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Hilton, Linda Ann Wheeler Half Heaven, Half Heartache: Discovering the Transformative Potential in Women's Popular Fiction 2000 feminism
Hinks, John; Armstrong, Catherine Book Trade Connections from the Seventeenth to the Twentieth Centuries 2008
Hinnant, Charles H. Desire and the Marketplace: A Reading of Kathleen Woodiwiss's The Flame and the Flower 2003 Kathleen Woodiwiss, capitalism/business, rape and/or intimate partner violence/abuse, fashion/clothing
Basu, Balaka; Broad, Katherine R.; Hintz, Carrie Contemporary Dystopian Fiction for Young Adults: Brave New Teenagers 2013
Hipsky, Martin Modernism and the Women’s Popular Romance in Britain, 1885–1925 2011 Marie Corelli, Ethel M. Dell, E. M. Hull, Mary Ward/Mrs. Humphry Ward, Baroness Orczy, Florence Barclay, Elinor Glyn, Older and/or precursor texts (may not be "romance" as now defined)
Hirdman, Anja 'Det ska bli en ära att få tillfredsställa dig!' Ideal manlighet i Harlequinromanen 2013 gender, Harlequin Mills & Boon
Hirdman, Anja Speaking through the flesh: Affective encounters, gazes and desire in Harlequin romances 2016 emotions, gender, sex/sexuality, Harlequin Mills & Boon
Hirsbrunner, A. R. Doomed to become heroines? Identification, women and fiction 2000 psychology, feminism
Hirschman, Elizabeth C.; Holbrook, Morris B. SV - Symbolic Consumer Behavior 1981
Hirst, Holly Georgette Heyer 2020 Georgette Heyer, gothic romance, Daphne du Maurier, Charlotte Brontë, romantic suspense
Hirst, Holly The Gothic Romance 2020 gothic romance, Victoria Holt/Jean Plaidy/Eleanor Burford Hibbert, Phyllis A. Whitney, rape and/or intimate partner violence/abuse, gender, readers, Daphne du Maurier, romance scholarship, social/economic class, Catherine Cookson, Christine Marion Fraser, Georgette Heyer
Hirst, Holly Georgette Heyer and redefining the Gothic romance 2021 gothic romance, Georgette Heyer, romance scholarship, genre definitions
Hall, Stuart; Hobson, Dorothy; Lowe, Andrew; Willis, Paul Culture, Media, Language: Working Papers in Cultural Studies, 1972-79 1980
Hobson, Amanda Brothers under Covers: Race and the Paranormal Romance Novel 2015 paranormal/fantasy/time-travel romance, race/ethnicity, Kerrelyn Sparks, J. R. Ward
Guttman, Anna; Hockx, Michel; Paizis, George The Global Literary Field 2006
Hodgson, Kathleen The representation of the female hero in the romantic fiction of Mills & Boon 2006 Harlequin Mills & Boon
Kolmes, Sara; Hoffman, Matthew A. Harlequin Resistance? Romance Novels as a Model for Resisting Objectification 2021 sex/sexuality, genre definitions, philosophy, Tessa Dare, feminism
Hofstadter, Beatrice K. Popular Culture and the Romantic Heroine 1960 Older and/or precursor texts (may not be "romance" as now defined), Susan Warner, Augusta Jane Evans, E. P. Roe, Winston Churchill, E. M. Hull
Hogan, Patrick Colm; Irish, Bradley J.; Hogan, Lalita Pandit The Routledge Companion to Literature and Emotion 2022
Hogan, Patrick Colm; Irish, Bradley J.; Hogan, Lalita Pandit The Routledge Companion to Literature and Emotion 2022
Hohne, Karen; Wussow, Helen A Dialogue of Voices: Feminist Literary Theory and Bakhtin 1994
Hirschman, Elizabeth C.; Holbrook, Morris B. SV - Symbolic Consumer Behavior 1981
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
Holden, Stacy E. Love in the Desert: Images of Arab-American Reconciliation in Contemporary Sheikh Romance Novels 2015 Harlequin Mills & Boon, sheikh romance, United States of America, authors, Islam, Susan Mallery, Sandra Marton, fashion/clothing, Maisey Yates, settings, Lynne Raye Harris, Violet Winspear, Jane Porter
Holley, Robert P. Self-Publishing and Collection Development: Opportunities and Challenges for Libraries 2015
Hollows, Joanne Feminism, Femininity and Popular Culture 2000 romance scholarship
Holman, Rebecca H.; Solomon, Michael R. NA - Advances in Consumer Research Volume 18 1991
Holmes, Diana Romance and Readership in Twentieth-Century France: Love Stories 2006 history, France, religion/spirituality, Christian romance, Delly, Older and/or precursor texts (may not be "romance" as now defined), genre definitions, gender, readers, Georges Ohnet, Maryan, pen name of Marie Cadiou, Marcelle Tinayre, Colette, Max du Veuzit, Magali, pen name of Jeanne Philbert, Harlequin Mills & Boon, sex/sexuality, lesbian romance, Marine Rambach and Anne Rousseau, LGBT+ characters, readers and/or authors
Holmes, Diana The Comfortable Reader: Romantic Bestsellers and Critical Disdain 2010 France, trash/literary and or intellectual quality, Marc Levy, Anna Gavalda, readers, community, national identity
Holmes, Diana Plaisirs d'amour: Love and popular fiction in contemporary France 2022 France
Papargyriou, Eleni; Assinder, Semele; Holton, David Greece in British Women’s Literary Imagination, 1913-2013 2017
Thompson, Marcella; Koski, Patricia; Holyfield, Lori Romance and agency: An argument revisited 1997 romance scholarship, readers, feminism
Koski, Patricia; Holyfield, Lori; Thompson, Marcella Romance Novels as Women's Myths 1997 myth, emotions
Hoorenman, Johanna Public Conflicts and Private Treaties in Kathleen Eagle’s Fire and Rain 2020 Kathleen Eagle, Native American romance, race/ethnicity, United States of America, history
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
Hopkins, Lisa After Austen: Reinventions, Rewritings, Revisitings 2018
Hopkins, Lisa Georgette Heyer: What Austen Left Out 2018 Georgette Heyer, Jane Austen, history, war/armed forces, historical romance
Hopkins, Lisa Waltzing with Wellington, Biting with Byron: Heroes in Austen Tribute Texts 2018 Jane Austen, Georgette Heyer, gender, historical romance
Hopkins, Lisa All’s Well That Ends Well: Shakespearean echoes in Heyer’s Regency novels 2021 Shakespeare, Georgette Heyer
Horgheim, Celina From Rape to Romance: Sexual Consent Negotiation in Romantic Retellings of the Myth of Persephone 2023 myth, sex/sexuality, rape and/or intimate partner violence/abuse, gender, Rachel Alexander, Ophelia Silk, feminism
Hotz-Davies, Ingrid; Kirchhofer, Anton; Leppänen, Sirpa Internet Fictions 2009
Houel, Annik L’amant Harlequin 1990 Harlequin Mills & Boon
Houel, Annik Les chemins de la passion 1992 sex/sexuality, psychology
Houel, Annik Le roman d’amour et sa lectrice: une si longue passion: l’exemple Harlequin 1997 Harlequin Mills & Boon, readers, love, marriage, history, family, France, feminism, sex/sexuality, happy ending, fashion/clothing, gender, family
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
Howlett, Peter; Morgan, Mary S. How Well Do Facts Travel? The Dissemination of Reliable Knowledge 2011
Hua, Shaoqi; Xiao, Chengli What shapes a parasocial relationship in RVGs? The effects of avatar images, avatar identification, and romantic jealousy among potential, casual, and core players 2023 computer/video/digital games
Huang, Yu-ting; Weaver-Hightower, Rebecca Archiving Settler Colonialism: Culture, Space and Race 2019
Hubbard, Rita Cooper Relationship Styles In Popular Romance Fiction: A Fantasy Theme Analysis Of Harlequin Romances, 1950-1979 1981 Harlequin Mills & Boon, gender, feminism
Hubbard, Rita C. The Changing-Unchanging Heroines and Heroes of Harlequin Romances, 1950-1979 1983 Harlequin Mills & Boon, gender, authors, Elizabeth Hoy, Roumelia Lane, Elizabeth Hunter
Hubbard, Rita C. Relationship Styles in Popular Romance Novels, 1950-1983 1985 Lilian Warren as Kathryn Blair/Rosalind Brett/Celine Conway, gender, Roumelia Lane, Elizabeth Hunter, Elaine Raco Chase, Harlequin Mills & Boon
Hubbard, Rita C. Magic and Transformation: Relationships in Popular Romance Novels, 1950 to the 1980s 1992 Lilian Warren as Kathryn Blair/Rosalind Brett/Celine Conway, gender, Roumelia Lane, Elizabeth Hunter, Elaine Raco Chase, Harlequin Mills & Boon
Hubert, Karen M. Teaching and Writing Popular Fiction: Horror, Adventure, Mystery and Romance in the American Classroom 1976 teaching romance
Bissessar, Ann Marie; Huggins, Camille Gender and Domestic Violence in the Caribbean 2021
Hughes, Helen Muriel Changes in Historical Romance, 1890s to the 1980s: The Development of the Genre from Stanley Weyman to Georgette Heyer and her Successors 1988 historical romance, Georgette Heyer
Hughes, Helen The Historical Romance 1993 historical romance, history, Georgette Heyer, Sir Arthur Conan Doyle, Stanley Weyman, Rafael Sabatini, Jeffrey Farnol, Barbara Cartland, social/economic class, UK, national identity, gender, A. E. W. Mason, Baroness Orczy, readers, Older and/or precursor texts (may not be "romance" as now defined), Mira Stables, Rowena Tenet
Hughes, Bill ‘Two kinds of romance': Generic Hybridity and Epistemological Uncertainty in Contemporary Paranormal Romance 2013 paranormal/fantasy/time-travel romance, YA/teenage romance, Alyxandra Harvey, Julie Kagawa, science/technology
Hughes, Bill Demon Lovers: Embracing the Monster in Paranormal Romance 2014 paranormal/fantasy/time-travel romance, trash/literary and or intellectual quality, YA/teenage romance, gothic romance, Older and/or precursor texts (may not be "romance" as now defined), sex/sexuality, Alyxandra Harvey, science/technology, gender, Maggie Stiefvater, animals, Julie Kagawa, rural romance, settings, death, Daniel Waters
George, Sam; Hughes, Bill In the company of wolves: Werewolves, wolves and wild children 2020
George, Sam; Hughes, Bill Introduction: from preternatural pastoral to paranormal romance 2020 paranormal/fantasy/time-travel romance, animals
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
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
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
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
Willinsky, John; Hunniford, R. Mark Reading the Romance Younger: The Mirrors and Fears of a Preparatory Literature 1993 Canada, YA/teenage romance, readers, gender
Hunter, Christyna M. Cataloging Category Romance Fiction and Librarian and Patron Views on Romance Fiction in Public Libraries 2021 libraries/librarians, Harlequin Mills & Boon
Davisson, Amber; Hunting, Kyra From private pleasure to erotic spectacle: Adapting Bridgerton to female audience desires 2023 Julia Quinn, film/movies, sex/sexuality, rape and/or intimate partner violence/abuse, pornography, race/ethnicity
Huntwork, Mary M. Why Girls Flock to Sweet Valley High 1990 YA/teenage romance, readers
Huq, Maimuna From Piety to Romance: Islam-Oriented Texts in Bangladesh 1999 Islam, religion/spirituality, Bangladesh
Hurley, Frances K. In the Words of Girls: The Reading of Adolescent Romance Fiction 1999 YA/teenage romance, readers, gender
Hurst, Rochelle The Barrister’s Bedmate: Harlequin Mills & Boon and the Bridget Jones Debate 2009 chick lit, feminism, Helen Fielding, Harlequin Mills & Boon
Hutter, Verena Fire, Savannah, and Passion: The New Africa Novel and the Construction of White Femininity 2023 Africa, Germany, history, historical romance, race/ethnicity, Patricia Mennen, Leah Bach, gender
Hutton-Jarvis, C. A. The educational potential of romantic fiction 1998 readers, teaching romance
Hyejin, O 원본 없는 판타지 : 페미니스트 시각으로 읽는 한국 현대문화사 2020 Harlequin Mills & Boon, readers, Korea
Ibarrola-Armendariz, Aitor; Ortiz de Urbina Arruabarrena, Jon On the move: Glancing Backwards To Build a Future in English Studies 2016
Iché, Virginie; Sorlin, Sandrine The Rhetoric of Literary Communication: From Classical English Novels to Contemporary Digital Fiction 2022
Iesué, Renata Romance and Reality: Popular Writing by Nigerian Women 1990 Nigeria
Illouz, Eva Hard-Core Romance: Fifty Shades of Grey, Best-Sellers, and Society 2014 Fifty Shades, BDSM
Kuortti, Joel; Ilmonen, Kaisa; Valovirta, Elina; Korkka, Janne Thinking with the Familiar in Contemporary Literature and Culture 'Out of the Ordinary' 2019
Inge, M. Thomas; Hall, Dennis The Greenwood Guide to American Popular Culture: Volume Four (Pulps and Dime Novels through Young Adult Fiction) 2002
Patai, Daphne; Ingram, Angela Fantasy and Identity: The Double Life of a Victorian Sexual Radical 1993 gender, paranormal/fantasy/time-travel romance, Irene Clyde, Older and/or precursor texts (may not be "romance" as now defined), LGBT+ characters, readers and/or authors
Ingram, Angela; Patai, Daphne Rediscovering Forgotten Radicals: British Women Writers 1889-1939 1993
Waldschmidt, Anne; Berressem, Hanjo; Ingwersen, Moritz Culture - Theory – Disability: Encounters between Disability Studies and Cultural Studies 2017
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
Innocenti, Daniela C. L'amore tradotto. Harlequin vs Harmony e l’evoluzione di un romanzo rosa intraduzione: da Plain Jane MacAllister a Il tempo ritrovato 2012 translation, Harlequin Mills & Boon, Italy, Joan Elliott Pickart
Intan, Tania Formula Romance Dalam Perfect Romance Karya Indah Hanaco: Kajian Sastra Feminis 2020 Indah Hanaco, genre definitions, feminism, family, Indonesia
Interracial Books for Children Bulletin, Romance Series for Young Readers: A Report to Educators and Parents in Concert with the National Education Association 1981 YA/teenage romance, trash/literary and or intellectual quality, gender, race/ethnicity, feminism, social/economic class, disability, work, readers, LGBT+ characters, readers and/or authors, libraries/librarians, United States of America, Harlequin Mills & Boon, Publishing, family, fashion/clothing, teaching romance
Iqbal, Kundan The impact of romance novels on women's sexual and reproductive health 2014 readers, sex/sexuality
Burge, Amy; McAlister, Jodi; Ireland, Charlotte “Prince Charming with an Erection”: The Sensational Pleasures of the Bonkbuster 2024 bonkbuster, Jilly Cooper, Jackie Collins, Shirley Conran, Judith Krantz
Hogan, Patrick Colm; Irish, Bradley J.; Hogan, Lalita Pandit The Routledge Companion to Literature and Emotion 2022
Irons, Glenwood Gender, Language, and Myth: Essays on Popular Narrative 1992
Irvine, Janice M. Sexual Cultures and the Construction of Adolescent Identities 1994
Ivanski, Chantelle Judging a Book by Its Author's Gender 2019 trash/literary and or intellectual quality, gender
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
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
Iwai, Gaku Wartime Ideology in 'The Thimble': A Comparative Study of Popular Wartime Romance and the Anti-romance of D. H. Lawrence 2015 war/armed forces, Berta Ruck, gender, UK, national identity
Iwicka, Renata Manifestations of Male Image in the World's Cultures 2021
Izharuddin, Alicia Sweet Surrender: The Ethno-Religious Spaces of Malay Romance 2020 Malaysia, religion/spirituality
Izharuddin, Alicia Counterpublics of care: making space for mediated intimacy and romantic self-making in Malaysia 2021 readers, Malaysia, gender, emotions, marriage, Islam, love
Izharuddin, Alicia Reading the Digital Muslim Romance 2021 Muslim romance, Malaysia, readers, religion/spirituality, Islam, gender
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
Jackson, Stevi Women and Heterosexual Love: Complicity, Resistance and Change 1995 love, feminism, emotions, psychology, readers
Jackson, Nicole M. Finding Queer Black Women in Romance. Finding Bits and Pieces of Me. 2022 Nicole M. Jackson/Katrina Jackson/Brandy Bush, LGBT+ characters, readers and/or authors, African American romance, Rebekah Weatherspoon, Alyssa Cole, Ann Allen Shockley
Jackson, Nicole M. Freedom’s Epilogue: Love as Freedom in Alyssa Cole’s Historical Novellas 2022 Alyssa Cole, historical romance, history, race/ethnicity, African American romance, United States of America, emotions, love, family, community, marriage, LGBT+ characters, readers and/or authors, happy ending
Jackson, Elaine Riding the tosh horse: women writers of popular romance between the wars 2005 E. M. Hull, Berta Ruck, Marguerite Jervis/Oliver Sandys
Jackson, Elaine Sievier’s Monthly (1909): Pseudonyms and Readership in Early Twentieth Century Popular Fiction 2008 Marguerite Jervis/Oliver Sandys, Publishing, Older and/or precursor texts (may not be "romance" as now defined)
Jackson, Cia Harlequin Romance: The Power of Parody and Subversion 2017 Harlequin Mills & Boon
Jacquot, Clémence; Goossens, Vannina; Novakova, Iva Étude contrastive des motifs spécifiques aux romans sentimentaux et aux romans Harlequin 2020 linguistics, Harlequin Mills & Boon
Jagodzinski, Mallory Of Bustles and Breeches: Cross-dressing Romance Novel Heroines and the Performance of Gender Ideology 2010 cross-dressing, gender, Celeste Bradley, Eloisa James, Pam Rosenthal, fashion/clothing, sex/sexuality
Jagodzinski, Mallory Love is (Color) Blind: Historical Romance Fiction and Interracial Relationships in the Twenty-First Century 2015 Theresa Romain, Meredith Duran, Courtney Milan, race/ethnicity, historical romance, gender, disability, United States of America, history, rape and/or intimate partner violence/abuse
James, Edward; Mendlesohn, Farah The Cambridge Companion to Fantasy Literature 2012
Thomas, Glen; James, Bridie The Romance Industry: A Study of Reading and Writing Romance 2006 authors, readers
Jan, Jariah Mohd; Ujum, Diana Abu Negotiating Conflicts amongst Muslim Female Characters in Malay Romance Novels: A Narratological Perspective 2022 Malaysia, Muslim romance, gender
Jandl, Ingeborg; Knaller, Susanne; Schönfellner, Sabine; Tockner, Gudrun Writing Emotions: Theoretical Concepts and Selected Case Studies in Literature 2017
Konle, Leonard; Jannidis, Fotis Modeling Plots of Narrative Texts as Temporal Graphs 2022 linguistics
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
Janzen, Moira J. Georgette Heyer's Regency romances: serious literature or popular fiction? 1994 Georgette Heyer, trash/literary and or intellectual quality
Jarc, Klara Ljubezenski roman v Sloveniji: knjižnična izposoja, bralci in produkcija 2019 libraries/librarians, Slovenia, Publishing, readers
Jarmakani, Amira “The Sheik Who Loved Me”: Romancing the War on Terror 2010 sheikh romance, United States of America, war/armed forces, feminism, capitalism/business, race/ethnicity, Islam, gender, metaphor/symbolism
Jarmakani, Amira Desiring the Big Bad Blade: Racing the Sheikh in Desert Romances 2011 sheikh romance, race/ethnicity, sex/sexuality, paratext, fashion/clothing, United States of America, readers, Islam, Spain, religion/spirituality
Jarmakani, Amira An Imperialist Love Story: Desert Romances and the War on Terror 2015 sheikh romance, war/armed forces, United States of America, race/ethnicity, Islam, E. M. Hull, gender, marriage, rape and/or intimate partner violence/abuse
Jarmakani, Amira On Eligible Princes: The medieval modernity of sheikh romance 2020 sheikh romance
Jarmakani, Amira Desert Is Just Another Word for Freedom 2021 sheikh romance
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
Jarvis, Christine A. Desirable Reading: The Relationship between Women Students' Lives and their Reading Practices 2003 readers, teaching romance, gender, Islam, sex/sexuality, UK
Jarvis, Christine Romancing the Curriculum: Empowerment through Popular Culture 1995 teaching romance, readers
Jarvis, Christine Love Changes Everything: The Transformative Potential of Popular Romantic Fiction 1999 teaching romance, readers, feminism, Harlequin Mills & Boon, gender, sex/sexuality, marriage, rape and/or intimate partner violence/abuse, social/economic class, wealth/prosperity, race/ethnicity, Charlotte Brontë, China, UK
Jarvis, Christine Hungry Heroines: The Exploration of a "Generative Theme" in Romantic Fiction 2000
Jarvis, Christine Using Fiction for Transformation 2006 teaching romance, feminism, gender, readers
Bettinotti, Julia; Jeannesson, Gaëlle; Truel, Marie-Françoise Séries, suites et redites en culture médiatique 2002 sheikh romance, E. M. Hull, Johanna Lindsey, trash/literary and or intellectual quality
Jenkins, Beverly A Short History of African American Romance 2022 Older and/or precursor texts (may not be "romance" as now defined), Frances Watkins Harper, romances in magazines and newspapers, African American romance, Publishing, Beverly Jenkins
Clark, Beverly Lyon; Bernier, Karen Gennari; Henneberry-Nassau, Michelle; Jenks, Lauren Beth; Moorman, Angie J.; Rhoades, Marah Bianca Reading Romance, Reading Ourselves 1996 readers, feminism, sex/sexuality, trash/literary and or intellectual quality, teaching romance, Harlequin Mills & Boon, rape and/or intimate partner violence/abuse, race/ethnicity, capitalism/business
Jennings, Kathleen Heyer … in space! The influence of Georgette Heyer on science fiction 2021 Georgette Heyer, war/armed forces, Patricia Wrede, Tessa Dare
Jensen, Margaret Ann Women and Romantic Fiction: A Case Study of Harlequin Enterprises, Romances, and Readers 1980 Harlequin Mills & Boon, readers, capitalism/business, social/economic class, work
Jensen, Margaret Ann Love's $weet Return: The Harlequin Story 1984 Harlequin Mills & Boon, metafiction, readers, Publishing, virginity, sex/sexuality, paratext, work, authors, gender, happy ending, settings, race/ethnicity, social/economic class, rape and/or intimate partner violence/abuse, food, drink, fashion/clothing, love, marriage, feminism
Brooker, Will; Jermyn, Deborah The Audience Studies Reader 2002
Brickman, Barbara Jane; Jermyn, Deborah; Trost, Theodore Louis Love Across the Atlantic: US-UK Romance in Popular Culture 2020
Joannou, Maroula Women's Writing, Englishness and National and Cultural Identity: The Mobile Woman and the Migrant Voice, 1938-1962 2012 UK, war/armed forces, Daphne du Maurier, Older and/or precursor texts (may not be "romance" as now defined), Kathleen Winsor, Georgette Heyer, cross-dressing, fashion/clothing
Jocks, Yvonne Annette Adventure and Virtue: Alternating Emphasis in the Popular Romance Tradition 1988 Older and/or precursor texts (may not be "romance" as now defined)
Johnson, Valerie B. What a Canon Wants: Robin Hood, Romance Novels, and Carrie Lofty’s What a Scoundrel Wants 2018 Carrie Lofty, Older and/or precursor texts (may not be "romance" as now defined), historical romance, pirates and outlaws
Johnson, Naomi Ruth Consuming Desires: A Feminist Analysis of Bestselling Teen Romance Novels 2007 YA/teenage romance, capitalism/business, fashion/clothing, gender, sex/sexuality, Publishing
Johnson, Naomi R. Consuming Desires: Consumption, Romance, and Sexuality in Best-Selling Teen Romance Novels 2010 YA/teenage romance, Publishing, capitalism/business, fashion/clothing, gender, sex/sexuality
Johnson, Jacqueline E. Lusting out loud: racialized aurality, podcast intimacy, and the uses of thirst 2024 race/ethnicity, happy ending, sex/sexuality
Johnson, Heather Yorkshire English in Georgette Heyer's The Unknown Ajax 2017 languages, Georgette Heyer, historical romance
Johnson, Emily D. Exploring His/Her Library: Reading and Books in Russian Romance 2020 Russia, metafiction, authors, Harlequin Mills & Boon, Galina Kulikova, Natal’ia Mironova, Publishing, socialism and/or communism, trash/literary and or intellectual quality, race/ethnicity, rape and/or intimate partner violence/abuse
Schurman, Lydia Cushman; Johnson, Deidre Scorned Literature: Essays on the History and Criticism of Popular Mass-Produced Fiction in America 2002
Allen, Margaret; Blackburn, Jean; Johnson, Carol; King, Margaret; Mackinnon, Alison All Her Labours: Embroidering the Framework 1984
Johnson, Brian Weird Bedfellows: H. P. Lovecraft, m/m Romance, and the New Queer Families of Jordan L. Hawk's Whyborne & Griffin Series 2022 Jordan L. Hawk, m/m romance, paranormal/fantasy/time-travel romance, LGBT+ characters, readers and/or authors
Johnson-Kurek, Rosemary E. "I Am Not a Bimbo": Persona, Promotion, and the Fabulous Fabio 1999 Fabio Lanzoni, also known as Fabio, paratext
Johnson-Kurek, Rosemary E. Leading Us into Temptation: The Language of Sex and the Power of Love 1999 Harlequin Mills & Boon, feminism, sex/sexuality, erotic romance, linguistics, gender, virginity, rape and/or intimate partner violence/abuse, Abra Taylor, Candace Schuler, Lori Foster, Jennifer Crusie
Kaler, Anne K.; Johnson-Kurek, Rosemary E. Romantic Conventions 1999
Johnson-Woods, Toni Pulp: A Collector's Book of Australian Pulp Fiction Covers 2004 paratext
Johnson-Woods, Toni 'Adventures of a Squatter': A Colonial Male Romance 2010 LGBT+ characters, readers and/or authors, romances in magazines and newspapers, Older and/or precursor texts (may not be "romance" as now defined), m/m romance, Australia
Johnson-Woods, Toni; Sarwal, Amit Sold by the Millions: Australia's Bestsellers 2012
Fasick, Adele M.; Johnston, Margaret; Osler, Ruth Lands of Pleasure: Essays on Lillian H. Smith and the Development of Children's Libraries 1990
Harris, Alana; Jones, Timothy Willem Love and Romance in Britain, 1918-1970 2015
Harman, Sarah; Jones, Bethan Fifty shades of ghey: Snark fandom and the figure of the anti-fan 2013 Fifty Shades, readers, trash/literary and or intellectual quality, BDSM
Jones, Ann Rosalind Mills & Boon meets feminism 1986 feminism, Harlequin Mills & Boon, work, social/economic class, gender, sex/sexuality
Jones, Amanda Madness, Monks and Mutiny: Neo-Victorianism in the Work of Victoria Holt 2019 Victoria Holt/Jean Plaidy/Eleanor Burford Hibbert, gothic romance, romantic suspense, feminism, Charlotte Brontë, gender, marriage, family, Wilkie Collins, health/medical, Mary Elizabeth Braddon, India
Suleiman, Michael W.; Joseph, Suad; Cainkar, Louise Arab American Women: Representation and Refusal 2021
Jossart, Deborah A. Transforming the fairytale: a diachronic study of utopias of popular romance 2004 fairytales/folktales
Joyal, Amanda From Victorian literature to the romance novel: Disability and the courtship plot 2012 disability, Older and/or precursor texts (may not be "romance" as now defined), Charlotte Brontë, Dinah Craik, gender, Teresa Medeiros, Brenda Novak, Catherine Anderson, Erin McCarthy
Juhasz, Suzanne Texts to Grow On: Reading Women’s Romance Fiction 1988 genre definitions, psychology, readers, gender, love
Juhasz, Suzanne Reading from the Heart: Women, Literature, and the Search for True Love 1994 readers, psychology, Older and/or precursor texts (may not be "romance" as now defined), Jane Austen, Emily Brontë, Charlotte Brontë, Louisa May Alcott, Gloria Naylor, Isabel Miller, Valerie Taylor, lesbian romance
Juhasz, Suzanne Lesbian Romance Fiction and the Plotting of Desire: Narrative Theory, Lesbian Identity, and Reading Practice 1998 lesbian romance, LGBT+ characters, readers and/or authors, Sarah Aldridge, readers, gender, psychology, work, love, sex/sexuality, family
Jumelais, Yann De Delly à Dailey : les obstacles dans le roman sentimental 1990 Delly, Janet Dailey, genre definitions
Jurilla, Patricia May Bantug Tagalog bestsellers and the history of the book in the Philippines 2006 Philippines, Publishing, Older and/or precursor texts (may not be "romance" as now defined)
Jurilla, Patricia May Bantug Tagalog Bestsellers of the Twentieth Century: A History of the Book in the Philippines 2008 Philippines
Jussawalla, Feroza; Omran, Doaa Muslim Women’s Writing from across South and Southeast Asia 2022
K., Nikohl; Lennard, John A Reader's Companion to A Civil Campaign by Lois McMaster Bujold, Compiled and Presented to Her by Members of the Official LMB Mailing-List to Celebrate the Silver Anniversary of Shards of Honor 1986–2011 2011 Lois McMaster Bujold, Georgette Heyer, science fiction/futuristic romance
Kahn, Laurie Love Between the Covers 2015 authors, Jennifer Crusie, Eloisa James, Beverly Jenkins, Radclyffe/Len Barot
Kaler, Anne K. Conventions of Captivity in Romance Novels 1999 sheikh romance, religion/spirituality, settings, E. M. Hull, sex/sexuality, rape and/or intimate partner violence/abuse
Kaler, Anne K. Hero, Heroine, or HERA: A New Name for an Old Problem 1999 linguistics
Kaler, Anne K. Introduction: Conventions of the Romance Genre 1999 trash/literary and or intellectual quality
Kaler, Anne K.; Johnson-Kurek, Rosemary E. Romantic Conventions 1999
Rapp, Adrian; Dodgen, Lynda; Kaler, Anne K. A Romance Writer Gets Away with Murder 2000 Sandra Brown, romantic suspense, death
Kaler, Anne K. Dysfunctional Detectives and Romantic P.I.s: Impediments to the Happy Marriage of Mystery and Romance 2000 romantic suspense, gender
Kalisch, Philip A.; Kalisch, Beatrice J. The Changing Image of the Nurse 1987 medical romance, Mary Roberts Rinehart, work
Kalisch, Philip A.; Kalisch, Beatrice J. The Changing Image of the Nurse 1987 medical romance, Mary Roberts Rinehart, work
Kraaykamp, Gerbert; Kalmijn, Matthijs Een stille liefde. Over de lezeressen van romantische lectuur 1995 readers, social/economic class, Netherlands
Kamble, Jayashree Female Enfranchisement and the Popular Romance: Employing an Indian Perspective 2007 India, readers, gender, feminism, marriage, Linda Howard, Nora Roberts/J. D. Robb, Kim Lawrence, Lisa Kleypas, fashion/clothing, sex/sexuality, virginity
Kamble, Jayashree Uncovering and Recovering the Popular Romance Novel 2008 capitalism/business, war/armed forces, sex/sexuality, paratext, readers, India
Kamble, Jayashree Patriotism, Passion, and PTSD: The Critique of War in Popular Romance Fiction 2012 war/armed forces, United States of America, national identity, disability, Linda Howard, marriage, Gaelen Foley, Suzanne Brockmann, Sherrilyn Kenyon
Kamblé, Jayashree Making Meaning in Popular Romance Fiction: An Epistemology 2014 war/armed forces, capitalism/business, gender, race/ethnicity, Lisa Kleypas, Nora Roberts/J. D. Robb, genre definitions, Suzanne Brockmann, Gaelen Foley, Diana Gabaldon, Linda Howard, Sherrilyn Kenyon, Johanna Lindsey, Anne Mather, Lindsay McKenna, Judith McNaught, historical romance, paranormal/fantasy/time-travel romance, Susan Elizabeth Phillips, Julia Quinn, Nalini Singh, Violet Winspear, rape and/or intimate partner violence/abuse
Kamblé, Jayashree Branding a Genre: A Brief Transatlantic History of Romance Novel Cover Art 2016 paratext, Harlequin Mills & Boon, historical romance, trash/literary and or intellectual quality
Kamble, Jayashree From Barbarized to Disneyfied: Viewing 1990s New York City Through Eve Dallas, J.D. Robb’s Futuristic Homicide Detective 2017 Nora Roberts/J. D. Robb, science fiction/futuristic romance, capitalism/business, romantic suspense
Kamblé, Jayashree When Wuxia Met Romance: The Pleasures and Politics of Transculturalism in Sherry Thomas’s My Beautiful Enemy 2020 Sherry Thomas, China, war/armed forces, race/ethnicity, historical romance, UK, gender, national identity, family
Kamblé, Jayashree; Selinger, Eric Murphy; Teo, Hsu-Ming Introduction 2021 romance scholarship
Kamblé, Jayashree Romance in the media 2021 trash/literary and or intellectual quality, genre definitions, paratext, sex/sexuality
Kamblé, Jayashree; Selinger, Eric Murphy; Teo, Hsu-Ming The Routledge Research Companion to Popular Romance Fiction 2021 romance scholarship
Kamblé, Jayashree Creating Identity: The Popular Romance Heroine's Journey to Selfhood and Self-Presentation 2023 gender, sex/sexuality, work, national identity, race/ethnicity, Susan Napier, Nora Roberts/J. D. Robb, Karen Marie Moning, Lisa Kleypas, Beverly Jenkins, Linda Howard, Kresley Cole, Joanna Bourne, Sherry Thomas, Alyssa Cole, metafiction, social/economic class, community, emotions
Kamblé, Jayashree Romancing the University: BIPOC Scholars in Romance Novels in the 1980s and Now 2023 race/ethnicity, Sandra Kitt, Barbara Stephens, Adriana Herrera, Nicole M. Jackson/Katrina Jackson/Brandy Bush, Talia Hibbert, African American romance, work, romance and, or as, activism
Kamblé, Jayashree The origins of U.S. mass-market category romance novels: Black editors and writers in the early 1980s 2023 race/ethnicity, Publishing, Vivian Stephens, United States of America, social/economic class, work, Rosalind Welles - pen name of Elsie B. Washington, Lia Sanders - pen name of Angela Jackson and Sandra Jackson-Opoku, Sandra Kitt, Barbara Stephens, Valerie Flournoy, history, sex/sexuality, Rochelle Alers, Donna Hill
Kamitsuka, Margaret D. Prolife Christian Romance Novels: A Sign that the Abortion-as-Murder Center Is Not Holding? 2020 Christian romance, religion/spirituality, health/medical, rape and/or intimate partner violence/abuse, Francine Rivers, family, United States of America
Kanerick, Caroline ‘A Jazzed and Patchwork Modern’: ‘future’ girls and modern masculinities in the early popular romances of Berta Ruck 2010 Berta Ruck, gender, history, trash/literary and or intellectual quality, family, community, fashion/clothing, sex/sexuality, war/armed forces, LGBT+ characters, readers and/or authors
Kania, Richard R. E. Pirates and Piracy in American Popular Culture 2014 pirates and outlaws, historical romance, Daphne du Maurier
Kapell, Matthew; Becker, Suzanne Patriarchy, the Christian Romance Novel, and the 'Ecosystem of Sex' 2005 Christian romance, sex/sexuality, feminism, religion/spirituality, Janette Oke, Francine Rivers, readers, Jane Almquist
Kapila, Shuchi Educating Seeta: The Anglo-Indian Family Romance and the Poetics of Indirect Rule 2010 India, Older and/or precursor texts (may not be "romance" as now defined), Flora Annie Steel, Maud Diver, Bithia Mary Croker, Alice Perrin
Kaplan, Deborah "Why would any woman want to read such stories?": The Distinctions Between Genre Romances and Slash Fictions 2012 fanfiction, genre definitions, LGBT+ characters, readers and/or authors, Suzanne Brockmann, gender
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
Karaminas, Vicki; Geczy, Adam; Gibson, Pamela Church Fashionable Masculinities: Queers, Pimp Daddies, and Lumbersexuals 2022
Helgason, Jon; Kärrholm, Sara; Steiner, Ann Hype: Bestsellers and Literary Cultures 2014
Coote, Lesley; Kaufman, Alexander L. Robin Hood and the Outlaw/ed Literary Canon 2018
Kaufman, Alexander L.; Vlagopoulos, Penny Food and Feast in Modern Outlaw Tales 2019
Kaveney, Roz Dark fantasy and paranormal romance 2012 paranormal/fantasy/time-travel romance, Charlaine Harris, Laurell K. Hamilton, Twilight
Kaye, Marilyn Janice The nature of didacticism as related to romance and sexuality in young adult novels 1965-1978 1983 YA/teenage romance
Kebadze, Nino Fictions of Surrender: Romance and Exemplarity in Post-War Spanish Women's Narratives 2007 Luisa-María Linares, Concha Linares-Becerra, Carmen de Icaza, Spain, fascism/right-wing authoritarianism, gender
Kebadze, Nino Romance and Exemplarity in Post-War Spanish Women's Narratives 2009 Luisa-María Linares, Concha Linares-Becerra, Carmen de Icaza, María Mercedes Ortoll, gender, fascism/right-wing authoritarianism, Spain
Keegan, Faye Jessica Soft metafiction(s) : Mary Stewart and the self-reflective middlebrow 2016 Mary Stewart, romantic suspense, trash/literary and or intellectual quality, national identity, history, metafiction, fairytales/folktales, gothic romance, UK
Keegan, Faye ‘Snob Value’: Gender and Literary Value in Mary Stewart 2017 Mary Stewart, romantic suspense, trash/literary and or intellectual quality, gender, authors
Keen, Suzanne Probable Impossibilities: Historical Romance Readers Talk Back 2018 Diana Gabaldon, readers, history
Kelly, Patricia P. Transitional Novels for Readers of Teen Romances 1991 YA/teenage romance
Kelly, Brendan D. Medical Romance 2007 medical romance
Kelly, Brendan D. Medical romance: love never dies 2016 medical romance
Kelman, Suanne Heroine addiction 1995 Georgette Heyer, Harlequin Mills & Boon, Jennifer Crusie, Margaret Moore, Susanna Kearsley
Kelso, Sylvia Singularities: the interaction of feminism(s) and two strands of popular American fiction, 1968-89 1996 gothic romance, Barbara Michaels a.k.a. Elizabeth Peters a.k.a. Barbara Mertz, Phyllis A. Whitney, feminism
Kelso, Sylvia Stitching Time: Feminism(s) and Thirty Years of Gothic Romance 1997 gothic romance, Barbara Michaels a.k.a. Elizabeth Peters a.k.a. Barbara Mertz, feminism, family
Kemppinen, Anne-Mari Katriina Translating for popular literature with special reference to Harlequin books and their Finnish translations 1988 translation, Harlequin Mills & Boon, Finland
Kemppinen, Anne Translation for Popular Literature with Special Reference to Harlequin Books and their Finnish Translation 1989 translation, Finland, Harlequin Mills & Boon
Kendal, Evie The use of free indirect discourse in J. R. Ward's Black Dagger Brotherhood series 2019 J. R. Ward, close reading, linguistics, genre definitions, paranormal/fantasy/time-travel romance, readers
Kendra, April Silver Forks, Stereotypes, and Regency Romance 2007 Older and/or precursor texts (may not be "romance" as now defined), historical romance
Kerr, Ashley Elizabeth Indigenous Lovers and Villainous Scientists: Rewriting Nineteenth-Century Ideas of Race in Argentine Romance Novels 2019 history, race/ethnicity, Argentina, science/technology, national identity, historical romance
Khuankaew, Sasinee Femininity and masculinity in three selected twentieth-century Thai romance fictions 2015 gender, Thailand, Buddhism, marriage, sex/sexuality, feminism, religion/spirituality
Khuankaew, Sasinee Femininity and Masculinity in Twenty-First Century Thai Romantic Fictions 2017 gender, Thailand, sex/sexuality, Buddhism
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
Kies, Bridget Saying “I Don’t”: Queer Romance in the Post–Marriage Equality World 2024 marriage, happy ending, LGBT+ characters, readers and/or authors, film/movies, Alexis Hall
Killeen, Jarlath Nora Roberts: the Power of Love 2018 Nora Roberts/J. D. Robb, love
Killing, Peter Harlequin Enterprises Limited: Case Material of the Western School of Business Administration 1978 Publishing
Lin, Pei-yin; Kim, Su Yun East Asian Transwar Popular Culture: Literature and Film from Taiwan and Korea 2019 Taiwan, Korea, Older and/or precursor texts (may not be "romance" as now defined)
Kinard, Amanda Marette Forbidden Pleasures: The Romance and Its Readers 1999 sex/sexuality, social/economic class, virginity, readers, capitalism/business, wealth/prosperity
Allen, Margaret; Blackburn, Jean; Johnson, Carol; King, Margaret; Mackinnon, Alison All Her Labours: Embroidering the Framework 1984
King, Laura The Perfect Man: Fatherhood, Masculinity and Romance in Popular Culture in Mid-Twentieth-Century Britain 2015 family, gender, marriage, history, UK
Towheed, Shafquat; King, Edmund G. C. Reading and the First World War: Readers, Texts, Archives 2015
Kingston, Elizabeth History's Been Hijacked: How To Combat White Supremacy Through Popular Literature 2018 historical romance, race/ethnicity, history, Elizabeth Kingston, Publishing, UK, social/economic class
Kinsale, Laura The Androgynous Reader: Point of View in the Romance 1992 readers, gender, psychology, happy ending, feminism, paratext
Hotz-Davies, Ingrid; Kirchhofer, Anton; Leppänen, Sirpa Internet Fictions 2009
Kirkham, Pat; Thoms, David War Culture: Social Change and Changing Experience in World War Two Britain 1995
Kirkland, Catherine Elisabeth For The Love Of It: Women Writers And The Popular Romance 1984 authors, work, Publishing, feminism, trash/literary and or intellectual quality
Vinson, James; Kirkpatrick, D. L. Twentieth Century Romance and Gothic Writers 1982 Jane Aiken Hodge, Effie Adelaide Rowlands, also known as Madame Albanesi, Lucilla Andrews, Jane Arbor, Elizabeth Ashton, Ruby M. Ayres, Faith Baldwin, Florence Barclay, Betty Beaty, Lilian Warren as Kathryn Blair/Rosalind Brett/Celine Conway, Mary Burchell, pen name of Ida Cook, Barbara Cartland, Catherine Cookson, Marie Corelli, Janet Dailey, Iris Danbury, Ethel M. Dell, Viña Delmar, Joyce Dingwell/Kate Starr, Maud Diver, Daphne du Maurier, Dorothy Eden, Eleanor Farnes, Jeffrey Farnol, Charles Garvice, Roberta Gellis, Elinor Glyn, Maysie Greig, Anne Hampson, Georgette Heyer, Grace Livingston Hill, Victoria Holt/Jean Plaidy/Eleanor Burford Hibbert, Elizabeth Hoy, E. M. Hull, Charlotte Lamb, Roumelia Lane, Roberta Leigh/Rachel Lindsay, Jean S. MacLeod/Catherine Airlie, Anne Mather, Patricia Matthews, Barbara Michaels a.k.a. Elizabeth Peters a.k.a. Barbara Mertz, Margaret Mitchell, Netta Muskett, Betty Neels, Kathleen Thompson Norris, Kate Norway/Olive Norton, Baroness Orczy, Margaret Pargeter, Mary Roberts Rinehart, Denise Robins, Rosemary Rogers, Margaret Rome, Berta Ruck, Rafael Sabatini, Sara Seale, Danielle Steel, Mary Stewart, Rebecca Stratton, Essie Summers, Annie S. Swan, Kay Thorpe, Patricia Veryan, Lucy Walker, Margaret Way, Phyllis A. Whitney, Kathleen Winsor, Violet Winspear, Kathleen Woodiwiss, Mary Lutyens/Esther Wyndham
Henderson, Lesley; Kirkpatrick, D. L. Twentieth-Century Romance and Historical Writers (2nd edition) 1990 historical romance, Older and/or precursor texts (may not be "romance" as now defined), Effie Adelaide Rowlands, also known as Madame Albanesi, Lucilla Andrews, Elizabeth Ashton, Ruby M. Ayres, Faith Baldwin, Florence Barclay, Betty Beaty, Lilian Warren as Kathryn Blair/Rosalind Brett/Celine Conway, Barbara Taylor Bradford, Sandra Brown, Mary Burchell, pen name of Ida Cook, Barbara Cartland, Catherine Cookson, Marie Corelli, Janet Dailey, Iris Danbury, Barbara Delinsky, Ethel M. Dell, Viña Delmar, Jude Deveraux, Joyce Dingwell/Kate Starr, Maud Diver, Jane Donnelly, Daphne du Maurier, Dorothy Eden, Eleanor Farnes, Jeffrey Farnol, Charles Garvice, Roberta Gellis, Elinor Glyn, Maysie Greig, Anne Hampson, Georgette Heyer, Robert Hitchens, Grace Livingston Hill, Margery Hilton, Jane Aiken Hodge, Victoria Holt/Jean Plaidy/Eleanor Burford Hibbert, Linda Howard, Susan Howatch, Elizabeth Hoy, E. M. Hull, Elizabeth Hunter, Iris Johansen, Susan Johnson, Jayne Ann Krentz/Amanda Quick/Jayne Castle, Charlotte Lamb, Roumelia Lane, Laura Jean Libbey, Roberta Leigh/Rachel Lindsay, Johanna Lindsey, Elizabeth Lowell, Jean S. MacLeod/Catherine Airlie, Anne Mather, Patricia Matthews, Anne Maybury, Colleen McCullough, Judith McNaught, Barbara Michaels a.k.a. Elizabeth Peters a.k.a. Barbara Mertz, Fern Michaels, Margaret Mitchell, Netta Muskett, Betty Neels, Kathleen Thompson Norris, Kate Norway/Olive Norton, Baroness Orczy, Diana Palmer, Margaret Pargeter, Mary Renault, Mary Roberts Rinehart, Francine Rivers, Nora Roberts/J. D. Robb, Denise Robins, Rosemary Rogers, Margaret Rome, Berta Ruck, Rafael Sabatini, Kathleen Gilles Seidel, Alexandra Sellers, Anya Seton, Valerie Sherwood, Bertrice Small, LaVyrle Spencer, Danielle Steel, Mary Stewart, Rebecca Stratton, Essie Summers, Annie S. Swan, Kay Thorpe, Patricia Veryan, Lucy Walker, Margaret Way, Anne Weale, Jean Webster, Phyllis A. Whitney, Kathleen Winsor, Violet Winspear, Kathleen Woodiwiss, Mary Lutyens/Esther Wyndham
Kirtley, William M.; Kirtley, Patricia M. Happily, Ever After: An Analysis of Romance Novels 2021 genre definitions
Kirtley, William M.; Kirtley, Patricia M. How About a Little Romance?: An Analysis of Romance Novels 2021 genre definitions
Kirtley, William M.; Kirtley, Patricia M. Happily, Ever After: An Analysis of Romance Novels 2021 genre definitions
Kirtley, William M.; Kirtley, Patricia M. How About a Little Romance?: An Analysis of Romance Novels 2021 genre definitions
Kitchen, Veronica Veterans and Military Masculinity in Popular Romance Fiction 2018 war/armed forces, gender, disability
Kiyawa, Haruna Alkasim Female Readers as Literary Critics: Reading Experiences of Kano Market Romance Fiction 2021 Nigeria, readers
Klaber, Lara Taming the Perfect Beast: the Monster as Romantic Hero in Contemporary Fiction 2014 Twilight, paranormal/fantasy/time-travel romance
Klarich, Morgan L. Multiculturalism, Sex, and Powerful Women: The New Romance Novel as the Voice of Neofeminism? 2012 feminism, sex/sexuality, gender, race/ethnicity, United States of America
Kloester, Jennifer V. Georgette Heyer: writing the Regency. History in fiction from Regency Buck to Lady of Quality 1935-1972 2004 Georgette Heyer, history, historical romance