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Newell, Stephanie; Okome, Onookome Popular Culture in Africa: The Episteme of the Everyday 2014
Newns, Lucinda Renegotiating romantic genres: Textual resistance and Muslim chick lit 2018 chick lit, Islam, feminism, religion/spirituality
Newton, Marlo Leigh Romancing the tome: the novels of Georgette Heyer 1991 Georgette Heyer
Neylon, Virginia Lyn Reading and Writing the Romance Novel: An Analysis of Romance Fiction and Its Place in the Community College Classroom 2003 genre definitions, Older and/or precursor texts (may not be "romance" as now defined), teaching romance
Ngoshi, Hazel Tafadzwa Repression, Literary Dissent and the Paradox of Censorship in Zimbabwe 2021 Zimbabwe, romance and, or as, activism, Africa
Nibafasha, Spes The politics of the popular: Definitions and uses of African popular fiction 2020 Africa, genre definitions, trash/literary and or intellectual quality, readers, gender
Nichols, Sue Love matters: the case for an inclusive, contemporary approach to romance themes and texts in subject English 2023 YA/teenage romance, teaching romance, LGBT+ characters, readers and/or authors
Nickel, Eleanor Hersey Christian Popular Culture from The Chronicles of Narnia to Duck Dynasty 2020 Christian romance, Francine Rivers, sex/sexuality, feminism, fairytales/folktales
Nielsen, Inge Caught in the Web of Love: Intercepting the Young Adult Reception of Qiongyao's Romances On-Line 2000 Taiwan, YA/teenage romance, readers, Qiongyao/Qiong Yao, film/movies, translation, fanfiction
Nikbakht, H. Female Agency in the Harlequin Romance Formula: developments within the timeframe of second wave feminism 2019 Harlequin Mills & Boon, feminism, family, work, sex/sexuality, gender, Carole Mortimer, Roberta Leigh/Rachel Lindsay, virginity, rape and/or intimate partner violence/abuse, health/medical, marriage
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
Nilson, Maria Kärlek, passion och begär – om romance 2016 genre definitions, historical romance, gothic romance, erotic romance
Nilson, Maria Kärlek i kyligt klimat: Om nordisk romance 2017 Sweden, Norway, Simona Ahrnstedt, Natalie Normann, national identity, gender, sex/sexuality
Nilson, Maria Nådens tuttar : Om skönheter, odjur och den frälsande kvinnokroppen i modern romance 2017 fairytales/folktales, paranormal/fantasy/time-travel romance, Fifty Shades, Twilight, sex/sexuality
Nilson, Maria; Ehriander, Helene Love in a Cold Climate? Teaching Popular Romance at a Swedish University 2020 teaching romance, Sweden, Simona Ahrnstedt, Harlequin Mills & Boon, chick lit
Nilson, Maria; Posti, Piia K Speglingar av feelgood: Genre, etikett eller känsla? 2022
Muryn, Teresa; Niziołek, Małgorzata; Hajok, Alicja Que dit la main dans le roman sentimental et policier? 2020 linguistics
Nobert, Margo Le titre comme séduction dans le roman Harlequin: une lecture sociosémiotique 1983 Harlequin Mills & Boon, paratext, linguistics, metaphor/symbolism, animals, settings, gender
Noizet, Pascale La coopération interprétative dans le roman d'amour populaire de la langue française de 1880 à nos jours 1986
Bettinotti, Julia; Bédard-Cazabon, Hélène; Gagnon, Jocelyn; Noizet, Pascale; Provost, Christiane La corrida de l'amour: Le Roman Harlequin 1986 Harlequin Mills & Boon, Publishing, gender, settings, marriage, trash/literary and or intellectual quality, paratext, family, Janet Dailey, Charlotte Lamb, sex/sexuality, work
Bettinotti, Julia; Noizet, Pascale Le récit en littérature populaire: répétition et invention dans le roman d’amour 1989 Harlequin Mills & Boon, Delly, sheikh romance
Noizet, Pascale Naissance du roman d'amour de grande consommation: Harlequin à la recherche de ses aïeux 1990 Older and/or precursor texts (may not be "romance" as now defined)
Bettinotti, Julia; Noizet, Pascale Ægritudo amoris : le topos d’un piège somato-physiologique 1990 love
Noizet, Pascale Delly, l’équation d’une illustre inconnue 1995 Delly
Bettinotti, Julia; Noizet, Pascale Guimauve et fleurs d’oranger: Delly 1995 Delly
Noizet, Pascale L’idée moderne d’amour. Entre sexe et genre: vers une théorie du sexologème 1996 love, Harlequin Mills & Boon, Samuel Richardson, gender
Nolan, Michelle Love on the Racks: a History of American Romance Comics 2008 comics/manga
Noone, Kristin Succulent Texts: Desire, Outlaws, and Consumption in Popular Romance 2019 food, drink, Suzanne Enoch, pirates and outlaws, Diane Carey, Alexis Hall, historical romance, steampunk, LGBT+ characters, readers and/or authors, community, religion/spirituality, rural romance
Griffiths, Clare V. J.; Nott, James J.; Whyte, William Classes, Cultures, & Politics: Essays on British History for Ross McKibbin 2011
Novak, Julia Nell Gwyn in Contemporary Romance Novels: Biography and the Dictates of 'Genre Literature' 2014 history, historical romance
Jacquot, Clémence; Goossens, Vannina; Novakova, Iva Étude contrastive des motifs spécifiques aux romans sentimentaux et aux romans Harlequin 2020 linguistics, Harlequin Mills & Boon
Fesenmeier, Ludwig; Novakova, Iva Phraséologie et stylistique de la langue littéraire/Phraseology and Stylistics of Literary Language; Approches interdisciplinaires/Interdisciplinary Approaches 2020
Novakova, Iva; Siepmann, Dirk Phraseology and Style in Subgenres of the Novel: A Synthesis of Corpus and Literary Perspectives 2020 linguistics, languages, translation
Novakova, Iva Les motifs phraséologiques pour distinguer les genres littéraires. Sur l’exemple des motifs de la communication verbale et non verbale 2021 linguistics
Nowacki, Dariusz Access Paths: On Popular Women’s Literature and Criticism 2020 romance scholarship
Nowicka, Katarzyna How to Romance the Masses – Problems of Translating Light Romantic Fiction in Poland 2013 translation, Poland, Harlequin Mills & Boon
Ntelia, Renata Elizabetta How Damsels Love: The Transgressive Pleasure of Romance 2021 feminism, love, psychology, gender
Núñez Cubero, Luis; Romero Pérez, Clara Emociones, cultura y educación: Un enfoque interdisciplinar 2009
Núñez Puente, Sonia Novela rosa y cultura popular: Carmen de Icaza y Concha Linares Becerra 2007 Carmen de Icaza, Concha Linares-Becerra, Spain, fascism/right-wing authoritarianism, gender
Núñez Puente, Sonia La novela rosa como mascarada de la muerte de lo social: Concha Linares Becerra y María Mercedes Ortoll 2008 Concha Linares-Becerra, María Mercedes Ortoll, gender, fashion/clothing, Spain, fascism/right-wing authoritarianism
Núñez Puente, Sonia The Romance Novel and Popular Culture during the Early Franco Regime in Spain: Towards the Construction of Other Discourses of Femininity 2008 Spain, fascism/right-wing authoritarianism, Carmen de Icaza, gender, work, metafiction
Nyquist, Mary Romance in the Forbidden Zone 1993 Samuel Richardson, gender, marriage, Linda Shaw, sex/sexuality, race/ethnicity, Sonya Pelton, Native American romance, Arlene James, rape and/or intimate partner violence/abuse, work
O'Brien, Lee Telling Gaps and Domestic Tyranny: Georgette Heyer’s Regency Romances 2022 Georgette Heyer, happy ending, family, history, health/medical, sex/sexuality, gender, social/economic class, rape and/or intimate partner violence/abuse, marriage
O'Byrne, Patricia Popular fiction in postwar Spain: the soothing, subversive novela rosa 2008 Spain, fascism/right-wing authoritarianism, work, religion/spirituality, María Mercedes Ortoll, war/armed forces, Ángeles Villarta Tuñón, María Morgan/Rosa María Cajal
O'Byrne, Patricia Post-War Spanish Women Novelists and the Recuperation of Historical Memory 2014 Spain
O'Connor, Karen Gender and Women's Leadership: A Reference Handbook 2010
O'Mahony, Lauren Kate In search of feminist romance in Australian 'Chick Lit' 2015 chick lit, Australia, feminism
O'Mahony, Lauren Australian rural romance as feminist romance? 2014 rural romance, gender, feminism, Australia, work, Rachael Treasure, Nicole Alexander, Karly Lane
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
O'Mahony, Lauren Death and the Australian Rural Romance Novel 2017 rural romance, Australia, death
O'Mahony, Lauren; Murphy, Olivia From polite society to the Pilbara: The ingénue abroad in Evelina and The Girl in Steel-Capped Boots 2018 Frances Burney, Older and/or precursor texts (may not be "romance" as now defined), Australia, Loretta Hill, gender
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
O'Neil, Kathryn M. Women's rhetoric and the romance novel genre 2016 readers, authors, Eloisa James, Mary Jo Putney, Jude Ouvrard, Jackie Williams, gender, race/ethnicity, disability, Stella Eromonsere-Ajanaku
Batsleer, Janet; Davies, Tony; O'Rourke, Rebecca; Weedon, Chris Rewriting English: Cultural Politics of Gender and Class 1985 genre definitions, gender, capitalism/business, feminism, Florence Barclay, E. M. Hull, history, Barbara Cartland, Catherine Cookson, social/economic class, race/ethnicity, UK, sex/sexuality, fashion/clothing
O'Toole, Patricia Paperback Virgins 1979 Barbara Cartland, Janet Dailey, virginity, feminism
Palmer, Gary B.; Occhi, Debra J. Languages of Sentiment: Cultural constructions of emotional substrates 1999
Ochoa, Debra J. Critiques of the "Novela Rosa": Martín Gaite, Almodóvar, and Etxebarría 2006 Spain, fascism/right-wing authoritarianism, gender
Ohmann, Richard Reading the Romance: Women, Patriarchy, and Popular Literature 1990 teaching romance
Buttrick, Nicholas; Westgate, Erin C.; Oishi, Shigehiro Reading Literary Fiction Is Associated With a More Complex Worldview 2022 psychology, readers, trash/literary and or intellectual quality
Okamoto, Shigeko; Shibamoto Smith, Janet S. Japanese Language, Gender, and Ideology: Cultural Models and Real People 2004
OKell, Eleanor Regina Hercules as Romantic Hero in Twenty-first-century Historical Fiction 2020 Stephanie Laurens, historical romance, myth
Oklopčić, Biljana Medieval heresy in Croatian historical romances: a case study of Marija Jurić Zagorka’s Plameni inkvizitori 2016 Marija Jurić Zagorka, historical romance, Croatia, religion/spirituality, history, Older and/or precursor texts (may not be "romance" as now defined), trash/literary and or intellectual quality, gender, readers, national identity
Okome, Onookome Reading the Popular: Onitsha Market Romance and the Practice of Everyday Life 2009 Africa
Newell, Stephanie; Okome, Onookome Popular Culture in Africa: The Episteme of the Everyday 2014
Olivarez, Omar; Hardie, Ryan; Blackburn, Kate G. The Language of Romance: An Open Vocabulary Analysis of the Highest Rated Words Used in Romance Novels 2018 languages, psychology, sex/sexuality
Escandell Montiel, Daniel; Oliveira Dias, Sofia Raquel Voces e identidades exocanónicas (1880-1920): recuperando (auto) narrativas femeninas de los márgenes 2020
Olivier, Séverine Passionnément, à la folie...: Lecteurs et modes de lecture du roman d'amour contemporain 2005 readers, translation, Publishing
Olivier, Séverine Lecture d'un «mauvais genre»: le «roman sentimental» 2007 genre definitions
Olivier, Séverine «Femme, je vous aime...»? Nora Roberts, une inconnue sortie de l'ombre dans l'univers sentimental" 2008 Nora Roberts/J. D. Robb
Olivier, Séverine Les prémices d'une histoire d'amour ou comment écrire un roman sentimental 2009 Publishing, translation, France, trash/literary and or intellectual quality, emotions
Olivier, Séverine Le roman sentimental. Productions contemporaines et pratiques de lecture 2009 readers, psychology
Bigey, Magali; Olivier, Séverine Ils aiment le roman sentimental et alors? Lecteurs d'un 'mauvais genre', des lecteurs en danger? 2010 feminism, trash/literary and or intellectual quality, readers, rape and/or intimate partner violence/abuse, linguistics
Olivier, Séverine Francophone Perspectives on Romantic Fiction: From the Academic Field to Reader’s Experience 2012 romance scholarship, readers, France, Canada, Harlequin Mills & Boon, Publishing, sex/sexuality, translation
Olkusz, Ksenia Rozbieranie wampira. Erotyczne imaginacje i seksualne fantazje w romansach paranormalnych / metafizycznych (na wybranych przykładach) 2015 paranormal/fantasy/time-travel romance, Kerrelyn Sparks, Alexandra Ivy, Lara Adrian, sex/sexuality
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
Wyatt, Neal; Olsen, Georgine; Ramsdell, Kristin; Saricks, Joyce; Welch, Lynne Core Collections in Genre Studies: Romance Fiction 101 2007 libraries/librarians, historical romance, romantic suspense, paranormal/fantasy/time-travel romance, genre definitions
Omissi, Dominic The Mills and Boon memsahibs: women's romantic Indian fiction 1877-1947 1995 India, settings
Jussawalla, Feroza; Omran, Doaa Muslim Women’s Writing from across South and Southeast Asia 2022
Onega, Susana; Gutleben, Christian Refracting the Canon in Contemporary British Literature and Film 2004
Opas, Lisa Lena; Tweedie, Fiona The Magic Carpet Ride: Reader Involvement in Romantic Fiction 1999 linguistics, Harlequin Mills & Boon, Danielle Steel, historical romance, readers
Nachumi, Nora; Oppenheim, Stephanie Jane Austen, Sex, and Romance: Engaging with Desire in the Novels and Beyond 2022
Ibarrola-Armendariz, Aitor; Ortiz de Urbina Arruabarrena, Jon On the move: Glancing Backwards To Build a Future in English Studies 2016
Osborne, Laurie E. Romancing the Bard 1999 Shakespeare, historical romance, Georgette Heyer, Joan Wolf, cross-dressing, Edith Layton, Kasey Michaels, Susan Carroll, Loretta Chase, Margaret Evans Porter, Christina Dodd, Deanna James, Mary Balogh, Michelle Martin, gender
Osborne, Laurie E. Harlequin Presents: That '70s Shakespeare and Beyond 2002 Shakespeare, Harlequin Mills & Boon, Janet Dailey, Elizabeth Ashton, Valerie Thian, gender, Jane Donnelly, Kay Thorpe, historical romance, Kasey Michaels, Carole Buck, Judith Arnold, Lynn Kerstan, Publishing
Osborne, Laurie Sweet, Savage Shakespeare 2000 Shakespeare
Osborne, Gwendolyn E. In Search of Women Who Look Like Me: A Brief History of the African-American Romance 2003 African American romance, race/ethnicity, Older and/or precursor texts (may not be "romance" as now defined), Publishing, Eva Rutland, paratext, readers
Osborne, Gwendolyn E. "Women Who Look Like Me": Cultural Identity and Reader Responses to African American Romance Novels 2004 African American romance, race/ethnicity, readers, United States of America, love, sex/sexuality, social/economic class, paratext
Fasick, Adele M.; Johnston, Margaret; Osler, Ruth Lands of Pleasure: Essays on Lillian H. Smith and the Development of Children's Libraries 1990
Ouyang, Huining Behind the Mask of Coquetry: The Trickster Narrative in Miss Numè of Japan: A Japanese-American Romance 2003 Onoto Watanna/Winnifred Eaton, Older and/or precursor texts (may not be "romance" as now defined), Japan, race/ethnicity
Owen, Mairead Women's Reading of Popular Romantic Fiction: A Case Study in the Mass Media: A Key to the Ideology of Women 1990 readers, Publishing, authors, libraries/librarians, UK
Owen, Mairead Re-inventing romance: Reading popular romantic fiction 1997 readers, paratext, genre definitions, feminism, fairytales/folktales, psychology, sex/sexuality
Bowring, Joanna; O’Brien, Margaret The Art of Romance: Mills & Boon and Harlequin Cover Designs 2008 Harlequin Mills & Boon, paratext
O’Neill, Maria; Zamorano Llena, Carmen The Aesthetics of Ageing: Critical Approaches to Literary Representations of the Ageing Process 2002
Birch, David; O’Toole, Michael Functions of Style 1988
Greco, Barbara; Pache Carballo, Laura Variaciones de lo metarreal en la España de los siglos XX y XXI 2014
Gómez Morón, Reyes; Padilla Cruz, Manuel; Fernández Amaya, Lucía; Hernández López, María de la O Pragmatics Applied to Language Teaching and Learning 2009
Pagliassotti, Dru Better than Romance? Japanese BL Manga and the Subgenre of Male/Male Romantic Fiction 2010 m/m romance, fanfiction, comics/manga, readers, LGBT+ characters, readers and/or authors
Levi, Antonia; McHarry, Mark; Pagliassotti, Dru Boys’ Love Manga: Essays on the Sexual Ambiguity and Cross-Cultural Fandom of the Genre 2010
Pagliassotti, Dru Love and the Machine: Technology and Human Relationships in Steampunk Romance and Erotica 2013 steampunk, science/technology, health/medical, sex/sexuality
Paige, Lori A. The Gothic Romance Wave: A Critical History of the Mass Market Novels, 1960-1993 2018 gothic romance, Older and/or precursor texts (may not be "romance" as now defined), historical romance
Paizis, George 'Reine ou esclave .... ': conflicting images of women in the contemporary 'romantic novel' in France 1986 gender, feminism, readers, France, Publishing
Paizis, George "Putting People First" or the contemporary romantic novel, critical discourse and ideology 1987
Paizis, George That's Romance 1987
Paizis, George Love, Ideology and Reality: the popular romantic novel and the reader 1994
Paizis, George Category Romances: Translation, Realism and Myth 1998 translation, Harlequin Mills & Boon
Paizis, George Love and the Novel: The Poetics and Politics of Romantic Fiction 1998 Publishing, Harlequin Mills & Boon, genre definitions, paratext, settings, happy ending, readers, love
Paizis, George Category Romance in the Era of Globalization: The Story of Harlequin 2006 Harlequin Mills & Boon, Publishing, comics/manga
Guttman, Anna; Hockx, Michel; Paizis, George The Global Literary Field 2006
Palewska, Marie Féeries orientales : l’Inde chez Delly 2011 Delly, India
Palmer, Susan Romance Fiction and the Avon Ladies 1996 libraries/librarians
Palmer, Paulina Girl Meets Girl: Changing Approaches to the Lesbian Romance 1998 lesbian romance, Isabel Miller, Michelle Martin, Deborah Powell, LGBT+ characters, readers and/or authors, marriage, gender, fairytales/folktales, Jane Austen, romantic suspense, fashion/clothing
Palmer, Gary B.; Occhi, Debra J. Languages of Sentiment: Cultural constructions of emotional substrates 1999
Panizza, Letizia; Wood, Sharon A History of Women’s Writing in Italy 2000
Papargyriou, Eleni; Assinder, Semele; Holton, David Greece in British Women’s Literary Imagination, 1913-2013 2017
Paradis, Kenneth Types and Tropes: History and Moral Agency in Evangelical Inspirational Fiction 2020 Christian romance, Francine Rivers, religion/spirituality, history, United States of America, settings, metafiction, historical romance
Parameswaran, Radhika E. Romance Reading in the Third World: A Postcolonial Intersection of Gender, Ethnicity, and Sexuality 1994 feminism, India, readers, romance scholarship, social/economic class, national identity, gender, sex/sexuality
Parameswaran, Radhika E. Public Images, Private Pleasures: Romance Reading at the Intersection of Gender, Class, and National Identities in Urban India 1997 Harlequin Mills & Boon, India, readers, gender, social/economic class, national identity
Parameswaran, Radhika Western Romance Fiction as English-Language Media in Postcolonial India 1999 Harlequin Mills & Boon, India, readers, social/economic class, libraries/librarians, sex/sexuality, gender, trash/literary and or intellectual quality
Parameswaran, Radhika Reading Fictions of Romance: Gender, Sexuality, and Nationalism in Postcolonial India 2002 India, gender, social/economic class, national identity, sex/sexuality, readers, Publishing, paratext, historical romance, race/ethnicity, marriage, virginity, family
Pardo Fernández, Rodrigo Caleidoscopio hispánico: estudios lingüísticos y literarios 2010
Parke, Maggie; Wilson, Natalie Theorizing Twilight: Critical Essays on What's at Stake in a Post-Vampire World 2011
Parks, Amy Noelle The Feminist Possibilities of Heteroglossic Spaces in Contemporary Young Adult Romance Novels 2023 feminism, YA/teenage romance, love, sex/sexuality, Jenny Han, Katie Cotugno, Nicola Yoon, Laura Steven
Parnell, Jo The Bride in the Cultural Imagination: Screen, Stage, and Literary Productions 2021
Parnell, Claire Models of Publishing and Opportunities for Change: Representations in Harlequin, Montlake and Self-Published Romance Novels 2018 Publishing, Harlequin Mills & Boon, gender, sex/sexuality, social/economic class
McAlister, Jodi; Parnell, Claire; Trinidad, Andrea Anne #RomanceClass: Genre World, Intimate Public, Found Family 2020 Philippines, genre definitions, Publishing, readers, authors, Mina V. Esguerra, LGBT+ characters, readers and/or authors, sex/sexuality
Parnell, Claire; Trinidad, Andrea Anne; McAlister, Jodi Hello, Ever After: #RomanceClass and Online-Only Live Literature in the Philippines in 2020 2021 Philippines
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
Parnell, Claire Reading and writing Muslim romance on Wattpad 2022 Muslim romance, Publishing
Parnell, Claire Algospeak and algo-design in platformed book publishing: Revolutionary creative tactics in digital paratext to circumvent content moderation 2023 Publishing, paratext, LGBT+ characters, readers and/or authors, race/ethnicity, pornography
Parnell, Claire; Trinidad, Andrea Anne; McAlister, Jodi Live literature in the Philippines: an ethnographic study of #RomanceClass and reading as performance 2023 Philippines, readers, authors, Publishing, Mina V. Esguerra
McAlister, Jodi; Parnell, Claire; Trinidad, Andrea Anne Publishing Romance Fiction in the Philippines 2023 Philippines, Publishing, social/economic class, Mina V. Esguerra, wealth/prosperity, Keene Alicante, sex/sexuality, work, LGBT+ characters, readers and/or authors, settings, authors, paratext
Parra Membrives, Eva Trivialidades literarias: Reflexiones en torno a la literatura de entretenimiento 2013
Parrish, Berta; Atwood, Karen Enticing Readers: The Teen Romance Craze 1984 YA/teenage romance
McKay, Jade; Parsons, Elizabeth Out of Wedlock: The Consummation and Consumption of Marriage in Contemporary Romance Fiction 2009 marriage, Harlequin Mills & Boon, sex/sexuality, virginity, wealth/prosperity, work, feminism, family
Parv, Valerie Healing Writes: Restorying the Authorial Self through Creative Practice: and Birthright, a speculative fiction novel 2007 authors, psychology, Valerie Parv
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
Pates, Giuliana Reading Practices and Gender Politicization: How do Young Argentinean Women Read Romantic Novels 2023 Argentina, YA/teenage romance
Pattee, Amy S. Reading the Adolescent Romance: Sweet Valley High and the Popular Young Adult Romance Novel 2011 YA/teenage romance
Patterson, Janet Consuming Passion 1981 Harlequin Mills & Boon, readers
Patthey-Chavez, G. Genevieve; Clare, Lindsay; Youmans, Madeleine Watery Passion: The Struggle between Hegemony and Sexual Liberation in Erotic Fiction for Women 1996 metaphor/symbolism, erotic romance, gender, sex/sexuality, linguistics, Shirlee Busbee, Julie Garwood, Roberta Gellis, Johanna Lindsey, Jayne Ann Krentz/Amanda Quick/Jayne Castle, Bertrice Small, Rachel Lee/Sue Civil-Brown, Elizabeth Lowell, Emma Merritt, Fayrene Preston, Kasey Stuart, Linda Turner, virginity, food, drink, war/armed forces, rape and/or intimate partner violence/abuse, work
Zhou, Yanyan; Paul, Bryant; Sherman, Ryland Still a Hetero-Gendered World: A Content Analysis of Gender Stereotypes and Romantic Ideals in Chinese Boy Love Stories 2018 m/m romance, gender, China, LGBT+ characters, readers and/or authors
Paulvé, Dominique; Guérin, Marie Le roman du roman rose 1994 Delly, Max du Veuzit, Berthe Bernage, Magali, pen name of Jeanne Philbert
Pawling, Christopher Popular Fiction and Social Change 1984
Peabody, Rebecca Kara Walker: American Romance in Black and White 2016 historical romance, race/ethnicity, sex/sexuality, Barbara Ferry Johnson
Pearce, Susan C.; Sojka, Eugenia Cultural Change in East-Central European and Eurasian Spaces: Post-1989 Revisions and Re-imaginings 2021
Pearce, Lynne; Stacey, Jackie Romance Revisited 1995
Stacey, Jackie; Pearce, Lynne The Heart of the Matter: Feminists Revisit the Romance 1995 feminism
Pearce, Lynne; Wisker, Gina Fatal Attractions: Rescripting Romance in Contemporary Literature and Film 1998
Pearce, Lynne Popular Romance and Its Readers 2004 Jeanette Winterson, food, drink, settings, psychology, Violet Winspear, readers, sex/sexuality
Pearce, Lynne Romance Writing 2007 love, Jane Rule, LGBT+ characters, readers and/or authors, Ann Bannon, Margaret Mitchell, Daphne du Maurier, Jeanette Winterson
Pearce, Lynne Romance and Repetition: Testing the Limits of Love 2011 love, psychology, philosophy
Pearce, Elizabeth Florence Reading the Lesbian Romance: Re-imagining Love, Sex, Relationships, and Community 2004 lesbian romance
Haddon, Jenny; Pearson, Diane Fabulous at Fifty: Recollections of the Romantic Novelists' Association 1960-2010 2010 authors, Lucilla Andrews, Mary Burchell, pen name of Ida Cook, Barbara Cartland, Netta Muskett, Denise Robins, Mary Stewart, Alex Stuart, Sylvia Thorpe, Joanna Trollope, Sheila Walsh, Anne Weale
Peaty, Gwyneth Rock Hard: Gargoyles in Contemporary Gothic Romance 2015 paranormal/fantasy/time-travel romance, war/armed forces, United States of America, Christine Warren, Lisa Blackwood, Sally Painter, Marjorie M. Liu, Danielle Monsch
Mazzarella, Sharon R.; Pecora, Norma Odom Growing Up Girls: Popular Culture and the Construction of Identity 1999
Pecora, Norma Identity by Design: The Corporate Construction of Teen Romance Novels 1999 YA/teenage romance, fashion/clothing, sex/sexuality, rape and/or intimate partner violence/abuse, food, drink, LGBT+ characters, readers and/or authors, race/ethnicity
Muram, David; Rosenthal, Ted L.; Tolley, Elizabeth A.; Peeler, Molly M.; Pitts, Bridget Teenage Pregnancy: Dating and Sexual Attitudes 1992 readers, sex/sexuality, race/ethnicity
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
Snyman, Maritha; Penzhorn, Cecilia Leser en Konteks: ’n resepsiestudie oor Afrikaanse romanselesers 2011 readers, South Africa
Péquignot, Bruno Le rêve ou l'ordure. Du Roman sentimental et de ce qu'en disent certains. 1988 trash/literary and or intellectual quality
Péquignot, Bruno Le roman sentimental, un objet pour quelle sociologie? 1990 sociology
Péquignot, Bruno La relation amoureuse: analyse sociologique du roman sentimental moderne 1991 sociology, France, Publishing, love, sex/sexuality, readers
Péquignot, Bruno Les femmes dans le roman sentimental moderne 1991 France, Delly, Harlequin Mills & Boon, religion/spirituality, Barbara Cartland, work, sex/sexuality, marriage, family
Péquignot, Bruno Eau de rose et air du temps 1993
Péquignot, Bruno Le sentimental e(s)t le populaire 1997
Percec, Dana “The Pink Ghetto”. The Avatars of Romantic Fiction 2011 Older and/or precursor texts (may not be "romance" as now defined), historical romance, Jane Austen
Percec, Dana Romance: The History of a Genre 2012
Percec, Dana Reading the Fantastic Imagination: The Avatars of a Literary Genre 2014
Pereira, Simone Luci; das Neves, Thiago Tavares; Budag, Fernanda Elouise Comunicação e Culturas Urbanas: temas, debates e perspectivas 2021
Pérez, María Mercedes Es la historia de un amor: la edición de novelas románticas en el mercado de habla hispana 2009 Publishing
Pérez Casal, Inmaculada Love in Times of Crisis: An Approach to Contemporary Romance Novels in Spain 2016 Spain, Publishing, Older and/or precursor texts (may not be "romance" as now defined)
Pérez Casal, Inmaculada Mass-market romance and the question of genre: N. Sparks, E. L. James and D. Gabaldon 2018 Diana Gabaldon, Fifty Shades, Nicholas Sparks, genre definitions, film/movies
Pérez Casal, Inmaculada The Romance Novel as Bildungsroman in the Works of Rosamunde Pilcher and Lisa Kleypas 2018 gender, Rosamunde Pilcher, Lisa Kleypas, historical romance
Pérez Casal, Inmaculada Antecedents and Development of the Contemporary Romance Novel in English: A Study of the Contribution to the Genre by Rosamunde Pilcher and Lisa Kleypas 2019 feminism, Lisa Kleypas, Rosamunde Pilcher
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
Pérez Fernández, Irene; Pérez Ríu, Carmen Romantic Escapes: Post-Millennial Trends in Contemporary Popular Romance Fiction 2021
Pérez Fernández, Irene; Pérez Ríu, Carmen Romantic Escapes in Contemporary Popular Romance Fiction 2021 romance scholarship
Pérez Fernández, Irene; Pérez Ríu, Carmen Romantic Escapes: Post-Millennial Trends in Contemporary Popular Romance Fiction 2021
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
Pérez-Casal, Inmaculada Business-like Lords and Gentlemanly Businessmen: The Romance Hero in Lisa Kleypas's Wallflowers Series 2020 Lisa Kleypas, capitalism/business, historical romance, United States of America, UK, national identity, social/economic class
Pérez-Casal, Inmaculada Marketplace Feminism? The Writing and Selling of Lisa Kleypas’s Ravenels Series 2021 Lisa Kleypas, feminism
Pérez-Casal, Inmaculada La novela rosa o romántica: pasado, presente y futuro 2022 genre definitions, Older and/or precursor texts (may not be "romance" as now defined), romance and, or as, activism, romance scholarship
Pérez-Casal, Inmaculada Popular romance novels: past, present and future 2022 genre definitions, Older and/or precursor texts (may not be "romance" as now defined), romance and, or as, activism, romance scholarship
Pérez-Fernández, Irene Black British love matters: Asserting the transformative power of love in Bolu Babalola’s Love in Colour: Mythical Tales Around the World Retold 2024 Bolu Babalola, race/ethnicity, UK, myth
Pérez-Gil, María del Mar Exoticism, Ethnocentrism, and Englishness in Popular Romance Fiction: Constructing the European Other 2018 Spain, national identity, UK, race/ethnicity, islands, Harlequin Mills & Boon
Pérez-Gil, María del Mar Representations of Nation and Spanish Masculinity in Popular Romance Novels: The Alpha Male as “Other” 2019 Spain, gender, national identity, Harlequin Mills & Boon, UK
Pérez-Gil, María del Mar Britannia’s Daughters: Popular Romance Fiction and the Ideology of National Superiority (1950s–1970s) 2020 national identity, race/ethnicity, UK, history, Violet Winspear, Lilian Warren as Kathryn Blair/Rosalind Brett/Celine Conway, Kay Thorpe, Greece, Spain, Jean S. MacLeod/Catherine Airlie, gender, feminism
Pérez-Gil, María del Mar Imperfect paradise: Madeira in the novels of Margaret Rome, Katrina Britt, and Sally Wentworth 2022 Harlequin Mills & Boon, settings, national identity, race/ethnicity, Portugal, UK, Margaret Rome, Ethel Connell as Katrina Britt, Doreen Hornsblow as Sally Wentworth, Sara Wood, gender
Pérez-Gil, María del Mar Mass Tourism, Ecocriticism, and Mills & Boon Romances (1970s-1980s) 2022 Harlequin Mills & Boon, settings, history, Doreen Hornsblow as Sally Wentworth, Spain, Greece, Margaret Rome, Elizabeth Hunter, Violet Winspear, rural romance, Ethel Connell as Katrina Britt, Kay Thorpe, Iris Danbury, ecocriticism/environmentalism/climate change
Pérez-Gil, María del Mar Paraísos imperfectos: Madeira en las novelas de Margaret Rome, Katrina Britt y Sally Wentworth 2022 Harlequin Mills & Boon, settings, national identity, race/ethnicity, Portugal, UK, Margaret Rome, Ethel Connell as Katrina Britt, Doreen Hornsblow as Sally Wentworth, Sara Wood, gender
Perkins, Lori Fifty Writers on Fifty Shades of Grey 2012
Perriam, Geraldine The not so silly ass: Freddy Standen, his fictional contemporaries and alternative masculinity 2021 Georgette Heyer, gender
Barba, Shelley E.; Perrin, Joy M. The Ascendance of Harley Quinn: Essays on DC's Enigmatic Villain 2017
Perrin-Naffakh, Anne-Marie Amours - toujours : l'écriture clichée dans le roman sentimental 1998 Harlequin Mills & Boon
Perrot, Jean Les métamorphoses du conte 2004
Rashid, Hussein; Petersen, Kristian The Bloomsbury Handbook of Muslims and Popular Culture 2023
Petersson, Sara; Söderberg, Daniel En berättelse tar form - en studie i hur geometrisk form på bokomslag indikerar populärlitterär genre 2014 paratext
Petrović, Janja Breaking the stereotype – romance novel today 2023 genre definitions, gender, Mariana Zapata, Abby Jimenez, Christina Lauren, Emily Henry, Colleen Hoover
Peukert, Christian; Reimers, Imke Digital Disintermediation and Efficiency in the Market for Ideas 2018 Publishing
Eco, Umberto; Federzoni, Marina; Pezzini, Isabella; Pozzato, Maria Pia Carolina Invernizio, Matilde Serao, Liala 1979 Liala, pen name of Amalia Liana Cambiasi Negretti Odescalchi
Brock, Alexander; Pflaeging, Jana; Schildhauer, Peter Genre Emergence: Developments in Print, TV and Digital Media 2019
Philadelphoff-Puren, Nina The Mark of Refusal: Sexual Violence and the Politics of Recontextualization 2004 rape and/or intimate partner violence/abuse, Charlotte Lamb
Philadelphoff-Puren, Nina Contextualising Consent: The Problem of Rape and Romance 2005 rape and/or intimate partner violence/abuse, Charlotte Lamb
Philips, Deborah Marketing Moonshine 1985
Philips, Deborah Mills and Boon: The Marketing of Moonshine 1990 Harlequin Mills & Boon, Publishing, paratext
Philips, Deborah; Tomlinson, Alan Homeward Bound: Leisure, popular culture and consumer capitalism 1992 capitalism/business, Harlequin Mills & Boon, war/armed forces, work, gender
Philips, Deborah; Haywood, Ian Brave New Causes: Women in British Postwar Fictions 1998 social/economic class, settings, national identity, work, marriage, medical romance, history, UK, Harlequin Mills & Boon
Philips, Deborah The Empire of Romance: Love in a Postcolonial Climate 2011 Harlequin Mills & Boon, UK, race/ethnicity, Pamela Kent, Juliet Shore/Anne Vinton, Jean Herbert, settings, work, Lilian Warren as Kathryn Blair/Rosalind Brett/Celine Conway, Africa, medical romance
Philips, Deborah In defence of reading (and watching) trash: Feminists reading the romance 2020 romance scholarship, feminism
Philips, Deborah Fifty Shades of Romance: The intertextualities of Fifty Shades of Grey 2021 Fifty Shades, Harlequin Mills & Boon, Twilight
Phillips, Kristen Women and Erotic Fiction: Critical Essays on Genres, Markets & Readers 2015
Phipps, Catherine Sex, race and power: colonial and interracial sexuality in the French Empire in Morocco, 1912-1956 2023 history, Morocco, sheikh romance, sex/sexuality, race/ethnicity
Phipps, Catherine ‘The Machine for Showing Desire’: Desert Romance Fiction and Knowing Sexual Desire 2023 sheikh romance, history, race/ethnicity, sex/sexuality, E. M. Hull, Leonard Noel Barker writing as L. Noel
Phumithammarat, Nanphatchaon The Cultural Politics of Chinese-Thai Identities in Ethnic Romance Novels by Female Authors 2023 Thailand, race/ethnicity, China
Piatti-Farnell, Lorna; Brien, Donna Lee New Directions in 21st Century Gothic: The Gothic Compass 2015
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
Pierini, Francesca “He Looks like He’s Stepped out of a Painting:” The Idealization and Appropriation of Italian Timelessness through the Experience of Romantic Love 2020 Italy, history, Shakespeare, Marina Fiorato, Anne Fortier, work, race/ethnicity
Pierini, Francesca “Sharing the Same Soil:” Sally Rooney’s Normal People and the Coming-of-Age Romance 2021 Sally Rooney, romance scholarship
Pierini, Francesca Critical Approaches to the Modern and Contemporary Anglophone Romance Novel (From A Room with a View to Fifty Shades of Grey) 2022 teaching romance, E. M. Forster, Jennifer Crusie, E. M. Hull, Beverly Jenkins, Alyssa Cole, Fifty Shades, K. J. Charles
Pierini, Francesca Romance and Metagenre: A Response to Burkhard Niederhoff 2022 romance scholarship, E. M. Forster, happy ending
Pierini, Francesca “Roma” spelled backwards: love and heterotopic space in contemporary romance novels set in Italy 2022 Italy, settings
Pierini, Francesca Literary Fiction from the Perspective of Romance: Normal People 2023 Sally Rooney
Pierini, Francesca Towards a Regime of Authenticity. Reading A Room with a View through the Lens of Contemporary Romance Scholarship 2023 E. M. Forster, Older and/or precursor texts (may not be "romance" as now defined), Italy, marriage, emotions, happy ending, trash/literary and or intellectual quality
Pierre, Zakiya Browsing in nuances: Using ethnographic research to design for the experience of browsing. 2021 readers
Pierre-Robertson, Petronetta Literature as an Agent of Change 2021 Caribbean, rape and/or intimate partner violence/abuse, Petra Pierre-Robertson
Pifarré, Alexandra-Flora; Rutigliano-Daspet, Sandrine Re- Répéter - Répétitions 2010
Garciano, Shylyn G.; Cuevas, Gloria Con-ui; Geraldizo-Pabriga, Maria Gemma; Macabodbod, Saira Jay J.; Yu, Jaciah Mae B.; Pinote, Ma. Jezan A. Romance-Themed Novels: Influenced on Relationship Satisfaction 2023 readers, psychology
Piper, Andrew; Portelance, Eva How Cultural Capital Works: Prizewinning Novels, Bestsellers, and the Time of Reading 2016 linguistics, trash/literary and or intellectual quality
Muram, David; Rosenthal, Ted L.; Tolley, Elizabeth A.; Peeler, Molly M.; Pitts, Bridget Teenage Pregnancy: Dating and Sexual Attitudes 1992 readers, sex/sexuality, race/ethnicity
Po-Yu, Rick Wei “She is a Jade”: A Georgian Gaming Woman Re-imagined in Georgette Heyer’s Faro’s Daughter 2018 Georgette Heyer, history, feminism, historical romance
Pöhls, R. L. Victoria; Utudji, Mariane Powerful Prose: How Textual Features Impact Readers 2021
Legallois, Dominique; Charnois, Thierry; Poibeau, Thierry Repérer les clichés dans les romans sentimentaux grâce à la méthode des ‘motifs’ 2016 trash/literary and or intellectual quality, Harlequin Mills & Boon, linguistics
Pokrywka, Rafał Temperaturen des Begehrens als konventionelle Metaphern im Hard-Core-Liebesroman 2015 metaphor/symbolism, Sylvia Day, Fifty Shades, sex/sexuality
Pollak, Richard What's in a Pseudonym? Romance Slaves of Harlequin 1992 Harlequin Mills & Boon, Publishing, authors
Rosier, Laurence; Pollet, Marie-Christine Les mauvais genres en classe de français?: Retour sur la question. 2007
White, Bonnie; Pope, Johnathan H. Spinsters, war widows, and wounded soldiers: the Great War novels of Berta Ruck 2018 Berta Ruck, war/armed forces, gender, disability, marriage
Popova, Milena Rewriting the Romance: Emotion Work and Consent in Arranged Marriage Fanfiction 2018 fanfiction, sex/sexuality, marriage, emotions
Popova, Milena Sexual Consent 2019 sex/sexuality, rape and/or intimate partner violence/abuse
Pöppel, Hubert Las reinas de la novela rosa en España y Alemania: Corín Tellado y Hedwig Courths-Mahler 2014 Germany, Spain, Corín Tellado, Hedwig Courths-Mahler, trash/literary and or intellectual quality
Piper, Andrew; Portelance, Eva How Cultural Capital Works: Prizewinning Novels, Bestsellers, and the Time of Reading 2016 linguistics, trash/literary and or intellectual quality
Porter, David Internet Culture 1997
Portut, Vanessa Évolution du roman sentimental contemporain en France: diversité et spécificité des collections chez Harlequin 2001 Harlequin Mills & Boon, France
Nilson, Maria; Posti, Piia K Speglingar av feelgood: Genre, etikett eller känsla? 2022
Posti, Piia K ‘I Get to Exist as a Black Person in the World’: Bridgerton as Speculative Romance and Alternate History on Screen 2024 race/ethnicity, history, historical romance, Julia Quinn
Postma, Kathlene American Women Readers Encounter Turkey in the Shadow of Popular Romance 1999 United States of America, Greece, Turkey, national identity, Older and/or precursor texts (may not be "romance" as now defined), Demetra Vaka, race/ethnicity
Potter, Jane Elizabeth Boys in khaki, girls in print: women's literary responses to the great war, 1914-1918 1998 war/armed forces, national identity
Potter, Jane "A great purifier": The Great War in Women's Romances and Memoirs 1914-1918 1997 war/armed forces, Berta Ruck, Ruby M. Ayres
Potter, Jane Boys in Khaki, Girls in Print: Women's Literary Responses to the Great War 1914-1918 2005 war/armed forces, Ruby M. Ayres, Berta Ruck, Mary Ward/Mrs. Humphry Ward, Florence Barclay, disability, gender, social/economic class, paratext, Bessie Marchant, Janet Laing, Marie Belloc Lowndes, religion/spirituality, national identity