Bibliography

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Turner, Ellen The Sheik Returns: Imitations and Parodies of the Desert Romance 2014 E. M. Hull, sheikh romance, trash/literary and or intellectual quality, sex/sexuality, Harlequin Mills & Boon, rape and/or intimate partner violence/abuse
Trevenen, Claire Fifty Shades of “Mommy Porn”: A Post-GFC Renegotiation of Paternal Law 2014 Fifty Shades, gender, family, sex/sexuality, BDSM, capitalism/business, race/ethnicity
Helgason, Jon; Kärrholm, Sara; Steiner, Ann Hype: Bestsellers and Literary Cultures 2014
Greenfeld-Benovitz, Miriam The Interactive Romance Community: The Case of "Covers Gone Wild" 2014 community, readers, paratext
Roach, Catherine M. 'Going Native': Aca-Fandom and Deep Participant Observation in Popular Romance Studies 2014 authors, romance scholarship
Uparkar, Shilpa Desi love stories: Harlequin Mills & Boon’s Indian enterprise 2014 Harlequin Mills & Boon, India, languages
Percec, Dana Reading the Fantastic Imagination: The Avatars of a Literary Genre 2014
Wilt, Judith Women Writers and the Hero of Romance 2014 Older and/or precursor texts (may not be "romance" as now defined), E. M. Hull, gender, Baroness Orczy, Twilight, Fifty Shades
Fletcher, Lisa Writing the Happy Ever After: An Interview with Anne Gracie 2014 Anne Gracie, trash/literary and or intellectual quality, metafiction, Jane Austen, readers, emotions, family, wealth/prosperity, sex/sexuality, happy ending
Helgason, Jon; Kärrholm, Sara; Steiner, Ann Hype: Bestsellers and Literary Cultures 2014
Selinger, Eric Murphy My Metatextual Romance: Thinking With (and About) Jaane Tu Ya Janne Na 2014 film/movies, metafiction
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
Fragero Guerra, Carmen Auxilio Social en La casa de enfrente (1960) de Carmen de Icaza 2014 Carmen de Icaza, Spain, fascism/right-wing authoritarianism
Hartmann, Britta Ulrike Island fictions: Castaways and imperialism 2014 settings, islands, Violet Winspear, Margery Hilton, Ginna Gray, Julie Tetel Andresen, Penelope Neri, Donna Simpson, Darlene Marshall, Jill Shalvis, Kandy Shepherd, Tracey Garvis Graves
Chivers, Marian The Warrior Woman in Contemporary Romance Fiction 2014 war/armed forces, Harlequin Mills & Boon, gender, feminism, paratext, work, romantic suspense, Justine Davis/Justine Dare, Amy J. Fetzer, Katherine Garbera, Meredith Fletcher, Catherine Mann, Debra Webb, community
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
Bellanta, Melissa A Masculine Romance: The Sentimental Bloke and Australian Culture in the War-and Early Interwar Years 2014 Australia, gender, love, C. J. Dennis, film/movies
Faktorovich, Anna The Formulas of Popular Fiction: Elements of Fantasy, Science Fiction, Romance, Religious and Mystery Novels 2014
Fragero Guerra, Carmen "Soñar la vida": La narrativa de Carmen de Icaza (1936-1960) 2014 Carmen de Icaza, Luisa-María Linares, history, Spain, fascism/right-wing authoritarianism, social/economic class, fashion/clothing, film/movies
Armstrong, Jane; Byrski, Liz; Merrick, Helen Love works: Reading and writing romance in the twenty-first century 2014 readers, authors
Driscoll, Beth Genre, Author, Text, Reader: Teaching Nora Roberts’s Spellbound 2014 teaching romance, Nora Roberts/J. D. Robb
Graves, Joanne Beyond Valentine's Day: The romance novel in the evolving world of publishing 2014 New Zealand, libraries/librarians
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
McLennon, Leigh Defining Urban Fantasy and Paranormal Romance: Crossing Boundaries of Genre, Media, Self and Other in New Supernatural Worlds 2014 paranormal/fantasy/time-travel romance, genre definitions
Στάμου, Εύα Η επέλαση της ροζ λογοτεχνίας. Δοκίμιο για την Ευδοκίμηση μιας Μορφής Αφηγηματικού Λόγου 2014
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
Taylor, Jessica Romance and the Female Gaze Obscuring Gendered Violence in The Twilight Saga 2014 gender, rape and/or intimate partner violence/abuse, Twilight
Hague, Euan Mass Market Romance Fiction and the Representation of Scotland in the United States 2014 Scotland, United States of America, settings, Terri Brisbin, Blythe Gifford, Susan Fraser King, Margaret Mallory, historical romance, Diana Gabaldon, paranormal/fantasy/time-travel romance, linguistics, history, readers
Armstrong, Jane; Byrski, Liz; Merrick, Helen Love works: Reading and writing romance in the twenty-first century 2014 readers, authors
Andrade, Roberta Manuela Barros de; Silva, Erotilde Honório Os Romances Sentimentais e suas Comunidades de Leitura 2014 Brazil, readers
Borgia, Danielle N. Twilight: The Glamorization of Abuse, Codependency, and White Privilege 2014 paranormal/fantasy/time-travel romance, Twilight, gender, rape and/or intimate partner violence/abuse, race/ethnicity, religion/spirituality
Elliott, Jack Patterns and Trends in Harlequin Category Romance 2014 Harlequin Mills & Boon, linguistics, authors
Walker, Lisa Polar bears and evil scientists: Romance, comedy and climate change 2014 science/technology, romance and, or as, activism, authors, settings, ecocriticism/environmentalism/climate change
Bronstein, Carolyn The Political Uses of Lesbian Romance Fiction: Reading Patrick Califia’s Macho Sluts as a Response to 1980s Anti-Pornography Feminism 2014 BDSM, LGBT+ characters, readers and/or authors, Patrick Califia
Deffenbacher, Kristina Rape Myths' Twilight and Women's Paranormal Revenge in Romantic and Urban Fantasy Fiction 2014 rape and/or intimate partner violence/abuse, paranormal/fantasy/time-travel romance, gender, Twilight, Patricia Briggs, Nicole Peeler, Kresley Cole, Larissa Ione, Christine Feehan, J. R. Ward, Dianne Sylvan, Richelle Mead, Karen Marie Moning, Charlaine Harris
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
Newell, Stephanie; Okome, Onookome Popular Culture in Africa: The Episteme of the Everyday 2014
Neves, Mariana Brasileiro ROMANCES DE BOLSO: A novela romântica da Harlequin Books no mercado editorial brasileiro 2014 Harlequin Mills & Boon, Brazil
Tang, Yang Between Fantasy and Reality: Time-Travel Romance and Media Fandom in Chinese Cyberspace 2014 China, paranormal/fantasy/time-travel romance
Warnes, Christopher Desired State: Black Economic Empowerment and the South African Popular Romance 2014 Africa, work, race/ethnicity, South Africa, gender
Armstrong, Jane; Byrski, Liz; Merrick, Helen Love works: Reading and writing romance in the twenty-first century 2014 readers, authors
Andrade, Roberta Manuela Barros de; Silva, Erotilde Honório Os Romances Sentimentais e suas Comunidades de Leitura 2014 Brazil, readers
Ávila, Debbie Maria Conflicting Images of Womanhood in the Novels of Alice Ogando 2014 Alice Ogando writing as Mary Love, Portugal, fascism/right-wing authoritarianism, gender, marriage, family, love
Crawford, Joseph The Twilight of the Gothic? Vampire Fiction and the Rise of the Paranormal Romance, 1991-2012 2014 paranormal/fantasy/time-travel romance, genre definitions, Twilight, gothic romance
Arthur, Paul Longley; Bode, Katherine Advancing Digital Humanities: Research, Methods, Theories 2014
Illouz, Eva Hard-Core Romance: Fifty Shades of Grey, Best-Sellers, and Society 2014 Fifty Shades, BDSM
Newell, Stephanie; Okome, Onookome Popular Culture in Africa: The Episteme of the Everyday 2014
Lozano Sampedro, Mª Teresa La culture et le travail de la femme. Une approche comparative entre Delly et Corín Tellado 2014 Delly, Corín Tellado, work, marriage, fairytales/folktales, Older and/or precursor texts (may not be "romance" as now defined)
Reid Boyd, Elizabeth Romancing feminism: From women’s studies to women’s fiction 2014 feminism, love, readers, Elizabeth Reid Boyd (pen name Eliza Redgold)
Dugger, Julie M. “I’m a Feminist, But…” Popular Romance in the Women’s Literature Classroom 2014 feminism, teaching romance, readers, Jane Austen, trash/literary and or intellectual quality
Slušná, Zuzana Paranormal and Religious as Part of Pop Cultural Consumerism 2014 paranormal/fantasy/time-travel romance, religion/spirituality
Arthur, Paul Longley; Bode, Katherine Advancing Digital Humanities: Research, Methods, Theories 2014
Kania, Richard R. E. Pirates and Piracy in American Popular Culture 2014 pirates and outlaws, historical romance, Daphne du Maurier
Fordham, Helen ‘That’s love for you’: Destabilizing divides and re-imaging subjectivities in the romantic fiction of Eloisa James 2014 trash/literary and or intellectual quality, readers, Eloisa James, Shakespeare
Burge, Amy ‘For you are a man and she is a maid’: Performing masculinity in Orientalist medieval and modern popular romance fiction 2014 sheikh romance, Older and/or precursor texts (may not be "romance" as now defined), gender, Harlequin Mills & Boon, settings, fashion/clothing
Rani, Mohd. Zariat Abdul The Conflict of Love and Islam: The Main Ingredients in the Popular Islamic Novels of Malaysia 2014 Malaysia, Islam, religion/spirituality, Zaid Akhtar, Ilham Hamdani, paratext, Publishing, Muslim romance
Morrissey, Katherine Fifty Shades of Remix: The Intersecting Pleasures of Commercial and Fan Romances 2014 Fifty Shades, fanfiction
Teo, Hsu-Ming “We have to learn to love imperially”: Love in Late Colonial and Federation Australian Romance Novels 2014 Australia, Older and/or precursor texts (may not be "romance" as now defined), love, gender, marriage, national identity, Mary Bradford Whiting, UK, race/ethnicity, family, sex/sexuality, rape and/or intimate partner violence/abuse, Broda Reynolds, Mabel Forrest, Marie Bjelke Petersen, Alice Grant Rosman, Rosa Praed, rural romance, settings, work, Ada Cambridge
Leith, Murray Stewart; Sim, Duncan The Modern Scottish Diaspora: Contemporary Debates and Perspectives 2014
Goşa, Codruţa From Fantastic Twilight to Fifty Shades Fanfiction: Not Another Cinderella Story... 2014 Fifty Shades, Twilight, fairytales/folktales, fanfiction
O'Mahony, Lauren Australian rural romance as feminist romance? 2014 rural romance, gender, feminism, Australia, work, Rachael Treasure, Nicole Alexander, Karly Lane
Ebert, Teresa L. Hegel's “picture-thinking” as the interpretive logic of the popular 2014 capitalism/business, social/economic class, religion/spirituality, Linda Howard, philosophy, emotions
Mayfield, Kerrita K. Liminal eRoticism: Emerging Forms of Gender Identity and Performance in e-Romances and Their Feminist Electronic Communities 2014 feminism, Publishing, gender, erotic romance, LGBT+ characters, readers and/or authors, Jeanne Laws, chick lit, Shelly Laurenston, race/ethnicity, paranormal/fantasy/time-travel romance, happy ending, BDSM, m/m romance
Petersson, Sara; Söderberg, Daniel En berättelse tar form - en studie i hur geometrisk form på bokomslag indikerar populärlitterär genre 2014 paratext
Hamlyn, Eleanor Reading the Genre Codes in Giorgio Scerbanenco's Hybridised Romanzi Rosa 2014 Giorgio Scerbanenco, romantic suspense
Quale, Amy E. Pursuit of Empowerment: The Evolution of the Romance Novel and Its Readership in Fifty Shades of Grey 2014 Fifty Shades
Leith, Murray Stewart; Sim, Duncan The Modern Scottish Diaspora: Contemporary Debates and Perspectives 2014
Novak, Julia Nell Gwyn in Contemporary Romance Novels: Biography and the Dictates of 'Genre Literature' 2014 history, historical romance
McAlister, Jodi ‘That complete fusion of spirit as well as body’: Heroines, heroes, desire and compulsory demisexuality in the Harlequin Mills & Boon romance novel 2014 Harlequin Mills & Boon, sex/sexuality, love, gender, Denise Robins, Lynne Graham
O'Byrne, Patricia Post-War Spanish Women Novelists and the Recuperation of Historical Memory 2014 Spain
Greco, Barbara; Pache Carballo, Laura Variaciones de lo metarreal en la España de los siglos XX y XXI 2014
Russell, Shannon Dangerous Young Men: Themes of Female Sexuality and Masculinity in Paranormal Romance Novels for Young Adults 2014 YA/teenage romance, paranormal/fantasy/time-travel romance, sex/sexuality, gender, rape and/or intimate partner violence/abuse
Barletta, Sandra A. Cougars, Grannies, Evil Stepmothers, and Menopausal Hot Flashers: Roles, Representations of Age, and the Non-traditional Romance Heroine 2014 ageism, Sandra Antonelli/Sandra A. Barletta
Petersson, Sara; Söderberg, Daniel En berättelse tar form - en studie i hur geometrisk form på bokomslag indikerar populärlitterär genre 2014 paratext
O'Mahony, Lauren Teaching an Old Dog New Tricks?: Romance, Ethics and Human-Dog Relationships in a Rural Australian Novel 2014 animals, rural romance, Rachael Treasure, Australia, gender, work, death
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
Iqbal, Kundan The impact of romance novels on women's sexual and reproductive health 2014 readers, sex/sexuality
Wood, Christine V. Tender Heroes and Twilight Lovers: Re-Reading the Romance in Mass-Market Pulp Novels, 1950–1965 2014 LGBT+ characters, readers and/or authors, gender, United States of America, Older and/or precursor texts (may not be "romance" as now defined), Paula Christian, Ann Bannon, Randy Salem, sex/sexuality
Helgason, Jon; Kärrholm, Sara; Steiner, Ann Hype: Bestsellers and Literary Cultures 2014
Radhika, P. Inaugurating a (Feminine) Public: Women’s Romances in Kannada, 1950s–1960s 2014 India, psychology
Robertson, Rachel ‘Driven by Tens’: Obsession and cognitive difference in Toni Jordan’s romantic comedy Addition 2014 disability, Toni Jordan
Chess, Shira Strange Bedfellows: Subjectivity, Romance, and Hidden Object Video Games 2014 computer/video/digital games, Harlequin Mills & Boon, metafiction, Christen Anne Kelley
Pagliassotti, Dru Love and the Machine: Technology and Human Relationships in Steampunk Romance and Erotica 2013 steampunk, science/technology, health/medical, sex/sexuality
Satoh, Kyoko Ideologically Constructed Intimacy: Personal Address in Japanese Romance Novels 2013 Japan, linguistics, love
Wu, Yan; Mallan, Kerry; McGillis, Roderick (Re)Imagining the World: Children’s Literature’s Response to Changing Times 2013
Travis, Melissa E. Assume the Position: Exploring Discipline Relationships 2013 BDSM
Fletcher, Lisa The Scholarship of Teaching and Learning Popular Romance Studies: What is it, and why does it matter? 2013 teaching romance
Goris, An Happily Ever After ... And After: Serialization and the Popular Romance Novel 2013 genre definitions, Publishing, community, readers, happy ending, Nora Roberts/J. D. Robb, J. R. Ward, work, family, love
Basu, Balaka; Broad, Katherine R.; Hintz, Carrie Contemporary Dystopian Fiction for Young Adults: Brave New Teenagers 2013
Hamilton, Cristen Vindicating the Historical Romance 2013 historical romance, Sabrina Jeffries, work, Jude Deveraux, Christina Dodd, marriage, Lisa Kleypas, gender, Elizabeth Boyle, happy ending, Laura Lee Guhrke, Cathy Maxwell
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
Taddeo, Julie Anne Corsets of Steel: Steampunk's Reimagining of Victorian Femininity 2013 fashion/clothing, steampunk, feminism, gender, history
Nowicka, Katarzyna How to Romance the Masses – Problems of Translating Light Romantic Fiction in Poland 2013 translation, Poland, Harlequin Mills & Boon
Cabrera, Christine; Ménard, Amy Dana 'She Exploded into a Million Pieces': A Qualitative and Quantitative Analysis of Orgasms in Contemporary Romance Novels 2013 sex/sexuality, psychology
Wu, Yan; Mallan, Kerry; McGillis, Roderick (Re)Imagining the World: Children’s Literature’s Response to Changing Times 2013
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
Basu, Balaka; Broad, Katherine R.; Hintz, Carrie Contemporary Dystopian Fiction for Young Adults: Brave New Teenagers 2013
Harris, Marlene A new breed of romance: romance authors who find themselves publishing via both traditional contracts and the new world of the self-published are living a hybrid life 2013 Publishing, authors, libraries/librarians, Sophie Barnes, Bella Andre, Courtney Milan, Mary Jo Putney, Jane Porter, Candis Terry
Cabrera, Christine; Ménard, Amy Dana 'She Exploded into a Million Pieces': A Qualitative and Quantitative Analysis of Orgasms in Contemporary Romance Novels 2013 sex/sexuality, psychology
Hirdman, Anja 'Det ska bli en ära att få tillfredsställa dig!' Ideal manlighet i Harlequinromanen 2013 gender, Harlequin Mills & Boon
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
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
Basu, Balaka; Broad, Katherine R.; Hintz, Carrie Contemporary Dystopian Fiction for Young Adults: Brave New Teenagers 2013
Woods, Robert H. Evangelical Christians and Popular Culture: Pop Goes the Gospel. Volume 2: Literature, Music, Popular Art, and Merchandise 2013
Raw, Laurence The Silk Road of Adaptation: Transformations across Disciplines and Cultures 2013
Parra Membrives, Eva Trivialidades literarias: Reflexiones en torno a la literatura de entretenimiento 2013
Barr, Elizabeth “Who the devil wrote that?”: Intertextuality and Authorial Reputation in Georgette Heyer’s Venetia 2013 Georgette Heyer, trash/literary and or intellectual quality, Shakespeare, religion/spirituality
Fragero Guerra, Carmen Fifty shades of grey: Una novela popular en España 2013 Fifty Shades, Carmen de Icaza, Spain
Fjelkestam, Kristina; Hill, Helena; Tjeder, David Kvinnorna gör mannen: maskulinitetskonstruktioner i kvinnors text och bild 1500-2000 2013
Whyte, Tamara Lynn Shakespeare in Love: Appropriation of Shakespeare in Popular Romance Novels 2013 Shakespeare
Broad, Katherine R. “The Dandelion in the Spring”: Utopia as Romance in Suzanne Collins’s The Hunger Games Trilogy 2013 YA/teenage romance, Suzanne Collins, war/armed forces, family, gender, feminism
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
Frost, Laura The Problem with Pleasure: Modernism and Its Discontents 2013 E. M. Hull, trash/literary and or intellectual quality, romance scholarship, sex/sexuality, readers
Feng, Jin Romancing the Internet: Producing and Consuming Chinese Web Romance 2013 China
Fjelkestam, Kristina; Hill, Helena; Tjeder, David Kvinnorna gör mannen: maskulinitetskonstruktioner i kvinnors text och bild 1500-2000 2013
Pylkkänen, Merita Didactic Fulfillment and the Popular Romance: Jude Deveraux’s The Mulberry Tree 2013 Jude Deveraux
Zeiger, Melissa F. "Less Than Perfect": Negotiating Breast Cancer in Popular Romance Novels 2013 health/medical, feminism
Levi, Anna Delly: la Cenerentola di Versailles : vita di Jeanne Marie Henriette Petitjean de la Rosière 2013 Delly
Laquintano, Timothy The Legacy of the Vanity Press and Digital Transitions 2013 Publishing, Harlequin Mills & Boon
Cheyne, Ria Disability Studies Reads the Romance 2013 disability, sex/sexuality, Mary Balogh, historical romance, family
Gallon, Kim “How Much Can You Read about Interracial Love and Sex without Getting Sore?”: Readers’ Debate over Interracial Relationships in the Baltimore Afro-American 2013 African American romance, romances in magazines and newspapers, race/ethnicity, readers
Fjelkestam, Kristina; Hill, Helena; Tjeder, David Kvinnorna gör mannen: maskulinitetskonstruktioner i kvinnors text och bild 1500-2000 2013
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
Neal, Lynn S. Evangelical Love Stories: The Triumphs and Temptations of Romantic Fiction 2013 Christian romance, Publishing, religion/spirituality, readers, authors, sex/sexuality
Ménard, A. Dana Note from the Field: Reflecting on Romance Novel Research: Past, Present and Future 2013 sex/sexuality, psychology, romance scholarship
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
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
Soler Gallo, Miguel La novela romántica falangista femenina de los años cuarenta 2013 Spain, fascism/right-wing authoritarianism
Cook, Jennifer R.; Rostosky, Sharon S.; Riggle, Ellen D. B. Gender Role Models in Fictional Novels for Emerging Adult Lesbians 2013 YA/teenage romance, LGBT+ characters, readers and/or authors
Ross, Marlon B. “What’s Love But a Second Hand Emotion?”: Man-on-Man Passion in the Contemporary Black Gay Romance Novel 2013 African American romance, LGBT+ characters, readers and/or authors, race/ethnicity, Larry Duplechan, James Earl Hardy, m/m romance, family, E. Lynn Harris
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
Walker, Alyssa Chen Bringing the Laboratory Dog Home: Elizabeth Stuart Phelps and the Antivivisection Narrative 2013 Elizabeth Stuart Phelps, animals, romance and, or as, activism, Older and/or precursor texts (may not be "romance" as now defined)
Cortesi, Taylor D. 'Traitorous Bodies': Cartesian Dualism in Romance Novels by Susan Johnson and E. L. James 2013 Susan Johnson, Fifty Shades
Frederick, Rhonda Making Jamaican Love: Colin Channer's Waiting in Vain and Romance-ified Diaspora Identities 2013 national identity, Caribbean, Colin Channer, Jamaica, social/economic class, race/ethnicity, gender, erotic romance
Rata, Georgeta Linguistic Studies of Human Language 2013
Schell, Heather Bringing the Mid-West to the Middle-East: An Analysis of a Harlequin Romance in English and Turkish 2013 translation, Harlequin Mills & Boon, Turkey, Shirley Jump, readers, family, social/economic class, gender
Gardner, Jeanne Emerson She Got Her Man, but Could She Keep Him? Love and Marriage in American Romance Comics, 1947–1954 2013 comics/manga, sex/sexuality, history, YA/teenage romance, marriage, United States of America
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
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
Cook, Jennifer R.; Rostosky, Sharon S.; Riggle, Ellen D. B. Gender Role Models in Fictional Novels for Emerging Adult Lesbians 2013 YA/teenage romance, LGBT+ characters, readers and/or authors
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
Fong, Katrina; Mullin, Justin B.; Mar, Raymond A. What You Read Matters: The Role of Fiction Genre in Predicting Interpersonal Sensitivity 2013 readers, psychology
Burnett, Hannah Eisler Shame game: Romance novels and feminist shame, a mad lib for collective feeling 2013 readers
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
Weaver-Zercher, Valerie Thrill of the Chaste: the Allure of Amish Romance Novels 2013 Christian romance, United States of America, religion/spirituality, paratext, Publishing, Beverly Lewis, Wanda Brunstetter, Cindy Woodsmall, sex/sexuality, virginity, readers, gender, Helen Reimensnyder Martin, Older and/or precursor texts (may not be "romance" as now defined), Clara Bernice Miller, Cora Gottschalk Welty, rural romance, Ruth Lininger Dobson, Joseph W. Yoder, Janette Oke, settings, happy ending, marriage, family, Linda Byler, race/ethnicity
Cook, Jennifer R.; Rostosky, Sharon S.; Riggle, Ellen D. B. Gender Role Models in Fictional Novels for Emerging Adult Lesbians 2013 YA/teenage romance, LGBT+ characters, readers and/or authors
Moody, Stephanie Lee Affecting Genre: Women's Participation with Popular Romance Fiction 2013 readers, teaching romance
Nilson, Maria From The Flame and the Flower to Fifty Shades of Grey: Sex, Power and Desire in the Romance Novel 2013 Fifty Shades, sex/sexuality, Kathleen Woodiwiss, chick lit, rape and/or intimate partner violence/abuse
Fong, Katrina; Mullin, Justin B.; Mar, Raymond A. What You Read Matters: The Role of Fiction Genre in Predicting Interpersonal Sensitivity 2013 readers, psychology
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
Taddeo, Julie Anne; Miller, Cynthia J. Steaming Into a Victorian Future: A Steampunk Anthology 2013
Weisser, Susan Ostrov The Glass Slipper: Women and Love Stories 2013 love, gender, feminism, Twilight, romance scholarship, Isabel Sharpe, African American romance, race/ethnicity, Harlequin Mills & Boon, pornography
Cordell, Sigrid Loving in Plain Sight: Amish Romance Novels as Evangelical Gothic 2013 Beverly Lewis, Christian romance, religion/spirituality, gothic romance
Fragero Guerra, Carmen La técnica narrativa del espejo en Carmen de Icaza (1899-1979) y en Carmen Martín Gaite (1925-2000) 2013 Carmen de Icaza
Peinado Rodríguez, Matilde; Anta Félez, José Luis Educar para el matrimonio en femenino: modelos y prácticas en la literatura de posguerra 2013 Spain, fascism/right-wing authoritarianism, gender, marriage
Vany, Romain Les mauvais genres en bibliothèques publiques: quelle place pour le roman sentimental paralittéraire? 2013 libraries/librarians
Bradford, Clare Monsters: Monstrous Identities in Young Adult Romance 2013 YA/teenage romance, paranormal/fantasy/time-travel romance, race/ethnicity, family
Fong, Katrina; Mullin, Justin B.; Mar, Raymond A. What You Read Matters: The Role of Fiction Genre in Predicting Interpersonal Sensitivity 2013 readers, psychology
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
Taddeo, Julie Anne; Miller, Cynthia J. Steaming Into a Victorian Future: A Steampunk Anthology 2013
Wu, Yan; Mallan, Kerry; McGillis, Roderick (Re)Imagining the World: Children’s Literature’s Response to Changing Times 2013
Vivanco, Laura Georgette Heyer: The Nonesuch of Regency Romance 2013 social/economic class, race/ethnicity, Georgette Heyer, history, historical romance
Dymock, Alex Flogging sexual transgression: Interrogating the costs of the ‘Fifty Shades effect’ 2013 Fifty Shades, chick lit, capitalism/business, sex/sexuality, BDSM
Peinado Rodríguez, Matilde; Anta Félez, José Luis Educar para el matrimonio en femenino: modelos y prácticas en la literatura de posguerra 2013 Spain, fascism/right-wing authoritarianism, gender, marriage
Young, Whitney A. Monsters in My Bed: Accounting for the Popularity of Young Adult Paranormal Romances 2013 YA/teenage romance, paranormal/fantasy/time-travel romance, gender, Twilight
Flesch, Juliet The Wide Brown Land and the Big Smoke: The Setting of Australian Popular Romance 2012 Australia, settings
Baldus, Kimberly Gossip, Liminality, and Erotic Display: Jennifer Crusie’s Links to Eighteenth-Century Amatory Fiction 2012 Jennifer Crusie, sex/sexuality, Delariver Manley, virginity, pornography, settings, community
Fisher, Maryanne L.; Meredith, Tami M. The Success behind the Candy-Colored Covers: An Evolutionary Perspective on Romance Novels 2012 evolutionary psychology, paratext
Mikals-Adachi, Eileen B. Romantic Adventures in Prose: Ren'ai Shõsetsu (Romance Novels) by Yuikawa Kei 2012 Yuikawa Kei, Japan, genre definitions, friendship, chick lit
Churchwell, Sarah; Smith, Thomas Ruys Must Read: Rediscovering American Bestsellers from Charlotte Temple to The Da Vinci Code 2012
Teo, Hsu-Ming "Bertrice teaches you about history, and you don't even mind!": History and Revisionist Historiography in Bertrice Small's The Kadin 2012 history, historical romance, Bertrice Small, gender, feminism, readers
Allen, Amanda K. Charm the Boys, Win the Girls: Power Struggles in Mary Stolz’s Cold War Adolescent Girl Romance Novels 2012 Mary Stolz, YA/teenage romance, trash/literary and or intellectual quality, gender
Frantz, Sarah S. G.; Selinger, Eric Murphy New Approaches to Popular Romance Fiction: Critical Essays 2012
Percec, Dana Romance: The History of a Genre 2012
Johnson-Woods, Toni; Sarwal, Amit Sold by the Millions: Australia's Bestsellers 2012
James, Edward; Mendlesohn, Farah The Cambridge Companion to Fantasy Literature 2012
Liu, Su-hsen The Translation/Mutation of Romantic Love: An Exploration of the Translation History of Modern Romances in Taiwan after 1960 2012 translation, Taiwan
Valeo, Christina A. Crusie and the Con 2012 Jennifer Crusie, metafiction, happy ending, readers
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
Baldys, Emily M. Disabled Sexuality, Incorporated: The Compulsions of Popular Romance 2012 disability, sex/sexuality, Pamela Morsi, Billie Green, Peggy Webb, Jennifer Ashley, Colleen McCullough, gender, readers
Fisher, Maryanne L.; Meredith, Tami M. The Success behind the Candy-Colored Covers: An Evolutionary Perspective on Romance Novels 2012 evolutionary psychology, paratext
Dennis, Lesley Erin Pornography and Rape Myths in Paranormal Romance Novels 2012 paranormal/fantasy/time-travel romance, rape and/or intimate partner violence/abuse, feminism, readers, sex/sexuality, pornography
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
Motte, Warren A Walk on the Sheikh Side 2012 sheikh romance, paratext, Harlequin Mills & Boon, Sharon Kendrick, trash/literary and or intellectual quality, animals, metaphor/symbolism
Frantz, Sarah S. G.; Selinger, Eric Murphy New Approaches to Popular Romance Fiction: Critical Essays 2012
Johnson-Woods, Toni; Sarwal, Amit Sold by the Millions: Australia's Bestsellers 2012
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
James, Edward; Mendlesohn, Farah The Cambridge Companion to Fantasy Literature 2012
Thomas, Glen Happy Readers or Sad Ones? Romance Fiction and the Problems of the Media Effects Model 2012 readers, psychology, Anna Campbell, rape and/or intimate partner violence/abuse
Veros, Vassiliki Scholarship-In-Practice: The Romance Reader and the Public Library 2012 libraries/librarians, trash/literary and or intellectual quality, readers, Australia
Goldman, Crystal Love in the Stacks: Popular Romance Collection Development in Academic Libraries 2012 libraries/librarians
Bigey, Magali Romances en séries, amour toujours et marketing 2012 Publishing, France, readers, Harlequin Mills & Boon, paratext
Teo, Hsu-Ming Desert Passions: Orientalism and Romance Novels 2012 history, sheikh romance, Older and/or precursor texts (may not be "romance" as now defined), race/ethnicity, E. M. Hull, United States of America, historical romance, gender, Islam, sex/sexuality, rape and/or intimate partner violence/abuse
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
Frantz, Sarah S. G. "How we love is our soul": Joey W. Hill's BDSM Romance Holding the Cards 2012 Joey W. Hill, BDSM, erotic romance, Ellora's Cave, genre definitions, metafiction
Bonelli, María Valentina La virgen desollada: la perdida de la virginidad en las novelas de Corín Tellado durante el franquismo 2012 Corín Tellado, sex/sexuality, virginity
Brumme, Jenny; Espunya, Anna The Translation of Fictive Dialogue 2012
Ndalianis, Angela The Horror Sensorium: Media and the Senses 2012 paranormal/fantasy/time-travel romance, Laurell K. Hamilton, Charlaine Harris, Christine Feehan
Whyte, Tamara "A consummation devoutly to be wished": Shakespeare in Popular Historical Romance Fiction 2012 Shakespeare, Jacquie D'Allessandro, Sabrina Jefferies, Kalen Hughes/Isobel Carr, readers, Eloisa James, Susan Wiggs, Andrea Pickens, Kathryn Caskie, Suzanne Enoch, historical romance, Kasey Michaels, Mary Balogh, Margaret Moore
Perkins, Lori Fifty Writers on Fifty Shades of Grey 2012
Goris, An Loving by the Book: Voice and Romance Authorship 2012 authors, trash/literary and or intellectual quality
Salmon, Catherine The Pop Culture of Sex: An Evolutionary Window on the Worlds of Pornography and Romance 2012 evolutionary psychology, pornography, gender, feminism
Brumme, Jenny; Espunya, Anna The Translation of Fictive Dialogue 2012
Valeo, Christina A. The Power of Three: Nora Roberts and Serial Magic 2012 Nora Roberts/J. D. Robb, paranormal/fantasy/time-travel romance, religion/spirituality, community, family, love, Paganism/Wicca
Böhmová, Petra Contemporary American Christian Fiction: Young and Rivers 2012 Francine Rivers, Christian 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
Moore, Kate; Selinger, Eric Murphy The Heroine as Reader, the Reader as Heroine: Jennifer Crusie’s Welcome to Temptation 2012 Jennifer Crusie, readers, metafiction, romance scholarship, sex/sexuality, marriage
Wiebe, Laura Speculative Matter: Generic Affinities, Posthumanisms and Science-Fictional Imaginings 2012 paranormal/fantasy/time-travel romance, Christine Feehan
Spillman, K. Elizabeth The "Managing Female" in the Novels of Georgette Heyer 2012 Georgette Heyer, gender, metafiction, marriage
Lozano Sampedro, Mª Teresa La recepción de Delly en España 2012
Cooper, Katherine; Short, Emma The Female Figure in Contemporary Historical Fiction 2012
Moore, Kate; Selinger, Eric Murphy The Heroine as Reader, the Reader as Heroine: Jennifer Crusie’s Welcome to Temptation 2012 Jennifer Crusie, readers, metafiction, romance scholarship, sex/sexuality, marriage
Bonciarelli, Sarah Reading women’s fiction. Liala’s novels between uniqueness and standardization 2012 Liala, pen name of Amalia Liana Cambiasi Negretti Odescalchi, Publishing
Veldman-Genz, Carole The More the Merrier? Transformations of the Love Triangle Across the Romance 2012 love, Lisa Kleypas, Christina Dodd, Linda Howard, Catherine George, Isabelle Holland, Jude Deveraux, Amanda Scott, Catherine Coulter, Maggie Osborne/Margaret St. George, Karen Ranney, Sandra Brown, Nicole Jordan, LaVyrle Spencer, Penelope Williamson, Susan Elizabeth Phillips, feminism, erotic romance, Emma Holly, Rachel Bo, marriage, Mardi Ballou, Ellora's Cave, Samantha Kane, LGBT+ characters, readers and/or authors
Damian-Gaillard, Béatrice Prince charmant. Représentations des ressources et des coûts des masculinités dans les romans sentimentaux des collections Harlequin 2012 gender, Harlequin Mills & Boon, sex/sexuality, emotions
Kramer, Kyra Getting Laid, Getting Old, and Getting Fed: The Cultural Resistance of Jennifer Crusie’s Romance Heroines 2012 Jennifer Crusie, ageism, food, drink, gender, feminism, sex/sexuality, fat, fatness
Goşa, Codruţa Sex and the Genre: The Role of Sex in Popular Romance 2012 Nora Roberts/J. D. Robb, Sandra Brown, Judith McNaught, sex/sexuality
Weaver-Zercher, Valerie Tracing the Backstory of Amish Romance Novels 2012 Christian romance, rural romance, Older and/or precursor texts (may not be "romance" as now defined), religion/spirituality, paratext, Helen Reimensnyder Martin, Beverly Lewis, Cora Gottschalk Welty, race/ethnicity, Ruth Lininger Dobson, Joseph W. Yoder, Clara Bernice Miller, Janette Oke, Publishing
Zakreski, Patricia Tell Me Lies: Lying, Storytelling, and the Romance Novel as Feminist Fiction 2012 Jennifer Crusie, feminism, gender, metafiction
Cooper, Katherine; Short, Emma The Female Figure in Contemporary Historical Fiction 2012
Dulong, Delphine; Neveu, Erik; Guionnet, Christine Boys Don't Cry! Les coûts de la domination masculine 2012
Frantz, Sarah S. G. The History of BDSM Fiction and Romance 2012 BDSM, John Preston, sex/sexuality, Fifty Shades, erotic romance, Emma Holly, Joey W. Hill
Baum, Thomas Working the Skies: Changing Representations of Gendered Work in the Airline Industry, 1930-2011 2012 work, history, gender, Betty Beaty
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
Schwab, Sandra “It Is Only with One’s Heart That One Can See Clearly”: The Loss of Sight in Teresa Medeiros’s The Bride and the Beast and Yours until Dawn 2012 disability, Teresa Medeiros, metaphor/symbolism, fairytales/folktales, settings, Charlotte Brontë, myth
Vivanco, Laura One Ring to Bind Them: Ring Symbolism in Popular Romance Fiction 2012 fashion/clothing, marriage, Lisa Kleypas, Jennifer Crusie, Loretta Chase, Melissa McClone, Jayne Ann Krentz/Amanda Quick/Jayne Castle, Jessica Hart, Dorie Graham, Roslyn Hardy Holcomb, Margot Early, Laura Abbot, sex/sexuality, metaphor/symbolism
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
Rani, Mohd. Zariat Abdul Islam, Romance and Popular Taste in Indonesia: A textual analysis of Ayat ayat cinta by Habiburrahman El-Shirazy and Syahadat cinta by Taufiqurrahman Al-Azizy 2012 Indonesia, Habiburrahman El-Shirazy, Taufiqurrahman Al-Azizy, Islam, religion/spirituality, paratext, film/movies, Publishing, marriage, Muslim romance
York, Chris; York, Rafiel Comic Books and the Cold War, 1946-1962: Essays on Graphic Treatment of Communism, the Code and Social Concerns 2012
Dulong, Delphine; Neveu, Erik; Guionnet, Christine Boys Don't Cry! Les coûts de la domination masculine 2012
Gardner, Jeanne Girls Who Sinned in Secret and Paid in Public: Romance Comics, 1949-1954 2012 comics/manga, sex/sexuality, social/economic class, Publishing, YA/teenage romance, United States of America
Harders, Robin Borderlands of Desire: Captivity, Romance, and the Revolutionary Power of Love 2012 United States of America, race/ethnicity, history, Samuel Richardson, Jane Austen, E. M. Hull, sheikh romance, Violet Winspear, Michelle Reid, Louise Allen, Elizabeth Vaughn
Kroeg, Susan M. 'Truly Our Contemporary Jane Austen': Thinking Like an Austen Fan about Regency Romances 2012 historical romance
Toscano, Angela A Parody of Love: the Narrative Uses of Rape in Popular Romance 2012 rape and/or intimate partner violence/abuse, Kathleen Woodiwiss, Carolyn Jewel, Anna Campbell, Catherine Coulter, Anne Stuart, Patricia Gaffney, love
Burge, Amy Do Knights Still Rescue Damsels in Distress?: Reimagining the Medieval in the Mills & Boon Historical Romance 2012 history, Harlequin Mills & Boon, paratext, social/economic class, religion/spirituality, food, drink, fashion/clothing, sex/sexuality, rape and/or intimate partner violence/abuse, war/armed forces, gender
Dascăl, Reghina Raj Matriarchs: Women Authors of Anglo-Indian Romance 2012 India, UK, history, Maud Diver, Flora Annie Steel
Kaveney, Roz Dark fantasy and paranormal romance 2012 paranormal/fantasy/time-travel romance, Charlaine Harris, Laurell K. Hamilton, Twilight
Alonso Valero, Encarna Corín Tellado y la novela rosa 2012 Corín Tellado, Spain, gender, readers, trash/literary and or intellectual quality
Herendeen, Ann The Upper-Class Bisexual Top as Romantic Hero: (Pre)dominant in the Social Structure and in the Bedroom 2012 Ann Herendeen, LGBT+ characters, readers and/or authors, wealth/prosperity, social/economic class, BDSM, Jane Austen, historical romance, history, sex/sexuality, gender, Georgette Heyer
York, Chris; York, Rafiel Comic Books and the Cold War, 1946-1962: Essays on Graphic Treatment of Communism, the Code and Social Concerns 2012
Dulong, Delphine; Neveu, Erik; Guionnet, Christine Boys Don't Cry! Les coûts de la domination masculine 2012
Lamprinou, Artemis A Study on the Cultural Variations in the Verbalisation of Near-Universal Emotions: Translating Emotions from British English into Greek in Popular Bestseller Romances 2012 translation, Greece
Bly, Mary On Popular Romance, J. R. Ward, and the Limits of Genre Study 2012 J. R. Ward, fashion/clothing, gender, United States of America, war/armed forces, sex/sexuality, LGBT+ characters, readers and/or authors, Suzanne Brockmann
Gardner, Jeanne Emerson "Dreams May End, But Love Never Does": Marriage and Materialism in American Romance Comics, 1947-1954 2012 comics/manga
Vivanco, Laura Jennifer Crusie's Literary Lingerie 2012 Jennifer Crusie, sex/sexuality, fashion/clothing, metaphor/symbolism
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
Burge, Amy Desiring the east: a comparative study of Middle English romance and modern popular sheikh romance 2012 sheikh romance, war/armed forces, religion/spirituality, race/ethnicity, gender, fashion/clothing
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
Hayton, Christopher J.; Hayton, Sheila The Girls in White: Nurse Images in Early Cold War Era Romance and War Comics 2012 comics/manga, medical romance, work, gender, war/armed forces