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Faura, Salvador; Godsland, Shelley; Moody, Nickianne The Romance Novel, or, the Generalisimo's Control of the Popular Imagination 2004 Corín Tellado, Spain, fascism/right-wing authoritarianism
Sánchez Calle, Pilar; Malcolm, David; López-Peláez Casellas, Jesús Masquerades: Disguise in Literature in English from the Middle Ages to the Present 2004
Kloester, Jennifer V. Georgette Heyer: writing the Regency. History in fiction from Regency Buck to Lady of Quality 1935-1972 2004 Georgette Heyer, history, historical romance
Thirard, Marie-Agnès Les romans "Adoras" ou les nouveaux contes de fées à l’africaine 2004 Africa, fairytales/folktales, paratext
Teo, Hsu-Ming Romancing the Raj: Interracial Relations in Anglo-Indian Romance Novels 2004 India, UK, social/economic class, history, race/ethnicity, gender, Flora Annie Steel, Mrs F. E. Penny, Alice Perrin, Maud Diver, Alice Eustace, Juliet Armstrong, Harlequin Mills & Boon, national identity
Fuchs, Barbara Romance 2004 Older and/or precursor texts (may not be "romance" as now defined)
Flesch, Juliet From Australia With Love: A History of Modern Australian Popular Romance Novels 2004 Australia, national identity, Helen Bianchin, Harlequin Mills & Boon, Emma Darcy, Ann Charlton, authors, Marion Lennox, Joyce Dingwell/Kate Starr, Valerie Parv, feminism, Victoria Gordon, Alison Kelly, race/ethnicity, Publishing, translation, paratext, readers, Lucy Walker, sex/sexuality, rape and/or intimate partner violence/abuse, Meredith Webber
Reeves, Anne R. Adolescents Talk about Reading: Exploring Resistance to and Engagement with Text 2004 readers
Funderburk, Amy Romance collections in North Carolina public libraries: Are all genres treated equally? 2004 libraries/librarians
Stotesbury, John A. Genre and Islam in Recent Anglophone Romantic Fiction 2004 Islam, Leila Aboulela, Rayda Jacobs, religion/spirituality
Bryson, Mary Public Library Services to the Romance Reader: An Online Survey of Romance Readers 2004 libraries/librarians
Philadelphoff-Puren, Nina The Mark of Refusal: Sexual Violence and the Politics of Recontextualization 2004 rape and/or intimate partner violence/abuse, Charlotte Lamb
Onega, Susana; Gutleben, Christian Refracting the Canon in Contemporary British Literature and Film 2004
Jossart, Deborah A. Transforming the fairytale: a diachronic study of utopias of popular romance 2004 fairytales/folktales
Onega, Susana; Gutleben, Christian Refracting the Canon in Contemporary British Literature and Film 2004
Saunders, Corinne A Companion to Romance: From Classical to Contemporary 2004
Pearce, Elizabeth Florence Reading the Lesbian Romance: Re-imagining Love, Sex, Relationships, and Community 2004 lesbian romance
Kloester, Jennifer V. Images of England: Georgette Heyer's Regency World in the Dominions 2004 Georgette Heyer
Gillespie, Diane F. Virginia Woolf and the Curious Case of Berta Ruck 2004 Berta Ruck, trash/literary and or intellectual quality, gender, paratext
Perrot, Jean Les métamorphoses du conte 2004
Okamoto, Shigeko; Shibamoto Smith, Janet S. Japanese Language, Gender, and Ideology: Cultural Models and Real People 2004
Dandridge, Rita B. Black Women's Activism: Reading African American Women's Historical Romances 2004 historical romance, African American romance, romance and, or as, activism, United States of America, race/ethnicity, Anita Richmond Bunkley, Beverly Jenkins, Shirley Hailstock, Francine Craft, Gay G. Gunn, gender, history, sex/sexuality
Darian-Smith, Kate; Grimshaw, Patricia; Lindsey, Kiera; Mcintyre, Stuart Exploring the British World: Identity, Cultural Production, Institutions 2004
Lutz, Deborah The Dangerous Lover and the Erotics of Failure: Nineteenth-century Byronism and the Contemporary Romance 2004 Older and/or precursor texts (may not be "romance" as now defined), love, historical romance, death, philosophy
Pearce, Lynne Popular Romance and Its Readers 2004 Jeanette Winterson, food, drink, settings, psychology, Violet Winspear, readers, sex/sexuality
Okamoto, Shigeko; Shibamoto Smith, Janet S. Japanese Language, Gender, and Ideology: Cultural Models and Real People 2004
Darian-Smith, Kate; Grimshaw, Patricia; Lindsey, Kiera; Mcintyre, Stuart Exploring the British World: Identity, Cultural Production, Institutions 2004
Fletcher, Lisa “Mere Costumery”? Georgette Heyer’s Cross-Dressing Novels 2004 historical romance, Georgette Heyer, fashion/clothing, cross-dressing, gender
Godsland, Shelley; Moody, Nickianne Reading the Popular in Contemporary Spanish Texts 2004
Regis, Pamela A Natural History of the Romance Novel 2003 genre definitions, trash/literary and or intellectual quality, Samuel Richardson, Jane Austen, Older and/or precursor texts (may not be "romance" as now defined), Charlotte Brontë, Anthony Trollope, E. M. Forster, Georgette Heyer, Mary Stewart, Harlequin Mills & Boon, Janet Dailey, Jayne Ann Krentz/Amanda Quick/Jayne Castle, Nora Roberts/J. D. Robb, rape and/or intimate partner violence/abuse, E. M. Hull
Lutz, Deborah Heidegger, the Erotics of Ontology, and the Mass-Market Romance 2003 love, death, philosophy
Eden, Edward; Goertz, Dee Carol Shields, Narrative Hunger, and the Possibilities of Fiction 2003
Burton, Antoinette After the Imperial Turn: Thinking with and through the Nation 2003
Blake, Susan L. What "Race" is the Sheik?: Rereading a Desert Romance 2003 E. M. Hull, rape and/or intimate partner violence/abuse, race/ethnicity, history, marriage, gender, sheikh romance
Whitsitt, Novian Islamic-Hausa Feminism Meets Northern Nigerian Romance: The Cautious Rebellion of Bilkisu Funtuwa 2003 Nigeria, Africa, Islam, Bilkisu Ahmed Funtuwa, marriage, gender, religion/spirituality, feminism, work, love, family
Linke, Gabriele Populärliteratur als kulturelles Gedächtnis: Eine vergleichende Studie zu zeitgenössischen britischen und amerikanischen popular romances der Verlagsgruppe Harlequin Mills & Boon 2003 Harlequin Mills & Boon
Fife, Leslie The 2000-2003 Proceedings of the SW/Texas PCA/ACA Conference 2003
Wright, Laura Bell The Appeal of Vampire Romance: Why Do Readers Like These Stories? 2003 paranormal/fantasy/time-travel romance, readers
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
Eden, Edward; Goertz, Dee Carol Shields, Narrative Hunger, and the Possibilities of Fiction 2003
Burley, Stephanie What's a Nice Girl like You Doing in a Book like This?: Homoerotic Reading and Popular Romance 2003 sex/sexuality, readers, Karen Robards, Kristin Hannah, virginity, BDSM, LGBT+ characters, readers and/or authors
Barrett, Rebecca Kaye Higher Love: What Women Gain from Christian Romance Novels 2003 Christian romance, readers, religion/spirituality
Whitsitt, Novian Hausa Women Writers Confronting the Traditional Status of Women in Modern Islamic Society: Feminist Thought in Nigerian Popular Fiction 2003 Nigeria, Africa, Islam, religion/spirituality, gender, Bilkisu Ahmed Funtuwa, marriage, love, work, Balaraba Ramat Yakubu
Jarvis, Christine A. Desirable Reading: The Relationship between Women Students' Lives and their Reading Practices 2003 readers, teaching romance, gender, Islam, sex/sexuality, UK
Creed, Barbara Media Matrix: Sexing the New Reality 2003 Harlequin Mills & Boon
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
Salmon, Catherine; Symons, Donald Warrior Lovers: Erotic Fiction, Evolution and Female Sexuality 2003 evolutionary psychology, m/m romance, sex/sexuality
Hinnant, Charles H. Desire and the Marketplace: A Reading of Kathleen Woodiwiss's The Flame and the Flower 2003 Kathleen Woodiwiss, capitalism/business, rape and/or intimate partner violence/abuse, fashion/clothing
Salmon, Catherine; Symons, Donald Warrior Lovers: Erotic Fiction, Evolution and Female Sexuality 2003 evolutionary psychology, m/m romance, sex/sexuality
Westman, Karin E. A Story of Her Weaving: The Self-Authoring Heroines of Georgette Heyer's Regency Romance 2003 Georgette Heyer, trash/literary and or intellectual quality, historical romance
Lang, Miriam Taiwanese Romance: San Mao and Qiong Yao 2003 Taiwan, Qiongyao/Qiong Yao
Martin, Darcy 'Womanhood Reinvented: Eve Dallas, Protagonist in J. D. Robb's "In Death" Series 2003 Nora Roberts/J. D. Robb, feminism, science fiction/futuristic romance, gender, work, rape and/or intimate partner violence/abuse, marriage, community
Dandridge, Rita B. The Race, Gender, Romance Connection: A Black Feminist Reading of African American Women's Historical Romances 2003 historical romance, African American romance, feminism, race/ethnicity, gender, Beverly Jenkins, Shirley Hailstock, Roberta Gayle, history, sex/sexuality, United States of America
Morgan, Paula “Like Bush Fire in My Arms”: Interrogating the World of Caribbean Romance 2003 Caribbean, race/ethnicity, Valerie Belgrave, Dorothy Jolly, Deidre D'Allan, Lynn-Ann Ali, Lucille Colleton, Annette Charles, settings, social/economic class, sex/sexuality, work, Islam
Mostow, Joshua S. The Columbia Companion to Modern East Asian Literature 2003
Hammill, Faye The Republic of Love and Popular Romance 2003 love, Jane Austen, metafiction, work
Dandridge, Rita B. African American Women's Historical Romances: Race and Gender Revisited 2003 African American romance, race/ethnicity, gender, Beverly Jenkins, Shirley Hailstock, historical romance, sex/sexuality
Rempel, Valerie Gale “The soft white strong hand of God”: Gender and the expression of evangelical piety in the religious fiction of Grace Livingston Hill, 1897–1948 2003 Grace Livingston Hill, Christian romance, religion/spirituality, gender, marriage, family
Delamoir, Jeanette Marie Bjelke Petersen's 'virile story': Jewelled Nights, gender instability, and the bush 2003 cross-dressing, Marie Bjelke Petersen, Australia, LGBT+ characters, readers and/or authors, trash/literary and or intellectual quality, Publishing, settings, fashion/clothing, film/movies, religion/spirituality, gender, social/economic class, rape and/or intimate partner violence/abuse
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
Teo, Hsu-Ming The Romance of White Nations: Imperialism, Popular Culture and National Histories 2003 national identity, race/ethnicity, UK, history, Africa, gender, Mary Gaunt, with John Ridgwell Essex, E. M. Hull, sheikh romance, Harlequin Mills & Boon, United States of America, Native American romance
Boni, Tanella L’éducation sentimentale selon Adoras 2003 Africa
Burley, Stephanie Carol Hearts of Darkness: The Racial Politics of Popular Romance 2003 race/ethnicity, B. J. James, Native American romance, Dara Joy, Sandra Kitt, science fiction/futuristic romance, African American romance
Kustritz, Anne Slashing the Romance Narrative 2003 fanfiction, gender, emotions, sex/sexuality
DeBlase, Gina Acknowledging agency while accommodating romance: Girls negotiating meaning in literacy transactions 2003 readers, gender, social/economic class
Levina, Mariia Readers of Mass Literature, 1994-200: From Paternalism to Individualism? 2003 Russia, Publishing, readers
Strehle, Susan; Carden, Mary Paniccia Doubled Plots: Romance and History 2003
Strehle, Susan; Carden, Mary Paniccia Doubled Plots: Romance and History 2003
Adams, Kathleen Barzun Thirty years of change: heroes, heroines, and the popular romance 2003 gender
Mussell, Kay Are Feminism and Romance Novels Mutually Exclusive? 2002 feminism
Ganapathy, Subha Who Is Afraid of Romance Novels?: Women Readers, Patriarchy and Popular Culture 2002 trash/literary and or intellectual quality, readers, psychology, India, film/movies, gender, feminism
Whitsitt, Novian Islamic-Hausa Feminism and Kano Market Literature: Qur'anic Reinterpretation in the Novels of Balaraba Yakubu 2002 Nigeria, Africa, Islam, gender, marriage, feminism, religion/spirituality, Balaraba Ramat Yakubu, sex/sexuality, family, health/medical
Meirelles, Simone Regina Ferreira Das bancas ao coraçao: romances sentimentais e leitura hoje 2002 Brazil, gender, readers
Lindqvist, Yvonne Översättning som social praktik: Toni Morrison och Harlequinserien Passion på svenska 2002 Harlequin Mills & Boon, linguistics, translation
Roberts, Sherron Killingsworth Meet Jessica and Elizabeth from Sweet Valley: Who Are the Female Role Models in Popular Romance Novels for Children? 2002 YA/teenage romance
Muhomah, Catherine What do women want?: Versions of masculinity in Kenyan romantic fiction 2002 Kenya, Asenath Odaga, marriage, gender, sex/sexuality, family, wealth/prosperity
Darbyshire, Peter The Politics of Love: Harlequin Romances and the Christian Right 2002 sex/sexuality, Christian romance, Harlequin Mills & Boon, gender, United States of America, feminism, work, family, readers, religion/spirituality, capitalism/business
Frantz, Sarah S. G. "Expressing" Herself: The Romance Novel and the Feminine Will to Power 2002 feminism, gender, readers, metafiction, Mary Balogh, Jayne Ann Krentz/Amanda Quick/Jayne Castle, sex/sexuality, Sandra Brown, Bertrice Small, Diana Gabaldon, Susan Johnson, Alexis Harrington, Candice Proctor, rape and/or intimate partner violence/abuse
Mussell, Kay Romance Fiction 2002 genre definitions, Older and/or precursor texts (may not be "romance" as now defined), romance scholarship
Charles, John; Mosley, Shelley Getting Serious about Romance: Adult Series Romances for Teens 2002 libraries/librarians, Harlequin Mills & Boon
De Silva Miguel, Donna Love conquers all: the rhetoric, culture, and appeal of the contemporary romance novel, and coming to terms with coming out of the closet 2002
Bloom, Clive Bestsellers: Popular Fiction Since 1900 2002 UK, readers, Publishing, Older and/or precursor texts (may not be "romance" as now defined), Florence Barclay, Marie Corelli, Charles Garvice, Elinor Glyn, Baroness Orczy, Effie Adelaide Rowlands, also known as Madame Albanesi, Berta Ruck, Ethel M. Dell, Ruby M. Ayres, Jeffrey Farnol, E. M. Hull, Rafael Sabatini, Daphne du Maurier, Georgette Heyer, Margaret Mitchell, Mary Renault, Jackie Collins, Victoria Holt/Jean Plaidy/Eleanor Burford Hibbert, Barbara Taylor Bradford, Barbara Cartland, Catherine Cookson, Charlotte Lamb, Penny Jordan/Caroline Courtney, M. M. Kaye, Colleen McCullough, Danielle Steel, Phyllis A. Whitney
Santaulària, Isabel The Fallacy of Eternal Love: Romance, Vampires and the Deconstruction of Love in Linda Lael Miller's Forever and the Night and For All Eternity 2002 paranormal/fantasy/time-travel romance, death, happy ending, Linda Lael Miller, gender, religion/spirituality
Charles, John; Mosley, Shelley Getting Serious about Romance: Adult Series Romances for Teens 2002 libraries/librarians, Harlequin Mills & Boon
Bettinotti, Julia; Jeannesson, Gaëlle; Truel, Marie-Françoise Séries, suites et redites en culture médiatique 2002 sheikh romance, E. M. Hull, Johanna Lindsey, trash/literary and or intellectual quality
Inge, M. Thomas; Hall, Dennis The Greenwood Guide to American Popular Culture: Volume Four (Pulps and Dime Novels through Young Adult Fiction) 2002
Smith, William Clay Kinchen Revising Captivity Narratives 2002 United States of America, historical romance, Native American romance, Fern Michaels, race/ethnicity, Nan Ryan, Karen A. Bale
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
Moudileno, Lydie Pas de romance sans finance: la construction du couple moderne dans les romans sentimentaux de l'Afrique de l'Ouest 2002 Africa, settings, love, sex/sexuality, gender, fashion/clothing, wealth/prosperity
Bettinotti, Julia; Jeannesson, Gaëlle; Truel, Marie-Françoise Séries, suites et redites en culture médiatique 2002 sheikh romance, E. M. Hull, Johanna Lindsey, trash/literary and or intellectual quality
Brooker, Will; Jermyn, Deborah The Audience Studies Reader 2002
Carmona González, Ángeles Corín Tellado: el erotismo rosa 2002 Corín Tellado
Inge, M. Thomas; Hall, Dennis The Greenwood Guide to American Popular Culture: Volume Four (Pulps and Dime Novels through Young Adult Fiction) 2002
Meyer, Michael The Bedford Introduction to Literature: Reading, Thinking, Writing (Sixth Edition) 2002 Karen van der Zee, teaching romance
Bettinotti, Julia; Jeannesson, Gaëlle; Truel, Marie-Françoise Séries, suites et redites en culture médiatique 2002 sheikh romance, E. M. Hull, Johanna Lindsey, trash/literary and or intellectual quality
Brooker, Will; Jermyn, Deborah The Audience Studies Reader 2002
Burt, Richard Shakespeare after Mass Media 2002
Andreu, Alicia G. La Sección Femenina de la Falange en la obra de Carmen Martín Gaite: La popularidad de las novelas rosa en la posguerra española 2002 Spain, fascism/right-wing authoritarianism
Béres, Laura Negotiating Images: Popular Culture, Imagination, and Hope in Clinical Social Work Practice 2002 psychology, readers, rape and/or intimate partner violence/abuse, Michele Hauf, paranormal/fantasy/time-travel romance
Turnbull, Sue 'Nice Dress, Take It Off': Crime, Romance and the Pleasure of the Text 2002 Janet Evanovich, readers
Sonnet, Esther '"Just a book", she said ...': Refiguring Ethnography for the Female Readers of Sexual Fiction 2002 readers, sex/sexuality
Scott, Alison M. Romance in the Stacks; or, Popular Romance Fiction Imperiled 2002 libraries/librarians, trash/literary and or intellectual quality, romance scholarship
Schurman, Lydia Cushman; Johnson, Deidre Scorned Literature: Essays on the History and Criticism of Popular Mass-Produced Fiction in America 2002
O’Neill, Maria; Zamorano Llena, Carmen The Aesthetics of Ageing: Critical Approaches to Literary Representations of the Ageing Process 2002
McKnight-Trontz, Jennifer The Look of Love: The Art of the Romance Novel 2002 paratext
Schurman, Lydia Cushman; Johnson, Deidre Scorned Literature: Essays on the History and Criticism of Popular Mass-Produced Fiction in America 2002
O’Neill, Maria; Zamorano Llena, Carmen The Aesthetics of Ageing: Critical Approaches to Literary Representations of the Ageing Process 2002
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
Fletcher, Lisa I love you: historical romance fiction and heterosexuality 2002 historical romance
Savinainen, Raija Gender-specific features of male/female interaction in a popular romantic novel by Barbara Cartland 2001 linguistics, Barbara Cartland, gender
Portut, Vanessa Évolution du roman sentimental contemporain en France: diversité et spécificité des collections chez Harlequin 2001 Harlequin Mills & Boon, France
Bywaters, Barbara Decentering the Romance: Jane Austen, Georgette Heyer, and Popular Romance Fiction 2001 Jane Austen, Georgette Heyer
Kramer, Daniela; Moore, Michael Gender Roles, Romantic Fiction and Family Therapy 2001 psychology, Harlequin Mills & Boon, gender, marriage, family, rape and/or intimate partner violence/abuse
Kramer, Daniela; Moore, Michael Gender Roles, Romantic Fiction and Family Therapy 2001 psychology, Harlequin Mills & Boon, gender, marriage, family, rape and/or intimate partner violence/abuse
Fahnestock-Thomas, Mary Georgette Heyer: A Critical Retrospective 2001 Georgette Heyer
de Jesús, Melinda L. "Two’s Company, Three’s a Crowd?": Reading Interracial Romance in Contemporary Asian American Young Adult Fiction 2001 YA/teenage romance, race/ethnicity, United States of America, LGBT+ characters, readers and/or authors, Haemi Balgassi, Kate Emberg, Lois-Ann Yamanaka
Sanconie, Maïca Au-delà du vertige. Mises en abyme ou la traduction des réseaux de clichés dans les romans Harlequin 2001 Harlequin Mills & Boon, translation, emotions
Kramer, Daniela; Moore, Michael Family Myths in Romantic Fiction 2001 psychology, love, family, marriage, myth, Harlequin Mills & Boon, gender, rape and/or intimate partner violence/abuse, virginity, sex/sexuality, work
Barrios, Joi Ang aking Prince Charming at iba pang noveleta ng pag-ibig 2001 Joi Barrios
Kramer, Daniela; Moore, Michael Family Myths in Romantic Fiction 2001 psychology, love, family, marriage, myth, Harlequin Mills & Boon, gender, rape and/or intimate partner violence/abuse, virginity, sex/sexuality, work
Makinen, Merja Feminist Popular Fiction 2001 feminism, romance scholarship, Susan Napier, work, sex/sexuality, gender, Lisa Shapiro, LGBT+ characters, readers and/or authors, love, family
Béres, Laura Romance, suffering and hope, reflective practice with abused women 2001 rape and/or intimate partner violence/abuse, readers, psychology, fairytales/folktales, paranormal/fantasy/time-travel romance, Michele Hauf, V. C. Andrews
Flesch, Juliet Ella From Australia with love: Australian romance novels, 1950-2000 2001 national identity, Australia, feminism, Lucy Walker, Publishing, readers, sex/sexuality, rape and/or intimate partner violence/abuse, race/ethnicity, translation, settings, Marion Lennox, Ann Charlton, Alison Kelly, Joyce Dingwell/Kate Starr, Edwina Shore, Helen Bianchin, paratext, Harlequin Mills & Boon
Maher, Jennifer Ripping the Bodice: Eating, Reading, and Revolt 2001 food, drink, romance scholarship, feminism, readers, fat, fatness
Brown, Eleanor M.  Romance Novel of One's Own: The Nature and "Failure" of the Lesbian Romance Sub-Genre 2001 LGBT+ characters, readers and/or authors, paratext, Katherine V. Forrest, Diana Simmonds, Marianne K. Martin, Karin Kallmaker, sex/sexuality
McCay, Mary A. Love's Labors Won: Romance Fiction and the Politics of Love 2001 Laura Kinsale, Mary Jo Putney, Jayne Ann Krentz/Amanda Quick/Jayne Castle
Andrews, Maggie; Talbot, Mary M. All the World and Her Husband: Women in Twentieth-Century Consumer Culture 2000
Alfonso García, María del Carmen Sobre novela rosa y condición femenina en la España de posguerra 2000 Spain, history, gender
Rapp, Adrian; Dodgen, Lynda; Kaler, Anne K. A Romance Writer Gets Away with Murder 2000 Sandra Brown, romantic suspense, death
Martínez de la Hidalga, Fernando La novela popular en España (vol 1.) 2000
Hallam, Julia Nursing the Image: Media, Culture and Professional Identity 2000 medical romance, work, gender, health/medical, race/ethnicity, social/economic class
Glover, Thomasine; Hearvey, Crystal Monay; McCoy, Shuntay; Curtright, Lauren Anita Richmond Bunkley 2000 Anita Richmond Bunkley, African American romance
Beyer, Jennifer Ann Perry The romance novel revolution: a study of criticisms and readers 2000 readers
Edwards, Holly Noble Dreams, Wicked Pleasures: Orientalism in America, 1870-1930 2000
Álvarez, Blanca Corín Tellado: mantilla y matrimonio 2000 Corín Tellado
Darbyshire, Peter Romancing the World: Harlequin Romances, the Capitalist Dream, and the Conquest of Europe and Asia 2000 Harlequin Mills & Boon, capitalism/business, Publishing, Poland, Germany, United States of America, socialism and/or communism, wealth/prosperity, work, Japan, France
Rapp, Adrian; Dodgen, Lynda; Kaler, Anne K. A Romance Writer Gets Away with Murder 2000 Sandra Brown, romantic suspense, death
Caton, Steven C. The Sheik: Instabilities of Race and Gender in Transatlantic Popular Culture of the Early 1920s 2000 E. M. Hull, United States of America, UK, race/ethnicity, settings, gender, history, rape and/or intimate partner violence/abuse
Glover, Thomasine; Hearvey, Crystal Monay; McCoy, Shuntay; Curtright, Lauren Anita Richmond Bunkley 2000 Anita Richmond Bunkley, African American romance
Brackett, Kim Pettigrew Facework Strategies Among Romance Fiction Readers 2000 psychology, readers, paratext
Linke, Gabriele Visions and Versions of Parenthood in British and American Series Romances 2000 family
Glover, Thomasine; Hearvey, Crystal Monay; McCoy, Shuntay; Curtright, Lauren Anita Richmond Bunkley 2000 Anita Richmond Bunkley, African American romance
Jarvis, Christine Hungry Heroines: The Exploration of a "Generative Theme" in Romantic Fiction 2000
Shore, Z. Lesley Essay Review: Girls Learning, Women Teaching: Dancing to Different Drummers 2000 readers
Sevilla, Florencio; Alvar, Carlos Actas del XIII Congreso de la Asociación Internacional de Hispanistas: Madrid 1998: IV: Historia y sociedad comparada y otros estudios 2000
Osborne, Laurie Sweet, Savage Shakespeare 2000 Shakespeare
Calhoun-French, Diane M. Of Love and Death: Murder and Mayhem Meet the Romance 2000 romantic suspense
Bagchi, Jayeeta Looking for Reality in Romance 2000 Harlequin Mills & Boon, gender, feminism, fairytales/folktales, love, paratext, readers, authors, India, sex/sexuality, family
Panizza, Letizia; Wood, Sharon A History of Women’s Writing in Italy 2000
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
Sevilla, Florencio; Alvar, Carlos Actas del XIII Congreso de la Asociación Internacional de Hispanistas: Madrid 1998: IV: Historia y sociedad comparada y otros estudios 2000
Lepschy, Anna Laura The Popular Novel, 1850-1920 2000 Liala, pen name of Amalia Liana Cambiasi Negretti Odescalchi
Andreu, Alicia G. Literatura popular española fascista: discurso de la nación 2000 Spain, fascism/right-wing authoritarianism, Carmen de Icaza, cross-dressing
Diekman, Amanda B.; McDonald, Mary; Gardner, Wendi L. Love means never having to be careful: The relationship between reading romance novels and safe sex behavior 2000 psychology, sex/sexuality, readers
Panizza, Letizia; Wood, Sharon A History of Women’s Writing in Italy 2000
Hedrick, Donald; Reynolds, Bryan Shakespeare without Class: Misappropriations of Cultural Capital 2000
Tobin-McClain, Lee Paranormal Romance: Secrets of the Female Fantastic 2000 paranormal/fantasy/time-travel romance, authors, Susan Carroll, Kathleen Kane, Catherine Mulvany, Susan Plunkett, Emilie Richards, genre definitions, gender, readers
Macdonald, Andrew; Macdonald, Gina; Sheridan, Mary Ann Shape-shifting: Images of Native Americans in Recent Popular Fiction 2000 Native American romance, race/ethnicity
Hilton, Linda Ann Wheeler Half Heaven, Half Heartache: Discovering the Transformative Potential in Women's Popular Fiction 2000 feminism
Manzano Badía, Benjamín Carmen de Icaza, una apología pequeño-burguesa y conservadora de la familia 2000 Carmen de Icaza, family, Spain, fascism/right-wing authoritarianism, work, gender, marriage, feminism, religion/spirituality, wealth/prosperity, social/economic class, capitalism/business
Diekman, Amanda B.; McDonald, Mary; Gardner, Wendi L. Love means never having to be careful: The relationship between reading romance novels and safe sex behavior 2000 psychology, sex/sexuality, readers
Hedrick, Donald; Reynolds, Bryan Shakespeare without Class: Misappropriations of Cultural Capital 2000
Macdonald, Andrew; Macdonald, Gina; Sheridan, Mary Ann Shape-shifting: Images of Native Americans in Recent Popular Fiction 2000 Native American romance, race/ethnicity
Hirsbrunner, A. R. Doomed to become heroines? Identification, women and fiction 2000 psychology, feminism
Villalba Álvarez, Marina Mujeres novelistas en el panorama literario del siglo XX: I Congreso de narrativa española (en lengua castellana). 2000
Diekman, Amanda B.; McDonald, Mary; Gardner, Wendi L. Love means never having to be careful: The relationship between reading romance novels and safe sex behavior 2000 psychology, sex/sexuality, readers
Macdonald, Andrew; Macdonald, Gina; Sheridan, Mary Ann Shape-shifting: Images of Native Americans in Recent Popular Fiction 2000 Native American romance, race/ethnicity
Sonnet, Esther What the Woman Reads: Categorising Contemporary Popular Erotica for Women 2000 sex/sexuality, feminism
Burley, Stephanie Shadows and Silhouettes: The Racial Politics of Category Romance 2000 Harlequin Mills & Boon, race/ethnicity, B. J. James, Scotland, gender, United States of America
Graf, Andreas Hedwig Courths-Mahler 2000 Hedwig Courths-Mahler
Hemmungs Wirtén, Eva Harlequin romances in Swedish: a case study in globalized publishing 2000 translation, Sweden, Harlequin Mills & Boon, Publishing
Saint-Jacques, Denis Que vaut la littérature? 2000
Martínez Garrido, Elisa Bildungsroman y crítica de género: Novela rosa y narrativa de mujeres 2000 Italy, Older and/or precursor texts (may not be "romance" as now defined), gender, love, fairytales/folktales
Bettinotti, Julia; des Rivières, Marie-José Un élargissement du canon littéraire : le cas du roman d'amour 2000 romance scholarship, feminism, readers
Burnett, Ann; Beto, Rhea Reinhardt Reading Romance Novels: An Application of Parasocial Relationship Theory 2000 readers, psychology
Hallam, Julia; Moody, Nickianne Consuming for Pleasure: Selected Essays on Popular Fiction 2000
Secrease, Cassandra L A comparative analysis of lesbian romance novels and heterosexual romance novel themes 2000 LGBT+ characters, readers and/or authors, Karin Kallmaker, Peggy Herring, Lyn Denison, Katherine V. Forrest, Diana Simmonds
McNamara, Sallie Georgette Heyer: The Historical Romance and the Consumption of the Erotic, 1918-1939 2000 Georgette Heyer, gender, sex/sexuality, historical romance, fashion/clothing, cross-dressing, settings
Kaler, Anne K. Dysfunctional Detectives and Romantic P.I.s: Impediments to the Happy Marriage of Mystery and Romance 2000 romantic suspense, gender
Bouricius, Ann The Romance Readers' Advisory: The Librarian's Guide to Love in the Stacks 2000 libraries/librarians, genre definitions
Bettinotti, Julia; des Rivières, Marie-José Un élargissement du canon littéraire : le cas du roman d'amour 2000 romance scholarship, feminism, readers
Burnett, Ann; Beto, Rhea Reinhardt Reading Romance Novels: An Application of Parasocial Relationship Theory 2000 readers, psychology
Hollows, Joanne Feminism, Femininity and Popular Culture 2000 romance scholarship
Hallam, Julia; Moody, Nickianne Consuming for Pleasure: Selected Essays on Popular Fiction 2000
Andrews, Maggie; Talbot, Mary M. All the World and Her Husband: Women in Twentieth-Century Consumer Culture 2000
Neal, Lynn S. Romancing God: Reading Evangelical Romance Novels 2000 Christian romance, readers, authors, religion/spirituality, United States of America, Robin Lee Hatcher, Terry Blackstock, Peggy Stoks, Irene Brand, Shari MacDonald, Janette Oke, family, Francine Rivers
Rapp, Adrian; Dodgen, Lynda; Kaler, Anne K. A Romance Writer Gets Away with Murder 2000 Sandra Brown, romantic suspense, death
Homenaje a José María Martínez Cachero: investigación y crítica, Vol. 2 2000
Glover, Thomasine; Hearvey, Crystal Monay; McCoy, Shuntay; Curtright, Lauren Anita Richmond Bunkley 2000 Anita Richmond Bunkley, African American romance
Botts, Amber Cavewoman Impulses: The Jungian Shadow Archetype in Popular Romantic Fiction 1999 gender, feminism, psychology, sex/sexuality, emotions, readers
Huq, Maimuna From Piety to Romance: Islam-Oriented Texts in Bangladesh 1999 Islam, religion/spirituality, Bangladesh
Shumway, David R. Romance in the Romance: Love and Marriage in Turn-of-the-Century Best Sellers 1999 Older and/or precursor texts (may not be "romance" as now defined), love, marriage, history, national identity
Chow, Karen Popular Sexual Knowledges and Women’s Agency in 1920s England: Marie Stopes’s Married Love and E.M. Hull’s The Sheik 1999 sex/sexuality, E. M. Hull, health/medical, history, fashion/clothing
Kaler, Anne K.; Johnson-Kurek, Rosemary E. Romantic Conventions 1999
Kinard, Amanda Marette Forbidden Pleasures: The Romance and Its Readers 1999 sex/sexuality, social/economic class, virginity, readers, capitalism/business, wealth/prosperity
Smith, Janet S. (Shibamoto) From Hiren to Happî-endo: Romantic Expression in the Japanese Love Story 1999 Japan, marriage, love, linguistics, family, metaphor/symbolism, emotions
Ryder, Mary Ellen Smoke and mirrors: Event patterns in the discourse structure of a romance novel 1999 linguistics, Barbara Cartland
Rak, Michele Rosa: La letteratura del divertimento amoroso 1999
Breslin, Carol Ann Medieval Magic and Witchcraft in the Popular Romance Novel 1999 religion/spirituality, historical romance, history, Jude Deveraux, Elizabeth Lowell, Arnette Lamb
Sonnet, Esther 'Erotic Fiction by Women for Women': The Pleasures of Post-Feminist Heterosexuality 1999 sex/sexuality, feminism, pornography
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
Jarvis, Christine Love Changes Everything: The Transformative Potential of Popular Romantic Fiction 1999 teaching romance, readers, feminism, Harlequin Mills & Boon, gender, sex/sexuality, marriage, rape and/or intimate partner violence/abuse, social/economic class, wealth/prosperity, race/ethnicity, Charlotte Brontë, China, UK
Kaler, Anne K. Conventions of Captivity in Romance Novels 1999 sheikh romance, religion/spirituality, settings, E. M. Hull, sex/sexuality, rape and/or intimate partner violence/abuse
Smith, Faith Beautiful Indians, Troublesome Negroes, and Nice White Men: Caribbean Romances and the Invention of Trinidad 1999 Caribbean, race/ethnicity, Valerie Belgrave, feminism, national identity
Sales, Roger The Loathsome Lord and the Disdainful Dame: Byron, Cartland and the Regency Romance 1999 Barbara Cartland, historical romance
Mazzarella, Sharon R.; Pecora, Norma Odom Growing Up Girls: Popular Culture and the Construction of Identity 1999
Wilson, Frances Byromania: Portraits of the Artist in Nineteenth- and Twentieth-Century Culture 1999
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
Cunha, Maria Teresa Santos Armadilhas da sedução: os romances de M. Delly 1999 Delly, Older and/or precursor texts (may not be "romance" as now defined)
Eickelman, Dale F.; Anderson, Jon W. New Media in the Muslim World: The Emerging Public Sphere 1999
McAleer, Joseph Passion's Fortune: The Story of Mills & Boon 1999 Harlequin Mills & Boon, Publishing, UK, Betty Beaty, Mary Burchell, pen name of Ida Cook, Elizabeth Carfrae, Fay Chandos/Jan Tempest, Sophie Cole, Lilian Warren as Kathryn Blair/Rosalind Brett/Celine Conway, Iris Danbury, Joyce Dingwell/Kate Starr, Constance M. Evans, Eleanor Farnes, Louise Gerard, Elizabeth Gilzean, romances in magazines and newspapers, Roberta Leigh/Rachel Lindsay, libraries/librarians, Jean S. MacLeod/Catherine Airlie, Phyllis Matthewman, medical romance, sex/sexuality, work, marriage, race/ethnicity, happy ending, family, religion/spirituality, readers, Marjorie Moore, Betty Neels, Valerie K. Nelson, Kate Norway/Olive Norton, Denise Robins, Sara Seale, Juliet Shore/Anne Vinton, gender, Alex Stuart, Essie Summers, Joan Sutherland, Anne Weale, Hilary Wilde, Violet Winspear, Mary Lutyens/Esther Wyndham, Ireland
Desmet, Christy; Sawyer, Robert Shakespeare and Appropriation 1999
Goade, Sally A. "And With the Land, Our Spirits So Blended": Interrelated Frontier Quests of Self in Contemporary Historical Romance - A Study of Rosanne Bittner's 'Savage Destiny' series 1999 Rosanne Bittner, Native American romance
Calhoun-French, Diane M. Time-Travel and Related Phenomena in Contemporary Popular Romance Fiction 1999 paranormal/fantasy/time-travel romance, gender, historical romance, Constance O'Day Flannery, Jo Ann Simon, Heather Graham, religion/spirituality, sex/sexuality, Jayne Ann Krentz/Amanda Quick/Jayne Castle, rape and/or intimate partner violence/abuse
Dixon, jay The Romance Fiction of Mills & Boon 1909-1990s 1999 Harlequin Mills & Boon, rural romance, settings, marriage, gender, feminism, war/armed forces, work, love, Publishing, sex/sexuality, rape and/or intimate partner violence/abuse
Teo, Hsu-Ming Shanghaied By Sheiks: Orientalism and hybridity in women's romance writing 1999 sheikh romance, race/ethnicity
Edmondson, Belinda Caribbean Romances: The Politics of Regional Representation 1999
Eickelman, Dale F.; Anderson, Jon W. New Media in the Muslim World: The Emerging Public Sphere 1999
Desmet, Christy; Sawyer, Robert Shakespeare and Appropriation 1999
Gorry, April Marie Leaving Home for Romance: Tourist Women's Adventures Abroad 1999 evolutionary psychology
Sullivan, Ceri; White, Barbara Writing and Fantasy 1999
Colmenero, Laura E. The social construction of gender as represented in popular fiction, 1990-1997 1999 Johanna Lindsey, gender
Johnson-Kurek, Rosemary E. Leading Us into Temptation: The Language of Sex and the Power of Love 1999 Harlequin Mills & Boon, feminism, sex/sexuality, erotic romance, linguistics, gender, virginity, rape and/or intimate partner violence/abuse, Abra Taylor, Candace Schuler, Lori Foster, Jennifer Crusie
Stoneley, Peter 'Never Love a Cowboy': Romance Fiction and Fantasy Families 1999 United States of America, Ann Major, Lindsay McKenna, Robin Morgan, family, gender
Moore, Michael; Kramer, Daniela SATIR FOR BEGINNERS: Incongruent Communication Patterns in Romantic Fiction 1999 linguistics, Harlequin Mills & Boon, psychology
Sullivan, Ceri; White, Barbara Writing and Fantasy 1999
Ramsdell, Kristin Romance Fiction: A Guide to the Genre 1999 libraries/librarians, genre definitions, contemporary romance, romantic suspense, gothic romance, historical romance, paranormal/fantasy/time-travel romance, LGBT+ characters, readers and/or authors, Christian romance, race/ethnicity, romance scholarship
Heinecken, Dawn Changing Ideologies in Romance Fiction 1999 feminism, historical romance, Jayne Ann Krentz/Amanda Quick/Jayne Castle, Laura Kinsale, Kathleen Woodiwiss, gender, sex/sexuality
Charles, John; Mosley, Shelley; Bouricius, Ann Romancing the YA Reader 1999 libraries/librarians
Backman, Nelina Esther Evangelism Embarrassed: Christian Literature in a post-Christian Culture 1999 Christian romance, history, sex/sexuality, fashion/clothing, race/ethnicity, wealth/prosperity, religion/spirituality
Moore, Michael; Kramer, Daniela SATIR FOR BEGINNERS: Incongruent Communication Patterns in Romantic Fiction 1999 linguistics, Harlequin Mills & Boon, psychology
Griffin, Linda An Analysis of Meaning Creation through the Integration of Sociology and Literature: A Critical Ethnography of a Romance Reading Group 1999 readers, sociology
Kaler, Anne K. Introduction: Conventions of the Romance Genre 1999 trash/literary and or intellectual quality
Andresen, Julie Tetel Postmodern Identity (Crisis): Confessions of a Linguistic Historiographer and Romance Writer 1999 linguistics, emotions, trash/literary and or intellectual quality
Charles, John; Mosley, Shelley; Bouricius, Ann Romancing the YA Reader 1999 libraries/librarians
Palmer, Gary B.; Occhi, Debra J. Languages of Sentiment: Cultural constructions of emotional substrates 1999
Bennett, Tony; Emmison, Michael; Frow, John Accounting for Tastes: Australian Everyday Cultures 1999 Australia, readers, gender, social/economic class, trash/literary and or intellectual quality
Marks, Pamela The Good Provider in Romance Novels 1999 marriage, wealth/prosperity, emotions, history, United States of America, Older and/or precursor texts (may not be "romance" as now defined), Susan Warner, disability, sex/sexuality, work
Kaler, Anne K. Hero, Heroine, or HERA: A New Name for an Old Problem 1999 linguistics
Charles, John; Mosley, Shelley; Bouricius, Ann Romancing the YA Reader 1999 libraries/librarians
Palmer, Gary B.; Occhi, Debra J. Languages of Sentiment: Cultural constructions of emotional substrates 1999
Bennett, Tony; Emmison, Michael; Frow, John Accounting for Tastes: Australian Everyday Cultures 1999 Australia, readers, gender, social/economic class, trash/literary and or intellectual quality
Zidle, Abby From Bodice-Ripper to Baby-Sitter: The New Hero in Mass-Market Romance 1999 gender, emotions, psychology, readers, sex/sexuality, wealth/prosperity
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
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
Bennett, Tony; Emmison, Michael; Frow, John Accounting for Tastes: Australian Everyday Cultures 1999 Australia, readers, gender, social/economic class, trash/literary and or intellectual quality
Johnson-Kurek, Rosemary E. "I Am Not a Bimbo": Persona, Promotion, and the Fabulous Fabio 1999 Fabio Lanzoni, also known as Fabio, paratext
Mussell, Kay; Tuñón, Johanna North American Romance Writers 1999 authors, United States of America, Judith Arnold, Mary Balogh, Jo Beverley, Loretta Chase, Rachel Lee/Sue Civil-Brown, Judith Ivory/Judy Cuevas, Sharon and Tom Curtis, Justine Davis/Justine Dare, Eileen Dreyer/Kathleen Korbel, Kathleen Eagle, Patricia Gaffney, Jennifer Greene/Jeanne Grant/Jessica Massey/Alison Hart, Lorraine Heath, Tami Hoag, Susan Johnson, Dara Joy, Lynn Kerstan, Sandra Kitt, Susan Krinard, Jill Marie Landis, Pamela Morsi, Maggie Osborne/Margaret St. George, Mary Jo Putney, Alicia Rasley, Emilie Richards, Paula Detmer Riggs, Nora Roberts/J. D. Robb, Ruth Wind/Barbara Samuel/Barbara O'Neal, Kathleen Gilles Seidel, Jennifer Crusie, romance scholarship
Opas, Lisa Lena; Tweedie, Fiona The Magic Carpet Ride: Reader Involvement in Romantic Fiction 1999 linguistics, Harlequin Mills & Boon, Danielle Steel, historical romance, readers