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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
Haruna, Alkasim; Abd Aziz, Noor Hashima Understanding How Novels Shape Identities of Female Readers: A Transactional Reader-Response Approach 2019 readers, Nigeria
Kuortti, Joel; Ilmonen, Kaisa; Valovirta, Elina; Korkka, Janne Thinking with the Familiar in Contemporary Literature and Culture 'Out of the Ordinary' 2019
Kaufman, Alexander L.; Vlagopoulos, Penny Food and Feast in Modern Outlaw Tales 2019
Jarc, Klara Ljubezenski roman v Sloveniji: knjižnična izposoja, bralci in produkcija 2019 libraries/librarians, Slovenia, Publishing, readers
Stern, Stephanie C.; Robbins, Brianne; Black, Jessica E.; Barnes, Jennifer L. What You Read and What You Believe: Genre Exposure and Beliefs About Relationships 2019 psychology, readers, love, gender
Lois, Jennifer; Gregson, Joanna Aspirational Emotion Work: Calling, Emotional Capital, and Becoming a 'Real' Writer 2019 authors, work, emotions, sociology
Chen, Eva “The Hate that Changed”: Cycling Romance and the Aestheticization of Women Cyclists 2019 Older and/or precursor texts (may not be "romance" as now defined), romances in magazines and newspapers
Chaplin, Sue ‘Daddy, I’m falling for a monster’: Women, Sex, and Sacrifice in Contemporary Paranormal Romance 2019 paranormal/fantasy/time-travel romance, Twilight, J. R. Ward, Lara Adrian, family, gender, sex/sexuality, rape and/or intimate partner violence/abuse, LGBT+ characters, readers and/or authors
González Pérez, Teresa La educación de las mujeres en Iberoamérica: análisis histórico 2019
Γραφανάκη, Ρωξάνη Γυναίκες και ροζ λογοτεχνία: η περίπτωση των εκδόσεων Άρλεκιν 2019 Harlequin Mills & Boon, feminism, capitalism/business, gender, sex/sexuality
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
Haruna, Alkasim; Abd Aziz, Noor Hashima Understanding How Novels Shape Identities of Female Readers: A Transactional Reader-Response Approach 2019 readers, Nigeria
Taylor, Helen Why Women Read Fiction: The Stories of Our Lives 2019 readers, Harlequin Mills & Boon, Fifty Shades
Carlos, Giovana Santana Fandom e mercado literário: um mapa das mediações das fãs de romance no contexto brasileiro 2019 readers, Brazil, Publishing
Rosanowski, Annika Can She Have It All? Pregnancy Narratives in Contemporary Category Romance 2019 family, gender, Harlequin Mills & Boon, marriage
Kendal, Evie The use of free indirect discourse in J. R. Ward's Black Dagger Brotherhood series 2019 J. R. Ward, close reading, linguistics, genre definitions, paranormal/fantasy/time-travel romance, readers
Béja, Alice La new romance et ses nuances. Marché littéraire, sexualité imaginaire et condition féminine 2019 France, erotic romance, sex/sexuality, Fifty Shades, Publishing, m/m romance, fanfiction, readers
Shields, Juliet Preaching without Practicing: Middle-Class Domesticity in Annie S. Swan's Serial Fiction 2019 Annie S. Swan
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
Raineri, Rosalia Verde bianco e rosa. Il romanzo 'femminile' e l'educazione sentimentale delle italiane (1911-1946) 2019 Annie Vivanti/Annie Vivanti Chartres, Mura, Luciana Peverelli, Italy, national identity, gender, Older and/or precursor texts (may not be "romance" as now defined), linguistics, family
Moore, Laura M. Sexual Agency, Safe Sex, and Consent Negotiations in Erotic Romance Novels 2019 sex/sexuality, rape and/or intimate partner violence/abuse, erotic romance
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
Ali, Kecia Sacrifices, Sidekicks, and Scapegoats: Black Characters and White Stories in Nora Roberts’s Romances 2019 Nora Roberts/J. D. Robb, race/ethnicity, death, romantic suspense, paranormal/fantasy/time-travel romance, rape and/or intimate partner violence/abuse, police officers/police forces, authors
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
Basu, Soumi Sinha Ray The Allure and the Shame of Popular Fiction: An Analysis of Mills & Boon Romances 2019 Harlequin Mills & Boon
Lin, Pei-yin; Kim, Su Yun East Asian Transwar Popular Culture: Literature and Film from Taiwan and Korea 2019 Taiwan, Korea, Older and/or precursor texts (may not be "romance" as now defined)
Muryn, Teresa Rougir / devenir rouge : l’expression linguistique du langage corporel et ce qu’elle laisse inférer dans un genre textuel 2019 linguistics, emotions, Harlequin Mills & Boon
Chaves, Duarte Nuno Memoria e Identidade Insular: Religiosidade, Festividades e Turismo nos Arquipélagos da Madeira e Açores 2019
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
Kraxenberger, Maria Erotic Romances: An Emerging Subgenre Succeeding Fifty Shades 2019 erotic romance, Fifty Shades
Gardner, Dora Abigail Defending the Bodice Ripper 2019 feminism, readers, sex/sexuality, history, rape and/or intimate partner violence/abuse
Gerlitz, Laura Michelle Judging a Book By Its Cover: Bringing the Digital Humanities into Reader’s Advisory 2019 Harlequin Mills & Boon, paratext, libraries/librarians
Williams, Elizabeth W. Queering Settler Romance: The Reparative Eugenic Landscape in Nora Strange's Kenyan Novels 2019 Nora K. Strange, sex/sexuality, race/ethnicity, Kenya, Africa, family, science/technology, history, settings, rural romance, rape and/or intimate partner violence/abuse
Al Thobaiti, Fatmah Afterlife of the Romance Hero: Readers’ Reproduction of Romance 2019 readers, gender, fanfiction, Twilight
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
Lin, Pei-yin; Kim, Su Yun East Asian Transwar Popular Culture: Literature and Film from Taiwan and Korea 2019 Taiwan, Korea, Older and/or precursor texts (may not be "romance" as now defined)
Pérez Casal, Inmaculada Antecedents and Development of the Contemporary Romance Novel in English: A Study of the Contribution to the Genre by Rosamunde Pilcher and Lisa Kleypas 2019 feminism, Lisa Kleypas, Rosamunde Pilcher
Romera Pintor, Angela Magdalena L’enfance dans l’œuvre de Delly 2019 Delly, family
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
Cella, Laurie J. C. The Personal and the Political in American Working-Class Literature, 1850-1939: Defining the Radical Romance 2019 gender, history, United States of America, Older and/or precursor texts (may not be "romance" as now defined), Laura Jean Libbey, sex/sexuality, work, fashion/clothing, social/economic class, socialism and/or communism
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
Noone, Kristin Succulent Texts: Desire, Outlaws, and Consumption in Popular Romance 2019 food, drink, Suzanne Enoch, pirates and outlaws, Diane Carey, Alexis Hall, historical romance, steampunk, LGBT+ characters, readers and/or authors, community, religion/spirituality, rural romance
González Cruz, María Isabel; Vera-Cazorla, María Jesús Género e identidad cultural: perfiles femeninos en un corpus de novela rosa 2019 Spain, gender, linguistics
Escolar, Marisa Allied Encounters: The Gendered Redemption of World War II Italy 2019 Luciana Peverelli, Italy
Rollins, Shannon Marie Crafting women’s narratives: the material impact of twenty-first century romance fiction on contemporary steampunk dress 2019 steampunk, fashion/clothing, gender, Gail Carriger, feminism, race/ethnicity, Adrienne Kress
Jones, Amanda Madness, Monks and Mutiny: Neo-Victorianism in the Work of Victoria Holt 2019 Victoria Holt/Jean Plaidy/Eleanor Burford Hibbert, gothic romance, romantic suspense, feminism, Charlotte Brontë, gender, marriage, family, Wilkie Collins, health/medical, Mary Elizabeth Braddon, India
Haruna, Alkasim; Abd Aziz, Noor Hashima Towards an Understanding of the Efferent Reading Stance of Hausa Popular Romance Novels 2019 Nigeria, Africa, readers
González Cruz, María Isabel Viaje y romance en Canarias: el discurso del paraíso en dos novelas publicadas en los Estados Unidos 2019 Spain, Nancy Kennedy, settings
Dryden, Therese The Valentine Wars 2019 feminism, family, Susan Elizabeth Phillips, Nora Roberts/J. D. Robb, Rachel Gibson, Robyn Carr, Marie Force, Kristan Higgins, Ruthie Knox, Bella Andre, Grace Burrowes, Sharon Sala, Michelle Douglas
Delpech, Jeanine Le cas Delly 2019 Delly
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
Huang, Yu-ting; Weaver-Hightower, Rebecca Archiving Settler Colonialism: Culture, Space and Race 2019
Stapleton, Rachel F.; Viselli, Antonio Iconoclasm: The Breaking and Making of Images 2019
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
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
González Cruz, María Isabel; Vera-Cazorla, María Jesús Género e identidad cultural: perfiles femeninos en un corpus de novela rosa 2019 Spain, gender, linguistics
Schell, Heather; Larsen, Katherine How the Story Ends: Gender, Sexuality, and Nation in the Happy Ending 2019 happy ending, Sonali Dev, Radclyffe/Len Barot, United States of America, gender, trash/literary and or intellectual quality
Golubov, Nattie La promesa utópica del final feliz 2019 genre definitions, happy ending
Çamoğlu, Dikmen Yakalı Re/Presenting Gender and Love 2019
Billekens, Franciska Never Mind Me When There’s You: The Submission Of The Heroine In Young Adult Supernatural Romance Fiction 2019 YA/teenage romance, gender, paranormal/fantasy/time-travel romance
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
Haruna, Alkasim; Abd Aziz, Noor Hashima Towards an Understanding of the Efferent Reading Stance of Hausa Popular Romance Novels 2019 Nigeria, Africa, readers
Cheyne, Ria Disability in Genre Fiction 2018 disability, sex/sexuality, Fay Robinson/Carmel Parsons Thomaston
Arnold-Forster, Agnes; Moulds, Alison Medical women in popular fiction 2018 health/medical, history, Harlequin Mills & Boon, gender, medical romance
Schell, Heather; Brown, Ann K. G. Romancelandia on Twitter: Designing a Digital Humanities Research Assignment for First-Year Writing Students 2018 teaching romance, authors
Hernández, María Beatriz; Brito, Manuel; Monterrey, Tomás Broadening Horizons: A Peak Panorama of English Studies in Spain 2018
Killeen, Jarlath Nora Roberts: the Power of Love 2018 Nora Roberts/J. D. Robb, love
Popova, Milena Rewriting the Romance: Emotion Work and Consent in Arranged Marriage Fanfiction 2018 fanfiction, sex/sexuality, marriage, emotions
Gómez Gray, Alana Lectura, paraliteratura y mujeres en España: de la novela rosa a cincuenta sombras 2018 romance scholarship, Spain, Publishing, history, Fifty Shades, readers
Ramsdell, Kristin Encyclopedia of Romance Fiction 2018 Publishing, paranormal/fantasy/time-travel romance, comics/manga, Christian romance, marriage, Jane Austen, Charlotte Brontë, Emily Brontë, Barbara Cartland, Janet Dailey, Daphne du Maurier, Ethel M. Dell, erotic romance, feminism, science fiction/futuristic romance, Elinor Glyn, Margaret Mitchell, Harlequin Mills & Boon, Georgette Heyer, Victoria Holt/Jean Plaidy/Eleanor Burford Hibbert, historical romance, E. M. Hull, romance scholarship, LGBT+ characters, readers and/or authors, libraries/librarians, romantic suspense, Samuel Richardson, rape and/or intimate partner violence/abuse, Nora Roberts/J. D. Robb, Bertrice Small, Mary Stewart, translation, Patricia Veryan, Phyllis A. Whitney, Kathleen Winsor, Kathleen Woodiwiss, race/ethnicity
Johnson, Valerie B. What a Canon Wants: Robin Hood, Romance Novels, and Carrie Lofty’s What a Scoundrel Wants 2018 Carrie Lofty, Older and/or precursor texts (may not be "romance" as now defined), historical romance, pirates and outlaws
Driscoll, Beth; Fletcher, Lisa; Wilkins, Kim; Carter, David The Publishing Ecosystems of Contemporary Australian Genre Fiction 2018 Publishing, Australia
Chelton, Mary K. Searching for Birth Parents or Adopted Children: Finding without Seeking in Romance Novels 2018 family
Suárez Coalla, Paquita; Rivera Valdés, Sonia; Íñigo, Ainoa Repercusión de la lectura y otras formas de arte en nuestra vida y nuestra obra: Memorias del VII coloquio de LART, Centro Español de Manhattan, Nueva York, 26-28 de octubre de 2016 2018
Batzke, Ina; Erbacher, Eric C.; Heß, Linda M.; Lenhardt, Corinna Exploring the Fantastic: Genre, Ideology, and Popular Culture 2018
Roberts, Gillian Reading between the Borderlines: Cultural Production and Consumption across the 49th Parallel 2018
Pérez Casal, Inmaculada Mass-market romance and the question of genre: N. Sparks, E. L. James and D. Gabaldon 2018 Diana Gabaldon, Fifty Shades, Nicholas Sparks, genre definitions, film/movies
González de la Rosa, María del Pilar Intersections of Inner and Outer Journeys in Contemporary Popular Romance Fiction Novels 2018 settings, Harlequin Mills & Boon
Hernández, María Beatriz; Brito, Manuel; Monterrey, Tomás Broadening Horizons: A Peak Panorama of English Studies in Spain 2018
Hopkins, Lisa After Austen: Reinventions, Rewritings, Revisitings 2018
Batzke, Ina; Erbacher, Eric C.; Heß, Linda M.; Lenhardt, Corinna Exploring the Fantastic: Genre, Ideology, and Popular Culture 2018
Hopkins, Lisa Waltzing with Wellington, Biting with Byron: Heroes in Austen Tribute Texts 2018 Jane Austen, Georgette Heyer, gender, historical romance
Suwanban, Pauline From Exhalation to Transformation: The Female Body in the Orientalist Romance 2018 E. M. Hull, gender, sex/sexuality, race/ethnicity
Rudisill, Kristen Full-Blooded Desi Romance: Contemporary English-Language Romance Novels in India 2018 India, readers, Publishing, national identity, Harlequin Mills & Boon, family
Paige, Lori A. The Gothic Romance Wave: A Critical History of the Mass Market Novels, 1960-1993 2018 gothic romance, Older and/or precursor texts (may not be "romance" as now defined), historical romance
Hernández, María Beatriz; Brito, Manuel; Monterrey, Tomás Broadening Horizons: A Peak Panorama of English Studies in Spain 2018
Güvendi Yalçın, Elif The Transformation of Romance Novels Based on the Theories of Sociologist Anthony Giddens 2018 sociology, gender, love, marriage, Kathleen Woodiwiss, Jayne Ann Krentz/Amanda Quick/Jayne Castle, rape and/or intimate partner violence/abuse, historical romance
Harris, Racheal Really Romantic? Pirates in Romantic Fiction 2018 pirates and outlaws, sex/sexuality, historical romance, rape and/or intimate partner violence/abuse, virginity
Taylor, Jessica Animating Creative Selves: Pen Names as Property in the Careers of Canadian and American Romance Writers 2018 authors, Publishing, work
White, Bonnie; Pope, Johnathan H. Spinsters, war widows, and wounded soldiers: the Great War novels of Berta Ruck 2018 Berta Ruck, war/armed forces, gender, disability, marriage
Keen, Suzanne Probable Impossibilities: Historical Romance Readers Talk Back 2018 Diana Gabaldon, readers, history
Clay, Catherine; DiCenzo, Maria; Green, Barbara; Hackney, Fiona Women's Periodicals and Print Culture in Britain, 1918-1939: The Interwar Period 2018
Abrahamsson, Elin Enahanda läsning: En queer tolkning av romancegenren 2018 Fifty Shades, Twilight, Sweden, readers, sex/sexuality, feminism, gender, trash/literary and or intellectual quality, LGBT+ characters, readers and/or authors
Po-Yu, Rick Wei “She is a Jade”: A Georgian Gaming Woman Re-imagined in Georgette Heyer’s Faro’s Daughter 2018 Georgette Heyer, history, feminism, historical romance
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
McAlister, Jodi The literary text as historical artifact: The colonial couple in Australian romantic fiction by women, 1838-1860 2018 Australia, love, Older and/or precursor texts (may not be "romance" as now defined), history, national identity
Kitchen, Veronica Veterans and Military Masculinity in Popular Romance Fiction 2018 war/armed forces, gender, disability
Bird, Paul Issues of Socioeconomic Class in Barbara Cartland’s A Duel of Hearts and Catherine Cookson’s The Menagerie 2018 social/economic class, Barbara Cartland, Catherine Cookson
White, Bonnie; Pope, Johnathan H. Spinsters, war widows, and wounded soldiers: the Great War novels of Berta Ruck 2018 Berta Ruck, war/armed forces, gender, disability, marriage
Murphy, Bernice M.; Matterson, Stephen Twenty-First-Century Popular Fiction 2018
Ferrández San Miguel, María; Neumann, Claus-Peter Taking Stock to Look Ahead: Celebrating Forty Years of English Studies in Spain 2018
Pérez Casal, Inmaculada The Romance Novel as Bildungsroman in the Works of Rosamunde Pilcher and Lisa Kleypas 2018 gender, Rosamunde Pilcher, Lisa Kleypas, historical romance
Clay, Catherine; DiCenzo, Maria; Green, Barbara; Hackney, Fiona Women's Periodicals and Print Culture in Britain, 1918-1939: The Interwar Period 2018
Neville, Lucy Girls Who Like Boys Who Like Boys: Women and Gay Male Pornography and Erotica 2018 pornography, m/m romance, sex/sexuality, LGBT+ characters, readers and/or authors
Lee, Zi-Ying; Liao, Min-Hsiu The “Second” Bride: The Retranslation of Romance Novels 2018 translation, Publishing, Taiwan
Zhou, Yanyan; Paul, Bryant; Sherman, Ryland Still a Hetero-Gendered World: A Content Analysis of Gender Stereotypes and Romantic Ideals in Chinese Boy Love Stories 2018 m/m romance, gender, China, LGBT+ characters, readers and/or authors
Gillis, Stacy Manners, Money, and Marriage: Austen, Heyer, and the Literary Genealogy of the Regency Romance 2018 Jane Austen, Georgette Heyer, Older and/or precursor texts (may not be "romance" as now defined), gender, sex/sexuality, social/economic class, history, trash/literary and or intellectual quality, marriage, historical romance
Gehrmann, Susanne Remediating Romance: Forms and Functions of New Media in Contemporary Love Stories from Togo and South Africa 2018 Publishing, Africa, chick lit
Murphy, Bernice M.; Matterson, Stephen Twenty-First-Century Popular Fiction 2018
Ferrández San Miguel, María; Neumann, Claus-Peter Taking Stock to Look Ahead: Celebrating Forty Years of English Studies in Spain 2018
Glennemeier, Jaelyn “And he was an Arab!:” Imperial Femininity and Pleasure in E. M. Hull's 1919 Desert Romance, The Sheik 2018 E. M. Hull, race/ethnicity, history, rape and/or intimate partner violence/abuse
Lowery, Karalyne The Militarized Shapeshifter: Authorized Violence and Military Connections as an Antidote to Monstrosity 2018 paranormal/fantasy/time-travel romance, war/armed forces, United States of America
Clay, Catherine; DiCenzo, Maria; Green, Barbara; Hackney, Fiona Women's Periodicals and Print Culture in Britain, 1918-1939: The Interwar Period 2018
Mazloomian, Maryam; Mohammadi, Nahid Discursive Vulnerability and Identity Development: A Triangular Model of Bio-Forces in Cultural Ecological Analysis of American Romance Fiction 2018 Debbie Macomber, psychology
Lee, Zi-Ying; Liao, Min-Hsiu The “Second” Bride: The Retranslation of Romance Novels 2018 translation, Publishing, Taiwan
Zhou, Yanyan; Paul, Bryant; Sherman, Ryland Still a Hetero-Gendered World: A Content Analysis of Gender Stereotypes and Romantic Ideals in Chinese Boy Love Stories 2018 m/m romance, gender, China, LGBT+ characters, readers and/or authors
Gillingham, Erica Representations of same-sex relationships between female characters in all-ages comics: Princess Princess Ever After and Lumberjanes 2018 comics/manga, LGBT+ characters, readers and/or authors
Hopkins, Lisa Georgette Heyer: What Austen Left Out 2018 Georgette Heyer, Jane Austen, history, war/armed forces, historical romance
Lawrey, Jeffrey A.; McLuckie, Alyx; Mulberry, Benjamin J.; Mullins, Erin K.; Shuler, Autumn R.; Kratzer, Jessica M. W. Communication, Kink, and Sexual Education: What Young Women Learned from Fifty Shades of Grey 2018 Fifty Shades, readers, sex/sexuality, erotic romance, BDSM
Fletcher, Lisa; Driscoll, Beth; Wilkins, Kim Genre Worlds and Popular Fiction: The Case of Twenty-First-Century Australian Romance 2018 Publishing, Australia
Riba, Caterina; Sanmartí, Carme The Reception of Elinor Glyn's Work in Spain (1926–57) 2018 Elinor Glyn, Spain, Rafael Pérez y Pérez, religion/spirituality, sex/sexuality
Blouin, Michael J. Mass-Market Fiction and the Crisis of American Liberalism, 1972–2017 2018 family, social/economic class, work, capitalism/business
Vani, Christina Immortal Words: The Language and Style of the Contemporary Italian Undead-Romance Novel 2018 paranormal/fantasy/time-travel romance, Italy
Peukert, Christian; Reimers, Imke Digital Disintermediation and Efficiency in the Market for Ideas 2018 Publishing
Fletcher, Lisa; Driscoll, Beth; Wilkins, Kim What is Australian Popular Fiction? 2018 Australia, national identity, settings
Savchuk, O. H.; Marchenko, N. M. The concept of LOVE and its conceptualization in modern English romance novels 2018 love, metaphor/symbolism, linguistics
Clay, Catherine; DiCenzo, Maria; Green, Barbara; Hackney, Fiona Women's Periodicals and Print Culture in Britain, 1918-1939: The Interwar Period 2018
Mazloomian, Maryam; Mohammadi, Nahid Discursive Vulnerability and Identity Development: A Triangular Model of Bio-Forces in Cultural Ecological Analysis of American Romance Fiction 2018 Debbie Macomber, psychology
McAlister, Jodi “Feelings Like the Women in Books”: Declarations of Love in Australian Romance Novels, 1859–1891 2018 Older and/or precursor texts (may not be "romance" as now defined), Australia, love, history, national identity, marriage
Zhou, Yanyan; Paul, Bryant; Sherman, Ryland Still a Hetero-Gendered World: A Content Analysis of Gender Stereotypes and Romantic Ideals in Chinese Boy Love Stories 2018 m/m romance, gender, China, LGBT+ characters, readers and/or authors
Kingston, Elizabeth History's Been Hijacked: How To Combat White Supremacy Through Popular Literature 2018 historical romance, race/ethnicity, history, Elizabeth Kingston, Publishing, UK, social/economic class
Sanders, Lise Shapiro Making the Modern Girl: Fantasy, Consumption, and Desire in Romance Weeklies of the 1920s 2018 romances in magazines and newspapers, gender, social/economic class, fashion/clothing, work, Older and/or precursor texts (may not be "romance" as now defined)
Lawrey, Jeffrey A.; McLuckie, Alyx; Mulberry, Benjamin J.; Mullins, Erin K.; Shuler, Autumn R.; Kratzer, Jessica M. W. Communication, Kink, and Sexual Education: What Young Women Learned from Fifty Shades of Grey 2018 Fifty Shades, readers, sex/sexuality, erotic romance, BDSM
Abdullah-Poulos, Layla The Stable Muslim Love Triangle - Triangular Desire in African American Muslim Romance Fiction 2018 Islam, African American romance, United States of America, religion/spirituality, race/ethnicity, marriage, Muslim romance
Fletcher, Lisa; Driscoll, Beth; Wilkins, Kim Genre Worlds and Popular Fiction: The Case of Twenty-First-Century Australian Romance 2018 Publishing, Australia
Sequeiros, Paula “Holding the Dream”: Women’s Favorite Reading Matter in a Portuguese Prison 2018 readers, Portugal
Rabanal, Hayley Courting convivencia: Hispano-Arab identity and Spanish women’s Orientalism in the Franco regime’s years of “unbearable solitude” (1946–1950) 2018 Spain, fascism/right-wing authoritarianism, race/ethnicity, religion/spirituality, sheikh romance, María Adela Durango, Ana Marcela García, María del Pilar Carré, Lía Ramos, E. M. Hull, history, Morocco, Carmen de Icaza, Egypt, rape and/or intimate partner violence/abuse, gender
Riba, Caterina; Sanmartí, Carme The Reception of Elinor Glyn's Work in Spain (1926–57) 2018 Elinor Glyn, Spain, Rafael Pérez y Pérez, religion/spirituality, sex/sexuality
Leonzini, Alexandra “All the Better to Eat You With”: The Eroticization of the Werewolf and the Rise of Monster Porn in the Digital Age 2018 paranormal/fantasy/time-travel romance, sex/sexuality, pornography
McAlister, Jodi Defining and Redefining Popular Genres: The Evolution of ‘New Adult’ Fiction 2018 genre definitions, YA/teenage romance
[Sigroha], Suman Gendered Migrations and Literary Narratives: Writing Communities in South Asian Diaspora 2018 authors, work, family, gender, Publishing
Peukert, Christian; Reimers, Imke Digital Disintermediation and Efficiency in the Market for Ideas 2018 Publishing
Ali, Kecia Romance Fiction in the Archives 2018 authors, romance scholarship, Nora Roberts/J. D. Robb, race/ethnicity, gender, Publishing, sex/sexuality, LGBT+ characters, readers and/or authors
Fletcher, Lisa; Driscoll, Beth; Wilkins, Kim What is Australian Popular Fiction? 2018 Australia, national identity, settings
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
Savchuk, O. H.; Marchenko, N. M. The concept of LOVE and its conceptualization in modern English romance novels 2018 love, metaphor/symbolism, linguistics
Smith, Clarissa; Attwood, Feona; McNair, Brian The Routledge Companion to Media, Sex and Sexuality 2018
Olivarez, Omar; Hardie, Ryan; Blackburn, Kate G. The Language of Romance: An Open Vocabulary Analysis of the Highest Rated Words Used in Romance Novels 2018 languages, psychology, sex/sexuality
Hallock, Jennifer History Ever After: Fabricated Historical Chronotopes in Romance Genre Fiction 2018 historical romance, history, Publishing, race/ethnicity, Jennifer Hallock, UK, settings, social/economic class, Jane Austen, Georgette Heyer, Alyssa Cole, readers, United States of America
Kramp, Michael Jane Austen and Masculinity 2018
Lawrey, Jeffrey A.; McLuckie, Alyx; Mulberry, Benjamin J.; Mullins, Erin K.; Shuler, Autumn R.; Kratzer, Jessica M. W. Communication, Kink, and Sexual Education: What Young Women Learned from Fifty Shades of Grey 2018 Fifty Shades, readers, sex/sexuality, erotic romance, BDSM
Bhasin, Neeta Romancing the 'Illegal' Immigrant 2018 Serena Bell, race/ethnicity, United States of America, social/economic class, gender, sex/sexuality, languages, readers
Fletcher, Lisa; Driscoll, Beth; Wilkins, Kim Genre Worlds and Popular Fiction: The Case of Twenty-First-Century Australian Romance 2018 Publishing, Australia
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
Gehrhardt, Marjorie Losing Face, Finding Love? The Fate of Facially Disfigured Soldiers in Narratives of the First World War 2018 war/armed forces, disability, health/medical
Sanna, Antonio Pirates in History and Popular Culture 2018 pirates and outlaws, historical romance
Parnell, Claire Models of Publishing and Opportunities for Change: Representations in Harlequin, Montlake and Self-Published Romance Novels 2018 Publishing, Harlequin Mills & Boon, gender, sex/sexuality, social/economic class
Fletcher, Lisa; Driscoll, Beth; Wilkins, Kim What is Australian Popular Fiction? 2018 Australia, national identity, settings
Lozano Sampedro, Mª Teresa Pour une typologie de la marginalité dans les romans de Delly: la fonction de la femme 2018 Delly, religion/spirituality, gender, social/economic class
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
Smith, Clarissa; Attwood, Feona; McNair, Brian The Routledge Companion to Media, Sex and Sexuality 2018
Olivarez, Omar; Hardie, Ryan; Blackburn, Kate G. The Language of Romance: An Open Vocabulary Analysis of the Highest Rated Words Used in Romance Novels 2018 languages, psychology, sex/sexuality
Selinger, Eric Murphy Use Heart in Your (Re)Search: The Invitations of Popular Romance 2018 teaching romance, readers, Sherry Thomas, trash/literary and or intellectual quality, romance scholarship
Coote, Lesley; Kaufman, Alexander L. Robin Hood and the Outlaw/ed Literary Canon 2018
Simon, Jenni M. Consuming Agency and Desire in Romance: Stories of Love, Laughter, and Empowerment 2018 feminism, authors, romance and, or as, activism, rape and/or intimate partner violence/abuse
Lawrey, Jeffrey A.; McLuckie, Alyx; Mulberry, Benjamin J.; Mullins, Erin K.; Shuler, Autumn R.; Kratzer, Jessica M. W. Communication, Kink, and Sexual Education: What Young Women Learned from Fifty Shades of Grey 2018 Fifty Shades, readers, sex/sexuality, erotic romance, BDSM
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
Driscoll, Beth; Fletcher, Lisa; Wilkins, Kim; Carter, David The Publishing Ecosystems of Contemporary Australian Genre Fiction 2018 Publishing, Australia
González Cruz, María-Isabel Hispanismos en el discurso romántico de Harlequin y Mills & Boon. Ámbitos temáticos y funciones socio-pragmáticas 2018 languages, islands, Spain, Harlequin Mills & Boon, linguistics
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
Spears, Jessica D. The Romance Novel Cover 2018 paratext, Publishing, gender, sex/sexuality, pornography
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
Smith, Clarissa; Attwood, Feona; McNair, Brian The Routledge Companion to Media, Sex and Sexuality 2018
Olivarez, Omar; Hardie, Ryan; Blackburn, Kate G. The Language of Romance: An Open Vocabulary Analysis of the Highest Rated Words Used in Romance Novels 2018 languages, psychology, sex/sexuality
Newns, Lucinda Renegotiating romantic genres: Textual resistance and Muslim chick lit 2018 chick lit, Islam, feminism, religion/spirituality
Kollman, Kathleen W. Taylor Contemporary Paranormal Romance: Theories and Development of the Genre’s Feminism (Or Lack Thereof) 2018 paranormal/fantasy/time-travel romance, feminism, gender
Coote, Lesley; Kaufman, Alexander L. Robin Hood and the Outlaw/ed Literary Canon 2018
Reed, Eleanor Domestic Culture in Woman's Weekly, 1918-1958 2018 history, social/economic class, romances in magazines and newspapers, Older and/or precursor texts (may not be "romance" as now defined), UK
Lawrey, Jeffrey A.; McLuckie, Alyx; Mulberry, Benjamin J.; Mullins, Erin K.; Shuler, Autumn R.; Kratzer, Jessica M. W. Communication, Kink, and Sexual Education: What Young Women Learned from Fifty Shades of Grey 2018 Fifty Shades, readers, sex/sexuality, erotic romance, BDSM
Driscoll, Beth; Fletcher, Lisa; Wilkins, Kim; Carter, David The Publishing Ecosystems of Contemporary Australian Genre Fiction 2018 Publishing, Australia
O'Mahony, Lauren; Murphy, Olivia From polite society to the Pilbara: The ingénue abroad in Evelina and The Girl in Steel-Capped Boots 2018 Frances Burney, Older and/or precursor texts (may not be "romance" as now defined), Australia, Loretta Hill, gender
Smith, Michelle J.; Moruzi, Kristine Vampires and Witches Go to School: Contemporary Young Adult Fiction, Gender, and the Gothic 2018 YA/teenage romance, gothic romance, paranormal/fantasy/time-travel romance
Suárez Coalla, Paquita; Rivera Valdés, Sonia; Íñigo, Ainoa Repercusión de la lectura y otras formas de arte en nuestra vida y nuestra obra: Memorias del VII coloquio de LART, Centro Español de Manhattan, Nueva York, 26-28 de octubre de 2016 2018
Batzke, Ina; Erbacher, Eric C.; Heß, Linda M.; Lenhardt, Corinna Exploring the Fantastic: Genre, Ideology, and Popular Culture 2018
Roach, Catherine M. Erotica 2018 erotic romance, sex/sexuality, pornography, love, LGBT+ characters, readers and/or authors, feminism, rape and/or intimate partner violence/abuse, BDSM, Alexis Hall
Arnold-Forster, Agnes; Moulds, Alison Medical women in popular fiction 2018 health/medical, history, Harlequin Mills & Boon, gender, medical romance
Schell, Heather; Brown, Ann K. G. Romancelandia on Twitter: Designing a Digital Humanities Research Assignment for First-Year Writing Students 2018 teaching romance, authors
Teo, Hsu-Ming The Contemporary Anglophone Romance Genre 2018 gender, sex/sexuality, Publishing, race/ethnicity
Pérez-Gil, María del Mar Exoticism, Ethnocentrism, and Englishness in Popular Romance Fiction: Constructing the European Other 2018 Spain, national identity, UK, race/ethnicity, islands, Harlequin Mills & Boon
Lawrey, Jeffrey A.; McLuckie, Alyx; Mulberry, Benjamin J.; Mullins, Erin K.; Shuler, Autumn R.; Kratzer, Jessica M. W. Communication, Kink, and Sexual Education: What Young Women Learned from Fifty Shades of Grey 2018 Fifty Shades, readers, sex/sexuality, erotic romance, BDSM
Driscoll, Beth; Fletcher, Lisa; Wilkins, Kim; Carter, David The Publishing Ecosystems of Contemporary Australian Genre Fiction 2018 Publishing, Australia
O'Mahony, Lauren; Murphy, Olivia From polite society to the Pilbara: The ingénue abroad in Evelina and The Girl in Steel-Capped Boots 2018 Frances Burney, Older and/or precursor texts (may not be "romance" as now defined), Australia, Loretta Hill, gender
Smith, Michelle J.; Moruzi, Kristine Vampires and Witches Go to School: Contemporary Young Adult Fiction, Gender, and the Gothic 2018 YA/teenage romance, gothic romance, paranormal/fantasy/time-travel romance
Suárez Coalla, Paquita; Rivera Valdés, Sonia; Íñigo, Ainoa Repercusión de la lectura y otras formas de arte en nuestra vida y nuestra obra: Memorias del VII coloquio de LART, Centro Español de Manhattan, Nueva York, 26-28 de octubre de 2016 2018
Batzke, Ina; Erbacher, Eric C.; Heß, Linda M.; Lenhardt, Corinna Exploring the Fantastic: Genre, Ideology, and Popular Culture 2018
Achieng’, Okang’a Nancy A Cosmopolitan National Romance: A Study of In Dependence by Sarah Ladipo Manyika 2017 Sarah Ladipo Manyika, Nigeria, trash/literary and or intellectual quality, Africa, race/ethnicity, gender
Veros, Vassiliki Keepers: Marking the Value of the Books on my Shelves 2017 readers, trash/literary and or intellectual quality
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
Alpalhão, Margarida Santos; Carreto, Carlos F. Clamote; Dias, Isabel de Barros O jogo do mundo: ensaios sobre o imaginário lúdico 2017
van der Putten, Jan; Arnez, Monika; Wieringa, Edwin P.; Graf, Arndt Traditions Redirecting Contemporary Indonesian Cultural Productions 2017
Álvarez, Marta; Hekmat, Ida; Lauret-Taft, Sabine L’amour. Création et société 2017
Waldschmidt, Anne; Berressem, Hanjo; Ingwersen, Moritz Culture - Theory – Disability: Encounters between Disability Studies and Cultural Studies 2017
Lessard, Victoria Marketing Desire: The "Normative/Other" Male Body and the "Pure" White Female Body on the Cover Art of Cassie Edwards' Savage Dream (1990), Savage Persuasion (1991), and Savage Mists (1992) 2017 Cassie Edwards, Native American romance, paratext, race/ethnicity, historical romance
Alpalhão, Margarida Santos; Carreto, Carlos F. Clamote; Dias, Isabel de Barros O jogo do mundo: ensaios sobre o imaginário lúdico 2017
Clasen, Tricia Masculinity and Romantic Myth in Contemporary YA Romance 2017 gender, love, YA/teenage romance
Golubov, Nattie El amor en tiempos neoliberales: apuntes críticos sobre la novela rosa contemporánea 2017 trash/literary and or intellectual quality, Loretta Chase, gender, genre definitions, readers, feminism, Publishing, Jennifer Crusie
van der Putten, Jan; Arnez, Monika; Wieringa, Edwin P.; Graf, Arndt Traditions Redirecting Contemporary Indonesian Cultural Productions 2017
Golubov, Nattie Reading the Romance Writer as an Author-Entrepreneur 2017 authors, work, race/ethnicity, readers
Ali, Kecia Troubleshooting Post-9/11 America: Religion, Racism, and Stereotypes in Suzanne Brockmann’s Into the Night and Gone Too Far 2017 Suzanne Brockmann, religion/spirituality, race/ethnicity, United States of America, war/armed forces, Islam, sheikh romance, gender, marriage
Waldschmidt, Anne; Berressem, Hanjo; Ingwersen, Moritz Culture - Theory – Disability: Encounters between Disability Studies and Cultural Studies 2017
Barker, Clare; Murray, Stuart The Cambridge Companion to Literature and Disability 2017
Alpalhão, Margarida Santos; Carreto, Carlos F. Clamote; Dias, Isabel de Barros O jogo do mundo: ensaios sobre o imaginário lúdico 2017
Cheyne, Ria Disability Studies Reads the Romance: Sexuality, Prejudice, and the Happily-Ever-After in the Work of Mary Balogh 2017 disability, sex/sexuality, Mary Balogh, historical romance
Soler Gallo, Miguel El ideal de masculinidad en la novela romántica falangista: análisis de Una mujer de veinte años de Mercedes Ballesteros 2017 SylviaVisconti/Mercedes Ballesteros Gaibrois, Spain, fascism/right-wing authoritarianism, gender, war/armed forces, history, Rosa María Aranda, Elena Puerto/Mercedes Formica
van der Putten, Jan; Arnez, Monika; Wieringa, Edwin P.; Graf, Arndt Traditions Redirecting Contemporary Indonesian Cultural Productions 2017
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
Jandl, Ingeborg; Knaller, Susanne; Schönfellner, Sabine; Tockner, Gudrun Writing Emotions: Theoretical Concepts and Selected Case Studies in Literature 2017
Higashi, Sumiko Adapting Middlebrow Taste to Sell Stars, Romance, and Consumption 2017 romances in magazines and newspapers
Waldschmidt, Anne; Berressem, Hanjo; Ingwersen, Moritz Culture - Theory – Disability: Encounters between Disability Studies and Cultural Studies 2017
Barker, Clare; Murray, Stuart The Cambridge Companion to Literature and Disability 2017
Kamble, Jayashree From Barbarized to Disneyfied: Viewing 1990s New York City Through Eve Dallas, J.D. Robb’s Futuristic Homicide Detective 2017 Nora Roberts/J. D. Robb, science fiction/futuristic romance, capitalism/business, romantic suspense
Bigey, Magali Réflexions sur l’amour et analyse de réception : La rencontre amoureuse dans les romans sériels et au prisme du lectorat 2017
Papargyriou, Eleni; Assinder, Semele; Holton, David Greece in British Women’s Literary Imagination, 1913-2013 2017
Soler Gallo, Miguel El juego amoroso en la novela rosa española femenina de los años cuarenta 2017 Spain, love, fascism/right-wing authoritarianism, gender, family, marriage, history
Kohlman, Marla H.; Krieg, Dana B. Discourses on Gender and Sexual Inequality: The Legacy of Sandra L. Bem 2017
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
Jandl, Ingeborg; Knaller, Susanne; Schönfellner, Sabine; Tockner, Gudrun Writing Emotions: Theoretical Concepts and Selected Case Studies in Literature 2017
Keegan, Faye ‘Snob Value’: Gender and Literary Value in Mary Stewart 2017 Mary Stewart, romantic suspense, trash/literary and or intellectual quality, gender, authors
Arvanitaki, Eirini Postmillennial femininities in the popular romance novel 2017 feminism, gender, Harlequin Mills & Boon
Ali, Kecia Human in Death: Morality and Mortality in J. D. Robb's Novels 2017 Nora Roberts/J. D. Robb, science fiction/futuristic romance, family, community, race/ethnicity, work, gender, romantic suspense, police officers/police forces
Larson, Christine An Economy of Words: Precarity, Solidarity and Innovation in Digital Book Publishing 2017 Publishing, authors, work
Arimbi, Diah Ariani Women in Indonesian Popular Fiction: Romance, Beauty, and Identity Politics in Metropop Novels 2017 Indonesia, settings, languages, gender, fashion/clothing, marriage
Papargyriou, Eleni; Assinder, Semele; Holton, David Greece in British Women’s Literary Imagination, 1913-2013 2017
Kohlman, Marla H.; Krieg, Dana B. Discourses on Gender and Sexual Inequality: The Legacy of Sandra L. Bem 2017
Jandl, Ingeborg; Knaller, Susanne; Schönfellner, Sabine; Tockner, Gudrun Writing Emotions: Theoretical Concepts and Selected Case Studies in Literature 2017
Bianchi, Diana I gentiluomini si prendono per la gola: cibo e identità nei romanzi di Georgette Heyer 2017 Georgette Heyer, historical romance
Elliott, Jack Whole genre sequencing 2017 genre definitions, Harlequin Mills & Boon, authors, linguistics
English, Jessica Reading the Romance: Through the Eyes of a Millenial Feminist 2017 feminism, readers
Kohlman, Marla H.; Simpson, Samantha N. For the Sake of Hearth and Home: Gender Schematicity in the Romance Novel 2017 gender, Harlequin Mills & Boon, race/ethnicity, work, marriage, family
Papargyriou, Eleni; Assinder, Semele; Holton, David Greece in British Women’s Literary Imagination, 1913-2013 2017
Nilson, Maria Nådens tuttar : Om skönheter, odjur och den frälsande kvinnokroppen i modern romance 2017 fairytales/folktales, paranormal/fantasy/time-travel romance, Fifty Shades, Twilight, sex/sexuality
Clasen, Tricia; Hassel, Holly Gender(ed) Identities: Critical Rereadings of Gender in Children’s and Young Adult Literature 2017
Jandl, Ingeborg; Knaller, Susanne; Schönfellner, Sabine; Tockner, Gudrun Writing Emotions: Theoretical Concepts and Selected Case Studies in Literature 2017
O'Mahony, Lauren Death and the Australian Rural Romance Novel 2017 rural romance, Australia, death
Kohlman, Marla H.; Simpson, Samantha N. For the Sake of Hearth and Home: Gender Schematicity in the Romance Novel 2017 gender, Harlequin Mills & Boon, race/ethnicity, work, marriage, family
Barba, Shelley E.; Perrin, Joy M. The Ascendance of Harley Quinn: Essays on DC's Enigmatic Villain 2017
Clasen, Tricia; Hassel, Holly Gender(ed) Identities: Critical Rereadings of Gender in Children’s and Young Adult Literature 2017
Teo, Hsu-Ming The Popular Culture of Romantic Love in Australia 2017
Capps, Stephanie Carol What You Read and What You Believe: Genre Exposure and Beliefs about Relationships 2017 readers, gender, sex/sexuality, psychology, love