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Hiergeist, Teresa; Schäfer, Stefanie Ladies in Arms: Women, Guns, and Feminisms in Contemporary Popular Culture 2024 feminism
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Schwab, Sandra Martina Of Dragons, Knights, and Virgin Maidens: Dragonslaying and Gender Roles from Richard Johnson to Modern Popular Fiction 2013 historical romance, Teresa Medeiros, Gaelen Foley, Stephanie Laurens, metaphor/symbolism, genre definitions, Harlequin Mills & Boon, happy ending, Sandra Schwab, gender, Penelope Williamson, animals, Julia Ross, virginity, romance scholarship
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Selinger, Eric Murphy Foils and Fakers, Monsters and Makers 2006 Georgette Heyer, Eloisa James, A. S. Byatt
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Selinger, Eric Murphy How to Read a Romance Novel (and Fall in Love with Popular Romance) 2012 close reading, trash/literary and or intellectual quality, Laura Kinsale, marriage, Milton, disability, religion/spirituality, love
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Selinger, Eric Murphy Nothing But Good Times Ahead: A Special Forum on Jennifer Crusie (Editor’s Introduction) 2012 Jennifer Crusie, romance scholarship, marriage, family, feminism
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Selinger, Eric Murphy; Gleason, William A. Introduction: Love as the Practice of Freedom? 2016 genre definitions, Nell Stark, romance scholarship
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Selinger, Eric Murphy When I Paint My Masterpiece: Bob Dylan, Ekphrasis, and the Art of Susan Elizabeth Phillips 2016 Susan Elizabeth Phillips, metafiction, close reading, trash/literary and or intellectual quality, gender, music
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Selinger, Eric Murphy On Teaching, Not Teaching, and Teaching The Sheik 2020 teaching romance, E. M. Hull, music, race/ethnicity
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Selinger, Eric Murphy Literary approaches 2021 trash/literary and or intellectual quality, romance scholarship
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
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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
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
Sequeiros, Paula “Holding the Dream”: Women’s Favorite Reading Matter in a Portuguese Prison 2018 readers, Portugal
Serafine, Amelia "He Filled My Heart with Doubt": The Southern Belle's Love and Duty in the Civil War 2016 history, United States of America, Older and/or precursor texts (may not be "romance" as now defined), Augusta Jane Evans, death, war/armed forces, religion/spirituality, gender, Edward Bulwer-Lytton, readers
Şerban, Andreea Romancing the Paranormal: A Case Study of J.R. Ward’s The Black Dagger Brotherhood 2012 paranormal/fantasy/time-travel romance, J. R. Ward, LGBT+ characters, readers and/or authors, sex/sexuality
Serisier, Tanya On Not Reading Fifty Shades: Feminism and the Fantasy of Romantic Immunity 2015 Fifty Shades, readers, feminism, rape and/or intimate partner violence/abuse
Servén, Carmen Éxito y olvido de Carmen de Icaza 2005 Carmen de Icaza
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Service, Alexandra Popular Vikings: Constructions of Viking Identity in Twentieth Century Britain 1998 historical romance, Heather Graham, Johanna Lindsey, Catherine Coulter, Betina Krahn, rape and/or intimate partner violence/abuse, history, war/armed forces
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Shachar, Hila A Post-Feminist Romance: Love, Gender and Intertextuality in Stephenie Meyer's Saga 2011 Twilight, Emily Brontë, Charlotte Brontë, Harlequin Mills & Boon
Harvey, Keith; Shalom, Celia Language and Desire: Encoding Sex, Romance, and Intimacy 1997
Coles, Claire D.; Shamp, M. Johnna Some Sexual, Personality, and Demographic Characteristics of Women Readers of Erotic Romances 1984 readers, erotic romance, sex/sexuality, pornography
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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
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Sheehan, Sarah E.; Stevens, Jen Creating a Popular Romance Collection in an Academic Library 2015 libraries/librarians
Sheehan, Sarah E. The “Popular Romance Canon”: An Academic Librarian’s Response 2022 romance scholarship, libraries/librarians
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
Macdonald, Andrew; Macdonald, Gina; Sheridan, Mary Ann Shape-shifting: Images of Native Americans in Recent Popular Fiction 2000 Native American romance, race/ethnicity
Bontly, Susan W.; Sheridan, Carol J. Enchanted Journeys Beyond the Imagination: An Annotated Bibliography of Fantasy, Futuristic, Supernatural, and Time Travel Romances 1996 paranormal/fantasy/time-travel romance
Zhou, Yanyan; Paul, Bryant; Sherman, Ryland Still a Hetero-Gendered World: A Content Analysis of Gender Stereotypes and Romantic Ideals in Chinese Boy Love Stories 2018 m/m romance, gender, China, LGBT+ characters, readers and/or authors
Sherman, Jen Reading Infrastructures in the Contemporary City: A Study of Three Public Libraries in Sydney 2016 libraries/librarians, Australia
Sherwood, Kim Pride and prejudice: metafiction and the value of historical romance in Georgette Heyer 2021 Georgette Heyer, metafiction, trash/literary and or intellectual quality
Okamoto, Shigeko; Shibamoto Smith, Janet S. Japanese Language, Gender, and Ideology: Cultural Models and Real People 2004
Shibamoto Smith, Janet S. Language and Gender in the (Hetero)Romance: "Reading" the Ideal Hero/ine through Lovers' Dialogue in Japanese Romance Fiction 2004 Japan
Shibamoto Smith, Janet S. Translating True Love: Japanese Romance Fiction, Harlequin-Style 2005 Japan, Harlequin Mills & Boon, linguistics, gender, emotions, translation
Shibamoto Smith, Janet S. Changing Lovestyles: Fictional Representations of Contemporary Japanese Men in Love 2008 love, gender, Japan, marriage, linguistics
Shields, Juliet Preaching without Practicing: Middle-Class Domesticity in Annie S. Swan's Serial Fiction 2019 Annie S. Swan
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
Shore, Z. Lesley Essay Review: Girls Learning, Women Teaching: Dancing to Different Drummers 2000 readers
Cooper, Katherine; Short, Emma The Female Figure in Contemporary Historical Fiction 2012
Short, Christopher Brown The history of romance illustration and the romance novel cover 1996 paratext
Lawrey, Jeffrey A.; McLuckie, Alyx; Mulberry, Benjamin J.; Mullins, Erin K.; Shuler, Autumn R.; Kratzer, Jessica M. W. Communication, Kink, and Sexual Education: What Young Women Learned from Fifty Shades of Grey 2018 Fifty Shades, readers, sex/sexuality, erotic romance, BDSM
Shumway, David R. Romance in the Romance: Love and Marriage in Turn-of-the-Century Best Sellers 1999 Older and/or precursor texts (may not be "romance" as now defined), love, marriage, history, national identity
Sichelschmidt, Gustav Hedwig Courths-Mahler. Deutschlands erfolgreichste Autorin. Eine literatursoziologische Studie 1967 Hedwig Courths-Mahler
Grossmann, Francis; Gymnich, Marion; Siepmann, Dirk Alcohol and Tobacco Consumption in English and French Novels Since the 1950s: A Corpus-Stylistic Analysis 2020 food, drink, linguistics, history, gender, emotions, social/economic class
Novakova, Iva; Siepmann, Dirk Phraseology and Style in Subgenres of the Novel: A Synthesis of Corpus and Literary Perspectives 2020 linguistics, languages, translation
Silliman, Daniel Fictions of Belief: Reading Evangelical Novels in A Secular Age 2016 Christian romance, religion/spirituality, United States of America, Janette Oke, Beverly Lewis, Publishing
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
Andrade, Roberta Manuela Barros de; Silva, Erotilde Honório Os Livros do Coração: uma análise dos romances sentimentais do Século XX 2008 Delly, Brazil, linguistics, Harlequin Mills & Boon
Andrade, Roberta Manuela Barros de; Silva, Erotilde Honório A vida em cor de rosa: o romance sentimental e a ditadura militar no Brasil 2010 Corín Tellado, Brazil, history, capitalism/business, love, marriage, gender, readers, fascism/right-wing authoritarianism
Andrade, Roberta Manuela Barros de; Silva, Erotilde Honório Corpos que falam: erotismo, amor e paixão no romance sentimental 2010 Elinor Glyn, sex/sexuality
Andrade, Roberta Manuela Barros de; Silva, Erotilde Honório A pedagogia social dos romances de amor dos “tempos da vovó” 2013 Brazil, Publishing, readers, gender, social/economic class, Delly, Elinor Glyn, Berta Ruck, Concordia Merrel
Andrade, Roberta Manuela Barros de; Silva, Erotilde Honório O Consumo de Romances e o Universo Feminino: As Práticas de Leitura dos Livros do Coração 2013 readers, Brazil
Andrade, Roberta Manuela Barros de; Silva, Erotilde Honório O que é o romance ideal? Uma cartografia dos romances mais populares publicados pela Harlequim-Silhouette entre 1977 e 2012 2013 Brazil, Harlequin Mills & Boon
Andrade, Roberta Manuela Barros de; Silva, Erotilde Honório Os Romances Sentimentais e suas Comunidades de Leitura 2014 Brazil, readers
Silva, Erotilde Honório; Andrade, Roberta Manuela Barros de Os romances sentimentais e a revolução digital: os processos de criação dos projetos de democratização da leitura nos livros do coração 2015 Publishing, Brazil
Andrade, Roberta Manuela Barros de; Silva, Erotilde Honório; Feitosa, Ricardo Augusto de Sabóia O casamento em perigo no romance sentimental de Corin Tellado e a imprensa feminina na ditadura militar brasileira 2017 Brazil, Corín Tellado, marriage, fascism/right-wing authoritarianism
Andrade, Roberta Manuela Barros de; Feitosa, Ricardo Augusto de Sabóia; Silva, Erotilde Honório Emoção e moralidade em tempos de ruptura: o estupro nas relações conjugais nos romances sentimentais e suas comunidades de leitura 2019 rape and/or intimate partner violence/abuse, marriage, readers, Brazil
Andrade, Roberta Manuela Barros de; Silva, Erotilde Honório; Feitosa, Ricardo Augusto de Sabóia; Viana, Thiago Mena Barreto Um século de romances de amor: A trajetória da literatura sentimental no Brasil (1920 - 2020) 2020 Brazil
Leith, Murray Stewart; Sim, Duncan The Modern Scottish Diaspora: Contemporary Debates and Perspectives 2014
Simon, Jenni M. Consuming Agency and Desire in Romance: Stories of Love, Laughter, and Empowerment 2018 feminism, authors, romance and, or as, activism, rape and/or intimate partner violence/abuse
Kohlman, Marla H.; Simpson, Samantha N. For the Sake of Hearth and Home: Gender Schematicity in the Romance Novel 2017 gender, Harlequin Mills & Boon, race/ethnicity, work, marriage, family
Gillis, Bryan; Simpson, Joanna Sexual Content in Young Adult Literature: Reading between the Sheets 2015 YA/teenage romance, sex/sexuality
Chakrabarti, Reema; Singh, Rajni Gender Stereotypes and Feminist Strokes: Negotiating the Spaces in Mills and Boon 2016 Harlequin Mills & Boon, Sandra Marton, Riya Lakhani, Tessa Radley, gender, feminism
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
Sinha, Mona Reading Mills and Boon in India From the Post-Colonial to the Millennial Experience 2022 India, Harlequin Mills & Boon, readers, chick lit
Sinner, Carsten Fictional orality in romance novels: Between linguistic reality and editorial requirements 2012 translation, languages
Slušná, Zuzana Paranormal and Religious as Part of Pop Cultural Consumerism 2014 paranormal/fantasy/time-travel romance, religion/spirituality
Slušná, Zuzana Postfeminism, Post-romantic and New Patterns of Feminity [sic] in Popular Culture 2015 readers, gender, sex/sexuality, pornography, trash/literary and or intellectual quality
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Smáradóttir, Helena María Love as a Commodity: Brand-Name Romantic Fiction and its Readers. The Domain and Readership of Harlequin Enterprises, Both in Iceland and Abroad 2009 Harlequin Mills & Boon, Iceland, readers
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
Smith, William Clay Kinchen Revising Captivity Narratives 2002 United States of America, historical romance, Native American romance, Fern Michaels, race/ethnicity, Nan Ryan, Karen A. Bale
Churchwell, Sarah; Smith, Thomas Ruys Must Read: Rediscovering American Bestsellers from Charlotte Temple to The Da Vinci Code 2012
Smith, Michelle J.; Moruzi, Kristine Vampires and Witches Go to School: Contemporary Young Adult Fiction, Gender, and the Gothic 2018 YA/teenage romance, gothic romance, paranormal/fantasy/time-travel romance
Smith, Michelle J.; Moruzi, Kristine Young Adult Gothic Fiction: Monstrous Selves/Monstrous Others 2021
Smith, Lindsay Lea Feminism and romance novels : is Irigaray's utopia found in bestselling romance novels? 2006 feminism
Smith, Janet S. (Shibamoto) From Hiren to Happî-endo: Romantic Expression in the Japanese Love Story 1999 Japan, marriage, love, linguistics, family, metaphor/symbolism, emotions
Trower, Shelley; Tooth Murphy, Amy; Smith, Graham ‘Me mum likes a book, me dad’s a newspaper man’: Reading, gender and domestic life in ‘100 Families’ 2019 gender, readers
Smith, Faith Beautiful Indians, Troublesome Negroes, and Nice White Men: Caribbean Romances and the Invention of Trinidad 1999 Caribbean, race/ethnicity, Valerie Belgrave, feminism, national identity
Deller, Ruth A.; Smith, Clarissa Reading the BDSM romance: Reader responses to Fifty Shades 2013 Fifty Shades, BDSM, readers, trash/literary and or intellectual quality, sex/sexuality
Smith, Clarissa; Attwood, Feona; McNair, Brian The Routledge Companion to Media, Sex and Sexuality 2018
Snitow, Ann Barr Mass Market Romance: Pornography for Women is Different 1979 Harlequin Mills & Boon, readers, gender, virginity, fashion/clothing, food, drink, sex/sexuality, religion/spirituality, settings, work, pornography, Anne Mather
Snodgrass, Mary Ellen Reading Nora Roberts 2010 Nora Roberts/J. D. Robb
Snyman, Maritha; Penzhorn, Cecilia Leser en Konteks: ’n resepsiestudie oor Afrikaanse romanselesers 2011 readers, South Africa
Petersson, Sara; Söderberg, Daniel En berättelse tar form - en studie i hur geometrisk form på bokomslag indikerar populärlitterär genre 2014 paratext
Soedibio, Sari M. R. D.; Djundjung, Jenny M. The Hypermasculine and Ubersexual Men in the Harlequin Novels of the 1980s and 2000s 2013 gender, Harlequin Mills & Boon, Nora Roberts/J. D. Robb, Diana Palmer, Penny Jordan/Caroline Courtney, Debbie Macomber, Linda Lael Miller, Robyn Carr
Pearce, Susan C.; Sojka, Eugenia Cultural Change in East-Central European and Eurasian Spaces: Post-1989 Revisions and Re-imaginings 2021
Soler Gallo, Miguel La novela romántica falangista femenina de los años cuarenta 2013 Spain, fascism/right-wing authoritarianism
Soler Gallo, Miguel El Bien y el Mal: Modelos de conducta femeninos en la novela rosa de los 40 2014 fascism/right-wing authoritarianism, Spain, gender
Soler Gallo, Miguel Vencer a Medusa: el modelo de mujer angelical en la primera novela rosa de Carmen de Icaza. Feminidad y tradicionalismo 2015 Carmen de Icaza, fascism/right-wing authoritarianism, gender, family
Soler Gallo, Miguel El ideal de la mujer de la Sección Femenina de Falange a través de las ilustraciones de la novela rosa de los años cuarenta 2016 gender, fascism/right-wing authoritarianism, Spain, paratext, Carmen de Icaza
Soler Gallo, Miguel Novela rosa y fantasía amorosa en la España de los años Cuarenta: análisis de La rival de Julieta de Josefina de la Torre 2016 Spain, fascism/right-wing authoritarianism, Laura de Cominges/Josefina de la Torre, gender
Soler Gallo, Miguel El ideal de masculinidad en la novela romántica falangista: análisis de Una mujer de veinte años de Mercedes Ballesteros 2017 SylviaVisconti/Mercedes Ballesteros Gaibrois, Spain, fascism/right-wing authoritarianism, gender, war/armed forces, history, Rosa María Aranda, Elena Puerto/Mercedes Formica
Soler Gallo, Miguel El juego amoroso en la novela rosa española femenina de los años cuarenta 2017 Spain, love, fascism/right-wing authoritarianism, gender, family, marriage, history
Fernández Ulloa, Teresa; Soler Gallo, Miguel Aproximaciones a la configuración de la identidad en la cultura y sociedad hispanas e italianas contemporáneas 2020
Holman, Rebecca H.; Solomon, Michael R. NA - Advances in Consumer Research Volume 18 1991
Sonnet, Esther 'Erotic Fiction by Women for Women': The Pleasures of Post-Feminist Heterosexuality 1999 sex/sexuality, feminism, pornography
Sonnet, Esther What the Woman Reads: Categorising Contemporary Popular Erotica for Women 2000 sex/sexuality, feminism
Sonnet, Esther '"Just a book", she said ...': Refiguring Ethnography for the Female Readers of Sexual Fiction 2002 readers, sex/sexuality
Iché, Virginie; Sorlin, Sandrine The Rhetoric of Literary Communication: From Classical English Novels to Contemporary Digital Fiction 2022
Soubeyroux, Marie-Hélène; Zapata, Mónica Miradas sobre una obra polifacética: Homenaje a Jean Louis Guereña 2016
Allan, Jonathan A.; Santos, Cristina; Spahr, Adriana Virgin Envy: The Cultural Insignificance of the Hymen 2016
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
Spears, Jessica D. The Romance Novel Cover 2018 paratext, Publishing, gender, sex/sexuality, pornography
Chivers, Marian; Speed, Lesley; Tasker, Meg The warrior woman in Harlequin’s Bombshell Athena Force series 2014 Harlequin Mills & Boon, romantic suspense, war/armed forces, gender
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
Spehner, Norbert L'Amour, toujours l'amour ...: The Popular Love Story and Romance: A Basic Checklist of Secondary Sources 1997 romance scholarship
Spencer, Lynda Gichanda “Walk like a chameleon”: Reflecting on my teaching journey at a South African university 2024 teaching romance
Spillman, K. Elizabeth The "Managing Female" in the Novels of Georgette Heyer 2012 Georgette Heyer, gender, metafiction, marriage
Spinazzola, Vittorio Pubblico 1977 1977
Spinazzola, Vittorio Qualche ipotesi sulla narrativa “rosa”. Conversazione con Brunella Gasperini 1977 Brunella Gasperini
Spinazzola, Vittorio L'immaginazione divertente. Il giallo, il rosa, il porno e il fumetto 1995
Spraggs, Gillian Hell and the Mirror: A Reading of Desert of the Heart 1992 Jane Rule, religion/spirituality, LGBT+ characters, readers and/or authors, settings, Radclyffe Hall, psychology
Pearce, Lynne; Stacey, Jackie Romance Revisited 1995
Stacey, Jackie; Pearce, Lynne The Heart of the Matter: Feminists Revisit the Romance 1995 feminism
Blanshard, Alastair J.L.; Stafford, Emma The Modern Hercules: Images of the Hero from the Nineteenth to the Early Twenty-First Century 2020
Stapleton, Rachel F.; Viselli, Antonio Iconoclasm: The Breaking and Making of Images 2019
Stavropoulou, Marina Romance Fiction: At the Frontline of Digital Publishing 2016 Publishing
Guillén-Nieto, Victoria; Stein, Dieter Language as Evidence: Doing Forensic Linguistics 2022
Steiner, Peter; Červenka, Miroslav; Vroon, Ronald The Structure of the Literary Process Studies dedicated to the Memory of Felix Vodička 1982
Helgason, Jon; Kärrholm, Sara; Steiner, Ann Hype: Bestsellers and Literary Cultures 2014
Hague, Euan; Stenhouse, David A Very Interesting Place: Representing Scotland in American Romance Novels 2007 Scotland, Karen Marie Moning, paratext, Sue-Ellen Welfonder, linguistics, readers, historical romance, Diana Gabaldon, paranormal/fantasy/time-travel romance
Neuman, Shirley; Stephenson, Glennis ReImagining Women: Representations of Women in Culture 1993
Sterk, Helen Mae Functioning fictions: the adjustment rhetoric of Silhouette romance novels 1986 readers, gender
Sterling, Alexandra Love in the Ton: Georgette Heyer’s Legacy in Regency Romance World-Building 2020 Georgette Heyer, historical romance, race/ethnicity, history
Stern, Stephanie C.; Robbins, Brianne; Black, Jessica E.; Barnes, Jennifer L. What You Read and What You Believe: Genre Exposure and Beliefs About Relationships 2019 psychology, readers, love, gender
Stern, Barbara B. Two Pornographies: a Feminist View of Sex in Advertising 1991 pornography, feminism, sex/sexuality, gender
Lynch, Katherine E.; Sternglantz, Ruth E.; Barot, Len Queering the Romantic Heroine: Where Her Power Lies 2012 LGBT+ characters, readers and/or authors, lesbian romance, Radclyffe Hall, Older and/or precursor texts (may not be "romance" as now defined), Katherine V. Forrest, Radclyffe/Len Barot, Lea Santos, gender, paranormal/fantasy/time-travel romance
Stetson, Suzanne Reconciling Reader Response and Feminism in Late Twentieth-Century Erotic Historical Romances 2022 feminism, sex/sexuality
Sheehan, Sarah E.; Stevens, Jen Creating a Popular Romance Collection in an Academic Library 2015 libraries/librarians
Stieg, Margaret F. Indian Romances: Tracts for the Times 1985 Older and/or precursor texts (may not be "romance" as now defined), India, settings, race/ethnicity, gender, UK
Still, Julie Reading Between the Lines: Librarians as Authors of Fiction 2005 libraries/librarians, Jayne Ann Krentz/Amanda Quick/Jayne Castle
Stille Luse, Marcia L. Secondary educators' attitudes and professional assessment of the place for contemporary young adult series romance novels in the low-end and reluctant readers' curriculum 1991 YA/teenage romance, teaching romance
Stinson, Emmett; Mannion, Aaron The Return of Print?: Contemporary Australian Publishing 2016
Stobaugh, Rebecca Halfway-Sexual: Exploring Demisexuality in American Literature 2023 sex/sexuality, LGBT+ characters, readers and/or authors, Fifty Shades, Jack Byrne
Stoneley, Peter 'Never Love a Cowboy': Romance Fiction and Fantasy Families 1999 United States of America, Ann Major, Lindsay McKenna, Robin Morgan, family, gender
Stotesbury, John A. Language and Mindstyle in Anglophone Popular Romantic Fiction under Apartheid 1994 Africa
Stotesbury, John A. Genre and Islam in Recent Anglophone Romantic Fiction 2004 Islam, Leila Aboulela, Rayda Jacobs, religion/spirituality
Stowers, Eva City of Fantasy: Romance Novels in Las Vegas 2007 settings
Street, Amy Georgette Heyer – guilty pleasures 2021 Georgette Heyer, readers, psychology, race/ethnicity, social/economic class, feminism
Strehle, Susan; Carden, Mary Paniccia Doubled Plots: Romance and History 2003
Strinati, Dominic; Wagg, Stephen Come on Down?: Popular Media Culture in Post-War Britain 1992
Struve, Laura Sisters of Sorts: Reading Romantic Fiction and the Bonds Among Female Readers 2011 readers, paratext, Publishing, Older and/or precursor texts (may not be "romance" as now defined)
Suárez Coalla, Paquita; Rivera Valdés, Sonia; Íñigo, Ainoa Repercusión de la lectura y otras formas de arte en nuestra vida y nuestra obra: Memorias del VII coloquio de LART, Centro Español de Manhattan, Nueva York, 26-28 de octubre de 2016 2018
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
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
Sughi, Laura Evasione e conformismo nella narrativa rosa 1977 Liala, pen name of Amalia Liana Cambiasi Negretti Odescalchi
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
Sule, Sani Exploring the Benefit and Significance of Reading Hausa Popular Romance Genre: A Thematic Analysis 2019 Nigeria, readers
Suleiman, Michael W.; Joseph, Suad; Cainkar, Louise Arab American Women: Representation and Refusal 2021
Sullivan, Larry E.; Schurman, Lydia Cushman Pioneers, Passionate Ladies, and Private Eyes: Dime Novels, Series Books, and Paperbacks 1996
Sullivan, Ceri; White, Barbara Writing and Fantasy 1999
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
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
Sutherland, John The Longman Companion to Victorian Fiction (Second Edition) 2009 Older and/or precursor texts (may not be "romance" as now defined), Florence Barclay, Charles Garvice, Ouida, Rosa Praed, Annie S. Swan
DeVries, Susan; Dunlop, Margaret; Goopy, Suzanne; Moyle, Wendy; Sutherland‐Lockhart, Diane Discipline and passion: meaning, masochism and mythology in popular medical romances 1995 medical romance, history, work, emotions, sex/sexuality, health/medical, death, family, settings, gender, BDSM, Harlequin Mills & Boon
Sutton, Roger Librarians and the Paperback Romance: Trying to Do the Right Thing 1985 libraries/librarians, YA/teenage romance, sex/sexuality, trash/literary and or intellectual quality
Sutton, Denise Hardesty Marketing Love: Romance Publishers Mills & Boon and Harlequin Enterprises, 1930–1990 2022 Harlequin Mills & Boon, Publishing, capitalism/business
Suwanban, Pauline From Exhalation to Transformation: The Female Body in the Orientalist Romance 2018 E. M. Hull, gender, sex/sexuality, race/ethnicity
Suwanban, Pauline The Oriental Beast: The Sheik and Fairy Tales 2020 E. M. Hull, race/ethnicity, fairytales/folktales, animals, gender
Swaffield, Audrey-Claire Paperbacks Promoting Passion! What Is Harlequin Really Presenting? 1981 Harlequin Mills & Boon
Swaminathan, Srividhya J. D. Robb’s Police Procedurals and the Critique of Modernity 2016 Nora Roberts/J. D. Robb, romantic suspense, science fiction/futuristic romance
Salmon, Catherine; Symons, Donald Warrior Lovers: Erotic Fiction, Evolution and Female Sexuality 2003 evolutionary psychology, m/m romance, sex/sexuality
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
Holden, Stacy E.; Tabol, Charity In Sickness and In Health: Representations of PTSD in Post-9/11 Romance Novels 2015 war/armed forces, health/medical, Harlequin Mills & Boon, United States of America, romance and, or as, activism, Susan Mallery, Karen Templeton, Janice Kay Johnson, disability, psychology
Taddeo, Julie Anne Corsets of Steel: Steampunk's Reimagining of Victorian Femininity 2013 fashion/clothing, steampunk, feminism, gender, history
Taddeo, Julie Anne; Miller, Cynthia J. Steaming Into a Victorian Future: A Steampunk Anthology 2013
Thomas, Patrick; Takayoshi, Pamela Literacy in Practice: Writing in Private, Public and Working Lives 2016
Talbot, Mary M. Fictions at Work: Language and Social Practice in Fiction 1995 readers, Harlequin Mills & Boon, sex/sexuality, gender, Kate Walker, fashion/clothing, linguistics, metafiction, social/economic class, romances in magazines and newspapers, YA/teenage romance, feminism
Talbot, Mary M. ‘An Explosion Deep inside Her’: Women’s Desire and Popular Romance Fiction 1997 Harlequin Mills & Boon, sex/sexuality, gender, Robyn Donald, Diana Hamilton, linguistics
Andrews, Maggie; Talbot, Mary M. All the World and Her Husband: Women in Twentieth-Century Consumer Culture 2000
Tang, Yang Between Fantasy and Reality: Time-Travel Romance and Media Fandom in Chinese Cyberspace 2014 China, paranormal/fantasy/time-travel romance
Tang, Ning Reading Online Romance Novels Is Related To Chinese Readers' View of Love 2022 China, readers, love
Tanner, David Literary Success and Popular Romantic Fiction: Ethel M. Dell, a Case Study 2016 Ethel M. Dell, trash/literary and or intellectual quality, Older and/or precursor texts (may not be "romance" as now defined), Publishing, romances in magazines and newspapers, India, settings
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)
Tapper, Olivia Romance and Innovation in Twenty-First Century Publishing 2014 Publishing, Harlequin Mills & Boon
Chivers, Marian; Speed, Lesley; Tasker, Meg The warrior woman in Harlequin’s Bombshell Athena Force series 2014 Harlequin Mills & Boon, romantic suspense, war/armed forces, gender
Raitt, Suzanne; Tate, Trudi Women's Fiction and The Great War 1997
Tatlock, Lynne German Writing, American Reading: Women and the Import of Fiction, 1866-1917 2012 Germany, United States of America, translation, gender, work, marriage, fairytales/folktales, family, Publishing, E. Marlitt/Eugenie John, Wilhelmine Heimburg/Bertha Behrens, Fanny Lewald, Wilhelmine von Hillern, Claire von Glümer, Ursula Zöge von Manteuffel, E. Werner/Elisabeth Bürstenbinder, religion/spirituality, Nataly von Eschstruth, metafiction, social/economic class, Charlotte Brontë, E. Juncker, Moritz von Reichenbach/Valeska von Reiswitz, Gräfin von Bethusy-Huc, Golo Raimund/Bertha [Heyn] Frederich, history, national identity, war/armed forces, race/ethnicity, Louisa May Alcott
Tatlock, Kristen Doris Raised on romance: a cultural study of romance fiction 1986
Tatum, James The Search for the Ancient Novel 1994
Tatum, Charles Lágrimas, risas y amor: Mexico's Most Popular Romance Comic Book 1980 comics/manga, Mexico
Gilbert, Pam; Taylor, Sandra Fashioning the Feminine: Girls, Popular Culture, and Schooling 1991 readers, YA/teenage romance
Gilbert, Pam; Taylor, Sandra Reading the Romance 1993 readers, social/economic class, gender
Taylor, Jessica Anne Write the Book of Your Heart: Career, Passion and Publishing in the Romance Writing Community 2013 authors, Publishing, race/ethnicity, social/economic class, gender, love, work
Taylor, Jessica And You Can Be My Sheikh: Gender, Race, and Orientalism in Contemporary Romance Novels 2007 gender, race/ethnicity, sheikh romance, settings, paratext
Taylor, Jessica Romance and the Female Gaze Obscuring Gendered Violence in The Twilight Saga 2014 gender, rape and/or intimate partner violence/abuse, Twilight
Taylor, Jessica Love the Market: Discourses of Passion and Professionalism in Romance Writing Communities 2016 authors, work, emotions, Publishing
Taylor, Jessica Animating Creative Selves: Pen Names as Property in the Careers of Canadian and American Romance Writers 2018 authors, Publishing, work
Taylor, Jessica Flexible Nations: Canadian Romance Writers, American Romance, and the Romance of Canada 2018 Canada, authors, national identity, Kate Bridges, settings, Publishing, Harlequin Mills & Boon, race/ethnicity, historical romance, history
Taylor, Jessica Garçon Manqué: A Queer Rereading (of) The Sheik 2020 E. M. Hull, Radclyffe Hall, gender, LGBT+ characters, readers and/or authors, sex/sexuality, readers, fashion/clothing, race/ethnicity
Taylor, Helen Romantic Readers 1989 readers, gender, race/ethnicity, Barbara Taylor Bradford, LGBT+ characters, readers and/or authors, lesbian romance, Margaret Mitchell, social/economic class
Taylor, Helen Why Women Read Fiction: The Stories of Our Lives 2019 readers, Harlequin Mills & Boon, Fifty Shades
Taylor, Anthea ‘The urge towards love is an urge towards (un)death’: Romance, masochistic desire and postfeminism in the Twilight novels 2012 YA/teenage romance, Twilight, death, BDSM, gender, sex/sexuality, paranormal/fantasy/time-travel romance, family
Teague, Anna Sophia Wester “If my hubby ever did half the stuff my book boyfriends did… I’d put him six ft in the ground” : narratives of interpersonal and gendered violence as discussed in romance novel review websites 2015 readers, rape and/or intimate partner violence/abuse, psychology, pornography, gender, sex/sexuality
Tegan, Mary Beth Becoming Both Poet and Poem: Feminists Repossess the Romance 2007 feminism, Mary Stewart, Jennifer Crusie, Vicki Lewis Thompson, Georgette Heyer
Alberti, Paola; Fortunati, Vita; Franci, Giovanna; Galateria, Daria; Mangaroni, Rosella; Pozzato, Maria Pia; Sabbadini, Tiziana; Tempera, Mariangela Maestre d'amore: eroine e scrittrici nell'impero del rosa inglese 1986 UK, Elinor Glyn, E. M. Hull
Fletcher, Lisa; McAlister, Jodi; Temple, Kurt; Williams, Kathleen #loveyourshelfie: Mills & Boon books and how to find them 2019 Harlequin Mills & Boon, paratext, trash/literary and or intellectual quality, readers, Publishing, Australia
Tennenhouse, Tracy Shana Female Fantasies in Women's Popular Fiction 1996 Older and/or precursor texts (may not be "romance" as now defined), gender, lesbian romance, erotic romance
Teo, Hsu-Ming Shanghaied By Sheiks: Orientalism and hybridity in women's romance writing 1999 sheikh romance, race/ethnicity
Teo, Hsu-Ming The Romance of White Nations: Imperialism, Popular Culture and National Histories 2003 national identity, race/ethnicity, UK, history, Africa, gender, Mary Gaunt, with John Ridgwell Essex, E. M. Hull, sheikh romance, Harlequin Mills & Boon, United States of America, Native American romance
Teo, Hsu-Ming Romancing the Raj: Interracial Relations in Anglo-Indian Romance Novels 2004 India, UK, social/economic class, history, race/ethnicity, gender, Flora Annie Steel, Mrs F. E. Penny, Alice Perrin, Maud Diver, Alice Eustace, Juliet Armstrong, Harlequin Mills & Boon, national identity