/sexuality, religion/spirituality, Islam |
| Nankervis, Madison |
Diversity in Romance Novels: Race, Sexuality, Neurodivergence, Disability, and Fat Representation |
2022 |
Publishing, race/ethnicity, sex/sexuality, LGBT+ characters, readers and/or authors, disability, fat, fatness |
| Brooks, Ann |
The Routledge Companion to Romantic Love |
2022 |
love |
| Beyer, Charlotte |
Decolonising the Literature Curriculum |
2022 |
|
| Wallace, Jennifer |
Army trenches and school benches: the Philippine-American War in the Sugar Sun series |
2022 |
Jennifer Hallock, war/armed forces, Philippines, United States of America |
| Pérez-Casal, Inmaculada |
La novela rosa o romántica: pasado, presente y futuro |
2022 |
genre definitions, Older and/or precursor texts (may not be "romance" as now defined), romance and, or as, activism, romance scholarship |
| Gehrmann, Susanne |
Varieties of Romance in Contemporary Popular Togolese Literature |
2022 |
Togo, Africa, Serge Azialé/Seraz, Jeannette Ahonsou, romantic suspense, Lauren Ekué, chick lit |
| Pritchard, Jamee N. |
Reading the Black Romance: Exploring Black Sexual Politics in the Romance Fiction of Rebekah Weatherspoon |
2022 |
Rebekah Weatherspoon, sex/sexuality, African American romance, gender, race/ethnicity, BDSM, erotic romance, feminism, LGBT+ characters, readers and/or authors, Ann Allen Shockley |
| Sharma, Vishal; Bray, Kirsten E.; Kumar, Neha; Grinter, Rebecca E. |
Romancing the Algorithm: Navigating Constantly, Frequently, and Silently Changing Algorithms for Digital Work |
2022 |
Publishing, authors |
| Pérez-Gil, María del Mar |
Mass Tourism, Ecocriticism, and Mills & Boon Romances (1970s-1980s) |
2022 |
Harlequin Mills & Boon, settings, history, Doreen Hornsblow as Sally Wentworth, Spain, Greece, Margaret Rome, Elizabeth Hunter, Violet Winspear, rural romance, Ethel Connell as Katrina Britt, Kay Thorpe, Iris Danbury, ecocriticism/environmentalism/climate change |
| Alcala Gonzalez, Antonio; Sederholm, Carl H. |
Lovecraft in the 21st Century: Dead, But Still Dreaming |
2022 |
|
| Bazenga, Aline |
The sociocultural and linguistic landscape of Madeira: Anglocentric visions in a sample of six romance novels |
2022 |
Portugal, UK, Harlequin Mills & Boon, settings, metaphor/symbolism, linguistics |
| Watson, Courtney |
I Thought You’d Never Ask: Consent in Contemporary Romance |
2022 |
sex/sexuality, K. J. Charles, feminism, romance scholarship |
| Ayala Rodríguez, Ida María; Almaral Cereijo, Iraida Thalia |
Deconstructionism of the heroine in the novel The Grand Sophy by Georgette Heyer |
2022 |
Jane Austen, Georgette Heyer |
| Sheehan, Sarah E. |
The “Popular Romance Canon”: An Academic Librarian’s Response |
2022 |
romance scholarship, libraries/librarians |
| Chawla, Gitanjali; Mittal, Sangeeta |
Indian Popular Fiction: Redefining the Canon |
2022 |
|
| Brunet, Peyton; Davis, Blair |
Comic Book Women: Characters, Creators, and Culture in the Golden Age |
2022 |
comics/manga, African American romance, LGBT+ characters, readers and/or authors |
| Hanson, Donna Maree |
Romance fiction as a bridge to understanding changing gender roles in society |
2022 |
readers, authors, feminism, gender, science fiction/futuristic romance, rape and/or intimate partner violence/abuse, Rachel Lee/Sue Civil-Brown, Rosemary Carter, Darynda Jones, Penny Jordan/Caroline Courtney, Daphne Clair, Nora Roberts/J. D. Robb, Robyn Donald, Marjorie Lewty, Pamela Kent, Elizabeth Graham, Donna Maree Hanson |
| Moody-Freeman, Julie E. |
Black Cultural Studies and Black Love: Why Black Love Matters |
2022 |
love, race/ethnicity, teaching romance |
| Bilodeau, Isabelle |
How Romance Translators Write Themselves and Their Readers into Afterwords |
2022 |
paratext, translation, Japan |
| Allan, Jonathan A. |
‘Impossibly erotic things’: On men’s underwear in Brief Encounters by Suzanne Forster |
2022 |
fashion/clothing, Harlequin Mills & Boon, Suzanne Forster, sex/sexuality, gender |
| Golubov, Nattie |
El placer de la lectura: cuerpos, afectos, textos |
2022 |
|
| Allan, Jonathan A. |
Men, Masculinities, and Infertilities |
2022 |
health/medical, family, gender, LaVyrle Spencer, Emilie Richards |
| Selinger, Eric Murphy |
The wild heart of the continent: love and place in the Silk Road novels of Sherry Thomas |
2022 |
Sherry Thomas, settings, trash/literary and or intellectual quality, love, Buddhism, religion/spirituality, historical romance, race/ethnicity, China, Asia |
| Pérez-Gil, María del Mar |
Paraísos imperfectos: Madeira en las novelas de Margaret Rome, Katrina Britt y Sally Wentworth |
2022 |
Harlequin Mills & Boon, settings, national identity, race/ethnicity, Portugal, UK, Margaret Rome, Ethel Connell as Katrina Britt, Doreen Hornsblow as Sally Wentworth, Sara Wood, gender |
| Golubov, Nattie |
La promesa de felicidad: la novela rosa y el placer de la lectura afectiva |
2022 |
readers, emotions, happy ending |
| Moody-Freeman, Julie E. |
Romance, Hip-Hop Feminism, and Black Love: From Theory to Praxis |
2022 |
Gwyneth Bolton/Gwendolyn Pough, feminism, African American romance, gender, teaching romance, sex/sexuality, music, romance and, or as, activism, race/ethnicity |
| Alcala Gonzalez, Antonio; Sederholm, Carl H. |
Lovecraft in the 21st Century: Dead, But Still Dreaming |
2022 |
|
| Farooqui, Javaria |
Reading historical popular romance in 21st-century Pakistan |
2022 |
Pakistan, readers, historical romance, social/economic class, settings, Julia Quinn, Stephanie Laurens, Judith McNaught, Gaelen Foley |
| Befeler, Paige |
LGBTQ(NA), Queer New Adult Fiction: The Emergence of a New Genre and Its Impact on the LGBTQIA+ Community |
2022 |
YA/teenage romance, LGBT+ characters, readers and/or authors, Casey McQuiston, Morgan Rogers, race/ethnicity |
| Vera-Cazorla, María Jesús |
Canarian culture and identity and their representation in the novels of the FFI2014-53962-P corpus |
2022 |
national identity, Spain, UK, metaphor/symbolism |
| Sheerman, Lucy |
“Place the glass before you, and draw in chalk your own picture”: The Recasting of Jane Eyre |
2022 |
Charlotte Brontë, Beverly Jenkins, Alyssa Cole, race/ethnicity |
| Ayala Rodríguez, Ida María; Almaral Cereijo, Iraida Thalia |
Deconstructionism of the heroine in the novel The Grand Sophy by Georgette Heyer |
2022 |
Jane Austen, Georgette Heyer |
| Turner, Ellen; Wadsö Lecaros, Cecilia |
The desert-governess romance: Regency England meets exotic Arabia |
2022 |
sheikh romance, historical romance, settings, Marguerite Kaye, Laura Martin, Lynne Graham, Kate Hewitt, E. M. Hull, work, genre definitions, Harlequin Mills & Boon, paratext |
| LaDousa, Chaise; Davis, Christina P. |
Language, Education, and Identity: Medium in South Asia |
2022 |
|
| Chawla, Gitanjali; Mittal, Sangeeta |
Indian Popular Fiction: Redefining the Canon |
2022 |
|
| Hogan, Patrick Colm; Irish, Bradley J.; Hogan, Lalita Pandit |
The Routledge Companion to Literature and Emotion |
2022 |
|
| Brunet, Peyton; Davis, Blair |
Comic Book Women: Characters, Creators, and Culture in the Golden Age |
2022 |
comics/manga, African American romance, LGBT+ characters, readers and/or authors |
| Huguley, Piper |
In Search of the Black Historical Hottie: The Sad Situation of the Black Hero in Historical Romance |
2022 |
historical romance, race/ethnicity, gender, Piper Huguley, happy ending, wealth/prosperity |
| Larson, Christine; Ready, Elspeth |
Networking down: Networks, innovation, and relational labor in digital book publishing |
2022 |
authors, Publishing |
| Pierini, Francesca |
Romance and Metagenre: A Response to Burkhard Niederhoff |
2022 |
romance scholarship, E. M. Forster, happy ending |
| Jussawalla, Feroza; Omran, Doaa |
Muslim Women’s Writing from across South and Southeast Asia |
2022 |
|
| Davies, Ben; Lupton, Christina; Gormsen Schmidt, Johanne |
Reading Novels During the Covid-19 Pandemic |
2022 |
readers, Sally Rooney |
| Hoorenman, Johanna |
Remembering love: Parsons-Yazzie's historical romance novel and the (re)writing of Navajo history |
2022 |
Evangeline Parsons Yazzie, Native American romance, race/ethnicity, settings, United States of America |
| Bazenga, Aline |
Paisaje sociocultural y lingüístico de la isla de Madeira: Visiones anglocéntricas en una muestra de seis novelas rosa |
2022 |
Portugal, UK, Harlequin Mills & Boon, settings, metaphor/symbolism, linguistics |
| Jan, Jariah Mohd; Ujum, Diana Abu |
Negotiating Conflicts amongst Muslim Female Characters in Malay Romance Novels: A Narratological Perspective |
2022 |
Malaysia, Muslim romance, gender |
| Deng, Yiwei |
The Aesthetic form of Childhood Sweetheart: I Love You, None of Your Business |
2022 |
China, emotions |
| Grinnell, Natalie |
The Challenge to Dominance Theory in Patricia Briggs's and Carrie Vaughn's Paranormal Romance Novels |
2022 |
Patricia Briggs, Carrie Vaughn, paranormal/fantasy/time-travel romance, gender, rape and/or intimate partner violence/abuse, feminism |
| González-Cruz, María Isabel |
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 |
2022 |
teaching romance |
| González de la Rosa, María del Pilar |
Female voices and feminist discourse in some Harlequin/Mills & Boon romances |
2022 |
Harlequin Mills & Boon, feminism, gender |
| Alexander, Camille S. |
“The Realness” in Jasmine Guillory’s Sista Lit Rom Com Novels |
2022 |
Jasmine Guillory, African American romance, rom-com romance, race/ethnicity, ageism |
| Turner, Ellen; Wadsö Lecaros, Cecilia |
The desert-governess romance: Regency England meets exotic Arabia |
2022 |
sheikh romance, historical romance, settings, Marguerite Kaye, Laura Martin, Lynne Graham, Kate Hewitt, E. M. Hull, work, genre definitions, Harlequin Mills & Boon, paratext |
| LaDousa, Chaise; Davis, Christina P. |
Language, Education, and Identity: Medium in South Asia |
2022 |
|
| Hogan, Patrick Colm; Irish, Bradley J.; Hogan, Lalita Pandit |
The Routledge Companion to Literature and Emotion |
2022 |
|
| Wilkins, Kim; Driscoll, Beth; Fletcher, Lisa |
Genre Worlds: Popular Fiction and 21st-Century Book Culture |
2022 |
Publishing, readers |
| Nachumi, Nora; Oppenheim, Stephanie |
Jane Austen, Sex, and Romance: Engaging with Desire in the Novels and Beyond |
2022 |
|
| Scupham, Hannah Elizabeth |
“Reader, I Married Him”: Readership, Imagination, and Politics of the Marriage Plot in the Nineteenth-Century Novel |
2022 |
historical romance, Older and/or precursor texts (may not be "romance" as now defined), readers, Jane Austen, Elizabeth Gaskell, George Eliot |
| van Halteren, Hans |
Automatic Authorship Investigation |
2022 |
linguistics, Harlequin Mills & Boon, Stephanie Howard |
| Larson, Christine; Ready, Elspeth |
Networking down: Networks, innovation, and relational labor in digital book publishing |
2022 |
authors, Publishing |
| Michelson, Anna |
Pushing the boundaries: Erotic romance and the symbolic boundary nexus |
2022 |
genre definitions, erotic romance, authors, sex/sexuality, Fifty Shades, Publishing, fanfiction, sociology |
| Jussawalla, Feroza; Omran, Doaa |
Muslim Women’s Writing from across South and Southeast Asia |
2022 |
|
| Davies, Ben; Lupton, Christina; Gormsen Schmidt, Johanne |
Reading Novels During the Covid-19 Pandemic |
2022 |
readers, Sally Rooney |
| Herrera, Carolina M. |
Examining the relation between media engagement and developmental outcomes in adolescents and emerging adults: an exploration of engagement with and impact of young adult literature media among youth |
2022 |
readers, psychology, YA/teenage romance, Twilight |
| Burge, Amy; Folie, Sandra |
Girls of Riyadh and Desperate in Dubai: reading and writing romance in the Middle East |
2022 |
chick lit, race/ethnicity, Islam, Rajaa Alsanea, Ameera Al Hakawati, Saudi Arabia, United Arab Emirates, sheikh romance |
| Vera-Cazorla, María Jesús |
La cultura y la identidad canarias y su representación en las novelas del corpus FFI2014-53962-P |
2022 |
national identity, Spain, UK, metaphor/symbolism |
| Jan, Jariah Mohd; Ujum, Diana Abu |
Negotiating Conflicts amongst Muslim Female Characters in Malay Romance Novels: A Narratological Perspective |
2022 |
Malaysia, Muslim romance, gender |
| O'Brien, Lee |
Telling Gaps and Domestic Tyranny: Georgette Heyer’s Regency Romances |
2022 |
Georgette Heyer, happy ending, family, history, health/medical, sex/sexuality, gender, social/economic class, rape and/or intimate partner violence/abuse, marriage |
| Konle, Leonard; Jannidis, Fotis |
Modeling Plots of Narrative Texts as Temporal Graphs |
2022 |
linguistics |
| Ivanski, Chantelle; Humphries, Stacey; van Dalen-Oskam, Karina; Mar, Raymond A. |
Do We Judge Fiction by the Author’s Gender? |
2022 |
trash/literary and or intellectual quality, gender |
| Søndberg Spaabæk, Anne Sofie |
The “Infernal” Value of the Gothic: A Reading of Gothicness and Romanceness in Cassandra Clare’s The Infernal Devices |
2022 |
gothic romance, paranormal/fantasy/time-travel romance, Cassandra Clare, genre definitions |
| Wood, Andrea |
His Baby Daddy is an Alien?!: Mpreg Fantasies and Queer Reproductive Intimacies in Contemporary M/M Science Fiction Romance |
2022 |
m/m romance, science fiction/futuristic romance, family, health/medical, LGBT+ characters, readers and/or authors, Lyn Gala, Lexi Ander |
| Ramos-García, María Teresa |
Transatlantic definitions of Whiteness in Louise Bergstrom’s Gothic romances in the Canary Islands (1971-1972) |
2022 |
Louise Bergstrom, gothic romance, race/ethnicity |
| Carter, Ellen |
Eating Disorders and Romance |
2022 |
food, drink, health/medical, Jenny B. Jones, Courtney Milan, M. B. Mulhall, Janette Kenny, Katherine Locke |
| Hogan, Patrick Colm; Irish, Bradley J.; Hogan, Lalita Pandit |
The Routledge Companion to Literature and Emotion |
2022 |
|
| Wilkins, Kim; Driscoll, Beth; Fletcher, Lisa |
Genre Worlds: Popular Fiction and 21st-Century Book Culture |
2022 |
Publishing, readers |
| Nachumi, Nora; Oppenheim, Stephanie |
Jane Austen, Sex, and Romance: Engaging with Desire in the Novels and Beyond |
2022 |
|
| Gómez, Sarah Hannah |
Romance Has Broken My Dichotomous Key |
2022 |
readers, trash/literary and or intellectual quality |
| Hendricks, Margo; Moody-Freeman, Julie E. |
Introduction to the Special Issue on Black Romance |
2022 |
romance scholarship |