| Teo, Hsu-Ming |
“We have to learn to love imperially”: Love in Late Colonial and Federation Australian Romance Novels |
2014 |
Australia, Older and/or precursor texts (may not be "romance" as now defined), love, gender, marriage, national identity, Mary Bradford Whiting, UK, race/ethnicity, family, sex/sexuality, rape and/or intimate partner violence/abuse, Broda Reynolds, Mabel Forrest, Marie Bjelke Petersen, Alice Grant Rosman, Rosa Praed, rural romance, settings, work, Ada Cambridge |
| 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 |
| 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 |
| Teo, Hsu-Ming |
The Romance Novel |
2016 |
genre definitions, love, Jane Austen, Older and/or precursor texts (may not be "romance" as now defined), E. M. Hull, Harlequin Mills & Boon, Barbara Cartland, Georgette Heyer, historical romance, rape and/or intimate partner violence/abuse, sex/sexuality, gender, wealth/prosperity, capitalism/business |
| 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 |
| Teo, Hsu-Ming |
The Popular Culture of Romantic Love in Australia |
2017 |
|
| Teo, Hsu-Ming |
The Contemporary Anglophone Romance Genre |
2018 |
gender, sex/sexuality, Publishing, race/ethnicity |
| Teo, Hsu-Ming |
Cultural Authenticity, the Family, and East Asian American Romance Novels |
2020 |
race/ethnicity, Asia, China, authors, Publishing, United States of America, family, Jade Lee, Jeannie Lin, Onoto Watanna/Winnifred Eaton, Older and/or precursor texts (may not be "romance" as now defined), historical romance, history, love, Elizabeth Lowell, Marie Donovan, Dorien Kelly, Vicki Essex, Camy Tang, Christian romance, Ruby Lang, Jennifer Lewis, Helen Hoang, Courtney Milan |
| Kamblé, Jayashree; Selinger, Eric Murphy; Teo, Hsu-Ming |
Introduction |
2021 |
romance scholarship |
| Teo, Hsu-Ming |
Love and romance novels |
2021 |
love, sex/sexuality, history, sociology, feminism, Older and/or precursor texts (may not be "romance" as now defined), Samuel Richardson, Jane Austen, Charlotte Brontë, religion/spirituality, E. M. Hull, Kathlyn Rhodes, Barbara Cartland, Georgette Heyer, Harlequin Mills & Boon, historical romance, Jennifer Crusie, wealth/prosperity |
| Kamblé, Jayashree; Selinger, Eric Murphy; Teo, Hsu-Ming |
The Routledge Research Companion to Popular Romance Fiction |
2021 |
romance scholarship |
| Teo, Hsu-Ming |
Transported for life, transported by love: love and the Australian convict romance novel |
2022 |
Australia, historical romance, history, gender, love, Tea Cooper, Lena Dowling, Joanna Lloyd, Candice Proctor |
| Teo, Hsu-Ming |
Love Is Not Enough: Australian Romantic Fiction from the Mid-Nineteenth to the Early Twentieth Century |
2023 |
Australia, Older and/or precursor texts (may not be "romance" as now defined), Rosa Praed, Marie Bjelke Petersen, marriage, love, work |
| Therrien, Kathleen M. |
Trembling at Her Own Response: Resistance and Reconciliation in Mass-Market Romance Novels |
1997 |
Julie Garwood, Jayne Ann Krentz/Amanda Quick/Jayne Castle, Susan Wiggs, gender, national identity |
| Therrien, Kathleen M. |
"One Would Die Rather Than Speak ... about Such Subjects": Exploring Class, Gender, and Hegemony in Anya Seton's Dragonwyck |
2015 |
teaching romance, Anya Seton, gothic romance, social/economic class, gender, sex/sexuality, rape and/or intimate partner violence/abuse |
| Therrien, Kathleen |
Straight to the Edges: Gay and Lesbian Characters and Cultural Conflict in Popular Romance Fiction |
2012 |
LGBT+ characters, readers and/or authors, Diana Gabaldon, Julie Garwood, rape and/or intimate partner violence/abuse, Jayne Ann Krentz/Amanda Quick/Jayne Castle, Susan Wiggs, Emma Holly, social/economic class, gender, BDSM |
| Thiel, Christian |
Liebe, Sex, Karriere: die Modernisierung des trivialen Liebesromans |
1991 |
Germany |
| Thierauf, Doreen |
Forever After: Desire in the 21st-Century Romance Blockbuster |
2016 |
Jane Austen, sex/sexuality, marriage, gender, feminism, readers, psychology, Twilight, Fifty Shades, rape and/or intimate partner violence/abuse, BDSM |
| Thirard, Marie-Agnès |
Les romans "Adoras" ou les nouveaux contes de fées à l’africaine |
2004 |
Africa, fairytales/folktales, paratext |
| Thomas, Patrick; Takayoshi, Pamela |
Literacy in Practice: Writing in Private, Public and Working Lives |
2016 |
|
| Thomas, Glen; James, Bridie |
The Romance Industry: A Study of Reading and Writing Romance |
2006 |
authors, readers |
| Thomas, Glen |
Romance: The Perfect Creative Industry? A Case Study of Harlequin-Mills and Boon Australia |
2007 |
Harlequin Mills & Boon, Publishing, Australia, readers, authors |
| Thomas, Glen |
The Best Australian Romance Novelist: Emma Darcy |
2007 |
Emma Darcy, Helen Bianchin, settings, Australia, sex/sexuality, family, metafiction |
| Thomas, Glen |
"And I Deliver": An Interview with Emma Darcy |
2008 |
Emma Darcy, Harlequin Mills & Boon, authors, Australia, sex/sexuality, settings, emotions, Publishing |
| Thomas, Glen |
Happy Readers or Sad Ones? Romance Fiction and the Problems of the Media Effects Model |
2012 |
readers, psychology, Anna Campbell, rape and/or intimate partner violence/abuse |
| Thomas, Audrey |
A Fine Romance, My Dear, This Is |
1986 |
Harlequin Mills & Boon, readers, pornography, rape and/or intimate partner violence/abuse, Charlotte Lamb, work |
| Thompson, Marcella; Koski, Patricia; Holyfield, Lori |
Romance and agency: An argument revisited |
1997 |
romance scholarship, readers, feminism |
| Koski, Patricia; Holyfield, Lori; Thompson, Marcella |
Romance Novels as Women's Myths |
1997 |
myth, emotions |
| Thompson, Jennifer K. |
Romance in the Stacks: The Prevalence of Romance Fiction in Academic Libraries |
2010 |
libraries/librarians |
| Thompson, Anne B. |
Rereading Fifties Teen Romance: Reflections on Janet Lambert |
2005 |
Janet Lambert, YA/teenage romance, family, war/armed forces |
| Kirkham, Pat; Thoms, David |
War Culture: Social Change and Changing Experience in World War Two Britain |
1995 |
|
| Thurlow, Michelle |
“A Whisper of Satin”: The Infant Dress Leitmotif |
2010 |
Christian romance, Beverly Lewis, religion/spirituality, gender, fashion/clothing, music |
| Thurston, Carol M. |
Popular Historical Romances: Agent for Social Change? An Exploration of Methodologies |
1985 |
historical romance, sex/sexuality, gender |
| Thurston, Carol |
The Romance Revolution: Erotic Novels for Women and the Quest for a New Sexual Identity |
1987 |
erotic romance, United States of America, readers, historical romance, sex/sexuality, Publishing, feminism, work, Harlequin Mills & Boon, gender, pornography, rape and/or intimate partner violence/abuse, Rosemary Rogers, virginity, gothic romance, Bertrice Small, LaVyrle Spencer, Kathleen Woodiwiss |
| Tidwell, Christy |
“A Little Wildness”: Negotiating Relationships between Human and Nonhuman in Historical Romance |
2016 |
animals, paratext, historical romance, Bertrice Small, Patricia Gaffney, metaphor/symbolism, gender, rape and/or intimate partner violence/abuse, family, sex/sexuality, happy ending |
| Tienkamp, Aaf |
New Adult Romance: An Emerging Genre |
2016 |
NA romance, sex/sexuality, genre definitions |
| Timson, Beth S. |
The Drug Store Novel: Popular Romantic Fiction and the Mainstream Tradition |
1983 |
gothic romance, Jane Austen, Martha Finley, United States of America, gender |
| Tindall, Natalie T. J. |
Black Romance Authors and Community Cultural Wealth: A Case Study of Brenda Jackson’s Career |
2022 |
Brenda Jackson, race/ethnicity, Publishing, authors, readers, community, African American romance |
| Tirkkonen-Condit, Sonja; Condit, Stephen |
Empirical Studies in Translation and Linguistics |
1989 |
|
| Fjelkestam, Kristina; Hill, Helena; Tjeder, David |
Kvinnorna gör mannen: maskulinitetskonstruktioner i kvinnors text och bild 1500-2000 |
2013 |
|
| 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 |
| Jandl, Ingeborg; Knaller, Susanne; Schönfellner, Sabine; Tockner, Gudrun |
Writing Emotions: Theoretical Concepts and Selected Case Studies in Literature |
2017 |
|
| Tokley, Anne-Marie |
Where is my Happy Ending and Why am I Looking for it? The Romance Myth in Contemporary Popular Australian Women’s Fiction |
2008 |
Australia, love, feminism, gender, romances in magazines and newspapers, national identity, Harlequin Mills & Boon, chick lit, Marion Lennox |
| 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 |
| Tomlinson, Alan |
Consumption, Identity, and Style: Marketing, Meanings, and the Packaging of Pleasure |
1990 |
|
| Philips, Deborah; Tomlinson, Alan |
Homeward Bound: Leisure, popular culture and consumer capitalism |
1992 |
capitalism/business, Harlequin Mills & Boon, war/armed forces, work, gender |
| Trower, Shelley; Tooth Murphy, Amy; Smith, Graham |
‘Me mum likes a book, me dad’s a newspaper man’: Reading, gender and domestic life in ‘100 Families’ |
2019 |
gender, readers |
| Toscano, Angela |
A Parody of Love: the Narrative Uses of Rape in Popular Romance |
2012 |
rape and/or intimate partner violence/abuse, Kathleen Woodiwiss, Carolyn Jewel, Anna Campbell, Catherine Coulter, Anne Stuart, Patricia Gaffney, love |
| Toscano, Angela |
The Idolatry of the Real: Form, Formula, and Happy Endings in Romance Literature |
2019 |
trash/literary and or intellectual quality, genre definitions, readers, Jennifer Crusie, happy ending |
| Toscano, Angela |
Gothic romance |
2021 |
gothic romance, Mary Stewart |
| Toth, Emily |
Who'll Take Romance? |
1984 |
feminism, rape and/or intimate partner violence/abuse, Emily Toth |
| Toth, Emily |
Labors of Love |
1993 |
feminism, Emily Toth |
| Towheed, Shafquat; King, Edmund G. C. |
Reading and the First World War: Readers, Texts, Archives |
2015 |
|
| Trachsel, Mary |
Horse Stories and Romance Fiction: Variants or Alternative Texts of Female Identity? |
1997 |
gender, animals |
| Travis, Melissa E. |
Assume the Position: Exploring Discipline Relationships |
2013 |
BDSM |
| Treacher, Amal |
What is Life Without My Love?: Desire and Romantic Fiction |
1988 |
Harlequin Mills & Boon, psychology, readers, emotions, feminism, love, Doreen Hornsblow as Sally Wentworth, sex/sexuality |
| Trevenen, Claire |
Fifty Shades of “Mommy Porn”: A Post-GFC Renegotiation of Paternal Law |
2014 |
Fifty Shades, gender, family, sex/sexuality, BDSM, capitalism/business, race/ethnicity |
| McAlister, Jodi; Parnell, Claire; Trinidad, Andrea Anne |
#RomanceClass: Genre World, Intimate Public, Found Family |
2020 |
Philippines, genre definitions, Publishing, readers, authors, Mina V. Esguerra, LGBT+ characters, readers and/or authors, sex/sexuality |
| Parnell, Claire; Trinidad, Andrea Anne; McAlister, Jodi |
Hello, Ever After: #RomanceClass and Online-Only Live Literature in the Philippines in 2020 |
2021 |
Philippines |
| Parnell, Claire; Trinidad, Andrea Anne; McAlister, Jodi |
Live literature in the Philippines: an ethnographic study of #RomanceClass and reading as performance |
2023 |
Philippines, readers, authors, Publishing, Mina V. Esguerra |
| McAlister, Jodi; Parnell, Claire; Trinidad, Andrea Anne |
Publishing Romance Fiction in the Philippines |
2023 |
Philippines, Publishing, social/economic class, Mina V. Esguerra, wealth/prosperity, Keene Alicante, sex/sexuality, work, LGBT+ characters, readers and/or authors, settings, authors, paratext |
| Brickman, Barbara Jane; Jermyn, Deborah; Trost, Theodore Louis |
Love Across the Atlantic: US-UK Romance in Popular Culture |
2020 |
|
| Trower, Shelley; Tooth Murphy, Amy; Smith, Graham |
‘Me mum likes a book, me dad’s a newspaper man’: Reading, gender and domestic life in ‘100 Families’ |
2019 |
gender, readers |
| Bettinotti, Julia; Truel, Marie-Françoise |
Lust and Dust: Desert Fabula in Romances and Media |
1997 |
sheikh romance, E. M. Hull |
| Bettinotti, Julia; Truel, Marie-Françoise |
Lust and Dust: voyages de femmes, roman d’amour ou les enjeux d’une fabula |
1997 |
E. M. Hull, sheikh 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 |
| Tuñón, Johanna |
A Fine Romance: How to Select Romances for Your Collection |
1995 |
libraries/librarians |
| Tuñón, Johanna |
An Appetite for Romance: How to Understand, Buy, Display, and Promote Romance Fiction |
1995 |
libraries/librarians |
| 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 |
| Turnbull, Sue |
'Nice Dress, Take It Off': Crime, Romance and the Pleasure of the Text |
2002 |
Janet Evanovich, readers |
| Turner, Katherine |
Daphne Du Maurier's Mary Anne: Rewriting the Regency Romance as Feminist History |
2017 |
history, Daphne du Maurier |
| Turner, Graeme |
Nation, Culture, Text: Australian Cultural and Media Studies |
1993 |
|
| Turner, Ellen |
E.M. Hull and the Valentino cult: gender reversal after The sheik |
2011 |
E. M. Hull, gender |
| Turner, Ellen |
The Sheik Returns: Imitations and Parodies of the Desert Romance |
2014 |
E. M. Hull, sheikh romance, trash/literary and or intellectual quality, sex/sexuality, Harlequin Mills & Boon, rape and/or intimate partner violence/abuse |
| Turner, Ellen |
E. M. Hull's Camping in the Sahara: desert romance meets desert reality |
2015 |
E. M. Hull |
| Turner, Ellen |
The Sheik and Modernism |
2020 |
E. M. Hull, trash/literary and or intellectual quality |
| Turner, Ellen; Wadsö Lecaros, Cecilia |
The desert-governess romance: Regency England meets exotic Arabia |
2022 |
sheikh romance, historical romance, settings, Marguerite Kaye, Laura Martin, Lynne Graham, Kate Hewitt, E. M. Hull, work, genre definitions, Harlequin Mills & Boon, paratext |
| Diwersy, Sascha; Gonon, Laetitia; Goossens, Vannina; Gymnich, Marion; Tutin, Agnès |
Speech Verbs in French and English Novels |
2020 |
linguistics, emotions, languages |
| Opas, Lisa Lena; Tweedie, Fiona |
The Magic Carpet Ride: Reader Involvement in Romantic Fiction |
1999 |
linguistics, Harlequin Mills & Boon, Danielle Steel, historical romance, readers |
| Ty, Eleanor |
Desire and Temptation: Dialogism and the Carnivalesque in Category Romances |
1994 |
readers, metafiction, Harlequin Mills & Boon, gender, metaphor/symbolism, sex/sexuality, fashion/clothing, disability |
| Ty, Eleanor |
Amour, sexe et carnaval: le plaisir du texte Harlequin |
1995 |
Harlequin Mills & Boon, gender, sex/sexuality |
| Uddin-Khan, Evelyn Angelina |
Gender, Ethnicity and the Romance Novel |
1995 |
readers, gender, race/ethnicity |
| Ujma, Alicja |
One Author, Two Pen Names. A Stylometric Analysis of Novels by Nora Roberts/J.D. Robb |
2019 |
linguistics, Nora Roberts/J. D. Robb, translation |
| Jan, Jariah Mohd; Ujum, Diana Abu |
Negotiating Conflicts amongst Muslim Female Characters in Malay Romance Novels: A Narratological Perspective |
2022 |
Malaysia, Muslim romance, gender |
| Drayton, Arthur D.; Ajayi-Soyinka, Omofolabo; Ukpokodu, I. Peter |
African Literatures at the Millennium |
2007 |
|
| Uparkar, Shilpa |
Desi love stories: Harlequin Mills & Boon’s Indian enterprise |
2014 |
Harlequin Mills & Boon, India, languages |
| Uszkurat, Carol Ann |
Mid Twentieth Century Lesbian Romance: Reception and Redress |
1993 |
lesbian romance, Publishing, Older and/or precursor texts (may not be "romance" as now defined), history, feminism, psychology, gender, sex/sexuality, LGBT+ characters, readers and/or authors |
| Pöhls, R. L. Victoria; Utudji, Mariane |
Powerful Prose: How Textual Features Impact Readers |
2021 |
|
| Valeo, Christina A. |
Crusie and the Con |
2012 |
Jennifer Crusie, metafiction, happy ending, readers |
| Valeo, Christina A. |
The Power of Three: Nora Roberts and Serial Magic |
2012 |
Nora Roberts/J. D. Robb, paranormal/fantasy/time-travel romance, religion/spirituality, community, family, love, Paganism/Wicca |
| Valovirta, Elina |
No Ordinary Love: The Romantic Formula of Stepsibling Erotica |
2019 |
NA romance, erotic romance, family |
| Kuortti, Joel; Ilmonen, Kaisa; Valovirta, Elina; Korkka, Janne |
Thinking with the Familiar in Contemporary Literature and Culture 'Out of the Ordinary' |
2019 |
|
| Valovirta, Elina |
Repeated Pleasure: Reading the Threesome Ménage Romance as Digital Literature |
2021 |
sex/sexuality, readers, NA romance, Marie Carnay, Charlotte Stein, Sierra Sparks, Juliana Conners |
| Valovirta, Elina |
The Stuff of Which Fairy Tales Are Made: Royal Romance, Ordinariness, and Affectivity in the Literary Market |
2021 |
Publishing, social/economic class, feminism |
| Valverde, Mariana |
Sex, Power and Pleasure |
1985 |
pornography, sex/sexuality, gender, BDSM, wealth/prosperity, lesbian romance, Jane Rule, marriage, LGBT+ characters, readers and/or authors |
| Benge, Alie; O'Brien, Lil; Van Beek, Kathryn |
Otherhood: Essays on being childless, childfree and child-adjacent |
2024 |
|
| van Buuren, Johanna Maria |
De taal van het hart : retorica en receptie van de hedendaagse streekroman |
2005 |
Netherlands, love, family |
| Powley, Tammy; Van Camp, April |
Women of Florida Fiction: Essays on 12 Sunshine State Writers |
2015 |
|
| Koolen, Corina; van Dalen-Oskam, Karina; van Cranenburgh, Andreas; Nagelhout, Erica |
Literary quality in the eye of the Dutch reader: The National Reader Survey |
2020 |
trash/literary and or intellectual quality, gender, Netherlands |
| Koolen, Corina; van Dalen-Oskam, Karina; van Cranenburgh, Andreas; Nagelhout, Erica |
Literary quality in the eye of the Dutch reader: The National Reader Survey |
2020 |
trash/literary and or intellectual quality, gender, Netherlands |
| Ivanski, Chantelle; Humphries, Stacey; van Dalen-Oskam, Karina; Mar, Raymond A. |
Do We Judge Fiction by the Author’s Gender? |
2022 |
trash/literary and or intellectual quality, gender |
| van der Putten, Jan; Arnez, Monika; Wieringa, Edwin P.; Graf, Arndt |
Traditions Redirecting Contemporary Indonesian Cultural Productions |
2017 |
|
| van Halteren, Hans |
Automatic Authorship Investigation |
2022 |
linguistics, Harlequin Mills & Boon, Stephanie Howard |
| van Hattum, Fatima Y. |
Orientalist Public Pedagogy: Visual Representation of Muslims in Pop Culture and Desert Romance Novels |
2023 |
sheikh romance, paratext, Islam, race/ethnicity |
| van Lent, Peter |
“Her Beautiful Savage”: The Current Sexual Image of the Native American Male |
1996 |
Native American romance, race/ethnicity, sex/sexuality, gender, United States of America |
| Mayer, Claude-Hélène; Vanderheiden, Elisabeth |
International Handbook of Love: Transcultural and Transdisciplinary Perspectives |
2021 |
love |
| Vani, Christina |
Immortal Words: The Language and Style of the Contemporary Italian Undead-Romance Novel |
2018 |
paranormal/fantasy/time-travel romance, Italy |
| Vany, Romain |
Les mauvais genres en bibliothèques publiques: quelle place pour le roman sentimental paralittéraire? |
2013 |
libraries/librarians |
| Constans, Ellen; Vareille, Jean-Claude |
Crime et châtiment dans le roman populaire de langue française du XIXe siècle: actes du colloque international de mai 1992 à Limoges |
1994 |
|
| Vasudevan, Aruna; Henderson, Lesley |
Twentieth-Century Romance and Historical Writers (3rd edition) |
1994 |
Effie Adelaide Rowlands, also known as Madame Albanesi, Lucilla Andrews, Ruby M. Ayres, Faith Baldwin, Mary Balogh, Florence Barclay, Sandra Brown, Mary Burchell, pen name of Ida Cook, Shirlee Busbee, Barbara Cartland, Fay Chandos/Jan Tempest, Marie Corelli, Penny Jordan/Caroline Courtney, Janet Dailey, Emma Darcy, Barbara Delinsky, Ethel M. Dell, Jude Deveraux, Robyn Donald, Jeffrey Farnol, Charles Garvice, Roberta Gellis, Elinor Glyn, Maysie Greig, Radclyffe Hall, Anne Hampson, Georgette Heyer, Jane Aiken Hodge, Linda Howard, Elizabeth Hoy, Iris Johansen, Susan Johnson, M. M. Kaye, Jayne Ann Krentz/Amanda Quick/Jayne Castle, Charlotte Lamb, Roberta Leigh/Rachel Lindsay, Johanna Lindsey, Elizabeth Lowell, Jean S. MacLeod/Catherine Airlie, Anne Mather, Patricia Matthews, Lindsay McKenna, Judith McNaught, Barbara Michaels a.k.a. Elizabeth Peters a.k.a. Barbara Mertz, Fern Michaels, Linda Lael Miller, Margaret Mitchell, Carole Mortimer, Netta Muskett, Susan Napier, Betty Neels, Kathleen Thompson Norris, Kate Norway/Olive Norton, Baroness Orczy, Diana Palmer, Margaret Pargeter, Victoria Holt/Jean Plaidy/Eleanor Burford Hibbert, Mary Renault, Emilie Richards, Mary Roberts Rinehart, Francine Rivers, Nora Roberts/J. D. Robb, Denise Robins, Rosemary Rogers, Berta Ruck, Kathleen Gilles Seidel, Bertrice Small, LaVyrle Spencer, Mary Stewart, Rebecca Stratton, Essie Summers, Annie S. Swan, Kay Thorpe, Sylvia Thorpe, Karen van der Zee, Patricia Veryan, Lucy Walker, Sheila Walsh, Margaret Way, Anne Weale, Jean Webster, Doreen Hornsblow as Sally Wentworth, Phyllis A. Whitney, Violet Winspear, Sara Wood, Kathleen Woodiwiss, Mary Lutyens/Esther Wyndham |
| Veibæk, Eva |
Gift dig og bliv lykkelig: romantikkens kærlighedsmyte og triviallitteraturen |
1983 |
|
| Esser, Linda; Adkins, Denice; Velasquez, Diane L. |
“The Red Dot District”: Uncommon Ground in Reader Advisory Education and Professional Practice |
2008 |
libraries/librarians, trash/literary and or intellectual quality, readers, pornography |
| Adkins, Denice; Esser, Linda; Velasquez, Diane L. |
Romance promotion in American public libraries |
2010 |
|
| Adkins, Denice; Esser, Linda; Velasquez, Diane |
Perceptions of Romance Readers: An Analysis of Missouri Librarians |
2004 |
libraries/librarians |
| Adkins, Denice; Esser, Linda; Velasquez, Diane |
Relations Between Librarians and Romance Readers: A Missouri Survey |
2006 |
libraries/librarians, readers, trash/literary and or intellectual quality |
| Adkins, Denice; Esser, Linda; Velasquez, Diane; Hill, Heather L. |
Romance novels in American public libraries: A study of collection development practices |
2008 |
libraries/librarians, United States of America |
| Adkins, Denice; Esser, Linda; Velasquez, Diane |
Promoting Romance Novels in American Public Libraries |
2010 |
libraries/librarians |
| Veldman-Genz, Carole |
The More the Merrier? Transformations of the Love Triangle Across the Romance |
2012 |
love, Lisa Kleypas, Christina Dodd, Linda Howard, Catherine George, Isabelle Holland, Jude Deveraux, Amanda Scott, Catherine Coulter, Maggie Osborne/Margaret St. George, Karen Ranney, Sandra Brown, Nicole Jordan, LaVyrle Spencer, Penelope Williamson, Susan Elizabeth Phillips, feminism, erotic romance, Emma Holly, Rachel Bo, marriage, Mardi Ballou, Ellora's Cave, Samantha Kane, LGBT+ characters, readers and/or authors |
| Veldman-Genz, Carole |
Selling Gay Sex to Women: The Romance of M/M and M/M/F Romantica |
2015 |
sex/sexuality, erotic romance, m/m romance, Ellora's Cave, gender, BDSM, LGBT+ characters, readers and/or authors |
| 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 |
| 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 |
| González Cruz, María Isabel; Vera-Cazorla, María Jesús |
Género e identidad cultural: perfiles femeninos en un corpus de novela rosa |
2019 |
Spain, gender, linguistics |
| Vera-Cazorla, María Jesús |
“And they Drive on the Wrong Side of the Road”: The Anglo-centric Vision of the Canary Islands in Mills & Boon Romance Novels (1955–1987) |
2020 |
UK, Spain, Harlequin Mills & Boon, settings, national identity, history, gender, fascism/right-wing authoritarianism, family, marriage, religion/spirituality |
| Vera-Cazorla, María Jesús |
Canarian culture and identity and their representation in the novels of the FFI2014-53962-P corpus |
2022 |
national identity, Spain, UK, metaphor/symbolism |
| Vera-Cazorla, María Jesús |
La cultura y la identidad canarias y su representación en las novelas del corpus FFI2014-53962-P |
2022 |
national identity, Spain, UK, metaphor/symbolism |
| Vermeer, Lina |
The Affective Power of Intimacy: A Case Study of a Men’s Hockey Real Person Fan Fiction’s Literary and Social Contexts |
2023 |
fanfiction, genre definitions, LGBT+ characters, readers and/or authors, emotions, love, pornography, readers, Canada, sport |
| Veros, Vassiliki |
Scholarship-In-Practice: The Romance Reader and the Public Library |
2012 |
libraries/librarians, trash/literary and or intellectual quality, readers, Australia |
| Veros, Vassiliki |
A Matter of Meta: Category Romance Fiction and the Interplay of Paratext and Library Metadata |
2015 |
libraries/librarians, Harlequin Mills & Boon, paratext |
| Veros, Vassiliki |
Keepers: Marking the Value of the Books on my Shelves |
2017 |
readers, trash/literary and or intellectual quality |
| Veros, Vassiliki |
Metatextual Conversations: The Exclusion/Inclusion of Genre Fiction in Public Libraries and Social Media Book Groups |
2019 |
libraries/librarians, trash/literary and or intellectual quality, readers |
| Veros, Vassiliki |
The selective tradition, the role of romance fiction donations, and public library practices in New South Wales, Australia |
2020 |
Australia, libraries/librarians |
| Veros, Vassiliki |
What the Librarians Did: The Marginalisation of Romance Fiction Through the Practices of Public Librarianship |
2020 |
libraries/librarians, Australia |
| Veros, Vassiliki |
Nobody Puts Romance Fiction in the Corner: Public Librarians in New South Wales and Their Dalliance with Romance Fiction |
2023 |
libraries/librarians, trash/literary and or intellectual quality, Australia, Harlequin Mills & Boon |
| Andrade, Roberta Manuela Barros de; Viana, Thiago Mena Barreto; Feitosa, Ricardo Augusto de Sabóia |
Prazer, Emoção e Cotidiano na Leitura de Romances Sentimentais |
2020 |
Brazil, readers |
| 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 |
| Vidotto, Ilaria; Goossens, Vannina |
D’une fenêtre à l’autre. Étude d’un motif spécifique à la littérature blanche et au roman sentimental |
2020 |
linguistics |
| Villalba Álvarez, Marina |
Mujeres novelistas en el panorama literario del siglo XX: I Congreso de narrativa española (en lengua castellana). |
2000 |
|
| 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 |
| Vinson, James; Kirkpatrick, D. L. |
Twentieth Century Romance and Gothic Writers |
1982 |
Jane Aiken Hodge, Effie Adelaide Rowlands, also known as Madame Albanesi, Lucilla Andrews, Jane Arbor, Elizabeth Ashton, Ruby M. Ayres, Faith Baldwin, Florence Barclay, Betty Beaty, Lilian Warren as Kathryn Blair/Rosalind Brett/Celine Conway, Mary Burchell, pen name of Ida Cook, Barbara Cartland, Catherine Cookson, Marie Corelli, Janet Dailey, Iris Danbury, Ethel M. Dell, Viña Delmar, Joyce Dingwell/Kate Starr, Maud Diver, Daphne du Maurier, Dorothy Eden, Eleanor Farnes, Jeffrey Farnol, Charles Garvice, Roberta Gellis, Elinor Glyn, Maysie Greig, Anne Hampson, Georgette Heyer, Grace Livingston Hill, Victoria Holt/Jean Plaidy/Eleanor Burford Hibbert, Elizabeth Hoy, E. M. Hull, Charlotte Lamb, Roumelia Lane, Roberta Leigh/Rachel Lindsay, Jean S. MacLeod/Catherine Airlie, Anne Mather, Patricia Matthews, Barbara Michaels a.k.a. Elizabeth Peters a.k.a. Barbara Mertz, Margaret Mitchell, Netta Muskett, Betty Neels, Kathleen Thompson Norris, Kate Norway/Olive Norton, Baroness Orczy, Margaret Pargeter, Mary Roberts Rinehart, Denise Robins, Rosemary Rogers, Margaret Rome, Berta Ruck, Rafael Sabatini, Sara Seale, Danielle Steel, Mary Stewart, Rebecca Stratton, Essie Summers, Annie S. Swan, Kay Thorpe, Patricia Veryan, Lucy Walker, Margaret Way, Phyllis A. Whitney, Kathleen Winsor, Violet Winspear, Kathleen Woodiwiss, Mary Lutyens/Esther Wyndham |
| Violi, Patrizia |
Breve storia della letteratura rosa |
2020 |
Older and/or precursor texts (may not be "romance" as now defined), Carolina Invernizio, Liala, pen name of Amalia Liana Cambiasi Negretti Odescalchi, Publishing, Harlequin Mills & Boon, romances in magazines and newspapers, Fifty Shades, fanfiction |
| Stapleton, Rachel F.; Viselli, Antonio |
Iconoclasm: The Breaking and Making of Images |
2019 |
|
| 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 |
| Vivanco, Laura; Kramer, Kyra |
There Are Six Bodies in This Relationship: An Anthropological Approach to the Romance Genre |
2010 |
gender, Harlequin Mills & Boon, Christian romance, family, sex/sexuality, lesbian romance, LGBT+ characters, readers and/or authors |
| Vivanco, Laura |
For Love and Money: The Literary Art of the Harlequin Mills & Boon Romance |
2011 |
Harlequin Mills & Boon, trash/literary and or intellectual quality, metafiction, Shakespeare, Jane Austen, fairytales/folktales, myth, metaphor/symbolism, Louise Allen, Caroline Anderson, Elizabeth Ashton, Mary Burchell, pen name of Ida Cook, Julie Cohen, Sophie Cole, Jennifer Crusie, Carola Dunn, Liz Fielding, Polly Forrester, Kate Hardy, Linda Harrel, Jessica Hart, Madeline Ker, Marcia King-Gamble, Charlotte Lamb, Marion Lennox, Margaret Malcolm, Paula Marshall, Sandra Marton, Hilary Neal, Betty Neels, Diana Palmer, Emilie Richards, Fay Robinson/Carmel Parsons Thomaston, Sara Seale, Deborah Simmons, Anne Stuart, Michelle Styles, Jane Sullivan, Hope Tarr, Claire Thornton, Anne Weale, Sophie Weston, ecocriticism/environmentalism/climate change |
| Vivanco, Laura |
Feminism and Early Twenty-First Century Harlequin Mills & Boon Romances |
2012 |
feminism, Harlequin Mills & Boon |
| Vivanco, Laura |
Jennifer Crusie's Literary Lingerie |
2012 |
Jennifer Crusie, sex/sexuality, fashion/clothing, metaphor/symbolism |
| Vivanco, Laura |
One Ring to Bind Them: Ring Symbolism in Popular Romance Fiction |
2012 |
fashion/clothing, marriage, Lisa Kleypas, Jennifer Crusie, Loretta Chase, Melissa McClone, Jayne Ann Krentz/Amanda Quick/Jayne Castle, Jessica Hart, Dorie Graham, Roslyn Hardy Holcomb, Margot Early, Laura Abbot, sex/sexuality, metaphor/symbolism |
| Vivanco, Laura |
Georgette Heyer: The Nonesuch of Regency Romance |
2013 |
social/economic class, race/ethnicity, Georgette Heyer, history, historical romance |
| Vivanco, Laura |
Pursuing Happiness: Reading American Romance as Political Fiction |
2016 |
United States of America, gender, disability, race/ethnicity, history, national identity, Linnea Sinclair, Pamela Morsi, Nora Roberts/J. D. Robb, Sharon Shinn, LaVyrle Spencer, Beverly Jenkins, Karin Kallmaker, work, community, historical romance, Sharon Brondos, Mary Burton, Ruth Jean Dale, Joan Johnston, Ruth Wind/Barbara Samuel/Barbara O'Neal, Joan Wolf, LGBT+ characters, readers and/or authors |
| 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 |
| Vivanco, Laura |
Changing Attitudes to Others: Meljean Brook’s Riveted (2012) and its Context |
2020 |
Meljean Brook, Publishing, authors, readers, race/ethnicity, disability, gender, steampunk, LGBT+ characters, readers and/or authors, Zoë Archer, war/armed forces |
| Vivanco, Laura |
Faith, Love, Hope and Popular Romance Fiction |
2020 |
religion/spirituality, love, death, authors, readers, romance and, or as, activism, Lindsay Evans, health/medical, psychology, Piper Huguley, race/ethnicity, Publishing, romance scholarship, Rose Lerner, Older and/or precursor texts (may not be "romance" as now defined), sex/sexuality, LGBT+ characters, readers and/or authors, Alyssa Cole, wealth/prosperity, emotions, metaphor/symbolism, Carola Dunn, Georgette Heyer, Lisa Kleypas, Meljean Brook, Elizabeth Hoyt, Justine Davis/Justine Dare, Suleikha Snyder, Nora Roberts/J. D. Robb, rape and/or intimate partner violence/abuse, community, happy ending |
| Ramos-García, María T.; Vivanco, Laura |
Introduction |
2020 |
race/ethnicity |
| Vivanco, Laura |
Let’s Not Get Carried Away by The Sheik |
2020 |
E. M. Hull, Older and/or precursor texts (may not be "romance" as now defined), Berta Ruck, gender, LGBT+ characters, readers and/or authors, marriage |
| Ramos-García, María T.; Vivanco, Laura |
Love, Language, Place, and Identity in Popular Culture: Romancing the Other |
2020 |
|
| 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 |
| Vivanco, Laura |
Historical Accuracy, Racism, Courtney Milan, and The Duke Who Didn’t Conform to Genre Norms |
2022 |
race/ethnicity, historical romance, authors, Courtney Milan, history, United States of America, UK, humour |
| Vivanco, Laura |
Feeling Judged: Reflections on Pornography and Romance from a Minotaur Milking Farm |
2024 |
pornography, trash/literary and or intellectual quality, paranormal/fantasy/time-travel romance, sex/sexuality, race/ethnicity, emotions, C. M. Nascosta, metafiction, family |
| Kaufman, Alexander L.; Vlagopoulos, Penny |
Food and Feast in Modern Outlaw Tales |
2019 |
|
| Voaden, Rosalynn |
The Language of Love: Medieval Erotic Vision and Modern Romance Fiction |
1995 |
gender, religion/spirituality |
| Steiner, Peter; Červenka, Miroslav; Vroon, Ronald |
The Structure of the Literary Process Studies dedicated to the Memory of Felix Vodička |
1982 |
|
| Turner, Ellen; Wadsö Lecaros, Cecilia |
The desert-governess romance: Regency England meets exotic Arabia |
2022 |
sheikh romance, historical romance, settings, Marguerite Kaye, Laura Martin, Lynne Graham, Kate Hewitt, E. M. Hull, work, genre definitions, Harlequin Mills & Boon, paratext |
| Strinati, Dominic; Wagg, Stephen |
Come on Down?: Popular Media Culture in Post-War Britain |
1992 |
|
| Wagner, Wendy |
Jennifer Crusie |
2008 |
Jennifer Crusie, fairytales/folktales, romantic suspense, rom-com romance, LGBT+ characters, readers and/or authors |
| Wagner, Wendy |
The “Grandly and Inhospitably Strange” World of Autistic Heroines in Romance Fiction |
2022 |
health/medical, disability, Helen Hoang, Sherry Thomas, Talia Hibbert, gender, community |
| Waldschmidt, Anne; Berressem, Hanjo; Ingwersen, Moritz |
Culture - Theory – Disability: Encounters between Disability Studies and Cultural Studies |
2017 |
|
| Walker, Lisa |
Polar bears and evil scientists: Romance, comedy and climate change |
2014 |
science/technology, romance and, or as, activism, authors, settings, ecocriticism/environmentalism/climate change |
| Walker, Alyssa Chen |
Bringing the Laboratory Dog Home: Elizabeth Stuart Phelps and the Antivivisection Narrative |
2013 |
Elizabeth Stuart Phelps, animals, romance and, or as, activism, Older and/or precursor texts (may not be "romance" as now defined) |
| Mao, Douglas; Walkowitz, Rebecca L. |
Bad Modernisms |
2006 |
|
| Wallace, Jennifer |
Army trenches and school benches: the Philippine-American War in the Sugar Sun series |
2022 |
Jennifer Hallock, war/armed forces, Philippines, United States of America |
| Wallace, Doris B. |
Education, Arts, and Morality: Creative Journeys |
2005 |
|
| Wallace, Diana |
The Woman's Historical Novel: British Women Writers, 1900-2000 |
2005 |
Georgette Heyer, Daphne du Maurier, Mary Renault, Victoria Holt/Jean Plaidy/Eleanor Burford Hibbert, Catherine Cookson, Jeanette Winterson, A. S. Byatt, historical romance |
| Waller, Philip |
Writers, Readers, and Reputations: Literary Life in Britain 1870-1918 |
2006 |
Charles Garvice, Florence Barclay, Older and/or precursor texts (may not be "romance" as now defined), authors |
| Wu, Huei-Hsia; Walsh, Anthony |
Romance Novels and Female Sexuality: Vicarious Participation? |
2005 |
sociology, sex/sexuality, readers |
| Priyatna, Aquarini; Wardiani, Sri Rijati |
Naturalization and Romanticization of Violence in Indonesian Teen Lit Jingga Series by Esti Kinasih |
2022 |
Esti Kinasih, Indonesia, YA/teenage romance, rape and/or intimate partner violence/abuse, gender |
| Wardrop, Stephanie |
The Heroine is Being Beaten: Freud, Sadomasochism, and Reading the Romance |
1995 |
Kathleen Woodiwiss, rape and/or intimate partner violence/abuse, psychology, BDSM, Linda Howard, gender, family, virginity, readers |
| Wardrop, Stephanie |
Last of the Red Hot Mohicans: Miscegenation in the Popular American Romance |
1997 |
United States of America, Native American romance, race/ethnicity, religion/spirituality, Older and/or precursor texts (may not be "romance" as now defined), Colleen Faulkner, gender, Genell Dellin |
| Warnaar, Karin |
Dresses and Drapery: The Material Essie Summers |
2023 |
Essie Summers, fashion/clothing, Harlequin Mills & Boon, New Zealand |
| Warner, Celeste R. |
Heyer’s heroes: An investigation into Georgette Heyer and her literary ‘mark’ on the Regency hero |
2010 |
Georgette Heyer, gender |
| Warnes, Christopher |
Desired State: Black Economic Empowerment and the South African Popular Romance |
2014 |
Africa, work, race/ethnicity, South Africa, gender |
| Luneau, Marie-Pier; Warren, Jean-Philippe |
Ce que le roman catholique fait au roman sentimental : le cas de la collection « Amour et aventure » |
2019 |
religion/spirituality, Christian romance, race/ethnicity, Canada, Publishing |
| Warren, Jean-Philippe; Luneau, Marie-Pier |
The Best Romance Dime Novels on the (French-Canadian) Market: The Promotional Strategies of Police-Journal, 1944-1963 |
2021 |
Canada, Publishing, paratext, dime novels |
| Washington, AlTonya |
An Indie Author in a Library World |
2015 |
Publishing, authors, readers, libraries/librarians |
| Waters, Chris |
New Women and Socialist-Feminist Fiction: The Novels of Isabella Ford and Katharine Bruce Glasier |
1993 |
socialism and/or communism, LGBT+ characters, readers and/or authors, Older and/or precursor texts (may not be "romance" as now defined), Katharine Bruce Glasier |
| Watson, Daphne |
Their Own Worst Enemies: Women Writers of Women's Fiction |
1995 |
Daphne du Maurier, Mary Stewart, Harlequin Mills & Boon, fairytales/folktales, gender, Charlotte Brontë, BDSM, social/economic class, food, drink, fashion/clothing, work |
| Watson, Courtney |
I Thought You’d Never Ask: Consent in Contemporary Romance |
2022 |
sex/sexuality, K. J. Charles, feminism, romance scholarship |
| Gelder, Ken; Weaver, Rachael |
Louise Mack and Colonial Pseudo Literature |
2010 |
Australia, trash/literary and or intellectual quality, Louise Mack, Older and/or precursor texts (may not be "romance" as now defined), national identity, metafiction |
| Huang, Yu-ting; Weaver-Hightower, Rebecca |
Archiving Settler Colonialism: Culture, Space and Race |
2019 |
|
| Weaver-Zercher, Valerie |
Tracing the Backstory of Amish Romance Novels |
2012 |
Christian romance, rural romance, Older and/or precursor texts (may not be "romance" as now defined), religion/spirituality, paratext, Helen Reimensnyder Martin, Beverly Lewis, Cora Gottschalk Welty, race/ethnicity, Ruth Lininger Dobson, Joseph W. Yoder, Clara Bernice Miller, Janette Oke, Publishing |
| Weaver-Zercher, Valerie |
Thrill of the Chaste: the Allure of Amish Romance Novels |
2013 |
Christian romance, United States of America, religion/spirituality, paratext, Publishing, Beverly Lewis, Wanda Brunstetter, Cindy Woodsmall, sex/sexuality, virginity, readers, gender, Helen Reimensnyder Martin, Older and/or precursor texts (may not be "romance" as now defined), Clara Bernice Miller, Cora Gottschalk Welty, rural romance, Ruth Lininger Dobson, Joseph W. Yoder, Janette Oke, settings, happy ending, marriage, family, Linda Byler, race/ethnicity |
| Dane, Alexandra; Weber, Millicent |
Post-Digital Book Cultures: Australian Perspectives |
2021 |
|
| Batsleer, Janet; Davies, Tony; O'Rourke, Rebecca; Weedon, Chris |
Rewriting English: Cultural Politics of Gender and Class |
1985 |
genre definitions, gender, capitalism/business, feminism, Florence Barclay, E. M. Hull, history, Barbara Cartland, Catherine Cookson, social/economic class, race/ethnicity, UK, sex/sexuality, fashion/clothing |
| Randell, Karen; Weedon, Alexis |
Atlantic Liners, It Girls and Old Europe in Elinor Glyn’s Romantic Adventures |
2020 |
Elinor Glyn, social/economic class, wealth/prosperity, Older and/or precursor texts (may not be "romance" as now defined), marriage, United States of America, history |
| Weibel, Kathryn |
Mirror Mirror: Images of Women Reflected in Popular Culture |
1977 |
Harlequin Mills & Boon, gothic romance |
| Moretto, Shirley; Weidenburner, Kathleen |
We’ll Take Romance! |
1984 |
libraries/librarians |
| Weil, Françoise |
La lecture du roman sentimental dans les bibliothèques publiques: l’exemple de Dijon |
1990 |
France, libraries/librarians |
| Weimer, Christopher |
Romancing Weird Fiction: Lovecraftian Reinscriptions in Jordan L. Hawk's Whyborne and Griffin |
2021 |
Jordan L. Hawk, m/m romance, LGBT+ characters, readers and/or authors, paranormal/fantasy/time-travel romance, race/ethnicity |
| Weintraub, Andrew N. |
Islam and Popular Culture in Indonesia and Malaysia |
2011 |
|
| Weir, Angela; Wilson, Elizabeth |
The Greyhound Bus Station in the Evolution of Lesbian Popular Culture |
1992 |
LGBT+ characters, readers and/or authors, Older and/or precursor texts (may not be "romance" as now defined), Ann Bannon, Valerie Taylor, Claire Morgan/Patricia Highsmith, history, March Hastings, marriage, psychology, cross-dressing, Gale Wilhelm, Radclyffe Hall, Randy Salem, gender, sex/sexuality |
| Weis, Lois; Fine, Michelle |
Beyond Silenced Voices: Class, Race, and Gender in United States Schools |
1993 |
|
| Weisser, Susan Ostrov; Fleischner, Jennifer |
Feminist Nightmares: Women at Odds: Feminism and the Problem of Sisterhood |
1994 |
|
| Weisser, Susan Ostrov |
The Wonderful-Terrible Bitch Figure in Harlequin Novels |
1994 |
Harlequin Mills & Boon, gender, Anne Hampson, sex/sexuality, Charlotte Lamb |
| Weisser, Susan Ostrov |
The Glass Slipper: Women and Love Stories |
2013 |
love, gender, feminism, Twilight, romance scholarship, Isabel Sharpe, African American romance, race/ethnicity, Harlequin Mills & Boon, pornography |
| 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 |
| Wells, Juliette |
True Love Waits: Austen and the Christian Romance in the Contemporary U. S. |
2008 |
Jane Austen, Christian romance, Debra White Smith, religion/spirituality |
| Wells, Juliette |
Afterword: Sex, Romance, and Representation in Uzma Jalaluddin’s Ayesha at Last |
2022 |
Uzma Jalaluddin, Jane Austen, sex/sexuality, religion/spirituality, Islam |
| Wendell, Sarah |
"You call me a bitch like that's a bad thing": Romance Criticism and Redefining the Word "Bitch" |
2012 |
readers, gender, feminism, fashion/clothing, authors |
| Buttrick, Nicholas; Westgate, Erin C.; Oishi, Shigehiro |
Reading Literary Fiction Is Associated With a More Complex Worldview |
2022 |
psychology, readers, trash/literary and or intellectual quality |
| 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 |
| 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 |
| 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 |
| Wheeler, Duncan |
Following Franco: Spanish culture and politics in transition, 1962–92 |
2020 |
Spain, fascism/right-wing authoritarianism, Corín Tellado |
| Wherry, Maryan |
More than a Love Story: The Complexities Of the Popular Romance |
2015 |
genre definitions, Older and/or precursor texts (may not be "romance" as now defined), fairytales/folktales, Jennifer Crusie, sex/sexuality |
| Whissell, Cynthia |
Objective Analysis of Text: I. A Comparison of Adventure and Romance Novels |
1994 |
linguistics |
| Whissell, Cynthia |
Mate Selection in Popular Women's Fiction |
1996 |
evolutionary psychology, family, gender |
| Whissell, Cynthia |
The Formula Behind Women's Romantic Formula Fiction (Statistical survey of 50 Harlequin-Presents novels) |
1998 |
Harlequin Mills & Boon, genre definitions |
| White, Mimi |
Representing Romance: Reading/Writing/Fantasy and the "Liberated" Heroine of Recent Hollywood Films |
1989 |
film/movies |
| 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 |
| White, Bonnie |
Freedom, Sincerity, and the Modern Woman in the Interwar Romances of Berta Ruck |
2022 |
Berta Ruck, history, gender, UK, cross-dressing, LGBT+ characters, readers and/or authors, sex/sexuality, fashion/clothing, emotions |
| Sullivan, Ceri; White, Barbara |
Writing and Fantasy |
1999 |
|
| White, Ann Yvonne |
Genesis Press: Cultural Representation and the Production of African American Romance Novels |
2008 |
African American romance, Publishing, readers, race/ethnicity, Older and/or precursor texts (may not be "romance" as now defined), Dyanne Davis, sex/sexuality |
| Whitehead, Frances |
Love Makes the World Go Round (?): The Romantic Novel as a Publishing Phenomenon |
1992 |
Older and/or precursor texts (may not be "romance" as now defined), genre definitions, Harlequin Mills & Boon, Japan, Africa, readers, Publishing |
| 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 |
| 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 |
| 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 |
| Whitsitt, Novian |
Northern Nigerian Popular Literature and the Boundaries of Hausa Feminism: The Works of Balaraba Yakubu and Bilkisu Funtuwa |
2021 |
Balaraba Ramat Yakubu, Bilkisu Ahmed Funtuwa, feminism, Nigeria |
| Griffiths, Clare V. J.; Nott, James J.; Whyte, William |
Classes, Cultures, & Politics: Essays on British History for Ross McKibbin |
2011 |
|
| Whyte, Tamara Lynn |
Shakespeare in Love: Appropriation of Shakespeare in Popular Romance Novels |
2013 |
Shakespeare |
| Whyte, Tamara |
"A consummation devoutly to be wished": Shakespeare in Popular Historical Romance Fiction |
2012 |
Shakespeare, Jacquie D'Allessandro, Sabrina Jefferies, Kalen Hughes/Isobel Carr, readers, Eloisa James, Susan Wiggs, Andrea Pickens, Kathryn Caskie, Suzanne Enoch, historical romance, Kasey Michaels, Mary Balogh, Margaret Moore |
| 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 |
| Wiebe, Laura |
Speculative Matter: Generic Affinities, Posthumanisms and Science-Fictional Imaginings |
2012 |
paranormal/fantasy/time-travel romance, Christine Feehan |
| Wiegand, Wayne A. |
A Part of Our Lives: A People’s History of the American Public Library |
2015 |
libraries/librarians |
| van der Putten, Jan; Arnez, Monika; Wieringa, Edwin P.; Graf, Arndt |
Traditions Redirecting Contemporary Indonesian Cultural Productions |
2017 |
|
| Wijanarka, Hirmawan |
Cinderella Formula: The Romance Begins |
2022 |
Harlequin Mills & Boon, genre definitions |
| Wilbur, Shawn P. |
An Archaeology of Cyberspaces: Virtuality, Community, Identity |
1997 |
Harlequin Mills & Boon, Publishing |
| Wilcox, Vanda |
Georgette Heyer, Wellington’s Army and the First World War |
2021 |
Georgette Heyer, war/armed forces, history, gender |
| Driscoll, Beth; Fletcher, Lisa; Wilkins, Kim |
Women, Akubras and Ereaders: Romance Fiction and Australian Publishing |
2011 |
Australia, Publishing, rural romance, Harlequin Mills & Boon |
| Wilkins, Kim |
“Ravished by Vikings”: The Pre-modern and the Paranormal in Viking Romance Fiction |
2016 |
historical romance, paranormal/fantasy/time-travel romance, sex/sexuality, history, feminism, gender, war/armed forces, rape and/or intimate partner violence/abuse |
| Fletcher, Lisa; Driscoll, Beth; Wilkins, Kim |
Genre Worlds and Popular Fiction: The Case of Twenty-First-Century Australian Romance |
2018 |
Publishing, Australia |
| Driscoll, Beth; Fletcher, Lisa; Wilkins, Kim; Carter, David |
The Publishing Ecosystems of Contemporary Australian Genre Fiction |
2018 |
Publishing, Australia |
| Fletcher, Lisa; Driscoll, Beth; Wilkins, Kim |
What is Australian Popular Fiction? |
2018 |
Australia, national identity, settings |
| Rayner, Samantha J.; Wilkins, Kim |
Georgette Heyer, History, and Historical Fiction |
2021 |
Georgette Heyer |
| Rayner, Samantha J.; Wilkins, Kim |
Introduction: the persistence of Georgette Heyer |
2021 |
Georgette Heyer |
| Wilkins, Kim; Driscoll, Beth; Fletcher, Lisa |
Genre Worlds: Popular Fiction and 21st-Century Book Culture |
2022 |
Publishing, readers |
| Driscoll, Beth; Wilkins, Kim |
Australian Fantasy, Crime and Romance Fiction in the Twentieth and Twenty-First Centuries |
2023 |
Australia, Publishing |
| Dudek, Debra; Reid Boyd, Elizabeth; Grobbelaar, Madalena; Williams, Rose |
Tingles and Shivers: First Kisses and Intimate Civility in Eliza Redgold’s Historical Harlequin Romances Pre–and Post-#MeToo |
2022 |
Harlequin Mills & Boon, sex/sexuality, Elizabeth Reid Boyd (pen name Eliza Redgold), psychology, feminism |
| Williams, Mary |
Consent Is Sexy: A Look Into the Influence the ‘Me Too.’ Movement Had On the Romance Genre Through Smart Bitches Trashy Books |
2021 |
sex/sexuality, readers |
| Fletcher, Lisa; McAlister, Jodi; Temple, Kurt; Williams, Kathleen |
#loveyourshelfie: Mills & Boon books and how to find them |
2019 |
Harlequin Mills & Boon, paratext, trash/literary and or intellectual quality, readers, Publishing, Australia |