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Long, Bridget L. Women's Romance Novel Readership: Motivations, Expectations, and Relationship Satisfaction 2007 readers
Drayton, Arthur D.; Ajayi-Soyinka, Omofolabo; Ukpokodu, I. Peter African Literatures at the Millennium 2007
Rastier, François; Ballabriga, Michel Corpus en Lettres et Sciences sociales : des documents numériques à l'interprétation, Actes du colloque international d'Albi, juillet 2006 2007
Haddad, Emily A. Bound to Love: Captivity in Harlequin Sheikh Novels 2007 sheikh romance, Harlequin Mills & Boon, Susan Mallery, Alexandra Sellers, marriage, race/ethnicity, war/armed forces, Jane Porter, Susan Stephens, Kristi Gold, Laura Wright
Rosier, Laurence; Pollet, Marie-Christine Les mauvais genres en classe de français?: Retour sur la question. 2007
Kelly, Brendan D. Medical Romance 2007 medical romance
Lennard, John Of Modern Dragons and other essays on Genre Fiction 2007 Nora Roberts/J. D. Robb, romantic suspense, paranormal/fantasy/time-travel romance, genre definitions, gender, sex/sexuality, rape and/or intimate partner violence/abuse, science fiction/futuristic romance
Rastier, François; Ballabriga, Michel Corpus en Lettres et Sciences sociales : des documents numériques à l'interprétation, Actes du colloque international d'Albi, juillet 2006 2007
Lutz, Deborah The Haunted Space of the Mind: The Revival of the Gothic Romance in the Twenty-First Century 2007 gothic romance, settings, Evelyn Rogers
Selinger, Eric Murphy Rereading the Romance 2007 romance scholarship
Rosier, Laurence; Pollet, Marie-Christine Les mauvais genres en classe de français?: Retour sur la question. 2007
Barrett-Fox, Rebecca Hope, Faith and Toughness: An Analysis of the Christian Hero 2007 Christian romance, gender, family, religion/spirituality, United States of America, readers
Wyatt, Neal; Olsen, Georgine; Ramsdell, Kristin; Saricks, Joyce; Welch, Lynne Core Collections in Genre Studies: Romance Fiction 101 2007 libraries/librarians, historical romance, romantic suspense, paranormal/fantasy/time-travel romance, genre definitions
McKinley, Tracey Lynn The Female Quest: An Analysis of Archetypal Layering in Harlequin Presents 2007 teaching romance, Lynne Graham, Diana Hamilton, gender, Harlequin Mills & Boon
Dillon, George L. The Genres Speak; Using Large Corpora to Profile Generic Registers 2007 linguistics, Harlequin Mills & Boon, sex/sexuality
Foley, J. A. Critical Awareness: Romance Novels in English for the Asian Market. A Critical Study of Locally Published "Romance Novels" in English 2007 linguistics, Singapore, gender
Foster, Guy Mark How Dare a Black Woman Make Love to a White Man! Black Women Romance Novelists and the Taboo of Interracial Desire 2007 race/ethnicity, rape and/or intimate partner violence/abuse, United States of America, Lizzette Carter, Dyanne Davis, Monica White, history, psychology, African American romance, gender, sex/sexuality, readers
Edmondson, Belinda The Black Romance 2007 African American romance, Older and/or precursor texts (may not be "romance" as now defined), sex/sexuality, race/ethnicity, Frances Watkins Harper, Caribbean, film/movies, social/economic class, national identity
Wyatt, Neal; Olsen, Georgine; Ramsdell, Kristin; Saricks, Joyce; Welch, Lynne Core Collections in Genre Studies: Romance Fiction 101 2007 libraries/librarians, historical romance, romantic suspense, paranormal/fantasy/time-travel romance, genre definitions
Curthoys, Ned; Ganguly, Debjani Edward Said: The Legacy of a Public Intellectual 2007
Close, Lisa Functional analysis of the contemporary folkloric vampire 2008 Nora Roberts/J. D. Robb
Thomas, Glen "And I Deliver": An Interview with Emma Darcy 2008 Emma Darcy, Harlequin Mills & Boon, authors, Australia, sex/sexuality, settings, emotions, Publishing
Constans, Ellen Ouvrières des lettres: Les Romancières dans la production de la littérature de masse de la première moitié du XXe siècle 2008 France, Older and/or precursor texts (may not be "romance" as now defined), Publishing
Brown, Fahamisha Patricia Beverly Jenkins 2008 Beverly Jenkins, historical romance, African American romance, history, romantic suspense, race/ethnicity
Hall, Glinda Fountain Inverting the Southern Belle: Romance Writers Redefine Gender Myths 2008 historical romance, United States of America, gender, race/ethnicity, Emily Toth, Candice Proctor, Patricia Rice, marriage, sex/sexuality, war/armed forces
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
Liffen, Jane "A very Glamorized Picture, that": Images of Scottish Female Herring Workers on Romance Novel Covers 2008 paratext, psychology, work
Fletcher, Lisa Historical Romance Fiction: Heterosexuality and Performativity 2008 love, sex/sexuality, Georgette Heyer, historical romance, linguistics, fashion/clothing, A. S. Byatt
Jurilla, Patricia May Bantug Tagalog Bestsellers of the Twentieth Century: A History of the Book in the Philippines 2008 Philippines
Maynard, Lee Anna LaVyrle Spencer 2008 LaVyrle Spencer, historical romance, metafiction, race/ethnicity, food, drink, disability, war/armed forces, rape and/or intimate partner violence/abuse, family, death, settings
Nolan, Michelle Love on the Racks: a History of American Romance Comics 2008 comics/manga
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
Núñez Puente, Sonia La novela rosa como mascarada de la muerte de lo social: Concha Linares Becerra y María Mercedes Ortoll 2008 Concha Linares-Becerra, María Mercedes Ortoll, gender, fashion/clothing, Spain, fascism/right-wing authoritarianism
Dannenberg, Hilary P. Nadine Gordimer’s The Pickup and the Desert Romance Tradition in Post/Colonial Anglophone Fiction. 2008 E. M. Hull
Rholetter, Wylene Nora Roberts 2008 Nora Roberts/J. D. Robb, rape and/or intimate partner violence/abuse, family, romantic suspense, feminism, work, Janet Dailey, fairytales/folktales, paranormal/fantasy/time-travel romance, Harlequin Mills & Boon
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
Encanto, Georgina R. Savoring Romance Pinoy Style in Foreign Climes: Why Women Migrants Love Reading Tagalog Romance Novels 2008 Philippines, readers, social/economic class
Wood, Andrea Radicalizing Romance: Subculture, Sex, and Media at the Margins 2008 LGBT+ characters, readers and/or authors, m/m romance, lesbian romance, comics/manga, race/ethnicity, pornography, sex/sexuality
Moudileno, Lydie The Troubling Popularity of West African Romance Novels 2008 Africa, settings, trash/literary and or intellectual quality
Mason, Gillian Rosemary Rogers 2008 Rosemary Rogers, historical romance, rape and/or intimate partner violence/abuse, sex/sexuality, erotic romance, BDSM
Hall, Glinda Fountain A genre of our own: the cultural work of women's popular romance fiction 2008 gender, sex/sexuality, Emma Holly, Kathleen Woodiwiss, Rosemary Rogers, historical romance, settings, Emily Toth, Patricia Rice, Candice Proctor, Patricia Potter, Beverly Jenkins, United States of America, authors, national identity, race/ethnicity, history, African American romance, trash/literary and or intellectual quality
Adkins, Denice; Esser, Linda; Velasquez, Diane; Hill, Heather L. Romance novels in American public libraries: A study of collection development practices 2008 libraries/librarians, United States of America
Hinks, John; Armstrong, Catherine Book Trade Connections from the Seventeenth to the Twentieth Centuries 2008
Davis, Storme G. Nora Roberts: descendant of Jane Austen and Charlotte Brontë? 2008 Nora Roberts/J. D. Robb
Barletta, Sandra A first kiss is still a first kiss: romancing the mid-life reader and heroine: A basic renovation 2008 ageism, Sandra Antonelli/Sandra A. Barletta
Esser, Linda; Adkins, Denice; Velasquez, Diane L. “The Red Dot District”: Uncommon Ground in Reader Advisory Education and Professional Practice 2008 libraries/librarians, trash/literary and or intellectual quality, readers, pornography
Hinks, John; Armstrong, Catherine Book Trade Connections from the Seventeenth to the Twentieth Centuries 2008
Morrissey, Katherine Fanning the Flames of Romance: An Exploration of Fan Fiction and the Romance Novel 2008 fanfiction
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
Esser, Linda; Adkins, Denice; Velasquez, Diane L. “The Red Dot District”: Uncommon Ground in Reader Advisory Education and Professional Practice 2008 libraries/librarians, trash/literary and or intellectual quality, readers, pornography
Meirelles, Simone Romances com coração: leitura e edição de romances sentimentais no Brasil 2008 readers, Publishing, Brazil, Harlequin Mills & Boon
Esser, Linda; Adkins, Denice; Velasquez, Diane L. “The Red Dot District”: Uncommon Ground in Reader Advisory Education and Professional Practice 2008 libraries/librarians, trash/literary and or intellectual quality, readers, pornography
Shibamoto Smith, Janet S. Changing Lovestyles: Fictional Representations of Contemporary Japanese Men in Love 2008 love, gender, Japan, marriage, linguistics
Bigey, Magali Stratégies narratives et mises en scène lexicales du roman sentimental sériel contemporain: l'auteure, le corps et les sentiments 2008 genre definitions, linguistics, emotions
Frantz, Sarah S. G. "Suzanne Brockmann" 2008 Suzanne Brockmann, war/armed forces, paranormal/fantasy/time-travel romance, race/ethnicity, Islam, LGBT+ characters, readers and/or authors, rape and/or intimate partner violence/abuse, romantic suspense
Andrade, Roberta Manuela Barros de; Silva, Erotilde Honório Os Livros do Coração: uma análise dos romances sentimentais do Século XX 2008 Delly, Brazil, linguistics, Harlequin Mills & Boon
Olivier, Séverine «Femme, je vous aime...»? Nora Roberts, une inconnue sortie de l'ombre dans l'univers sentimental" 2008 Nora Roberts/J. D. Robb
Núñez Puente, Sonia The Romance Novel and Popular Culture during the Early Franco Regime in Spain: Towards the Construction of Other Discourses of Femininity 2008 Spain, fascism/right-wing authoritarianism, Carmen de Icaza, gender, work, metafiction
Carter, Catherine Poverty, Payment, Power: Kathleen Thompson Norris and Popular Romance 2008 Kathleen Thompson Norris, Older and/or precursor texts (may not be "romance" as now defined), marriage, work, social/economic class, capitalism/business, virginity, gender
Tokley, Anne-Marie Where is my Happy Ending and Why am I Looking for it? The Romance Myth in Contemporary Popular Australian Women’s Fiction 2008 Australia, love, feminism, gender, romances in magazines and newspapers, national identity, Harlequin Mills & Boon, chick lit, Marion Lennox
Brown, Fahamisha Patricia Anita Richmond Bunkley 2008 Anita Richmond Bunkley, African American romance, historical romance, race/ethnicity, romantic suspense, history
Andrade, Roberta Manuela Barros de; Silva, Erotilde Honório Os Livros do Coração: uma análise dos romances sentimentais do Século XX 2008 Delly, Brazil, linguistics, Harlequin Mills & Boon
Sanyal, Madhuparna Re-imagining the late-colonial Anglo-Indian woman's romance: Reading Maud Diver 2008 Maud Diver, India, UK, race/ethnicity, Older and/or precursor texts (may not be "romance" as now defined)
Duranti, Daniela Le soglie del genere: identità femminile e modelli semiotici nel paratesto editoriale 2008 gender, paratext
Lee, Linda J. Guilty Pleasures: Reading Romance Novels as Reworked Fairy Tales 2008 fairytales/folktales, paranormal/fantasy/time-travel romance, Christine Feehan, sex/sexuality
O'Byrne, Patricia Popular fiction in postwar Spain: the soothing, subversive novela rosa 2008 Spain, fascism/right-wing authoritarianism, work, religion/spirituality, María Mercedes Ortoll, war/armed forces, Ángeles Villarta Tuñón, María Morgan/Rosa María Cajal
Bowring, Joanna; O’Brien, Margaret The Art of Romance: Mills & Boon and Harlequin Cover Designs 2008 Harlequin Mills & Boon, paratext
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)
Wagner, Wendy Jennifer Crusie 2008 Jennifer Crusie, fairytales/folktales, romantic suspense, rom-com romance, LGBT+ characters, readers and/or authors
Garton, Stephen 'Fit Only for the Scrap Heap': Rebuilding Returned Soldier Manhood in Australia After 1945 2008 war/armed forces, Australia, history, gender, marriage, national identity, psychology, health/medical, sex/sexuality, romances in magazines and newspapers, disability, work, family
Wells, Juliette True Love Waits: Austen and the Christian Romance in the Contemporary U. S. 2008 Jane Austen, Christian romance, Debra White Smith, religion/spirituality
Bowring, Joanna; O’Brien, Margaret The Art of Romance: Mills & Boon and Harlequin Cover Designs 2008 Harlequin Mills & Boon, paratext
White, Ann Yvonne Genesis Press: Cultural Representation and the Production of African American Romance Novels 2008 African American romance, Publishing, readers, race/ethnicity, Older and/or precursor texts (may not be "romance" as now defined), Dyanne Davis, sex/sexuality
Luneau, Marie-Pier « Tant d’amour à donner »: Le biographique, l’œuvre, et la figure de l’auteur Harlequin 2008 authors, Harlequin Mills & Boon, paratext, family, work
Haynsworth, Leslie Janet Evanovich 2008 Janet Evanovich, rom-com romance, romantic suspense
Allen, Amanda K. The Cinderella-Makers: Postwar Adolescent Girl Fiction as Commodity Tales 2009 YA/teenage romance, Betty Cavanna, Mary Stolz, fashion/clothing, fairytales/folktales, capitalism/business, social/economic class
Cox, Anthony; Fisher, Maryanne The Texas Billionaire's Pregnant Bride: An Evolutionary Interpretation of Romance Fiction Titles 2009 evolutionary psychology, Harlequin Mills & Boon, work, family, social/economic class
Dixon, Peter; Bortolussi, Marisa Readers' Knowledge of Popular Genre 2009 psychology, genre definitions, readers, emotions
Araujo, Gail Living to read romance: The transformative potential of interpretive practice in romance reading 2009 readers
Carpan, Carolyn Sisters, Schoolgirls, and Sleuths: Girls' Series Books in America 2009 YA/teenage romance
Smáradóttir, Helena María Love as a Commodity: Brand-Name Romantic Fiction and its Readers. The Domain and Readership of Harlequin Enterprises, Both in Iceland and Abroad 2009 Harlequin Mills & Boon, Iceland, readers
Cox, Anthony; Fisher, Maryanne The Texas Billionaire's Pregnant Bride: An Evolutionary Interpretation of Romance Fiction Titles 2009 evolutionary psychology, Harlequin Mills & Boon, work, family, social/economic class
Dixon, Peter; Bortolussi, Marisa Readers' Knowledge of Popular Genre 2009 psychology, genre definitions, readers, emotions
Rix, Robert W. “Love in the Clouds”: Barbara Cartland’s Religious Romances 2009 Barbara Cartland, religion/spirituality, love, gender, Christian romance, Marie Corelli, Ethel M. Dell
McKay, Jade; Parsons, Elizabeth Out of Wedlock: The Consummation and Consumption of Marriage in Contemporary Romance Fiction 2009 marriage, Harlequin Mills & Boon, sex/sexuality, virginity, wealth/prosperity, work, feminism, family
Andreu, Alicia G. Difusión y distribución de Corín Tellado en Hispanoamérica 2009 Corín Tellado, Publishing, Latin America
Corbin, Joanie La représentation de l’adolescente dans une collection de romans à grande diffusion 2009 YA/teenage romance, gender
Harrison, Brady All Our Stories Are Here: Critical Perspectives on Montana Literature 2009
Núñez Cubero, Luis; Romero Pérez, Clara Emociones, cultura y educación: Un enfoque interdisciplinar 2009
Boisvert, Anik Le roman historique sentimental: le cas des « J'ai lu » 2009 historical romance, Jane Feather, Lisa Kleypas, gender
Constans, Ellen Images de la femme dans le roman sentimental 2009 love, Older and/or precursor texts (may not be "romance" as now defined), gender, marriage, Delly, religion/spirituality, Georges Ohnet, Christian romance
Hotz-Davies, Ingrid; Kirchhofer, Anton; Leppänen, Sirpa Internet Fictions 2009
Gómez Morón, Reyes; Padilla Cruz, Manuel; Fernández Amaya, Lucía; Hernández López, María de la O Pragmatics Applied to Language Teaching and Learning 2009
McKay, Jade; Parsons, Elizabeth Out of Wedlock: The Consummation and Consumption of Marriage in Contemporary Romance Fiction 2009 marriage, Harlequin Mills & Boon, sex/sexuality, virginity, wealth/prosperity, work, feminism, family
Sánchez Alvarez-Insúa, Alberto Entre la aristocracia y el falangismo: Carmen de Icaza, una escritora falangista representante del fascismo español del primer franquismo y su novela Cristina Guzmán, profesora de idiomas 2009 Carmen de Icaza, Spain, fascism/right-wing authoritarianism
Núñez Cubero, Luis; Romero Pérez, Clara Emociones, cultura y educación: Un enfoque interdisciplinar 2009
Fleites-Lear, Marisela ¿Victoria contra Corín Tellado?: La novela rosa revolucionaria cubana y la ficción en Mujeres 2009 Corín Tellado, Cuba, readers, socialism and/or communism
Hotz-Davies, Ingrid; Kirchhofer, Anton; Leppänen, Sirpa Internet Fictions 2009
Gómez Morón, Reyes; Padilla Cruz, Manuel; Fernández Amaya, Lucía; Hernández López, María de la O Pragmatics Applied to Language Teaching and Learning 2009
Flesch, Juliet ”Feminists Talk about Sisterhood: I Do Not Know How Deeply They Feel It”: Australian Mass Market Romance Novels and Their Critics 2009 feminism
Frantz, Sarah S. G. Darcy’s Vampiric Descendants: Austen’s Perfect Romance Hero and J. R. Ward’s Black Dagger Brotherhood 2009 Jane Austen, J. R. Ward, readers, gender, emotions
Arriaga Flórez, Mercedes; Cruzado Rodríguez, Ángeles; González de Sande, Estela; González de Sande, Mercedes Escritoras y figuras femeninas (literatura en castellano) 2009
Hurst, Rochelle The Barrister’s Bedmate: Harlequin Mills & Boon and the Bridget Jones Debate 2009 chick lit, feminism, Helen Fielding, Harlequin Mills & Boon
DiVisconte, Jessica The Recession and Its Effect on the Romance Genre 2009 Publishing
Constans, Ellen La censure du roman sentimental en France ou le refoulement des mauvais genres 2009 trash/literary and or intellectual quality, Older and/or precursor texts (may not be "romance" as now defined), France, readers, religion/spirituality, Christian romance, love, history, feminism, romance scholarship
Ndiaye, Christiane L’imaginaire du poisson amoureux chez les romancières francophones de la Caraïbe 2009 Caribbean, fairytales/folktales
Hotz-Davies, Ingrid; Kirchhofer, Anton; Leppänen, Sirpa Internet Fictions 2009
Sarwal, Amit; Sarwal, Reema Reading Down Under: Australian Literary Studies Reader 2009
Gómez Morón, Reyes; Padilla Cruz, Manuel; Fernández Amaya, Lucía; Hernández López, María de la O Pragmatics Applied to Language Teaching and Learning 2009
McWilliam, Kelly Romance in foreign accents: Harlequin-Mills & Boon in Australia 2009 Publishing, Harlequin Mills & Boon, Australia
Del Grosso Destreri, Luigi; Brodesco, Alberto; Giovanetti, Silvia; Zanatta, Sara Una galassia rosa: Ricerche sulla letteratura femminile di consumo 2009
Arriaga Flórez, Mercedes; Cruzado Rodríguez, Ángeles; González de Sande, Estela; González de Sande, Mercedes Escritoras y figuras femeninas (literatura en castellano) 2009
Anta Félez, José Luis Para una antropología del amor. La novela rosa y los productos de la cultura de masas 2009 love, trash/literary and or intellectual quality, capitalism/business, social/economic class
Ross, Catherine Sheldrick Reader on Top: Public Libraries, Pleasure Reading, and Models of Reading 2009 libraries/librarians, readers, trash/literary and or intellectual quality
Gil Gómez, Alicia; Escrig Gil, Gemma; Forcada Martínez, Águeda Poder, poderes y empoderamiento… ¿Y el amor? ¡Ah, el amor!: Actas 5º Congreso Estatal Isonomía sobre Igualdad entre mujeres y hombres 2009
Cunha, Maria Teresa Santos Para ler e educar-se: a ciculacao das novelas de Corin Tellado no sul do Brasil (1965-1975) 2009 Corín Tellado, Brazil, emotions
Constans, Ellen Roman sentimental, roman d'amour: Amour ... toujours 2009 genre definitions
Sarwal, Amit; Sarwal, Reema Reading Down Under: Australian Literary Studies Reader 2009
Gómez Morón, Reyes; Padilla Cruz, Manuel; Fernández Amaya, Lucía; Hernández López, María de la O Pragmatics Applied to Language Teaching and Learning 2009
Leavenworth, Maria Lindgren Lover Revamped: Sexualities and Romance in the Black Dagger Brotherhood and Slash Fan Fiction 2009 fanfiction, J. R. Ward, paranormal/fantasy/time-travel romance, gender
Betz, Phyllis M. Lesbian Romance Novels: A History and Critical Analysis 2009 lesbian romance, Older and/or precursor texts (may not be "romance" as now defined), sex/sexuality, Isabel Miller, Jane Rule, Katherine V. Forrest, settings, social/economic class, community, Radclyffe/Len Barot, Karin Kallmaker, Jennifer Fulton, readers, LGBT+ characters, readers and/or authors
Del Grosso Destreri, Luigi; Brodesco, Alberto; Giovanetti, Silvia; Zanatta, Sara Una galassia rosa: Ricerche sulla letteratura femminile di consumo 2009
Kebadze, Nino Romance and Exemplarity in Post-War Spanish Women's Narratives 2009 Luisa-María Linares, Concha Linares-Becerra, Carmen de Icaza, María Mercedes Ortoll, gender, fascism/right-wing authoritarianism, Spain
Arriaga Flórez, Mercedes; Cruzado Rodríguez, Ángeles; González de Sande, Estela; González de Sande, Mercedes Escritoras y figuras femeninas (literatura en castellano) 2009
Hijazo-Gascón, Alberto Cross-Cultural Differences in Conceptualization and their Application in L2 Instruction 2009 linguistics, Corín Tellado, metaphor/symbolism
Gil Gómez, Alicia; Escrig Gil, Gemma; Forcada Martínez, Águeda Poder, poderes y empoderamiento… ¿Y el amor? ¡Ah, el amor!: Actas 5º Congreso Estatal Isonomía sobre Igualdad entre mujeres y hombres 2009
Sutherland, John The Longman Companion to Victorian Fiction (Second Edition) 2009 Older and/or precursor texts (may not be "romance" as now defined), Florence Barclay, Charles Garvice, Ouida, Rosa Praed, Annie S. Swan
Cook, Nancy Home on the Range: Montana Romances and Geographies of Hope 2009 settings, United States of America, rural romance, Tami Hoag, LGBT+ characters, readers and/or authors, work, community, animals
Hall, Glinda F. The Creators of Women’s Popular Romance Fiction: The Authors Who Gave Women a Genre of Their Own 2009 gender, sex/sexuality, Emma Holly, Kathleen Woodiwiss, Rosemary Rogers, historical romance, Emily Toth, Patricia Rice, Candice Proctor, Patricia Potter, Beverly Jenkins, United States of America, authors
Crisp, Thomas From Romance to Magical Realism: Limits and Possibilities in Gay Adolescent Fiction 2009 LGBT+ characters, readers and/or authors, YA/teenage romance
Pérez, María Mercedes Es la historia de un amor: la edición de novelas románticas en el mercado de habla hispana 2009 Publishing
Del Grosso Destreri, Luigi; Brodesco, Alberto; Giovanetti, Silvia; Zanatta, Sara Una galassia rosa: Ricerche sulla letteratura femminile di consumo 2009
Frantz, Sarah S. G.; Rennhak, Katharina Women Constructing Men: Female Novelists and their Male Characters, 1750-2000 2009
Arriaga Flórez, Mercedes; Cruzado Rodríguez, Ángeles; González de Sande, Estela; González de Sande, Mercedes Escritoras y figuras femeninas (literatura en castellano) 2009
Goris, An Romance the World Over 2009 Harlequin Mills & Boon, Publishing, translation, paratext
Haefner, Margaret J. Challenging the -isms: Gender and Race in Brockmann's Troubleshooters, Inc. Romance Novels 2009 Suzanne Brockmann, gender, race/ethnicity, war/armed forces
Olivier, Séverine Les prémices d'une histoire d'amour ou comment écrire un roman sentimental 2009 Publishing, translation, France, trash/literary and or intellectual quality, emotions
Gil Gómez, Alicia; Escrig Gil, Gemma; Forcada Martínez, Águeda Poder, poderes y empoderamiento… ¿Y el amor? ¡Ah, el amor!: Actas 5º Congreso Estatal Isonomía sobre Igualdad entre mujeres y hombres 2009
Feng, Jin "Addicted to Beauty": Consuming and Producing Web-based Chinese Danmei Fiction at Jinjiang 2009 China, m/m romance, LGBT+ characters, readers and/or authors, authors, readers, gender, paranormal/fantasy/time-travel romance, rape and/or intimate partner violence/abuse
Del Grosso Destreri, Luigi; Brodesco, Alberto; Giovanetti, Silvia; Zanatta, Sara Una galassia rosa: Ricerche sulla letteratura femminile di consumo 2009
Frantz, Sarah S. G.; Rennhak, Katharina Women Constructing Men: Female Novelists and their Male Characters, 1750-2000 2009
Margolis, Ann In Defense of Romantic Fiction 2009 Publishing, genre definitions
Olivier, Séverine Le roman sentimental. Productions contemporaines et pratiques de lecture 2009 readers, psychology
Brodesco, Alberto Harmony: L’amore in edicola 2009 Publishing, Italy, Harlequin Mills & Boon
Okome, Onookome Reading the Popular: Onitsha Market Romance and the Practice of Everyday Life 2009 Africa
Salamone, Frank A. Global Cultures 2009
Anderton, Gretchen E. Excitement, adventure, indifference: Romance readers' perceptions of how romance reading impacts their sex lives 2009 readers, sex/sexuality
Dalsgaard, Inger H. Consumed by Romance: Narration, Branding, and Participation in the Digital Marketplace 2009 readers
Frantz, Sarah S. G. I’ve tried my entire life to be a good man': Suzanne Brockmann’s Sam Starrett, Ideal Romance Hero 2009 Suzanne Brockmann, war/armed forces, gender, sex/sexuality, race/ethnicity, family
Rao, Sathya Genres populaires et «érographiques» en Afrique francophone: le cas des romans de la collection Adoras 2009 Africa, Publishing, settings
Ebert, Teresa L. The Task of Cultural Critique 2009 capitalism/business, social/economic class, chick lit, Elizabeth Lowell
Desai, Gaurav Teaching the African Novel 2009
Gelder, Ken; Weaver, Rachael Louise Mack and Colonial Pseudo Literature 2010 Australia, trash/literary and or intellectual quality, Louise Mack, Older and/or precursor texts (may not be "romance" as now defined), national identity, metafiction
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
Luther, Amy Victoria Men reading fiction: A study of the relationship between reader, (con)text, consumption and gender identity. 2010 gender, readers, pornography
Bigey, Magali Entre répétition lexicale et répétition narrative: les procédés imposés du roman sentimental de type sériel 2010 linguistics
Gelder, Ken; Weaver, Rachael Louise Mack and Colonial Pseudo Literature 2010 Australia, trash/literary and or intellectual quality, Louise Mack, Older and/or precursor texts (may not be "romance" as now defined), national identity, metafiction
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
Doğan Yıldız, Alpay Popüler Türk Romanları ( 1930-1950): Kerime Nadir, Esat Mahmut Karakurt, Muazzez Tahsin Berkand 2010 Turkey, Older and/or precursor texts (may not be "romance" as now defined), Kerime Nadir, Muazzez Tahsin Berkand
Gregor, Theresa Lynn From Captors to Captives: American Indian Responses to Popular American Narrative Forms 2010 Native American romance, Cassie Edwards, Janet Wellington
Kapila, Shuchi Educating Seeta: The Anglo-Indian Family Romance and the Poetics of Indirect Rule 2010 India, Older and/or precursor texts (may not be "romance" as now defined), Flora Annie Steel, Maud Diver, Bithia Mary Croker, Alice Perrin
Dandridge, Rita B. The African American Historical Romance: An Interview with Beverly Jenkins 2010 historical romance, African American romance, Beverly Jenkins, race/ethnicity, romance and, or as, activism
Kramer, Devon J. Truth through the medium of cheerfulness: Romance novels as points of resistance 2010 Maria Edgeworth, Elizabeth Gaskell, Georgette Heyer, Lisa Kleypas, Older and/or precursor texts (may not be "romance" as now defined)
Pagliassotti, Dru Better than Romance? Japanese BL Manga and the Subgenre of Male/Male Romantic Fiction 2010 m/m romance, fanfiction, comics/manga, readers, LGBT+ characters, readers and/or authors
Gómez Gray, Alana La dominación rosa: Corín Tellado y la construcción de la identidad de la pareja mexicana 2010 Corín Tellado, Mexico, gender, rape and/or intimate partner violence/abuse
Flegel, Monica; Roth, Jenny Annihilating love and heterosexuality without women: Romance, generic difference, and queer politics in "Supernatural" fan fiction 2010 fanfiction, LGBT+ characters, readers and/or authors
Roach, Catherine M. Getting a Good Man to Love: Popular Romance Fiction and the Problem of Patriarchy 2010 love, religion/spirituality, happy ending, sex/sexuality, BDSM, Maya Banks, Joey W. Hill, J. R. Ward
Pardo Fernández, Rodrigo Caleidoscopio hispánico: estudios lingüísticos y literarios 2010
O'Connor, Karen Gender and Women's Leadership: A Reference Handbook 2010
Faust, Meredith S. "Love of the purest kind": Heteronormative rigidity in the homoerotic fiction of Ann Herendeen 2010 Ann Herendeen, LGBT+ characters, readers and/or authors
Hashim, Ruzy Suliza; Hamdan, Shahizah Ismail Facets of Women in Malay Romance Fiction 2010 Malaysia, chick lit, gender, Islam, Publishing, paratext, marriage
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
Flegel, Monica; Roth, Jenny Annihilating love and heterosexuality without women: Romance, generic difference, and queer politics in "Supernatural" fan fiction 2010 fanfiction, LGBT+ characters, readers and/or authors
Bigey, Magali; Olivier, Séverine Ils aiment le roman sentimental et alors? Lecteurs d'un 'mauvais genre', des lecteurs en danger? 2010 feminism, trash/literary and or intellectual quality, readers, rape and/or intimate partner violence/abuse, linguistics
Montejo Gurruchaga, Lucía Discurso de autora: género y censura en la narrativa española de posguerra 2010 Spain, fascism/right-wing authoritarianism, Carmen de Icaza
Adkins, Denice; Esser, Linda; Velasquez, Diane L. Romance promotion in American public libraries 2010
Hashim, Ruzy Suliza; Hamdan, Shahizah Ismail Facets of Women in Malay Romance Fiction 2010 Malaysia, chick lit, gender, Islam, Publishing, paratext, marriage
Kanerick, Caroline ‘A Jazzed and Patchwork Modern’: ‘future’ girls and modern masculinities in the early popular romances of Berta Ruck 2010 Berta Ruck, gender, history, trash/literary and or intellectual quality, family, community, fashion/clothing, sex/sexuality, war/armed forces, LGBT+ characters, readers and/or authors
Young, Erin S. Escaping the “Time Bind”: Negotiations of Love and Work in Jayne Ann Krentz's “Corporate Romances” 2010 Jayne Ann Krentz/Amanda Quick/Jayne Castle, work, capitalism/business, family, gender, marriage, race/ethnicity, food, drink, romantic suspense
Adkins, Denice; Esser, Linda; Velasquez, Diane Promoting Romance Novels in American Public Libraries 2010 libraries/librarians
Roberts, Sherron Killingsworth Twenty-five years and counting of Sweet Valley: Jessica and Elizabeth in romance novels for young children? 2010 YA/teenage romance
Bigey, Magali; Olivier, Séverine Ils aiment le roman sentimental et alors? Lecteurs d'un 'mauvais genre', des lecteurs en danger? 2010 feminism, trash/literary and or intellectual quality, readers, rape and/or intimate partner violence/abuse, linguistics
Young, Erin S. Corporate Heroines and Utopian Individualism: A Study of the Romance Novel in Global Capitalism 2010 work, paranormal/fantasy/time-travel romance, capitalism/business, Jayne Ann Krentz/Amanda Quick/Jayne Castle, Nora Roberts/J. D. Robb, Elizabeth Lowell, Katherine Stone, Laurell K. Hamilton, Charlaine Harris, Kelley Armstrong, Carrie Vaughn, race/ethnicity, national identity
Graybill, Beth Chasing the Bonnet: The Premise and Popularity of Writing Amish Women 2010 Christian romance, rural romance
Adkins, Denice; Esser, Linda; Velasquez, Diane L. Romance promotion in American public libraries 2010
De Groot, Jerome The Historical Novel 2010 historical romance, Georgette Heyer, Catherine Cookson, Barbara Cartland, Harlequin Mills & Boon
Miller, Kathleen A Little Extra Bite: Dis/Ability and Romance in Tanya Huff and Charlaine Harris’s Vampire Fiction 2010 disability, paranormal/fantasy/time-travel romance, Tanya Huff, Charlaine Harris, feminism, metaphor/symbolism, metafiction
Adkins, Denice; Esser, Linda; Velasquez, Diane Promoting Romance Novels in American Public Libraries 2010 libraries/librarians
González Mínguez, M. Teresa Who is more fragile? A study of heroes and heroines in the twentieth century romantic fiction of Mills and Boon 2010 Harlequin Mills & Boon
Micheletti, Ellen Wandering the Web - Reviews of Romance Novels: Online Sources for Evaluating Popular Fiction 2010 readers
Thurlow, Michelle “A Whisper of Satin”: The Infant Dress Leitmotif 2010 Christian romance, Beverly Lewis, religion/spirituality, gender, fashion/clothing, music
Adkins, Denice; Esser, Linda; Velasquez, Diane L. Romance promotion in American public libraries 2010
de Geest, Dirk; Goris, An Constrained Writing, Creative Writing: The Case of Handbooks for Writing Romances 2010 authors, trash/literary and or intellectual quality, Publishing, readers, genre definitions, rape and/or intimate partner violence/abuse
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
Thompson, Jennifer K. Romance in the Stacks: The Prevalence of Romance Fiction in Academic Libraries 2010 libraries/librarians
Vivanco, Laura; Kramer, Kyra There Are Six Bodies in This Relationship: An Anthropological Approach to the Romance Genre 2010 gender, Harlequin Mills & Boon, Christian romance, family, sex/sexuality, lesbian romance, LGBT+ characters, readers and/or authors
Adkins, Denice; Esser, Linda; Velasquez, Diane Promoting Romance Novels in American Public Libraries 2010 libraries/librarians
Andrade, Roberta Manuela Barros de; Silva, Erotilde Honório A vida em cor de rosa: o romance sentimental e a ditadura militar no Brasil 2010 Corín Tellado, Brazil, history, capitalism/business, love, marriage, gender, readers, fascism/right-wing authoritarianism
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
de Geest, Dirk; Goris, An Constrained Writing, Creative Writing: The Case of Handbooks for Writing Romances 2010 authors, trash/literary and or intellectual quality, Publishing, readers, genre definitions, rape and/or intimate partner violence/abuse
Vivanco, Laura; Kramer, Kyra There Are Six Bodies in This Relationship: An Anthropological Approach to the Romance Genre 2010 gender, Harlequin Mills & Boon, Christian romance, family, sex/sexuality, lesbian romance, LGBT+ characters, readers and/or authors
Teo, Hsu-Ming Historicizing The Sheik: Comparisons of the British Novel and the American Film 2010 E. M. Hull, film/movies, UK, United States of America, race/ethnicity, history, gender, sex/sexuality, war/armed forces, rape and/or intimate partner violence/abuse
Levi, Antonia; McHarry, Mark; Pagliassotti, Dru Boys’ Love Manga: Essays on the Sexual Ambiguity and Cross-Cultural Fandom of the Genre 2010
Andrade, Roberta Manuela Barros de; Silva, Erotilde Honório A vida em cor de rosa: o romance sentimental e a ditadura militar no Brasil 2010 Corín Tellado, Brazil, history, capitalism/business, love, marriage, gender, readers, fascism/right-wing authoritarianism
Quiroga Fernández de Soto, Alejandro; del Arco Blanco, Miguel Ángel Soldados de Dios y apóstoles de la patria: Las derechas españolas en la Europa de entreguerras 2010
Andrade, Roberta Manuela Barros de; Silva, Erotilde Honório Corpos que falam: erotismo, amor e paixão no romance sentimental 2010 Elinor Glyn, sex/sexuality
Warner, Celeste R. Heyer’s heroes: An investigation into Georgette Heyer and her literary ‘mark’ on the Regency hero 2010 Georgette Heyer, gender
Allen, Amanda Kirstin The Girls’ Guide to Power: Romancing the Cold War 2010 YA/teenage romance, Publishing, psychology, fashion/clothing, paratext, readers, Betty Cavanna, Mary Stolz, Maureen Daly
Haynes, Roslynn Marie Bjelke Petersen’s Romances: Fulfilling the Contract, Subverting the Spirit 2010 Marie Bjelke Petersen, Australia, rural romance, settings, LGBT+ characters, readers and/or authors, Christian romance, cross-dressing, gender, religion/spirituality
Bigey, Magali Discorde et règlements de comptes autour du romanesque sentimental: une analyse de blogs 2010 readers
Lennard, John Of Sex and Faerie: Further essays on Genre Fiction 2010 sex/sexuality, paranormal/fantasy/time-travel romance, rape and/or intimate partner violence/abuse
Levi, Antonia; McHarry, Mark; Pagliassotti, Dru Boys’ Love Manga: Essays on the Sexual Ambiguity and Cross-Cultural Fandom of the Genre 2010
Snodgrass, Mary Ellen Reading Nora Roberts 2010 Nora Roberts/J. D. Robb
Haddon, Jenny; Pearson, Diane Fabulous at Fifty: Recollections of the Romantic Novelists' Association 1960-2010 2010 authors, Lucilla Andrews, Mary Burchell, pen name of Ida Cook, Barbara Cartland, Netta Muskett, Denise Robins, Mary Stewart, Alex Stuart, Sylvia Thorpe, Joanna Trollope, Sheila Walsh, Anne Weale
Mogin-Martin, Roselyne Corín Tellado : ¿de la novela rosa a la novela comprometida? 2010 Corín Tellado, work, marriage, sex/sexuality, race/ethnicity
Andreu, Alicia G. La construcción editorial de Corín Tellado 2010 Corín Tellado, Publishing
Pifarré, Alexandra-Flora; Rutigliano-Daspet, Sandrine Re- Répéter - Répétitions 2010
Quiroga Fernández de Soto, Alejandro; del Arco Blanco, Miguel Ángel Soldados de Dios y apóstoles de la patria: Las derechas españolas en la Europa de entreguerras 2010
Fisher, Maryanne; Cox, Anthony Man Change Thyself: Hero Versus Heroine Development in Harlequin Romance Novels 2010 evolutionary psychology, gender, Harlequin Mills & Boon
Sanconie, Maïca « Tout un monde d’évasion » : adapter les romans sentimentaux pour un lectorat français 2010 historical romance, translation, settings, Julie Anne Long, Pamela Britton, France, UK, United States of America
Andrade, Roberta Manuela Barros de; Silva, Erotilde Honório Corpos que falam: erotismo, amor e paixão no romance sentimental 2010 Elinor Glyn, sex/sexuality
Johnson-Woods, Toni 'Adventures of a Squatter': A Colonial Male Romance 2010 LGBT+ 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
Levi, Antonia; McHarry, Mark; Pagliassotti, Dru Boys’ Love Manga: Essays on the Sexual Ambiguity and Cross-Cultural Fandom of the Genre 2010
Haddon, Jenny; Pearson, Diane Fabulous at Fifty: Recollections of the Romantic Novelists' Association 1960-2010 2010 authors, Lucilla Andrews, Mary Burchell, pen name of Ida Cook, Barbara Cartland, Netta Muskett, Denise Robins, Mary Stewart, Alex Stuart, Sylvia Thorpe, Joanna Trollope, Sheila Walsh, Anne Weale
Moody, Stephanie Women's Leadership in Romance Fiction Scholarship 2010 Samuel Richardson, Jane Austen, Harlequin Mills & Boon, Georgette Heyer, Susan Elizabeth Phillips, Linda Howard, Janet Evanovich, Jennifer Crusie, Anna Campbell, Deidre Knight, Lora Leigh, Ann Herendeen, romance scholarship
Pifarré, Alexandra-Flora; Rutigliano-Daspet, Sandrine Re- Répéter - Répétitions 2010
Cenarro, Ángela Carmen de Icaza: Novela rosa y fascismo 2010 Carmen de Icaza, fascism/right-wing authoritarianism, Spain
Fisher, Maryanne; Cox, Anthony Man Change Thyself: Hero Versus Heroine Development in Harlequin Romance Novels 2010 evolutionary psychology, gender, Harlequin Mills & Boon
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
Philips, Deborah The Empire of Romance: Love in a Postcolonial Climate 2011 Harlequin Mills & Boon, UK, race/ethnicity, Pamela Kent, Juliet Shore/Anne Vinton, Jean Herbert, settings, work, Lilian Warren as Kathryn Blair/Rosalind Brett/Celine Conway, Africa, medical romance
Fletcher, Lisa; Gaby, Rosemary; Kloester, Jennifer Pedagogy Report: Embedding Popular Romance Studies in Undergraduate English Units: Teaching Georgette Heyer’s Sylvester 2011 teaching romance, Georgette Heyer, history, metafiction
Pattee, Amy S. Reading the Adolescent Romance: Sweet Valley High and the Popular Young Adult Romance Novel 2011 YA/teenage romance
Guandalini, Gina Delly en Italie 2011 Delly, Italy
Kloester, Jennifer Georgette Heyer: Biography of a Bestseller 2011 Georgette Heyer
Kokkola, Lydia Virtuous Vampires and Voluptuous Vamps: Romance Conventions Reconsidered in Stephenie Meyer’s ‘‘Twilight’’ Series 2011 Twilight, religion/spirituality, YA/teenage romance, love, sex/sexuality, family, health/medical
Griffiths, Clare V. J.; Nott, James J.; Whyte, William Classes, Cultures, & Politics: Essays on British History for Ross McKibbin 2011
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
Santa, Angels; Buard, Jean-Luc Delly romancière 2011 Delly
Schultz Nybacka, Pamela Bookonomy: The Consumption Practice and Value of Book Reading 2011 Sweden, Harlequin Mills & Boon, readers, trash/literary and or intellectual quality, Publishing
Lozano Sampedro, Mª Teresa La réception de Delly en Espagne et en Amérique Latine 2011 Delly, Spain
Percec, Dana “The Pink Ghetto”. The Avatars of Romantic Fiction 2011 Older and/or precursor texts (may not be "romance" as now defined), historical romance, Jane Austen
Andreu, Alicia G. Corín Tellado y el discurso popular: “Peculiares confidencias” 2011 Corín Tellado, trash/literary and or intellectual quality, sex/sexuality
Gleason, William Belles, Beaux, and Paratexts: American Story Papers and the Project of Romance 2011 Older and/or precursor texts (may not be "romance" as now defined), romances in magazines and newspapers, Publishing
Struve, Laura Sisters of Sorts: Reading Romantic Fiction and the Bonds Among Female Readers 2011 readers, paratext, Publishing, Older and/or precursor texts (may not be "romance" as now defined)
Griffiths, Clare V. J.; Nott, James J.; Whyte, William Classes, Cultures, & Politics: Essays on British History for Ross McKibbin 2011
Howlett, Peter; Morgan, Mary S. How Well Do Facts Travel? The Dissemination of Reliable Knowledge 2011
Parke, Maggie; Wilson, Natalie Theorizing Twilight: Critical Essays on What's at Stake in a Post-Vampire World 2011
Weintraub, Andrew N. Islam and Popular Culture in Indonesia and Malaysia 2011
Santa, Angels; Buard, Jean-Luc Delly romancière 2011 Delly
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