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Chakrabarti, Reema; Singh, Rajni Gender Stereotypes and Feminist Strokes: Negotiating the Spaces in Mills and Boon 2016 Harlequin Mills & Boon, Sandra Marton, Riya Lakhani, Tessa Radley, gender, feminism
Lemay, Catherine La traduction de la scène de sexe dans le roman sentimental érotique: Analyse descriptive et comparative 2016 translation, sex/sexuality, erotic romance, Sylvia Day
Silliman, Daniel Fictions of Belief: Reading Evangelical Novels in A Secular Age 2016 Christian romance, religion/spirituality, United States of America, Janette Oke, Beverly Lewis, Publishing
Maunder, Andrew Berta Ruck 2016 Berta Ruck, war/armed forces
Barot, Len Queer Romance in Twentieth- and Twenty-First-Century America: Snapshots of a Revolution 2016 Older and/or precursor texts (may not be "romance" as now defined), LGBT+ characters, readers and/or authors, lesbian romance, history, Publishing, Sarah Aldridge, Katherine V. Forrest, Isabel Miller, m/m romance, Wallace Hamilton, Marion Zimmer Bradley, Gordon Merrick, Radclyffe/Len Barot, erotic romance
Crane, Ralph; Fletcher, Lisa The Genre of Islands: Popular Fiction and Performative Geographies 2016 islands, settings, rural romance
Soubeyroux, Marie-Hélène; Zapata, Mónica Miradas sobre una obra polifacética: Homenaje a Jean Louis Guereña 2016
Allan, Jonathan A.; Santos, Cristina; Spahr, Adriana Virgin Envy: The Cultural Insignificance of the Hymen 2016
Carroll, Joseph; McAdams, Dan P.; Wilson, Edward O. Darwin's Bridge: Uniting the Humanities and Sciences 2016
Dandridge, Rita B. Love Prevailed Despite What American History Said: Agape and Eros in Beverly Jenkins's Night Song and Through the Storm 2016 Beverly Jenkins, love, sex/sexuality, history, gender, race/ethnicity, United States of America, rape and/or intimate partner violence/abuse, family, wealth/prosperity
Chakrabarti, Reema; Singh, Rajni Gender Stereotypes and Feminist Strokes: Negotiating the Spaces in Mills and Boon 2016 Harlequin Mills & Boon, Sandra Marton, Riya Lakhani, Tessa Radley, gender, feminism
Kelly, Brendan D. Medical romance: love never dies 2016 medical romance
Abdullah-Poulos, Layla Muslim Love American Style: Islamic-American Hybrid Culture and Native-Born American Black Muslim Romance 2016 religion/spirituality, African American romance, Islam, Muslim romance
Herendeen, Ann Having it Both Ways; or, Writing from the Third Perspective: The Revolutionary M/M/F Ménage Romance Novel 2016 LGBT+ characters, readers and/or authors, Ann Herendeen, marriage, metafiction, Georgette Heyer
Soler Gallo, Miguel Novela rosa y fantasía amorosa en la España de los años Cuarenta: análisis de La rival de Julieta de Josefina de la Torre 2016 Spain, fascism/right-wing authoritarianism, Laura de Cominges/Josefina de la Torre, gender
Wilson, Nicola The Book World: Selling and Distributing British Literature, 1900-1940 2016
Selinger, Eric Murphy; Gleason, William A. Introduction: Love as the Practice of Freedom? 2016 genre definitions, Nell Stark, romance scholarship
Hernández Guerrero, María José Prosumidoras de traducciones: Aproximación al fenómeno de la traducción fan de novela romántica 2016 readers, translation
Elliott, Jack Vocabulary decay in category romance 2016 linguistics, Harlequin Mills & Boon, authors, Jane Austen
Franssen, Thomas; Velthuis, Olav Making materiality matter: a sociological analysis of prices on the Dutch fiction book market, 1980–2009 2016 Publishing, Netherlands, 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
Carroll, Joseph; McAdams, Dan P.; Wilson, Edward O. Darwin's Bridge: Uniting the Humanities and Sciences 2016
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
Sherman, Jen Reading Infrastructures in the Contemporary City: A Study of Three Public Libraries in Sydney 2016 libraries/librarians, Australia
Burge, Amy ‘I Will Cut Myself and Smear Blood on the Sheet’: Testing Virginity in Medieval and Modern Orientalist Romance 2016 sex/sexuality, history, Older and/or precursor texts (may not be "romance" as now defined), sheikh romance, gender, Harlequin Mills & Boon, virginity
Francis, Conseula Flipping the Script: Romancing Zane's Urban Erotica 2016 Zane, sex/sexuality, romance and, or as, activism, race/ethnicity, emotions, marriage, love
Markert, John Publishing Romance: The History of an Industry, 1940s to the Present 2016 Publishing, Harlequin Mills & Boon, historical romance, erotic romance, m/m romance, lesbian romance, gothic romance, romantic suspense, African American romance, paranormal/fantasy/time-travel romance, Avon, Ellora's Cave, LGBT+ characters, readers and/or authors, BDSM, paratext
Gleason, William A.; Selinger, Eric Murphy Romance Fiction and American Culture: Love as the Practice of Freedom? 2016
Egan, Jesi Cultural Futurity and the Politics of Recovery: Mary Renault's Ambivalent Romances 2016 Mary Renault, romance and, or as, activism, genre definitions, sex/sexuality, UK, national identity, health/medical, trash/literary and or intellectual quality, gender, emotions, modernism, LGBT+ characters, readers and/or authors
Allan, Jonathan A. The Purity of His Maleness: Masculinity in Popular Romance Novels 2016 gender, virginity, Harlequin Mills & Boon
Cothran, Casey A.; Cannon, Mercy New Perspectives on Detective Fiction: Mystery Magnified 2016
Selinger, Eric Murphy; Gleason, William A. Introduction: Love as the Practice of Freedom? 2016 genre definitions, Nell Stark, romance scholarship
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
Mogin-Martin, Roselyne La revolución sexual de Corín Tellado 2016 Corín Tellado, Spain, fascism/right-wing authoritarianism, sex/sexuality
Franssen, Thomas; Velthuis, Olav Making materiality matter: a sociological analysis of prices on the Dutch fiction book market, 1980–2009 2016 Publishing, Netherlands, trash/literary and or intellectual quality
Bartlett, Lexey A. Review of Love Between the Covers by Laurie Kahn (Blueberry Hill Productions, 2015) 2016 readers, romance scholarship, teaching romance, Beverly Jenkins, Eloisa James, Radclyffe/Len Barot, Susan Donovan, Celeste Bradley
Piper, Andrew; Portelance, Eva How Cultural Capital Works: Prizewinning Novels, Bestsellers, and the Time of Reading 2016 linguistics, trash/literary and or intellectual quality
Carroll, Joseph; McAdams, Dan P.; Wilson, Edward O. Darwin's Bridge: Uniting the Humanities and Sciences 2016
Morrissey, Katherine Romance Networks: Aspiration & Desire in Today’s Digital Culture 2016 fanfiction, Publishing, readers, genre definitions, Fifty Shades, Twilight, sex/sexuality, love, pornography, Harlequin Mills & Boon, erotic romance
McAlister, Jodi Between Pleasure and Pain: The Textual Politics of the Hymen 2016 history, sex/sexuality, virginity
Teo, Hsu-Ming Orientalism, Freedom, and Feminism in Popular Culture 2016 United States of America, Islam, history, E. M. Hull, historical romance, sheikh romance, sex/sexuality, gender, feminism, work, race/ethnicity, Barbara Faith, Elizabeth Mayne, Dana Marton, romantic suspense, war/armed forces, national identity
Allen, Amanda K. “Dear Miss Daly”: 1940s Fan Letters to Maureen Daly and the Age-Grading and Gendering of Seventeenth Summer 2016 YA/teenage romance, readers, Maureen Daly, gender, libraries/librarians, genre definitions, war/armed forces
Frankel, Valerie Estelle Adoring Outlander: Essays on Fandom, Genre and the Female Audience 2016
Gleason, William A.; Selinger, Eric Murphy Romance Fiction and American Culture: Love as the Practice of Freedom? 2016
Cothran, Casey A.; Cannon, Mercy New Perspectives on Detective Fiction: Mystery Magnified 2016
Serafine, Amelia "He Filled My Heart with Doubt": The Southern Belle's Love and Duty in the Civil War 2016 history, United States of America, Older and/or precursor texts (may not be "romance" as now defined), Augusta Jane Evans, death, war/armed forces, religion/spirituality, gender, Edward Bulwer-Lytton, readers
Lin, Fang-mei 性別化東方主義 : 女性沙漠羅曼史的重層東方想像 = Gendering orientalism: women's desert romance and the multiplicity of oriental imagination 2016 sheikh romance, translation, Taiwan
Gelder, Ken New Directions in Popular Fiction: Genre, Distribution, Reproduction 2016
Teo, Hsu-Ming Imperial Affairs: The British Empire and the Romantic Novel, 1890-1939 2016 Older and/or precursor texts (may not be "romance" as now defined), UK, history, national identity, Harlequin Mills & Boon, Australia, Canada, New Zealand, Africa, India, E. M. Hull, race/ethnicity, gender, sheikh romance, Nora K. Strange, settings, Rosa Praed, Mary Gaunt, Gertrude Page, Florence Riddell, Flora Annie Steel, Ouida, Marie Corelli, Kathlyn Rhodes, Joan Conquest, Mrs F. E. Penny, Maud Diver, Alice Perrin, Alice Eustace, rural romance
Young, Erin S. Saving China: The Transformative Power of Whiteness in Elizabeth Lowell's Jade Island and Katherine Stone's Pearl Moon 2016 race/ethnicity, China, Elizabeth Lowell, Katherine Stone, capitalism/business, national identity, work, family, love, United States of America, wealth/prosperity, settings, romantic suspense
Roach, Catherine M. Happily Ever After: The Romance Story in Popular Culture 2016 authors, religion/spirituality, love, sex/sexuality, Beverly Jenkins, gender, rape and/or intimate partner violence/abuse, genre definitions, BDSM, J. R. Ward, readers, LGBT+ characters, readers and/or authors, happy ending, romance scholarship, marriage, pornography, Publishing, feminism
Sandbakken, Asta Margrethe Feeling Men: Masculinity, Sexuality, and Emotion in the Contemporary Romance 2016 sex/sexuality, gender, Nora Roberts/J. D. Robb, Susan Elizabeth Phillips, emotions
McAlister, Jodi “You and I are humans, and there is something complicated between us”: Untamed and queering the heterosexual historical romance 2016 Anna Cowan, gender, historical romance, Georgette Heyer, readers, cross-dressing, fashion/clothing, LGBT+ characters, readers and/or authors
Derbyshire, Val Why Read Mills & Boon Romances? 2016 Harlequin Mills & Boon, trash/literary and or intellectual quality, settings, Penny Jordan/Caroline Courtney, romance and, or as, activism, rape and/or intimate partner violence/abuse, feminism
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
Matthews, Amy T. Entangled: the exegetical process of a romance writer 2016 authors, feminism, genre definitions, trash/literary and or intellectual quality
Moody, Stephanie Identification, Affect, and Escape: Theorizing Popular Romance Reading 2016 readers, emotions, Jennifer Crusie, J. R. Ward, Judith McNaught, Susan Elizabeth Phillips, Teresa Medeiros, sex/sexuality, race/ethnicity, gender
Thomas, Patrick; Takayoshi, Pamela Literacy in Practice: Writing in Private, Public and Working Lives 2016
González Cruz, María Isabel Conciencia Sociolingüística e Hispanismos en un Corpus de Novela Rosa Inglesa 2017 Spain, languages, Harlequin Mills & Boon, linguistics
Malloy, Audrey Miles Remnants of the Bodice Ripper: How Consent is Characterized in Heterosexual and Lesbian Erotic Romance Novels 2017 gender, sex/sexuality, lesbian romance, rape and/or intimate partner violence/abuse, LGBT+ characters, readers and/or authors
Turner, Katherine Daphne Du Maurier's Mary Anne: Rewriting the Regency Romance as Feminist History 2017 history, Daphne du Maurier
Jackson, Cia Harlequin Romance: The Power of Parody and Subversion 2017 Harlequin Mills & Boon
Pyrhönen, Heta Love under Threat: The Emotional Valences of the Twilight Saga 2017 Twilight, emotions, love, happy ending
Andrade, Roberta Manuela Barros de; Silva, Erotilde Honório; Feitosa, Ricardo Augusto de Sabóia O casamento em perigo no romance sentimental de Corin Tellado e a imprensa feminina na ditadura militar brasileira 2017 Brazil, Corín Tellado, marriage, fascism/right-wing authoritarianism
Johnson, Heather Yorkshire English in Georgette Heyer's The Unknown Ajax 2017 languages, Georgette Heyer, historical romance
Markert, John God is Love: The Christian Romance Market 2017 Christian romance, Publishing, sex/sexuality
Engelking, Tama Lea Reading the Romance with Colette in ‘La Lune de pluie' 2017 Colette
Andrade, Roberta Manuela Barros de; Silva, Erotilde Honório; Feitosa, Ricardo Augusto de Sabóia O casamento em perigo no romance sentimental de Corin Tellado e a imprensa feminina na ditadura militar brasileira 2017 Brazil, Corín Tellado, marriage, fascism/right-wing authoritarianism
Álvarez, Marta; Hekmat, Ida; Lauret-Taft, Sabine L’amour. Création et société 2017
Malinowska, Anna Paternal Structures of the Romance 2017 family, love, gender
Whalen, Kacey A Consumption of Gay Men: Navigating the Shifting Boundaries of M/M Romantic Readership 2017 m/m romance, readers, gender, sex/sexuality, K. J. Charles, LGBT+ characters, readers and/or authors
Clasen, Tricia Masculinity and Romantic Myth in Contemporary YA Romance 2017 gender, love, YA/teenage romance
González Cruz, María Isabel Exploring the dynamics of English/Spanish codeswitching in a written corpus 2017 languages, Spain, Harlequin Mills & Boon, linguistics
Khuankaew, Sasinee Femininity and Masculinity in Twenty-First Century Thai Romantic Fictions 2017 gender, Thailand, sex/sexuality, Buddhism
Nilson, Maria Kärlek i kyligt klimat: Om nordisk romance 2017 Sweden, Norway, Simona Ahrnstedt, Natalie Normann, national identity, gender, sex/sexuality
van der Putten, Jan; Arnez, Monika; Wieringa, Edwin P.; Graf, Arndt Traditions Redirecting Contemporary Indonesian Cultural Productions 2017
Andrade, Roberta Manuela Barros de; Silva, Erotilde Honório; Feitosa, Ricardo Augusto de Sabóia O casamento em perigo no romance sentimental de Corin Tellado e a imprensa feminina na ditadura militar brasileira 2017 Brazil, Corín Tellado, marriage, fascism/right-wing authoritarianism
Álvarez, Marta; Hekmat, Ida; Lauret-Taft, Sabine L’amour. Création et société 2017
Achieng’, Okang’a Nancy A Cosmopolitan National Romance: A Study of In Dependence by Sarah Ladipo Manyika 2017 Sarah Ladipo Manyika, Nigeria, trash/literary and or intellectual quality, Africa, race/ethnicity, gender
Fragero Guerra, Carmen Del azul al rosa: la narrativa de Carmen de Icaza (1936-1960) 2017 Carmen de Icaza, Luisa-María Linares, Spain, fascism/right-wing authoritarianism
Cheyne, Ria Disability Studies Reads the Romance: Sexuality, Prejudice, and the Happily-Ever-After in the Work of Mary Balogh 2017 disability, sex/sexuality, Mary Balogh, historical romance
Veros, Vassiliki Keepers: Marking the Value of the Books on my Shelves 2017 readers, trash/literary and or intellectual quality
van der Putten, Jan; Arnez, Monika; Wieringa, Edwin P.; Graf, Arndt Traditions Redirecting Contemporary Indonesian Cultural Productions 2017
Alpalhão, Margarida Santos; Carreto, Carlos F. Clamote; Dias, Isabel de Barros O jogo do mundo: ensaios sobre o imaginário lúdico 2017
Waldschmidt, Anne; Berressem, Hanjo; Ingwersen, Moritz Culture - Theory – Disability: Encounters between Disability Studies and Cultural Studies 2017
Álvarez, Marta; Hekmat, Ida; Lauret-Taft, Sabine L’amour. Création et société 2017
Lessard, Victoria Marketing Desire: The "Normative/Other" Male Body and the "Pure" White Female Body on the Cover Art of Cassie Edwards' Savage Dream (1990), Savage Persuasion (1991), and Savage Mists (1992) 2017 Cassie Edwards, Native American romance, paratext, race/ethnicity, historical romance
Bigey, Magali Réflexions sur l’amour et analyse de réception : La rencontre amoureuse dans les romans sériels et au prisme du lectorat 2017
Soler Gallo, Miguel El juego amoroso en la novela rosa española femenina de los años cuarenta 2017 Spain, love, fascism/right-wing authoritarianism, gender, family, marriage, history
Golubov, Nattie El amor en tiempos neoliberales: apuntes críticos sobre la novela rosa contemporánea 2017 trash/literary and or intellectual quality, Loretta Chase, gender, genre definitions, readers, feminism, Publishing, Jennifer Crusie
van der Putten, Jan; Arnez, Monika; Wieringa, Edwin P.; Graf, Arndt Traditions Redirecting Contemporary Indonesian Cultural Productions 2017
Alpalhão, Margarida Santos; Carreto, Carlos F. Clamote; Dias, Isabel de Barros O jogo do mundo: ensaios sobre o imaginário lúdico 2017
Waldschmidt, Anne; Berressem, Hanjo; Ingwersen, Moritz Culture - Theory – Disability: Encounters between Disability Studies and Cultural Studies 2017
Barker, Clare; Murray, Stuart The Cambridge Companion to Literature and Disability 2017
Arimbi, Diah Ariani Women in Indonesian Popular Fiction: Romance, Beauty, and Identity Politics in Metropop Novels 2017 Indonesia, settings, languages, gender, fashion/clothing, marriage
Golubov, Nattie Reading the Romance Writer as an Author-Entrepreneur 2017 authors, work, race/ethnicity, readers
Ali, Kecia Troubleshooting Post-9/11 America: Religion, Racism, and Stereotypes in Suzanne Brockmann’s Into the Night and Gone Too Far 2017 Suzanne Brockmann, religion/spirituality, race/ethnicity, United States of America, war/armed forces, Islam, sheikh romance, gender, marriage
van der Putten, Jan; Arnez, Monika; Wieringa, Edwin P.; Graf, Arndt Traditions Redirecting Contemporary Indonesian Cultural Productions 2017
Crane, Ralph; Fletcher, Lisa Island Genres, Genre Islands: Conceptualisation and Representation in Popular Fiction 2017 islands, settings, Margaret Evans Porter, Nora Roberts/J. D. Robb
Alpalhão, Margarida Santos; Carreto, Carlos F. Clamote; Dias, Isabel de Barros O jogo do mundo: ensaios sobre o imaginário lúdico 2017
Soler Gallo, Miguel El ideal de masculinidad en la novela romántica falangista: análisis de Una mujer de veinte años de Mercedes Ballesteros 2017 SylviaVisconti/Mercedes Ballesteros Gaibrois, Spain, fascism/right-wing authoritarianism, gender, war/armed forces, history, Rosa María Aranda, Elena Puerto/Mercedes Formica
Waldschmidt, Anne; Berressem, Hanjo; Ingwersen, Moritz Culture - Theory – Disability: Encounters between Disability Studies and Cultural Studies 2017
Barker, Clare; Murray, Stuart The Cambridge Companion to Literature and Disability 2017
Jandl, Ingeborg; Knaller, Susanne; Schönfellner, Sabine; Tockner, Gudrun Writing Emotions: Theoretical Concepts and Selected Case Studies in Literature 2017
Kohlman, Marla H.; Simpson, Samantha N. For the Sake of Hearth and Home: Gender Schematicity in the Romance Novel 2017 gender, Harlequin Mills & Boon, race/ethnicity, work, marriage, family
Higashi, Sumiko Adapting Middlebrow Taste to Sell Stars, Romance, and Consumption 2017 romances in magazines and newspapers
Papargyriou, Eleni; Assinder, Semele; Holton, David Greece in British Women’s Literary Imagination, 1913-2013 2017
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
Kohlman, Marla H.; Krieg, Dana B. Discourses on Gender and Sexual Inequality: The Legacy of Sandra L. Bem 2017
Crane, Ralph; Fletcher, Lisa Island Genres, Genre Islands: Conceptualisation and Representation in Popular Fiction 2017 islands, settings, Margaret Evans Porter, Nora Roberts/J. D. Robb
Ali, Kecia Human in Death: Morality and Mortality in J. D. Robb's Novels 2017 Nora Roberts/J. D. Robb, science fiction/futuristic romance, family, community, race/ethnicity, work, gender, romantic suspense, police officers/police forces
Jandl, Ingeborg; Knaller, Susanne; Schönfellner, Sabine; Tockner, Gudrun Writing Emotions: Theoretical Concepts and Selected Case Studies in Literature 2017
Larson, Christine An Economy of Words: Precarity, Solidarity and Innovation in Digital Book Publishing 2017 Publishing, authors, work
Kohlman, Marla H.; Simpson, Samantha N. For the Sake of Hearth and Home: Gender Schematicity in the Romance Novel 2017 gender, Harlequin Mills & Boon, race/ethnicity, work, marriage, family
Keegan, Faye ‘Snob Value’: Gender and Literary Value in Mary Stewart 2017 Mary Stewart, romantic suspense, trash/literary and or intellectual quality, gender, authors
Arvanitaki, Eirini Postmillennial femininities in the popular romance novel 2017 feminism, gender, Harlequin Mills & Boon
Papargyriou, Eleni; Assinder, Semele; Holton, David Greece in British Women’s Literary Imagination, 1913-2013 2017
Kohlman, Marla H.; Krieg, Dana B. Discourses on Gender and Sexual Inequality: The Legacy of Sandra L. Bem 2017
Jandl, Ingeborg; Knaller, Susanne; Schönfellner, Sabine; Tockner, Gudrun Writing Emotions: Theoretical Concepts and Selected Case Studies in Literature 2017
English, Jessica Reading the Romance: Through the Eyes of a Millenial Feminist 2017 feminism, readers
McAlister, Jodi; Teo, Hsu-Ming Love in Australian Romance Novels 2017 national identity, Australia, love, rural romance, gender, sex/sexuality, history, Publishing, genre definitions, race/ethnicity, settings, feminism
Bianchi, Diana I gentiluomini si prendono per la gola: cibo e identità nei romanzi di Georgette Heyer 2017 Georgette Heyer, historical romance
Elliott, Jack Whole genre sequencing 2017 genre definitions, Harlequin Mills & Boon, authors, linguistics
Papargyriou, Eleni; Assinder, Semele; Holton, David Greece in British Women’s Literary Imagination, 1913-2013 2017
Clasen, Tricia; Hassel, Holly Gender(ed) Identities: Critical Rereadings of Gender in Children’s and Young Adult Literature 2017
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
Jandl, Ingeborg; Knaller, Susanne; Schönfellner, Sabine; Tockner, Gudrun Writing Emotions: Theoretical Concepts and Selected Case Studies in Literature 2017
McAlister, Jodi; Teo, Hsu-Ming Love in Australian Romance Novels 2017 national identity, Australia, love, rural romance, gender, sex/sexuality, history, Publishing, genre definitions, race/ethnicity, settings, feminism
O'Mahony, Lauren Death and the Australian Rural Romance Novel 2017 rural romance, Australia, death
Barba, Shelley E.; Perrin, Joy M. The Ascendance of Harley Quinn: Essays on DC's Enigmatic Villain 2017
Clasen, Tricia; Hassel, Holly Gender(ed) Identities: Critical Rereadings of Gender in Children’s and Young Adult Literature 2017
Teo, Hsu-Ming The Popular Culture of Romantic Love in Australia 2017
Capps, Stephanie Carol What You Read and What You Believe: Genre Exposure and Beliefs about Relationships 2017 readers, gender, sex/sexuality, psychology, love
Betz, Phyllis M. Katherine V. Forrest: A Critical Appreciation 2017 lesbian romance, Katherine V. Forrest, Older and/or precursor texts (may not be "romance" as now defined), LGBT+ characters, readers and/or authors
McLennon, Leigh Contemporary vampire genre fiction: ethical feeding and the posthuman vampire in urban fantasy and paranormal romance 2017 paranormal/fantasy/time-travel romance
Gifford, James Mary Stewart’s Greek Novels: Hellenism, Orientalism and the Cultural Politics of Pulp Presentation 2017 Mary Stewart, Greece, gender, romantic suspense, national identity
Regan, Lisa Women and the 'War Machine' in the Desert Romances of E. M. Hull and Rosita Forbes 2017 E. M. Hull, UK, war/armed forces, national identity
Krueger, Kate The Woman at Home in the World: Annie Swan's Lady Doctor and the Problem of the Fin de Siècle Working Woman 2017 Annie S. Swan
Barba, Shelley E.; Perrin, Joy M. The Ascendance of Harley Quinn: Essays on DC's Enigmatic Villain 2017
Vivanco, Laura A Place “We All Dream About”: Greece in Mills & Boon Romances 2017 Greece, race/ethnicity, Harlequin Mills & Boon, sex/sexuality, science/technology, myth
Dyhouse, Carol Hearthrobs: A History of Women and Desire 2017 gender, sex/sexuality, Charles Garvice, E. M. Hull, Georgette Heyer, Barbara Cartland, race/ethnicity
Roach, Catherine M. Erotica 2018 erotic romance, sex/sexuality, pornography, love, LGBT+ characters, readers and/or authors, feminism, rape and/or intimate partner violence/abuse, BDSM, Alexis Hall
Bhasin, Neeta Romancing the 'Illegal' Immigrant 2018 Serena Bell, race/ethnicity, United States of America, social/economic class, gender, sex/sexuality, languages, readers
Fletcher, Lisa; Driscoll, Beth; Wilkins, Kim Genre Worlds and Popular Fiction: The Case of Twenty-First-Century Australian Romance 2018 Publishing, Australia
Villar-Argáiz, Pilar Ireland and the Popular Genre of Historical Romance: The Novels of Karen Robards 2018 Ireland, historical romance, Karen Robards, UK, race/ethnicity, gender, cross-dressing, settings, rape and/or intimate partner violence/abuse, sex/sexuality
Gehrhardt, Marjorie Losing Face, Finding Love? The Fate of Facially Disfigured Soldiers in Narratives of the First World War 2018 war/armed forces, disability, health/medical
Smith, Clarissa; Attwood, Feona; McNair, Brian The Routledge Companion to Media, Sex and Sexuality 2018
Teo, Hsu-Ming The Contemporary Anglophone Romance Genre 2018 gender, sex/sexuality, Publishing, race/ethnicity
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
Fletcher, Lisa; Driscoll, Beth; Wilkins, Kim What is Australian Popular Fiction? 2018 Australia, national identity, settings
Lozano Sampedro, Mª Teresa Pour une typologie de la marginalité dans les romans de Delly: la fonction de la femme 2018 Delly, religion/spirituality, gender, social/economic class
Andrade, Roberta Manuela Barros de; Feitosa, Ricardo Augusto de Sabóia A cultura emotiva das comunidades virtuais de leitura de livros de amor 2018 readers, emotions, Brazil
Coote, Lesley; Kaufman, Alexander L. Robin Hood and the Outlaw/ed Literary Canon 2018
Simon, Jenni M. Consuming Agency and Desire in Romance: Stories of Love, Laughter, and Empowerment 2018 feminism, authors, romance and, or as, activism, rape and/or intimate partner violence/abuse
Lawrey, Jeffrey A.; McLuckie, Alyx; Mulberry, Benjamin J.; Mullins, Erin K.; Shuler, Autumn R.; Kratzer, Jessica M. W. Communication, Kink, and Sexual Education: What Young Women Learned from Fifty Shades of Grey 2018 Fifty Shades, readers, sex/sexuality, erotic romance, BDSM
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
Selinger, Eric Murphy Use Heart in Your (Re)Search: The Invitations of Popular Romance 2018 teaching romance, readers, Sherry Thomas, trash/literary and or intellectual quality, romance scholarship
Spears, Jessica D. The Romance Novel Cover 2018 paratext, Publishing, gender, sex/sexuality, pornography
Cheyne, Ria Disability in Genre Fiction 2018 disability, sex/sexuality, Fay Robinson/Carmel Parsons Thomaston
Driscoll, Beth; Fletcher, Lisa; Wilkins, Kim; Carter, David The Publishing Ecosystems of Contemporary Australian Genre Fiction 2018 Publishing, Australia
González Cruz, María-Isabel Hispanismos en el discurso romántico de Harlequin y Mills & Boon. Ámbitos temáticos y funciones socio-pragmáticas 2018 languages, islands, Spain, Harlequin Mills & Boon, linguistics
Vera-Cazorla, María Jesús Cultural symbols, myth and identity in four 20th-century English popular romance fiction novels set in Tenerife 2018 Spain, Harlequin Mills & Boon, settings, family
Smith, Clarissa; Attwood, Feona; McNair, Brian The Routledge Companion to Media, Sex and Sexuality 2018
Killeen, Jarlath Nora Roberts: the Power of Love 2018 Nora Roberts/J. D. Robb, love
Vitackova, Martina Representation of racial and sexual ‘others’ in Afrikaans popular romantic fiction by Sophia Kapp 2018 Sophia Kapp, race/ethnicity, sex/sexuality, Africa, South Africa
Coote, Lesley; Kaufman, Alexander L. Robin Hood and the Outlaw/ed Literary Canon 2018
Reed, Eleanor Domestic Culture in Woman's Weekly, 1918-1958 2018 history, social/economic class, romances in magazines and newspapers, Older and/or precursor texts (may not be "romance" as now defined), UK
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
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
Newns, Lucinda Renegotiating romantic genres: Textual resistance and Muslim chick lit 2018 chick lit, Islam, feminism, religion/spirituality
Kollman, Kathleen W. Taylor Contemporary Paranormal Romance: Theories and Development of the Genre’s Feminism (Or Lack Thereof) 2018 paranormal/fantasy/time-travel romance, feminism, gender
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
Batzke, Ina; Erbacher, Eric C.; Heß, Linda M.; Lenhardt, Corinna Exploring the Fantastic: Genre, Ideology, and Popular Culture 2018
Driscoll, Beth; Fletcher, Lisa; Wilkins, Kim; Carter, David The Publishing Ecosystems of Contemporary Australian Genre Fiction 2018 Publishing, Australia
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
González de la Rosa, María del Pilar Intersections of Inner and Outer Journeys in Contemporary Popular Romance Fiction Novels 2018 settings, Harlequin Mills & Boon
Smith, Michelle J.; Moruzi, Kristine Vampires and Witches Go to School: Contemporary Young Adult Fiction, Gender, and the Gothic 2018 YA/teenage romance, gothic romance, paranormal/fantasy/time-travel romance
Arnold-Forster, Agnes; Moulds, Alison Medical women in popular fiction 2018 health/medical, history, Harlequin Mills & Boon, gender, medical romance
Schell, Heather; Brown, Ann K. G. Romancelandia on Twitter: Designing a Digital Humanities Research Assignment for First-Year Writing Students 2018 teaching romance, authors
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
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
Batzke, Ina; Erbacher, Eric C.; Heß, Linda M.; Lenhardt, Corinna Exploring the Fantastic: Genre, Ideology, and Popular Culture 2018
Hopkins, Lisa Waltzing with Wellington, Biting with Byron: Heroes in Austen Tribute Texts 2018 Jane Austen, Georgette Heyer, gender, historical romance
Driscoll, Beth; Fletcher, Lisa; Wilkins, Kim; Carter, David The Publishing Ecosystems of Contemporary Australian Genre Fiction 2018 Publishing, Australia
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
Smith, Michelle J.; Moruzi, Kristine Vampires and Witches Go to School: Contemporary Young Adult Fiction, Gender, and the Gothic 2018 YA/teenage romance, gothic romance, paranormal/fantasy/time-travel romance
Harris, Racheal Really Romantic? Pirates in Romantic Fiction 2018 pirates and outlaws, sex/sexuality, historical romance, rape and/or intimate partner violence/abuse, virginity
Arnold-Forster, Agnes; Moulds, Alison Medical women in popular fiction 2018 health/medical, history, Harlequin Mills & Boon, gender, medical romance
Schell, Heather; Brown, Ann K. G. Romancelandia on Twitter: Designing a Digital Humanities Research Assignment for First-Year Writing Students 2018 teaching romance, authors
Ramsdell, Kristin Encyclopedia of Romance Fiction 2018 Publishing, paranormal/fantasy/time-travel romance, comics/manga, Christian romance, marriage, Jane Austen, Charlotte Brontë, Emily Brontë, Barbara Cartland, Janet Dailey, Daphne du Maurier, Ethel M. Dell, erotic romance, feminism, science fiction/futuristic romance, Elinor Glyn, Margaret Mitchell, Harlequin Mills & Boon, Georgette Heyer, Victoria Holt/Jean Plaidy/Eleanor Burford Hibbert, historical romance, E. M. Hull, romance scholarship, LGBT+ characters, readers and/or authors, libraries/librarians, romantic suspense, Samuel Richardson, rape and/or intimate partner violence/abuse, Nora Roberts/J. D. Robb, Bertrice Small, Mary Stewart, translation, Patricia Veryan, Phyllis A. Whitney, Kathleen Winsor, Kathleen Woodiwiss, race/ethnicity
Hernández, María Beatriz; Brito, Manuel; Monterrey, Tomás Broadening Horizons: A Peak Panorama of English Studies in Spain 2018
Popova, Milena Rewriting the Romance: Emotion Work and Consent in Arranged Marriage Fanfiction 2018 fanfiction, sex/sexuality, marriage, emotions
Gómez Gray, Alana Lectura, paraliteratura y mujeres en España: de la novela rosa a cincuenta sombras 2018 romance scholarship, Spain, Publishing, history, Fifty Shades, readers
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
Batzke, Ina; Erbacher, Eric C.; Heß, Linda M.; Lenhardt, Corinna Exploring the Fantastic: Genre, Ideology, and Popular Culture 2018
Roberts, Gillian Reading between the Borderlines: Cultural Production and Consumption across the 49th Parallel 2018
Driscoll, Beth; Fletcher, Lisa; Wilkins, Kim; Carter, David The Publishing Ecosystems of Contemporary Australian Genre Fiction 2018 Publishing, Australia
Chelton, Mary K. Searching for Birth Parents or Adopted Children: Finding without Seeking in Romance Novels 2018 family
Fernández Rodríguez, Carolina Del cuento de hadas a la novela romántica: Una visión de la sub/literatura como gimnasio mental y laboratorio de sub/versión cultural 2018 trash/literary and or intellectual quality, Nora Roberts/J. D. Robb, feminism, readers, sex/sexuality, psychology, romance and, or as, activism, fairytales/folktales
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
Hernández, María Beatriz; Brito, Manuel; Monterrey, Tomás Broadening Horizons: A Peak Panorama of English Studies in Spain 2018
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
Hopkins, Lisa After Austen: Reinventions, Rewritings, Revisitings 2018
Batzke, Ina; Erbacher, Eric C.; Heß, Linda M.; Lenhardt, Corinna Exploring the Fantastic: Genre, Ideology, and Popular Culture 2018
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
Güvendi Yalçın, Elif The Transformation of Romance Novels Based on the Theories of Sociologist Anthony Giddens 2018 sociology, gender, love, marriage, Kathleen Woodiwiss, Jayne Ann Krentz/Amanda Quick/Jayne Castle, rape and/or intimate partner violence/abuse, historical romance
Gillis, Stacy Manners, Money, and Marriage: Austen, Heyer, and the Literary Genealogy of the Regency Romance 2018 Jane Austen, Georgette Heyer, Older and/or precursor texts (may not be "romance" as now defined), gender, sex/sexuality, social/economic class, history, trash/literary and or intellectual quality, marriage, historical romance
Suwanban, Pauline From Exhalation to Transformation: The Female Body in the Orientalist Romance 2018 E. M. Hull, gender, sex/sexuality, race/ethnicity
Rudisill, Kristen Full-Blooded Desi Romance: Contemporary English-Language Romance Novels in India 2018 India, readers, Publishing, national identity, Harlequin Mills & Boon, family
Hernández, María Beatriz; Brito, Manuel; Monterrey, Tomás Broadening Horizons: A Peak Panorama of English Studies in Spain 2018
Taylor, Jessica Animating Creative Selves: Pen Names as Property in the Careers of Canadian and American Romance Writers 2018 authors, Publishing, work
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
Clay, Catherine; DiCenzo, Maria; Green, Barbara; Hackney, Fiona Women's Periodicals and Print Culture in Britain, 1918-1939: The Interwar Period 2018
Abrahamsson, Elin Enahanda läsning: En queer tolkning av romancegenren 2018 Fifty Shades, Twilight, Sweden, readers, sex/sexuality, feminism, gender, trash/literary and or intellectual quality, LGBT+ characters, readers and/or authors
Keen, Suzanne Probable Impossibilities: Historical Romance Readers Talk Back 2018 Diana Gabaldon, readers, history
Hopkins, Lisa Georgette Heyer: What Austen Left Out 2018 Georgette Heyer, Jane Austen, history, war/armed forces, historical romance
Lawrey, Jeffrey A.; McLuckie, Alyx; Mulberry, Benjamin J.; Mullins, Erin K.; Shuler, Autumn R.; Kratzer, Jessica M. W. Communication, Kink, and Sexual Education: What Young Women Learned from Fifty Shades of Grey 2018 Fifty Shades, readers, sex/sexuality, erotic romance, BDSM
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
Murphy, Bernice M.; Matterson, Stephen Twenty-First-Century Popular Fiction 2018
Ferrández San Miguel, María; Neumann, Claus-Peter Taking Stock to Look Ahead: Celebrating Forty Years of English Studies in Spain 2018
McAlister, Jodi The literary text as historical artifact: The colonial couple in Australian romantic fiction by women, 1838-1860 2018 Australia, love, Older and/or precursor texts (may not be "romance" as now defined), history, national identity
Kitchen, Veronica Veterans and Military Masculinity in Popular Romance Fiction 2018 war/armed forces, gender, disability
Bird, Paul Issues of Socioeconomic Class in Barbara Cartland’s A Duel of Hearts and Catherine Cookson’s The Menagerie 2018 social/economic class, Barbara Cartland, Catherine Cookson
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
Clay, Catherine; DiCenzo, Maria; Green, Barbara; Hackney, Fiona Women's Periodicals and Print Culture in Britain, 1918-1939: The Interwar Period 2018
Neville, Lucy Girls Who Like Boys Who Like Boys: Women and Gay Male Pornography and Erotica 2018 pornography, m/m romance, sex/sexuality, LGBT+ characters, readers and/or authors
Sanders, Lise Shapiro Making the Modern Girl: Fantasy, Consumption, and Desire in Romance Weeklies of the 1920s 2018 romances in magazines and newspapers, gender, social/economic class, fashion/clothing, work, Older and/or precursor texts (may not be "romance" as now defined)
Lawrey, Jeffrey A.; McLuckie, Alyx; Mulberry, Benjamin J.; Mullins, Erin K.; Shuler, Autumn R.; Kratzer, Jessica M. W. Communication, Kink, and Sexual Education: What Young Women Learned from Fifty Shades of Grey 2018 Fifty Shades, readers, sex/sexuality, erotic romance, BDSM
Lee, Zi-Ying; Liao, Min-Hsiu The “Second” Bride: The Retranslation of Romance Novels 2018 translation, Publishing, Taiwan
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
Murphy, Bernice M.; Matterson, Stephen Twenty-First-Century Popular Fiction 2018
Ferrández San Miguel, María; Neumann, Claus-Peter Taking Stock to Look Ahead: Celebrating Forty Years of English Studies in Spain 2018
Glennemeier, Jaelyn “And he was an Arab!:” Imperial Femininity and Pleasure in E. M. Hull's 1919 Desert Romance, The Sheik 2018 E. M. Hull, race/ethnicity, history, rape and/or intimate partner violence/abuse
Leonzini, Alexandra “All the Better to Eat You With”: The Eroticization of the Werewolf and the Rise of Monster Porn in the Digital Age 2018 paranormal/fantasy/time-travel romance, sex/sexuality, pornography
Gehrmann, Susanne Remediating Romance: Forms and Functions of New Media in Contemporary Love Stories from Togo and South Africa 2018 Publishing, Africa, chick lit
Clay, Catherine; DiCenzo, Maria; Green, Barbara; Hackney, Fiona Women's Periodicals and Print Culture in Britain, 1918-1939: The Interwar Period 2018
Lowery, Karalyne The Militarized Shapeshifter: Authorized Violence and Military Connections as an Antidote to Monstrosity 2018 paranormal/fantasy/time-travel romance, war/armed forces, United States of America
Lawrey, Jeffrey A.; McLuckie, Alyx; Mulberry, Benjamin J.; Mullins, Erin K.; Shuler, Autumn R.; Kratzer, Jessica M. W. Communication, Kink, and Sexual Education: What Young Women Learned from Fifty Shades of Grey 2018 Fifty Shades, readers, sex/sexuality, erotic romance, BDSM
Mazloomian, Maryam; Mohammadi, Nahid Discursive Vulnerability and Identity Development: A Triangular Model of Bio-Forces in Cultural Ecological Analysis of American Romance Fiction 2018 Debbie Macomber, psychology
Lee, Zi-Ying; Liao, Min-Hsiu The “Second” Bride: The Retranslation of Romance Novels 2018 translation, Publishing, Taiwan
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
Gillingham, Erica Representations of same-sex relationships between female characters in all-ages comics: Princess Princess Ever After and Lumberjanes 2018 comics/manga, LGBT+ characters, readers and/or authors
Blouin, Michael J. Mass-Market Fiction and the Crisis of American Liberalism, 1972–2017 2018 family, social/economic class, work, capitalism/business
Vani, Christina Immortal Words: The Language and Style of the Contemporary Italian Undead-Romance Novel 2018 paranormal/fantasy/time-travel romance, Italy
Fletcher, Lisa; Driscoll, Beth; Wilkins, Kim Genre Worlds and Popular Fiction: The Case of Twenty-First-Century Australian Romance 2018 Publishing, Australia
Riba, Caterina; Sanmartí, Carme The Reception of Elinor Glyn's Work in Spain (1926–57) 2018 Elinor Glyn, Spain, Rafael Pérez y Pérez, religion/spirituality, sex/sexuality
Clay, Catherine; DiCenzo, Maria; Green, Barbara; Hackney, Fiona Women's Periodicals and Print Culture in Britain, 1918-1939: The Interwar Period 2018
Peukert, Christian; Reimers, Imke Digital Disintermediation and Efficiency in the Market for Ideas 2018 Publishing
Fletcher, Lisa; Driscoll, Beth; Wilkins, Kim What is Australian Popular Fiction? 2018 Australia, national identity, settings
Savchuk, O. H.; Marchenko, N. M. The concept of LOVE and its conceptualization in modern English romance novels 2018 love, metaphor/symbolism, linguistics