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Sutton, Denise Hardesty Marketing Love: Romance Publishers Mills & Boon and Harlequin Enterprises, 1930–1990 2022 Harlequin Mills & Boon, Publishing, capitalism/business
Sutton, Denise H. L’expansion internationale de Harlequin Mills & Boon : de la « Bibliothèque coloniale » au marketing dédié au lectorat indien moderne 2022 Publishing, Harlequin Mills & Boon, India
Sutton, Denise H. Romance Publishing for a New Generation: The Case of Harlequin and Mills & Boon In India 2025 Publishing, Harlequin Mills & Boon, India
Suwanban, Rapeeporn Pauline Popular Romance & Orientalist Fantasy 1721-1930 2025 sheikh romance, race/ethnicity, E. M. Hull
Suwanban, Pauline From Exhalation to Transformation: The Female Body in the Orientalist Romance 2018 E. M. Hull, gender, sex/sexuality, race/ethnicity
Suwanban, Pauline The Oriental Beast: The Sheik and Fairy Tales 2020 E. M. Hull, race/ethnicity, fairytales/folktales, animals, gender
Swaffield, Audrey-Claire Paperbacks Promoting Passion! What Is Harlequin Really Presenting? 1981 Harlequin Mills & Boon
Swaminathan, Srividhya J. D. Robb’s Police Procedurals and the Critique of Modernity 2016 Nora Roberts/J. D. Robb, romantic suspense, science fiction/futuristic romance
Swanson, Alexandra “Bluebeard’s Castle”: Reconsidering Romance and Revenge in Netflix’s You 2025 rape and/or intimate partner violence/abuse
Salmon, Catherine; Symons, Donald Warrior Lovers: Erotic Fiction, Evolution and Female Sexuality 2003 evolutionary psychology, m/m romance, sex/sexuality
Søndberg Spaabæk, Anne Sofie The “Infernal” Value of the Gothic: A Reading of Gothicness and Romanceness in Cassandra Clare’s The Infernal Devices 2022 gothic romance, paranormal/fantasy/time-travel romance, Cassandra Clare, genre definitions
Holden, Stacy E.; Tabol, Charity In Sickness and In Health: Representations of PTSD in Post-9/11 Romance Novels 2015 war/armed forces, health/medical, Harlequin Mills & Boon, United States of America, romance and, or as, activism, Susan Mallery, Karen Templeton, Janice Kay Johnson, disability, psychology
Taddeo, Julie Anne Corsets of Steel: Steampunk's Reimagining of Victorian Femininity 2013 fashion/clothing, steampunk, feminism, gender, history
Taddeo, Julie Anne; Miller, Cynthia J. Steaming Into a Victorian Future: A Steampunk Anthology 2013
Thomas, Patrick; Takayoshi, Pamela Literacy in Practice: Writing in Private, Public and Working Lives 2016
Talbot, Mary M. Fictions at Work: Language and Social Practice in Fiction 1995 readers, Harlequin Mills & Boon, sex/sexuality, gender, Kate Walker, fashion/clothing, linguistics, metafiction, social/economic class, romances in magazines and newspapers, YA/young adult/teenage/new adult/NA romance, feminism
Talbot, Mary M. ‘An Explosion Deep inside Her’: Women’s Desire and Popular Romance Fiction 1997 Harlequin Mills & Boon, sex/sexuality, gender, Robyn Donald, Diana Hamilton, linguistics
Andrews, Maggie; Talbot, Mary M. All the World and Her Husband: Women in Twentieth-Century Consumer Culture 2000
Tang, Yang Between Fantasy and Reality: Time-Travel Romance and Media Fandom in Chinese Cyberspace 2014 China, paranormal/fantasy/time-travel romance
Tang, Ning Reading Online Romance Novels Is Related To Chinese Readers' View of Love 2022 China, readers, love
Tanner, David Literary Success and Popular Romantic Fiction: Ethel M. Dell, a Case Study 2016 Ethel M. Dell, trash/literary and or intellectual quality, Older and/or precursor texts (may not be "romance" as now defined), Publishing, romances in magazines and newspapers, India, settings
Tanner, David Riding The Tosh Horse: Ethel M. Dell, A Written Life 2024 Ethel M. Dell, Older and/or precursor texts (may not be "romance" as now defined)
Tapper, Olivia Romance and Innovation in Twenty-First Century Publishing 2014 Publishing, Harlequin Mills & Boon
Tarancón Gimeno, Jorge Catálogo de la novela popular 2001 Spain
Tarulli, Laurel Readers' Advisory: Bad Boy Romances: Biker Boys and Mobster Royalty 2017 libraries/librarians
Chivers, Marian; Speed, Lesley; Tasker, Meg The warrior woman in Harlequin’s Bombshell Athena Force series 2014 Harlequin Mills & Boon, romantic suspense, war/armed forces, gender
Raitt, Suzanne; Tate, Trudi Women's Fiction and The Great War 1997
Tatlock, Lynne German Writing, American Reading: Women and the Import of Fiction, 1866-1917 2012 Germany, United States of America, translation, gender, work, marriage, fairytales/folktales, family, Publishing, E. Marlitt/Eugenie John, Wilhelmine Heimburg/Bertha Behrens, Fanny Lewald, Wilhelmine von Hillern, Claire von Glümer, Ursula Zöge von Manteuffel, E. Werner/Elisabeth Bürstenbinder, religion/spirituality, Nataly von Eschstruth, metafiction, social/economic class, Charlotte Brontë, E. Juncker, Moritz von Reichenbach/Valeska von Reiswitz, Gräfin von Bethusy-Huc, Golo Raimund/Bertha [Heyn] Frederich, history, national identity, war/armed forces, race/ethnicity, Louisa May Alcott
Tatlock, Kristen Doris Raised on romance: a cultural study of romance fiction 1986
Tatum, James The Search for the Ancient Novel 1994
Tatum, Charles Lágrimas, risas y amor: Mexico's Most Popular Romance Comic Book 1980 comics/manga, Mexico
Tavallaie, Marjan ”It stops here. With me and you. It ends with us.”: The representation of domestic violence in popular romance novel It Ends with Us by Colleen Hoover 2024 Colleen Hoover, rape and/or intimate partner violence/abuse
Gilbert, Pam; Taylor, Sandra Fashioning the Feminine: Girls, Popular Culture, and Schooling 1991 readers, YA/young adult/teenage/new adult/NA romance
Gilbert, Pam; Taylor, Sandra Reading the Romance 1993 readers, social/economic class, gender
Taylor, Jessica Anne Write the Book of Your Heart: Career, Passion and Publishing in the Romance Writing Community 2013 authors, Publishing, race/ethnicity, social/economic class, gender, love, work
Taylor, Jessica And You Can Be My Sheikh: Gender, Race, and Orientalism in Contemporary Romance Novels 2007 gender, race/ethnicity, sheikh romance, settings, paratext
Taylor, Jessica Romance and the Female Gaze Obscuring Gendered Violence in The Twilight Saga 2014 gender, rape and/or intimate partner violence/abuse, Twilight
Taylor, Jessica Love the Market: Discourses of Passion and Professionalism in Romance Writing Communities 2016 authors, work, emotions, Publishing
Taylor, Jessica Animating Creative Selves: Pen Names as Property in the Careers of Canadian and American Romance Writers 2018 authors, Publishing, work
Taylor, Jessica Flexible Nations: Canadian Romance Writers, American Romance, and the Romance of Canada 2018 Canada, authors, national identity, Kate Bridges, settings, Publishing, Harlequin Mills & Boon, race/ethnicity, historical romance, history
Taylor, Jessica Garçon Manqué: A Queer Rereading (of) The Sheik 2020 E. M. Hull, Radclyffe Hall, gender, LGBTQ+ characters, readers and/or authors, sex/sexuality, readers, fashion/clothing, race/ethnicity
Taylor, Helen Romantic Readers 1989 readers, gender, race/ethnicity, Barbara Taylor Bradford, LGBTQ+ characters, readers and/or authors, lesbian romance, Margaret Mitchell, social/economic class
Taylor, Helen Why Women Read Fiction: The Stories of Our Lives 2019 readers, Harlequin Mills & Boon, Fifty Shades
Taylor, Anthea ‘The urge towards love is an urge towards (un)death’: Romance, masochistic desire and postfeminism in the Twilight novels 2012 YA/young adult/teenage/new adult/NA romance, Twilight, death, BDSM, gender, sex/sexuality, paranormal/fantasy/time-travel romance, family
Teague, Anna Sophia Wester “If my hubby ever did half the stuff my book boyfriends did… I’d put him six ft in the ground” : narratives of interpersonal and gendered violence as discussed in romance novel review websites 2015 readers, rape and/or intimate partner violence/abuse, psychology, pornography, gender, sex/sexuality
Tegan, Mary Beth Becoming Both Poet and Poem: Feminists Repossess the Romance 2007 feminism, Mary Stewart, Jennifer Crusie, Vicki Lewis Thompson, Georgette Heyer
Alberti, Paola; Fortunati, Vita; Franci, Giovanna; Galateria, Daria; Mangaroni, Rosella; Pozzato, Maria Pia; Sabbadini, Tiziana; Tempera, Mariangela Maestre d'amore: eroine e scrittrici nell'impero del rosa inglese 1986 UK, Elinor Glyn, E. M. Hull
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
Tennenhouse, Tracy Shana Female Fantasies in Women's Popular Fiction 1996 Older and/or precursor texts (may not be "romance" as now defined), gender, lesbian romance, erotic romance
Teo, Hsu-Ming Shanghaied By Sheiks: Orientalism and hybridity in women's romance writing 1999 sheikh romance, race/ethnicity
Teo, Hsu-Ming The Romance of White Nations: Imperialism, Popular Culture and National Histories 2003 national identity, race/ethnicity, UK, history, Africa, gender, Mary Gaunt, with John Ridgwell Essex, E. M. Hull, sheikh romance, Harlequin Mills & Boon, United States of America, Native American romance
Teo, Hsu-Ming Romancing the Raj: Interracial Relations in Anglo-Indian Romance Novels 2004 India, UK, social/economic class, history, race/ethnicity, gender, Flora Annie Steel, Mrs F. E. Penny, Alice Perrin, Maud Diver, Alice Eustace, Juliet Armstrong, Harlequin Mills & Boon, national identity
Teo, Hsu-Ming Orientalism and Mass Market Romance Novels in the Twentieth Century 2007 sheikh romance, gender, race/ethnicity, sex/sexuality, history, E. M. Hull, UK, United States of America, work, feminism, family
Teo, Hsu-Ming Historicizing The Sheik: Comparisons of the British Novel and the American Film 2010 E. M. Hull, film/movies, UK, United States of America, race/ethnicity, history, gender, sex/sexuality, war/armed forces, rape and/or intimate partner violence/abuse
Teo, Hsu-Ming "Bertrice teaches you about history, and you don't even mind!": History and Revisionist Historiography in Bertrice Small's The Kadin 2012 history, historical romance, Bertrice Small, gender, feminism, readers
Teo, Hsu-Ming Desert Passions: Orientalism and Romance Novels 2012 history, sheikh romance, Older and/or precursor texts (may not be "romance" as now defined), race/ethnicity, E. M. Hull, United States of America, historical romance, gender, Islam, sex/sexuality, rape and/or intimate partner violence/abuse
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
Teo, Hsu-Ming; Fresno-Calleja, Paloma Conflict and Colonialism in 21st Century Romantic Historical Fiction: Repairing the Past, Repurposing History 2024
Teo, Hsu-Ming; Fresno-Calleja, Paloma Introduction: Conflict and Colonialism in 21st Century Romantic Historical Fiction: Repairing the Past, Repurposing History 2024 historical romance, history
Teo, Hsu-Ming The Australian Convict Prostitute Romance: Narrating Social and Sexual Justice for “Damned Whores” 2024 Lena Dowling, Australia, historical romance, history, gender
Fresno-Calleja, Paloma; Teo, Hsu-Ming Travel and Colonialism in 21st Century Romantic Historical Fiction: Exotic Journeys, Reparative Histories? 2024
Teo, Hsu-Ming When a Jew Loves a Nazi: Problems with Repurposing the Holocaust for Reparative Romance 2024 Kate Breslin, Christian romance, history
Fresno-Calleja, Paloma; Teo, Hsu-Ming Introduction. Travel and Colonialism in Twenty-First Century Romantic Historical Fiction: Exotic Journeys, Reparative Histories? * 2025 settings, historical romance, race/ethnicity
Teo, Hsu-Ming; Schwegler-Castañer, Astrid Post/Colonial Nostalgia and Melancholia in Dinah Jefferies' The Tea Planter's Wife and Before the Rains * 2025 India, Sri Lanka, history, historical romance, race/ethnicity, Dinah Jefferies
Mulvey, Alexandra; Teo, Hsu-Ming “You’re a total dick sometimes, but it’s a tolerable kind of dickishness”: Hegemonic masculinity and sports romances 2025 sport, gender
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 LGBTQ+ 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/young adult/teenage/new adult/NA 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
Tiemeyer, Lena-Sofia The Hebrew Bible in Contemporary Fiction and Poetry 2025
Tienkamp, Aaf New Adult Romance: An Emerging Genre 2016 NA romance, sex/sexuality, genre definitions
Timlin, Carrie In Search of Utopia: Sylvia Pankhurst, Ethel Mannin, Nancy Cunard, and International Socialist Woman Authors in Interwar Britain 2024 Ethel Mannin, socialism and/or communism, history, sex/sexuality, Older and/or precursor texts (may not be "romance" as now defined)
Timlin, Carrie “The Workers Must Strive if the Butterflies Must Live”: Ethel Mannin’s Love’s Winnowing , the Socialist Romance Novel, and British Working-Class Women 2024 socialism and/or communism, Ethel Mannin, social/economic class, romance and, or as, activism, history, Older and/or precursor texts (may not be "romance" as now defined)
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, LGBTQ+ 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, LGBTQ+ characters, readers and/or authors, settings, authors, paratext
Tristanty, Anggie Ayu Isra; Khusyairi, Johny Alfian Mass-produced romance: BookTok society and the homogenisation of literary culture 2025 readers, Publishing
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, Natasha Contemporary Erotic Romance: Cunning Linguists or Fifty Shades of Feminist Dismay? 2015 feminism, sex/sexuality, Portia Da Costa, Sylvia Day
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, LGBTQ+ characters, readers and/or authors
Pöhls, R. L. Victoria; Utudji, Mariane Powerful Prose: How Textual Features Impact Readers 2021
Latva, Otto; Lähdesmäki, Heta; Sonck-Rautio, Kirsi; Uusitalo, Harri Arrivals and Departures: The Human Relationship with Changing Biodiversity 2024
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
Valovirta, Elina Love and Loss: Corals and Cultural Sustainability in Caribbean Popular Romance Novels 2024 settings, ecocriticism/environmentalism/climate change, Caribbean, Nora Roberts/J. D. Robb, Terry McMillan, Shelby Black, Leigh Morano
Valovirta, Elina Romancing the Caribbean Sea: Size, Mobility and Sustainability in Cruise Ship Romance Fiction 2025 settings, ecocriticism/environmentalism/climate change, Caribbean, Fern Michaels, Rachel Hawthorne, Cami Checketts
Valverde, Mariana Sex, Power and Pleasure 1985 pornography, sex/sexuality, gender, BDSM, wealth/prosperity, lesbian romance, Jane Rule, marriage, LGBTQ+ 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 Den Heuvel, Bailey Sexual Warfare? Clinch Covers, Stepbacks, and Historical Romance Novels in the Wake of the Golden Age of Pornography 2023 historical romance, paratext, pornography, sex/sexuality
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
Jeffery, Ella; van Loon, Julienne TEXT Vol. 29, Special Issue 75: Trope Actually – Popular Romance 2025
van Peer, Willie; Chesnokova, Anna Love in Literature: Why Read About It? 2025 psychology, readers, love
Mayer, Claude-Hélène; Vanderheiden, Elisabeth International Handbook of Love: Transcultural and Transdisciplinary Perspectives 2021 love
Mayer, Claude-Hélène; Vanderheiden, Elisabeth International Handbook of Love: Transcultural and Transdisciplinary Perspectives (2nd edition) 2025
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
Viklund, Julia Romantiska städer och spöken: Genreanvändning i samtida romance med magiska inslag 2025 Abby Jimenez, Ashley Poston, paranormal/fantasy/time-travel romance
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