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Author Title Publication year Topic
Dummer, Kathleen Ann A study of character development of main characters in young adult category romance literature 1990 YA/teenage romance, trash/literary and or intellectual quality
DeVries, Susan; Dunlop, Margaret; Goopy, Suzanne; Moyle, Wendy; Sutherland‐Lockhart, Diane Discipline and passion: meaning, masochism and mythology in popular medical romances 1995 medical romance, history, work, emotions, sex/sexuality, health/medical, death, family, settings, gender, BDSM, Harlequin Mills & Boon
Dunnion, Janne May Mapping Normalcy: Romance and the Postmodern Body 1997 Harlequin Mills & Boon
Duranti, Daniela Le soglie del genere: identità femminile e modelli semiotici nel paratesto editoriale 2008 gender, paratext
Dutton, Lucie Bea A reluctant movie? The Reluctant Widow on screen 2021 Georgette Heyer, film/movies
Duvezin-Caubet, Caroline Gaily Ever After: Neo-Victorian M/M Genre Romance for the Twenty-First Century 2020 m/m romance, K. J. Charles, Cat Sebastian, Georgette Heyer, happy ending, LGBTQ+ characters, readers and/or authors, historical romance, gender, race/ethnicity, Publishing, family
Aravind, G. S.; Dwivedi, Laxmi Dhar The Representation of Female Characters in the Romances of Hawthorne: A Comparison with the Popular Romance Fiction of America in the Twentieth Century 2021 feminism
Dyhouse, Carol Hearthrobs: A History of Women and Desire 2017 gender, sex/sexuality, Charles Garvice, E. M. Hull, Georgette Heyer, Barbara Cartland, race/ethnicity
Gymnich, Marion; Dyka, Susanne Falling in love with vs. sich verlieben in: a corpus-based analysis of English and German romance novels 2020 linguistics, love
Dymock, Alex Flogging sexual transgression: Interrogating the costs of the ‘Fifty Shades effect’ 2013 Fifty Shades, chick lit, capitalism/business, sex/sexuality, BDSM
Ebert, Teresa L. Language/Sexuality/Power in Harlequin Romances 1986 Harlequin Mills & Boon, sex/sexuality
Ebert, Teresa L. The Romance of Patriarchy: Ideology, Subjectivity, and Postmodern Feminist Cultural Theory 1988 gender, capitalism/business, work, Harlequin Mills & Boon, feminism, readers, Sarah James, Janet Dailey
Ebert, Teresa L. Romance Novels, Class and Abu Ghraib 2006 capitalism/business, war/armed forces, rape and/or intimate partner violence/abuse, social/economic class, Elizabeth Lowell, romantic suspense, Mary Jo Putney, Linda Howard, Suzanne Brockmann
Ebert, Teresa L. The Task of Cultural Critique 2009 capitalism/business, social/economic class, chick lit, Elizabeth Lowell
Ebert, Teresa L. Hegel's “picture-thinking” as the interpretive logic of the popular 2014 capitalism/business, social/economic class, religion/spirituality, Linda Howard, philosophy, emotions
Cassuto, Leonard; Eby, Clare Virginia; Reiss, Benjamin The Cambridge History of the American Novel 2011
Eccles, Gennifer “Romance Itself is Political”: The Power of the Popular Romance Novel and its Attempts at Feminism 2021 Kathleen Woodiwiss, Sandra Brown, J. R. Ward, Alyssa Cole, fat, fatness, disability, feminism, race/ethnicity, rape and/or intimate partner violence/abuse
Eco, Umberto; Federzoni, Marina; Pezzini, Isabella; Pozzato, Maria Pia Carolina Invernizio, Matilde Serao, Liala 1979 Liala, pen name of Amalia Liana Cambiasi Negretti Odescalchi
Eden, Edward; Goertz, Dee Carol Shields, Narrative Hunger, and the Possibilities of Fiction 2003
Edlins, Mariglynn Superhero, Sleeping Beauty, or Devil? The Making of Orphan Myths and Public Administration 2016 family, emotions
Edmondson, Belinda Caribbean Romances: The Politics of Regional Representation 1999
Edmondson, Belinda The Black Romance 2007 African American romance, Older and/or precursor texts (may not be "romance" as now defined), sex/sexuality, race/ethnicity, Frances Watkins Harper, Caribbean, film/movies, social/economic class, national identity
Edmunds, Amy Revamping The Gaze: How Twilight Hosts the Conditions for Female Spectatorship 2024 Twilight, readers, feminism
Edwards, Holly Noble Dreams, Wicked Pleasures: Orientalism in America, 1870-1930 2000
Edwin, Shirin Privately Empowered: Expressing Feminism in Islam in Northern Nigerian Fiction 2016 feminism, Islam, Nigeria, Hauwa Ali, religion/spirituality
Egan, Jesi Cultural Futurity and the Politics of Recovery: Mary Renault's Ambivalent Romances 2016 Mary Renault, romance and, or as, activism, genre definitions, sex/sexuality, UK, national identity, health/medical, trash/literary and or intellectual quality, gender, emotions, modernism, LGBTQ+ characters, readers and/or authors
Egilsdatter Sleire, Maria “Only I shall taste your body’s joys:” The Erotic Function of Female Corporeality in The Flame and the Flower and Fifty Shades of Grey 2021 Fifty Shades, Kathleen Woodiwiss, pornography, sex/sexuality, virginity, rape and/or intimate partner violence/abuse
Ehnenn, Jill Desperately Seeking Susan Among the Trash: Reinscription, Subversion and Visibility in the Lesbian Romance Novel 1998 lesbian romance, LGBTQ+ characters, readers and/or authors, readers, trash/literary and or intellectual quality, sex/sexuality, family
Nilson, Maria; Ehriander, Helene Love in a Cold Climate? Teaching Popular Romance at a Swedish University 2020 teaching romance, Sweden, Simona Ahrnstedt, Harlequin Mills & Boon, chick lit
Eickelman, Dale F.; Anderson, Jon W. New Media in the Muslim World: The Emerging Public Sphere 1999
Eike, Ann M. An Investigation of the Market for Paperback Romance Novels 1986 Publishing
Porter, J. D.; Eimannsberger, Angelina; English, James; Hathaway, May; Yakoob, Ashna Genre Juggernaut: Measuring “Romance” 2023 genre definitions, readers
Eiss, Harry Images of the Child 1994
Elliott, Margaret A. The Librarian's Stereotyped Image in Romance Novels, 1980-1995: Has the Image Changed? 1996 libraries/librarians, work
Elliott, Jack Patterns and Trends in Harlequin Category Romance 2014 Harlequin Mills & Boon, linguistics, authors
Elliott, Jack Vocabulary decay in category romance 2016 linguistics, Harlequin Mills & Boon, authors, Jane Austen
Elliott, Jack Whole genre sequencing 2017 genre definitions, Harlequin Mills & Boon, authors, linguistics
Ellis, Sarah Innocence and Experience in the Young Adult Romance 1990 YA/teenage romance
Ellis, Kate Gimme Shelter: Feminism, Fantasy, and Women's Popular Fiction 1987 feminism, gothic romance, virginity, rape and/or intimate partner violence/abuse, Victoria Holt/Jean Plaidy/Eleanor Burford Hibbert, Charlotte Brontë, settings, family, work, Kathleen Woodiwiss, readers
Roman, Leslie G.; Christian-Smith, Linda K.; Ellsworth, Elizabeth Becoming Feminine: The Politics of Popular Culture 1988
Bennett, Tony; Emmison, Michael; Frow, John Accounting for Tastes: Australian Everyday Cultures 1999 Australia, readers, gender, social/economic class, trash/literary and or intellectual quality
Emrys, A. B. Magic Regencies: How Fantasy Forms a Hybrid 1994 historical romance, paranormal/fantasy/time-travel romance, Patricia Wrede, Caroline Stevermer, Teresa Edgerton, Walter Jon Williams
Encanto, Georgina Reyes The development of the Filipino romance novel as written by women (1922-1992) 1996 Philippines
Encanto, Georgina R. Savoring Romance Pinoy Style in Foreign Climes: Why Women Migrants Love Reading Tagalog Romance Novels 2008 Philippines, readers, social/economic class
Engelking, Tama Lea Reading the Romance with Colette in ‘La Lune de pluie' 2017 Colette
Engler, Sandra "A Career's Wonderful, but Love is More Wonderful Still": Femininity and Masculinity in the Fiction of Mills & Boon 2005 gender, Harlequin Mills & Boon
English, Jessica Reading the Romance: Through the Eyes of a Millenial Feminist 2017 feminism, readers
Porter, J. D.; Eimannsberger, Angelina; English, James; Hathaway, May; Yakoob, Ashna Genre Juggernaut: Measuring “Romance” 2023 genre definitions, readers
English Studies Group, 1978–9, The Recent Developments in English Studies at the Centre 1980 linguistics, Barbara Cartland, family, settings, social/economic class, gender, capitalism/business
Batzke, Ina; Erbacher, Eric C.; Heß, Linda M.; Lenhardt, Corinna Exploring the Fantastic: Genre, Ideology, and Popular Culture 2018
Erekli, Arzu Medeni ya da müslüman: popüler aşk romanlarında Feyza olmak 2006 Islam, gender, Turkey, Kerime Nadir
Erhart, Virginia Amor, ideología y enmascaramiento en Corín Tellado 1973 Corín Tellado
Erhart, Virginia Amor, ideología y enmascaramiento en Corín Tellado 1974 Corín Tellado
Erhart, Virginia Corín Tellado: la Cenicienta en la sociedad de consumo 1974 Corín Tellado, work, ageism, marriage
Erhart, Virginia Amor y consumo en las novelas de Corin Tellado 1976 Corín Tellado
Escandell Montiel, Daniel; Oliveira Dias, Sofia Raquel Voces e identidades exocanónicas (1880-1920): recuperando (auto) narrativas femeninas de los márgenes 2020
Escolar, Marisa Marry the Allies? Luciana Peverelli’s ‘True’ Romanzo Rosa in ‘Liberated’ Rome 2015 Luciana Peverelli, Italy, national identity, fascism/right-wing authoritarianism, race/ethnicity, war/armed forces, sex/sexuality, UK
Escolar, Marisa Allied Encounters: The Gendered Redemption of World War II Italy 2019 Luciana Peverelli, Italy
Gil Gómez, Alicia; Escrig Gil, Gemma; Forcada Martínez, Águeda Poder, poderes y empoderamiento… ¿Y el amor? ¡Ah, el amor!: Actas 5º Congreso Estatal Isonomía sobre Igualdad entre mujeres y hombres 2009
Brumme, Jenny; Espunya, Anna The Translation of Fictive Dialogue 2012
Esquibel, Catrióna Rueda Loving the other woman: contemporary lesbian romance novels 1991 lesbian romance, LGBTQ+ characters, readers and/or authors
Esquibel, Catrióna Rueda A Duel of Wits and the Lesbian Romance Novel or Verbal Intercourse in Fictional Regency England 1992 lesbian romance, LGBTQ+ characters, readers and/or authors, Michelle Martin, historical romance
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
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 Promoting Romance Novels in American Public Libraries 2010 libraries/librarians
Adkins, Denice; Esser, Linda; Velasquez, Diane L. Romance promotion in American public libraries 2010
Evans, Julie Beatrice Grimshaw and Australia - White Women in the Pacific 1993 Beatrice Grimshaw, Australia, national identity, race/ethnicity, gender, UK, Harlequin Mills & Boon, Oceania, feminism
Faber, Liz W. Under the Mistletoe: Essays on Holiday Romance in Popular Culture 2025
Fahnestock-Thomas, Mary Georgette Heyer: A Critical Retrospective 2001 Georgette Heyer
Faktorovich, Anna The Formulas of Popular Fiction: Elements of Fantasy, Science Fiction, Romance, Religious and Mystery Novels 2014
Faktorovich, Anna Gender Bias in Mystery and Romance Novel Publishing: Mimicking Masculinity and Femininity 2015 authors, gender
Faktorovich, Anna Interview with Mary Jo Putney, Best-Selling Romance Author 2015 Mary Jo Putney, authors, historical romance
Fallon, Eileen Words of Love: A Complete Guide to Romance Fiction 1984 genre definitions, Older and/or precursor texts (may not be "romance" as now defined), trash/literary and or intellectual quality, historical romance, history, authors, Publishing, Georgette Heyer, Kathleen Woodiwiss, gothic romance
Fanetti, Susan Introduction—Popular Romance in the 21st Century: Time to Claim Its Due 2022 romance scholarship, genre definitions, happy ending, Publishing, Fifty Shades
Fanetti, Susan New Frontiers in Popular Romance: Essays on the Genre in the 21st Century 2022 Diana Gabaldon, India, LGBTQ+ characters, readers and/or authors, China
Farooqui, Javaria; Ashraf, Rabia Reconnaissance of ‘Difference’ in Cognitive Maps: Authenticating Happily Ever After in Julia Quinn’s To Sir Philip with Love 2019 psychology, Julia Quinn, historical romance
Farooqui, Javaria The Kitchen and Beyond: The Romantic Chronotope in Pakistani Popular Fiction 2020 romances in magazines and newspapers, Pakistan, settings, food, drink, metaphor/symbolism
Farooqui, Javaria On Loving Popular Fiction in Pakistan 2022 trash/literary and or intellectual quality, genre definitions, Pakistan
Farooqui, Javaria Reading historical popular romance in 21st-century Pakistan 2022 Pakistan, readers, historical romance, social/economic class, settings, Julia Quinn, Stephanie Laurens, Judith McNaught, Gaelen Foley
Farooqui, Javaria Romance in an Old Bookshop 2022 Pakistan, Publishing, social/economic class, readers
Farooqui, Javaria Romance, Austen, and English-Medium Schooling in Pakistan 2022 Pakistan, readers, historical romance, Jane Austen, social/economic class
Farooqui, Javaria Buildings, books, and memories: Analysing the culture of reading anglophone romance in Pakistan 2024 Pakistan, readers, historical romance, history, social/economic class, settings
Farooqui, Javaria Romance Fandom in 21st-Century Pakistan: Reading the Regency 2025 readers, Pakistan, historical romance
Fasick, Adele M.; Johnston, Margaret; Osler, Ruth Lands of Pleasure: Essays on Lillian H. Smith and the Development of Children's Libraries 1990
Faura, Salvador; Godsland, Shelley; Moody, Nickianne The Romance Novel, or, the Generalisimo's Control of the Popular Imagination 2004 Corín Tellado, Spain, fascism/right-wing authoritarianism
Faust, Meredith S. "Love of the purest kind": Heteronormative rigidity in the homoerotic fiction of Ann Herendeen 2010 Ann Herendeen, LGBTQ+ characters, readers and/or authors
Faust, Beatrice Women, Sex and Pornography 1980 rape and/or intimate partner violence/abuse, pornography, sex/sexuality, Rosemary Rogers, Patricia Gallagher, Patricia Matthews, Harlequin Mills & Boon, feminism, gender
Eco, Umberto; Federzoni, Marina; Pezzini, Isabella; Pozzato, Maria Pia Carolina Invernizio, Matilde Serao, Liala 1979 Liala, pen name of Amalia Liana Cambiasi Negretti Odescalchi
Andrade, Roberta Manuela Barros de; Silva, Erotilde Honório; Feitosa, Ricardo Augusto de Sabóia O casamento em perigo no romance sentimental de Corin Tellado e a imprensa feminina na ditadura militar brasileira 2017 Brazil, Corín Tellado, marriage, fascism/right-wing authoritarianism
Andrade, Roberta Manuela Barros de; Feitosa, Ricardo Augusto de Sabóia A cultura emotiva das comunidades virtuais de leitura de livros de amor 2018 readers, emotions, Brazil
Andrade, Roberta Manuela Barros de; Feitosa, Ricardo Augusto de Sabóia; Silva, Erotilde Honório Emoção e moralidade em tempos de ruptura: o estupro nas relações conjugais nos romances sentimentais e suas comunidades de leitura 2019 rape and/or intimate partner violence/abuse, marriage, readers, Brazil
Andrade, Roberta Manuela Barros de; 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
Fekete, Maleah Confluent Love and the Evolution of Ideal Intimacy: Romance Reading in 1980 and 2016 2022 readers, sex/sexuality, gender, sociology, love, emotions
Felski, Rita Kitsch, Romance Fiction and Male Paranoia: Stephen King meets the Frankfurt School 1990 trash/literary and or intellectual quality
Feng, Jin "Addicted to Beauty": Consuming and Producing Web-based Chinese Danmei Fiction at Jinjiang 2009 China, m/m romance, LGBTQ+ characters, readers and/or authors, authors, readers, gender, paranormal/fantasy/time-travel romance, rape and/or intimate partner violence/abuse
Feng, Jin Men Conquer the World and Women Save Mankind: Rewriting Patriarchal Traditions through Web-based Matriarchal Romances 2011 China, socialism and/or communism, paranormal/fantasy/time-travel romance, gender, war/armed forces
Feng, Jin Romancing the Internet: Producing and Consuming Chinese Web Romance 2013 China
Fenske, Emma K. Romancing the New Evangelical Woman 2022 Christian romance, United States of America, religion/spirituality, Francine Rivers, Janette Oke, Karen Kingsbury, gender, health/medical, family, historical romance
Fenty, Linda D. A Comparative Analysis of Female Role Models in Selected Contemporary Teen Romances 1987 YA/teenage romance
Fera-VanGent, Tania Popular Romance Novels: Seeking out the 'Sisterhood' 2005 Older and/or precursor texts (may not be "romance" as now defined), Harlequin Mills & Boon, chick lit
Gómez Morón, Reyes; Padilla Cruz, Manuel; Fernández Amaya, Lucía; Hernández López, María de la O Pragmatics Applied to Language Teaching and Learning 2009
Fernández Rodríguez, Carolina Del cuento de hadas a la novela romántica: Una visión de la sub/literatura como gimnasio mental y laboratorio de sub/versión cultural 2018 trash/literary and or intellectual quality, Nora Roberts/J. D. Robb, feminism, readers, sex/sexuality, psychology, romance and, or as, activism, fairytales/folktales
Fernández Rodríguez, Carolina Chamorro WWII Romances: Combating Erasure with Tales of Survival and Vitality 2019 Guam, United States of America, race/ethnicity, Paula Quinene, Cathy Sablan Gault, islands, history, romance and, or as, activism, languages, religion/spirituality, war/armed forces, historical romance
Fernández Rodríguez, Carolina American Quaker Romances: Building the Myth of the White Christian Nation 2021 United States of America, Christian romance, race/ethnicity, gender, religion/spirituality
Fernández Rodríguez, Carolina Nora Roberts’s Boonsboro Empire: Boosting Business through Romance, Invigorating Romance with Affective Capitalism 2021 Nora Roberts/J. D. Robb, capitalism/business, work, metaphor/symbolism
Fernández Rodríguez, Carolina The US Civil War and its Aftermath in Historical Quaker Romances Hailing White Heroines as Builders and Healers of the Nation 2024 historical romance, Christian romance, race/ethnicity, history, United States of America
Fernández Ulloa, Teresa; Morazzani, Joanne Schmidt Images of Women in Hispanic Culture 2016
Fernández Ulloa, Teresa; Soler Gallo, Miguel Aproximaciones a la configuración de la identidad en la cultura y sociedad hispanas e italianas contemporáneas 2020
Ferrández San Miguel, María; Neumann, Claus-Peter Taking Stock to Look Ahead: Celebrating Forty Years of English Studies in Spain 2018
Hess, Beth B.; Ferree, Myra Marx Analyzing Gender: A Handbook of Social Science Research 1987
Fesenmeier, Ludwig; Novakova, Iva Phraséologie et stylistique de la langue littéraire/Phraseology and Stylistics of Literary Language; Approches interdisciplinaires/Interdisciplinary Approaches 2020
Fialkoff, Francine Romancing the Patron: Romance novels don't get equal review treatment 1992 libraries/librarians
Ficke, Sarah H. The historical romance 2021 historical romance, Georgette Heyer, Barbara Cartland, Kathleen Woodiwiss, settings, race/ethnicity, Valerie Belgrave, Kate Breslin, fascism/right-wing authoritarianism, history, African American romance, Beverly Jenkins, LGBTQ+ characters, readers and/or authors
Ficke, Sarah H. Falling in Love Outside of the Law: Piracy, Race, and Freedom in Caribbean Historical Romance 2025 settings, race/ethnicity, history, historical romance, Caribbean, Beverly Jenkins, Darlene Marshall, Julie Garwood, Johanna Lindsey
Ficke, Sarah House, home and husband in historical romance fiction 2022 historical romance, Jane Austen, Cecilia Grant, Anna Cowan, Anna Harrington, Courtney Milan, history, work, family, marriage, settings
Fife, Leslie The 2000-2003 Proceedings of the SW/Texas PCA/ACA Conference 2003
Figuerola, M. Carme Le roman dellyen et les structures du roman populaire : quelques réflexions 2011 Delly
Weis, Lois; Fine, Michelle Beyond Silenced Voices: Class, Race, and Gender in United States Schools 1993
Finn, Geraldine Women, Fantasy, and Popular Culture: The Wonderful World of Harlequin Romance 1988 Harlequin Mills & Boon
Fischer, Heinz-Dietrich; Melnik, Stefan Reinhard Entertainment: A Cross-Cultural Examination 1979
Fisher, Maryanne L.; Meredith, Tami M. The Success behind the Candy-Colored Covers: An Evolutionary Perspective on Romance Novels 2012 evolutionary psychology, paratext
Fisher, Maryanne L.; Meredith, Tami M. Evolutionary and sociocultural themes in cover art on Harlequin romance novels: A temporal analysis 2022 evolutionary psychology, paratext
Cox, Anthony; Fisher, Maryanne The Texas Billionaire's Pregnant Bride: An Evolutionary Interpretation of Romance Fiction Titles 2009 evolutionary psychology, Harlequin Mills & Boon, work, family, social/economic class
Fisher, Maryanne; Cox, Anthony Man Change Thyself: Hero Versus Heroine Development in Harlequin Romance Novels 2010 evolutionary psychology, gender, Harlequin Mills & Boon
Browne, Ray B.; Fishwick, Marshall W. The Hero in Transition 1983
Fitzsimmons, Rebekah; Wilson, Casey Alane Beyond the Blockbusters: Themes and Trends in Contemporary Young Adult Fiction 2020
Fjelkestam, Kristina; Hill, Helena; Tjeder, David Kvinnorna gör mannen: maskulinitetskonstruktioner i kvinnors text och bild 1500-2000 2013
Fleenor, Juliann E. The Female Gothic 1983
Flegel, Monica; Roth, Jenny Annihilating love and heterosexuality without women: Romance, generic difference, and queer politics in "Supernatural" fan fiction 2010 fanfiction, LGBTQ+ characters, readers and/or authors
Weisser, Susan Ostrov; Fleischner, Jennifer Feminist Nightmares: Women at Odds: Feminism and the Problem of Sisterhood 1994
Fleites-Lear, Marisela ¿Victoria contra Corín Tellado?: La novela rosa revolucionaria cubana y la ficción en Mujeres 2009 Corín Tellado, Cuba, readers, socialism and/or communism
Flesch, Juliet Ella From Australia with love: Australian romance novels, 1950-2000 2001 national identity, Australia, feminism, Lucy Walker, Publishing, readers, sex/sexuality, rape and/or intimate partner violence/abuse, race/ethnicity, translation, settings, Marion Lennox, Ann Charlton, Alison Kelly, Joyce Dingwell/Kate Starr, Edwina Shore, Helen Bianchin, paratext, Harlequin Mills & Boon
Flesch, Juliet Love Brought to Book: A Bio-Bibliography of 20th Century Australian Romance Novels 1995 Australia
Flesch, Juliet A Labour of Love? Compiling a Bibliography of Twentieth Century Australian Romance Novels 1996 libraries/librarians, Australia, authors, Margaret Way, Marion Lennox, Emma Darcy, Victoria Gordon, paratext
Flesch, Juliet A Labour of Love? The Story Behind the Compilation of Love Brought to Book: A Bio-bibliography of 20th Century Australian Romance Novels 1996 Australia, libraries/librarians, Margaret Way, Marion Lennox, Emma Darcy, Victoria Gordon, authors, paratext
Flesch, Juliet Not just housewives and old maids 1997 libraries/librarians
Flesch, Juliet From Australia With Love: A History of Modern Australian Popular Romance Novels 2004 Australia, national identity, Helen Bianchin, Harlequin Mills & Boon, Emma Darcy, Ann Charlton, authors, Marion Lennox, Joyce Dingwell/Kate Starr, Valerie Parv, feminism, Victoria Gordon, Alison Kelly, race/ethnicity, Publishing, translation, paratext, readers, Lucy Walker, sex/sexuality, rape and/or intimate partner violence/abuse, Meredith Webber
Flesch, Juliet Blushing Bride to Bush Matriarch: Women in the Fiction of Lucy Walker 2005 Lucy Walker
Flesch, Juliet Love under the Coolabah: Australian Romance Publishing since 1990 2007 Australia, Publishing
Flesch, Juliet ”Feminists Talk about Sisterhood: I Do Not Know How Deeply They Feel It”: Australian Mass Market Romance Novels and Their Critics 2009 feminism
Flesch, Juliet The Wide Brown Land and the Big Smoke: The Setting of Australian Popular Romance 2012 Australia, settings
Fletcher, Lisa I love you: historical romance fiction and heterosexuality 2002 historical romance
Fletcher, Lisa “Mere Costumery”? Georgette Heyer’s Cross-Dressing Novels 2004 historical romance, Georgette Heyer, fashion/clothing, cross-dressing, gender
Fletcher, Lisa Historical Romance Fiction: Heterosexuality and Performativity 2008 love, sex/sexuality, Georgette Heyer, historical romance, linguistics, fashion/clothing, A. S. Byatt
Fletcher, Lisa; Gaby, Rosemary; Kloester, Jennifer Pedagogy Report: Embedding Popular Romance Studies in Undergraduate English Units: Teaching Georgette Heyer’s Sylvester 2011 teaching romance, Georgette Heyer, history, metafiction
Driscoll, Beth; Fletcher, Lisa; Wilkins, Kim Women, Akubras and Ereaders: Romance Fiction and Australian Publishing 2011 Australia, Publishing, rural romance, Harlequin Mills & Boon
Fletcher, Lisa The Scholarship of Teaching and Learning Popular Romance Studies: What is it, and why does it matter? 2013 teaching romance
Fletcher, Lisa Writing the Happy Ever After: An Interview with Anne Gracie 2014 Anne Gracie, trash/literary and or intellectual quality, metafiction, Jane Austen, readers, emotions, family, wealth/prosperity, sex/sexuality, happy ending
Fletcher, Lisa Popular Fiction and Spatiality: Reading Genre Settings 2016
Crane, Ralph; Fletcher, Lisa The Genre of Islands: Popular Fiction and Performative Geographies 2016 islands, settings, rural romance
Crane, Ralph; Fletcher, Lisa Island Genres, Genre Islands: Conceptualisation and Representation in Popular Fiction 2017 islands, settings, Margaret Evans Porter, Nora Roberts/J. D. Robb
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
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
Wilkins, Kim; Driscoll, Beth; Fletcher, Lisa Genre Worlds: Popular Fiction and 21st-Century Book Culture 2022 Publishing, readers
Flora, Cornelia Butler; Flora, Jan L. The Fotonovela As a Tool for Class and Cultural Domination 1978 Latin America, Mexico, Brazil, Corín Tellado, sociology, capitalism/business, social/economic class, wealth/prosperity, fotonovela
Flora, Cornelia Butler; Flora, Jan L. The Fotonovela As a Tool for Class and Cultural Domination 1978 Latin America, Mexico, Brazil, Corín Tellado, sociology, capitalism/business, social/economic class, wealth/prosperity, fotonovela
Foley, J. A. Critical Awareness: Romance Novels in English for the Asian Market. A Critical Study of Locally Published "Romance Novels" in English 2007 linguistics, Singapore, gender
Folie, Sandra The Ethnic Labelling of a Genre Gone Global: A Distant Comparison of African-American and African Chick Lit 2020 chick lit, Africa, South Africa, Kenya, race/ethnicity
Burge, Amy; Folie, Sandra Girls of Riyadh and Desperate in Dubai: reading and writing romance in the Middle East 2022 chick lit, race/ethnicity, Islam, Rajaa Alsanea, Ameera Al Hakawati, Saudi Arabia, United Arab Emirates, sheikh romance
Fong, Katrina; Mullin, Justin B.; Mar, Raymond A. What You Read Matters: The Role of Fiction Genre in Predicting Interpersonal Sensitivity 2013 readers, psychology
Fong, Katrina; Mullin, Justin B.; Mar, Raymond A. How Exposure to Literary Genres Relates to Attitudes Toward Gender Roles and Sexual Behavior 2015 psychology, readers, sex/sexuality, gender
Forbes, Curdella X Press Publications: Pop Culture, “Pop Lit” and Caribbean Literary Criticism: An Essay of Provocation 2006 Caribbean, Valerie Belgrave, UK, race/ethnicity, sex/sexuality
Gil Gómez, Alicia; Escrig Gil, Gemma; Forcada Martínez, Águeda Poder, poderes y empoderamiento… ¿Y el amor? ¡Ah, el amor!: Actas 5º Congreso Estatal Isonomía sobre Igualdad entre mujeres y hombres 2009
Fordham, Helen ‘That’s love for you’: Destabilizing divides and re-imaging subjectivities in the romantic fiction of Eloisa James 2014 trash/literary and or intellectual quality, readers, Eloisa James, Shakespeare
Forte, Gioacchino I persuasori rosa: sociologia curiosa del rotocalco femminile in Italia 1966 Italy, romances in magazines and newspapers, sociology
Fortunati, Vita; Franci, Giovanna 'Ma c'è sempre un arcobaleno': La 'romantic fiction' di Barbara Cartland 1982 Barbara Cartland
Alberti, Paola; Fortunati, Vita; Franci, Giovanna; Galateria, Daria; Mangaroni, Rosella; Pozzato, Maria Pia; Sabbadini, Tiziana; Tempera, Mariangela Maestre d'amore: eroine e scrittrici nell'impero del rosa inglese 1986 UK, Elinor Glyn, E. M. Hull
Fortunati, Vita; Franci, Giovanna; Mangaroni, Rosella Prefazione 1986
Fortunati, Vita; Franci, Giovanna Tre romantiche ‘figlie d’Inghilterra’ alla conquista della storia: Eleanor Hibbert, Georgette Heyer e Barbara Cartland 1986 Victoria Holt/Jean Plaidy/Eleanor Burford Hibbert, Georgette Heyer, Barbara Cartland
Fortunati, Vita; Franci, Giovanna Barbara Cartland, la regina del rosa 1987 Barbara Cartland
Fortune, Teagan Bailey Rape Beyond Fantasy: Exploring the Influence of BookTok's Erotica and Dark Romance Literature on Young Adult Perceptions of Consent and Boundaries 2024 dark romance, readers, rape and/or intimate partner violence/abuse, sex/sexuality
Foss, Kimberly Kay An Analysis to Determine if Popular Romance Novels, Read by Today’s High School Students, Reflect the Characteristics and Roles of Women in Current Society 1997 YA/teenage romance, work, feminism, United States of America, race/ethnicity, social/economic class
Foster, Guy Mark How Dare a Black Woman Make Love to a White Man! Black Women Romance Novelists and the Taboo of Interracial Desire 2007 race/ethnicity, rape and/or intimate partner violence/abuse, United States of America, Lizzette Carter, Dyanne Davis, Monica White, history, psychology, African American romance, gender, sex/sexuality, readers
Foster, Guy Mark What To Do If Your Inner Tomboy Is a Homo: Straight Women, Bisexuality, and Pleasure in M/M Gay Romance Fictions 2015 gender, m/m romance, sex/sexuality, psychology, LGBTQ+ characters, readers and/or authors
Fowler, Bridget "True to Me Always": An Analysis of Women's Magazine Fiction 1979 romances in magazines and newspapers, social/economic class, readers, Older and/or precursor texts (may not be "romance" as now defined), marriage, work, wealth/prosperity, gender, medical romance, settings, rural romance
Fowler, Bridget The Alienated Reader: Women and Romantic Literature in the Twentieth Century 1991 social/economic class, gender, Samuel Richardson, capitalism/business, religion/spirituality, Older and/or precursor texts (may not be "romance" as now defined), readers, trash/literary and or intellectual quality, Catherine Cookson, Publishing, romances in magazines and newspapers, Harlequin Mills & Boon, work, Barbara Taylor Bradford, Barbara Cartland, fairytales/folktales, family, feminism, Victoria Holt/Jean Plaidy/Eleanor Burford Hibbert, marriage, Scotland, sex/sexuality
Fox, Pamela A. Ethel Carnie Holdsworth's "Revolt of the Gentle": Romance and the Politics of Resistance in Working-Class Women's Writing 1993 socialism and/or communism, Ethel Carnie Holdsworth, Older and/or precursor texts (may not be "romance" as now defined)
Fox, Pamela The "Revolt of the Gentle": Romance and the Politics of Resistance in Working-Class Women's Writing 1994 social/economic class, socialism and/or communism, UK, Ethel Carnie Holdsworth, Ellen Wilkinson, rape and/or intimate partner violence/abuse, capitalism/business, work, gender, Older and/or precursor texts (may not be "romance" as now defined)
Fragero Guerra, Carmen La técnica narrativa del espejo en Carmen de Icaza (1899-1979) y en Carmen Martín Gaite (1925-2000) 2013 Carmen de Icaza
Fragero Guerra, Carmen Fifty shades of grey: Una novela popular en España 2013 Fifty Shades, Carmen de Icaza, Spain
Fragero Guerra, Carmen "Soñar la vida": La narrativa de Carmen de Icaza (1936-1960) 2014 Carmen de Icaza, Luisa-María Linares, history, Spain, fascism/right-wing authoritarianism, social/economic class, fashion/clothing, film/movies
Fragero Guerra, Carmen Auxilio Social en La casa de enfrente (1960) de Carmen de Icaza 2014 Carmen de Icaza, Spain, fascism/right-wing authoritarianism
Fragero Guerra, Carmen Del azul al rosa: la narrativa de Carmen de Icaza (1936-1960) 2017 Carmen de Icaza, Luisa-María Linares, Spain, fascism/right-wing authoritarianism
Fragero Guerra, Carmen Carmen de Icaza: la imagen de identidad femenina durante el primer franquismo (1936-1949) 2020 Carmen de Icaza, fascism/right-wing authoritarianism, Spain, gender
Fortunati, Vita; Franci, Giovanna 'Ma c'è sempre un arcobaleno': La 'romantic fiction' di Barbara Cartland 1982 Barbara Cartland
Alberti, Paola; Fortunati, Vita; Franci, Giovanna; Galateria, Daria; Mangaroni, Rosella; Pozzato, Maria Pia; Sabbadini, Tiziana; Tempera, Mariangela Maestre d'amore: eroine e scrittrici nell'impero del rosa inglese 1986 UK, Elinor Glyn, E. M. Hull
Fortunati, Vita; Franci, Giovanna; Mangaroni, Rosella Prefazione 1986
Fortunati, Vita; Franci, Giovanna Tre romantiche ‘figlie d’Inghilterra’ alla conquista della storia: Eleanor Hibbert, Georgette Heyer e Barbara Cartland 1986 Victoria Holt/Jean Plaidy/Eleanor Burford Hibbert, Georgette Heyer, Barbara Cartland
Fortunati, Vita; Franci, Giovanna Barbara Cartland, la regina del rosa 1987 Barbara Cartland
Francis, Conseula Flipping the Script: Romancing Zane's Urban Erotica 2016 Zane, sex/sexuality, romance and, or as, activism, race/ethnicity, emotions, marriage, love
Franck, Kaja Growing Pains of the Teenage Werewolf: Young Adult Literature and the Metaphorical Wolf 2020 paranormal/fantasy/time-travel romance, YA/teenage romance, Maggie Stiefvater, animals, fairytales/folktales, Twilight
Franck, Kaja Reader, I Included It: Reading Lists and Romance 2024 teaching romance, emotions, Akwaeke Emezi, Casey McQuiston
Franco, Jean Plotting Women: Popular Narratives for Women in the United States and in Latin America 1986 Anne Mather, gender, Harlequin Mills & Boon, Mexico
Franco, Jean The Incorporation of Women: A Comparison of North American and Mexican Popular Narrative 1986 social/economic class, Corín Tellado, Harlequin Mills & Boon, Anne Mather, gender, work, wealth/prosperity, Mexico
Frankel, Valerie Estelle Adoring Outlander: Essays on Fandom, Genre and the Female Audience 2016
Frankel, Valerie Estelle Adapting Bridgerton: Essays on the Netflix Show in Context 2024 Julia Quinn
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
Frantz, Sarah S. G. "Expressing" Herself: The Romance Novel and the Feminine Will to Power 2002 feminism, gender, readers, metafiction, Mary Balogh, Jayne Ann Krentz/Amanda Quick/Jayne Castle, sex/sexuality, Sandra Brown, Bertrice Small, Diana Gabaldon, Susan Johnson, Alexis Harrington, Candice Proctor, rape and/or intimate partner violence/abuse
Frantz, Sarah S. G. "Suzanne Brockmann" 2008 Suzanne Brockmann, war/armed forces, paranormal/fantasy/time-travel romance, race/ethnicity, Islam, LGBTQ+ characters, readers and/or authors, rape and/or intimate partner violence/abuse, romantic suspense
Frantz, Sarah S. G. Darcy’s Vampiric Descendants: Austen’s Perfect Romance Hero and J. R. Ward’s Black Dagger Brotherhood 2009 Jane Austen, J. R. Ward, readers, gender, emotions
Frantz, Sarah S. G. I’ve tried my entire life to be a good man': Suzanne Brockmann’s Sam Starrett, Ideal Romance Hero 2009 Suzanne Brockmann, war/armed forces, gender, sex/sexuality, race/ethnicity, family
Frantz, Sarah S. G.; Rennhak, Katharina Women Constructing Men: Female Novelists and their Male Characters, 1750-2000 2009
Frantz, Sarah S. G. "How we love is our soul": Joey W. Hill's BDSM Romance Holding the Cards 2012 Joey W. Hill, BDSM, erotic romance, Ellora's Cave, genre definitions, metafiction
Selinger, Eric Murphy; Frantz, Sarah S. G. Introduction: New Approaches to Popular Romance Fiction 2012 Loretta Chase, romance scholarship
Frantz, Sarah S. G.; Selinger, Eric Murphy New Approaches to Popular Romance Fiction: Critical Essays 2012
Frantz, Sarah S. G. The History of BDSM Fiction and Romance 2012 BDSM, John Preston, sex/sexuality, Fifty Shades, erotic romance, Emma Holly, Joey W. Hill
Frantz Lyons, Sarah; Selinger, Eric Murphy Strange Stirrings, Strange Yearnings: The Flame and the Flower, Sweet Savage Love, and the Lost Diversities of Blockbuster Historical Romance 2016 historical romance, Kathleen Woodiwiss, feminism, sex/sexuality, Rosemary Rogers, rape and/or intimate partner violence/abuse, United States of America
Fraysse, Mélie; Garcia, Marie-Carmen Les Thug Love : des romans sentimentaux à l'épreuve de la classe et de la race 2019 France, race/ethnicity, social/economic class, Islam, gender, virginity, sex/sexuality
Frederick, Rhonda D. Evidence of Things Not Seen: Fantastical Blackness in Genre Fictions 2022 Colin Channer, Jamaica, readers, Caribbean, race/ethnicity
Frederick, Rhonda Making Jamaican Love: Colin Channer's Waiting in Vain and Romance-ified Diaspora Identities 2013 national identity, Caribbean, Colin Channer, Jamaica, social/economic class, race/ethnicity, gender, erotic romance
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
Andrade, Roberta Manuela Barros de; Nascimento, Antonio Marcos Fonseca do; Freitas, Tatiane Lima de As representações de masculinidades e feminilidades nos romances de banca de Diana Palmer nos anos de 1990 2015 Diana Palmer, gender
Frenier, Mariam Darce Good-bye Heathcliff: Changing Heroes, Heroines, Roles, and Values in Women’s Category Romances 1988 gender, United States of America, UK, Harlequin Mills & Boon, feminism, sex/sexuality, work
Fresno-Calleja, Paloma Chick-Lit Pasifika-Style or How to B(l)end the Formula: Lani Young’s Scarlet Series 2019 Lani Wendt Young, chick lit, Samoa, metafiction, YA/teenage romance, race/ethnicity, feminism, food, drink, metaphor/symbolism, family, wealth/prosperity, national identity, sex/sexuality, rape and/or intimate partner violence/abuse
García Fernández, Aurora; Fresno-Calleja, Paloma Competence, Complicity and Complexity: Hsu-Ming Teo on the Pitfalls and Nuances of Reading and Researching Popular Romance 2020 romance scholarship, feminism, historical romance, rape and/or intimate partner violence/abuse, love, Australia
Fresno-Calleja, Paloma Rugby Romances and the Branding of New Zealand 2021 New Zealand, national identity, race/ethnicity, sport
Fresno-Calleja, Paloma New Romantic Narratives for the Twenty-First Century 2023 romance scholarship
Fresno-Calleja, Paloma Repurposing Fantasy Island: Lani Wendt Young’s Telesā Series and the Politics of Postcolonial Romance 2023 Lani Wendt Young, YA/teenage romance, settings, paranormal/fantasy/time-travel romance, islands, Samoa, metafiction, race/ethnicity, sex/sexuality, romance and, or as, activism
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
Fresno-Calleja, Paloma; Teo, Hsu-Ming Travel and Colonialism in 21st Century Romantic Historical Fiction: Exotic Journeys, Reparative Histories? 2024
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
Friedman, Lenemaja Mary Stewart 1990 romantic suspense, Mary Stewart
Fromont, Daniel Lire Delly, un plaisir toujours renouvelé 2011 Delly
Frost, Laura The Romance of Cliché: E. M. Hull, D. H. Lawrence, and Interwar Erotic Fiction 2006 E. M. Hull, trash/literary and or intellectual quality, sex/sexuality, sheikh romance, romance scholarship, readers, pornography
Frost, Laura The Problem with Pleasure: Modernism and Its Discontents 2013 E. M. Hull, trash/literary and or intellectual quality, romance scholarship, sex/sexuality, readers
Bennett, Tony; Emmison, Michael; Frow, John Accounting for Tastes: Australian Everyday Cultures 1999 Australia, readers, gender, social/economic class, trash/literary and or intellectual quality
Fuchs, Barbara Romance 2004 Older and/or precursor texts (may not be "romance" as now defined)
Funderburk, Amy Romance collections in North Carolina public libraries: Are all genres treated equally? 2004 libraries/librarians
Dean, John; Gabilliet, Jean-Paul European Readings of American Popular Culture 1996
Fletcher, Lisa; Gaby, Rosemary; Kloester, Jennifer Pedagogy Report: Embedding Popular Romance Studies in Undergraduate English Units: Teaching Georgette Heyer’s Sylvester 2011 teaching romance, Georgette Heyer, history, metafiction
Gagne-Hawes, Genevieve Anatomy of a Romance: Questioning genre conventions in the novels of Nora Roberts 2006 Nora Roberts/J. D. Robb, paranormal/fantasy/time-travel romance
Bettinotti, Julia; Bédard-Cazabon, Hélène; Gagnon, Jocelyn; Noizet, Pascale; Provost, Christiane La corrida de l'amour: Le Roman Harlequin 1986 Harlequin Mills & Boon, Publishing, gender, settings, marriage, trash/literary and or intellectual quality, paratext, family, Janet Dailey, Charlotte Lamb, sex/sexuality, work
Gagnon, Andrée Et si je t'aime, prends garde à toi : essai d'anthropologie sur la sexualité dans les romans Harlequin 1987 Harlequin Mills & Boon, sex/sexuality
Gaines, Judith Tracing feminism through the romance novel, or, the vines (clinging) and the swines (chauvinistic), they are a-changin' 1990 feminism
Galateria, Daria Erotismo e buona creanza in Georgette Heyer 1986 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
Galateria, Daria Accorgimenti antibovaristi di Georgette Heyer 1987 Georgette Heyer
Gale, Jody; James, Eloisa The Official Essex Sisters Companion Guide 2016
Carter, David; Galligan, Anne Making Books: Contemporary Australian Publishing 2007
Gallon, Kim “How Much Can You Read about Interracial Love and Sex without Getting Sore?”: Readers’ Debate over Interracial Relationships in the Baltimore Afro-American 2013 African American romance, romances in magazines and newspapers, race/ethnicity, readers
Ganapathy, Subha Who Is Afraid of Romance Novels?: Women Readers, Patriarchy and Popular Culture 2002 trash/literary and or intellectual quality, readers, psychology, India, film/movies, gender, feminism
Gandolfo, Anita Faith and Fiction: Christian Literature in America Today 2007 Christian romance, United States of America, Janette Oke, Francine Rivers, Karen Kingsbury, Dee Henderson, religion/spirituality
Ganetz, Hillevi; Lövgren, Karin Om unga kvinnor: identitet, kultur och livsvillkor 1991
Ganguly, Keya Alien(ated) Readers: Harlequin Romances and the Politics of Popular Culture 1991 feminism, capitalism/business, readers