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Glover, Thomasine; Hearvey, Crystal Monay; McCoy, Shuntay; Curtright, Lauren Anita Richmond Bunkley 2000 Anita Richmond Bunkley, African American romance
Hedrick, Tace Chica Lit: Popular Latina Fiction and Americanization in the Twenty-First Century 2015 race/ethnicity, United States of America
Hedrick, Donald; Reynolds, Bryan Shakespeare without Class: Misappropriations of Cultural Capital 2000
Heffernan, Joan-Mary Women's romantic fiction: a study of three New Zealand Mills and Boon authors 1992 Daphne Clair, Robyn Donald, Susan Napier
Hefner, Brooks E. Black Pulp: Genre Fiction in the Shadow of Jim Crow 2021 romances in magazines and newspapers, African American romance, race/ethnicity, gender, Gertrude Schalk
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
Heiss, Karin 14 Weeks of Love and Labour: Teaching Regency and Desert Romance to Undergraduate Students 2015 teaching romance, historical romance, sheikh romance, Georgette Heyer, E. M. Hull, Marguerite Kaye, race/ethnicity, film/movies, Publishing
Heiss, Karin Snow White of the (Un)Dead Reading the Anita Blake: Vampire Hunter Series as Tales of Female Desire 2020 Laurell K. Hamilton, fairytales/folktales, paranormal/fantasy/time-travel romance, sex/sexuality
Álvarez, Marta; Hekmat, Ida; Lauret-Taft, Sabine L’amour. Création et société 2017
Helgason, Jon; Kärrholm, Sara; Steiner, Ann Hype: Bestsellers and Literary Cultures 2014
Helgorsky, Françoise Harlequin ou la quête du grand amour 1985 Harlequin Mills & Boon, France, readers, love
Helgorsky, Françoise Harlequin : l'unité dans la diversité et vice-versa 1987 Harlequin Mills & Boon, paratext, settings, work
Hellekson, Karen; Busse, Kristina Fan Fiction and Fan Communities in the Age of the Internet: New Essays 2006
Heller, Tamar Having It All: Consumption and Ideological Tension in an Innovative Romance Novel 1997
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
Hemmungs Wirtén, Eva Global Infatuation: Explorations in Transnational Publishing and Texts: The case of Harlequin Enterprises and Sweden 1998 Sweden, translation, Harlequin Mills & Boon
Hemmungs Wirtén, Eva Harlequin romances in Swedish: a case study in globalized publishing 2000 translation, Sweden, Harlequin Mills & Boon, Publishing
Henderson, Lesley; Kirkpatrick, D. L. Twentieth-Century Romance and Historical Writers (2nd edition) 1990 historical romance, Older and/or precursor texts (may not be "romance" as now defined), Effie Adelaide Rowlands, also known as Madame Albanesi, Lucilla Andrews, Elizabeth Ashton, Ruby M. Ayres, Faith Baldwin, Florence Barclay, Betty Beaty, Lilian Warren as Kathryn Blair/Rosalind Brett/Celine Conway, Barbara Taylor Bradford, Sandra Brown, Mary Burchell, pen name of Ida Cook, Barbara Cartland, Catherine Cookson, Marie Corelli, Janet Dailey, Iris Danbury, Barbara Delinsky, Ethel M. Dell, Viña Delmar, Jude Deveraux, Joyce Dingwell/Kate Starr, Maud Diver, Jane Donnelly, Daphne du Maurier, Dorothy Eden, Eleanor Farnes, Jeffrey Farnol, Charles Garvice, Roberta Gellis, Elinor Glyn, Maysie Greig, Anne Hampson, Georgette Heyer, Robert Hitchens, Grace Livingston Hill, Margery Hilton, Jane Aiken Hodge, Victoria Holt/Jean Plaidy/Eleanor Burford Hibbert, Linda Howard, Susan Howatch, Elizabeth Hoy, E. M. Hull, Elizabeth Hunter, Iris Johansen, Susan Johnson, Jayne Ann Krentz/Amanda Quick/Jayne Castle, Charlotte Lamb, Roumelia Lane, Laura Jean Libbey, Roberta Leigh/Rachel Lindsay, Johanna Lindsey, Elizabeth Lowell, Jean S. MacLeod/Catherine Airlie, Anne Mather, Patricia Matthews, Anne Maybury, Colleen McCullough, Judith McNaught, Barbara Michaels a.k.a. Elizabeth Peters a.k.a. Barbara Mertz, Fern Michaels, Margaret Mitchell, Netta Muskett, Betty Neels, Kathleen Thompson Norris, Kate Norway/Olive Norton, Baroness Orczy, Diana Palmer, Margaret Pargeter, Mary Renault, Mary Roberts Rinehart, Francine Rivers, Nora Roberts/J. D. Robb, Denise Robins, Rosemary Rogers, Margaret Rome, Berta Ruck, Rafael Sabatini, Kathleen Gilles Seidel, Alexandra Sellers, Anya Seton, Valerie Sherwood, Bertrice Small, LaVyrle Spencer, Danielle Steel, Mary Stewart, Rebecca Stratton, Essie Summers, Annie S. Swan, Kay Thorpe, Patricia Veryan, Lucy Walker, Margaret Way, Anne Weale, Jean Webster, Phyllis A. Whitney, Kathleen Winsor, Violet Winspear, Kathleen Woodiwiss, Mary Lutyens/Esther Wyndham
Vasudevan, Aruna; Henderson, Lesley Twentieth-Century Romance and Historical Writers (3rd edition) 1994 Effie Adelaide Rowlands, also known as Madame Albanesi, Lucilla Andrews, Ruby M. Ayres, Faith Baldwin, Mary Balogh, Florence Barclay, Sandra Brown, Mary Burchell, pen name of Ida Cook, Shirlee Busbee, Barbara Cartland, Fay Chandos/Jan Tempest, Marie Corelli, Penny Jordan/Caroline Courtney, Janet Dailey, Emma Darcy, Barbara Delinsky, Ethel M. Dell, Jude Deveraux, Robyn Donald, Jeffrey Farnol, Charles Garvice, Roberta Gellis, Elinor Glyn, Maysie Greig, Radclyffe Hall, Anne Hampson, Georgette Heyer, Jane Aiken Hodge, Linda Howard, Elizabeth Hoy, Iris Johansen, Susan Johnson, M. M. Kaye, Jayne Ann Krentz/Amanda Quick/Jayne Castle, Charlotte Lamb, Roberta Leigh/Rachel Lindsay, Johanna Lindsey, Elizabeth Lowell, Jean S. MacLeod/Catherine Airlie, Anne Mather, Patricia Matthews, Lindsay McKenna, Judith McNaught, Barbara Michaels a.k.a. Elizabeth Peters a.k.a. Barbara Mertz, Fern Michaels, Linda Lael Miller, Margaret Mitchell, Carole Mortimer, Netta Muskett, Susan Napier, Betty Neels, Kathleen Thompson Norris, Kate Norway/Olive Norton, Baroness Orczy, Diana Palmer, Margaret Pargeter, Victoria Holt/Jean Plaidy/Eleanor Burford Hibbert, Mary Renault, Emilie Richards, Mary Roberts Rinehart, Francine Rivers, Nora Roberts/J. D. Robb, Denise Robins, Rosemary Rogers, Berta Ruck, Kathleen Gilles Seidel, Bertrice Small, LaVyrle Spencer, Mary Stewart, Rebecca Stratton, Essie Summers, Annie S. Swan, Kay Thorpe, Sylvia Thorpe, Karen van der Zee, Patricia Veryan, Lucy Walker, Sheila Walsh, Margaret Way, Anne Weale, Jean Webster, Doreen Hornsblow as Sally Wentworth, Phyllis A. Whitney, Violet Winspear, Sara Wood, Kathleen Woodiwiss, Mary Lutyens/Esther Wyndham
Henderson, Courtney R. Ladies and Loners: A Comparative Gender Study of the Romance and Popular Western 2007 gender, Johanna Lindsey, Joan Johnston, LGBTQ+ characters, readers and/or authors, settings, race/ethnicity, trash/literary and or intellectual quality, paratext, historical romance
Henderson, Aneeka Ayanna Veil and Vow: Marriage Matters in Contemporary African American Culture 2020 African American romance, Sandra Kitt, race/ethnicity, marriage
Henderson, Aneeka Ayanna Popular Romance and Literary Undergrounds 2024 African American romance, Publishing, race/ethnicity
Henderson, Alex Genre-savvy Protagonists in Queer YA Rom-coms 2023 LGBTQ+ characters, readers and/or authors, rom-com romance, YA/teenage romance, metafiction, Emery Lee, Alice Oseman
Hendricks, Margo Against Odds: Beverly Jenkins’ Indigo and Black Historical Romance 2022 Beverly Jenkins, historical romance, race/ethnicity, social/economic class, United States of America, African American romance, history
Hendricks, Margo How a Black Author Found Her Romance History 2022 Margo Hendricks/Elysabeth Grace, Older and/or precursor texts (may not be "romance" as now defined), teaching romance, race/ethnicity, African American romance, readers, Beverly Jenkins, Alyssa Cole, paratext, historical romance, Publishing
Hendricks, Margo; Moody-Freeman, Julie E. Introduction to the Special Issue on Black Romance 2022 romance scholarship, Sandra Kitt, Brenda Jackson, Beverly Jenkins, Vivian Stephens, Alyssa Cole, Rebekah Weatherspoon, Gwyneth Bolton/Gwendolyn Pough, Rochelle Alers, Margo Hendricks/Elysabeth Grace
Hendricks, Margo; Moody-Freeman, Julie E. Journal of Popular Romance Studies: Special Issue: Black Romance 2022 African American romance, Sandra Kitt, Brenda Jackson, Beverly Jenkins, Vivian Stephens, Alyssa Cole, Rebekah Weatherspoon, Gwyneth Bolton/Gwendolyn Pough, Rochelle Alers, Margo Hendricks/Elysabeth Grace
Hendricks, Margo Race and Romance: Coloring the Past 2022 race/ethnicity, Older and/or precursor texts (may not be "romance" as now defined), Heliodorus, Beverly Jenkins, Margo Hendricks/Elysabeth Grace, trash/literary and or intellectual quality, genre definitions
Clark, Beverly Lyon; Bernier, Karen Gennari; Henneberry-Nassau, Michelle; Jenks, Lauren Beth; Moorman, Angie J.; Rhoades, Marah Bianca Reading Romance, Reading Ourselves 1996 readers, feminism, sex/sexuality, trash/literary and or intellectual quality, teaching romance, Harlequin Mills & Boon, rape and/or intimate partner violence/abuse, race/ethnicity, capitalism/business
Hennessey, John L. History and Speculative Fiction 2024
Herb, Annika (Para)normalizing Rape Culture: Possession as Rape in Young Adult Paranormal Romance 2021 rape and/or intimate partner violence/abuse, YA/teenage romance, paranormal/fantasy/time-travel romance
Gill, Rosalind; Herdieckerhoff, Elena Rewriting The Romance: New Femininities in Chick Lit? 2006 chick lit, gender, feminism, Helen Fielding, sex/sexuality, work
Herendeen, Ann The Upper-Class Bisexual Top as Romantic Hero: (Pre)dominant in the Social Structure and in the Bedroom 2012 Ann Herendeen, LGBTQ+ characters, readers and/or authors, wealth/prosperity, social/economic class, BDSM, Jane Austen, historical romance, history, sex/sexuality, gender, Georgette Heyer
Herendeen, Ann Having it Both Ways; or, Writing from the Third Perspective: The Revolutionary M/M/F Ménage Romance Novel 2016 LGBTQ+ characters, readers and/or authors, Ann Herendeen, marriage, metafiction, Georgette Heyer
Herman, David Creatural Fictions: Human-Animal Relationships in Twentieth- and Twenty-First-Century Literature 2016
Hermes, Joke Sexuality in Lesbian Romance Fiction 1992 LGBTQ+ characters, readers and/or authors, Sarah Aldridge, Katherine V. Forrest, Valerie Taylor, Older and/or precursor texts (may not be "romance" as now defined), rape and/or intimate partner violence/abuse, Michelle Martin, readers
Hermes, Joke Vergnügen oder Aufklärung? Sexualität in lesbischen Liebesromanen? 1992 LGBTQ+ characters, readers and/or authors, Valerie Taylor, Katherine V. Forrest, Older and/or precursor texts (may not be "romance" as now defined)
Hernández, María Beatriz; Brito, Manuel; Monterrey, Tomás Broadening Horizons: A Peak Panorama of English Studies in Spain 2018
Hernandez, Janeth Exploring Consent: An Analysis of Consent in Dark Romance and Contemporary Romance Books 2024 dark romance, sex/sexuality, erotic romance
Hernandez, Carmen E. Romance and Revolution 2022 Older and/or precursor texts (may not be "romance" as now defined), Samuel Richardson, wealth/prosperity, Jane Austen, Fifty Shades, social/economic class, Sylvain Reynard, Erika Wilde, Carly Phillips, rape and/or intimate partner violence/abuse, virginity, Eliza Haywood
Hernández Guerrero, María José Prosumidoras de traducciones: Aproximación al fenómeno de la traducción fan de novela romántica 2016 readers, translation
Gómez Morón, Reyes; Padilla Cruz, Manuel; Fernández Amaya, Lucía; Hernández López, María de la O Pragmatics Applied to Language Teaching and Learning 2009
Hernandez-Knight, Bianca Race and Racism in Austen Spaces: Jane Austen and Regency Romance's Racist Legacy 2021 Jane Austen, Georgette Heyer, historical romance, race/ethnicity, trash/literary and or intellectual quality
Herrera, Carolina M. Examining the relation between media engagement and developmental outcomes in adolescents and emerging adults: an exploration of engagement with and impact of young adult literature media among youth 2022 readers, psychology, YA/teenage romance, Twilight
Heryanto, Ariel Upgraded Piety and Pleasure: The New Middle Class and Islam in Indonesian Popular Culture 2011 Indonesia, Islam, Habiburrahman El-Shirazy
Batzke, Ina; Erbacher, Eric C.; Heß, Linda M.; Lenhardt, Corinna Exploring the Fantastic: Genre, Ideology, and Popular Culture 2018
Hess, Jonathan M. Middlebrow Literature and the Making of German-Jewish Identity 2010 Judaism, Germany, Older and/or precursor texts (may not be "romance" as now defined), romances in magazines and newspapers, Ludwig Philippson, Salomon Formstecher, religion/spirituality, Rahel Meyer, family, Marcus Lehmann, George Eliot
Hess, Beth B.; Ferree, Myra Marx Analyzing Gender: A Handbook of Social Science Research 1987
Hey, Valerie The Necessity of Romance 1983
Heying, Sarah M. "Sealed With a Kiss on Your Artery": An Archive of Southern Lesbian Desire 2023 LGBTQ+ characters, readers and/or authors, Ann Allen Shockley, libraries/librarians, race/ethnicity
Heynderickx, Jasmine “It really got to me [...] The movies where the main characters freaked out about being virgins at the age of sixteen”: Narrative Subversion as a Queer Strategy in Loveless 2024 Alice Oseman, LGBTQ+ characters, readers and/or authors, love, sex/sexuality, metafiction, YA/teenage romance
Hiergeist, Teresa; Schäfer, Stefanie Ladies in Arms: Women, Guns, and Feminisms in Contemporary Popular Culture 2024 feminism
Higashi, Sumiko Adapting Middlebrow Taste to Sell Stars, Romance, and Consumption 2017 romances in magazines and newspapers
Hijazo-Gascón, Alberto Cross-Cultural Differences in Conceptualization and their Application in L2 Instruction 2009 linguistics, Corín Tellado, metaphor/symbolism
Fjelkestam, Kristina; Hill, Helena; Tjeder, David Kvinnorna gör mannen: maskulinitetskonstruktioner i kvinnors text och bild 1500-2000 2013
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
Hilton, Linda Ann Wheeler Half Heaven, Half Heartache: Discovering the Transformative Potential in Women's Popular Fiction 2000 feminism
Hinks, John; Armstrong, Catherine Book Trade Connections from the Seventeenth to the Twentieth Centuries 2008
Hinnant, Charles H. Desire and the Marketplace: A Reading of Kathleen Woodiwiss's The Flame and the Flower 2003 Kathleen Woodiwiss, capitalism/business, rape and/or intimate partner violence/abuse, fashion/clothing
Basu, Balaka; Broad, Katherine R.; Hintz, Carrie Contemporary Dystopian Fiction for Young Adults: Brave New Teenagers 2013
Hipsky, Martin Modernism and the Women’s Popular Romance in Britain, 1885–1925 2011 Marie Corelli, Ethel M. Dell, E. M. Hull, Mary Ward/Mrs. Humphry Ward, Baroness Orczy, Florence Barclay, Elinor Glyn, Older and/or precursor texts (may not be "romance" as now defined)
Hirdman, Anja 'Det ska bli en ära att få tillfredsställa dig!' Ideal manlighet i Harlequinromanen 2013 gender, Harlequin Mills & Boon
Hirdman, Anja Speaking through the flesh: Affective encounters, gazes and desire in Harlequin romances 2016 emotions, gender, sex/sexuality, Harlequin Mills & Boon
Hirsbrunner, A. R. Doomed to become heroines? Identification, women and fiction 2000 psychology, feminism
Hirschman, Elizabeth C.; Holbrook, Morris B. SV - Symbolic Consumer Behavior 1981
Hirst, Holly Georgette Heyer 2020 Georgette Heyer, gothic romance, Daphne du Maurier, Charlotte Brontë, romantic suspense
Hirst, Holly The Gothic Romance 2020 gothic romance, Victoria Holt/Jean Plaidy/Eleanor Burford Hibbert, Phyllis A. Whitney, rape and/or intimate partner violence/abuse, gender, readers, Daphne du Maurier, romance scholarship, social/economic class, Catherine Cookson, Christine Marion Fraser, Georgette Heyer
Hirst, Holly Georgette Heyer and redefining the Gothic romance 2021 gothic romance, Georgette Heyer, romance scholarship, genre definitions
Hall, Stuart; Hobson, Dorothy; Lowe, Andrew; Willis, Paul Culture, Media, Language: Working Papers in Cultural Studies, 1972-79 1980
Hobson, Amanda Brothers under Covers: Race and the Paranormal Romance Novel 2015 paranormal/fantasy/time-travel romance, race/ethnicity, Kerrelyn Sparks, J. R. Ward
Guttman, Anna; Hockx, Michel; Paizis, George The Global Literary Field 2006
Hodgson, Kathleen The representation of the female hero in the romantic fiction of Mills & Boon 2006 Harlequin Mills & Boon
Kolmes, Sara; Hoffman, Matthew A. Harlequin Resistance? Romance Novels as a Model for Resisting Objectification 2021 sex/sexuality, genre definitions, philosophy, Tessa Dare, feminism
Hofstadter, Beatrice K. Popular Culture and the Romantic Heroine 1960 Older and/or precursor texts (may not be "romance" as now defined), Susan Warner, Augusta Jane Evans, E. P. Roe, Winston Churchill, E. M. Hull
Hogan, Patrick Colm; Irish, Bradley J.; Hogan, Lalita Pandit The Routledge Companion to Literature and Emotion 2022
Hogan, Patrick Colm; Irish, Bradley J.; Hogan, Lalita Pandit The Routledge Companion to Literature and Emotion 2022
Hohne, Karen; Wussow, Helen A Dialogue of Voices: Feminist Literary Theory and Bakhtin 1994
Hirschman, Elizabeth C.; Holbrook, Morris B. SV - Symbolic Consumer Behavior 1981
Holden, Stacy E.; Tabol, Charity In Sickness and In Health: Representations of PTSD in Post-9/11 Romance Novels 2015 war/armed forces, health/medical, Harlequin Mills & Boon, United States of America, romance and, or as, activism, Susan Mallery, Karen Templeton, Janice Kay Johnson, disability, psychology
Holden, Stacy E. Love in the Desert: Images of Arab-American Reconciliation in Contemporary Sheikh Romance Novels 2015 Harlequin Mills & Boon, sheikh romance, United States of America, authors, Islam, Susan Mallery, Sandra Marton, fashion/clothing, Maisey Yates, settings, Lynne Raye Harris, Violet Winspear, Jane Porter
Holley, Robert P. Self-Publishing and Collection Development: Opportunities and Challenges for Libraries 2015
Hollows, Joanne Feminism, Femininity and Popular Culture 2000 romance scholarship
Holman, Rebecca H.; Solomon, Michael R. NA - Advances in Consumer Research Volume 18 1991
Holmes, Diana Romance and Readership in Twentieth-Century France: Love Stories 2006 history, France, religion/spirituality, Christian romance, Delly, Older and/or precursor texts (may not be "romance" as now defined), genre definitions, gender, readers, Georges Ohnet, Maryan, pen name of Marie Cadiou, Marcelle Tinayre, Colette, Max du Veuzit, Magali, pen name of Jeanne Philbert, Harlequin Mills & Boon, sex/sexuality, lesbian romance, Marine Rambach and Anne Rousseau, LGBTQ+ characters, readers and/or authors
Holmes, Diana The Comfortable Reader: Romantic Bestsellers and Critical Disdain 2010 France, trash/literary and or intellectual quality, Marc Levy, Anna Gavalda, readers, community, national identity
Holmes, Diana Plaisirs d'amour: Love and popular fiction in contemporary France 2022 France
Papargyriou, Eleni; Assinder, Semele; Holton, David Greece in British Women’s Literary Imagination, 1913-2013 2017
Thompson, Marcella; Koski, Patricia; Holyfield, Lori Romance and agency: An argument revisited 1997 romance scholarship, readers, feminism
Koski, Patricia; Holyfield, Lori; Thompson, Marcella Romance Novels as Women's Myths 1997 myth, emotions
Hoorenman, Johanna Public Conflicts and Private Treaties in Kathleen Eagle’s Fire and Rain 2020 Kathleen Eagle, Native American romance, race/ethnicity, United States of America, history
Hoorenman, Johanna Remembering love: Parsons-Yazzie's historical romance novel and the (re)writing of Navajo history 2022 Evangeline Parsons Yazzie, Native American romance, race/ethnicity, settings, United States of America
Hopkins, Lisa After Austen: Reinventions, Rewritings, Revisitings 2018
Hopkins, Lisa Georgette Heyer: What Austen Left Out 2018 Georgette Heyer, Jane Austen, history, war/armed forces, historical romance
Hopkins, Lisa Waltzing with Wellington, Biting with Byron: Heroes in Austen Tribute Texts 2018 Jane Austen, Georgette Heyer, gender, historical romance
Hopkins, Lisa All’s Well That Ends Well: Shakespearean echoes in Heyer’s Regency novels 2021 Shakespeare, Georgette Heyer
Horgheim, Celina From Rape to Romance: Sexual Consent Negotiation in Romantic Retellings of the Myth of Persephone 2023 myth, sex/sexuality, rape and/or intimate partner violence/abuse, gender, Rachel Alexander, Ophelia Silk, feminism
Horst, Lauren Exemplum J. R. Ward, Dark Lover (2005) 2024 J. R. Ward, paranormal/fantasy/time-travel romance
Horst, Lauren The Romance Novel 2024 romance scholarship, genre definitions
Hotz-Davies, Ingrid; Kirchhofer, Anton; Leppänen, Sirpa Internet Fictions 2009
Houel, Annik L’amant Harlequin 1990 Harlequin Mills & Boon
Houel, Annik Les chemins de la passion 1992 sex/sexuality, psychology
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
Rader, Kara; Hovick, Shelly R.; Bigsby, Elisabeth “Are You Clean?” Encouraging STI Communication in Casual Encounters through Narrative Messages in Romance Novels 2021 sex/sexuality, health/medical, psychology, readers
Howlett, Peter; Morgan, Mary S. How Well Do Facts Travel? The Dissemination of Reliable Knowledge 2011
Hua, Shaoqi; Xiao, Chengli What shapes a parasocial relationship in RVGs? The effects of avatar images, avatar identification, and romantic jealousy among potential, casual, and core players 2023 computer/video/digital games
Huang, Yu-ting; Weaver-Hightower, Rebecca Archiving Settler Colonialism: Culture, Space and Race 2019
Hubbard, Rita Cooper Relationship Styles In Popular Romance Fiction: A Fantasy Theme Analysis Of Harlequin Romances, 1950-1979 1981 Harlequin Mills & Boon, gender, feminism
Hubbard, Rita C. The Changing-Unchanging Heroines and Heroes of Harlequin Romances, 1950-1979 1983 Harlequin Mills & Boon, gender, authors, Elizabeth Hoy, Roumelia Lane, Elizabeth Hunter
Hubbard, Rita C. Relationship Styles in Popular Romance Novels, 1950-1983 1985 Lilian Warren as Kathryn Blair/Rosalind Brett/Celine Conway, gender, Roumelia Lane, Elizabeth Hunter, Elaine Raco Chase, Harlequin Mills & Boon
Hubbard, Rita C. Magic and Transformation: Relationships in Popular Romance Novels, 1950 to the 1980s 1992 Lilian Warren as Kathryn Blair/Rosalind Brett/Celine Conway, gender, Roumelia Lane, Elizabeth Hunter, Elaine Raco Chase, Harlequin Mills & Boon
Hubert, Karen M. Teaching and Writing Popular Fiction: Horror, Adventure, Mystery and Romance in the American Classroom 1976 teaching romance
Bissessar, Ann Marie; Huggins, Camille Gender and Domestic Violence in the Caribbean 2021
Hughes, Helen Muriel Changes in Historical Romance, 1890s to the 1980s: The Development of the Genre from Stanley Weyman to Georgette Heyer and her Successors 1988 historical romance, Georgette Heyer
Hughes, Helen The Historical Romance 1993 historical romance, history, Georgette Heyer, Sir Arthur Conan Doyle, Stanley Weyman, Rafael Sabatini, Jeffrey Farnol, Barbara Cartland, social/economic class, UK, national identity, gender, A. E. W. Mason, Baroness Orczy, readers, Older and/or precursor texts (may not be "romance" as now defined), Mira Stables, Rowena Tenet
Hughes, Bill ‘Two kinds of romance': Generic Hybridity and Epistemological Uncertainty in Contemporary Paranormal Romance 2013 paranormal/fantasy/time-travel romance, YA/teenage romance, Alyxandra Harvey, Julie Kagawa, science/technology
Hughes, Bill Demon Lovers: Embracing the Monster in Paranormal Romance 2014 paranormal/fantasy/time-travel romance, trash/literary and or intellectual quality, YA/teenage romance, gothic romance, Older and/or precursor texts (may not be "romance" as now defined), sex/sexuality, Alyxandra Harvey, science/technology, gender, Maggie Stiefvater, animals, Julie Kagawa, rural romance, settings, death, Daniel Waters
George, Sam; Hughes, Bill In the company of wolves: Werewolves, wolves and wild children 2020
George, Sam; Hughes, Bill Introduction: from preternatural pastoral to paranormal romance 2020 paranormal/fantasy/time-travel romance, animals
Hughes, Bill Genre Mutation in Young Adult Gothic: The Dialectics of Dystopia and Romance in Holly Black's The Coldest Girl in Coldtown 2021 YA/teenage romance, gothic romance, paranormal/fantasy/time-travel romance, capitalism/business, Holly Black
Huguley, Piper Her Bodyguard: Sandra Kitt’s The Color of Love as a foundational text for BWWM romance 2022 Sandra Kitt, race/ethnicity, African American romance, police officers/police forces
Huguley, Piper In Search of the Black Historical Hottie: The Sad Situation of the Black Hero in Historical Romance 2022 historical romance, race/ethnicity, gender, Piper Huguley, happy ending, wealth/prosperity
Ivanski, Chantelle; Humphries, Stacey; van Dalen-Oskam, Karina; Mar, Raymond A. Do We Judge Fiction by the Author’s Gender? 2022 trash/literary and or intellectual quality, gender
Willinsky, John; Hunniford, R. Mark Reading the Romance Younger: The Mirrors and Fears of a Preparatory Literature 1993 Canada, YA/teenage romance, readers, gender
Hunter, Christyna M. Cataloging Category Romance Fiction and Librarian and Patron Views on Romance Fiction in Public Libraries 2021 libraries/librarians, Harlequin Mills & Boon
Davisson, Amber; Hunting, Kyra From private pleasure to erotic spectacle: Adapting Bridgerton to female audience desires 2023 Julia Quinn, film/movies, sex/sexuality, rape and/or intimate partner violence/abuse, pornography, race/ethnicity
Huntwork, Mary M. Why Girls Flock to Sweet Valley High 1990 YA/teenage romance, readers
Huq, Maimuna From Piety to Romance: Islam-Oriented Texts in Bangladesh 1999 Islam, religion/spirituality, Bangladesh
Hurley, Frances K. In the Words of Girls: The Reading of Adolescent Romance Fiction 1999 YA/teenage romance, readers, gender
Hurst, Rochelle The Barrister’s Bedmate: Harlequin Mills & Boon and the Bridget Jones Debate 2009 chick lit, feminism, Helen Fielding, Harlequin Mills & Boon
Hutter, Verena Fire, Savannah, and Passion: The New Africa Novel and the Construction of White Femininity 2023 Africa, Germany, history, historical romance, race/ethnicity, Patricia Mennen, Leah Bach, gender
Hutton-Jarvis, C. A. The educational potential of romantic fiction 1998 readers, teaching romance
Hyejin, O 원본 없는 판타지 : 페미니스트 시각으로 읽는 한국 현대문화사 2020 Harlequin Mills & Boon, readers, Korea
Ibarrola-Armendariz, Aitor; Ortiz de Urbina Arruabarrena, Jon On the move: Glancing Backwards To Build a Future in English Studies 2016
Iché, Virginie; Sorlin, Sandrine The Rhetoric of Literary Communication: From Classical English Novels to Contemporary Digital Fiction 2022
Hashim, Ruzy Suliza; Idrus, Mohd Muzhafar Unblessed Be Thy Milk: Filial Obedience, Repentance, and Forgiveness in Malay Popular Fiction 2024 Malaysia, family, Fauziah Ashari, Rissa Ahdiya, Sophilea, Islam
Iesué, Renata Romance and Reality: Popular Writing by Nigerian Women 1990 Nigeria
Illouz, Eva Hard-Core Romance: Fifty Shades of Grey, Best-Sellers, and Society 2014 Fifty Shades, BDSM
Kuortti, Joel; Ilmonen, Kaisa; Valovirta, Elina; Korkka, Janne Thinking with the Familiar in Contemporary Literature and Culture 'Out of the Ordinary' 2019
Imperitura, Lorenzo The Forgotten Queer Utopia 2024 Irene Clyde, LGBTQ+ characters, readers and/or authors, Older and/or precursor texts (may not be "romance" as now defined), science fiction/futuristic romance, paranormal/fantasy/time-travel romance, gender
Inge, M. Thomas; Hall, Dennis The Greenwood Guide to American Popular Culture: Volume Four (Pulps and Dime Novels through Young Adult Fiction) 2002
Patai, Daphne; Ingram, Angela Fantasy and Identity: The Double Life of a Victorian Sexual Radical 1993 gender, paranormal/fantasy/time-travel romance, Irene Clyde, Older and/or precursor texts (may not be "romance" as now defined), LGBTQ+ characters, readers and/or authors
Ingram, Angela; Patai, Daphne Rediscovering Forgotten Radicals: British Women Writers 1889-1939 1993
Waldschmidt, Anne; Berressem, Hanjo; Ingwersen, Moritz Culture - Theory – Disability: Encounters between Disability Studies and Cultural Studies 2017
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
Innocenti, Daniela C. L'amore tradotto. Harlequin vs Harmony e l’evoluzione di un romanzo rosa intraduzione: da Plain Jane MacAllister a Il tempo ritrovato 2012 translation, Harlequin Mills & Boon, Italy, Joan Elliott Pickart
Intan, Tania Formula Romance Dalam Perfect Romance Karya Indah Hanaco: Kajian Sastra Feminis 2020 Indah Hanaco, genre definitions, feminism, family, Indonesia
Interracial Books for Children Bulletin, Romance Series for Young Readers: A Report to Educators and Parents in Concert with the National Education Association 1981 YA/teenage romance, trash/literary and or intellectual quality, gender, race/ethnicity, feminism, social/economic class, disability, work, readers, LGBTQ+ characters, readers and/or authors, libraries/librarians, United States of America, Harlequin Mills & Boon, Publishing, family, fashion/clothing, teaching romance
Iqbal, Kundan The impact of romance novels on women's sexual and reproductive health 2014 readers, sex/sexuality, health/medical
Burge, Amy; McAlister, Jodi; Ireland, Charlotte “Prince Charming with an Erection”: The Sensational Pleasures of the Bonkbuster 2024 bonkbuster, Jilly Cooper, Jackie Collins, Shirley Conran, Judith Krantz
Hogan, Patrick Colm; Irish, Bradley J.; Hogan, Lalita Pandit The Routledge Companion to Literature and Emotion 2022
Irons, Glenwood Gender, Language, and Myth: Essays on Popular Narrative 1992
Irvine, Janice M. Sexual Cultures and the Construction of Adolescent Identities 1994
Ivanski, Chantelle Judging a Book by Its Author's Gender 2019 trash/literary and or intellectual quality, gender
Ivanski, Chantelle; Humphries, Stacey; van Dalen-Oskam, Karina; Mar, Raymond A. Do We Judge Fiction by the Author’s Gender? 2022 trash/literary and or intellectual quality, gender
Ivanski, Chantelle; Maslej, Marta M.; Mar, Raymond A. Empirical Approaches to Studying Emotion in Literature: The Case of Gender 2022 science/technology, emotions, gender, readers, authors, romance scholarship
Iwai, Gaku Wartime Ideology in 'The Thimble': A Comparative Study of Popular Wartime Romance and the Anti-romance of D. H. Lawrence 2015 war/armed forces, Berta Ruck, gender, UK, national identity
Iwicka, Renata Manifestations of Male Image in the World's Cultures 2021
Izharuddin, Alicia Sweet Surrender: The Ethno-Religious Spaces of Malay Romance 2020 Malaysia, religion/spirituality
Izharuddin, Alicia Counterpublics of care: making space for mediated intimacy and romantic self-making in Malaysia 2021 readers, Malaysia, gender, emotions, marriage, Islam, love
Izharuddin, Alicia Reading the Digital Muslim Romance 2021 Muslim romance, Malaysia, readers, religion/spirituality, Islam, gender
Izharuddin, Alicia “Redha tu Ikhlas”: The Social–Textual Significance of Islamic Virtue in Malay Forced Marriage Narratives 2021 marriage, Malaysia, Islam, Fauziah Ashari, readers, religion/spirituality, Muslim romance, rape and/or intimate partner violence/abuse, gender
Jackson, Stevi Women and Heterosexual Love: Complicity, Resistance and Change 1995 love, feminism, emotions, psychology, readers
Jackson, Nicole M. Finding Queer Black Women in Romance. Finding Bits and Pieces of Me. 2022 Nicole M. Jackson/Katrina Jackson/Brandy Bush, LGBTQ+ characters, readers and/or authors, African American romance, Rebekah Weatherspoon, Alyssa Cole, Ann Allen Shockley
Jackson, Nicole M. Freedom’s Epilogue: Love as Freedom in Alyssa Cole’s Historical Novellas 2022 Alyssa Cole, historical romance, history, race/ethnicity, African American romance, United States of America, emotions, love, family, community, marriage, LGBTQ+ characters, readers and/or authors, happy ending
Jackson, Elaine Riding the tosh horse: women writers of popular romance between the wars 2005 E. M. Hull, Berta Ruck, Marguerite Jervis/Oliver Sandys
Jackson, Elaine Sievier’s Monthly (1909): Pseudonyms and Readership in Early Twentieth Century Popular Fiction 2008 Marguerite Jervis/Oliver Sandys, Publishing, Older and/or precursor texts (may not be "romance" as now defined)
Jackson, Cia Harlequin Romance: The Power of Parody and Subversion 2017 Harlequin Mills & Boon
Jacquot, Clémence; Goossens, Vannina; Novakova, Iva Étude contrastive des motifs spécifiques aux romans sentimentaux et aux romans Harlequin 2020 linguistics, Harlequin Mills & Boon
Jagodzinski, Mallory Of Bustles and Breeches: Cross-dressing Romance Novel Heroines and the Performance of Gender Ideology 2010 cross-dressing, gender, Celeste Bradley, Eloisa James, Pam Rosenthal, fashion/clothing, sex/sexuality
Jagodzinski, Mallory Love is (Color) Blind: Historical Romance Fiction and Interracial Relationships in the Twenty-First Century 2015 Theresa Romain, Meredith Duran, Courtney Milan, race/ethnicity, historical romance, gender, disability, United States of America, history, rape and/or intimate partner violence/abuse
Gale, Jody; James, Eloisa The Official Essex Sisters Companion Guide 2016
James, Edward; Mendlesohn, Farah The Cambridge Companion to Fantasy Literature 2012
Thomas, Glen; James, Bridie The Romance Industry: A Study of Reading and Writing Romance 2006 authors, readers
Jan, Jariah Mohd; Ujum, Diana Abu Negotiating Conflicts amongst Muslim Female Characters in Malay Romance Novels: A Narratological Perspective 2022 Malaysia, Muslim romance, gender
Jandl, Ingeborg; Knaller, Susanne; Schönfellner, Sabine; Tockner, Gudrun Writing Emotions: Theoretical Concepts and Selected Case Studies in Literature 2017
Konle, Leonard; Jannidis, Fotis Modeling Plots of Narrative Texts as Temporal Graphs 2022 linguistics
Jansen, Annie Rethinking romance: An argument for adding the genre to the popular shelf 2020 libraries/librarians, Helen Hoang, Jasmine Guillory, Sonali Dev, race/ethnicity, Uzma Jalaluddin
Janzen, Moira J. Georgette Heyer's Regency romances: serious literature or popular fiction? 1994 Georgette Heyer, trash/literary and or intellectual quality
Jarc, Klara Ljubezenski roman v Sloveniji: knjižnična izposoja, bralci in produkcija 2019 libraries/librarians, Slovenia, Publishing, readers
Jarmakani, Amira “The Sheik Who Loved Me”: Romancing the War on Terror 2010 sheikh romance, United States of America, war/armed forces, feminism, capitalism/business, race/ethnicity, Islam, gender, metaphor/symbolism
Jarmakani, Amira Desiring the Big Bad Blade: Racing the Sheikh in Desert Romances 2011 sheikh romance, race/ethnicity, sex/sexuality, paratext, fashion/clothing, United States of America, readers, Islam, Spain, religion/spirituality
Jarmakani, Amira An Imperialist Love Story: Desert Romances and the War on Terror 2015 sheikh romance, war/armed forces, United States of America, race/ethnicity, Islam, E. M. Hull, gender, marriage, rape and/or intimate partner violence/abuse
Jarmakani, Amira On Eligible Princes: The medieval modernity of sheikh romance 2020 sheikh romance
Jarmakani, Amira Desert Is Just Another Word for Freedom 2021 sheikh romance
Jarmakani, Amira Explorations of the "desert passion industry" 2021 sheikh romance, E. M. Hull, settings, race/ethnicity, Linda Conrad, rape and/or intimate partner violence/abuse, gender, war/armed forces
Jarvis, Christine A. Desirable Reading: The Relationship between Women Students' Lives and their Reading Practices 2003 readers, teaching romance, gender, Islam, sex/sexuality, UK
Jarvis, Christine Romancing the Curriculum: Empowerment through Popular Culture 1995 teaching romance, readers
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
Jarvis, Christine Hungry Heroines: The Exploration of a "Generative Theme" in Romantic Fiction 2000
Jarvis, Christine Using Fiction for Transformation 2006 teaching romance, feminism, gender, readers
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
Jenkins, Beverly A Short History of African American Romance 2022 Older and/or precursor texts (may not be "romance" as now defined), Frances Watkins Harper, romances in magazines and newspapers, African American romance, Publishing, Beverly Jenkins
Clark, Beverly Lyon; Bernier, Karen Gennari; Henneberry-Nassau, Michelle; Jenks, Lauren Beth; Moorman, Angie J.; Rhoades, Marah Bianca Reading Romance, Reading Ourselves 1996 readers, feminism, sex/sexuality, trash/literary and or intellectual quality, teaching romance, Harlequin Mills & Boon, rape and/or intimate partner violence/abuse, race/ethnicity, capitalism/business
Jennings, Kathleen Heyer … in space! The influence of Georgette Heyer on science fiction 2021 Georgette Heyer, war/armed forces, Patricia Wrede, Tessa Dare
Jensen, Margaret Ann Women and Romantic Fiction: A Case Study of Harlequin Enterprises, Romances, and Readers 1980 Harlequin Mills & Boon, readers, capitalism/business, social/economic class, work
Jensen, Margaret Ann Love's $weet Return: The Harlequin Story 1984 Harlequin Mills & Boon, metafiction, readers, Publishing, virginity, sex/sexuality, paratext, work, authors, gender, happy ending, settings, race/ethnicity, social/economic class, rape and/or intimate partner violence/abuse, food, drink, fashion/clothing, love, marriage, feminism
Brooker, Will; Jermyn, Deborah The Audience Studies Reader 2002
Brickman, Barbara Jane; Jermyn, Deborah; Trost, Theodore Louis Love Across the Atlantic: US-UK Romance in Popular Culture 2020
Joannou, Maroula Women's Writing, Englishness and National and Cultural Identity: The Mobile Woman and the Migrant Voice, 1938-1962 2012 UK, war/armed forces, Daphne du Maurier, Older and/or precursor texts (may not be "romance" as now defined), Kathleen Winsor, Georgette Heyer, cross-dressing, fashion/clothing
Jocks, Yvonne Annette Adventure and Virtue: Alternating Emphasis in the Popular Romance Tradition 1988 Older and/or precursor texts (may not be "romance" as now defined)
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
Johnson, Naomi Ruth Consuming Desires: A Feminist Analysis of Bestselling Teen Romance Novels 2007 YA/teenage romance, capitalism/business, fashion/clothing, gender, sex/sexuality, Publishing
Johnson, Naomi R. Consuming Desires: Consumption, Romance, and Sexuality in Best-Selling Teen Romance Novels 2010 YA/teenage romance, Publishing, capitalism/business, fashion/clothing, gender, sex/sexuality
Johnson, Jacqueline Elizabeth Labors of Love: Black Women, Cultural Production, and the Romance Genre 2024 Rebekah Weatherspoon, Nicole M. Jackson/Katrina Jackson/Brandy Bush, African American romance, race/ethnicity, capitalism/business, wealth/prosperity, work
Johnson, Jacqueline E. Lusting out loud: racialized aurality, podcast intimacy, and the uses of thirst 2024 race/ethnicity, happy ending, sex/sexuality
Johnson, Heather Yorkshire English in Georgette Heyer's The Unknown Ajax 2017 languages, Georgette Heyer, historical romance
Johnson, Emily D. Exploring His/Her Library: Reading and Books in Russian Romance 2020 Russia, metafiction, authors, Harlequin Mills & Boon, Galina Kulikova, Natal’ia Mironova, Publishing, socialism and/or communism, trash/literary and or intellectual quality, race/ethnicity, rape and/or intimate partner violence/abuse
Schurman, Lydia Cushman; Johnson, Deidre Scorned Literature: Essays on the History and Criticism of Popular Mass-Produced Fiction in America 2002
Allen, Margaret; Blackburn, Jean; Johnson, Carol; King, Margaret; Mackinnon, Alison All Her Labours: Embroidering the Framework 1984
Johnson, Brian Weird Bedfellows: H. P. Lovecraft, m/m Romance, and the New Queer Families of Jordan L. Hawk's Whyborne & Griffin Series 2022 Jordan L. Hawk, m/m romance, paranormal/fantasy/time-travel romance, LGBTQ+ characters, readers and/or authors
Piatti-Farnell, Lorna; Johnson-Hunt, Nancy Vampires and Desire: Blood, Sex, and Ritual in Paranormal Romance and Urban Fantasy Fiction 2023 paranormal/fantasy/time-travel romance
Johnson-Kurek, Rosemary E. "I Am Not a Bimbo": Persona, Promotion, and the Fabulous Fabio 1999 Fabio Lanzoni, also known as Fabio, paratext
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
Kaler, Anne K.; Johnson-Kurek, Rosemary E. Romantic Conventions 1999
Johnson-Woods, Toni Pulp: A Collector's Book of Australian Pulp Fiction Covers 2004 paratext
Johnson-Woods, Toni 'Adventures of a Squatter': A Colonial Male Romance 2010 LGBTQ+ characters, readers and/or authors, romances in magazines and newspapers, Older and/or precursor texts (may not be "romance" as now defined), m/m romance, Australia
Johnson-Woods, Toni; Sarwal, Amit Sold by the Millions: Australia's Bestsellers 2012
Fasick, Adele M.; Johnston, Margaret; Osler, Ruth Lands of Pleasure: Essays on Lillian H. Smith and the Development of Children's Libraries 1990
Harris, Alana; Jones, Timothy Willem Love and Romance in Britain, 1918-1970 2015
Harman, Sarah; Jones, Bethan Fifty shades of ghey: Snark fandom and the figure of the anti-fan 2013 Fifty Shades, readers, trash/literary and or intellectual quality, BDSM
Jones, Ann Rosalind Mills & Boon meets feminism 1986 feminism, Harlequin Mills & Boon, work, social/economic class, gender, sex/sexuality
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
Suleiman, Michael W.; Joseph, Suad; Cainkar, Louise Arab American Women: Representation and Refusal 2021
Jossart, Deborah A. Transforming the fairytale: a diachronic study of utopias of popular romance 2004 fairytales/folktales
Joyal, Amanda From Victorian literature to the romance novel: Disability and the courtship plot 2012 disability, Older and/or precursor texts (may not be "romance" as now defined), Charlotte Brontë, Dinah Craik, gender, Teresa Medeiros, Brenda Novak, Catherine Anderson, Erin McCarthy
Juhasz, Suzanne Texts to Grow On: Reading Women’s Romance Fiction 1988 genre definitions, psychology, readers, gender, love
Juhasz, Suzanne Reading from the Heart: Women, Literature, and the Search for True Love 1994 readers, psychology, Older and/or precursor texts (may not be "romance" as now defined), Jane Austen, Emily Brontë, Charlotte Brontë, Louisa May Alcott, Gloria Naylor, Isabel Miller, Valerie Taylor, lesbian romance
Juhasz, Suzanne Lesbian Romance Fiction and the Plotting of Desire: Narrative Theory, Lesbian Identity, and Reading Practice 1998 lesbian romance, LGBTQ+ characters, readers and/or authors, Sarah Aldridge, readers, gender, psychology, work, love, sex/sexuality, family
Jumelais, Yann De Delly à Dailey : les obstacles dans le roman sentimental 1990 Delly, Janet Dailey, genre definitions
Jurilla, Patricia May Bantug Tagalog bestsellers and the history of the book in the Philippines 2006 Philippines, Publishing, Older and/or precursor texts (may not be "romance" as now defined)
Jurilla, Patricia May Bantug Tagalog Bestsellers of the Twentieth Century: A History of the Book in the Philippines 2008 Philippines
Jussawalla, Feroza; Omran, Doaa Muslim Women’s Writing from across South and Southeast Asia 2022
K., Nikohl; Lennard, John A Reader's Companion to A Civil Campaign by Lois McMaster Bujold, Compiled and Presented to Her by Members of the Official LMB Mailing-List to Celebrate the Silver Anniversary of Shards of Honor 1986–2011 2011 Lois McMaster Bujold, Georgette Heyer, science fiction/futuristic romance
Kahn, Laurie Love Between the Covers 2015 authors, Jennifer Crusie, Eloisa James, Beverly Jenkins, Radclyffe/Len Barot
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
Kaler, Anne K. Hero, Heroine, or HERA: A New Name for an Old Problem 1999 linguistics
Kaler, Anne K. Introduction: Conventions of the Romance Genre 1999 trash/literary and or intellectual quality
Kaler, Anne K.; Johnson-Kurek, Rosemary E. Romantic Conventions 1999
Rapp, Adrian; Dodgen, Lynda; Kaler, Anne K. A Romance Writer Gets Away with Murder 2000 Sandra Brown, romantic suspense, death
Kaler, Anne K. Dysfunctional Detectives and Romantic P.I.s: Impediments to the Happy Marriage of Mystery and Romance 2000 romantic suspense, gender
Kalisch, Philip A.; Kalisch, Beatrice J. The Changing Image of the Nurse 1987 medical romance, Mary Roberts Rinehart, work
Kalisch, Philip A.; Kalisch, Beatrice J. The Changing Image of the Nurse 1987 medical romance, Mary Roberts Rinehart, work
Kraaykamp, Gerbert; Kalmijn, Matthijs Een stille liefde. Over de lezeressen van romantische lectuur 1995 readers, social/economic class, Netherlands
Kamble, Jayashree Female Enfranchisement and the Popular Romance: Employing an Indian Perspective 2007 India, readers, gender, feminism, marriage, Linda Howard, Nora Roberts/J. D. Robb, Kim Lawrence, Lisa Kleypas, fashion/clothing, sex/sexuality, virginity
Kamble, Jayashree Uncovering and Recovering the Popular Romance Novel 2008 capitalism/business, war/armed forces, sex/sexuality, paratext, readers, India, historical romance, trash/literary and or intellectual quality, happy ending, Stephanie Laurens
Kamble, Jayashree Patriotism, Passion, and PTSD: The Critique of War in Popular Romance Fiction 2012 war/armed forces, United States of America, national identity, disability, Linda Howard, marriage, Gaelen Foley, Suzanne Brockmann, Sherrilyn Kenyon
Kamblé, Jayashree Making Meaning in Popular Romance Fiction: An Epistemology 2014 war/armed forces, capitalism/business, gender, race/ethnicity, Lisa Kleypas, Nora Roberts/J. D. Robb, genre definitions, Suzanne Brockmann, Gaelen Foley, Diana Gabaldon, Linda Howard, Sherrilyn Kenyon, Johanna Lindsey, Anne Mather, Lindsay McKenna, Judith McNaught, historical romance, paranormal/fantasy/time-travel romance, Susan Elizabeth Phillips, Julia Quinn, Nalini Singh, Violet Winspear, rape and/or intimate partner violence/abuse
Kamblé, Jayashree Branding a Genre: A Brief Transatlantic History of Romance Novel Cover Art 2016 paratext, Harlequin Mills & Boon, historical romance, trash/literary and or intellectual quality
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
Kamblé, Jayashree When Wuxia Met Romance: The Pleasures and Politics of Transculturalism in Sherry Thomas’s My Beautiful Enemy 2020 Sherry Thomas, China, war/armed forces, race/ethnicity, historical romance, UK, gender, national identity, family