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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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
Hogan, Patrick Colm; Irish, Bradley J.; Hogan, Lalita Pandit The Routledge Companion to Literature and Emotion 2022
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
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
Hendricks, Margo; Moody-Freeman, Julie E. Introduction to the Special Issue on Black Romance 2022 romance scholarship
Wijanarka, Hirmawan Cinderella Formula: The Romance Begins 2022 Harlequin Mills & Boon, genre definitions
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
van Halteren, Hans Automatic Authorship Investigation 2022 linguistics, Harlequin Mills & Boon, Stephanie Howard
Fekete, Maleah Confluent Love and the Evolution of Ideal Intimacy: Romance Reading in 1980 and 2016 2022 readers, sex/sexuality, gender, sociology, love, emotions
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
Davies, Ben; Lupton, Christina; Gormsen Schmidt, Johanne Reading Novels During the Covid-19 Pandemic 2022 readers, Sally Rooney
Hernandez, Carmen E. Romance and Revolution 2022 Older and/or precursor texts (may not be "romance" as now defined), Samuel Richardson, wealth/prosperity, Jane Austen, Fifty Shades, social/economic class, Sylvain Reynard, Erika Wilde, Carly Phillips, rape and/or intimate partner violence/abuse, virginity, Eliza Haywood
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
White, Bonnie Freedom, Sincerity, and the Modern Woman in the Interwar Romances of Berta Ruck 2022 Berta Ruck, history, gender, UK, cross-dressing, LGBT+ characters, readers and/or authors, sex/sexuality, fashion/clothing, emotions
Burge, Amy Beyond Outlander: Annie S. Swan and the Scottish popular romance novel 2022 Annie S. Swan, Scotland, Older and/or precursor texts (may not be "romance" as now defined), Karen Marie Moning, Lynsay Sands, settings
Balteskard, Susanna Feminism in Romance: How the romance genre has(n't) changed since the 1950s 2022 feminism, Georgette Heyer, Barbara Cartland, Julia Quinn, Peggy Gaddis Dern with many pseudonyms including Perry Lindsay, Charlotte Lamb, Susan Elizabeth Phillips
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
Hendricks, Margo; Moody-Freeman, Julie E. Introduction to the Special Issue on Black Romance 2022 romance scholarship
Selinger, Eric Murphy Cant and Canonicity 2022 romance scholarship, trash/literary and or intellectual quality, teaching romance, genre definitions
Wilkins, Kim; Driscoll, Beth; Fletcher, Lisa Genre Worlds: Popular Fiction and 21st-Century Book Culture 2022 Publishing, readers
Gómez, Sarah Hannah Romance Has Broken My Dichotomous Key 2022 readers, trash/literary and or intellectual quality
Vivanco, Laura Historical Accuracy, Racism, Courtney Milan, and The Duke Who Didn’t Conform to Genre Norms 2022 race/ethnicity, historical romance, authors, Courtney Milan, history, United States of America, UK, humour
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
Iché, Virginie; Sorlin, Sandrine The Rhetoric of Literary Communication: From Classical English Novels to Contemporary Digital Fiction 2022
Frederick, Rhonda D. Evidence of Things Not Seen: Fantastical Blackness in Genre Fictions 2022 Colin Channer, Jamaica, readers, Caribbean, race/ethnicity
Belk, Jaime Save Our Love 2022 African American romance, Christian romance, Harlequin Mills & Boon, happy ending
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
González de la Rosa, María del Pilar Voces femeninas y discurso feminista en algunas novelas de Harlequin/Mills & Boon 2022 Harlequin Mills & Boon, feminism, gender
Fanetti, Susan Introduction—Popular Romance in the 21st Century: Time to Claim Its Due 2022 romance scholarship, genre definitions, happy ending, Publishing, Fifty Shades
Sutton, Denise Hardesty Marketing Love: Romance Publishers Mills & Boon and Harlequin Enterprises, 1930–1990 2022 Harlequin Mills & Boon, Publishing, capitalism/business
Tang, Ning Reading Online Romance Novels Is Related To Chinese Readers' View of Love 2022 China, readers, love
Namysłowska, Karolina Romance novels in translation: Focus on defining features of selected texts translated from English into Polish. 2022 Poland, translation, Penny Jordan/Caroline Courtney, Diana Palmer, Sandra Brown, Jude Deveraux
de los Heros, Susana Language ideologies, landscape and narrative voice in The Wind off the Small Isles 2022 Mary Stewart, linguistics, race/ethnicity, settings
Wagner, Wendy The “Grandly and Inhospitably Strange” World of Autistic Heroines in Romance Fiction 2022 health/medical, disability, Helen Hoang, Sherry Thomas, Talia Hibbert, gender, community
Dandridge, Rita B. Vivian Lorraine Stephens: Romance Pioneer 2022 Vivian Stephens, Publishing, race/ethnicity, African American romance, sex/sexuality, Rosalind Welles - pen name of Elsie B. Washington, Amii Lorin, Jayne Ann Krentz/Amanda Quick/Jayne Castle, disability, Harlequin Mills & Boon, United States of America, Sandra Kitt, ageism, authors
Moody-Freeman, Julie E. Response to Eric Selinger’s “Cant and Canonicity” 2022 romance scholarship, Publishing, race/ethnicity, Brenda Jackson, Rochelle Alers, teaching romance
Nilson, Maria; Posti, Piia K Speglingar av feelgood: Genre, etikett eller känsla? 2022
Russo, Stephanie These old shades: Georgette Heyer’s unruly eighteenth century 2022 Georgette Heyer, gender, history, fashion/clothing
Ivanski, Chantelle; Maslej, Marta M.; Mar, Raymond A. Empirical Approaches to Studying Emotion in Literature: The Case of Gender 2022 science/technology, emotions, gender, readers, authors, romance scholarship
Beyer, Charlotte Centring Women of Colour: Decolonising the Literature Curriculum with Kamila Shamsie’s Home Fire and Bolu Babalola’s Love in Colour 2022 teaching romance, myth, Bolu Babalola, race/ethnicity
Pierini, Francesca Critical Approaches to the Modern and Contemporary Anglophone Romance Novel (From A Room with a View to Fifty Shades of Grey) 2022 teaching romance, E. M. Forster, Jennifer Crusie, E. M. Hull, Beverly Jenkins, Alyssa Cole, Fifty Shades, K. J. Charles
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
Iché, Virginie; Sorlin, Sandrine The Rhetoric of Literary Communication: From Classical English Novels to Contemporary Digital Fiction 2022
Fanetti, Susan New Frontiers in Popular Romance: Essays on the Genre in the 21st Century 2022 Diana Gabaldon, India, LGBT+ characters, readers and/or authors, China
Parnell, Claire Reading and writing Muslim romance on Wattpad 2022 Muslim romance, Publishing
Ramos-García, María Teresa Definiciones transatlánticas de la raza blanca en las novelas góticas de Louise Bergstrom en Canarias (1971-1972) 2022 Louise Bergstrom, gothic romance, race/ethnicity
Allan, Jonathan A. Healing Toxic Masculinity in Sweatpants Season by Danielle Allen 2022 Danielle Allen, gender, feminism
Fisher, Maryanne L.; Meredith, Tami M. Evolutionary and sociocultural themes in cover art on Harlequin romance novels: A temporal analysis 2022 evolutionary psychology, paratext
Farooqui, Javaria Romance in an Old Bookshop 2022 Pakistan, Publishing, social/economic class, readers
Dexl, Carmen; Gerlsbeck, Silvia The Male Body in Representation: Returning to Matter 2022
Michelson, Anna Redefining the Romance: Classification and Community in a Popular Fiction Genre 2022 genre definitions, sociology, authors, romance and, or as, activism, sex/sexuality, LGBT+ characters, readers and/or authors, race/ethnicity, erotic romance, happy ending, readers, Publishing, fanfiction, Fifty Shades, Suzanne Brockmann, m/m romance, African American romance, Native American romance
Farooqui, Javaria Romance, Austen, and English-Medium Schooling in Pakistan 2022 Pakistan, readers, historical romance, Jane Austen, social/economic class
González-Cruz, María Isabel Interdisciplinarity in Romance Fiction 2022 romance scholarship, romance and, or as, activism
Golubov, Nattie Women Policing Whiteness: Deviance and Surveillance in Contemporary Police Procedural Romance 2022 race/ethnicity, romantic suspense, gender, social/economic class, Catherine Coulter, Marie Force, Kendra Elliot, family, work, community
Huguley, Piper Her Bodyguard: Sandra Kitt’s The Color of Love as a foundational text for BWWM romance 2022 Sandra Kitt, race/ethnicity, African American romance, police officers/police forces
McAlister, Jodi Isn’t It Iconic: Canonical Logics and the Romance Genre 2022 romance scholarship
Nilson, Maria; Posti, Piia K Speglingar av feelgood: Genre, etikett eller känsla? 2022
McAlister, Jodi Love and listening: the erotics of talk in the popular romance novel 2022 feminism, gender, Jennifer Crusie, Diana Gabaldon, Alissa Johnson, Courtney Milan
Ivanski, Chantelle; Maslej, Marta M.; Mar, Raymond A. Empirical Approaches to Studying Emotion in Literature: The Case of Gender 2022 science/technology, emotions, gender, readers, authors, romance scholarship
Farooqui, Javaria On Loving Popular Fiction in Pakistan 2022 trash/literary and or intellectual quality, genre definitions, Pakistan
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
Pryde, Jessica P. Black Love Matters: Real Talk on Romance, Being Seen, and Happily Ever After 2022 African American romance, race/ethnicity, readers, LGBT+ characters, readers and/or authors, Adriana Herrera, Jasmine Guillory, food, drink, Kosoko Jackson, Christina C. Jones, Publishing
Hallett, Hilary A. Inventing the It Girl: How Elinor Glyn Created the Modern Romance and Conquered Early Hollywood 2022 Elinor Glyn, Older and/or precursor texts (may not be "romance" as now defined)
Fenske, Emma K. Romancing the New Evangelical Woman 2022 Christian romance, United States of America, religion/spirituality, Francine Rivers, Janette Oke, Karen Kingsbury, gender, health/medical, family, historical romance
Golubov, Nattie The geopolitics of love: patriotism, homeland and the domestication of violent masculinities in US paramilitary romance fiction 2022 war/armed forces, United States of America, national identity, gender, romantic suspense, Cherry Adair, Maya Banks, Pamela Clare, Kaylea Cross, Elizabeth Dyer, Lori Foster, Cindy Gerard, Elle Kennedy, Lynne Raye Harris, Lisa Marie Rice
de los Heros, Susana Ideologías lingüísticas, paisaje y voz narrativa en The Wind off the Small Isles 2022 Mary Stewart, linguistics, race/ethnicity, settings
Sullivan, Ashleigh Taylor From Darcy to Dickheads: Why Do Women Love the Bad Boy? 2022 rape and/or intimate partner violence/abuse, readers, gothic romance, gender, L. J. Shen, sex/sexuality, BDSM, Penelope Douglas, Emily Brontë, Charlotte Brontë, Fifty Shades, Jade West
Fisher, Maryanne L.; Meredith, Tami M. Evolutionary and sociocultural themes in cover art on Harlequin romance novels: A temporal analysis 2022 evolutionary psychology, paratext
Larson, Christine Streaming books: confluencers, Kindle Unlimited and the platform imaginary 2022 Publishing, authors
Dexl, Carmen; Gerlsbeck, Silvia The Male Body in Representation: Returning to Matter 2022
Long, Veronica Lee Individuation and the Romance Novel 2022 gender, myth, psychology, love, readers, Jane Austen
Sinha, Mona Reading Mills and Boon in India From the Post-Colonial to the Millennial Experience 2022 India, Harlequin Mills & Boon, readers, chick lit
Lecercle, Jean-Jacques Interpellation and Counter-Interpellation in the Novel 2022 readers, Violet Winspear, Jane Austen, trash/literary and or intellectual quality
Alberto, Maria Original Slash, Romance, and C.S. Pacat’s Captive Prince 2022 C. S. Pacat, fanfiction, Publishing, LGBT+ characters, readers and/or authors, sex/sexuality, rape and/or intimate partner violence/abuse, race/ethnicity
Tindall, Natalie T. J. Black Romance Authors and Community Cultural Wealth: A Case Study of Brenda Jackson’s Career 2022 Brenda Jackson, race/ethnicity, Publishing, authors, readers, community, African American romance
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
Parnell, Jo The Bride in the Cultural Imagination: Screen, Stage, and Literary Productions 2021
Adamu, Yusuf M. Hausa Prose-Fiction: A Reader 2021
Billekens, Franciska The Editor and Translator's Passionate Embrace: Cultural and Linguistic Alterations in Translated Harlequin Category Romance Novels 2021 Harlequin Mills & Boon, paratext, translation, linguistics
Whitsitt, Novian Northern Nigerian Popular Literature and the Boundaries of Hausa Feminism: The Works of Balaraba Yakubu and Bilkisu Funtuwa 2021 Balaraba Ramat Yakubu, Bilkisu Ahmed Funtuwa, feminism, Nigeria
Olkusz, Ksenia Stripping The Vampire. Erotic Imaginations and Sexual Fantasies In Paranormal Romances (A Study Of Selected Examples) 2021 paranormal/fantasy/time-travel romance, Kerrelyn Sparks, Alexandra Ivy, Lara Adrian, sex/sexuality
Zhaboriuk, I. A.; Rukshtel, Yu. A. The Artistic Detail in the Novel "The Reluctant Widow" by G. Heyer 2021 Georgette Heyer, linguistics
Kamblé, Jayashree; Selinger, Eric Murphy; Teo, Hsu-Ming The Routledge Research Companion to Popular Romance Fiction 2021 romance scholarship
Balkan, Stacey; Nandi, Swaralipi Oil Fictions: World Literature and Our Contemporary Petrosphere 2021
Moody-Freeman, Julie E. African American romance 2021 African American romance, Older and/or precursor texts (may not be "romance" as now defined), race/ethnicity, Publishing, Rosalind Welles - pen name of Elsie B. Washington, Lia Sanders - pen name of Angela Jackson and Sandra Jackson-Opoku, Alyssa Cole
Clement, Jennifer Loving and giving: realism, emotional hypocrisy and generosity in A Civil Contract 2021 Georgette Heyer, Jane Austen, emotions, gender, social/economic class
Reyes, Daisy Verduzco; Speer, Annika C.; Denes, Amanda White Women and Latina Readers’ Ambivalence Toward Fifty Shades of Grey 2021 Fifty Shades, erotic romance, pornography, sex/sexuality, race/ethnicity, gender, readers, United States of America, rape and/or intimate partner violence/abuse
Michelson, Anna The politics of happily-ever-after: romance genre fiction as aesthetic public sphere 2021 sociology, romance and, or as, activism, emotions, feminism, readers, authors, fascism/right-wing authoritarianism, United States of America, Casey McQuiston, happy ending, Roni Loren, Sarah MacLean, sex/sexuality, Alyssa Cole, race/ethnicity, Publishing, Courtney Milan, Suzanne Brockmann, health/medical
Parnell, Claire; Trinidad, Andrea Anne; McAlister, Jodi Hello, Ever After: #RomanceClass and Online-Only Live Literature in the Philippines in 2020 2021 Philippines
Pérez Fernández, Irene; Pérez Ríu, Carmen Romantic Escapes: Post-Millennial Trends in Contemporary Popular Romance Fiction 2021
Pöhls, R. L. Victoria; Utudji, Mariane Powerful Prose: How Textual Features Impact Readers 2021
Kamblé, Jayashree; Selinger, Eric Murphy; Teo, Hsu-Ming Introduction 2021 romance scholarship
Malinowska, Ania Global Popular Culture for Local Infrastructures: Migration of Texts and Problems of Transferability (the Polish Case) 2021 translation, Fifty Shades, Poland
Ammidown, Steve Romance Writers of America Rescind Award for Lakota Genocide Redemption Narrative 2021 authors, race/ethnicity, Christian romance, religion/spirituality, Native American romance
Khumwongdee, Yanisa Reading and Rewriting Fat Romance: A Study of Twenty-First Century Thai and US Fat Romance Novels 2021 fat, fatness, gender, LGBT+ characters, readers and/or authors
McCann, Hannah; Roach, Catherine M. Sex and sexuality 2021 sex/sexuality, pornography, feminism, gender
Murias, Rosana In Grey and Pink: The Image of the Bride through the Spanish Postwar Novela Rosa 2021 Spain, fascism/right-wing authoritarianism, marriage, Carlota O'Neill/Laura de Noves, gender, film/movies, history
Zhaboriuk, I. A.; Rukshtel, Yu. A. The Artistic Detail in the Novel "The Reluctant Widow" by G. Heyer 2021 Georgette Heyer, linguistics
Kamblé, Jayashree; Selinger, Eric Murphy; Teo, Hsu-Ming The Routledge Research Companion to Popular Romance Fiction 2021 romance scholarship
Gildersleeve, Jessica The Routledge Companion to Australian Literature 2021
Leetsch, Jennifer Love and Space in Contemporary African Diasporic Women’s Writing: Making Love, Making Worlds 2021 Chimamanda Adichie, Africa, Nigeria
Balkan, Stacey; Nandi, Swaralipi Oil Fictions: World Literature and Our Contemporary Petrosphere 2021
Jarmakani, Amira Explorations of the "desert passion industry" 2021 sheikh romance, E. M. Hull, settings, race/ethnicity, Linda Conrad, rape and/or intimate partner violence/abuse, gender, war/armed forces
Hirst, Holly Georgette Heyer and redefining the Gothic romance 2021 gothic romance, Georgette Heyer, romance scholarship, genre definitions
Reyes, Daisy Verduzco; Speer, Annika C.; Denes, Amanda White Women and Latina Readers’ Ambivalence Toward Fifty Shades of Grey 2021 Fifty Shades, erotic romance, pornography, sex/sexuality, race/ethnicity, gender, readers, United States of America, rape and/or intimate partner violence/abuse
Boivin, Karol'Ann; Luneau, Marie-Pier Qu’ont en commun Mimi Estival, Roxanne d’Avril et Georgette Mars? Auctorialité et roman sentimental québécois de l’après guerre (1944-1965) 2021 Canada, authors, Publishing, dime novels
Pérez Fernández, Irene; Pérez Ríu, Carmen Romantic Escapes: Post-Millennial Trends in Contemporary Popular Romance Fiction 2021
McAlister, Jodi New Adult Fiction 2021 NA romance, genre definitions, Publishing, readers, contemporary romance, Jamie McGuire, Colleen Hoover, paratext
Kamblé, Jayashree; Selinger, Eric Murphy; Teo, Hsu-Ming Introduction 2021 romance scholarship
Fernández Rodríguez, Carolina Nora Roberts’s Boonsboro Empire: Boosting Business through Romance, Invigorating Romance with Affective Capitalism 2021 Nora Roberts/J. D. Robb, capitalism/business, work, metaphor/symbolism
Cuthbert, Kate The Australian Digital Publishing Bubble, 2012-2016: An Insider Perspective 2021 Australia, Publishing, Harlequin Mills & Boon
Novakova, Iva Les motifs phraséologiques pour distinguer les genres littéraires. Sur l’exemple des motifs de la communication verbale et non verbale 2021 linguistics
Hefner, Brooks E. Black Pulp: Genre Fiction in the Shadow of Jim Crow 2021 romances in magazines and newspapers, African American romance, race/ethnicity, gender, Gertrude Schalk
Pierre, Zakiya Browsing in nuances: Using ethnographic research to design for the experience of browsing. 2021 readers
Ramos-García, María T. Paranormal romance and urban fantasy 2021 paranormal/fantasy/time-travel romance, happy ending, genre definitions, YA/teenage romance, LGBT+ characters, readers and/or authors, steampunk, erotic romance, romance scholarship, Laurell K. Hamilton, Twilight, J. R. Ward, war/armed forces, race/ethnicity, Nalini Singh
McCann, Hannah; Roach, Catherine M. Sex and sexuality 2021 sex/sexuality, pornography, feminism, gender
Naeej, Elham Parting the Curtain: The Virgin Heroine and the ‘Westoxified’ Villain in Contemporary Iranian Romance Novels 2021 Iran, virginity, national identity, Fattaneh Haj Seyyed Javadi, Nazi Safavi, Roya Khosronajdi, Parinush Saniee, Simin Shirdel, Maryam Riahi, Homa Puresfahani, gender, Islam, marriage
Weimer, Christopher Romancing Weird Fiction: Lovecraftian Reinscriptions in Jordan L. Hawk's Whyborne and Griffin 2021 Jordan L. Hawk, m/m romance, LGBT+ characters, readers and/or authors, paranormal/fantasy/time-travel romance, race/ethnicity
Shields, Juliet Scottish Women's Writing in the Long Nineteenth Century: The Romance of Everyday Life 2021 Annie S. Swan, Flora Annie Steel, Older and/or precursor texts (may not be "romance" as now defined), Scotland, India, Sir Walter Scott
Kamblé, Jayashree Romance in the media 2021 trash/literary and or intellectual quality, genre definitions, paratext, sex/sexuality
Jennings, Kathleen Heyer … in space! The influence of Georgette Heyer on science fiction 2021 Georgette Heyer, war/armed forces, Patricia Wrede, Tessa Dare
Kirtley, William M.; Kirtley, Patricia M. Happily, Ever After: An Analysis of Romance Novels 2021 genre definitions
Boivin, Karol'Ann; Luneau, Marie-Pier Qu’ont en commun Mimi Estival, Roxanne d’Avril et Georgette Mars? Auctorialité et roman sentimental québécois de l’après guerre (1944-1965) 2021 Canada, authors, Publishing, dime novels
Boussahba-Bravard, Myriam Le roman sentimental Regency, entre continuités et ruptures (2000-2020) 2021 historical romance
Zwar, Jan; Lawson, Airlie Success Story - International Rights Sales of Australian- Authored Books: Case Studies 2021 Publishing, Australia, Kylie Scott
Kamblé, Jayashree; Selinger, Eric Murphy; Teo, Hsu-Ming Introduction 2021 romance scholarship
Burge, Amy Class and wealth in popular romance fiction 2021 social/economic class, wealth/prosperity, gender, work, race/ethnicity, capitalism/business
Philips, Deborah Fifty Shades of Romance: The intertextualities of Fifty Shades of Grey 2021 Fifty Shades, Harlequin Mills & Boon, Twilight
Parnell, Claire Independent Authors’ Dependence on Big Tech: Categorization and Governance of Authors Of Color on Amazon 2021 Publishing, authors, race/ethnicity, African American romance
Hunter, Christyna M. Cataloging Category Romance Fiction and Librarian and Patron Views on Romance Fiction in Public Libraries 2021 libraries/librarians, Harlequin Mills & Boon
Smith, Michelle J.; Moruzi, Kristine Young Adult Gothic Fiction: Monstrous Selves/Monstrous Others 2021
Allan, Jonathan A. Gender and sexuality 2021 gender, sex/sexuality, pornography, LGBT+ characters, readers and/or authors, lesbian romance, m/m romance
Abrahamsson, Elin Superwomen, Latte Dads and Feminist Alphas: Negotiations on Feminism in Contemporary Swedish Popular Romance Novels 2021 Sweden, feminism, gender, family, work, national identity, Simona Ahrnstedt, Sofia Fritzson, Christina Schiller, Harlequin Mills & Boon, LGBT+ characters, readers and/or authors, social/economic class
Pradhan, Anil The literary field of queer cultural production in contemporary India: considering popular queer texts via Bourdieu 2021 India, LGBT+ characters, readers and/or authors
Selinger, Eric Murphy Literary approaches 2021 trash/literary and or intellectual quality, romance scholarship
Hopkins, Lisa All’s Well That Ends Well: Shakespearean echoes in Heyer’s Regency novels 2021 Shakespeare, Georgette Heyer
Kirtley, William M.; Kirtley, Patricia M. Happily, Ever After: An Analysis of Romance Novels 2021 genre definitions
Arnold-Forster, Agnes Racing Pulses: Gender, Professionalism and Health Care in Medical Romance Fiction 2021 Harlequin Mills & Boon, medical romance, work, gender, UK, romance and, or as, activism, social/economic class, readers, authors, romances in magazines and newspapers, Elizabeth Gilzean, Alex Stuart, Hilda Pressley, pseudonym of Hilda Nickson, Marguerite Lees, family, marriage, Betty Neels
Mayer, Claude-Hélène; Vanderheiden, Elisabeth International Handbook of Love: Transcultural and Transdisciplinary Perspectives 2021 love
Zwar, Jan; Lawson, Airlie Success Story - International Rights Sales of Australian- Authored Books: Case Studies 2021 Publishing, Australia, Kylie Scott
Egilsdatter Sleire, Maria “Only I shall taste your body’s joys:” The Erotic Function of Female Corporeality in The Flame and the Flower and Fifty Shades of Grey 2021 Fifty Shades, Kathleen Woodiwiss, pornography, sex/sexuality, virginity, rape and/or intimate partner violence/abuse
Dixon, jay History of English romance novels, 1621-1975 2021 UK, Older and/or precursor texts (may not be "romance" as now defined), Harlequin Mills & Boon, historical romance
Fresno-Calleja, Paloma Rugby Romances and the Branding of New Zealand 2021 New Zealand, national identity, race/ethnicity, sport
Valovirta, Elina Repeated Pleasure: Reading the Threesome Ménage Romance as Digital Literature 2021 sex/sexuality, readers, NA romance, Marie Carnay, Charlotte Stein, Sierra Sparks, Juliana Conners
Kraxenberger, Maria; Knoop, Christine A.; Menninghaus, Winfried Who reads contemporary erotic novels and why? 2021 readers, Fifty Shades, Sylvia Day, erotic romance, sex/sexuality, Germany
Ntelia, Renata Elizabetta How Damsels Love: The Transgressive Pleasure of Romance 2021 feminism, love, psychology, gender
Herb, Annika (Para)normalizing Rape Culture: Possession as Rape in Young Adult Paranormal Romance 2021 rape and/or intimate partner violence/abuse, YA/teenage romance, paranormal/fantasy/time-travel romance
Smith, Michelle J.; Moruzi, Kristine Young Adult Gothic Fiction: Monstrous Selves/Monstrous Others 2021
Šmídová, Monika Markéta Five Thousand for Justice: The Use of English Folklore in the Novels of KJ Charles 2021 K. J. Charles, fairytales/folktales, LGBT+ characters, readers and/or authors, paranormal/fantasy/time-travel romance, historical romance, social/economic class, community, family
Allen, Amanda K. Young adult romance 2021 YA/teenage romance, genre definitions, readers, Samuel Richardson, romance scholarship, Twilight, LGBT+ characters, readers and/or authors
Teo, Hsu-Ming Love and romance novels 2021 love, sex/sexuality, history, sociology, feminism, Older and/or precursor texts (may not be "romance" as now defined), Samuel Richardson, Jane Austen, Charlotte Brontë, religion/spirituality, E. M. Hull, Kathlyn Rhodes, Barbara Cartland, Georgette Heyer, Harlequin Mills & Boon, historical romance, Jennifer Crusie, wealth/prosperity
Moolla, F. Fiona Her Heart Lies at the Feet of the Mother: Transformations of the Romance Plot in Leila Aboulela’s Minaret 2021 Leila Aboulela, Islam, family, Muslim romance
Wilcox, Vanda Georgette Heyer, Wellington’s Army and the First World War 2021 Georgette Heyer, war/armed forces, history, gender
González-Cruz, María-Isabel On the Discoursive Construction of the Spanish Hero in Intercultural Romances 2021 Spain, Harlequin Mills & Boon, national identity, race/ethnicity, love
Hackett, Lisa J.; Coghlan, Jo The History Bubble: Negotiating Authenticity in Historical Romance Novels 2021 historical romance
Izharuddin, Alicia Reading the Digital Muslim Romance 2021 Muslim romance, Malaysia, readers, religion/spirituality, Islam, gender
Mayer, Claude-Hélène; Vanderheiden, Elisabeth International Handbook of Love: Transcultural and Transdisciplinary Perspectives 2021 love
Suleiman, Michael W.; Joseph, Suad; Cainkar, Louise Arab American Women: Representation and Refusal 2021
Regis, Pamela The evolution of the American romance novel 2021 United States of America, Older and/or precursor texts (may not be "romance" as now defined), romance scholarship, Charles Brockden Brown, Sukey Vickery, Catharine Maria Sedgwick, Lydia Maria Child, E. D. E. N. Southworth, Louisa May Alcott, Frances Watkins Harper, race/ethnicity, Onoto Watanna/Winnifred Eaton, Jean Webster, Kathleen Thompson Norris, Viña Delmar, family, Claire Morgan/Patricia Highsmith, LGBT+ characters, readers and/or authors
Moreno-Álvarez, Alejandra Romance Novels in Postcolonial India: From Mills & Boon to Pageturn’s Red Romance Series 2021 India, Harlequin Mills & Boon, readers
Valovirta, Elina The Stuff of Which Fairy Tales Are Made: Royal Romance, Ordinariness, and Affectivity in the Literary Market 2021 Publishing, social/economic class, feminism
Kraxenberger, Maria; Knoop, Christine A.; Menninghaus, Winfried Who reads contemporary erotic novels and why? 2021 readers, Fifty Shades, Sylvia Day, erotic romance, sex/sexuality, Germany
Awad, Amal Desert dreamings and sheikh-lit 2021 sheikh romance, Jackie Ashenden, Miranda Lee, race/ethnicity
Rayner, Samantha J.; Wilkins, Kim Introduction: the persistence of Georgette Heyer 2021 Georgette Heyer
Hernandez-Knight, Bianca Race and Racism in Austen Spaces: Jane Austen and Regency Romance's Racist Legacy 2021 Jane Austen, Georgette Heyer, historical romance, race/ethnicity, trash/literary and or intellectual quality
Dane, Alexandra; Weber, Millicent Post-Digital Book Cultures: Australian Perspectives 2021
Iwicka, Renata Manifestations of Male Image in the World's Cultures 2021
Zille, Tom Georgette Heyer and the language of the historical novel 2021 Georgette Heyer, linguistics, history, historical romance
Kuchta, Estella Carolye Imagining Love: Teen Romance Novels and American Teen Relational Capacity 2021 YA/teenage romance, readers, psychology, love
Hackett, Lisa J.; Coghlan, Jo The History Bubble: Negotiating Authenticity in Historical Romance Novels 2021 historical romance
Sujaya, I Made; Suarka, I Nyoman; Sudewa, I Ketut Representation of Balinese Exoticism: Analysis of Inter-ethnic Relations Novels in Pre-independence Period 2021 Indonesia
Suleiman, Michael W.; Joseph, Suad; Cainkar, Louise Arab American Women: Representation and Refusal 2021
Kołodziej, Gaja Unforgettably in love: uses of the amnesia trope in contemporary romance 2021 contemporary romance, romantic suspense, health/medical, love
O'Mahony, Lauren Australian romance fiction 2021 Australia, national identity, gender, Older and/or precursor texts (may not be "romance" as now defined), Harlequin Mills & Boon, Rosa Praed, Marie Bjelke Petersen, settings, Emma Darcy, readers, libraries/librarians, chick lit, Anita Heiss, race/ethnicity
Pérez Ríu, Carmen Romance Reading as Fandom in the Context of Convergence Culture 2021 readers
Pérez Fernández, Irene; Pérez Ríu, Carmen Romantic Escapes in Contemporary Popular Romance Fiction 2021 romance scholarship
Kraxenberger, Maria; Knoop, Christine A.; Menninghaus, Winfried Who reads contemporary erotic novels and why? 2021 readers, Fifty Shades, Sylvia Day, erotic romance, sex/sexuality, Germany
Fernández Rodríguez, Carolina American Quaker Romances: Building the Myth of the White Christian Nation 2021 United States of America, Christian romance, race/ethnicity, gender, religion/spirituality
Dalziell, Tanya Australia's Long Relationship with Romance 2021 Australia, romance scholarship, national identity, race/ethnicity, Rosa Praed, Joyce Dingwell/Kate Starr
Rayner, Samantha J.; Wilkins, Kim Introduction: the persistence of Georgette Heyer 2021 Georgette Heyer
Kolmes, Sara; Hoffman, Matthew A. Harlequin Resistance? Romance Novels as a Model for Resisting Objectification 2021 sex/sexuality, genre definitions, philosophy, Tessa Dare, feminism
Warren, Jean-Philippe; Luneau, Marie-Pier The Best Romance Dime Novels on the (French-Canadian) Market: The Promotional Strategies of Police-Journal, 1944-1963 2021 Canada, Publishing, paratext, dime novels
Pierini, Francesca “Sharing the Same Soil:” Sally Rooney’s Normal People and the Coming-of-Age Romance 2021 Sally Rooney, romance scholarship
Kirtley, William M.; Kirtley, Patricia M. How About a Little Romance?: An Analysis of Romance Novels 2021 genre definitions
Dane, Alexandra; Weber, Millicent Post-Digital Book Cultures: Australian Perspectives 2021
Ali, Kecia Author studies and popular romance fiction 2021 romance scholarship, authors, Nora Roberts/J. D. Robb, Georgette Heyer, Marie Bjelke Petersen, Suzanne Brockmann, Jennifer Crusie
Dutton, Lucie Bea A reluctant movie? The Reluctant Widow on screen 2021 Georgette Heyer, film/movies
Rader, Kara; Hovick, Shelly R.; Bigsby, Elisabeth “Are You Clean?” Encouraging STI Communication in Casual Encounters through Narrative Messages in Romance Novels 2021 sex/sexuality, health/medical, psychology, readers
Sujaya, I Made; Suarka, I Nyoman; Sudewa, I Ketut Representation of Balinese Exoticism: Analysis of Inter-ethnic Relations Novels in Pre-independence Period 2021 Indonesia
Rayner, Samantha J.; Wilkins, Kim Georgette Heyer, History, and Historical Fiction 2021 Georgette Heyer
Suleiman, Michael W.; Joseph, Suad; Cainkar, Louise Arab American Women: Representation and Refusal 2021
Long, Eileen M. Modern Love: Reading, Writing, and Publishing the Romance Novel 2021 feminism, Jennifer Crusie, Jane Austen, authors, Publishing
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Pérez-Casal, Inmaculada Marketplace Feminism? The Writing and Selling of Lisa Kleypas’s Ravenels Series 2021 Lisa Kleypas, feminism
Pérez Fernández, Irene; Pérez Ríu, Carmen Romantic Escapes in Contemporary Popular Romance Fiction 2021 romance scholarship
Izharuddin, Alicia “Redha tu Ikhlas”: The Social–Textual Significance of Islamic Virtue in Malay Forced Marriage Narratives 2021 marriage, Malaysia, Islam, Fauziah Ashari, readers, religion/spirituality, Muslim romance, rape and/or intimate partner violence/abuse, gender
Garber, Linda Novel Approaches to Lesbian History 2021 historical romance, LGBT+ characters, readers and/or authors, history, sex/sexuality, pirates and outlaws, United States of America
Silliman, Daniel Reading Evangelicals: How Christian Fiction Shaped a Culture and a Faith 2021 Christian romance, Janette Oke, Beverly Lewis, United States of America, Publishing, religion/spirituality
Barrett-Fox, Rebecca; Donnelly, Kristen Inspirational Romance 2021 Christian romance, Grace Livingston Hill, religion/spirituality, Janette Oke, Francine Rivers, gender, African American romance, Beverly Jenkins, Angela Benson, Philippines
Selinger, Eric Murphy; Vivanco, Laura Romance and/as religion 2021 religion/spirituality, love, history, happy ending, Christian romance, Judaism, Islam, Buddhism, Hinduism, Paganism/Wicca, Jennifer Crusie
Sutherland, Kathryn ‘Where History says little, Fiction may say much’ (Anna Barbauld): the historical novel in women’s hands in the mid-twentieth century 2021 history, Sir Walter Scott, Jane Austen, Georgette Heyer
Kolmes, Sara; Hoffman, Matthew A. Harlequin Resistance? Romance Novels as a Model for Resisting Objectification 2021 sex/sexuality, genre definitions, philosophy, Tessa Dare, feminism
Warren, Jean-Philippe; Luneau, Marie-Pier The Best Romance Dime Novels on the (French-Canadian) Market: The Promotional Strategies of Police-Journal, 1944-1963 2021 Canada, Publishing, paratext, dime novels
Kirtley, William M.; Kirtley, Patricia M. How About a Little Romance?: An Analysis of Romance Novels 2021 genre definitions
Gregson, Joanna; Lois, Jennifer Social science reads romance 2021 sociology, psychology, readers, authors
Street, Amy Georgette Heyer – guilty pleasures 2021 Georgette Heyer, readers, psychology, race/ethnicity, social/economic class, feminism
Rader, Kara; Hovick, Shelly R.; Bigsby, Elisabeth “Are You Clean?” Encouraging STI Communication in Casual Encounters through Narrative Messages in Romance Novels 2021 sex/sexuality, health/medical, psychology, readers
Sujaya, I Made; Suarka, I Nyoman; Sudewa, I Ketut Representation of Balinese Exoticism: Analysis of Inter-ethnic Relations Novels in Pre-independence Period 2021 Indonesia
Rayner, Samantha J.; Wilkins, Kim Georgette Heyer, History, and Historical Fiction 2021 Georgette Heyer
Pereira, Simone Luci; das Neves, Thiago Tavares; Budag, Fernanda Elouise Comunicação e Culturas Urbanas: temas, debates e perspectivas 2021
Williams, Mary Consent Is Sexy: A Look Into the Influence the ‘Me Too.’ Movement Had On the Romance Genre Through Smart Bitches Trashy Books 2021 sex/sexuality, readers
Selinger, Margaret “Midsummer Nights’ Affaires:” Shakespeare in the Work of Eloisa James 2021 Eloisa James, Shakespeare, trash/literary and or intellectual quality
González Cruz, María Isabel Constructing the Exotic Other: Paradise Discourse and Environmental Awareness in a Corpus of Popular Romance Fiction Novels 2021 linguistics, Spain, ecocriticism/environmentalism/climate change
Crawford, Joseph Old-World Heroes and New-World Heroines in Post-Millennial Anglophone Romance Media 2021 sheikh romance, paranormal/fantasy/time-travel romance, Scotland, history, Karen Marie Moning, Olivia Gates, Diana Gabaldon
Izharuddin, Alicia Counterpublics of care: making space for mediated intimacy and romantic self-making in Malaysia 2021 readers, Malaysia, gender, emotions, marriage, Islam, love
Bissessar, Ann Marie; Huggins, Camille Gender and Domestic Violence in the Caribbean 2021
Barrett-Fox, Rebecca; Donnelly, Kristen Inspirational Romance 2021 Christian romance, Grace Livingston Hill, religion/spirituality, Janette Oke, Francine Rivers, gender, African American romance, Beverly Jenkins, Angela Benson, Philippines
Selinger, Eric Murphy; Vivanco, Laura Romance and/as religion 2021 religion/spirituality, love, history, happy ending, Christian romance, Judaism, Islam, Buddhism, Hinduism, Paganism/Wicca, Jennifer Crusie
Perriam, Geraldine The not so silly ass: Freddy Standen, his fictional contemporaries and alternative masculinity 2021 Georgette Heyer, gender
Aravind, G. S.; Dwivedi, Laxmi Dhar The Representation of Female Characters in the Romances of Hawthorne: A Comparison with the Popular Romance Fiction of America in the Twentieth Century 2021 feminism
McGurl, Mark Everything and Less: The Novel in the Age of Amazon 2021 Publishing, Fifty Shades, trash/literary and or intellectual quality, capitalism/business
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