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Bach, Evelyn Sheik Fantasies: Orientalism and Feminine Desire in the Desert Romance 1997 sheikh romance, Sarah Holland, settings, Violet Winspear, E. M. Hull, Sara Wood, gender, race/ethnicity, Margaret Pargeter, Rebecca Stratton
Heller, Tamar Having It All: Consumption and Ideological Tension in an Innovative Romance Novel 1997
Raitt, Suzanne; Tate, Trudi Women's Fiction and The Great War 1997
Koster, Cees Stuiverromans - vertaald? 1997 translation, Harlequin Mills & Boon, Netherlands
Porter, David Internet Culture 1997
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
Badik, Victoria L. On Using Genre Fiction in Bibliotherapy 1997 psychology, Pamela Morsi, Mary Jo Putney, Catherine Anderson, Rachel Lee/Sue Civil-Brown, JoAnn Ross, Susan Elizabeth Phillips, Eileen Dreyer/Kathleen Korbel
Spehner, Norbert L'Amour, toujours l'amour ...: The Popular Love Story and Romance: A Basic Checklist of Secondary Sources 1997 romance scholarship
Larkin, Brian Indian Films and Nigerian Lovers: Media and the Creation of Parallel Modernities 1997 Nigeria, film/movies, Ado Ahmad, Maryam Sahabi Liman
Griffin, Susan E. Resistance and Reinvention in Sandra Cisneros' Woman Hollering Creek 1997 Corín Tellado, readers, rape and/or intimate partner violence/abuse
Trachsel, Mary Horse Stories and Romance Fiction: Variants or Alternative Texts of Female Identity? 1997 gender, animals
Kelso, Sylvia Stitching Time: Feminism(s) and Thirty Years of Gothic Romance 1997 gothic romance, Barbara Michaels a.k.a. Elizabeth Peters a.k.a. Barbara Mertz, feminism, family
Moody, Nickianne; Hallam, Julia Medical Fictions 1997
Mussell, Kay Paradoxa Interview with Jayne Ann Krentz 1997 Jayne Ann Krentz/Amanda Quick/Jayne Castle, Publishing, romance scholarship
Regis, Pamela Complicating Romances and their Readers: Barrier and Point of Ritual Death in Nora Roberts's Category Fiction 1997 Nora Roberts/J. D. Robb, romance scholarship, genre definitions
Lamy, Odile La représentation du couple à travers les pages couvertures des romans Harlequin 1997 paratext, Harlequin Mills & Boon, fashion/clothing, settings, metaphor/symbolism, sex/sexuality, emotions
Moody, Nickianne; Hallam, Julia Medical Fictions 1997
Michel, Anita Re-reading the (series) romance: toward a typology of recent series romance novels 1997
Mussell, Kay Paradoxa Interview with Nora Roberts 1997 Nora Roberts/J. D. Robb, Harlequin Mills & Boon, Publishing, settings
Dunnion, Janne May Mapping Normalcy: Romance and the Postmodern Body 1997 Harlequin Mills & Boon
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
Potter, Jane "A great purifier": The Great War in Women's Romances and Memoirs 1914-1918 1997 war/armed forces, Berta Ruck, Ruby M. Ayres
Mussell, Kay Paradoxa Interview with Barbara G. Mertz 1997 Barbara Michaels a.k.a. Elizabeth Peters a.k.a. Barbara Mertz, genre definitions, Mary Stewart
Krentz, Jayne Ann All the Right Reasons: Romance Fiction in the Public Library 1997 Jayne Ann Krentz/Amanda Quick/Jayne Castle, libraries/librarians
Koski, Patricia; Holyfield, Lori; Thompson, Marcella Romance Novels as Women's Myths 1997 myth, emotions
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
Houel, Annik Le roman d’amour et sa lectrice: une si longue passion: l’exemple Harlequin 1997 Harlequin Mills & Boon, readers, love, marriage, history, family, France, feminism, sex/sexuality, happy ending, fashion/clothing, gender, family
Bettinotti, Julia; Truel, Marie-Françoise Lust and Dust: Desert Fabula in Romances and Media 1997 sheikh romance, E. M. Hull
Thompson, Marcella; Koski, Patricia; Holyfield, Lori Romance and agency: An argument revisited 1997 romance scholarship, readers, feminism
Constans, Ellen Du roman sentimental au roman d'amour: qu'en est-il du déclassement? 1997 trash/literary and or intellectual quality
Mussell, Kay Paradoxa Interview with Janet Dailey 1997 Janet Dailey, United States of America, disability
Puri, Jyoti Reading Romance Novels in Postcolonial India 1997 India, readers, marriage, sex/sexuality, gender, social/economic class, family
Blodgett, Jan Protestant Evangelical Literary Culture and Contemporary Society 1997 Christian romance, religion/spirituality, Janette Oke, rural romance, historical romance, Hilda Stahl, Leonora Pruner, Leslie Holden, Lurlene McDaniel, Mary LaPietra
Saint-Jacques, Denis; Bettinotti, Julia; des Rivières, Marie-José; Bleton, Paul; Savoie, Chantal Femmes de rêve au travail : les femmes et le travail dans les productions écrites de grande consommation, au Québec, de 1945 à aujourd'hui 1998 Canada, work, gender, Delly, Barbara Cartland, Harlequin Mills & Boon, Charlotte Lamb, Janet Dailey
McAlpine, Rachel The Passionate Pen: New Zealand’s Romance Writers Talk to Rachel McAlpine 1998 New Zealand, Victoria Aldridge, Rilla Berg, Gloria Bevan, Eva Burfield, Daphne Clair, Robyn Donald, Catherine Hay, Rosalie Henaghan, Miriam Macgregor, Mary Moore, Susan Napier, Jessie Nichols, Ivy Preston, Essie Summers, Rachelle Swift, feminism
Bettinotti, Julia Re-imagining the Gold Rush; Prospectors, Log Cabins and Mail-Order Brides in Contemporary Western Romances 1998 settings, historical romance, Canada, United States of America, Ana Seymour, Kristin Hannah, history
Belsey, Catherine Popular Fiction and the Feminine Masquerade 1998 gender, Marion Smith Collins, fashion/clothing, metafiction, Harlequin Mills & Boon, Shakespeare, Daphne du Maurier, marriage
Saint-Jacques, Denis; Bettinotti, Julia; des Rivières, Marie-José; Bleton, Paul; Savoie, Chantal Femmes de rêve au travail : les femmes et le travail dans les productions écrites de grande consommation, au Québec, de 1945 à aujourd'hui 1998 Canada, work, gender, Delly, Barbara Cartland, Harlequin Mills & Boon, Charlotte Lamb, Janet Dailey
Mathis, Gilles Le cliché 1998
Andreu, Alicia G. La obra de Carmen de Icaza en la difusión de un "nuevo" concepto de nación española 1998 Carmen de Icaza, Spain, fascism/right-wing authoritarianism, race/ethnicity, national identity
McCracken, Scott Pulp: Reading Popular Fiction 1998 Older and/or precursor texts (may not be "romance" as now defined), Harlequin Mills & Boon, Penny Jordan/Caroline Courtney, feminism, psychology, Elizabeth Power, gender, Emma Richmond, Catherine Cookson, metaphor/symbolism, settings
Williams, Clover Keepers of the Flame: The Romance Novel and Its Fans 1998 readers
Daniels, Mary Heather I Don't Read It for the Sex: Romance Readers and Identity Management 1998 readers, feminism
Perrin-Naffakh, Anne-Marie Amours - toujours : l'écriture clichée dans le roman sentimental 1998 Harlequin Mills & Boon
González García, María Teresa Corín Tellado, medio siglo de novela de amor (1946-1996) 1998 Corín Tellado
Potter, Jane Elizabeth Boys in khaki, girls in print: women's literary responses to the great war, 1914-1918 1998 war/armed forces, national identity
Modleski, Tania My Life as a Romance Writer 1998 BDSM, romance scholarship, Jennifer Crusie, Jayne Ann Krentz/Amanda Quick/Jayne Castle, Susan Elizabeth Phillips, gender, Linda Howard, evolutionary psychology, sex/sexuality, feminism
Bettinotti, Julia Lecture sérielle et roman sentimental 1998 readers
Saint-Jacques, Denis L'acte de lecture 1998
Al-Bataineh, Afaf Badr The modern Arabic novel: a literary and linguistic analysis of the genre of popular fiction, with special reference to translation from English 1998 translation, Harlequin Mills & Boon
Hutton-Jarvis, C. A. The educational potential of romantic fiction 1998 readers, teaching romance
Moody, Nickianne Mills & Boon’s Temptations: Sex and the Single Couple in the 1990s 1998 Harlequin Mills & Boon, work, family, marriage, Jo Morrison, LaVyrle Spencer, Mary Tate Engels, Alicia Fox, Cathy Gillen Thacker, Rita Clay Estrada, Cara McLean, Candace Schuler, Carla Neggers, gender, feminism
Williamson, Val Labour of Love: Gender and the Delivery of the Nineties Mills & Boon "Medical" 1998 medical romance, Harlequin Mills & Boon, work, paratext, health/medical, Gil Sanderson, Margaret Holt
Paizis, George Category Romances: Translation, Realism and Myth 1998 translation, Harlequin Mills & Boon
Mussell, Kay Kay Mussell Replies to Tania Modleski 1998 romance scholarship
Hemmungs Wirtén, Eva "They Seek It Here, They Seek It There, They Seek It Everywhere": Looking for the "Global" Book 1998 Harlequin Mills & Boon, translation, Sweden, Sandra Canfield, Doreen Hornsblow as Sally Wentworth, Janice Kaiser, sex/sexuality, national identity
Crusie Smith, Jennifer The Romantic Suspense Mystery 1998 romantic suspense, genre definitions, settings, Older and/or precursor texts (may not be "romance" as now defined), gothic romance, Horace Walpole, Ann Radcliffe, Jane Austen, Emily Brontë, Charlotte Brontë, Wilkie Collins, death, Mary Roberts Rinehart, Mabel Seeley, Dorothy MacCardle, Georgette Heyer, Vera Caspary, Daphne du Maurier, Mary Stewart, Barbara Michaels a.k.a. Elizabeth Peters a.k.a. Barbara Mertz, Victoria Holt/Jean Plaidy/Eleanor Burford Hibbert, Mary Higgins Clark, family, Eileen Dreyer/Kathleen Korbel
Palmer, Paulina Girl Meets Girl: Changing Approaches to the Lesbian Romance 1998 lesbian romance, Isabel Miller, Michelle Martin, Deborah Powell, LGBT+ characters, readers and/or authors, marriage, gender, fairytales/folktales, Jane Austen, romantic suspense, fashion/clothing
Roccella, Eugenia La letteratura rosa 1998 Liala, pen name of Amalia Liana Cambiasi Negretti Odescalchi
Clawson, Laura Covering genres: romance, science-fiction/fantasy, pleasure, and respectability 1998 trash/literary and or intellectual quality
Juhasz, Suzanne Lesbian Romance Fiction and the Plotting of Desire: Narrative Theory, Lesbian Identity, and Reading Practice 1998 lesbian romance, LGBT+ characters, readers and/or authors, Sarah Aldridge, readers, gender, psychology, work, love, sex/sexuality, family
Paizis, George Love and the Novel: The Poetics and Politics of Romantic Fiction 1998 Publishing, Harlequin Mills & Boon, genre definitions, paratext, settings, happy ending, readers, love
Saint-Jacques, Denis; Bettinotti, Julia; des Rivières, Marie-José; Bleton, Paul; Savoie, Chantal Femmes de rêve au travail : les femmes et le travail dans les productions écrites de grande consommation, au Québec, de 1945 à aujourd'hui 1998 Canada, work, gender, Delly, Barbara Cartland, Harlequin Mills & Boon, Charlotte Lamb, Janet Dailey
Service, Alexandra Popular Vikings: Constructions of Viking Identity in Twentieth Century Britain 1998 historical romance, Heather Graham, Johanna Lindsey, Catherine Coulter, Betina Krahn, rape and/or intimate partner violence/abuse, history, war/armed forces
Whissell, Cynthia The Formula Behind Women's Romantic Formula Fiction (Statistical survey of 50 Harlequin-Presents novels) 1998 Harlequin Mills & Boon, genre definitions
Winks, Robin W.; Corrigan, Maureen Mystery and Suspense Writers: The Literature of Crime, Detection, and Espionage, Volume 2 1998
Pearce, Lynne; Wisker, Gina Fatal Attractions: Rescripting Romance in Contemporary Literature and Film 1998
Philips, Deborah; Haywood, Ian Brave New Causes: Women in British Postwar Fictions 1998 social/economic class, settings, national identity, work, marriage, medical romance, history, UK, Harlequin Mills & Boon
Saint-Jacques, Denis; Bettinotti, Julia; des Rivières, Marie-José; Bleton, Paul; Savoie, Chantal Femmes de rêve au travail : les femmes et le travail dans les productions écrites de grande consommation, au Québec, de 1945 à aujourd'hui 1998 Canada, work, gender, Delly, Barbara Cartland, Harlequin Mills & Boon, Charlotte Lamb, Janet Dailey
Chopra, Radhika Whose Face Do I See?: Anonymity and Authorship in Popular Romances 1998 authors
Ehnenn, Jill Desperately Seeking Susan Among the Trash: Reinscription, Subversion and Visibility in the Lesbian Romance Novel 1998 lesbian romance, LGBT+ characters, readers and/or authors, readers, trash/literary and or intellectual quality, sex/sexuality, family
Mangat, T. K. The surgeon in popular fiction - The Mills and Boon doctor-nurse romance 1998 Harlequin Mills & Boon, medical romance
Winks, Robin W.; Corrigan, Maureen Mystery and Suspense Writers: The Literature of Crime, Detection, and Espionage, Volume 2 1998
Pearce, Lynne; Wisker, Gina Fatal Attractions: Rescripting Romance in Contemporary Literature and Film 1998
Philips, Deborah; Haywood, Ian Brave New Causes: Women in British Postwar Fictions 1998 social/economic class, settings, national identity, work, marriage, medical romance, history, UK, Harlequin Mills & Boon
Saint-Jacques, Denis; Bettinotti, Julia; des Rivières, Marie-José; Bleton, Paul; Savoie, Chantal Femmes de rêve au travail : les femmes et le travail dans les productions écrites de grande consommation, au Québec, de 1945 à aujourd'hui 1998 Canada, work, gender, Delly, Barbara Cartland, Harlequin Mills & Boon, Charlotte Lamb, Janet Dailey
Hemmungs Wirtén, Eva Global Infatuation: Explorations in Transnational Publishing and Texts: The case of Harlequin Enterprises and Sweden 1998 Sweden, translation, Harlequin Mills & Boon
Griffin, Linda An Analysis of Meaning Creation through the Integration of Sociology and Literature: A Critical Ethnography of a Romance Reading Group 1999 readers, sociology
Ryder, Mary Ellen Smoke and mirrors: Event patterns in the discourse structure of a romance novel 1999 linguistics, Barbara Cartland
Marks, Pamela The Good Provider in Romance Novels 1999 marriage, wealth/prosperity, emotions, history, United States of America, Older and/or precursor texts (may not be "romance" as now defined), Susan Warner, disability, sex/sexuality, work
Kaler, Anne K. Hero, Heroine, or HERA: A New Name for an Old Problem 1999 linguistics
Sonnet, Esther 'Erotic Fiction by Women for Women': The Pleasures of Post-Feminist Heterosexuality 1999 sex/sexuality, feminism, pornography
Palmer, Gary B.; Occhi, Debra J. Languages of Sentiment: Cultural constructions of emotional substrates 1999
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
Jarvis, Christine Love Changes Everything: The Transformative Potential of Popular Romantic Fiction 1999 teaching romance, readers, feminism, Harlequin Mills & Boon, gender, sex/sexuality, marriage, rape and/or intimate partner violence/abuse, social/economic class, wealth/prosperity, race/ethnicity, Charlotte Brontë, China, UK
Zidle, Abby From Bodice-Ripper to Baby-Sitter: The New Hero in Mass-Market Romance 1999 gender, emotions, psychology, readers, sex/sexuality, wealth/prosperity
Palmer, Gary B.; Occhi, Debra J. Languages of Sentiment: Cultural constructions of emotional substrates 1999
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
Johnson-Kurek, Rosemary E. "I Am Not a Bimbo": Persona, Promotion, and the Fabulous Fabio 1999 Fabio Lanzoni, also known as Fabio, paratext
Teo, Hsu-Ming Shanghaied By Sheiks: Orientalism and hybridity in women's romance writing 1999 sheikh romance, race/ethnicity
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
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
Crusie Smith, Jennifer This Is Not Your Mother's Cinderella: The Romance Novel as Feminist Fairy Tale 1999 feminism, fairytales/folktales, JoAnn Ross, family, sex/sexuality, gender, rape and/or intimate partner violence/abuse
Moore, Michael; Kramer, Daniela SATIR FOR BEGINNERS: Incongruent Communication Patterns in Romantic Fiction 1999 linguistics, Harlequin Mills & Boon, psychology
Kaler, Anne K.; Johnson-Kurek, Rosemary E. Romantic Conventions 1999
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
Constans, Ellen Parlez-moi d’amour: Le roman sentimental. Des romans grecs aux collections de l’an 2000 1999 romance scholarship, Older and/or precursor texts (may not be "romance" as now defined), Publishing, France
Hurley, Frances K. In the Words of Girls: The Reading of Adolescent Romance Fiction 1999 YA/teenage romance, readers, gender
Botts, Amber Cavewoman Impulses: The Jungian Shadow Archetype in Popular Romantic Fiction 1999 gender, feminism, psychology, sex/sexuality, emotions, readers
Huq, Maimuna From Piety to Romance: Islam-Oriented Texts in Bangladesh 1999 Islam, religion/spirituality, Bangladesh
Charles, John; Mosley, Shelley; Bouricius, Ann Romancing the YA Reader 1999 libraries/librarians
Benjamin, Sarah The Theory of 'Identity Dissonance': Mass Communication, Romance Fiction, and the Self-Concept 1999 psychology
Smith, Janet S. (Shibamoto) From Hiren to Happî-endo: Romantic Expression in the Japanese Love Story 1999 Japan, marriage, love, linguistics, family, metaphor/symbolism, emotions
Moore, Michael; Kramer, Daniela SATIR FOR BEGINNERS: Incongruent Communication Patterns in Romantic Fiction 1999 linguistics, Harlequin Mills & Boon, psychology
Kaler, Anne K.; Johnson-Kurek, Rosemary E. Romantic Conventions 1999
Breslin, Carol Ann Medieval Magic and Witchcraft in the Popular Romance Novel 1999 religion/spirituality, historical romance, history, Jude Deveraux, Elizabeth Lowell, Arnette Lamb
Charles, John; Mosley, Shelley; Bouricius, Ann Romancing the YA Reader 1999 libraries/librarians
Kinard, Amanda Marette Forbidden Pleasures: The Romance and Its Readers 1999 sex/sexuality, social/economic class, virginity, readers, capitalism/business, wealth/prosperity
Rak, Michele Rosa: La letteratura del divertimento amoroso 1999
Pecora, Norma Identity by Design: The Corporate Construction of Teen Romance Novels 1999 YA/teenage romance, fashion/clothing, sex/sexuality, rape and/or intimate partner violence/abuse, food, drink, LGBT+ characters, readers and/or authors, race/ethnicity
Mazzarella, Sharon R.; Pecora, Norma Odom Growing Up Girls: Popular Culture and the Construction of Identity 1999
Kaler, Anne K. Conventions of Captivity in Romance Novels 1999 sheikh romance, religion/spirituality, settings, E. M. Hull, sex/sexuality, rape and/or intimate partner violence/abuse
Smith, Faith Beautiful Indians, Troublesome Negroes, and Nice White Men: Caribbean Romances and the Invention of Trinidad 1999 Caribbean, race/ethnicity, Valerie Belgrave, feminism, national identity
Sales, Roger The Loathsome Lord and the Disdainful Dame: Byron, Cartland and the Regency Romance 1999 Barbara Cartland, historical romance
Charles, John; Mosley, Shelley; Bouricius, Ann Romancing the YA Reader 1999 libraries/librarians
Osborne, Laurie E. Romancing the Bard 1999 Shakespeare, historical romance, Georgette Heyer, Joan Wolf, cross-dressing, Edith Layton, Kasey Michaels, Susan Carroll, Loretta Chase, Margaret Evans Porter, Christina Dodd, Deanna James, Mary Balogh, Michelle Martin, gender
Postma, Kathlene American Women Readers Encounter Turkey in the Shadow of Popular Romance 1999 United States of America, Greece, Turkey, national identity, Older and/or precursor texts (may not be "romance" as now defined), Demetra Vaka, race/ethnicity
Mazzarella, Sharon R.; Pecora, Norma Odom Growing Up Girls: Popular Culture and the Construction of Identity 1999
Wilson, Frances Byromania: Portraits of the Artist in Nineteenth- and Twentieth-Century Culture 1999
Calhoun-French, Diane M. Time-Travel and Related Phenomena in Contemporary Popular Romance Fiction 1999 paranormal/fantasy/time-travel romance, gender, historical romance, Constance O'Day Flannery, Jo Ann Simon, Heather Graham, religion/spirituality, sex/sexuality, Jayne Ann Krentz/Amanda Quick/Jayne Castle, rape and/or intimate partner violence/abuse
Cunha, Maria Teresa Santos Armadilhas da sedução: os romances de M. Delly 1999 Delly, Older and/or precursor texts (may not be "romance" as now defined)
Eickelman, Dale F.; Anderson, Jon W. New Media in the Muslim World: The Emerging Public Sphere 1999
McAleer, Joseph Passion's Fortune: The Story of Mills & Boon 1999 Harlequin Mills & Boon, Publishing, UK, Betty Beaty, Mary Burchell, pen name of Ida Cook, Elizabeth Carfrae, Fay Chandos/Jan Tempest, Sophie Cole, Lilian Warren as Kathryn Blair/Rosalind Brett/Celine Conway, Iris Danbury, Joyce Dingwell/Kate Starr, Constance M. Evans, Eleanor Farnes, Louise Gerard, Elizabeth Gilzean, romances in magazines and newspapers, Roberta Leigh/Rachel Lindsay, libraries/librarians, Jean S. MacLeod/Catherine Airlie, Phyllis Matthewman, medical romance, sex/sexuality, work, marriage, race/ethnicity, happy ending, family, religion/spirituality, readers, Marjorie Moore, Betty Neels, Valerie K. Nelson, Kate Norway/Olive Norton, Denise Robins, Sara Seale, Juliet Shore/Anne Vinton, gender, Alex Stuart, Essie Summers, Joan Sutherland, Anne Weale, Hilary Wilde, Violet Winspear, Mary Lutyens/Esther Wyndham, Ireland
Desmet, Christy; Sawyer, Robert Shakespeare and Appropriation 1999
Goade, Sally A. "And With the Land, Our Spirits So Blended": Interrelated Frontier Quests of Self in Contemporary Historical Romance - A Study of Rosanne Bittner's 'Savage Destiny' series 1999 Rosanne Bittner, Native American romance
Parameswaran, Radhika Western Romance Fiction as English-Language Media in Postcolonial India 1999 Harlequin Mills & Boon, India, readers, social/economic class, libraries/librarians, sex/sexuality, gender, trash/literary and or intellectual quality
Dixon, jay The Romance Fiction of Mills & Boon 1909-1990s 1999 Harlequin Mills & Boon, rural romance, settings, marriage, gender, feminism, war/armed forces, work, love, Publishing, sex/sexuality, rape and/or intimate partner violence/abuse
Johnson-Kurek, Rosemary E. Leading Us into Temptation: The Language of Sex and the Power of Love 1999 Harlequin Mills & Boon, feminism, sex/sexuality, erotic romance, linguistics, gender, virginity, rape and/or intimate partner violence/abuse, Abra Taylor, Candace Schuler, Lori Foster, Jennifer Crusie
Opas, Lisa Lena; Tweedie, Fiona The Magic Carpet Ride: Reader Involvement in Romantic Fiction 1999 linguistics, Harlequin Mills & Boon, Danielle Steel, historical romance, readers
Ricker-Wilson, Carol Busting Textual Bodices: Gender, Reading, and the Popular Romance 1999 gender, Danielle Steel, readers, feminism, work, social/economic class, trash/literary and or intellectual quality
Edmondson, Belinda Caribbean Romances: The Politics of Regional Representation 1999
Eickelman, Dale F.; Anderson, Jon W. New Media in the Muslim World: The Emerging Public Sphere 1999
Desmet, Christy; Sawyer, Robert Shakespeare and Appropriation 1999
Gorry, April Marie Leaving Home for Romance: Tourist Women's Adventures Abroad 1999 evolutionary psychology
Stoneley, Peter 'Never Love a Cowboy': Romance Fiction and Fantasy Families 1999 United States of America, Ann Major, Lindsay McKenna, Robin Morgan, family, gender
Sullivan, Ceri; White, Barbara Writing and Fantasy 1999
Colmenero, Laura E. The social construction of gender as represented in popular fiction, 1990-1997 1999 Johanna Lindsey, gender
Heinecken, Dawn Changing Ideologies in Romance Fiction 1999 feminism, historical romance, Jayne Ann Krentz/Amanda Quick/Jayne Castle, Laura Kinsale, Kathleen Woodiwiss, gender, sex/sexuality
Opas, Lisa Lena; Tweedie, Fiona The Magic Carpet Ride: Reader Involvement in Romantic Fiction 1999 linguistics, Harlequin Mills & Boon, Danielle Steel, historical romance, readers
Christopherson, Neal Accommodation and Resistance in Religious Fiction: Family Structures and Gender Roles 1999 Christian romance, YA/teenage romance, gender, sociology, family, work
Sullivan, Ceri; White, Barbara Writing and Fantasy 1999
Ramsdell, Kristin Romance Fiction: A Guide to the Genre 1999 libraries/librarians, genre definitions, contemporary romance, romantic suspense, gothic romance, historical romance, paranormal/fantasy/time-travel romance, LGBT+ characters, readers and/or authors, Christian romance, race/ethnicity, romance scholarship
Kaler, Anne K. Introduction: Conventions of the Romance Genre 1999 trash/literary and or intellectual quality
Shumway, David R. Romance in the Romance: Love and Marriage in Turn-of-the-Century Best Sellers 1999 Older and/or precursor texts (may not be "romance" as now defined), love, marriage, history, national identity
Chow, Karen Popular Sexual Knowledges and Women’s Agency in 1920s England: Marie Stopes’s Married Love and E.M. Hull’s The Sheik 1999 sex/sexuality, E. M. Hull, health/medical, history, fashion/clothing
Backman, Nelina Esther Evangelism Embarrassed: Christian Literature in a post-Christian Culture 1999 Christian romance, history, sex/sexuality, fashion/clothing, race/ethnicity, wealth/prosperity, religion/spirituality
Andresen, Julie Tetel Postmodern Identity (Crisis): Confessions of a Linguistic Historiographer and Romance Writer 1999 linguistics, emotions, trash/literary and or intellectual quality
Glover, Thomasine; Hearvey, Crystal Monay; McCoy, Shuntay; Curtright, Lauren Anita Richmond Bunkley 2000 Anita Richmond Bunkley, African American romance
Hedrick, Donald; Reynolds, Bryan Shakespeare without Class: Misappropriations of Cultural Capital 2000
Macdonald, Andrew; Macdonald, Gina; Sheridan, Mary Ann Shape-shifting: Images of Native Americans in Recent Popular Fiction 2000 Native American romance, race/ethnicity
Hirsbrunner, A. R. Doomed to become heroines? Identification, women and fiction 2000 psychology, feminism
Darbyshire, Peter Romancing the World: Harlequin Romances, the Capitalist Dream, and the Conquest of Europe and Asia 2000 Harlequin Mills & Boon, capitalism/business, Publishing, Poland, Germany, United States of America, socialism and/or communism, wealth/prosperity, work, Japan, France
Rapp, Adrian; Dodgen, Lynda; Kaler, Anne K. A Romance Writer Gets Away with Murder 2000 Sandra Brown, romantic suspense, death
Villalba Álvarez, Marina Mujeres novelistas en el panorama literario del siglo XX: I Congreso de narrativa española (en lengua castellana). 2000
Sonnet, Esther What the Woman Reads: Categorising Contemporary Popular Erotica for Women 2000 sex/sexuality, feminism
Glover, Thomasine; Hearvey, Crystal Monay; McCoy, Shuntay; Curtright, Lauren Anita Richmond Bunkley 2000 Anita Richmond Bunkley, African American romance
Macdonald, Andrew; Macdonald, Gina; Sheridan, Mary Ann Shape-shifting: Images of Native Americans in Recent Popular Fiction 2000 Native American romance, race/ethnicity
Bettinotti, Julia; des Rivières, Marie-José Un élargissement du canon littéraire : le cas du roman d'amour 2000 romance scholarship, feminism, readers
Brackett, Kim Pettigrew Facework Strategies Among Romance Fiction Readers 2000 psychology, readers, paratext
Graf, Andreas Hedwig Courths-Mahler 2000 Hedwig Courths-Mahler
Linke, Gabriele Visions and Versions of Parenthood in British and American Series Romances 2000 family
Glover, Thomasine; Hearvey, Crystal Monay; McCoy, Shuntay; Curtright, Lauren Anita Richmond Bunkley 2000 Anita Richmond Bunkley, African American romance
Saint-Jacques, Denis Que vaut la littérature? 2000
McNamara, Sallie Georgette Heyer: The Historical Romance and the Consumption of the Erotic, 1918-1939 2000 Georgette Heyer, gender, sex/sexuality, historical romance, fashion/clothing, cross-dressing, settings
Bettinotti, Julia; des Rivières, Marie-José Un élargissement du canon littéraire : le cas du roman d'amour 2000 romance scholarship, feminism, readers
Shore, Z. Lesley Essay Review: Girls Learning, Women Teaching: Dancing to Different Drummers 2000 readers
Calhoun-French, Diane M. Of Love and Death: Murder and Mayhem Meet the Romance 2000 romantic suspense
Bagchi, Jayeeta Looking for Reality in Romance 2000 Harlequin Mills & Boon, gender, feminism, fairytales/folktales, love, paratext, readers, authors, India, sex/sexuality, family
Hallam, Julia; Moody, Nickianne Consuming for Pleasure: Selected Essays on Popular Fiction 2000
Bouricius, Ann The Romance Readers' Advisory: The Librarian's Guide to Love in the Stacks 2000 libraries/librarians, genre definitions
Secrease, Cassandra L A comparative analysis of lesbian romance novels and heterosexual romance novel themes 2000 LGBT+ characters, readers and/or authors, Karin Kallmaker, Peggy Herring, Lyn Denison, Katherine V. Forrest, Diana Simmonds
Nielsen, Inge Caught in the Web of Love: Intercepting the Young Adult Reception of Qiongyao's Romances On-Line 2000 Taiwan, YA/teenage romance, readers, Qiongyao/Qiong Yao, film/movies, translation, fanfiction
Hollows, Joanne Feminism, Femininity and Popular Culture 2000 romance scholarship
Diekman, Amanda B.; McDonald, Mary; Gardner, Wendi L. Love means never having to be careful: The relationship between reading romance novels and safe sex behavior 2000 psychology, sex/sexuality, readers
Hallam, Julia; Moody, Nickianne Consuming for Pleasure: Selected Essays on Popular Fiction 2000
Andrews, Maggie; Talbot, Mary M. All the World and Her Husband: Women in Twentieth-Century Consumer Culture 2000
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
Homenaje a José María Martínez Cachero: investigación y crítica, Vol. 2 2000
Neal, Lynn S. Romancing God: Reading Evangelical Romance Novels 2000 Christian romance, readers, authors, religion/spirituality, United States of America, Robin Lee Hatcher, Terry Blackstock, Peggy Stoks, Irene Brand, Shari MacDonald, Janette Oke, family, Francine Rivers
Alfonso García, María del Carmen Sobre novela rosa y condición femenina en la España de posguerra 2000 Spain, history, gender
Diekman, Amanda B.; McDonald, Mary; Gardner, Wendi L. Love means never having to be careful: The relationship between reading romance novels and safe sex behavior 2000 psychology, sex/sexuality, readers
Andrews, Maggie; Talbot, Mary M. All the World and Her Husband: Women in Twentieth-Century Consumer Culture 2000
Martínez de la Hidalga, Fernando La novela popular en España (vol 1.) 2000
Hallam, Julia Nursing the Image: Media, Culture and Professional Identity 2000 medical romance, work, gender, health/medical, race/ethnicity, social/economic class
Álvarez, Blanca Corín Tellado: mantilla y matrimonio 2000 Corín Tellado
Beyer, Jennifer Ann Perry The romance novel revolution: a study of criticisms and readers 2000 readers
Caton, Steven C. The Sheik: Instabilities of Race and Gender in Transatlantic Popular Culture of the Early 1920s 2000 E. M. Hull, United States of America, UK, race/ethnicity, settings, gender, history, rape and/or intimate partner violence/abuse
Diekman, Amanda B.; McDonald, Mary; Gardner, Wendi L. Love means never having to be careful: The relationship between reading romance novels and safe sex behavior 2000 psychology, sex/sexuality, readers
Edwards, Holly Noble Dreams, Wicked Pleasures: Orientalism in America, 1870-1930 2000
Burley, Stephanie Shadows and Silhouettes: The Racial Politics of Category Romance 2000 Harlequin Mills & Boon, race/ethnicity, B. J. James, Scotland, gender, United States of America
Hemmungs Wirtén, Eva Harlequin romances in Swedish: a case study in globalized publishing 2000 translation, Sweden, Harlequin Mills & Boon, Publishing
Jarvis, Christine Hungry Heroines: The Exploration of a "Generative Theme" in Romantic Fiction 2000
Burnett, Ann; Beto, Rhea Reinhardt Reading Romance Novels: An Application of Parasocial Relationship Theory 2000 readers, psychology
Osborne, Laurie Sweet, Savage Shakespeare 2000 Shakespeare
Martínez Garrido, Elisa Bildungsroman y crítica de género: Novela rosa y narrativa de mujeres 2000 Italy, Older and/or precursor texts (may not be "romance" as now defined), gender, love, fairytales/folktales
Kaler, Anne K. Dysfunctional Detectives and Romantic P.I.s: Impediments to the Happy Marriage of Mystery and Romance 2000 romantic suspense, gender
Sevilla, Florencio; Alvar, Carlos Actas del XIII Congreso de la Asociación Internacional de Hispanistas: Madrid 1998: IV: Historia y sociedad comparada y otros estudios 2000
Andreu, Alicia G. Literatura popular española fascista: discurso de la nación 2000 Spain, fascism/right-wing authoritarianism, Carmen de Icaza, cross-dressing
Burnett, Ann; Beto, Rhea Reinhardt Reading Romance Novels: An Application of Parasocial Relationship Theory 2000 readers, psychology
Panizza, Letizia; Wood, Sharon A History of Women’s Writing in Italy 2000
Lepschy, Anna Laura The Popular Novel, 1850-1920 2000 Liala, pen name of Amalia Liana Cambiasi Negretti Odescalchi
Rapp, Adrian; Dodgen, Lynda; Kaler, Anne K. A Romance Writer Gets Away with Murder 2000 Sandra Brown, romantic suspense, death
Sevilla, Florencio; Alvar, Carlos Actas del XIII Congreso de la Asociación Internacional de Hispanistas: Madrid 1998: IV: Historia y sociedad comparada y otros estudios 2000
Manzano Badía, Benjamín Carmen de Icaza, una apología pequeño-burguesa y conservadora de la familia 2000 Carmen de Icaza, family, Spain, fascism/right-wing authoritarianism, work, gender, marriage, feminism, religion/spirituality, wealth/prosperity, social/economic class, capitalism/business
Glover, Thomasine; Hearvey, Crystal Monay; McCoy, Shuntay; Curtright, Lauren Anita Richmond Bunkley 2000 Anita Richmond Bunkley, African American romance
Panizza, Letizia; Wood, Sharon A History of Women’s Writing in Italy 2000
Hedrick, Donald; Reynolds, Bryan Shakespeare without Class: Misappropriations of Cultural Capital 2000
Macdonald, Andrew; Macdonald, Gina; Sheridan, Mary Ann Shape-shifting: Images of Native Americans in Recent Popular Fiction 2000 Native American romance, race/ethnicity
Hilton, Linda Ann Wheeler Half Heaven, Half Heartache: Discovering the Transformative Potential in Women's Popular Fiction 2000 feminism
Rapp, Adrian; Dodgen, Lynda; Kaler, Anne K. A Romance Writer Gets Away with Murder 2000 Sandra Brown, romantic suspense, death
Barrios, Joi Ang aking Prince Charming at iba pang noveleta ng pag-ibig 2001 Joi Barrios
Kramer, Daniela; Moore, Michael Gender Roles, Romantic Fiction and Family Therapy 2001 psychology, Harlequin Mills & Boon, gender, marriage, family, rape and/or intimate partner violence/abuse
Makinen, Merja Feminist Popular Fiction 2001 feminism, romance scholarship, Susan Napier, work, sex/sexuality, gender, Lisa Shapiro, LGBT+ characters, readers and/or authors, love, family
Béres, Laura Romance, suffering and hope, reflective practice with abused women 2001 rape and/or intimate partner violence/abuse, readers, psychology, fairytales/folktales, paranormal/fantasy/time-travel romance, Michele Hauf, V. C. Andrews
Kramer, Daniela; Moore, Michael Gender Roles, Romantic Fiction and Family Therapy 2001 psychology, Harlequin Mills & Boon, gender, marriage, family, rape and/or intimate partner violence/abuse
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
Brown, Eleanor M.  Romance Novel of One's Own: The Nature and "Failure" of the Lesbian Romance Sub-Genre 2001 LGBT+ characters, readers and/or authors, paratext, Katherine V. Forrest, Diana Simmonds, Marianne K. Martin, Karin Kallmaker, sex/sexuality
de Jesús, Melinda L. "Two’s Company, Three’s a Crowd?": Reading Interracial Romance in Contemporary Asian American Young Adult Fiction 2001 YA/teenage romance, race/ethnicity, United States of America, LGBT+ characters, readers and/or authors, Haemi Balgassi, Kate Emberg, Lois-Ann Yamanaka
Sanconie, Maïca Au-delà du vertige. Mises en abyme ou la traduction des réseaux de clichés dans les romans Harlequin 2001 Harlequin Mills & Boon, translation, emotions
Bywaters, Barbara Decentering the Romance: Jane Austen, Georgette Heyer, and Popular Romance Fiction 2001 Jane Austen, Georgette Heyer
Kramer, Daniela; Moore, Michael Family Myths in Romantic Fiction 2001 psychology, love, family, marriage, myth, Harlequin Mills & Boon, gender, rape and/or intimate partner violence/abuse, virginity, sex/sexuality, work
Savinainen, Raija Gender-specific features of male/female interaction in a popular romantic novel by Barbara Cartland 2001 linguistics, Barbara Cartland, gender
Portut, Vanessa Évolution du roman sentimental contemporain en France: diversité et spécificité des collections chez Harlequin 2001 Harlequin Mills & Boon, France
Kramer, Daniela; Moore, Michael Family Myths in Romantic Fiction 2001 psychology, love, family, marriage, myth, Harlequin Mills & Boon, gender, rape and/or intimate partner violence/abuse, virginity, sex/sexuality, work
Maher, Jennifer Ripping the Bodice: Eating, Reading, and Revolt 2001 food, drink, romance scholarship, feminism, readers, fat, fatness
McCay, Mary A. Love's Labors Won: Romance Fiction and the Politics of Love 2001 Laura Kinsale, Mary Jo Putney, Jayne Ann Krentz/Amanda Quick/Jayne Castle
Fahnestock-Thomas, Mary Georgette Heyer: A Critical Retrospective 2001 Georgette Heyer
Whitsitt, Novian Islamic-Hausa Feminism and Kano Market Literature: Qur'anic Reinterpretation in the Novels of Balaraba Yakubu 2002 Nigeria, Africa, Islam, gender, marriage, feminism, religion/spirituality, Balaraba Ramat Yakubu, sex/sexuality, family, health/medical
Meyer, Michael The Bedford Introduction to Literature: Reading, Thinking, Writing (Sixth Edition) 2002 Karen van der Zee, teaching romance
Brooker, Will; Jermyn, Deborah The Audience Studies Reader 2002
Roberts, Sherron Killingsworth Meet Jessica and Elizabeth from Sweet Valley: Who Are the Female Role Models in Popular Romance Novels for Children? 2002 YA/teenage romance
Burt, Richard Shakespeare after Mass Media 2002
Muhomah, Catherine What do women want?: Versions of masculinity in Kenyan romantic fiction 2002 Kenya, Asenath Odaga, marriage, gender, sex/sexuality, family, wealth/prosperity
Darbyshire, Peter The Politics of Love: Harlequin Romances and the Christian Right 2002 sex/sexuality, Christian romance, Harlequin Mills & Boon, gender, United States of America, feminism, work, family, readers, religion/spirituality, capitalism/business
Sonnet, Esther '"Just a book", she said ...': Refiguring Ethnography for the Female Readers of Sexual Fiction 2002 readers, sex/sexuality
Scott, Alison M. Romance in the Stacks; or, Popular Romance Fiction Imperiled 2002 libraries/librarians, trash/literary and or intellectual quality, romance scholarship
Charles, John; Mosley, Shelley Getting Serious about Romance: Adult Series Romances for Teens 2002 libraries/librarians, Harlequin Mills & Boon
Schurman, Lydia Cushman; Johnson, Deidre Scorned Literature: Essays on the History and Criticism of Popular Mass-Produced Fiction in America 2002
O’Neill, Maria; Zamorano Llena, Carmen The Aesthetics of Ageing: Critical Approaches to Literary Representations of the Ageing Process 2002
McKnight-Trontz, Jennifer The Look of Love: The Art of the Romance Novel 2002 paratext
Charles, John; Mosley, Shelley Getting Serious about Romance: Adult Series Romances for Teens 2002 libraries/librarians, Harlequin Mills & Boon
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
Schurman, Lydia Cushman; Johnson, Deidre Scorned Literature: Essays on the History and Criticism of Popular Mass-Produced Fiction in America 2002
O’Neill, Maria; Zamorano Llena, Carmen The Aesthetics of Ageing: Critical Approaches to Literary Representations of the Ageing Process 2002
Mussell, Kay Are Feminism and Romance Novels Mutually Exclusive? 2002 feminism
Moudileno, Lydie Pas de romance sans finance: la construction du couple moderne dans les romans sentimentaux de l'Afrique de l'Ouest 2002 Africa, settings, love, sex/sexuality, gender, fashion/clothing, wealth/prosperity
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
Fletcher, Lisa I love you: historical romance fiction and heterosexuality 2002 historical romance
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
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