| 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 |
|
| Velasquez, Diane L.; Campbell-Meier, Jennifer |
Romance Genre and Collection Management in Australia and New Zealand Public Libraries |
2024 |
libraries/librarians, Australia, New Zealand |
| 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, LGBTQ+ 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, LGBTQ+ 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, LGBTQ+ 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 |
| Vişan, Nadina |
Untranslatability in Regency Romances: Explicitation or Implicitation? |
2024 |
translation, Julia Quinn, Romania, sex/sexuality |
| 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, LGBTQ+ 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, LGBTQ+ 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, LGBTQ+ 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, LGBTQ+ 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, LGBTQ+ 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, LGBTQ+ 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 |
| Luneau, Marie-Pier; Warren, Jean-Philippe |
D’amour et d’or pur. Les impératifs matérialistes du bonheur amoureux dans le roman sentimental québécois de l’après-guerre |
2022 |
dime novels, Canada, wealth/prosperity |
| Luneau, Marie-Pier; Warren, Jean-Philippe |
L’amour comme un roman. Le roman sentimental au Québec d’hier à aujourd’hui |
2022 |
Canada, Older and/or precursor texts (may not be "romance" as now defined), Harlequin Mills & Boon, sociology, love, marriage, sex/sexuality |
| Luneau, Marie-Pier; Warren, Jean-Philippe |
Une littérature qui refuse de se laisser parler d’amour ? Les romans québécois et l’expression de la passion avant 1960 |
2022 |
Older and/or precursor texts (may not be "romance" as now defined), Canada, love, dime novels, wealth/prosperity, family |
| Luneau, Marie-Pier; Warren, Jean-Philippe; Boivin, Karol'Ann; Bérubé, Harold |
Amour à 10 sous: Le roman sentimental québécois de l'après-guerre |
2023 |
Older and/or precursor texts (may not be "romance" as now defined), Canada, dime novels |
| Luneau, Marie-Pier; Warren, Jean-Philippe |
Le temps des fascicules: Entre pratiques périodiques et pratiques livresques |
2023 |
paratext, dime novels, Canada |
| Luneau, Marie-Pier; Warren, Jean-Philippe |
Affaires et sentiments : la figure de l’homme d’affaires dans le roman sentimental québécois de l’après-guerre |
2024 |
wealth/prosperity, capitalism/business, Canada |
| Luneau, Marie-Pier; Warren, Jean-Philippe |
Love Stories Now and Then: A History of Les romans d'amour |
2024 |
Canada, Older and/or precursor texts (may not be "romance" as now defined), sociology, love, marriage, sex/sexuality, history, Philippe Aubert de Gaspé Jr., Joseph Doutre, metafiction, Pierre-Joseph-Olivier Chauveau, social/economic class, religion/spirituality, race/ethnicity, Rosanna Leprohon, Ernest Choquette, family, Virginie Dussault, Albertine Laperle-Bernier, dime novels, Harlequin Mills & Boon, YA/teenage romance, chick lit, Marie-Claude Bussières-Tremblay, Micheline Perron, rape and/or intimate partner violence/abuse, Raymond Plante, Bertrand Gauthier, LGBTQ+ characters, readers and/or authors, chick lit, Suzanne Roy, Chloé Duval, BDSM |
| 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, LGBTQ+ 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, LGBTQ+ 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 |
LGBTQ+ 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, LGBTQ+ 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, LGBTQ+ 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 |
| Williams, Jeffrey J. |
The Culture of Books: An Interview with Janice Radway |
2006 |
romance scholarship, Publishing |
| Williams, Elizabeth W. |
Queering Settler Romance: The Reparative Eugenic Landscape in Nora Strange's Kenyan Novels |
2019 |
Nora K. Strange, sex/sexuality, race/ethnicity, Kenya, Africa, family, science/technology, history, settings, rural romance, rape and/or intimate partner violence/abuse |
| Patell, Cyrus R. K.; Williams, Deborah Lindsay |
The Oxford History of the Novel in English: Volume 8: American Fiction since 1940 |
2024 |
|
| Williams, Clover; Freedman, Jean R. |
Shakespeare's Step-Sisters: Romance Novels and the Community of Women |
1995 |
readers, feminism, gender, trash/literary and or intellectual quality |
| Williams, Clover |
Keepers of the Flame: The Romance Novel and Its Fans |
1998 |
readers |
| Williamson, Val |
Labour of Love: Gender and the Delivery of the Nineties Mills & Boon "Medical" |
1998 |
medical romance, Harlequin Mills & Boon, work, paratext, health/medical, Gil Sanderson, Margaret Holt |
| Williamson, Margaret |
The Greek romance |
1986 |
Older and/or precursor texts (may not be "romance" as now defined), Chariton, Xenophon of Ephesus, Achilles Tatius, Longus, Heliodorus, love, rural romance |
| Willinsky, John; Hunniford, R. Mark |
Reading the Romance Younger: The Mirrors and Fears of a Preparatory Literature |
1993 |
Canada, YA/teenage romance, readers, gender |
| Hall, Stuart; Hobson, Dorothy; Lowe, Andrew; Willis, Paul |
Culture, Media, Language: Working Papers in Cultural Studies, 1972-79 |
1980 |
|
| Wilson, Nicola |
The Book World: Selling and Distributing British Literature, 1900-1940 |
2016 |
|
| Parke, Maggie; Wilson, Natalie |
Theorizing Twilight: Critical Essays on What's at Stake in a Post-Vampire World |
2011 |
|
| Wilson, Frances |
Byromania: Portraits of the Artist in Nineteenth- and Twentieth-Century Culture |
1999 |
|
| Wilson, Elizabeth Suzanne |
Women creating men: the history of the hero in contemporary category romance fiction since the 1950s |
1986 |
gender |
| Weir, Angela; Wilson, Elizabeth |
The Greyhound Bus Station in the Evolution of Lesbian Popular Culture |
1992 |
LGBTQ+ 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 |
| Carroll, Joseph; McAdams, Dan P.; Wilson, Edward O. |
Darwin's Bridge: Uniting the Humanities and Sciences |
2016 |
|
| Gottschall, Jonathan; Wilson, David Sloan |
The Literary Animal: Evolution and the Nature of Narrative |
2005 |
|
| Fitzsimmons, Rebekah; Wilson, Casey Alane |
Beyond the Blockbusters: Themes and Trends in Contemporary Young Adult Fiction |
2020 |
|
| Wilson, Bernard; Osman, Sharifah Aishah |
The Asian Family in Literature and Film: Challenges and Contestations-South Asia, Southeast Asia and Asian Diaspora, Volume II |
2024 |
|
| Wilt, Judith |
Women Writers and the Hero of Romance |
2014 |
Older and/or precursor texts (may not be "romance" as now defined), E. M. Hull, gender, Baroness Orczy, Twilight, Fifty Shades |
| Winks, Robin W.; Corrigan, Maureen |
Mystery and Suspense Writers: The Literature of Crime, Detection, and Espionage, Volume 2 |
1998 |
|
| Wintle, Sarah |
The Sheik: What Can be Made of a Daydream |
1996 |
E. M. Hull, film/movies, sex/sexuality, gender, race/ethnicity, Robert Hitchens, animals |
| Wiseman, Sarah Rose |
Hearts and Hashtags: How BookTok is Reshaping Romance Literature |
2024 |
feminism, gender, work, readers |
| Pearce, Lynne; Wisker, Gina |
Fatal Attractions: Rescripting Romance in Contemporary Literature and Film |
1998 |
|
| Panizza, Letizia; Wood, Sharon |
A History of Women’s Writing in Italy |
2000 |
|
| Wood, Christine V. |
Tender Heroes and Twilight Lovers: Re-Reading the Romance in Mass-Market Pulp Novels, 1950–1965 |
2014 |
LGBTQ+ characters, readers and/or authors, gender, United States of America, Older and/or precursor texts (may not be "romance" as now defined), Paula Christian, Ann Bannon, Randy Salem, sex/sexuality |
| Wood, Andrea |
Radicalizing Romance: Subculture, Sex, and Media at the Margins |
2008 |
LGBTQ+ characters, readers and/or authors, m/m romance, lesbian romance, comics/manga, race/ethnicity, pornography, sex/sexuality |
| Wood, Andrea |
Making the Invisible Visible: Lesbian Romance Comics for Women |
2015 |
sex/sexuality, comics/manga, lesbian romance, LGBTQ+ characters, readers and/or authors |
| Wood, Andrea |
His Baby Daddy is an Alien?!: Mpreg Fantasies and Queer Reproductive Intimacies in Contemporary M/M Science Fiction Romance |
2022 |
m/m romance, science fiction/futuristic romance, family, health/medical, LGBTQ+ characters, readers and/or authors, Lyn Gala, Lexi Ander |
| Woodruff, Juliette |
A spate of words, full of sound & fury, signifying nothing: or, How to read in Harlequin |
1985 |
gothic romance, Harlequin Mills & Boon, historical romance, Barbara Cartland, Georgette Heyer, marriage |
| Woods, Robert H. |
Evangelical Christians and Popular Culture: Pop Goes the Gospel. Volume 2: Literature, Music, Popular Art, and Merchandise |
2013 |
|
| Worpole, Ken |
Reading by Numbers: Contemporary Publishing & Popular Fiction |
1984 |
Publishing, UK, Harlequin Mills & Boon, trash/literary and or intellectual quality, feminism, romances in magazines and newspapers |
| Wright, Laura Bell |
The Appeal of Vampire Romance: Why Do Readers Like These Stories? |
2003 |
paranormal/fantasy/time-travel romance, readers |
| Wu, Yan; Mallan, Kerry; McGillis, Roderick |
(Re)Imagining the World: Children’s Literature’s Response to Changing Times |
2013 |
|
| Wu, Huei-Hsia; Walsh, Anthony |
Romance Novels and Female Sexuality: Vicarious Participation? |
2005 |
sociology, sex/sexuality, readers |
| Wu, Huei-Hsia |
Gender, Romance Novels and Plastic Sexuality in the United States: A Focus on Female College Students |
2006 |
sex/sexuality, readers, gender, psychology |
| Wu, Huei-Hsia |
Reading Romance Novels and Female Sexuality among American Heterosexual and Lesbian College Students |
2007 |
readers, LGBTQ+ characters, readers and/or authors, sex/sexuality, gender, psychology |
| Hohne, Karen; Wussow, Helen |
A Dialogue of Voices: Feminist Literary Theory and Bakhtin |
1994 |
|
| 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 |
| Hua, Shaoqi; Xiao, Chengli |
What shapes a parasocial relationship in RVGs? The effects of avatar images, avatar identification, and romantic jealousy among potential, casual, and core players |
2023 |
computer/video/digital games |
| Porter, J. D.; Eimannsberger, Angelina; English, James; Hathaway, May; Yakoob, Ashna |
Genre Juggernaut: Measuring “Romance” |
2023 |
genre definitions, readers |
| 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 |
| Yeung, Jessica Siu-yin |
Hong Kong Literature and the Taiwanese Encounter: Literary Magazines, Popular Literature and Shih Shu-Ching’s Hong Kong Stories |
2023 |
romances in magazines and newspapers, Older and/or precursor texts (may not be "romance" as now defined), Taiwan, China |
| York, Chris; York, Rafiel |
Comic Books and the Cold War, 1946-1962: Essays on Graphic Treatment of Communism, the Code and Social Concerns |
2012 |
|
| York, Chris; York, Rafiel |
Comic Books and the Cold War, 1946-1962: Essays on Graphic Treatment of Communism, the Code and Social Concerns |
2012 |
|
| Patthey-Chavez, G. Genevieve; Clare, Lindsay; Youmans, Madeleine |
Watery Passion: The Struggle between Hegemony and Sexual Liberation in Erotic Fiction for Women |
1996 |
metaphor/symbolism, erotic romance, gender, sex/sexuality, linguistics, Shirlee Busbee, Julie Garwood, Roberta Gellis, Johanna Lindsey, Jayne Ann Krentz/Amanda Quick/Jayne Castle, Bertrice Small, Rachel Lee/Sue Civil-Brown, Elizabeth Lowell, Emma Merritt, Fayrene Preston, Kasey Stuart, Linda Turner, virginity, food, drink, war/armed forces, rape and/or intimate partner violence/abuse, work |
| Young, Whitney A. |
Monsters in My Bed: Accounting for the Popularity of Young Adult Paranormal Romances |
2013 |
YA/teenage romance, paranormal/fantasy/time-travel romance, gender, Twilight |
| Young, Helen |
The Middle Ages in Popular Culture: Medievalism and Genre |
2015 |
|
| Young, Erin S. |
Corporate Heroines and Utopian Individualism: A Study of the Romance Novel in Global Capitalism |
2010 |
work, paranormal/fantasy/time-travel romance, capitalism/business, Jayne Ann Krentz/Amanda Quick/Jayne Castle, Nora Roberts/J. D. Robb, Elizabeth Lowell, Katherine Stone, Laurell K. Hamilton, Charlaine Harris, Kelley Armstrong, Carrie Vaughn, race/ethnicity, national identity |
| Young, Erin S. |
Escaping the “Time Bind”: Negotiations of Love and Work in Jayne Ann Krentz's “Corporate Romances” |
2010 |
Jayne Ann Krentz/Amanda Quick/Jayne Castle, work, capitalism/business, family, gender, marriage, race/ethnicity, food, drink, romantic suspense |
| Young, Erin S. |
Flexible Heroines, Flexible Narratives: The Werewolf Romances of Kelley Armstrong and Carrie Vaughn |
2011 |
Kelley Armstrong, Carrie Vaughn, paranormal/fantasy/time-travel romance, capitalism/business, wealth/prosperity, sex/sexuality, family, health/medical, gender, food, drink, rape and/or intimate partner violence/abuse |
| Young, Erin S. |
Saving China: The Transformative Power of Whiteness in Elizabeth Lowell's Jade Island and Katherine Stone's Pearl Moon |
2016 |
race/ethnicity, China, Elizabeth Lowell, Katherine Stone, capitalism/business, national identity, work, family, love, United States of America, wealth/prosperity, settings, romantic suspense |
| Young, Erin S. |
Race, ethnicity, and whiteness |
2021 |
race/ethnicity, Mary Balogh |
| Young, Beth Rapp |
But are they any good? Women readers, formula fiction, and the sacralization of the literary canon |
1995 |
trash/literary and or intellectual quality, readers, Jayne Ann Krentz/Amanda Quick/Jayne Castle |
| Young, Beth Rapp |
Accidental Authors, Random Readers, and the Art of Popular Romance |
1997 |
trash/literary and or intellectual quality, romance scholarship, authors, readers |
| Garciano, Shylyn G.; Cuevas, Gloria Con-ui; Geraldizo-Pabriga, Maria Gemma; Macabodbod, Saira Jay J.; Yu, Jaciah Mae B.; Pinote, Ma. Jezan A. |
Romance-Themed Novels: Influenced on Relationship Satisfaction |
2023 |
readers, psychology |
| Zachik-Smith, Susie |
Romance by the book: a morphological analysis of the popular romance |
1993 |
genre definitions, readers, psychology, fairytales/folktales |
| Zakreski, Patricia |
Tell Me Lies: Lying, Storytelling, and the Romance Novel as Feminist Fiction |
2012 |
Jennifer Crusie, feminism, gender, metafiction |
| O’Neill, Maria; Zamorano Llena, Carmen |
The Aesthetics of Ageing: Critical Approaches to Literary Representations of the Ageing Process |
2002 |
|
| Del Grosso Destreri, Luigi; Brodesco, Alberto; Giovanetti, Silvia; Zanatta, Sara |
Una galassia rosa: Ricerche sulla letteratura femminile di consumo |
2009 |
|
| Soubeyroux, Marie-Hélène; Zapata, Mónica |
Miradas sobre una obra polifacética: Homenaje a Jean Louis Guereña |
2016 |
|
| Zaragoza Ninet, Gora; Martínez Sierra, Juan José; Cerezo Merchán, Beatriz; Richart Marset, Mabel |
Traducción, género y censura en la literatura y en los medios de comunicación |
2018 |
|
| Kuznets, Lois; Zarin, Eve |
Sweet Dreams for Sleeping Beauties: Pre-Teen Romances |
1982 |
YA/teenage romance, settings |
| Zeiger, Melissa F. |
"Less Than Perfect": Negotiating Breast Cancer in Popular Romance Novels |
2013 |
health/medical, feminism |
| Coste, Didier; Zéraffa, Michel |
Le récit amoureux: Colloque de Cerisy-la-Salle |
1984 |
|
| Zhaboriuk, I. A.; Rukshtel, Yu. A. |
The Artistic Detail in the Novel "The Reluctant Widow" by G. Heyer |
2021 |
Georgette Heyer, linguistics |
| Zhang, Chunjie; Krimmer, Elisabeth |
Gender and German Colonialism: Intimacies, Accountabilities, Intersections |
2023 |
|
| 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 |
| Zibrak, Arielle |
Avidly Reads Guilty Pleasures |
2021 |
readers, sex/sexuality, historical romance, gender, Older and/or precursor texts (may not be "romance" as now defined), Susan Warner, E. D. E. N. Southworth, Rosemary Rogers, Jill Marie Landis, fairytales/folktales, feminism |
| Zidle, Abby |
From Bodice-Ripper to Baby-Sitter: The New Hero in Mass-Market Romance |
1999 |
gender, emotions, psychology, readers, sex/sexuality, wealth/prosperity |
| Zille, Tom |
Georgette Heyer and the language of the historical novel |
2021 |
Georgette Heyer, linguistics, history, historical romance |
| Zimmermann, Hans Dieter |
Schema-Literatur: ästhetische Norm und literarisches System |
1979 |
genre definitions, trash/literary and or intellectual quality, dime novels, Germany |
| Zwar, Jan; Lawson, Airlie |
Success Story - International Rights Sales of Australian- Authored Books: Case Studies |
2021 |
Publishing, Australia, Kylie Scott |
| [Sigroha], Suman |
Gendered Migrations and Literary Narratives: Writing Communities in South Asian Diaspora |
2018 |
authors, work, family, gender, Publishing |
| Γραφανάκη, Ρωξάνη |
Γυναίκες και ροζ λογοτεχνία: η περίπτωση των εκδόσεων Άρλεκιν |
2019 |
Harlequin Mills & Boon, feminism, capitalism/business, gender, sex/sexuality |
| Στάμου, Εύα |
Η επέλαση της ροζ λογοτεχνίας. Δοκίμιο για την Ευδοκίμηση μιας Μορφής Αφηγηματικού Λόγου |
2014 |
|
| 尾崎, 俊介 |
ハーレクイン対フェミニズム － フォーミュラ・ロマンス批評史をめぐる一考察 － |
2005 |
Harlequin Mills & Boon, feminism |