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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
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
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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
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, LGBT+ 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
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)
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
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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
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 LGBT+ 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
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, LGBT+ 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, LGBT+ characters, readers and/or authors
Larsson, Lisbeth En annan historia: om kvinnors läsning och svensk veckopress 1989 Sweden, romances in magazines and newspapers
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, LGBT+ 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, 1994-200: 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
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
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
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
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
Ganetz, Hillevi; Lövgren, Karin Om unga kvinnor: identitet, kultur och livsvillkor 1991
Hall, Stuart; Hobson, Dorothy; Lowe, Andrew; Willis, Paul Culture, Media, Language: Working Papers in Cultural Studies, 1972-79 1980
Lowery, Karalyne The Militarized Shapeshifter: Authorized Violence and Military Connections as an Antidote to Monstrosity 2018 paranormal/fantasy/time-travel romance, war/armed forces, United States of America
Lozano Sampedro, Mª Teresa La réception de Delly en Espagne et en Amérique Latine 2011 Delly, Spain
Lozano Sampedro, Mª Teresa La recepción de Delly en España 2012
Lozano Sampedro, Mª Teresa La culture et le travail de la femme. Une approche comparative entre Delly et Corín Tellado 2014 Delly, Corín Tellado, work, marriage, fairytales/folktales, Older and/or precursor texts (may not be "romance" as now defined)
Lozano Sampedro, Mª Teresa Pour une typologie de la marginalité dans les romans de Delly: la fonction de la femme 2018 Delly, religion/spirituality, gender, social/economic class
Lozano Sampedro, Mª Teresa Las clases sociales y el poder económico en la obra de Delly: la mujer y su triunfo sobre la opresión 2020 Delly, social/economic class, wealth/prosperity, gender
Lugan-Dardigna, Anne-Marie Presse du cœur et roman rose: la quête de l'amour vrai ou comment se trouver un maître 1984 gender, religion/spirituality, love
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
Luneau, Marie-Pier; Warren, Jean-Philippe Ce que le roman catholique fait au roman sentimental : le cas de la collection « Amour et aventure » 2019 religion/spirituality, Christian romance, race/ethnicity, Canada, Publishing
Boivin, Karol'Ann; Luneau, Marie-Pier Qu’ont en commun Mimi Estival, Roxanne d’Avril et Georgette Mars? Auctorialité et roman sentimental québécois de l’après guerre (1944-1965) 2021 Canada, authors, Publishing, dime novels
Warren, Jean-Philippe; Luneau, Marie-Pier The Best Romance Dime Novels on the (French-Canadian) Market: The Promotional Strategies of Police-Journal, 1944-1963 2021 Canada, Publishing, paratext, dime novels
Davies, Ben; Lupton, Christina; Gormsen Schmidt, Johanne Reading Novels During the Covid-19 Pandemic 2022 readers, Sally Rooney
Luther, Amy Victoria Men reading fiction: A study of the relationship between reader, (con)text, consumption and gender identity. 2010 gender, readers, pornography
Lutz, Deborah Heidegger, the Erotics of Ontology, and the Mass-Market Romance 2003 love, death, philosophy
Lutz, Deborah The Dangerous Lover and the Erotics of Failure: Nineteenth-century Byronism and the Contemporary Romance 2004 Older and/or precursor texts (may not be "romance" as now defined), love, historical romance, death, philosophy
Lutz, Deborah The Dangerous Lover: Gothic Villains, Byronism, and the Nineteenth-Century Seduction Narrative 2006 love, death, philosophy, Older and/or precursor texts (may not be "romance" as now defined), historical romance, Rosemary Rogers, Daphne du Maurier, E. M. Hull, Victoria Holt/Jean Plaidy/Eleanor Burford Hibbert, Georgette Heyer, Emily Brontë, Charlotte Brontë, Samuel Richardson
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
Lynch, Katherine E.; Sternglantz, Ruth E.; Barot, Len Queering the Romantic Heroine: Where Her Power Lies 2012 LGBT+ characters, readers and/or authors, lesbian romance, Radclyffe Hall, Older and/or precursor texts (may not be "romance" as now defined), Katherine V. Forrest, Radclyffe/Len Barot, Lea Santos, gender, paranormal/fantasy/time-travel romance
Mabee, Norma Augusta La novela rosa de Corín Tellado: Desorden, conflicto y escape de la ectopia 1993 Corín Tellado
Garciano, Shylyn G.; Cuevas, Gloria Con-ui; Geraldizo-Pabriga, Maria Gemma; Macabodbod, Saira Jay J.; Yu, Jaciah Mae B.; Pinote, Ma. Jezan A. Romance-Themed Novels: Influenced on Relationship Satisfaction 2023 readers, psychology
Macdonald, Andrew; Macdonald, Gina; Sheridan, Mary Ann Shape-shifting: Images of Native Americans in Recent Popular Fiction 2000 Native American romance, race/ethnicity
Macdonald, Andrew; Macdonald, Gina; Sheridan, Mary Ann Shape-shifting: Images of Native Americans in Recent Popular Fiction 2000 Native American romance, race/ethnicity
Allen, Margaret; Blackburn, Jean; Johnson, Carol; King, Margaret; Mackinnon, Alison All Her Labours: Embroidering the Framework 1984
Gifford, Douglas; Macmillan, Dorothy A History of Scottish Women’s Writing 1997
Magenya, Sheena Gimase Reading between the lines: A review of Dark Juices and Afrodisiacs: Erotic Diaries Vol 1 2020 Africa, LGBT+ characters, readers and/or authors, sex/sexuality, feminism, race/ethnicity
Maher, Jennifer Ripping the Bodice: Eating, Reading, and Revolt 2001 food, drink, romance scholarship, feminism, readers, fat, fatness
Maier, Sarah E.; Ayres, Brenda Neo-Victorian Madness: Rediagnosing Nineteenth-Century Mental Illness in Literature and Other Media 2020
Mäkelä, Veera "World Turned Upside Down": The Role of Revolutions in Maya Rodale's Regency-Set Romances 2020 Maya Rodale, United States of America, UK, historical romance, social/economic class, gender, race/ethnicity, emotions, feminism
Mäkelä, Veera Reading Response in Mary Balogh: A Critical Engagement 2021 Mary Balogh, romance scholarship, gender, sex/sexuality
Makinen, Merja Feminist Popular Fiction 2001 feminism, romance scholarship, Susan Napier, work, sex/sexuality, gender, Lisa Shapiro, LGBT+ characters, readers and/or authors, love, family
Sánchez Calle, Pilar; Malcolm, David; López-Peláez Casellas, Jesús Masquerades: Disguise in Literature in English from the Middle Ages to the Present 2004
Malinowska, Anna Paternal Structures of the Romance 2017 family, love, gender
Malinowska, Ania Global Popular Culture for Local Infrastructures: Migration of Texts and Problems of Transferability (the Polish Case) 2021 translation, Fifty Shades, Poland
Wu, Yan; Mallan, Kerry; McGillis, Roderick (Re)Imagining the World: Children’s Literature’s Response to Changing Times 2013
Malloy, Audrey Miles Remnants of the Bodice Ripper: How Consent is Characterized in Heterosexual and Lesbian Erotic Romance Novels 2017 gender, sex/sexuality, lesbian romance, rape and/or intimate partner violence/abuse, LGBT+ characters, readers and/or authors
Alberti, Paola; Fortunati, Vita; Franci, Giovanna; Galateria, Daria; Mangaroni, Rosella; Pozzato, Maria Pia; Sabbadini, Tiziana; Tempera, Mariangela Maestre d'amore: eroine e scrittrici nell'impero del rosa inglese 1986 UK, Elinor Glyn, E. M. Hull
Fortunati, Vita; Franci, Giovanna; Mangaroni, Rosella Prefazione 1986
Mangat, T. K. The surgeon in popular fiction - The Mills and Boon doctor-nurse romance 1998 Harlequin Mills & Boon, medical romance
Mann, Peter H. The Romantic Novel: A Survey of Reading Habits 1969 Harlequin Mills & Boon, readers
Mann, Peter H. A New Survey: The Facts About Romantic Fiction 1974 Harlequin Mills & Boon, readers
Mann, Peter H. Romantic Fiction and Its Readers 1979 readers, Harlequin Mills & Boon, trash/literary and or intellectual quality
Mann, Peter H. The Romantic Novel and its Readers 1981 trash/literary and or intellectual quality, sex/sexuality, readers
Mann, Peter H. Romantic Fiction and Its Readership 1985 readers, genre definitions
Stinson, Emmett; Mannion, Aaron The Return of Print?: Contemporary Australian Publishing 2016
Manzano Badía, Benjamín Carmen de Icaza, una apología pequeño-burguesa y conservadora de la familia 2000 Carmen de Icaza, family, Spain, fascism/right-wing authoritarianism, work, gender, marriage, feminism, religion/spirituality, wealth/prosperity, social/economic class, capitalism/business
Mao, Douglas; Walkowitz, Rebecca L. Bad Modernisms 2006
Fong, Katrina; Mullin, Justin B.; Mar, Raymond A. What You Read Matters: The Role of Fiction Genre in Predicting Interpersonal Sensitivity 2013 readers, psychology
Fong, Katrina; Mullin, Justin B.; Mar, Raymond A. How Exposure to Literary Genres Relates to Attitudes Toward Gender Roles and Sexual Behavior 2015 psychology, readers, sex/sexuality, 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
Marchand, Jacques Harlequin et Colombine : l’industrie plafonne, l’amour aussi 1983 Harlequin Mills & Boon, Publishing, settings, readers
Savchuk, O. H.; Marchenko, N. M. The concept of LOVE and its conceptualization in modern English romance novels 2018 love, metaphor/symbolism, linguistics
Margolies, David Mills & Boon: guilt without sex 1982 Harlequin Mills & Boon, work, gender, emotions, rape and/or intimate partner violence/abuse
Margolis, Harriet Feminist Irony or Poisonous FANTASY?: Category Romance and the Conscious Reader 1992 readers, feminism
Margolis, Harriet The Lover's Value(s): Women's Romance Novels in an Exchange-Based Society 1995 feminism, readers
Margolis, Harriet A Childe in Love, Or Is It Just Fantasy? The Values of Women's Genres 1997 Emma Darcy, emotions, work, family, love
Margolis, Ann In Defense of Romantic Fiction 2009 Publishing, genre definitions
Markasović, Valentina Challenging Gender Stereotypes in Holly Black’s The Folk of the Air Trilogy 2023 Holly Black, paranormal/fantasy/time-travel romance, YA/teenage romance, gender
Markert, John Beyond Gatekeepers: Romance Publishing and the Production of Culture 1984 Publishing
Markert, John Romance Publishing and the Production of Culture 1985 Publishing, Harlequin Mills & Boon, United States of America, sex/sexuality, historical romance, Kathleen Woodiwiss
Markert, John The publishing decision: Managerial policy and its effect on editorial decision making—The case of romance publishing 1987 Publishing
Markert, John Publishing Romance: The History of an Industry, 1940s to the Present 2016 Publishing, Harlequin Mills & Boon, historical romance, erotic romance, m/m romance, lesbian romance, gothic romance, romantic suspense, African American romance, paranormal/fantasy/time-travel romance, Avon, Ellora's Cave, LGBT+ characters, readers and/or authors, BDSM, paratext
Markert, John God is Love: The Christian Romance Market 2017 Christian romance, Publishing, sex/sexuality
Markert, John Publishing the romance novel 2021 Publishing, Harlequin Mills & Boon, United States of America, historical romance, Kathleen Woodiwiss, contemporary romance
Markova, M. V. Georgette Heyer, history, and historical fiction. 2024 Georgette Heyer, history, historical romance
Marks, Pamela The Good Provider in Romance Novels 1999 marriage, wealth/prosperity, emotions, history, United States of America, Older and/or precursor texts (may not be "romance" as now defined), Susan Warner, disability, sex/sexuality, work
Martens, Debra Weaving Alliances: Selected Papers Presented For The Canadian Women's Studies Association at the 1991 and 1992 Learned Societies Conferences 1993
Martin, Michèle Communication et médias de masse : culture, domination et opposition 1991 romance scholarship, Harlequin Mills & Boon, feminism, gender, rape and/or intimate partner violence/abuse
Martin, Darcy 'Womanhood Reinvented: Eve Dallas, Protagonist in J. D. Robb's "In Death" Series 2003 Nora Roberts/J. D. Robb, feminism, science fiction/futuristic romance, gender, work, rape and/or intimate partner violence/abuse, marriage, community
Martínez Garrido, Elisa Bildungsroman y crítica de género: Novela rosa y narrativa de mujeres 2000 Italy, Older and/or precursor texts (may not be "romance" as now defined), gender, love, fairytales/folktales
Martínez de la Hidalga, Fernando La novela popular en España (vol 1.) 2000
Bruttini, Adriano; Marucci, Franco La performance del testo: atti del VII Congresso Nazionale dell'Associazione Italiana di Anglistica (A.I.A.), Siena, 2-4 Novembre 1984 1986
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
Mason, Gillian Rosemary Rogers 2008 Rosemary Rogers, historical romance, rape and/or intimate partner violence/abuse, sex/sexuality, erotic romance, BDSM
Masteller, Jean Carwile Romancing the Reader: From Laura Jean Libbey to Harlequin Romance and Beyond 1996 Older and/or precursor texts (may not be "romance" as now defined), Laura Jean Libbey, romances in magazines and newspapers, Publishing, work, social/economic class, Harlequin Mills & Boon, sex/sexuality, Jayne Ann Krentz/Amanda Quick/Jayne Castle, metafiction
Matelski, Elizabeth "I'm Not the Only Lesbian Who Wears a Skirt": Lesbian Romance Fiction and Identity in Post-World War II America 2016 LGBT+ characters, readers and/or authors, fashion/clothing, United States of America, gender, Older and/or precursor texts (may not be "romance" as now defined), history, metafiction, Claire Morgan/Patricia Highsmith, lesbian romance, Valerie Taylor, Ann Bannon, Rita Mae Brown
Moy, Patricia; Matheson, Donald Voices: Exploring the Shifting Contours of Communication 2019
Mathis, Gilles Le cliché 1998
Matter, Laura Sewell Pursuing the Great Bad Novelist 2007 Charles Garvice, trash/literary and or intellectual quality, Older and/or precursor texts (may not be "romance" as now defined)