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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
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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
Lukas, Iwan; Muarifuddin,; Azi, Rahmawati Formula Romance dalam Roman Mes Amis Mes Amours Karya Marc Lévy 2024 Marc Levy
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
Luneau, Marie-Pier; Warren, Jean-Philippe D’amour et d’or pur. Les impératifs matérialistes du bonheur amoureux dans le roman sentimental québécois de l’après-guerre 2022 dime novels, Canada, wealth/prosperity
Luneau, Marie-Pier; Warren, Jean-Philippe L’amour comme un roman. Le roman sentimental au Québec d’hier à aujourd’hui 2022 Canada, Older and/or precursor texts (may not be "romance" as now defined), Harlequin Mills & Boon, sociology, love, marriage, sex/sexuality
Luneau, Marie-Pier; Warren, Jean-Philippe Une littérature qui refuse de se laisser parler d’amour ? Les romans québécois et l’expression de la passion avant 1960 2022 Older and/or precursor texts (may not be "romance" as now defined), Canada, love, dime novels, wealth/prosperity, family
Luneau, Marie-Pier; Warren, Jean-Philippe; Boivin, Karol'Ann; Bérubé, Harold Amour à 10 sous: Le roman sentimental québécois de l'après-guerre 2023 Older and/or precursor texts (may not be "romance" as now defined), Canada, dime novels
Luneau, Marie-Pier; Warren, Jean-Philippe Le temps des fascicules: Entre pratiques périodiques et pratiques livresques 2023 paratext, dime novels, Canada
Luneau, Marie-Pier; Warren, Jean-Philippe Affaires et sentiments : la figure de l’homme d’affaires dans le roman sentimental québécois de l’après-guerre 2024 wealth/prosperity, capitalism/business, Canada
Luneau, Marie-Pier; Warren, Jean-Philippe Love Stories Now and Then: A History of Les romans d'amour 2024 Canada, Older and/or precursor texts (may not be "romance" as now defined), sociology, love, marriage, sex/sexuality, history, Philippe Aubert de Gaspé Jr., Joseph Doutre, metafiction, Pierre-Joseph-Olivier Chauveau, social/economic class, religion/spirituality, race/ethnicity, Rosanna Leprohon, Ernest Choquette, family, Virginie Dussault, Albertine Laperle-Bernier, dime novels, Harlequin Mills & Boon, YA/teenage romance, chick lit, Marie-Claude Bussières-Tremblay, Micheline Perron, rape and/or intimate partner violence/abuse, Raymond Plante, Bertrand Gauthier, LGBTQ+ characters, readers and/or authors, chick lit, Suzanne Roy, Chloé Duval, BDSM
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 LGBTQ+ 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, LGBTQ+ 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, LGBTQ+ 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, LGBTQ+ 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, LGBTQ+ 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
Zaragoza Ninet, Gora; Martínez Sierra, Juan José; Cerezo Merchán, Beatriz; Richart Marset, Mabel Traducción, género y censura en la literatura y en los medios de comunicación 2018
Martínez-Falquina, Silvia Historical Reparation, Emotional Justice: The Navajo Long Walk in Evangeline Parsons Yazzie’s Her Land, Her Love 2024 Evangeline Parsons Yazzie, Native American romance, United States of America, historical romance, race/ethnicity
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 LGBTQ+ 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)
Murphy, Bernice M.; Matterson, Stephen Twenty-First-Century Popular Fiction 2018
Matthews, Amy T. Entangled: the exegetical process of a romance writer 2016 authors, feminism, genre definitions, trash/literary and or intellectual quality
Matthews, Amy T. The hopeful romantic 2016 feminism, authors
Maunder, Andrew Berta Ruck 2016 Berta Ruck, war/armed forces
Maunder, Andrew British Literature of World War I: The Short Story and the Novella 2016
Mayer, Claude-Hélène; Vanderheiden, Elisabeth International Handbook of Love: Transcultural and Transdisciplinary Perspectives 2021 love
Mayfield, Kerrita K. Liminal eRoticism: Emerging Forms of Gender Identity and Performance in e-Romances and Their Feminist Electronic Communities 2014 feminism, Publishing, gender, erotic romance, LGBTQ+ characters, readers and/or authors, Jeanne Laws, chick lit, Shelly Laurenston, race/ethnicity, paranormal/fantasy/time-travel romance, happy ending, BDSM, m/m romance
Mayhew, Lilybeth M. The series romance: the changing representation of gender relationships within a popular genre 1994 Harlequin Mills & Boon, gender, readers, feminism, trash/literary and or intellectual quality, genre definitions, psychology, pornography, sex/sexuality, work, Connie Rinehold, Elda Minger, JoAnn Ross
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
Mazloomian, Maryam; Mohammadi, Nahid Discursive Vulnerability and Identity Development: A Triangular Model of Bio-Forces in Cultural Ecological Analysis of American Romance Fiction 2018 Debbie Macomber, psychology
Mazzarella, Sharon R.; Pecora, Norma Odom Growing Up Girls: Popular Culture and the Construction of Identity 1999
Carroll, Joseph; McAdams, Dan P.; Wilson, Edward O. Darwin's Bridge: Uniting the Humanities and Sciences 2016
McAleer, Joseph Popular Literature and Reading Habits in Britain, 1914-1950 1989 readers, Publishing, UK, Harlequin Mills & Boon
McAleer, Joseph Scenes from Love and Marriage: Mills and Boon and the Popular Publishing Industry in Britain, 1908-1950 1990 Publishing, Harlequin Mills & Boon, romances in magazines and newspapers, Mary Burchell, pen name of Ida Cook, Jean S. MacLeod/Catherine Airlie, Barbara Cartland, virginity, marriage, family, social/economic class
McAleer, Joseph Popular Reading and Publishing in Britain, 1914-1950 1992 Harlequin Mills & Boon, Publishing, libraries/librarians, romances in magazines and newspapers, Mary Burchell, pen name of Ida Cook, Jean S. MacLeod/Catherine Airlie, Sara Seale, Louise Gerard, Barbara Cartland, virginity, sex/sexuality, family, social/economic class
McAleer, Joseph Passion's Fortune: The Story of Mills & Boon 1999 Harlequin Mills & Boon, Publishing, UK, Betty Beaty, Mary Burchell, pen name of Ida Cook, Elizabeth Carfrae, Fay Chandos/Jan Tempest, Sophie Cole, Lilian Warren as Kathryn Blair/Rosalind Brett/Celine Conway, Iris Danbury, Joyce Dingwell/Kate Starr, Constance M. Evans, Eleanor Farnes, Louise Gerard, Elizabeth Gilzean, romances in magazines and newspapers, Roberta Leigh/Rachel Lindsay, libraries/librarians, Jean S. MacLeod/Catherine Airlie, Phyllis Matthewman, medical romance, sex/sexuality, work, marriage, race/ethnicity, happy ending, family, religion/spirituality, readers, Marjorie Moore, Betty Neels, Valerie K. Nelson, Kate Norway/Olive Norton, Denise Robins, Sara Seale, Juliet Shore/Anne Vinton, gender, Alex Stuart, Essie Summers, Joan Sutherland, Anne Weale, Hilary Wilde, Violet Winspear, Mary Lutyens/Esther Wyndham, Ireland
McAleer, Joseph Love, Romance, and the National Health Service 2011 Harlequin Mills & Boon, UK, medical romance, health/medical, work, Elizabeth Gilzean, Marjorie Moore, Fay Chandos/Jan Tempest, Kate Norway/Olive Norton, Jean S. MacLeod/Catherine Airlie, Juliet Shore/Anne Vinton, Valerie K. Nelson, Alex Stuart, Joan Blair, Betty Beaty, Ireland, Marguerite Lees, Norrey Ford, Anne Lorraine, Mary Burchell, pen name of Ida Cook
McAlister, Jodi Ann Romancing the Virgin: Female Virginity Loss and Love in Popular Literature in the West 2015 love, sex/sexuality, gender, Twilight, Fifty Shades, Harlequin Mills & Boon, virginity
McAlister, Jodi ‘That complete fusion of spirit as well as body’: Heroines, heroes, desire and compulsory demisexuality in the Harlequin Mills & Boon romance novel 2014 Harlequin Mills & Boon, sex/sexuality, love, gender, Denise Robins, Lynne Graham
McAlister, Jodi Breaking the Hard Limits: Romance, Pornography, and the Question of Genre in the Fifty Shades Trilogy 2015 Fifty Shades, pornography, E. M. Hull, sex/sexuality
McAlister, Jodi Between Pleasure and Pain: The Textual Politics of the Hymen 2016 history, sex/sexuality, virginity
McAlister, Jodi Traveling Through Time and Genre: Are the Outlander Books Romance Novels? 2016 Diana Gabaldon, genre definitions
McAlister, Jodi “You and I are humans, and there is something complicated between us”: Untamed and queering the heterosexual historical romance 2016 Anna Cowan, gender, historical romance, Georgette Heyer, readers, cross-dressing, fashion/clothing, LGBTQ+ characters, readers and/or authors
McAlister, Jodi; Teo, Hsu-Ming Love in Australian Romance Novels 2017 national identity, Australia, love, rural romance, gender, sex/sexuality, history, Publishing, genre definitions, race/ethnicity, settings, feminism
McAlister, Jodi Defining and Redefining Popular Genres: The Evolution of ‘New Adult’ Fiction 2018 genre definitions, YA/teenage romance
McAlister, Jodi The literary text as historical artifact: The colonial couple in Australian romantic fiction by women, 1838-1860 2018 Australia, love, Older and/or precursor texts (may not be "romance" as now defined), history, national identity
McAlister, Jodi “Feelings Like the Women in Books”: Declarations of Love in Australian Romance Novels, 1859–1891 2018 Older and/or precursor texts (may not be "romance" as now defined), Australia, love, history, national identity, marriage
Fletcher, Lisa; McAlister, Jodi; Temple, Kurt; Williams, Kathleen #loveyourshelfie: Mills & Boon books and how to find them 2019 Harlequin Mills & Boon, paratext, trash/literary and or intellectual quality, readers, Publishing, Australia
McAlister, Jodi; Parnell, Claire; Trinidad, Andrea Anne #RomanceClass: Genre World, Intimate Public, Found Family 2020 Philippines, genre definitions, Publishing, readers, authors, Mina V. Esguerra, LGBTQ+ characters, readers and/or authors, sex/sexuality
McAlister, Jodi The Consummate Virgin: Female Virginity Loss and Love in Anglophone Popular Literatures 2020 sex/sexuality, love, virginity, history, romance scholarship, historical romance, rape and/or intimate partner violence/abuse, Harlequin Mills & Boon, Twilight, Fifty Shades, race/ethnicity, Kathleen Woodiwiss, Catherine Coulter, Loretta Chase, Teresa Medeiros, Julia Quinn, Lisa Kleypas, Stephanie Laurens, Courtney Milan, Johanna Lindsey, Denise Robins, Sophie Cole, Louise Gerard, Lilian Warren as Kathryn Blair/Rosalind Brett/Celine Conway, national identity, UK, readers
McAlister, Jodi Erotic romance 2021 erotic romance, genre definitions, Fifty Shades, sex/sexuality, Sylvia Day, happy ending, Older and/or precursor texts (may not be "romance" as now defined), John Cleland, Publishing, fanfiction, Alisha Rai, Harlequin Mills & Boon
Parnell, Claire; Trinidad, Andrea Anne; McAlister, Jodi Hello, Ever After: #RomanceClass and Online-Only Live Literature in the Philippines in 2020 2021 Philippines
McAlister, Jodi New Adult Fiction 2021 NA romance, genre definitions, Publishing, readers, contemporary romance, Jamie McGuire, Colleen Hoover, paratext
McAlister, Jodi Isn’t It Iconic: Canonical Logics and the Romance Genre 2022 romance scholarship
McAlister, Jodi Love and listening: the erotics of talk in the popular romance novel 2022 feminism, gender, Jennifer Crusie, Diana Gabaldon, Alissa Johnson, Courtney Milan
Parnell, Claire; Trinidad, Andrea Anne; McAlister, Jodi Live literature in the Philippines: an ethnographic study of #RomanceClass and reading as performance 2023 Philippines, readers, authors, Publishing, Mina V. Esguerra
McAlister, Jodi; Parnell, Claire; Trinidad, Andrea Anne Publishing Romance Fiction in the Philippines 2023 Philippines, Publishing, social/economic class, Mina V. Esguerra, wealth/prosperity, Keene Alicante, sex/sexuality, work, LGBTQ+ characters, readers and/or authors, settings, authors, paratext
Burge, Amy; McAlister, Jodi; Ireland, Charlotte “Prince Charming with an Erection”: The Sensational Pleasures of the Bonkbuster 2024 bonkbuster, Jilly Cooper, Jackie Collins, Shirley Conran, Judith Krantz
McAlpine, Rachel The Passionate Pen: New Zealand’s Romance Writers Talk to Rachel McAlpine 1998 New Zealand, Victoria Aldridge, Rilla Berg, Gloria Bevan, Eva Burfield, Daphne Clair, Robyn Donald, Catherine Hay, Rosalie Henaghan, Miriam Macgregor, Mary Moore, Susan Napier, Jessie Nichols, Ivy Preston, Essie Summers, Rachelle Swift, feminism
McCafferty, Kate Palimpsest of Desire: The Re-Emergence of the American Captivity Narrative as Pulp Romance 1994 historical romance, United States of America, trash/literary and or intellectual quality, Native American romance, race/ethnicity, family, rural romance, wealth/prosperity, gender
McCann, Hannah; Roach, Catherine M. Sex and sexuality 2021 sex/sexuality, pornography, feminism, gender
McCay, Mary A. Love's Labors Won: Romance Fiction and the Politics of Love 2001 Laura Kinsale, Mary Jo Putney, Jayne Ann Krentz/Amanda Quick/Jayne Castle
Bennett-Kapusniak, Renee; McCleer, Adriana Love in the Digital Library: A Search for Racial Heterogeneity in E-Books 2015 libraries/librarians, race/ethnicity, African American romance
Glover, Thomasine; Hearvey, Crystal Monay; McCoy, Shuntay; Curtright, Lauren Anita Richmond Bunkley 2000 Anita Richmond Bunkley, African American romance
McCracken, Scott Pulp: Reading Popular Fiction 1998 Older and/or precursor texts (may not be "romance" as now defined), Harlequin Mills & Boon, Penny Jordan/Caroline Courtney, feminism, psychology, Elizabeth Power, gender, Emma Richmond, Catherine Cookson, metaphor/symbolism, settings
McDade, Monique California Dreams and American Contradictions: Women Writers and the Western Ideal 2023 Eva Rutland, African American romance
McDavis-Conway, Shana Self-conscious, unapologetic, and straight: fat protagonists in romantic fiction 2023 fat, fatness, paratext, race/ethnicity, LGBTQ+ characters, readers and/or authors, Talia Hibbert, Rebekah Weatherspoon, Rose Lerner, Xan West
Diekman, Amanda B.; McDonald, Mary; Gardner, Wendi L. Love means never having to be careful: The relationship between reading romance novels and safe sex behavior 2000 psychology, sex/sexuality, readers
Wu, Yan; Mallan, Kerry; McGillis, Roderick (Re)Imagining the World: Children’s Literature’s Response to Changing Times 2013
McGurl, Mark Everything and Less: The Novel in the Age of Amazon 2021 Publishing, Fifty Shades, trash/literary and or intellectual quality, capitalism/business
McGurl, Mark Unspeakable Conventionality: The Perversity of the Kindle 2021 Publishing, capitalism/business, trash/literary and or intellectual quality, readers, sex/sexuality, BDSM, Fifty Shades, erotic romance, LGBTQ+ characters, readers and/or authors, genre definitions, fanfiction
Levi, Antonia; McHarry, Mark; Pagliassotti, Dru Boys’ Love Manga: Essays on the Sexual Ambiguity and Cross-Cultural Fandom of the Genre 2010
McInnis, Lauren Filing The Serial Numbers Off: The Role Of The Author In Fanfiction Published As Original FictionFanfiction Published As Original Fiction 2024 fanfiction, paratext, Fifty Shades, Christina Lauren, Ali Hazelwood
Darian-Smith, Kate; Grimshaw, Patricia; Lindsey, Kiera; Mcintyre, Stuart Exploring the British World: Identity, Cultural Production, Institutions 2004
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
McKee, Alan Beautiful Things in Popular Culture 2007
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
McKnight-Trontz, Jennifer The Look of Love: The Art of the Romance Novel 2002 paratext
McLennon, Leigh Defining Urban Fantasy and Paranormal Romance: Crossing Boundaries of Genre, Media, Self and Other in New Supernatural Worlds 2014 paranormal/fantasy/time-travel romance, genre definitions
McLennon, Leigh Contemporary vampire genre fiction: ethical feeding and the posthuman vampire in urban fantasy and paranormal romance 2017 paranormal/fantasy/time-travel romance
Lawrey, Jeffrey A.; McLuckie, Alyx; Mulberry, Benjamin J.; Mullins, Erin K.; Shuler, Autumn R.; Kratzer, Jessica M. W. Communication, Kink, and Sexual Education: What Young Women Learned from Fifty Shades of Grey 2018 Fifty Shades, readers, sex/sexuality, erotic romance, BDSM
Smith, Clarissa; Attwood, Feona; McNair, Brian The Routledge Companion to Media, Sex and Sexuality 2018
McNamara, Sallie Georgette Heyer: The Historical Romance and the Consumption of the Erotic, 1918-1939 2000 Georgette Heyer, gender, sex/sexuality, historical romance, fashion/clothing, cross-dressing, settings
McNamara, Emma K Young Adult Contemporary Realistic Romance: Rhetorical and Intersectional Narratologies 2024 YA/teenage romance, readers, Rachael Allen, Gayle Forman, Jas Hammonds, Jenny Han, Emiko Jean, Kekla Magoon, Crystal Maldonado, Morgan Matson, Sandhya Menon, Julie Murphy, Sally Rooney, Ismée Williams
Lam, Adam; McNaughton, Howard D. The Reinvention of Everyday Life: Culture in the twenty-first century 2006
McNeil, Helen She trembled at his touch 1981 Harlequin Mills & Boon, social/economic class
McWilliam, Kelly Romance in foreign accents: Harlequin-Mills & Boon in Australia 2009 Publishing, Harlequin Mills & Boon, Australia
Medrano-González, Claudia On the Convergence Between Femme Theory and Popular Feminine Fiction: Adolescent Girls’ (Re)territorialisation Of Fem(me)ininity Through Young Adult Erotic Romance 2024 YA/teenage romance, Spain, gender, readers, sex/sexuality, feminism
Pupipat, Apisak; Rungkaew, Titirut; Meeparp, Lampoon Judging a Book by its Back Cover: Spoken/Informal Register as Found in Happily-Ever-After Women’s Novel Blurbs 2022 linguistics, paratext
Meirelles, Simone Regina Ferreira Das bancas ao coraçao: romances sentimentais e leitura hoje 2002 Brazil, gender, readers
Meirelles, Simone Romances com coração: leitura e edição de romances sentimentais no Brasil 2008 readers, Publishing, Brazil, Harlequin Mills & Boon
Melman, Billie Women and the Popular Imagination in the Twenties: Flappers and Nymphs 1988 Older and/or precursor texts (may not be "romance" as now defined), Ethel M. Dell, E. M. Hull, sex/sexuality, gender, race/ethnicity, settings, metaphor/symbolism, animals, rape and/or intimate partner violence/abuse, pornography, romances in magazines and newspapers, social/economic class, work, community
Fischer, Heinz-Dietrich; Melnik, Stefan Reinhard Entertainment: A Cross-Cultural Examination 1979
Cabrera, Christine; Ménard, Amy Dana 'She Exploded into a Million Pieces': A Qualitative and Quantitative Analysis of Orgasms in Contemporary Romance Novels 2013 sex/sexuality, psychology
Ménard, A. Dana; Cabrera, Christine ‘Whatever the Approach, Tab B Still Fits into Slot A’: Twenty Years of Sex Scripts in Romance Novels 2011 sex/sexuality, psychology
Ménard, A. Dana Note from the Field: Reflecting on Romance Novel Research: Past, Present and Future 2013 sex/sexuality, psychology, romance scholarship
Méndez, José Luis The Novels of Corín Tellado 1986 Corín Tellado
James, Edward; Mendlesohn, Farah The Cambridge Companion to Fantasy Literature 2012
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
Lovell, Stephen; Menzel, Birgit Reading for Entertainment in Contemporary Russia: Post-Soviet Popular Literature in Historical Perspective 2005
Fisher, Maryanne L.; Meredith, Tami M. The Success behind the Candy-Colored Covers: An Evolutionary Perspective on Romance Novels 2012 evolutionary psychology, paratext
Fisher, Maryanne L.; Meredith, Tami M. Evolutionary and sociocultural themes in cover art on Harlequin romance novels: A temporal analysis 2022 evolutionary psychology, paratext
Armstrong, Jane; Byrski, Liz; Merrick, Helen Love works: Reading and writing romance in the twenty-first century 2014 readers, authors
Meyer, Michaela D. E. Living the Romance through Castle: Exploring Autoethnography, Popular Culture and Romantic Television Narratives 2015 readers
Meyer, Michael The Bedford Introduction to Literature: Reading, Thinking, Writing (Sixth Edition) 2002 Karen van der Zee, teaching romance
Michel, Anita Re-reading the (series) romance: toward a typology of recent series romance novels 1997
Micheletti, Ellen Wandering the Web - Reviews of Romance Novels: Online Sources for Evaluating Popular Fiction 2010 readers
Michelson, Anna The politics of happily-ever-after: romance genre fiction as aesthetic public sphere 2021 sociology, romance and, or as, activism, emotions, feminism, readers, authors, fascism/right-wing authoritarianism, United States of America, Casey McQuiston, happy ending, Roni Loren, Sarah MacLean, sex/sexuality, Alyssa Cole, race/ethnicity, Publishing, Courtney Milan, Suzanne Brockmann, health/medical
Michelson, Anna Pushing the boundaries: Erotic romance and the symbolic boundary nexus 2022 genre definitions, erotic romance, authors, sex/sexuality, Fifty Shades, Publishing, fanfiction, sociology
Michelson, Anna Redefining the Romance: Classification and Community in a Popular Fiction Genre 2022 genre definitions, sociology, authors, romance and, or as, activism, sex/sexuality, LGBTQ+ characters, readers and/or authors, race/ethnicity, erotic romance, happy ending, readers, Publishing, fanfiction, Fifty Shades, Suzanne Brockmann, m/m romance, African American romance, Native American romance
Gerson, Carole; Michon, Jacques Histoire du livre et de l'imprimé au Canada, Vol. III: De 1918 à 1980 2007
Miclea, Adelina-Cerasela The Scientification of Love: A Cognitive Literary Approach to Romance Novels 2024 linguistics, psychology, Elena Armas, Ali Hazelwood, Emily Henry, Helen Hoang, Colleen Hoover, Casey McQuiston, Lynn Painter, Kate Robb
Miclea, Adelina Colleen Hoover’s Formulas for Best-Sellers as Seen in Reminders of Him and it Ends with Us 2023 Colleen Hoover, United States of America
Migozzi, Jacques Le Roman Populaire en Question(s): Actes du colloque international de mai 1995 à Limoges 1997
Mikals-Adachi, Eileen B. Romantic Adventures in Prose: Ren'ai Shõsetsu (Romance Novels) by Yuikawa Kei 2012 Yuikawa Kei, Japan, genre definitions, friendship, chick lit
Miles, Angela Confessions of a Harlequin Reader: Romance and the Myth of Male Mothers 1988 readers, psychology, Harlequin Mills & Boon, feminism, love, family, sex/sexuality, emotions
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
Miller, Jessica Passionate Virtue: Conceptions of Medical Professionalism in Popular Romance Fiction 2015 medical romance, health/medical, work, Harlequin Mills & Boon, rape and/or intimate partner violence/abuse, race/ethnicity, rural romance
Taddeo, Julie Anne; Miller, Cynthia J. Steaming Into a Victorian Future: A Steampunk Anthology 2013
Glass, E. R.; Mineo, A. Georgette Heyer and the Uses of Regency 1986 Georgette Heyer, historical romance, linguistics
Mirmohamadi, Kylie Love on the Land: Australian Rural Romance in Place 2015 Australia, rural romance, genre definitions, paratext, settings, race/ethnicity, Kerry McGinnis, Fiona Palmer
Mitchell, Karen S. Ever After: Reading the Women Who Read (and Re-Write) Romances 1996 readers, Lisa Gregory, trash/literary and or intellectual quality, rape and/or intimate partner violence/abuse
Mitchell, Diana If You Can't Beat'em, Join 'em: Using the Romance Series to Confront Gender Stereotypes 1995 YA/teenage romance, gender, teaching romance
Chawla, Gitanjali; Mittal, Sangeeta Indian Popular Fiction: Redefining the Canon 2022
Mizzau, Marina Strategie narrative: il non detto e il troppo detto 1987 genre definitions
Mocná, Dagmar Červená knihovna: studie kulturně a literárně historická : pohled do dějin pokleslého žánru 1996 Czech Republic
Modleski, Tania Popular Feminine Narratives: A Study of Romances, Gothics, and Soap Operas 1980 Harlequin Mills & Boon, gothic romance, psychology
Modleski, Tania The Disappearing Act: A Study of Harlequin Romances 1980 Harlequin Mills & Boon, readers, psychology, gender
Modleski, Tania Loving with a Vengeance: Mass‐Produced Fantasies for Women 1982 Harlequin Mills & Boon, gothic romance, gender, psychology, readers, rape and/or intimate partner violence/abuse
Modleski, Tania Studies in Entertainment: Critical Approaches to Mass Culture 1986
Modleski, Tania My Life as a Romance Reader 1997 readers, rape and/or intimate partner violence/abuse, sex/sexuality, feminism, Brenda Joyce, African American romance, Eboni Snoe, Beverly Jenkins, historical romance, gender, Nancy Martin, Suzanne Robinson, LGBTQ+ characters, readers and/or authors
Modleski, Tania My Life as a Romance Writer 1998 BDSM, romance scholarship, Jennifer Crusie, Jayne Ann Krentz/Amanda Quick/Jayne Castle, Susan Elizabeth Phillips, gender, Linda Howard, evolutionary psychology, sex/sexuality, feminism
Moffitt, Mary Anne Smeltzer Understanding Middle-Class Adolescent Leisure: A Cultural Studies Approach to Romance Novel Reading 1990 readers, emotions
Moffitt, Mary Anne Articulating Meaning: Reconceptions of the Meaning Process, Fantasy/Reality, and Identity in Leisure Activities 1993 readers
Moffitt, Mary Anne Leisure Fiction and the Audience: Meaning and Communication Strategies 1993 readers
Mogin-Martin, Roselyne Corín Tellado : ¿de la novela rosa a la novela comprometida? 2010 Corín Tellado, work, marriage, sex/sexuality, race/ethnicity
Mogin-Martin, Roselyne La revolución sexual de Corín Tellado 2016 Corín Tellado, Spain, fascism/right-wing authoritarianism, sex/sexuality
Mazloomian, Maryam; Mohammadi, Nahid Discursive Vulnerability and Identity Development: A Triangular Model of Bio-Forces in Cultural Ecological Analysis of American Romance Fiction 2018 Debbie Macomber, psychology
Monnet, Georges Delly et la Maison de la Bonne Presse 2011 Delly
Montague, Holly W. From Interlude in Arcady to Daphnis and Chloe: Two Thousand Years of Erotic Fantasy 1994 Longus, Achilles Tatius, Margery Hilton, rural romance, social/economic class, paratext, disability, metaphor/symbolism, sex/sexuality, rape and/or intimate partner violence/abuse, feminism, gender, Heliodorus
Montague, Holly Sweet and Pleasant Passion: Female and Male Fantasy in Ancient Romance Novels 1992 Longus, Older and/or precursor texts (may not be "romance" as now defined)
Montebello, Sophie The Representation and Self-Representation of Anglo-Indians in Literature from 1885 to the Present Day 2024 Flora Annie Steel, Maud Diver, India, Older and/or precursor texts (may not be "romance" as now defined)
Montejo Gurruchaga, Lucía El discurso de la novela rosa de autora en la narrativa española de mediados del siglo XX. La transgresión del canon oficial 2005 Spain
Montejo Gurruchaga, Lucía Discurso de autora: género y censura en la narrativa española de posguerra 2010 Spain, fascism/right-wing authoritarianism, Carmen de Icaza
Hernández, María Beatriz; Brito, Manuel; Monterrey, Tomás Broadening Horizons: A Peak Panorama of English Studies in Spain 2018
Moody, Stephanie Lee Affecting Genre: Women's Participation with Popular Romance Fiction 2013 readers, teaching romance
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
Moody, Stephanie Building Social Worlds: Examining Women’s Uses of Romance Novels 2016 readers
Moody, Stephanie Identification, Affect, and Escape: Theorizing Popular Romance Reading 2016 readers, emotions, Jennifer Crusie, J. R. Ward, Judith McNaught, Susan Elizabeth Phillips, Teresa Medeiros, sex/sexuality, race/ethnicity, gender
Moody, Nickianne; Hallam, Julia Medical Fictions 1997
Moody, Nickianne Mills & Boon’s Temptations: Sex and the Single Couple in the 1990s 1998 Harlequin Mills & Boon, work, family, marriage, Jo Morrison, LaVyrle Spencer, Mary Tate Engels, Alicia Fox, Cathy Gillen Thacker, Rita Clay Estrada, Cara McLean, Candace Schuler, Carla Neggers, gender, feminism
Hallam, Julia; Moody, Nickianne Consuming for Pleasure: Selected Essays on Popular Fiction 2000
Godsland, Shelley; Moody, Nickianne Reading the Popular in Contemporary Spanish Texts 2004
Faura, Salvador; Godsland, Shelley; Moody, Nickianne The Romance Novel, or, the Generalisimo's Control of the Popular Imagination 2004 Corín Tellado, Spain, fascism/right-wing authoritarianism
Moody-Freeman, Julie E. Scripting Black Love in the 1990s: Pleasure, Respectability, and Responsibility in an Era of HIV/AIDS 2016 health/medical, Brenda Jackson, African American romance, sex/sexuality, gender, race/ethnicity, United States of America, history, romance and, or as, activism
Moody-Freeman, Julie E. African American romance 2021 African American romance, Older and/or precursor texts (may not be "romance" as now defined), race/ethnicity, Publishing, Rosalind Welles - pen name of Elsie B. Washington, Lia Sanders - pen name of Angela Jackson and Sandra Jackson-Opoku, Alyssa Cole
Moody-Freeman, Julie E. Black Cultural Studies and Black Love: Why Black Love Matters 2022 love, race/ethnicity, teaching romance
Hendricks, Margo; Moody-Freeman, Julie E. Introduction to the Special Issue on Black Romance 2022 romance scholarship, Sandra Kitt, Brenda Jackson, Beverly Jenkins, Vivian Stephens, Alyssa Cole, Rebekah Weatherspoon, Gwyneth Bolton/Gwendolyn Pough, Rochelle Alers, Margo Hendricks/Elysabeth Grace
Hendricks, Margo; Moody-Freeman, Julie E. Journal of Popular Romance Studies: Special Issue: Black Romance 2022 African American romance, Sandra Kitt, Brenda Jackson, Beverly Jenkins, Vivian Stephens, Alyssa Cole, Rebekah Weatherspoon, Gwyneth Bolton/Gwendolyn Pough, Rochelle Alers, Margo Hendricks/Elysabeth Grace
Moody-Freeman, Julie E. Response to Eric Selinger’s “Cant and Canonicity” 2022 romance scholarship, Publishing, race/ethnicity, Brenda Jackson, Rochelle Alers, teaching romance
Moody-Freeman, Julie E. Romance, Hip-Hop Feminism, and Black Love: From Theory to Praxis 2022 Gwyneth Bolton/Gwendolyn Pough, feminism, African American romance, gender, teaching romance, sex/sexuality, music, romance and, or as, activism, race/ethnicity
Moolla, F. Fiona Her Heart Lies at the Feet of the Mother: Transformations of the Romance Plot in Leila Aboulela’s Minaret 2021 Leila Aboulela, Islam, family, Muslim romance
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
Moore, Maureen Romantic love, ecstasy, and deprivation 1973 love, gender, Harlequin Mills & Boon, Violet Winspear, Isobel Chace, pornography, BDSM, religion/spirituality
Moore, Laura M. Sexual Agency, Safe Sex, and Consent Negotiations in Erotic Romance Novels 2019 sex/sexuality, rape and/or intimate partner violence/abuse, erotic romance
Moore, Kate; Selinger, Eric Murphy The Heroine as Reader, the Reader as Heroine: Jennifer Crusie’s Welcome to Temptation 2012 Jennifer Crusie, readers, metafiction, romance scholarship, sex/sexuality, marriage
Clark, Beverly Lyon; Bernier, Karen Gennari; Henneberry-Nassau, Michelle; Jenks, Lauren Beth; Moorman, Angie J.; Rhoades, Marah Bianca Reading Romance, Reading Ourselves 1996 readers, feminism, sex/sexuality, trash/literary and or intellectual quality, teaching romance, Harlequin Mills & Boon, rape and/or intimate partner violence/abuse, race/ethnicity, capitalism/business
Moran, Albert "No More Virgins": Writing Romance ‐ an Interview with Emma Darcy 1990 Emma Darcy, Harlequin Mills & Boon, emotions, readers, authors
Fernández Ulloa, Teresa; Morazzani, Joanne Schmidt Images of Women in Hispanic Culture 2016
Morden, Christina Innovations in Romance Novel Distribution at Harlequin, Sourcebooks, and Raincoast Books 2023 Publishing, Canada, Harlequin Mills & Boon
Moreau, Charles Influence de l’histoire et de l’exotisme dans l’œuvre de Delly ou la conversion contrariée 2011 Delly
Moreno-Álvarez, Alejandra India, Heat, Dust, and Tea? Alienness and Marketability in Ruth Prawer Jhabvala and Nicole C. Vosseler 2020 India, trash/literary and or intellectual quality, Nicole C. Vosseler, Ruth Prawer Jhabvala, happy ending, race/ethnicity
Moreno-Álvarez, Alejandra Romance Novels in Postcolonial India: From Mills & Boon to Pageturn’s Red Romance Series 2021 India, Harlequin Mills & Boon, readers
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
Moretto, Shirley; Weidenburner, Kathleen We’ll Take Romance! 1984 libraries/librarians
Morey, Ann-Janine The Reverend Idol and Other Parsonage Secrets: Women Write Romances about Ministers, 1880-1950 1990 religion/spirituality, Christian romance, Older and/or precursor texts (may not be "romance" as now defined)
Morey, Ann-Janine Religion and Sexuality in American Literature 1992 religion/spirituality, Christian romance, Older and/or precursor texts (may not be "romance" as now defined)