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Roach, David A Very British Affair – The Best of Classic Romance Comics 2023 comics/manga, UK
Roach, Catherine M. Getting a Good Man to Love: Popular Romance Fiction and the Problem of Patriarchy 2010 love, religion/spirituality, happy ending, sex/sexuality, BDSM, Maya Banks, Joey W. Hill, J. R. Ward
Roach, Catherine M. 'Going Native': Aca-Fandom and Deep Participant Observation in Popular Romance Studies 2014 authors, romance scholarship
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, LGBTQ+ characters, readers and/or authors, happy ending, romance scholarship, marriage, pornography, Publishing, feminism
Roach, Catherine M. Love as the Practice of Bondage: Popular Romance Narratives and the Conundrum of Erotic Love 2016 love, BDSM, Beverly Jenkins, James Buchanan, J. R. Ward, gender, LGBTQ+ characters, readers and/or authors, m/m romance
Roach, Catherine M. Erotica 2018 erotic romance, sex/sexuality, pornography, love, LGBTQ+ characters, readers and/or authors, feminism, rape and/or intimate partner violence/abuse, BDSM, Alexis Hall
McCann, Hannah; Roach, Catherine M. Sex and sexuality 2021 sex/sexuality, pornography, feminism, gender
Roach, Catherine M. Fantasy and Desire: From my Mother’s Stack of Trashy Novels to an Experiment in Writing at Field’s Edge 2024 romance scholarship
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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
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Robertson, Rachel ‘Driven by Tens’: Obsession and cognitive difference in Toni Jordan’s romantic comedy Addition 2014 disability, Toni Jordan
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Robinson, Rachel Reading and writing dogs in popular romance fiction 2023 animals
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Roccella, Eugenia La letteratura rosa 1998 Liala, pen name of Amalia Liana Cambiasi Negretti Odescalchi
Roces, Mina Women's Movements and the Filipina 1986-2008 2012 Philippines, feminism, health/medical, family, Lualhati Bautista, Carmen Cabiling
Roche, Emma Women, Violence and Postmillennial Romance Fiction 2023 Twilight, Fifty Shades, feminism, rape and/or intimate partner violence/abuse, capitalism/business
Moruzi, Kristine; Rodgers, Beth; Smith, Michelle J. The Edinburgh History of Children's Periodicals 2024
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Rollins, Shannon Marie Crafting women’s narratives: the material impact of twenty-first century romance fiction on contemporary steampunk dress 2019 steampunk, fashion/clothing, gender, Gail Carriger, feminism, race/ethnicity, Adrienne Kress
Roman, Leslie G.; Christian-Smith, Linda K.; Ellsworth, Elizabeth Becoming Feminine: The Politics of Popular Culture 1988
Romera Pintor, Angela Magdalena L’enfance dans l’œuvre de Delly 2019 Delly, family
Romera Pintor, Angela Magdalena Maryan (1847-1927) et le déclassement du roman sentimental 2020 Maryan, pen name of Marie Cadiou, Older and/or precursor texts (may not be "romance" as now defined)
Núñez Cubero, Luis; Romero Pérez, Clara Emociones, cultura y educación: Un enfoque interdisciplinar 2009
Romney, Rebecca The Romance Novel in English: A Survey in Rare Books, 1769-1999 2021 Publishing, Older and/or precursor texts (may not be "romance" as now defined), work, Harlequin Mills & Boon, historical romance, Christian romance, gothic romance, romantic suspense, paranormal/fantasy/time-travel romance, YA/teenage romance, African American romance, LGBTQ+ characters, readers and/or authors, Frances Brooke, Canada, Elizabeth Inchbald, Frances Burney, Sydney Owenson, national identity, Ireland, Ouida, May Agnes Fleming, Laura Jean Libbey, Emma Wolf, religion/spirituality, Judaism, Pauline Hopkins, Onoto Watanna/Winnifred Eaton, Japan, Elinor Glyn, Louise Gerard, Barbara Cartland, Laura Lou Brookman, Kathleen Thompson Norris, romances in magazines and newspapers, Elizabeth Carfrae, Frances Shelley Wees, Lilian Warren as Kathryn Blair/Rosalind Brett/Celine Conway, Jean S. MacLeod/Catherine Airlie, Alice Lent Covert, Joyce Dingwell/Kate Starr, Australia, Faith Baldwin, Mary Renault, medical romance, Mary Burchell, pen name of Ida Cook, Juliet Shore/Anne Vinton, Della Field, pseudonym of Fanny Howe, Janet Dailey, Lydia Maria Child, Charlotte M. Yonge, Mary Johnston, Susa Young Gates, Kathleen Woodiwiss, Rosemary Rogers, June Lund Shiplett, paratext, Jayne Ann Krentz/Amanda Quick/Jayne Castle, science fiction/futuristic romance, Valerie Belgrave, Caribbean, Beverly Jenkins, Jane Austen, Susan Ferrier, Georgette Heyer, Amii Lorin, Nora Roberts/J. D. Robb, Marisa de Zavala/Ana Lisa de Leon/Rachel Scott/Celina Rios Mullan, Sandra Kitt, Maureen Wartski, Augusta Jane Evans, Florence Barclay, Ethel M. Dell, Janette Oke, Beverly Lewis, Charlotte Brontë, Harriet Lewis, Virginia Coffman, Victoria Holt/Jean Plaidy/Eleanor Burford Hibbert, Phyllis A. Whitney, Mary Stewart, Daoma Winston, Chelsea Quinn Yarbro, Rita Clay Estrada, Lori Herter, Jean Webster, Robin McKinley, Tracy West/Joyce McGill/Chassie West, Marie G. Lee, race/ethnicity, Paula Christian, Isabel Miller, Gordon Merrick, Ann Allen Shockley, Vincent Virga, Nancy Garden, Katherine V. Forrest, Loretta Chase, Brenda Jackson
Roper, Holly N. Representing the Romance: Diversity and Inclusion in the Romance Collections of Public Libraries​ 2020 libraries/librarians, disability, race/ethnicity, LGBTQ+ characters, readers and/or authors
Rosanowski, Annika Can She Have It All? Pregnancy Narratives in Contemporary Category Romance 2019 family, gender, Harlequin Mills & Boon, marriage
Rose, Suzanna Is Romance Dysfunctional? 1985 sex/sexuality, gender, psychology, fairytales/folktales, readers
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
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Ross, Marlon B. “What’s Love But a Second Hand Emotion?”: Man-on-Man Passion in the Contemporary Black Gay Romance Novel 2013 African American romance, LGBTQ+ characters, readers and/or authors, race/ethnicity, Larry Duplechan, James Earl Hardy, m/m romance, family, E. Lynn Harris
Ross, Catherine Sheldrick Reader on Top: Public Libraries, Pleasure Reading, and Models of Reading 2009 libraries/librarians, readers, trash/literary and or intellectual quality
Ross, Catherine Bourland Carmen de Icaza: Novela rosa as Feminist Discourse? 2005 Carmen de Icaza
Ross, Catherine Bourland Carmen de Icaza: Novela Rosa as Feminist Discourse? 2006 Carmen de Icaza, feminism, Spain, fascism/right-wing authoritarianism, work
Cook, Jennifer R.; Rostosky, Sharon S.; Riggle, Ellen D. B. Gender Role Models in Fictional Novels for Emerging Adult Lesbians 2013 YA/teenage romance, LGBTQ+ characters, readers and/or authors
Flegel, Monica; Roth, Jenny Annihilating love and heterosexuality without women: Romance, generic difference, and queer politics in "Supernatural" fan fiction 2010 fanfiction, LGBTQ+ characters, readers and/or authors
Caland, Fabienne Claire; Rouby, Bertrand; Bleton, Paul L'amour au temps du roman 2015 Older and/or precursor texts (may not be "romance" as now defined), Harlequin Mills & Boon, Delly, Max du Veuzit, Magali, pen name of Jeanne Philbert, Barbara Cartland
Roy, Pierre; Pellegrin-Boucher, Estelle Business Model Innovation in Creative and Cultural Industries 2024
Rudisill, Kristen Full-Blooded Desi Romance: Contemporary English-Language Romance Novels in India 2018 India, readers, Publishing, national identity, Harlequin Mills & Boon, family
Nayrou, Félicie; Rudy, Alain La Rencontre: figures du destin 1993
Ruggiero, Josephine A.; Weston, Louise C. Sex-Role Characterization of Women in "Modern Gothic Novels" 1977 gender, gothic romance, feminism, Mary Stewart, Victoria Holt/Jean Plaidy/Eleanor Burford Hibbert, Phyllis A. Whitney, Jane Blackmore, Dorothy Eden, Susan Howatch, Anne Maybury, social/economic class, work, readers
Weston, Louise C.; Ruggiero, Josephine A. Male-Female Relationships in Best-Selling "Modern Gothic" Novels 1978 gothic romance, romantic suspense, gender, Mary Stewart, Victoria Holt/Jean Plaidy/Eleanor Burford Hibbert, Phyllis A. Whitney, Jane Blackmore, Dorothy Eden, Susan Howatch, Anne Maybury
Ruggiero, Josephine A.; Weston, Louise C. Conflicting Images of Women in Romance Novels 1983 gothic romance, historical romance, gender, readers
Zhaboriuk, I. A.; Rukshtel, Yu. A. The Artistic Detail in the Novel "The Reluctant Widow" by G. Heyer 2021 Georgette Heyer, linguistics
Pupipat, Apisak; Rungkaew, Titirut; Meeparp, Lampoon Judging a Book by its Back Cover: Spoken/Informal Register as Found in Happily-Ever-After Women’s Novel Blurbs 2022 linguistics, paratext
Rush, Ramona R.; Allen, Donna Communications at the Crossroads: The Gender Gap Connection 1989
Russ, Joanna Somebody's Trying to Kill Me and I Think It's My Husband: The Modern Gothic 1973 gothic romance, genre definitions, settings, Phyllis A. Whitney, Margaret Summerton, Helen Arvonen, Susan Howatch, Anne Maybury, Dorothy Eden, food, drink, fashion/clothing, sex/sexuality, gender
Russ, Joanna Magic Mommas, Trembling Sisters, Puritans & Perverts: Femininst Essays 1985
Russ, Joanna Pornography By Women For Women, With Love 1985 fanfiction, m/m romance, pornography, readers, gender, sex/sexuality, rape and/or intimate partner violence/abuse, science fiction/futuristic romance
Russell, Shannon Dangerous Young Men: Themes of Female Sexuality and Masculinity in Paranormal Romance Novels for Young Adults 2014 YA/teenage romance, paranormal/fantasy/time-travel romance, sex/sexuality, gender, rape and/or intimate partner violence/abuse
Russo, Stephanie These old shades: Georgette Heyer’s unruly eighteenth century 2022 Georgette Heyer, gender, history, fashion/clothing
Pifarré, Alexandra-Flora; Rutigliano-Daspet, Sandrine Re- Répéter - Répétitions 2010
Ryan, Mary Amongst women: Male romance authors and Irish chick lit author, Andrew O’Connor 2011 authors, gender, chick lit, Andrew O’Connor
Ryden, Wendy Bourgeois Realism or Working Class Kitsch?: The Aesthetics of Class in Composition 2007 trash/literary and or intellectual quality, social/economic class, Karen van der Zee, teaching romance, family, marriage
Ryder, Mary Ellen Smoke and mirrors: Event patterns in the discourse structure of a romance novel 1999 linguistics, Barbara Cartland
Alberti, Paola; Fortunati, Vita; Franci, Giovanna; Galateria, Daria; Mangaroni, Rosella; Pozzato, Maria Pia; Sabbadini, Tiziana; Tempera, Mariangela Maestre d'amore: eroine e scrittrici nell'impero del rosa inglese 1986 UK, Elinor Glyn, E. M. Hull
Sabino, Rosimeri Ferraz; Bezerra, Antônio Ponciano Romance-folhetim em tela: linguagem, personagens e sentidos sociais 2020 Brazil, Faith Baldwin, gender, film/movies
Sabo, Oana Translingualism 2.0 2024 France, linguistics
Sagun, Karryl Kim Abella Book Mavens of Manila: an interpretative phenomenological analysis of contemporary niche publishers in the Philippines 2019 Philippines, Publishing, Mina V. Esguerra
Bleton, Paul; Saint-German, Richard Les hauts et les bas de l'imaginaire western dans la culture médiatique 1997
Saint-Jacques, Denis La recherche sur le roman sentimental au CRELIQ de l'Université de Laval 1990 romance scholarship
Saint-Jacques, Denis; de la Garde, Roger Les pratiques culturelles de grande consommation. Le marché francophone 1992
Bettinotti, Julia; Bleton, Paul; des Rivières, Marie-José; Saint-Jacques, Denis Lecture paralittéraire québécoise : les femmes et le travail de 1945 à aujourd’hui 1994 Canada, Harlequin Mills & Boon
Saint-Jacques, Denis; Bettinotti, Julia; des Rivières, Marie-José; Bleton, Paul; Savoie, Chantal Femmes de rêve au travail : les femmes et le travail dans les productions écrites de grande consommation, au Québec, de 1945 à aujourd'hui 1998 Canada, work, gender, Delly, Barbara Cartland, Harlequin Mills & Boon, Charlotte Lamb, Janet Dailey
Saint-Jacques, Denis L'acte de lecture 1998
Saint-Jacques, Denis Que vaut la littérature? 2000
Saint-Jacques, Denis; des Rivières, Marie-José Le féminisme problématique d’un roman d’amour, Anne Mérival 2011 Older and/or precursor texts (may not be "romance" as now defined), feminism, work, marriage, war/armed forces, Canada, trash/literary and or intellectual quality, Delly, religion/spirituality, romances in magazines and newspapers
Salamone, Frank A. Global Cultures 2009
Sales, Roger The Loathsome Lord and the Disdainful Dame: Byron, Cartland and the Regency Romance 1999 Barbara Cartland, historical romance
Salmon, Catherine; Symons, Donald Warrior Lovers: Erotic Fiction, Evolution and Female Sexuality 2003 evolutionary psychology, m/m romance, sex/sexuality
Salmon, Catherine Crossing the Abyss: Erotica and the Intersection of Evolutionary Psychology and Literary Studies 2005 evolutionary psychology, sex/sexuality, feminism, pornography, fanfiction
Salmon, Catherine The Pop Culture of Sex: An Evolutionary Window on the Worlds of Pornography and Romance 2012 evolutionary psychology, pornography, gender, feminism
Salmon, Catherine What Do Romance Novels, Pro Wrestling, and Mack Bolan Have in Common?: Consilience and the Pop Culture of Storytelling 2016 evolutionary psychology
Salter, Anastasia Plundered Hearts: Infocom, Romance, and the History of Feminist Game Design 2020 computer/video/digital games, pirates and outlaws, fashion/clothing, feminism
Salvador Miguel, Nicasio Letras de la España contemporánea. Homenaje a José Luis Varela 1995
Salvador Miguel, Nicasio ¿Hay precedentes de la novela rosa? 1995 Older and/or precursor texts (may not be "romance" as now defined), genre definitions, trash/literary and or intellectual quality
Sama, Lisa Mary Love's Ardent Writer 1982 Barbara Delinsky
Samuel, Barbara The Art of Romance Novels 1997 Ruth Wind/Barbara Samuel/Barbara O'Neal, authors, feminism, emotions, gender, readers
Borham-Puyal, Miriam; Sánchez, Jorge Diego; García-Pérez, María-Isabel Documentando la memoria cultural: las mujeres en las (auto)narraciones exocanónicas 2020
Sánchez Alvarez-Insúa, Alberto Entre la aristocracia y el falangismo: Carmen de Icaza, una escritora falangista representante del fascismo español del primer franquismo y su novela Cristina Guzmán, profesora de idiomas 2009 Carmen de Icaza, 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
Sánchez-Palencia Carazo, Carolina El discurso femenino de la novela rosa en lengua inglesa la mujer como protagonista, autora y lectora del género 1994 gender, authors, readers, genre definitions, Older and/or precursor texts (may not be "romance" as now defined), gothic romance, historical romance, erotic romance, Katherine V. Forrest
Sánchez-Palencia Carazo, Carolina El discurso femenino de la novela rosa en lengua inglesa 1997 gender
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
Sanconie, Maïca « Tout un monde d’évasion » : adapter les romans sentimentaux pour un lectorat français 2010 historical romance, translation, settings, Julie Anne Long, Pamela Britton, France, UK, United States of America
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
Sanders, Lise Shapiro Consuming Fantasies: Labor, Leisure, and the London Shopgirl, 1880-1920 2006 social/economic class, history, gender, readers, Older and/or precursor texts (may not be "romance" as now defined), Publishing, romances in magazines and newspapers, work
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)
Sanders, Lise Shapiro Girls Growing Up: Reading ‘Erotic Bloods’ in Interwar Britain 2024 romances in magazines and newspapers, Older and/or precursor texts (may not be "romance" as now defined), readers
Riba, Caterina; Sanmartí, Carme La traducción de literatura sentimental entre 1920 y 1960. El rosario de Florence Barclay: versiones, adaptaciones y censura 2018 Florence Barclay, translation, Spain
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
Riba, Caterina; Sanmartí, Carme Semblanza de La Novela Rosa (Barcelona, 1924-1937, Madrid, 1939-1948) 2021 Publishing, translation, Spain, Older and/or precursor texts (may not be "romance" as now defined)
Sanmartí i Roset, Carme; Sanmartí Roset, Montserrat La transmisión de los valores femeninos a través de la lectura (1900-1939) 2008 Spain, readers, gender, religion/spirituality, social/economic class, work, marriage
Sanmartí i Roset, Carme; Sanmartí Roset, Montserrat La transmisión de los valores femeninos a través de la lectura (1900-1939) 2008 Spain, readers, gender, religion/spirituality, social/economic class, work, marriage
Riba Sanmartí, Caterina; Sanmartí Roset, Carme Censura moral en la novela rosa. El caso de Elinor Glyn. 2017 Elinor Glyn, Spain, fascism/right-wing authoritarianism, translation, Older and/or precursor texts (may not be "romance" as now defined)
Sanna, Antonio Pirates in History and Popular Culture 2018 pirates and outlaws, historical romance
Barkman, Adam; Sanna, Antonio A Critical Companion to Robert Zemeckis 2020
Santa, Angels Delly et ses illustrateurs 2011 Delly
Santa, Angels; Buard, Jean-Luc Delly romancière 2011 Delly
Buard, Jean-Luc; Santa, Angels L’Œuvre de Delly 2011 Delly
Santaemilia, José Gender, Sex and Translation: The Manipulation of Identities 2005
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
Allan, Jonathan A.; Santos, Cristina; Spahr, Adriana Virgin Envy: The Cultural Insignificance of the Hymen 2016
Anita,; Nababan, Mangatur Rudolf; Santosa, Riyadi; Wibowo, Agus Hari Shift on Functions of Sexual Euphemisms in English-Indonesian Translation of Duke of Her Own by Eloisa James 2020 translation, sex/sexuality, Indonesia, Eloisa James
Sanyal, Madhuparna Re-imagining the late-colonial Anglo-Indian woman's romance: Reading Maud Diver 2008 Maud Diver, India, UK, race/ethnicity, Older and/or precursor texts (may not be "romance" as now defined)
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
Sarwal, Amit; Sarwal, Reema Reading Down Under: Australian Literary Studies Reader 2009
Sarwal, Amit; Sarwal, Reema Reading Down Under: Australian Literary Studies Reader 2009
Johnson-Woods, Toni; Sarwal, Amit Sold by the Millions: Australia's Bestsellers 2012
Satoh, Kyoko Ideologically Constructed Intimacy: Personal Address in Japanese Romance Novels 2013 Japan, linguistics, love
Saunders, Corinne A Companion to Romance: From Classical to Contemporary 2004
Savchuk, O. H.; Marchenko, N. M. The concept of LOVE and its conceptualization in modern English romance novels 2018 love, metaphor/symbolism, linguistics
Savinainen, Raija Gender-specific features of male/female interaction in a popular romantic novel by Barbara Cartland 2001 linguistics, Barbara Cartland, gender
Bettinotti, Julia; Savoie, Chantal Du bon sauvage au beau sauvage : un roman d’amour "politically correct" 1997 United States of America, Native American romance
Saint-Jacques, Denis; Bettinotti, Julia; des Rivières, Marie-José; Bleton, Paul; Savoie, Chantal Femmes de rêve au travail : les femmes et le travail dans les productions écrites de grande consommation, au Québec, de 1945 à aujourd'hui 1998 Canada, work, gender, Delly, Barbara Cartland, Harlequin Mills & Boon, Charlotte Lamb, Janet Dailey
Desmet, Christy; Sawyer, Robert Shakespeare and Appropriation 1999
Saxena, Vandana Memory and Nation-Building: World War II in Malaysian Literature 2022 Malaysia, Noel Barber
Saxena, Vandana Afterlives of Colonialism: Nostalgia, Reader’s Response and the Case of Noel Barber’s Tanamera 2023 historical romance, history, race/ethnicity, UK, Singapore, national identity, readers, Malaysia, war/armed forces, settings, Noel Barber
Harrow, Sharon R.; Saxton, Kirsten T. Adapting the Eighteenth Century: A Handbook of Pedagogies and Practices 2020
Sceats, Sarah; Cunningham, Gail Image & Power: Women in Fiction in the Twentieth Century 1996
Hiergeist, Teresa; Schäfer, Stefanie Ladies in Arms: Women, Guns, and Feminisms in Contemporary Popular Culture 2024 feminism
Schalk, Sami Happily Ever After for Whom? Blackness and Disability in Romance Narratives 2016 disability, race/ethnicity, sex/sexuality, African American romance, Gwynne Forster, gender, war/armed forces, N. K. Jemisin, paranormal/fantasy/time-travel romance
Schell, Heather The Big Bad Wolf: Masculinity and Genetics in Popular Culture 2007 animals, health/medical, gender, evolutionary psychology, paranormal/fantasy/time-travel romance
Schell, Heather The Love Life of a Fact 2011 gender, evolutionary psychology, authors, feminism, romance scholarship, sex/sexuality, animals, Linda Howard, paranormal/fantasy/time-travel romance
Schell, Heather Bringing the Mid-West to the Middle-East: An Analysis of a Harlequin Romance in English and Turkish 2013 translation, Harlequin Mills & Boon, Turkey, Shirley Jump, readers, family, social/economic class, gender
Schell, Heather; Brown, Ann K. G. Romancelandia on Twitter: Designing a Digital Humanities Research Assignment for First-Year Writing Students 2018 teaching romance, authors
Schell, Heather; Larsen, Katherine How the Story Ends: Gender, Sexuality, and Nation in the Happy Ending 2019 happy ending, Sonali Dev, Radclyffe/Len Barot, United States of America, gender, trash/literary and or intellectual quality
Schell, Heather After “I Do”: Turkish Harlequin Readers Re-Imagine the Happy Ending 2020 Turkey, Harlequin Mills & Boon, happy ending, Shirley Jump, family, readers, love, work
Schiffman, Leon G.; Schnaars, Steven P. The Consumption of Historical Romance Novels: Consumer Aesthetics in Popular Literature 1981 historical romance, Publishing, readers
Brock, Alexander; Pflaeging, Jana; Schildhauer, Peter Genre Emergence: Developments in Print, TV and Digital Media 2019
Schiffman, Leon G.; Schnaars, Steven P. The Consumption of Historical Romance Novels: Consumer Aesthetics in Popular Literature 1981 historical romance, Publishing, readers
Schoene, Berthold The Edinburgh Companion to Contemporary Scottish Literature 2007
Jandl, Ingeborg; Knaller, Susanne; Schönfellner, Sabine; Tockner, Gudrun Writing Emotions: Theoretical Concepts and Selected Case Studies in Literature 2017
Schopp, Claude Delly. Les Trois châteaux d’Ourida 2011 Delly
Schultz Nybacka, Pamela Bookonomy: The Consumption Practice and Value of Book Reading 2011 Sweden, Harlequin Mills & Boon, readers, trash/literary and or intellectual quality, Publishing
Sullivan, Larry E.; Schurman, Lydia Cushman Pioneers, Passionate Ladies, and Private Eyes: Dime Novels, Series Books, and Paperbacks 1996
Schurman, Lydia Cushman; Johnson, Deidre Scorned Literature: Essays on the History and Criticism of Popular Mass-Produced Fiction in America 2002
Schwab, Sandra Martina Of Dragons, Knights, and Virgin Maidens: Dragonslaying and Gender Roles from Richard Johnson to Modern Popular Fiction 2013 historical romance, Teresa Medeiros, Gaelen Foley, Stephanie Laurens, metaphor/symbolism, genre definitions, Harlequin Mills & Boon, happy ending, Sandra Schwab, gender, Penelope Williamson, animals, Julia Ross, virginity, romance scholarship
Schwab, Sandra “It Is Only with One’s Heart That One Can See Clearly”: The Loss of Sight in Teresa Medeiros’s The Bride and the Beast and Yours until Dawn 2012 disability, Teresa Medeiros, metaphor/symbolism, fairytales/folktales, settings, Charlotte Brontë, myth
Gilmour, Rachael; Schwarz, Bill End of Empire and the English Novel since 1945 2011
Teo, Hsu-Ming; Schwegler-Castañer, Astrid Post/Colonial Nostalgia and Melancholia in Dinah Jefferies' The Tea Planter's Wife and Before the Rains * 2025 India, Sri Lanka, history, historical romance, race/ethnicity, Dinah Jefferies
Scott, Alison M. Romance in the Stacks; or, Popular Romance Fiction Imperiled 2002 libraries/librarians, trash/literary and or intellectual quality, romance scholarship
Scupham, Hannah Elizabeth “Reader, I Married Him”: Readership, Imagination, and Politics of the Marriage Plot in the Nineteenth-Century Novel 2022 historical romance, Older and/or precursor texts (may not be "romance" as now defined), readers, Jane Austen, Elizabeth Gaskell, George Eliot
Seale, Maura "I find some Hindu practices like burning widows, utterly bizarre": Representations of Sati and Questions of Choice in Veils of Silk 2007 Mary Jo Putney, India, historical romance, feminism, race/ethnicity, gender, religion/spirituality, death, family, marriage
Secrease, Cassandra L A comparative analysis of lesbian romance novels and heterosexual romance novel themes 2000 LGBTQ+ characters, readers and/or authors, Karin Kallmaker, Peggy Herring, Lyn Denison, Katherine V. Forrest, Diana Simmonds
Alcala Gonzalez, Antonio; Sederholm, Carl H. Lovecraft in the 21st Century: Dead, But Still Dreaming 2022
Seidel, Kathleen Gilles Judge Me by the Joy I Bring 1992 readers, happy ending, love, settings, emotions, feminism
Seifert, Christine Virginity in Young Adult Literature after Twilight 2015 YA/teenage romance, paranormal/fantasy/time-travel romance, sex/sexuality, virginity, Twilight, contemporary romance
Seifrit, Rachel Joy Come Out, Come Out, Wherever You Are: Sexuality and Gender Exploration in Contemporary Slash Fanfiction 2021 LGBTQ+ characters, readers and/or authors, fanfiction, gender, sex/sexuality
Selinger, Margaret “Midsummer Nights’ Affaires:” Shakespeare in the Work of Eloisa James 2021 Eloisa James, Shakespeare, trash/literary and or intellectual quality, gender
Selinger, Eric Murphy Foils and Fakers, Monsters and Makers 2006 Georgette Heyer, Eloisa James, A. S. Byatt
Selinger, Eric Murphy Rereading the Romance 2007 romance scholarship
Selinger, Eric Murphy How to Read a Romance Novel (and Fall in Love with Popular Romance) 2012 close reading, trash/literary and or intellectual quality, Laura Kinsale, marriage, Milton, disability, religion/spirituality, love
Selinger, Eric Murphy; Frantz, Sarah S. G. Introduction: New Approaches to Popular Romance Fiction 2012 Loretta Chase, romance scholarship
Frantz, Sarah S. G.; Selinger, Eric Murphy New Approaches to Popular Romance Fiction: Critical Essays 2012
Selinger, Eric Murphy Nothing But Good Times Ahead: A Special Forum on Jennifer Crusie (Editor’s Introduction) 2012 Jennifer Crusie, romance scholarship, marriage, family, feminism
Moore, Kate; Selinger, Eric Murphy The Heroine as Reader, the Reader as Heroine: Jennifer Crusie’s Welcome to Temptation 2012 Jennifer Crusie, readers, metafiction, romance scholarship, sex/sexuality, marriage
Selinger, Eric Murphy My Metatextual Romance: Thinking With (and About) Jaane Tu Ya Janne Na 2014 film/movies, metafiction
Selinger, Eric Murphy An Interview with Susan Elizabeth Phillips 2015 Susan Elizabeth Phillips, rape and/or intimate partner violence/abuse, romance scholarship, United States of America, religion/spirituality, authors
Selinger, Eric Murphy Erotica: romance novels 2015 genre definitions
Selinger, Eric Murphy; Gleason, William A. Introduction: Love as the Practice of Freedom? 2016 genre definitions, Nell Stark, romance scholarship
Gleason, William A.; Selinger, Eric Murphy Romance Fiction and American Culture: Love as the Practice of Freedom? 2016
Frantz Lyons, Sarah; Selinger, Eric Murphy Strange Stirrings, Strange Yearnings: The Flame and the Flower, Sweet Savage Love, and the Lost Diversities of Blockbuster Historical Romance 2016 historical romance, Kathleen Woodiwiss, feminism, sex/sexuality, Rosemary Rogers, rape and/or intimate partner violence/abuse, United States of America
Selinger, Eric Murphy When I Paint My Masterpiece: Bob Dylan, Ekphrasis, and the Art of Susan Elizabeth Phillips 2016 Susan Elizabeth Phillips, metafiction, close reading, trash/literary and or intellectual quality, gender, music
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
Selinger, Eric Murphy On Teaching, Not Teaching, and Teaching The Sheik 2020 teaching romance, E. M. Hull, music, race/ethnicity
Kamblé, Jayashree; Selinger, Eric Murphy; Teo, Hsu-Ming Introduction 2021 romance scholarship
Selinger, Eric Murphy Literary approaches 2021 trash/literary and or intellectual quality, romance scholarship
Selinger, Eric Murphy; Vivanco, Laura Romance and/as religion 2021 religion/spirituality, love, history, happy ending, Christian romance, Judaism, Islam, Buddhism, Hinduism, Paganism/Wicca, Jennifer Crusie
Kamblé, Jayashree; Selinger, Eric Murphy; Teo, Hsu-Ming The Routledge Research Companion to Popular Romance Fiction 2021 romance scholarship
Selinger, Eric Murphy Cant and Canonicity 2022 romance scholarship, trash/literary and or intellectual quality, teaching romance, genre definitions
Selinger, Eric Murphy Disaggregating attraction: asexuality and genre critique in Alex Beecroft's Blue Steel Chain 2022 Alex Beecroft, LGBTQ+ characters, readers and/or authors, sex/sexuality, religion/spirituality, love, marriage, Ann Herendeen, metafiction, trash/literary and or intellectual quality, Christian romance, food, drink, metaphor/symbolism
Selinger, Eric Murphy Disenchantment and its discontents: “modern love” and irony in popular romance fiction 2022 love, Jennifer Crusie, science/technology, religion/spirituality, marriage, Alisha Rai, feminism, emotions, Alexis Hall, metafiction, Francine Rivers, fairytales/folktales, health/medical
Selinger, Eric Murphy The wild heart of the continent: love and place in the Silk Road novels of Sherry Thomas 2022 Sherry Thomas, settings, trash/literary and or intellectual quality, love, Buddhism, religion/spirituality, historical romance, race/ethnicity, China, Asia
Sequeiros, Paula “Holding the Dream”: Women’s Favorite Reading Matter in a Portuguese Prison 2018 readers, Portugal
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
Şerban, Andreea Romancing the Paranormal: A Case Study of J.R. Ward’s The Black Dagger Brotherhood 2012 paranormal/fantasy/time-travel romance, J. R. Ward, LGBTQ+ characters, readers and/or authors, sex/sexuality
Serisier, Tanya On Not Reading Fifty Shades: Feminism and the Fantasy of Romantic Immunity 2015 Fifty Shades, readers, feminism, rape and/or intimate partner violence/abuse
Servén, Carmen Éxito y olvido de Carmen de Icaza 2005 Carmen de Icaza
Servén, Carmen Mujer y persona narrativa en tres novelas de siglo XX: Carmen de Icaza, Carmen Martín Gaite y Rosa Montero 2020 Carmen de Icaza
Servén Díez, Carmen Novela rosa, novela blanca y escritura femenina en los años cuarenta: la evolución de Carmen de Icaza 1996 Carmen de Icaza, Spain, work, Rafael Pérez y Pérez, marriage
Service, Alexandra Popular Vikings: Constructions of Viking Identity in Twentieth Century Britain 1998 historical romance, Heather Graham, Johanna Lindsey, Catherine Coulter, Betina Krahn, rape and/or intimate partner violence/abuse, history, war/armed forces
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
Shachar, Hila A Post-Feminist Romance: Love, Gender and Intertextuality in Stephenie Meyer's Saga 2011 Twilight, Emily Brontë, Charlotte Brontë, Harlequin Mills & Boon
Harvey, Keith; Shalom, Celia Language and Desire: Encoding Sex, Romance, and Intimacy 1997
Coles, Claire D.; Shamp, M. Johnna Some Sexual, Personality, and Demographic Characteristics of Women Readers of Erotic Romances 1984 readers, erotic romance, sex/sexuality, pornography
Shapiro, Joan; Kroeger, Lee Is Life a Romantic Novel? The Relationship Between Attitudes About Intimate Relationships and the Popular Media 1991 psychology, readers
Sharma, Vishal; Bray, Kirsten E.; Kumar, Neha; Grinter, Rebecca E. Romancing the Algorithm: Navigating Constantly, Frequently, and Silently Changing Algorithms for Digital Work 2022 Publishing, authors
Sharma, Vishal; Bray, Kirsten E.; Kumar, Neha; Grinter, Rebecca E. It Takes (at least) Two: The Work to Make Romance Work 2023 Publishing, authors, readers
Sheehan, Sarah E.; Stevens, Jen Creating a Popular Romance Collection in an Academic Library 2015 libraries/librarians
Sheehan, Sarah E. The “Popular Romance Canon”: An Academic Librarian’s Response 2022 romance scholarship, libraries/librarians
Sheerman, Lucy “Place the glass before you, and draw in chalk your own picture”: The Recasting of Jane Eyre 2022 Charlotte Brontë, Beverly Jenkins, Alyssa Cole, race/ethnicity
Macdonald, Andrew; Macdonald, Gina; Sheridan, Mary Ann Shape-shifting: Images of Native Americans in Recent Popular Fiction 2000 Native American romance, race/ethnicity
Bontly, Susan W.; Sheridan, Carol J. Enchanted Journeys Beyond the Imagination: An Annotated Bibliography of Fantasy, Futuristic, Supernatural, and Time Travel Romances 1996 paranormal/fantasy/time-travel romance
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, LGBTQ+ characters, readers and/or authors
Sherman, Jen Reading Infrastructures in the Contemporary City: A Study of Three Public Libraries in Sydney 2016 libraries/librarians, Australia
Sherwood, Kim Pride and prejudice: metafiction and the value of historical romance in Georgette Heyer 2021 Georgette Heyer, metafiction, trash/literary and or intellectual quality
Okamoto, Shigeko; Shibamoto Smith, Janet S. Japanese Language, Gender, and Ideology: Cultural Models and Real People 2004
Shibamoto Smith, Janet S. Language and Gender in the (Hetero)Romance: "Reading" the Ideal Hero/ine through Lovers' Dialogue in Japanese Romance Fiction 2004 Japan
Shibamoto Smith, Janet S. Translating True Love: Japanese Romance Fiction, Harlequin-Style 2005 Japan, Harlequin Mills & Boon, linguistics, gender, emotions, translation
Shibamoto Smith, Janet S. Changing Lovestyles: Fictional Representations of Contemporary Japanese Men in Love 2008 love, gender, Japan, marriage, linguistics
Shields, Juliet Preaching without Practicing: Middle-Class Domesticity in Annie S. Swan's Serial Fiction 2019 Annie S. Swan
Shields, Juliet Scottish Women's Writing in the Long Nineteenth Century: The Romance of Everyday Life 2021 Annie S. Swan, Flora Annie Steel, Older and/or precursor texts (may not be "romance" as now defined), Scotland, India, Sir Walter Scott
Shore, Z. Lesley Essay Review: Girls Learning, Women Teaching: Dancing to Different Drummers 2000 readers
Cooper, Katherine; Short, Emma The Female Figure in Contemporary Historical Fiction 2012
Short, Christopher Brown The history of romance illustration and the romance novel cover 1996 paratext
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
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
Sichelschmidt, Gustav Hedwig Courths-Mahler. Deutschlands erfolgreichste Autorin. Eine literatursoziologische Studie 1967 Hedwig Courths-Mahler
Grossmann, Francis; Gymnich, Marion; Siepmann, Dirk Alcohol and Tobacco Consumption in English and French Novels Since the 1950s: A Corpus-Stylistic Analysis 2020 food, drink, linguistics, history, gender, emotions, social/economic class
Novakova, Iva; Siepmann, Dirk Phraseology and Style in Subgenres of the Novel: A Synthesis of Corpus and Literary Perspectives 2020 linguistics, languages, translation
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
Silliman, Daniel Reading Evangelicals: How Christian Fiction Shaped a Culture and a Faith 2021 Christian romance, Janette Oke, Beverly Lewis, United States of America, Publishing, religion/spirituality
Andrade, Roberta Manuela Barros de; Silva, Erotilde Honório Os Livros do Coração: uma análise dos romances sentimentais do Século XX 2008 Delly, Brazil, linguistics, Harlequin Mills & Boon
Andrade, Roberta Manuela Barros de; Silva, Erotilde Honório A vida em cor de rosa: o romance sentimental e a ditadura militar no Brasil 2010 Corín Tellado, Brazil, history, capitalism/business, love, marriage, gender, readers, fascism/right-wing authoritarianism
Andrade, Roberta Manuela Barros de; Silva, Erotilde Honório Corpos que falam: erotismo, amor e paixão no romance sentimental 2010 Elinor Glyn, sex/sexuality
Andrade, Roberta Manuela Barros de; Silva, Erotilde Honório A pedagogia social dos romances de amor dos “tempos da vovó” 2013 Brazil, Publishing, readers, gender, social/economic class, Delly, Elinor Glyn, Berta Ruck, Concordia Merrel
Andrade, Roberta Manuela Barros de; Silva, Erotilde Honório O Consumo de Romances e o Universo Feminino: As Práticas de Leitura dos Livros do Coração 2013 readers, Brazil
Andrade, Roberta Manuela Barros de; Silva, Erotilde Honório O que é o romance ideal? Uma cartografia dos romances mais populares publicados pela Harlequim-Silhouette entre 1977 e 2012 2013 Brazil, Harlequin Mills & Boon
Andrade, Roberta Manuela Barros de; Silva, Erotilde Honório Os Romances Sentimentais e suas Comunidades de Leitura 2014 Brazil, readers
Silva, Erotilde Honório; Andrade, Roberta Manuela Barros de Os romances sentimentais e a revolução digital: os processos de criação dos projetos de democratização da leitura nos livros do coração 2015 Publishing, Brazil
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
Andrade, Roberta Manuela Barros de; Feitosa, Ricardo Augusto de Sabóia; Silva, Erotilde Honório Emoção e moralidade em tempos de ruptura: o estupro nas relações conjugais nos romances sentimentais e suas comunidades de leitura 2019 rape and/or intimate partner violence/abuse, marriage, readers, Brazil
Andrade, Roberta Manuela Barros de; Silva, Erotilde Honório; Feitosa, Ricardo Augusto de Sabóia; Viana, Thiago Mena Barreto Um século de romances de amor: A trajetória da literatura sentimental no Brasil (1920 - 2020) 2020 Brazil
Leith, Murray Stewart; Sim, Duncan The Modern Scottish Diaspora: Contemporary Debates and Perspectives 2014
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
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
Gillis, Bryan; Simpson, Joanna Sexual Content in Young Adult Literature: Reading between the Sheets 2015 YA/teenage romance, sex/sexuality
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
Ya’u, Mohammed Sani; Rashid, Sabariah Md; Ali, Afida Mohamad; Singh, Hardev Kaur Jujar Semantic Extensions of Hausa Visual and Auditory Perception Verbs gani and ji in Romance Fiction 2023 linguistics
Sinha, Mona Reading Mills and Boon in India From the Post-Colonial to the Millennial Experience 2022 India, Harlequin Mills & Boon, readers, chick lit
Sinner, Carsten Fictional orality in romance novels: Between linguistic reality and editorial requirements 2012 translation, languages
Slušná, Zuzana Paranormal and Religious as Part of Pop Cultural Consumerism 2014 paranormal/fantasy/time-travel romance, religion/spirituality
Slušná, Zuzana Postfeminism, Post-romantic and New Patterns of Feminity [sic] in Popular Culture 2015 readers, gender, sex/sexuality, pornography, trash/literary and or intellectual quality
Slusser, George E.; Rabkin, Eric S. Intersections: Fantasy and Science Fiction 1987
Smáradóttir, Helena María Love as a Commodity: Brand-Name Romantic Fiction and its Readers. The Domain and Readership of Harlequin Enterprises, Both in Iceland and Abroad 2009 Harlequin Mills & Boon, Iceland, readers
Šmídová, Monika Markéta Five Thousand for Justice: The Use of English Folklore in the Novels of KJ Charles 2021 K. J. Charles, fairytales/folktales, LGBTQ+ characters, readers and/or authors, paranormal/fantasy/time-travel romance, historical romance, social/economic class, community, family
Šmídová, Monika Markéta “Oh, my friend, those weren’t angels”: Trauma, Recovery and Folklore in The Secret Casebook of Simon Feximal and Spectred Isle by KJ Charles 2024 K. J. Charles, paranormal/fantasy/time-travel romance, health/medical, war/armed forces, family, fairytales/folktales
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
Churchwell, Sarah; Smith, Thomas Ruys Must Read: Rediscovering American Bestsellers from Charlotte Temple to The Da Vinci Code 2012
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
Smith, Michelle J.; Moruzi, Kristine Young Adult Gothic Fiction: Monstrous Selves/Monstrous Others 2021
Moruzi, Kristine; Rodgers, Beth; Smith, Michelle J. The Edinburgh History of Children's Periodicals 2024
Smith, Lindsay Lea Feminism and romance novels : is Irigaray's utopia found in bestselling romance novels? 2006 feminism
Smith, Josefine; Kollman, Kathleen W. Taylor Still Reading Romance: Identity and Engagement with Popular Romance Fiction 2025 readers