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Allan, Jonathan A. Mourning and Sentimental Heroism in Maureen Child's Lost in Sensation 2020 Maureen Child, gender, happy ending, death, metaphor/symbolism, emotions
Bachleitner, Norbert Literary Translation, Reception, and Transfer: The Many Languages of Comparative Literature 2020
Vivanco, Laura Changing Attitudes to Others: Meljean Brook’s Riveted (2012) and its Context 2020 Meljean Brook, Publishing, authors, readers, race/ethnicity, disability, gender, steampunk, LGBT+ characters, readers and/or authors, Zoë Archer, war/armed forces
Cole, Elizabeth Authors on The Sheik: A conversation with Liz Fielding 2020 Liz Fielding, sheikh romance, E. M. Hull
Lancaster, Rosemary Women Writing on the French Riviera: Travellers and Trendsetters, 1870-1970 2020
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
Henderson, Aneeka Ayanna Veil and Vow: Marriage Matters in Contemporary African American Culture 2020 African American romance, Sandra Kitt, race/ethnicity, marriage
Gymnich, Marion; Dyka, Susanne Falling in love with vs. sich verlieben in: a corpus-based analysis of English and German romance novels 2020 linguistics, love
Salter, Anastasia Plundered Hearts: Infocom, Romance, and the History of Feminist Game Design 2020 computer/video/digital games, pirates and outlaws, fashion/clothing, feminism
Magenya, Sheena Gimase Reading between the lines: A review of Dark Juices and Afrodisiacs: Erotic Diaries Vol 1 2020 Africa, LGBT+ characters, readers and/or authors, sex/sexuality, feminism, race/ethnicity
Allan, Jonathan A. Men, Masculinities, and Popular Romance 2020 gender, sex/sexuality, m/m romance, pornography, LGBT+ characters, readers and/or authors, virginity, Marie Sexton, health/medical
Brickman, Barbara Jane; Jermyn, Deborah; Trost, Theodore Louis Love Across the Atlantic: US-UK Romance in Popular Culture 2020
Fragero Guerra, Carmen Carmen de Icaza: la imagen de identidad femenina durante el primer franquismo (1936-1949) 2020 Carmen de Icaza, fascism/right-wing authoritarianism, Spain, gender
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
Habermann, Ina; Krug, Christian And Thereby Hangs a Tale: A Critical Anatomy of (Popular) Tales 2020
Ramos-García, María T. Representations of Otherness in Paranormal Romance: Race and Wealth in Nalini Singh and J. R. Ward 2020 Nalini Singh, J. R. Ward, paranormal/fantasy/time-travel romance, race/ethnicity, United States of America, capitalism/business
Maier, Sarah E.; Ayres, Brenda Neo-Victorian Madness: Rediagnosing Nineteenth-Century Mental Illness in Literature and Other Media 2020
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
Randell, Karen; Weedon, Alexis Atlantic Liners, It Girls and Old Europe in Elinor Glyn’s Romantic Adventures 2020 Elinor Glyn, social/economic class, wealth/prosperity, Older and/or precursor texts (may not be "romance" as now defined), marriage, United States of America, history
Gymnich, Marion; Dyka, Susanne Falling in love with vs. sich verlieben in: a corpus-based analysis of English and German romance novels 2020 linguistics, love
Burge, Amy Introduction to the special issue on The Sheik 2020 sheikh romance, E. M. Hull
Brickman, Barbara Jane; Jermyn, Deborah; Trost, Theodore Louis Love Across the Atlantic: US-UK Romance in Popular Culture 2020
Wheeler, Duncan Following Franco: Spanish culture and politics in transition, 1962–92 2020 Spain, fascism/right-wing authoritarianism, Corín Tellado
Violi, Patrizia Breve storia della letteratura rosa 2020 Older and/or precursor texts (may not be "romance" as now defined), Carolina Invernizio, Liala, pen name of Amalia Liana Cambiasi Negretti Odescalchi, Publishing, Harlequin Mills & Boon, romances in magazines and newspapers, Fifty Shades, fanfiction
Day, Sara K. Reimagining Forever...: The Marriage Plot in Recent Young Adult Literature 2020 YA/teenage romance, marriage
Pierini, Francesca Olive Skin, Chocolate Eyes: The Legacy of The Sheik on Descriptive Patterns of the Italian Romantic Hero in Harlequin Short Contemporaries 2020 Italy, national identity, Harlequin Mills & Boon, race/ethnicity, gender, E. M. Hull, metaphor/symbolism, animals
Jansen, Annie Rethinking romance: An argument for adding the genre to the popular shelf 2020 libraries/librarians, Helen Hoang, Jasmine Guillory, Sonali Dev, race/ethnicity, Uzma Jalaluddin
Ramos-García, María T.; Vivanco, Laura Love, Language, Place, and Identity in Popular Culture: Romancing the Other 2020
Habermann, Ina; Krug, Christian And Thereby Hangs a Tale: A Critical Anatomy of (Popular) Tales 2020
Pérez Casal, Inmaculada “There’s Something Charming about a Man with an Accent, Isn’t There?”: The Representation of Otherness in Three Novels by Lisa Kleypas 2020 Lisa Kleypas, race/ethnicity, historical romance, languages, social/economic class, UK
Veros, Vassiliki The selective tradition, the role of romance fiction donations, and public library practices in New South Wales, Australia 2020 Australia, libraries/librarians
Sabino, Rosimeri Ferraz; Bezerra, Antônio Ponciano Romance-folhetim em tela: linguagem, personagens e sentidos sociais 2020 Brazil, Faith Baldwin, gender, film/movies
Maier, Sarah E.; Ayres, Brenda Neo-Victorian Madness: Rediagnosing Nineteenth-Century Mental Illness in Literature and Other Media 2020
Barkman, Adam; Sanna, Antonio A Critical Companion to Robert Zemeckis 2020
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
Borham-Puyal, Miriam; Sánchez, Jorge Diego; García-Pérez, María-Isabel Documentando la memoria cultural: las mujeres en las (auto)narraciones exocanónicas 2020
Randell, Karen; Weedon, Alexis Atlantic Liners, It Girls and Old Europe in Elinor Glyn’s Romantic Adventures 2020 Elinor Glyn, social/economic class, wealth/prosperity, Older and/or precursor texts (may not be "romance" as now defined), marriage, United States of America, history
Suwanban, Pauline The Oriental Beast: The Sheik and Fairy Tales 2020 E. M. Hull, race/ethnicity, fairytales/folktales, animals, gender
Fitzsimmons, Rebekah; Wilson, Casey Alane Beyond the Blockbusters: Themes and Trends in Contemporary Young Adult Fiction 2020
Moss, Madi Markle Review: When Was the Last Time You Read a Romance Novel? 2020 Christian romance, race/ethnicity, Ilima Todd
Vivanco, Laura Let’s Not Get Carried Away by The Sheik 2020 E. M. Hull, Older and/or precursor texts (may not be "romance" as now defined), Berta Ruck, gender, LGBT+ characters, readers and/or authors, marriage
Ramos-García, María T.; Vivanco, Laura Love, Language, Place, and Identity in Popular Culture: Romancing the Other 2020
George, Sam; Hughes, Bill Introduction: from preternatural pastoral to paranormal romance 2020 paranormal/fantasy/time-travel romance, animals
Vidotto, Ilaria; Goossens, Vannina D’une fenêtre à l’autre. Étude d’un motif spécifique à la littérature blanche et au roman sentimental 2020 linguistics
Farooqui, Javaria The Kitchen and Beyond: The Romantic Chronotope in Pakistani Popular Fiction 2020 romances in magazines and newspapers, Pakistan, settings, food, drink, metaphor/symbolism
Sabino, Rosimeri Ferraz; Bezerra, Antônio Ponciano Romance-folhetim em tela: linguagem, personagens e sentidos sociais 2020 Brazil, Faith Baldwin, gender, film/movies
Bloom, Clive The Palgrave Handbook of Contemporary Gothic 2020
Barkman, Adam; Sanna, Antonio A Critical Companion to Robert Zemeckis 2020
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
Borham-Puyal, Miriam; Sánchez, Jorge Diego; García-Pérez, María-Isabel Documentando la memoria cultural: las mujeres en las (auto)narraciones exocanónicas 2020
Diwersy, Sascha; Gonon, Laetitia; Goossens, Vannina; Gymnich, Marion; Tutin, Agnès Speech Verbs in French and English Novels 2020 linguistics, emotions, languages
Franck, Kaja Growing Pains of the Teenage Werewolf: Young Adult Literature and the Metaphorical Wolf 2020 paranormal/fantasy/time-travel romance, YA/teenage romance, Maggie Stiefvater, animals, fairytales/folktales, Twilight
Cameron, Lauren The Romance Publishing Industry and Its Reputation 2020 trash/literary and or intellectual quality, gender, feminism, readers, authors
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
Jarmakani, Amira Desert Is Just Another Word for Freedom 2021 sheikh romance
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
McAlister, Jodi Erotic romance 2021 erotic romance, genre definitions, Fifty Shades, sex/sexuality, Sylvia Day, happy ending, Older and/or precursor texts (may not be "romance" as now defined), John Cleland, Publishing, fanfiction, Alisha Rai, Harlequin Mills & Boon
Young, Erin S. Race, ethnicity, and whiteness 2021 race/ethnicity, Mary Balogh
George, Laura J. Judith Taverner as dandy-in-training in Georgette Heyer’s Regency Buck 2021 Georgette Heyer, historical romance, fashion/clothing, cross-dressing, 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
Markert, John Publishing the romance novel 2021 Publishing, Harlequin Mills & Boon, United States of America, historical romance, Kathleen Woodiwiss, contemporary romance
Pierre-Robertson, Petronetta Literature as an Agent of Change 2021 Caribbean, rape and/or intimate partner violence/abuse, Petra Pierre-Robertson, romance and, or as, activism
Kiyawa, Haruna Alkasim Female Readers as Literary Critics: Reading Experiences of Kano Market Romance Fiction 2021 Nigeria, readers
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
Mäkelä, Veera Reading Response in Mary Balogh: A Critical Engagement 2021 Mary Balogh, romance scholarship, gender, sex/sexuality
Pereira, Simone Luci; das Neves, Thiago Tavares; Budag, Fernanda Elouise Comunicação e Culturas Urbanas: temas, debates e perspectivas 2021
Pritchard, Jamee Nicole That 90's Kind of Love: the Rise of African American Romance Novels in Traditional Romance Publishing 2021 African American romance, readers
Ficke, Sarah H. The historical romance 2021 historical romance, Georgette Heyer, Barbara Cartland, Kathleen Woodiwiss, settings, race/ethnicity, Valerie Belgrave, Kate Breslin, fascism/right-wing authoritarianism, history, African American romance, Beverly Jenkins, LGBT+ characters, readers and/or authors
Carlos, Giovana Santana Literatura pop feminina: as fãs de romance no Brasil 2021 Brazil, readers, paratext
Kapstein, Helen Petrofeminism: Love in the Age of Oil 2021 ecocriticism/environmentalism/climate change, Nigeria, feminism, Chimamanda Adichie, Myne Whitman, metafiction, Balaraba Ramat Yakubu, work, capitalism/business
Bissessar, Ann Marie; Huggins, Camille Gender and Domestic Violence in the Caribbean 2021
Daud, Kathrina Mohd In response to Harlequin: Global legacy, local agency 2021 Harlequin Mills & Boon, Africa, China, Japan, India, Malaysia, Nigeria
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
Parnell, Claire; Trinidad, Andrea Anne; McAlister, Jodi Hello, Ever After: #RomanceClass and Online-Only Live Literature in the Philippines in 2020 2021 Philippines
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
Pearce, Susan C.; Sojka, Eugenia Cultural Change in East-Central European and Eurasian Spaces: Post-1989 Revisions and Re-imaginings 2021
Ramsdell, Kristin Libraries and popular romance fiction 2021 libraries/librarians
Ngoshi, Hazel Tafadzwa Repression, Literary Dissent and the Paradox of Censorship in Zimbabwe 2021 Zimbabwe, romance and, or as, activism, Africa
Romney, Rebecca The Romance Novel in English: A Survey in Rare Books, 1769-1999 2021 Publishing, Older and/or precursor texts (may not be "romance" as now defined), work, Harlequin Mills & Boon, historical romance, Christian romance, gothic romance, romantic suspense, paranormal/fantasy/time-travel romance, YA/teenage romance, African American romance, LGBT+ characters, readers and/or authors, Frances Brooke, Canada, Elizabeth Inchbald, Frances Burney, Sydney Owenson, national identity, Ireland, Ouida, May Agnes Fleming, Laura Jean Libbey, Emma Wolf, religion/spirituality, Judaism, Pauline Hopkins, Onoto Watanna/Winnifred Eaton, Japan, Elinor Glyn, Louise Gerard, Barbara Cartland, Laura Lou Brookman, Kathleen Thompson Norris, romances in magazines and newspapers, Elizabeth Carfrae, Frances Shelley Wees, Lilian Warren as Kathryn Blair/Rosalind Brett/Celine Conway, Jean S. MacLeod/Catherine Airlie, Alice Lent Covert, Joyce Dingwell/Kate Starr, Australia, Faith Baldwin, Mary Renault, medical romance, Mary Burchell, pen name of Ida Cook, Juliet Shore/Anne Vinton, Della Field, pseudonym of Fanny Howe, Janet Dailey, Lydia Maria Child, Charlotte M. Yonge, Mary Johnston, Susa Young Gates, Kathleen Woodiwiss, Rosemary Rogers, June Lund Shiplett, paratext, Jayne Ann Krentz/Amanda Quick/Jayne Castle, science fiction/futuristic romance, Valerie Belgrave, Caribbean, Beverly Jenkins, Jane Austen, Susan Ferrier, Georgette Heyer, Amii Lorin, Nora Roberts/J. D. Robb, Marisa de Zavala/Ana Lisa de Leon/Rachel Scott/Celina Rios Mullan, Sandra Kitt, Maureen Wartski, Augusta Jane Evans, Florence Barclay, Ethel M. Dell, Janette Oke, Beverly Lewis, Charlotte Brontë, Harriet Lewis, Virginia Coffman, Victoria Holt/Jean Plaidy/Eleanor Burford Hibbert, Phyllis A. Whitney, Mary Stewart, Daoma Winston, Chelsea Quinn Yarbro, Rita Clay Estrada, Lori Herter, Jean Webster, Robin McKinley, Tracy West/Joyce McGill/Chassie West, Marie G. Lee, race/ethnicity, Paula Christian, Isabel Miller, Gordon Merrick, Ann Allen Shockley, Vincent Virga, Nancy Garden, Katherine V. Forrest, Loretta Chase, Brenda Jackson
Pereira, Simone Luci; das Neves, Thiago Tavares; Budag, Fernanda Elouise Comunicação e Culturas Urbanas: temas, debates e perspectivas 2021
Seifrit, Rachel Joy Come Out, Come Out, Wherever You Are: Sexuality and Gender Exploration in Contemporary Slash Fanfiction 2021 LGBT+ characters, readers and/or authors, fanfiction, gender, sex/sexuality
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
Kamblé, Jayashree; Selinger, Eric Murphy; Teo, Hsu-Ming The Routledge Research Companion to Popular Romance Fiction 2021 romance scholarship
Zibrak, Arielle Avidly Reads Guilty Pleasures 2021 readers, sex/sexuality, historical romance, gender, Older and/or precursor texts (may not be "romance" as now defined), Susan Warner, E. D. E. N. Southworth, Rosemary Rogers, Jill Marie Landis, fairytales/folktales, feminism
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
Parnell, Claire; Trinidad, Andrea Anne; McAlister, Jodi Hello, Ever After: #RomanceClass and Online-Only Live Literature in the Philippines in 2020 2021 Philippines
Pearce, Susan C.; Sojka, Eugenia Cultural Change in East-Central European and Eurasian Spaces: Post-1989 Revisions and Re-imaginings 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
McGurl, Mark Unspeakable Conventionality: The Perversity of the Kindle 2021 Publishing, capitalism/business, trash/literary and or intellectual quality, readers, sex/sexuality, BDSM, Fifty Shades, erotic romance, LGBT+ characters, readers and/or authors, genre definitions, fanfiction
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
Allan, Jonathan A. Gender and sexuality 2021 gender, sex/sexuality, pornography, LGBT+ characters, readers and/or authors, lesbian romance, m/m romance
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
Rayner, Samantha J.; Wilkins, Kim Introduction: the persistence of Georgette Heyer 2021 Georgette Heyer
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
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
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
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
Awad, Amal Desert dreamings and sheikh-lit 2021 sheikh romance, Jackie Ashenden, Miranda Lee, race/ethnicity
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
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
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
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
Toscano, Angela Gothic romance 2021 gothic romance, Mary Stewart
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
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
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
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
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
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
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 “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
Perriam, Geraldine The not so silly ass: Freddy Standen, his fictional contemporaries and alternative masculinity 2021 Georgette Heyer, gender
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
Davidge, Helen Data science: Georgette Heyer’s historical novels and her readers 2021 Georgette Heyer, linguistics, readers
Hughes, Bill Genre Mutation in Young Adult Gothic: The Dialectics of Dystopia and Romance in Holly Black's The Coldest Girl in Coldtown 2021 YA/teenage romance, gothic romance, paranormal/fantasy/time-travel romance, capitalism/business, Holly Black
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
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
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
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
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