| 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 |
| Kamblé, Jayashree; Selinger, Eric Murphy; Teo, Hsu-Ming |
Introduction |
2021 |
romance scholarship |
| Kamblé, Jayashree |
Romance in the media |
2021 |
trash/literary and or intellectual quality, genre definitions, paratext, sex/sexuality |
| Kamblé, Jayashree; Selinger, Eric Murphy; Teo, Hsu-Ming |
The Routledge Research Companion to Popular Romance Fiction |
2021 |
romance scholarship |
| Kamblé, Jayashree |
Creating Identity: The Popular Romance Heroine's Journey to Selfhood and Self-Presentation |
2023 |
gender, sex/sexuality, work, national identity, race/ethnicity, Susan Napier, Nora Roberts/J. D. Robb, Karen Marie Moning, Lisa Kleypas, Beverly Jenkins, Linda Howard, Kresley Cole, Joanna Bourne, Sherry Thomas, Alyssa Cole, metafiction, social/economic class, community, emotions |
| Kamblé, Jayashree |
Romancing the University: BIPOC Scholars in Romance Novels in the 1980s and Now |
2023 |
race/ethnicity, Sandra Kitt, Barbara Stephens, Adriana Herrera, Nicole M. Jackson/Katrina Jackson/Brandy Bush, Talia Hibbert, African American romance, work, romance and, or as, activism |
| Kamblé, Jayashree |
The origins of U.S. mass-market category romance novels: Black editors and writers in the early 1980s |
2023 |
race/ethnicity, Publishing, Vivian Stephens, United States of America, social/economic class, work, Rosalind Welles - pen name of Elsie B. Washington, Lia Sanders - pen name of Angela Jackson and Sandra Jackson-Opoku, Sandra Kitt, Barbara Stephens, Valerie Flournoy, history, sex/sexuality, Rochelle Alers, Donna Hill |
| Kamblé, Jayashree |
Love in Victorian London: Immigrant Histories and Intersecting Diversities in K. J. Charles’s Sins of the Cities |
2024 |
K. J. Charles, race/ethnicity, historical romance, UK |
| Kamitsuka, Margaret D. |
Prolife Christian Romance Novels: A Sign that the Abortion-as-Murder Center Is Not Holding? |
2020 |
Christian romance, religion/spirituality, health/medical, rape and/or intimate partner violence/abuse, Francine Rivers, family, United States of America |
| Kamrath, Kelly |
French Interwar Popular Romance and Ideals of Femininity: A Literary and Historical Study of Magali |
2024 |
France, history, Older and/or precursor texts (may not be "romance" as now defined), gender, Magali, pen name of Jeanne Philbert, fairytales/folktales |
| 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, LGBTQ+ characters, readers and/or authors |
| Kania, Richard R. E. |
Pirates and Piracy in American Popular Culture |
2014 |
pirates and outlaws, historical romance, Daphne du Maurier |
| Kapell, Matthew; Becker, Suzanne |
Patriarchy, the Christian Romance Novel, and the 'Ecosystem of Sex' |
2005 |
Christian romance, sex/sexuality, feminism, religion/spirituality, Janette Oke, Francine Rivers, readers, Jane Almquist |
| 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 |
| Kaplan, Deborah |
"Why would any woman want to read such stories?": The Distinctions Between Genre Romances and Slash Fictions |
2012 |
fanfiction, genre definitions, LGBTQ+ characters, readers and/or authors, Suzanne Brockmann, gender |
| Kapstein, Helen |
Petrofeminism: Love in the Age of Oil |
2021 |
ecocriticism/environmentalism/climate change, Nigeria, feminism, Chimamanda Adichie, Myne Whitman, metafiction, Balaraba Ramat Yakubu, work, capitalism/business |
| Karaminas, Vicki; Geczy, Adam; Gibson, Pamela Church |
Fashionable Masculinities: Queers, Pimp Daddies, and Lumbersexuals |
2022 |
|
| Helgason, Jon; Kärrholm, Sara; Steiner, Ann |
Hype: Bestsellers and Literary Cultures |
2014 |
|
| Coote, Lesley; Kaufman, Alexander L. |
Robin Hood and the Outlaw/ed Literary Canon |
2018 |
|
| Kaufman, Alexander L.; Vlagopoulos, Penny |
Food and Feast in Modern Outlaw Tales |
2019 |
|
| Kaveney, Roz |
Dark fantasy and paranormal romance |
2012 |
paranormal/fantasy/time-travel romance, Charlaine Harris, Laurell K. Hamilton, Twilight |
| Kaye, Marilyn Janice |
The nature of didacticism as related to romance and sexuality in young adult novels 1965-1978 |
1983 |
YA/teenage romance |
| Kebadze, Nino |
Fictions of Surrender: Romance and Exemplarity in Post-War Spanish Women's Narratives |
2007 |
Luisa-María Linares, Concha Linares-Becerra, Carmen de Icaza, Spain, fascism/right-wing authoritarianism, gender |
| 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 |
| Keegan, Faye Jessica |
Soft metafiction(s) : Mary Stewart and the self-reflective middlebrow |
2016 |
Mary Stewart, romantic suspense, trash/literary and or intellectual quality, national identity, history, metafiction, fairytales/folktales, gothic romance, UK |
| Keegan, Faye |
‘Snob Value’: Gender and Literary Value in Mary Stewart |
2017 |
Mary Stewart, romantic suspense, trash/literary and or intellectual quality, gender, authors |
| Keen, Suzanne |
Probable Impossibilities: Historical Romance Readers Talk Back |
2018 |
Diana Gabaldon, readers, history |
| Kelly, Patricia P. |
Transitional Novels for Readers of Teen Romances |
1991 |
YA/teenage romance |
| Kelly, Brendan D. |
Medical Romance |
2007 |
medical romance |
| Kelly, Brendan D. |
Medical romance: love never dies |
2016 |
medical romance |
| Kelman, Suanne |
Heroine addiction |
1995 |
Georgette Heyer, Harlequin Mills & Boon, Jennifer Crusie, Margaret Moore, Susanna Kearsley |
| Kelso, Sylvia |
Singularities: the interaction of feminism(s) and two strands of popular American fiction, 1968-89 |
1996 |
gothic romance, Barbara Michaels a.k.a. Elizabeth Peters a.k.a. Barbara Mertz, Phyllis A. Whitney, feminism |
| Kelso, Sylvia |
Stitching Time: Feminism(s) and Thirty Years of Gothic Romance |
1997 |
gothic romance, Barbara Michaels a.k.a. Elizabeth Peters a.k.a. Barbara Mertz, feminism, family |
| Kemppinen, Anne-Mari Katriina |
Translating for popular literature with special reference to Harlequin books and their Finnish translations |
1988 |
translation, Harlequin Mills & Boon, Finland |
| Kemppinen, Anne |
Translation for Popular Literature with Special Reference to Harlequin Books and their Finnish Translation |
1989 |
translation, Finland, Harlequin Mills & Boon |
| Kendal, Evie |
The use of free indirect discourse in J. R. Ward's Black Dagger Brotherhood series |
2019 |
J. R. Ward, close reading, linguistics, genre definitions, paranormal/fantasy/time-travel romance, readers |
| Kendra, April |
Silver Forks, Stereotypes, and Regency Romance |
2007 |
Older and/or precursor texts (may not be "romance" as now defined), historical romance |
| Keran, Molly |
The Genre of Rape: Women’s Popular Literature and Contemporary Representations of Sexual Violence |
2024 |
rape and/or intimate partner violence/abuse, Alyssa Cole, Courtney Milan, Lorraine Heath, historical romance, Lisa Kleypas, Julia Quinn, Margaret Mallory, gender, race/ethnicity, social/economic class, sex/sexuality, health/medical |
| Kerr, Ashley Elizabeth |
Indigenous Lovers and Villainous Scientists: Rewriting Nineteenth-Century Ideas of Race in Argentine Romance Novels |
2019 |
history, race/ethnicity, Argentina, science/technology, national identity, historical romance |
| Khuankaew, Sasinee |
Femininity and masculinity in three selected twentieth-century Thai romance fictions |
2015 |
gender, Thailand, Buddhism, marriage, sex/sexuality, feminism, religion/spirituality |
| Khuankaew, Sasinee |
Femininity and Masculinity in Twenty-First Century Thai Romantic Fictions |
2017 |
gender, Thailand, sex/sexuality, Buddhism |
| Khumwongdee, Yanisa |
Reading and Rewriting Fat Romance: A Study of Twenty-First Century Thai and US Fat Romance Novels |
2021 |
fat, fatness, gender, LGBTQ+ characters, readers and/or authors |
| Kies, Bridget |
Saying “I Don’t”: Queer Romance in the Post–Marriage Equality World |
2024 |
marriage, happy ending, LGBTQ+ characters, readers and/or authors, film/movies, Alexis Hall |
| Killeen, Jarlath |
Nora Roberts: the Power of Love |
2018 |
Nora Roberts/J. D. Robb, love |
| Killing, Peter |
Harlequin Enterprises Limited: Case Material of the Western School of Business Administration |
1978 |
Publishing |
| Lin, Pei-yin; Kim, Su Yun |
East Asian Transwar Popular Culture: Literature and Film from Taiwan and Korea |
2019 |
Taiwan, Korea, Older and/or precursor texts (may not be "romance" as now defined) |
| Kinard, Amanda Marette |
Forbidden Pleasures: The Romance and Its Readers |
1999 |
sex/sexuality, social/economic class, virginity, readers, capitalism/business, wealth/prosperity |
| Kindleysides, Alicia |
Broken Hearts: Writing The Representation of Trauma and Trauma Recovery in a Post-Trauma Romance Novel |
2024 |
health/medical, psychology, A.K. Leigh, genre definitions, feminism, romance and, or as, activism, myth |
| Allen, Margaret; Blackburn, Jean; Johnson, Carol; King, Margaret; Mackinnon, Alison |
All Her Labours: Embroidering the Framework |
1984 |
|
| King, Laura |
The Perfect Man: Fatherhood, Masculinity and Romance in Popular Culture in Mid-Twentieth-Century Britain |
2015 |
family, gender, marriage, history, UK |
| Towheed, Shafquat; King, Edmund G. C. |
Reading and the First World War: Readers, Texts, Archives |
2015 |
|
| Kingston, Elizabeth |
History's Been Hijacked: How To Combat White Supremacy Through Popular Literature |
2018 |
historical romance, race/ethnicity, history, Elizabeth Kingston, Publishing, UK, social/economic class |
| Kinsale, Laura |
The Androgynous Reader: Point of View in the Romance |
1992 |
readers, gender, psychology, happy ending, feminism, paratext |
| Hotz-Davies, Ingrid; Kirchhofer, Anton; Leppänen, Sirpa |
Internet Fictions |
2009 |
|
| Kirkham, Pat; Thoms, David |
War Culture: Social Change and Changing Experience in World War Two Britain |
1995 |
|
| Kirkland, Catherine Elisabeth |
For The Love Of It: Women Writers And The Popular Romance |
1984 |
authors, work, Publishing, feminism, trash/literary and or intellectual quality |
| Vinson, James; Kirkpatrick, D. L. |
Twentieth Century Romance and Gothic Writers |
1982 |
Jane Aiken Hodge, Effie Adelaide Rowlands, also known as Madame Albanesi, Lucilla Andrews, Jane Arbor, Elizabeth Ashton, Ruby M. Ayres, Faith Baldwin, Florence Barclay, Betty Beaty, Lilian Warren as Kathryn Blair/Rosalind Brett/Celine Conway, Mary Burchell, pen name of Ida Cook, Barbara Cartland, Catherine Cookson, Marie Corelli, Janet Dailey, Iris Danbury, Ethel M. Dell, Viña Delmar, Joyce Dingwell/Kate Starr, Maud Diver, Daphne du Maurier, Dorothy Eden, Eleanor Farnes, Jeffrey Farnol, Charles Garvice, Roberta Gellis, Elinor Glyn, Maysie Greig, Anne Hampson, Georgette Heyer, Grace Livingston Hill, Victoria Holt/Jean Plaidy/Eleanor Burford Hibbert, Elizabeth Hoy, E. M. Hull, Charlotte Lamb, Roumelia Lane, Roberta Leigh/Rachel Lindsay, Jean S. MacLeod/Catherine Airlie, Anne Mather, Patricia Matthews, Barbara Michaels a.k.a. Elizabeth Peters a.k.a. Barbara Mertz, Margaret Mitchell, Netta Muskett, Betty Neels, Kathleen Thompson Norris, Kate Norway/Olive Norton, Baroness Orczy, Margaret Pargeter, Mary Roberts Rinehart, Denise Robins, Rosemary Rogers, Margaret Rome, Berta Ruck, Rafael Sabatini, Sara Seale, Danielle Steel, Mary Stewart, Rebecca Stratton, Essie Summers, Annie S. Swan, Kay Thorpe, Patricia Veryan, Lucy Walker, Margaret Way, Phyllis A. Whitney, Kathleen Winsor, Violet Winspear, Kathleen Woodiwiss, Mary Lutyens/Esther Wyndham |
| 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 |
| Kirtley, William M.; Kirtley, Patricia M. |
Happily, Ever After: An Analysis of Romance Novels |
2021 |
genre definitions |
| Kirtley, William M.; Kirtley, Patricia M. |
How About a Little Romance?: An Analysis of Romance Novels |
2021 |
genre definitions |
| Kirtley, William M.; Kirtley, Patricia M. |
Happily, Ever After: An Analysis of Romance Novels |
2021 |
genre definitions |
| Kirtley, William M.; Kirtley, Patricia M. |
How About a Little Romance?: An Analysis of Romance Novels |
2021 |
genre definitions |
| Kitchen, Veronica |
Veterans and Military Masculinity in Popular Romance Fiction |
2018 |
war/armed forces, gender, disability |
| Kiyawa, Haruna Alkasim |
Female Readers as Literary Critics: Reading Experiences of Kano Market Romance Fiction |
2021 |
Nigeria, readers |
| Klaber, Lara |
Taming the Perfect Beast: the Monster as Romantic Hero in Contemporary Fiction |
2014 |
Twilight, paranormal/fantasy/time-travel romance |
| Klarich, Morgan L. |
Multiculturalism, Sex, and Powerful Women: The New Romance Novel as the Voice of Neofeminism? |
2012 |
feminism, sex/sexuality, gender, race/ethnicity, United States of America |
| Klein, Ula Lukszo |
Fifty Shades of Pamela in the Undergraduate Classroom |
2020 |
teaching romance, Older and/or precursor texts (may not be "romance" as now defined), Samuel Richardson, Fifty Shades |
| Kloester, Jennifer V. |
Georgette Heyer: writing the Regency. History in fiction from Regency Buck to Lady of Quality 1935-1972 |
2004 |
Georgette Heyer, history, historical romance |
| Kloester, Jennifer V. |
Images of England: Georgette Heyer's Regency World in the Dominions |
2004 |
Georgette Heyer |
| Kloester, Jennifer |
Georgette Heyer and the Great Jane |
2006 |
Georgette Heyer, Jane Austen |
| Kloester, Jennifer |
Georgette Heyer: Biography of a Bestseller |
2011 |
Georgette Heyer |
| 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 |
| Kluger, Johanna |
"On Thursdays We Shoot": Guns and Gender Binaries in Regency Romance Novels |
2024 |
historical romance, gender, Tessa Dare, Julia Quinn |
| Kluger, Johanna |
Post-Trump masculinity in popular romance novels |
2024 |
United States of America, gender, sex/sexuality, Tessa Dare, Sarah MacLean, romance and, or as, activism |
| Adamenko, Olga; Klymenko, Olga |
Communicative Behavior via Gender Identity (Based on the English language “Love Stories”) |
2020 |
gender, linguistics, Victoria Gordon, Leigh Greenwood, Madeleine Ker, Gil Sanderson, Harlequin Mills & Boon |
| Jandl, Ingeborg; Knaller, Susanne; Schönfellner, Sabine; Tockner, Gudrun |
Writing Emotions: Theoretical Concepts and Selected Case Studies in Literature |
2017 |
|
| Kraxenberger, Maria; Knoop, Christine A.; Menninghaus, Winfried |
Who reads contemporary erotic novels and why? |
2021 |
readers, Fifty Shades, Sylvia Day, erotic romance, sex/sexuality, Germany |
| Kohlman, Marla H.; Krieg, Dana B. |
Discourses on Gender and Sexual Inequality: The Legacy of Sandra L. Bem |
2017 |
|
| Kohlman, Marla H.; Simpson, Samantha N. |
For the Sake of Hearth and Home: Gender Schematicity in the Romance Novel |
2017 |
gender, Harlequin Mills & Boon, race/ethnicity, work, marriage, family |
| 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 |
| Kolko, Beth E. |
Writing the Romance: Cultural Studies, Community, and the Teaching of Writing |
1994 |
authors, feminism, work, community, capitalism/business, Publishing |
| Kollman, Kathleen W. Taylor |
Contemporary Paranormal Romance: Theories and Development of the Genre’s Feminism (Or Lack Thereof) |
2018 |
paranormal/fantasy/time-travel romance, feminism, gender |
| Smith, Josefine; Kollman, Kathleen W. Taylor |
Still Reading Romance: Identity and Engagement with Popular Romance Fiction |
2025 |
readers |
| Kolmes, Sara; Hoffman, Matthew A. |
Harlequin Resistance? Romance Novels as a Model for Resisting Objectification |
2021 |
sex/sexuality, genre definitions, philosophy, Tessa Dare, feminism |
| Konle, Leonard; Jannidis, Fotis |
Modeling Plots of Narrative Texts as Temporal Graphs |
2022 |
linguistics |
| Koolen, Corina; van Dalen-Oskam, Karina; van Cranenburgh, Andreas; Nagelhout, Erica |
Literary quality in the eye of the Dutch reader: The National Reader Survey |
2020 |
trash/literary and or intellectual quality, gender, Netherlands |
| Kuortti, Joel; Ilmonen, Kaisa; Valovirta, Elina; Korkka, Janne |
Thinking with the Familiar in Contemporary Literature and Culture 'Out of the Ordinary' |
2019 |
|
| 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 |
| Koster, Cees |
Stuiverromans - vertaald? |
1997 |
translation, Harlequin Mills & Boon, Netherlands |
| Kousholt, Moa |
A Time, A Place, and A Person: A comparative literary analysis of Red, White & Royal Blue and One Last Stop by Casey McQuiston and how queer representation can be problematized in a classroom context |
2024 |
Casey McQuiston, LGBTQ+ characters, readers and/or authors, YA/teenage romance, teaching romance |
| Kołodziej, Gaja |
Unforgettably in love: uses of the amnesia trope in contemporary romance |
2021 |
contemporary romance, romantic suspense, health/medical, love |
| Kraaykamp, Gerbert; Kalmijn, Matthijs |
Een stille liefde. Over de lezeressen van romantische lectuur |
1995 |
readers, social/economic class, Netherlands |
| 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, LGBTQ+ characters, readers and/or authors |
| Kramer, Kyra |
Raising Veils and other Bold Acts: The Heroine's Agency in Female Gothic Novels |
2011 |
gothic romance, romantic suspense, gender, Victoria Holt/Jean Plaidy/Eleanor Burford Hibbert, Elizabeth Lowell |
| Kramer, Kyra |
Getting Laid, Getting Old, and Getting Fed: The Cultural Resistance of Jennifer Crusie’s Romance Heroines |
2012 |
Jennifer Crusie, ageism, food, drink, gender, feminism, sex/sexuality, fat, fatness |
| 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) |
| Moore, Michael; Kramer, Daniela |
SATIR FOR BEGINNERS: Incongruent Communication Patterns in Romantic Fiction |
1999 |
linguistics, Harlequin Mills & Boon, psychology |
| Kramer, Daniela; Moore, Michael |
Family Myths in Romantic Fiction |
2001 |
psychology, love, family, marriage, myth, Harlequin Mills & Boon, gender, rape and/or intimate partner violence/abuse, virginity, sex/sexuality, work |
| Kramer, Daniela; Moore, Michael |
Gender Roles, Romantic Fiction and Family Therapy |
2001 |
psychology, Harlequin Mills & Boon, gender, marriage, family, rape and/or intimate partner violence/abuse |
| Kramp, Michael |
Jane Austen and Masculinity |
2018 |
|
| Lawrey, Jeffrey A.; McLuckie, Alyx; Mulberry, Benjamin J.; Mullins, Erin K.; Shuler, Autumn R.; Kratzer, Jessica M. W. |
Communication, Kink, and Sexual Education: What Young Women Learned from Fifty Shades of Grey |
2018 |
Fifty Shades, readers, sex/sexuality, erotic romance, BDSM |
| Kratzer, Jessica M. W. |
Communication in Kink: Understanding the Influence of the Fifty Shades of Grey Phenomenon |
2020 |
|
| Kraxenberger, Maria |
Erotic Romances: An Emerging Subgenre Succeeding Fifty Shades |
2019 |
erotic romance, Fifty Shades |
| Kraxenberger, Maria; Knoop, Christine A.; Menninghaus, Winfried |
Who reads contemporary erotic novels and why? |
2021 |
readers, Fifty Shades, Sylvia Day, erotic romance, sex/sexuality, Germany |
| Kray, Susan |
Deconstructive Laughter: Romance Author as Subject, The Pleasure of Writing the Text |
1987 |
authors, readers, emotions |
| Krentz, Jayne Ann |
Dangerous Men and Adventurous Women: Romance Writers on the Appeal of the Romance |
1992 |
Jayne Ann Krentz/Amanda Quick/Jayne Castle, readers, gender, authors, emotions, myth, Cathie Linz, Linda Barlow, metaphor/symbolism, linguistics, happy ending, rape and/or intimate partner violence/abuse, Laura Kinsale, psychology, Susan Elizabeth Phillips, feminism, Daphne Clair, Older and/or precursor texts (may not be "romance" as now defined), Robyn Donald, Anne Stuart, love, Elizabeth Lowell, war/armed forces, Mary Jo Putney, virginity, Doreen Owens Malek, Brittany Young, sex/sexuality, Penelope Williamson, trash/literary and or intellectual quality, Judith Arnold, work, Stella Cameron, Sandra Brown, Suzanne Simmons Guntrum, Diana Palmer, Kathleen Gilles Seidel |
| Krentz, Jayne Ann |
All the Right Reasons: Romance Fiction in the Public Library |
1997 |
Jayne Ann Krentz/Amanda Quick/Jayne Castle, libraries/librarians |
| Kress, Gunther |
Textual Matters: The Social Effectiveness of Style |
1988 |
linguistics, readers, medical romance, settings |
| Kohlman, Marla H.; Krieg, Dana B. |
Discourses on Gender and Sexual Inequality: The Legacy of Sandra L. Bem |
2017 |
|
| Zhang, Chunjie; Krimmer, Elisabeth |
Gender and German Colonialism: Intimacies, Accountabilities, Intersections |
2023 |
|
| Kroeg, Susan M. |
'Truly Our Contemporary Jane Austen': Thinking Like an Austen Fan about Regency Romances |
2012 |
historical romance |
| Shapiro, Joan; Kroeger, Lee |
Is Life a Romantic Novel? The Relationship Between Attitudes About Intimate Relationships and the Popular Media |
1991 |
psychology, readers |
| Krueger, Kate |
The Woman at Home in the World: Annie Swan's Lady Doctor and the Problem of the Fin de Siècle Working Woman |
2017 |
Annie S. Swan |
| Habermann, Ina; Krug, Christian |
And Thereby Hangs a Tale: A Critical Anatomy of (Popular) Tales |
2020 |
|
| Kuchta, Estella Carolye |
Imagining Love: Teen Romance Novels and American Teen Relational Capacity |
2021 |
YA/teenage romance, readers, psychology, love |
| Kuchta, Estella Carolye |
The Epistemological Possibilities of Love: Towards Relational and Ecological Healing |
2024 |
YA/teenage romance, readers, psychology, love |
| Küçük, Özlem |
Impossible Love in the Hiccup and the Lily of the Valley Novels and the Social Role of the Women |
2023 |
Kerime Nadir, Turkey, Older and/or precursor texts (may not be "romance" as now defined) |
| Kuehn, Julia |
A Female Poetics of Empire: From Eliot to Woolf |
2014 |
Older and/or precursor texts (may not be "romance" as now defined), India, sheikh romance, E. M. Hull, Bithia Mary Croker, Maud Diver, Alice Eustace, Mrs F. E. Penny, Alice Perrin, Flora Annie Steel, Kathlyn Rhodes |
| Bennett, Susan G.; Kuhn, Alice |
Love and Lust in the Secondary School: Do Formula Romances Have a Place in the Schools? |
1987 |
|
| Sharma, Vishal; Bray, Kirsten E.; Kumar, Neha; Grinter, Rebecca E. |
Romancing the Algorithm: Navigating Constantly, Frequently, and Silently Changing Algorithms for Digital Work |
2022 |
Publishing, authors |
| Sharma, Vishal; Bray, Kirsten E.; Kumar, Neha; Grinter, Rebecca E. |
It Takes (at least) Two: The Work to Make Romance Work |
2023 |
Publishing, authors, readers |
| Kundin, Susan G. |
Romance versus Reality: A Look at YA Romantic Fiction |
1985 |
YA/teenage romance |
| Künne, Regina |
Eternally Yours - Challenge and Response: Contemporary US American Romance Novels by Jayne Ann Krentz and Barbara Delinsky |
2015 |
Jayne Ann Krentz/Amanda Quick/Jayne Castle, Barbara Delinsky, United States of America, religion/spirituality |
| Kuortti, Joel; Ilmonen, Kaisa; Valovirta, Elina; Korkka, Janne |
Thinking with the Familiar in Contemporary Literature and Culture 'Out of the Ordinary' |
2019 |
|
| Kustritz, Anne |
Slashing the Romance Narrative |
2003 |
fanfiction, gender, emotions, sex/sexuality |
| Kutzer, M. Daphne |
"I Won't Grow up"—Yet: Teen Formula Romance |
1986 |
YA/teenage romance, family, love, sex/sexuality, readers |
| Kuznets, Lois; Zarin, Eve |
Sweet Dreams for Sleeping Beauties: Pre-Teen Romances |
1982 |
YA/teenage romance, settings |
| La Mothe, Jacques |
Actes du colloque "Les mauvais genres" organisé au Centre culturel canadien de Paris les 23, 24 et 25 novembre 1989 |
1992 |
trash/literary and or intellectual quality |
| Labanyi, Jo |
Romancing the Early Franco Regime: the Novelas Románticas of Concha Linares-Becerra and Luisa-María Linares |
2004 |
Concha Linares-Becerra, Luisa-María Linares, fascism/right-wing authoritarianism, Spain, film/movies, war/armed forces, work, metafiction, wealth/prosperity |
| LaDousa, Chaise; Davis, Christina P. |
Language, Education, and Identity: Medium in South Asia |
2022 |
|
| Laframboise, Donna |
The Princess at the Window: A New Gender Morality |
1996 |
rape and/or intimate partner violence/abuse, BDSM, pornography, feminism, race/ethnicity, Johanna Lindsey, Catherine Hart, Susan Johnson, Kathleen Morgan, Heather Graham, Katharine Kincaid |
| Chevigny, Bell Gale; Laguardia, Gari |
Reinventing the Americas: Comparative Studies of Literature of the United States and Spanish America |
1986 |
|
| Latva, Otto; Lähdesmäki, Heta; Sonck-Rautio, Kirsi; Uusitalo, Harri |
Arrivals and Departures: The Human Relationship with Changing Biodiversity |
2024 |
|
| Lam, Maylyn |
Reading the sweet dream: adolescent girls and romance fiction |
1986 |
readers |
| Lam, Maylyn |
The romance of feminism: feminism on and as popular romance |
1994 |
feminism |
| Lam, Adam; McNaughton, Howard D. |
The Reinvention of Everyday Life: Culture in the twenty-first century |
2006 |
|
| Lambert, Jérémy |
Le roman sentimental gay francophone |
2016 |
LGBTQ+ characters, readers and/or authors, Anne Singe et Marine Ange |
| Lambert Barr, DeAnn M. |
Romance-novel genre |
1996 |
readers, Danielle Steel, Kathleen Eagle, Julie Garwood |
| Lamprinou, Artemis |
Translated Romances: the Effect of Cultural Textual Norms on the Communication of Emotions |
2011 |
translation, emotions, Greece |
| Lamprinou, Artemis |
A Study on the Cultural Variations in the Verbalisation of Near-Universal Emotions: Translating Emotions from British English into Greek in Popular Bestseller Romances |
2012 |
translation, Greece |
| Lamy, Odile |
La représentation du couple à travers les pages couvertures des romans Harlequin |
1997 |
paratext, Harlequin Mills & Boon, fashion/clothing, settings, metaphor/symbolism, sex/sexuality, emotions |
| Lancashire, Anne |
Venetia: Georgette Heyer’s Pastoral Romance |
2020 |
Georgette Heyer, rural romance, Shakespeare, settings |
| Lancaster, Rosemary |
Fact and Fiction: Alice Williamson’s Monte Carlo |
2020 |
Alice Williamson/A. M. Williamson/Mrs. C. N. Williamson, Older and/or precursor texts (may not be "romance" as now defined) |
| Lancaster, Rosemary |
Women Writing on the French Riviera: Travellers and Trendsetters, 1870-1970 |
2020 |
|
| Lancaster, Guy |
"God loves you nearly as much as I do": Toward a Poetics of Natality in Maureen Bronson's Delta Pearl, a 1989 Harlequin Historical Romance. |
2024 |
trash/literary and or intellectual quality, Maureen Bronson, death, family, philosophy |
| Lang, Miriam |
Taiwanese Romance: San Mao and Qiong Yao |
2003 |
Taiwan, Qiongyao/Qiong Yao |
| Langeveld, Cornelis H. (Kees) |
Medische missers in doktersromans |
2011 |
medical romance, health/medical |
| Laquintano, Timothy |
The Legacy of the Vanity Press and Digital Transitions |
2013 |
Publishing, Harlequin Mills & Boon |
| Larcombe, Wendy |
Compelling Engagements: Feminism, Rape Law and Romance Fiction |
2005 |
rape and/or intimate partner violence/abuse, feminism, gender |
| Larkin, Brian |
Indian Films and Nigerian Lovers: Media and the Creation of Parallel Modernities |
1997 |
Nigeria, film/movies, Ado Ahmad, Maryam Sahabi Liman |
| Larrier, Renée |
"Quand la lecture devient passion": Romance Novels and Literacy in Abidjan |
2007 |
Ivory Coast, Africa |
| Schell, Heather; Larsen, Katherine |
How the Story Ends: Gender, Sexuality, and Nation in the Happy Ending |
2019 |
happy ending, Sonali Dev, Radclyffe/Len Barot, United States of America, gender, trash/literary and or intellectual quality |
| Larson, Christine |
An Economy of Words: Precarity, Solidarity and Innovation in Digital Book Publishing |
2017 |
Publishing, authors, work |
| Larson, Christine |
Open networks, open books: gender, precarity and solidarity in digital publishing |
2019 |
authors, Publishing |
| Larson, Christine |
The Color of Romance: Gatekeeping in the Age of Digital Media |
2019 |
Publishing, race/ethnicity |
| Larson, Christine; Ready, Elspeth |
Networking down: Networks, innovation, and relational labor in digital book publishing |
2022 |
authors, Publishing |
| Larson, Christine |
Streaming books: confluencers, Kindle Unlimited and the platform imaginary |
2022 |
Publishing, authors |
| Larson, Christine; Carter, Ashley |
Love is love: Reverse isomorphism and the rise of LGBTQ+ romance publishing |
2023 |
Publishing, LGBTQ+ characters, readers and/or authors |
| Larson, Christine |
Love in the Time of Self-Publishing: How Romance Writers Changed the Rules of Writing and Success |
2024 |
authors, Publishing, United States of America, race/ethnicity, LGBTQ+ characters, readers and/or authors, Nora Roberts/J. D. Robb, Vivian Stephens, Rita Clay Estrada, readers, Harlequin Mills & Boon, Brenda Jackson, Shirley Hailstock, Bella Andre, Courtney Milan, LaQuette |
| Larsson, Lisbeth |
En annan historia: om kvinnors läsning och svensk veckopress |
1989 |
Sweden, romances in magazines and newspapers |
| Latva, Otto; Lähdesmäki, Heta; Sonck-Rautio, Kirsi; Uusitalo, Harri |
Arrivals and Departures: The Human Relationship with Changing Biodiversity |
2024 |
|
| Álvarez, Marta; Hekmat, Ida; Lauret-Taft, Sabine |
L’amour. Création et société |
2017 |
|
| Nachbar, Jack; Lause, Kevin |
Popular Culture: An Introductory Text |
1992 |
|
| Lawrence, Kelsey |
No Happy Ending: Leadership Falls Apart at the Romance Writers of America |
2020 |
capitalism/business, authors, race/ethnicity |
| Lawrence, E. E. |
On the problem of oppressive tastes in the public library |
2020 |
libraries/librarians, race/ethnicity, philosophy |
| Lawrence, E. E. |
The trouble with diverse books, part I: on the limits of conceptual analysis for political negotiation in Library & Information Science |
2020 |
libraries/librarians, Publishing, race/ethnicity, sheikh romance, philosophy, LGBTQ+ characters, readers and/or authors |
| Lawrey, Jeffrey A.; McLuckie, Alyx; Mulberry, Benjamin J.; Mullins, Erin K.; Shuler, Autumn R.; Kratzer, Jessica M. W. |
Communication, Kink, and Sexual Education: What Young Women Learned from Fifty Shades of Grey |
2018 |
Fifty Shades, readers, sex/sexuality, erotic romance, BDSM |
| Zwar, Jan; Lawson, Airlie |
Success Story - International Rights Sales of Australian- Authored Books: Case Studies |
2021 |
Publishing, Australia, Kylie Scott |
| Lazere, Donald |
American Media and Mass Culture: Left Perspectives |
1987 |
|
| Lazzarato, Francesca; Moretti, Valeria |
La fiaba rosa: itinerari di lettura attraverso i romanzi per signorine |
1981 |
fairytales/folktales, Delly, Liala, pen name of Amalia Liana Cambiasi Negretti Odescalchi |
| 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 |
| Lecercle, Jean-Jacques |
Interpellation and Counter-Interpellation in the Novel |
2022 |
readers, Violet Winspear, Jane Austen, trash/literary and or intellectual quality |
| Ledford-Miller, Linda |
Gender and Genre Bending: The Futuristic Detective Fiction of J.D. Robb |
2011 |
Nora Roberts/J. D. Robb, romantic suspense, science fiction/futuristic romance, genre definitions |
| Lee, Zi-Ying; Liao, Min-Hsiu |
The “Second” Bride: The Retranslation of Romance Novels |
2018 |
translation, Publishing, Taiwan |
| Lee, Linda J. |
Guilty Pleasures: Reading Romance Novels as Reworked Fairy Tales |
2008 |
fairytales/folktales, paranormal/fantasy/time-travel romance, Christine Feehan, sex/sexuality |
| Lee, Amy |
Forming a Local Identity: Romance Novels in Hong Kong |
2007 |
Hong Kong |
| Leedy, Helen |
The Portrayal of Women in Romance Novels |
1985 |
Rosemary Rogers, Kathleen Woodiwiss |
| Leenstra, Lisa |
Covers of Lovers: A Multimodal Comparison of the Front Covers of Romance Novels in 2011 and 2021 |
2023 |
paratext |
| Leetsch, Jennifer |
Love and Space in Contemporary African Diasporic Women’s Writing: Making Love, Making Worlds |
2021 |
Chimamanda Adichie, Africa, Nigeria |
| Legallois, Dominique; Charnois, Thierry; Poibeau, Thierry |
Repérer les clichés dans les romans sentimentaux grâce à la méthode des ‘motifs’ |
2016 |
trash/literary and or intellectual quality, Harlequin Mills & Boon, linguistics |
| Leith, Murray Stewart; Sim, Duncan |
The Modern Scottish Diaspora: Contemporary Debates and Perspectives |
2014 |
|
| Lemay, Catherine |
La traduction de la scène de sexe dans le roman sentimental érotique: Analyse descriptive et comparative |
2016 |
translation, sex/sexuality, erotic romance, Sylvia Day |
| Lencevičienė, Lina |
Selected Problems of Translation of the Romance Genre: Analysis of Barbara Cartland's Romance Novel Bewitched Translation into Lithuanian |
2011 |
Barbara Cartland, translation, paratext, linguistics |
| Batzke, Ina; Erbacher, Eric C.; Heß, Linda M.; Lenhardt, Corinna |
Exploring the Fantastic: Genre, Ideology, and Popular Culture |
2018 |
|
| 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 |
| 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 |
| 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 |
| Harrod, Mary; Leonard, Suzanne; Negra, Diane |
Imagining "We" in the Age of "I": Romance and Social Bonding in Contemporary Culture |
2022 |
|
| Leonzini, Alexandra |
“All the Better to Eat You With”: The Eroticization of the Werewolf and the Rise of Monster Porn in the Digital Age |
2018 |
paranormal/fantasy/time-travel romance, sex/sexuality, pornography |
| Hotz-Davies, Ingrid; Kirchhofer, Anton; Leppänen, Sirpa |
Internet Fictions |
2009 |
|
| Lepschy, Anna Laura |
The Popular Novel, 1850-1920 |
2000 |
Liala, pen name of Amalia Liana Cambiasi Negretti Odescalchi |
| Lessard, Victoria |
Marketing Desire: The "Normative/Other" Male Body and the "Pure" White Female Body on the Cover Art of Cassie Edwards' Savage Dream (1990), Savage Persuasion (1991), and Savage Mists (1992) |
2017 |
Cassie Edwards, Native American romance, paratext, race/ethnicity, historical romance |
| Letourneux, Matthieu |
« La petite pâquerette était morte ». Sérialités éditoriales et réception de l’œuvre de Delly |
2011 |
Delly |
| Levi, Antonia; McHarry, Mark; Pagliassotti, Dru |
Boys’ Love Manga: Essays on the Sexual Ambiguity and Cross-Cultural Fandom of the Genre |
2010 |
|
| Levi, Anna |
Delly: la Cenerentola di Versailles : vita di Jeanne Marie Henriette Petitjean de la Rosière |
2013 |
Delly |
| Adair, Joshua G.; Levin, Amy K. |
Museums, Sexuality, and Gender Activism |
2020 |
|
| Levina, Mariia |
Readers of Mass Literature, 1994-2000: From Paternalism to Individualism? |
2003 |
Russia, Publishing, readers |
| Levy, Bronwen |
Up From Under, or On Not Marrying the Racist Aussie Boss: Strategies for Reading Romantic Fiction |
1987 |
feminism, social/economic class, romance scholarship, Australia, race/ethnicity, Harlequin Mills & Boon, Margaret Way |
| Cruz, Jon; Lewis, Justin |
Viewing, Reading, Listening: Audiences and Cultural Reception |
1994 |
|
| Lin, Chi-Shiou; Liang, Yu-Tzu |
A model of romance fiction search behavior |
2020 |
readers |
| Liang, William Tham Wai |
Paper & Text: The Trials and Trade of Malaysian Literature |
2020 |
|
| Lee, Zi-Ying; Liao, Min-Hsiu |
The “Second” Bride: The Retranslation of Romance Novels |
2018 |
translation, Publishing, Taiwan |
| Lienhard, Alissa |
“I’ll Call it Platonic Magic”: Queer Joy, Metafiction, and Aro-Ace Autofictional Selves in Alice Oseman’s Loveless |
2024 |
Alice Oseman, LGBTQ+ characters, readers and/or authors, metafiction, YA/teenage romance, sex/sexuality |
| Liffen, Jane |
"A very Glamorized Picture, that": Images of Scottish Female Herring Workers on Romance Novel Covers |
2008 |
paratext, psychology, work |
| Light, Alison |
Returning to Manderley – Romance Fiction, Female Sexuality and Class |
1984 |
Daphne du Maurier, readers, psychology, social/economic class, sex/sexuality, UK |
| Light, Alison |
Preface (to the third edition) |
1994 |
history, genre definitions, gender, trash/literary and or intellectual quality |
| Limond, Verity |
‘The door is open to everyone’: The public libraries of Gozo |
2023 |
libraries/librarians, Malta, Harlequin Mills & Boon |
| Lin, Pei-yin; Kim, Su Yun |
East Asian Transwar Popular Culture: Literature and Film from Taiwan and Korea |
2019 |
Taiwan, Korea, Older and/or precursor texts (may not be "romance" as now defined) |
| Lin, Fang-mei |
Social Change and Romantic Ideology: The Impact of the Publishing Industry, Family Organization, and Gender Roles on the Reception and Interpretation of Romance Fiction in Taiwan, 1960-1990 |
1992 |
love, family, Publishing, Taiwan |
| Lin, Fang-mei |
性別化東方主義 : 女性沙漠羅曼史的重層東方想像 = Gendering orientalism: women's desert romance and the multiplicity of oriental imagination |
2016 |
sheikh romance, translation, Taiwan |
| Lin, Chi-Shiou; Liang, Yu-Tzu |
A model of romance fiction search behavior |
2020 |
readers |
| Lind, Rebecca Ann |
Race/Gender/Media: Considering Diversity Across Audiences, Content, and Producers |
2004 |
|
| Lindfors, Bernth |
Romances for the Office Worker: Aubrey Kalitera and Malawi's White-Collar Reading Public |
1993 |
Malawi, Africa, Publishing, metafiction |
| Lindqvist, Yvonne |
Översättning som social praktik: Toni Morrison och Harlequinserien Passion på svenska |
2002 |
Harlequin Mills & Boon, linguistics, translation |
| Darian-Smith, Kate; Grimshaw, Patricia; Lindsey, Kiera; Mcintyre, Stuart |
Exploring the British World: Identity, Cultural Production, Institutions |
2004 |
|
| Lindström Kruse, Miranda |
Pinsamma läsningar: En affektteoretisk studie av #SpicyBooks på TikTok |
2022 |
readers, libraries/librarians |
| Linke, Gabriele |
Contemporary Mass Market Romances as National and International Culture: A Comparative Study of Mills & Boon and Harlequin Romances |
1997 |
Harlequin Mills & Boon, United States of America, UK, national identity, race/ethnicity |
| Linke, Gabriele |
Local Color in Contemporary Harlequin and Silhouette Romances: Popular Imagery of the American South and West |
1997 |
United States of America, settings, Harlequin Mills & Boon |
| Linke, Gabriele |
Visions and Versions of Parenthood in British and American Series Romances |
2000 |
family |
| Linke, Gabriele |
Populärliteratur als kulturelles Gedächtnis: Eine vergleichende Studie zu zeitgenössischen britischen und amerikanischen popular romances der Verlagsgruppe Harlequin Mills & Boon |
2003 |
Harlequin Mills & Boon |
| Linz, Cathie; Bouricius, Ann; Byrnes, Carole |
Exploring the World of Romance Novels |
1995 |
libraries/librarians, paranormal/fantasy/time-travel romance, Publishing, paratext, race/ethnicity, trash/literary and or intellectual quality |
| Charles, John; Linz, Cathie |
Romancing Your Readers: How Public Libraries Can Become More Romance Reader Friendly |
2005 |
libraries/librarians, emotions, paratext |
| Litton, Joyce A. |
Double Date to Double Love: Female Sex Roles in Teen Romances |
1987 |
YA/teenage romance, gender |
| Litton, Joyce A. |
Sunfire Historical Romances |
1991 |
YA/teenage romance, historical romance |
| Litton, Joyce A. |
The Wild West, Floods, Wars and Boys: Sunfire Historical Romances for Young Adults |
1991 |
YA/teenage romance, historical romance |
| Litton, Joyce A. |
From Seventeenth Summer to Miss Teen Sweet Valley: Female and Male Sex Roles in Teen Romances, 1942-91 |
1994 |
YA/teenage romance, gender, Rosamond du Jardin, Betty Cavanna, Maureen Daly, family |
| Litton, Joyce A. |
Dreams, Guys, Lies, and Occasionally Books: The Young Women of the Freshman Dorm Series |
1995 |
YA/teenage romance |
| Liu, Su-hsen |
The Translation/Mutation of Romantic Love: An Exploration of the Translation History of Modern Romances in Taiwan after 1960 |
2012 |
translation, Taiwan |
| Liu, Su-hsen |
Modern Female Gothic and Its Translation in Taiwan: Based on a Case Study of the Chinese Translation of Mistress of Mellyn |
2013 |
Taiwan, translation, Victoria Holt/Jean Plaidy/Eleanor Burford Hibbert, gothic romance |
| Livingston, Eric |
The Textuality of Pleasure |
2006 |
close reading, readers, trash/literary and or intellectual quality, Gina Wilkins |
| Bettinotti, Julia; Lizé, Claude |
Les stratégies de dévalorisation de la littérature populaire: l’exemple du roman Harlequin |
1986 |
Harlequin Mills & Boon |
| Lohmann, Jennifer |
'Beauty and the Beast' Themes in Romance Novels |
2006 |
fairytales/folktales |
| Lois, Jennifer; Gregson, Joanna |
Sneers and Leers: Romance Writers and Gendered Sexual Stigma |
2015 |
authors, sex/sexuality, gender, sociology |
| Lois, Jennifer; Gregson, Joanna |
Aspirational Emotion Work: Calling, Emotional Capital, and Becoming a 'Real' Writer |
2019 |
authors, work, emotions, sociology |
| Gregson, Joanna; Lois, Jennifer |
Social science reads romance |
2021 |
sociology, psychology, readers, authors |
| Long, Veronica Lee |
Individuation and the Romance Novel |
2022 |
gender, myth, psychology, love, readers, Jane Austen |
| Long, Eileen M. |
Modern Love: Reading, Writing, and Publishing the Romance Novel |
2021 |
feminism, Jennifer Crusie, Jane Austen, authors, Publishing |
| Long, Bridget L. |
Romance novels: women's motivation for readership and effects of reading |
2006 |
readers |
| Long, Bridget L. |
Women's Romance Novel Readership: Motivations, Expectations, and Relationship Satisfaction |
2007 |
readers |
| Cho, Hyerim; Adkins, Denice; da Silva Santos, Diogenes; Long, Alicia K. |
Platform, Visuals, and Sound: Webtoon’s Immersive Romance Reading Engagement |
2024 |
comics/manga, readers |
| López-Maestre, María D. |
'Man the hunter': A critical reading of hunt-based conceptual metaphors of love and sexual desire |
2015 |
metaphor/symbolism, gender, animals, love, linguistics, Harlequin Mills & Boon |
| Sánchez Calle, Pilar; Malcolm, David; López-Peláez Casellas, Jesús |
Masquerades: Disguise in Literature in English from the Middle Ages to the Present |
2004 |
|
| Loranger, Caroline |
Parcours amoureux et économiques dans le roman sentimental publié par les éditions Édouard Garand |
2022 |
Canada, Older and/or precursor texts (may not be "romance" as now defined) |
| Lorinc, John |
Romance Language: How Harlequin Became Synonymous with Romance and then Translated that Success Around the World |
1994 |
Harlequin Mills & Boon |
| Losano, Antonia |
Sneaking It In at the End: Teaching Popular Romance in the Liberal Arts Classroom |
2015 |
teaching romance, Georgette Heyer, Susan Elizabeth Phillips, E. M. Hull, Nora Roberts/J. D. Robb, Jennifer Crusie |
| Lovell, Stephen; Menzel, Birgit |
Reading for Entertainment in Contemporary Russia: Post-Soviet Popular Literature in Historical Perspective |
2005 |
|
| Lövgren, Karin |
Farlig lockelse - tonårsflickors läsning av romantikböcker |
1991 |
readers |