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Crane, Ralph Fletcher, Lisa (2017) Island Genres, Genre Islands: Conceptualisation and Representation in Popular Fiction London: Rowman & Littlefield Topic islands settings Margaret Evans Porter Nora Roberts/J. D. Robb
Crane, Megan (2015) Stacy Holden’s ‘Love in the Desert’: An Author’s Response Journal of Popular Romance Studies 5.1: Topic sheikh romance race/ethnicity Scotland Greece gender Harlequin Mills & Boon
Crane, Lynda L. (1994) Romance Novel Readers: in Search of Feminist Change? Women's Studies 23.3:257-269 DOI: 10.1080/00497878.1994.9979026 Topic feminism gender sex/sexuality readers
Cranny-Francis, Anne (1990) Feminist Fiction: Feminist Uses of Generic Fiction Cambridge: Polity Topic feminism Charlotte Brontë Emily Brontë race/ethnicity capitalism/business wealth/prosperity Sarah James
Crawford, Mary (1994) Rethinking the Romance: Teaching the Content and Function of Gender Stereotypes in the Psychology of Women Course Teaching of Psychology 21.3:151-153 DOI: 10.1177/009862839402100305 Topic psychology teaching romance Harlequin Mills & Boon gender
Crawford, Joseph (2014) The Twilight of the Gothic? Vampire Fiction and the Rise of the Paranormal Romance, 1991-2012 Cardiff: University of Wales Press Topic paranormal/fantasy/time-travel romance genre definitions Twilight gothic romance
Crawford, Joseph (2021) "Old-World Heroes and New-World Heroines in Post-Millennial Anglophone Romance Media " Romantic Escapes: Post-Millennial Trends in Contemporary Popular Romance Fiction 29-54 Topic sheikh romance paranormal/fantasy/time-travel romance Scotland history Karen Marie Moning Olivia Gates Diana Gabaldon
Creed, Barbara (1984) "The women's romance as sexual fantasy: 'Mills & Boon' " All Her Labours: Embroidering the Framework 47-67 Topic Harlequin Mills & Boon
Creed, Barbara (2003) Media Matrix: Sexing the New Reality Crows Nest, N.S.W.: Allen & Unwin Topic Harlequin Mills & Boon
Crisp, Thomas (2009) From Romance to Magical Realism: Limits and Possibilities in Gay Adolescent Fiction Children’s Literature in Education 40.4:333–348 DOI: 10.1007/s10583-009-9089-9 Topic LGBT+ characters, readers and/or authors YA/teenage romance
Crusie Smith, Jennifer (1997) Romancing Reality: The Power of Romance to Reinforce and Re-vision the Real Para.doxa: Studies in World Literary Genres 3.1-2:81-93 Topic readers fashion/clothing trash/literary and or intellectual quality marriage Jennifer Crusie sex/sexuality evolutionary psychology
Crusie Smith, Jennifer (1998) "The Romantic Suspense Mystery " Mystery and Suspense Writers: The Literature of Crime, Detection, and Espionage, Volume 2 1183-1197 Topic romantic suspense genre definitions settings Older and/or precursor texts (may not be "romance" as now defined) gothic romance Horace Walpole Ann Radcliffe Jane Austen Emily Brontë Charlotte Brontë Wilkie Collins death Mary Roberts Rinehart Mabel Seeley Dorothy MacCardle Georgette Heyer Vera Caspary Daphne du Maurier Mary Stewart Barbara Michaels a.k.a. Elizabeth Peters a.k.a. Barbara Mertz Victoria Holt/Jean Plaidy/Eleanor Burford Hibbert Mary Higgins Clark family Eileen Dreyer/Kathleen Korbel
Crusie Smith, Jennifer (1999) "This Is Not Your Mother's Cinderella: The Romance Novel as Feminist Fairy Tale " Romantic Conventions 51-61 Topic feminism fairytales/folktales JoAnn Ross family sex/sexuality gender rape and/or intimate partner violence/abuse
Cruz, Jon Lewis, Justin (1994) Viewing, Reading, Listening: Audiences and Cultural Reception Boulder, Colorado: Westview Press
Cruz-Bibb, Rosanna (2022) Patriarchy, Feminism, and The Space Between: The Production and Consumption of Feminism in Romance Novels PhD thesis, University of Georgia Topic feminism readers authors Publishing race/ethnicity happy ending
Cudjoe, Selwyn Reginald (1990) Caribbean Women Writers: Essays from the First International Conference Wellesley, Massachusetts: Calaloux Publications Topic Caribbean
Cunha, Maria Teresa Santos (1999) Armadilhas da sedução: os romances de M. Delly Belo Horizonte: Autêntica Topic Delly Older and/or precursor texts (may not be "romance" as now defined)
Cunha, Maria Teresa Santos (2009) "Para ler e educar-se: a ciculacao das novelas de Corin Tellado no sul do Brasil (1965-1975) " Emociones, cultura y educación: Un enfoque interdisciplinar 49-60 Topic Corín Tellado Brazil emotions
Curiel, Fernando (1978) Fotonovela rosa, fotonovela roja México: Coordinación de Difusión Cultural, Dirección de Literatura/UNAM Topic Mexico fotonovela
Curthoys, Ned Ganguly, Debjani (2007) Edward Said: The Legacy of a Public Intellectual Victoria: Melbourne University Press
Curthoys, Ann Docker, John (1990) Popular Romance in the Postmodern Age. And an Unknown Australian Author Continuum: The Australian Journal of Media & Culture 4.1:22-36 DOI: 10.1080/10304319009388179 Topic Edwina Shore trash/literary and or intellectual quality Harlequin Mills & Boon
Cuthbert, Kate (2021) "The Australian Digital Publishing Bubble, 2012-2016: An Insider Perspective " Post-Digital Book Cultures: Australian Perspectives 115-138 Topic Australia Publishing Harlequin Mills & Boon
Czyba, Lucette (1990) "Les enjeux de la lecture de Delly " Le roman sentimental: actes du colloque des 14-15-16 mars 1989 à la Faculté des lettres de Limoges, volume 1 341-350 Topic Delly fairytales/folktales
Dalsgaard, Inger H. (2009) "Consumed by Romance: Narration, Branding, and Participation in the Digital Marketplace " Internet Fictions 128-146 Topic readers
Daly, Brenda O. (1989) Laughing WITH, or Laughing AT the Young-Adult Romance The English Journal 78.6:50-60 DOI: 10.2307/817924 Topic YA/teenage romance food, drink health/medical gender social/economic class work
Dalziell, Tanya (2021) "Australia's Long Relationship with Romance " The Routledge Companion to Australian Literature 365-373 Topic Australia romance scholarship national identity race/ethnicity Rosa Praed Joyce Dingwell/Kate Starr
Damian-Gaillard, Béatrice (2011) Les romans sentimentaux des collections Harlequin: quelle(s) figure(s) de l’amoureux? Quel(s) modèle(s) de relation(s) amoureuse(s)? Questions de communication 20:317-336 DOI: 10.4000/questionsdecommunication.2130 Topic Harlequin Mills & Boon sex/sexuality gender
Damian-Gaillard, Béatrice (2012) "Prince charmant. Représentations des ressources et des coûts des masculinités dans les romans sentimentaux des collections Harlequin " Boys Don't Cry! Les coûts de la domination masculine 91-109 DOI:10.4000/books.pur.67095 Topic gender Harlequin Mills & Boon sex/sexuality emotions
Dandridge, Rita B. (2003) "African American Women's Historical Romances: Race and Gender Revisited " The 2000-2003 Proceedings of the SW/Texas PCA/ACA Conference 42-56 Topic African American romance race/ethnicity gender Beverly Jenkins Shirley Hailstock historical romance sex/sexuality
Dandridge, Rita B. (2003) "The Race, Gender, Romance Connection: A Black Feminist Reading of African American Women's Historical Romances " Doubled Plots: Romance and History 185-201 Topic historical romance African American romance feminism race/ethnicity gender Beverly Jenkins Shirley Hailstock Roberta Gayle history sex/sexuality United States of America
Dandridge, Rita B. (2004) Black Women's Activism: Reading African American Women's Historical Romances New York: Peter Lang Topic historical romance African American romance romance and, or as, activism United States of America race/ethnicity Anita Richmond Bunkley Beverly Jenkins Shirley Hailstock Francine Craft Gay G. Gunn gender history sex/sexuality
Dandridge, Rita B. (2010) The African American Historical Romance: An Interview with Beverly Jenkins Journal of Popular Romance Studies 1.1: Topic historical romance African American romance Beverly Jenkins race/ethnicity romance and, or as, activism
Dandridge, Rita B. (2016) "Love Prevailed Despite What American History Said: Agape and Eros in Beverly Jenkins's Night Song and Through the Storm " Romance Fiction and American Culture: Love as the Practice of Freedom? 151-166 Topic Beverly Jenkins love sex/sexuality history gender race/ethnicity United States of America rape and/or intimate partner violence/abuse family wealth/prosperity
Dandridge, Rita B. (2022) Vivian Lorraine Stephens: Romance Pioneer Journal of Popular Romance Studies 11: Topic Vivian Stephens Publishing race/ethnicity African American romance sex/sexuality Rosalind Welles - pen name of Elsie B. Washington Amii Lorin Jayne Ann Krentz/Amanda Quick/Jayne Castle disability Harlequin Mills & Boon United States of America Sandra Kitt ageism authors
Dane, Alexandra Weber, Millicent (2021) Post-Digital Book Cultures: Australian Perspectives : Monash University Publishing
Daniels, Mary Heather (1998) I Don't Read It for the Sex: Romance Readers and Identity Management Master of Science, Oklahoma State University Topic readers feminism
Dannenberg, Hilary P. (2008) Nadine Gordimer’s The Pickup and the Desert Romance Tradition in Post/Colonial Anglophone Fiction. Current Writing: Text and Reception in Southern Africa 20.1:69-88 DOI: 10.1080/1013929X.2008.9678290 Topic E. M. Hull
Darbyshire, Peter (2000) Romancing the World: Harlequin Romances, the Capitalist Dream, and the Conquest of Europe and Asia Studies in Popular Culture 23.1:1-10 Topic Harlequin Mills & Boon capitalism/business Publishing Poland Germany United States of America socialism and/or communism wealth/prosperity work Japan France
Darbyshire, Peter (2002) The Politics of Love: Harlequin Romances and the Christian Right Journal of Popular Culture 35.4:75-87 DOI: 10.1111/j.0022-3840.2002.3504_75.x Topic sex/sexuality Christian romance Harlequin Mills & Boon gender United States of America feminism work family readers religion/spirituality capitalism/business
Darian-Smith, Kate Grimshaw, Patricia Lindsey, Kiera Mcintyre, Stuart (2004) Exploring the British World: Identity, Cultural Production, Institutions Melbourne: RMIT Publishing
Dascăl, Reghina (2012) "Raj Matriarchs: Women Authors of Anglo-Indian Romance " Romance: The History of a Genre 179-200 Topic India UK history Maud Diver Flora Annie Steel
Daud, Kathrina Mohd (2021) "In response to Harlequin: Global legacy, local agency " The Routledge Research Companion to Popular Romance Fiction 529-545 DOI:10.4324/9781315613468-24 Topic Harlequin Mills & Boon Africa China Japan India Malaysia Nigeria
Davidge, Helen (2021) "Data science: Georgette Heyer’s historical novels and her readers " Georgette Heyer, History, and Historical Fiction 250-278 DOI:10.2307/j.ctv15d818n.19 Topic Georgette Heyer linguistics readers
Davies, Ben Lupton, Christina Gormsen Schmidt, Johanne (2022) Reading Novels During the Covid-19 Pandemic Oxford: Oxford University Press Topic readers Sally Rooney
Davis, Storme G. (2008) Nora Roberts: descendant of Jane Austen and Charlotte Brontë? MA thesis, Tennessee Technological University Topic Nora Roberts/J. D. Robb
Davis, Sara N. (2005) "Values and the Romance Novel: Journeys of the Reader " Education, Arts, and Morality: Creative Journeys 45-62 DOI:10.1007/0-306-48671-7_3 Topic readers psychology teaching romance
Davis, Mary Louise (1986) Romances and the Modern Ms.: a Study of Contemporary (Line) Romances, 1980-1984 PhD, University of Southern California Topic paratext gender readers work sex/sexuality
Davisson, Amber Hunting, Kyra (2023) From private pleasure to erotic spectacle: Adapting Bridgerton to female audience desires Journal of Popular Television 11.1:7-25 DOI: 10.1386/jptv_00090_1 Topic Julia Quinn film/movies sex/sexuality rape and/or intimate partner violence/abuse pornography race/ethnicity
Day, Sara K. (2020) "Reimagining Forever...: The Marriage Plot in Recent Young Adult Literature " Beyond the Blockbusters: Themes and Trends in Contemporary Young Adult Fiction 156-170 Topic YA/teenage romance marriage
Day, Gary Bloom, Clive (1988) Perspectives on Pornography: Sexuality in Film and Literature Houndmills, Basingstoke: Macmillan
De Donato, Gigliola Gazzola Stacchini, Vanna (1991) I best seller del ventennio: Il regime e il libro di massa Rome: Editori Riuniti
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De Groot, Jerome (2010) The Historical Novel Abingdon, Oxon: Routledge Topic historical romance Georgette Heyer Catherine Cookson Barbara Cartland Harlequin Mills & Boon
de Jesús, Melinda L. (2001) "Two’s Company, Three’s a Crowd?": Reading Interracial Romance in Contemporary Asian American Young Adult Fiction LIT: Literature Interpretation Theory 12.3:313–334 DOI: 10.1080/10436920108580294 Topic YA/teenage romance race/ethnicity United States of America LGBT+ characters, readers and/or authors Haemi Balgassi Kate Emberg Lois-Ann Yamanaka
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de los Heros, Susana (2022) "Language ideologies, landscape and narrative voice in The Wind off the Small Isles " Discursos e Identidades en la Ficción Romántica: Visiones Anglófonas de Madeira y Canarias / Discourses and Identities in Romance Fiction: Anglophone Visions from Madeira and the Canaries 333-343 Topic Mary Stewart linguistics race/ethnicity settings
De Silva Miguel, Donna (2002) Love conquers all: the rhetoric, culture, and appeal of the contemporary romance novel, and coming to terms with coming out of the closet MA thesis, New Mexico State University
Deal, Clare H. (2015) Throbb[ing] with a consciousness of a knowledge that appalled her’: Embodiment and Female Subjectivity in the Desert Romance Women: A Cultural Review 26.1-2:75-95 DOI: 10.1080/09574042.2015.1035049 Topic E. M. Hull sheikh romance feminism sex/sexuality gender rape and/or intimate partner violence/abuse
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Del Grosso Destreri, Luigi Brodesco, Alberto Giovanetti, Silvia Zanatta, Sara (2009) Una galassia rosa: Ricerche sulla letteratura femminile di consumo Milan: Franco Angeli
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Delany, Samuel R. (1987) "The Gestation of Genres: Literature, Fiction, Romance, Science Fiction, Fantasy ... " Intersections: Fantasy and Science Fiction 63-73 Topic genre definitions Publishing
Deller, Ruth A. Smith, Clarissa (2013) Reading the BDSM romance: Reader responses to Fifty Shades Sexualities 16.8:932–950 DOI: 10.1177/1363460713508882 Topic Fifty Shades BDSM readers trash/literary and or intellectual quality sex/sexuality
Deng, Yiwei (2022) The Aesthetic form of Childhood Sweetheart: I Love You, None of Your Business Frontiers in Economics and Management 3.4:625-629 DOI: 10.6981/FEM.202204_3(4).0081 Topic China emotions
Dennis, Lesley Erin (2012) Pornography and Rape Myths in Paranormal Romance Novels Master of Arts, Morehead State University Topic paranormal/fantasy/time-travel romance rape and/or intimate partner violence/abuse feminism readers sex/sexuality pornography
Deputter, Barbara Anne (1992) Les romans Harlequin, leur contenu et leurs lectrices québécoises M. Sc, Université de Montréal Topic Harlequin Mills & Boon Canada readers
Derbyshire, Valerie Grace (2023) “Do you think I haven’t paid for what I did?”: Rape in the Mills & Boon Romantic Novels of Penny Jordan Journal of Popular Romance Studies 12: Topic rape and/or intimate partner violence/abuse Penny Jordan/Caroline Courtney history Harlequin Mills & Boon
Derbyshire, Val (2016) Why Read Mills & Boon Romances? : WroCAH Topic Harlequin Mills & Boon trash/literary and or intellectual quality settings Penny Jordan/Caroline Courtney romance and, or as, activism rape and/or intimate partner violence/abuse feminism
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DeVries, Susan Dunlop, Margaret Goopy, Suzanne Moyle, Wendy Sutherland‐Lockhart, Diane (1995) Discipline and passion: meaning, masochism and mythology in popular medical romances Nursing Inquiry 2.4:203-210 DOI: 10.1111/j.1440-1800.1995.tb00147.x Topic medical romance history work emotions sex/sexuality health/medical death family settings gender BDSM Harlequin Mills & Boon
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Di Leo, Jeffrey (2020) The Speed of Publishing American Book Review 41.4:2, 26-27 DOI: 10.1353/abr.2020.0061 Topic Publishing Alexa Riley I. T. Lucas
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Dickson, Beth (1997) "Annie S. Swan and O. Douglas: Legacies of the Kailyard " A History of Scottish Women’s Writing 329-346 Topic Annie S. Swan O. Douglas/Anna Buchan
Diekman, Amanda B. McDonald, Mary Gardner, Wendi L. (2000) Love means never having to be careful: The relationship between reading romance novels and safe sex behavior Psychology of Women Quarterly 24.2:179-188 DOI: 10.1111/j.1471-6402.2000.tb00199.x Topic psychology sex/sexuality readers
Díez Borque, José María (1972) Literatura y cultura de masas: Estudio de la novela subliteraria Madrid: Al-Borak Topic Corín Tellado Spain gender social/economic class linguistics
Dillon, George L. (2007) The Genres Speak; Using Large Corpora to Profile Generic Registers Journal of Literary Semantics 36.2:159-187 DOI: 10.1515/JLS.2007.009 Topic linguistics Harlequin Mills & Boon sex/sexuality
DiVisconte, Jessica (2009) The Recession and Its Effect on the Romance Genre Master of Science in Publishing, Dyson College of Arts & Sciences, Pace University Topic Publishing
Diwersy, Sascha Gonon, Laetitia Goossens, Vannina Gymnich, Marion Tutin, Agnès (2020) "Speech Verbs in French and English Novels " Phraseology and Style in Subgenres of the Novel: A Synthesis of Corpus and Literary Perspectives 83-113 DOI:10.1007/978-3-030-23744-8_4 Topic linguistics emotions languages
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Dixon, jay (1987) Fantasy Unlimited: the World of Mills and Boon Women's Review 21:18-19 Topic Harlequin Mills & Boon
Dixon, jay (1999) The Romance Fiction of Mills & Boon 1909-1990s London: UCL Press Topic Harlequin Mills & Boon rural romance settings marriage gender feminism war/armed forces work love Publishing sex/sexuality rape and/or intimate partner violence/abuse
Dixon, jay (2020) The Depiction of Masculinity and Nationality in The Sheik Journal of Popular Romance Studies 9: Topic E. M. Hull gender race/ethnicity UK Scotland
Dixon, jay (2021) "History of English romance novels, 1621-1975 " The Routledge Research Companion to Popular Romance Fiction 27-50 DOI:10.4324/9781315613468-1 Topic UK Older and/or precursor texts (may not be "romance" as now defined) Harlequin Mills & Boon historical romance
Doğan Yıldız, Alpay (2010) Popüler Türk Romanları ( 1930-1950): Kerime Nadir, Esat Mahmut Karakurt, Muazzez Tahsin Berkand : Dergah Yayınları Topic Turkey Older and/or precursor texts (may not be "romance" as now defined) Kerime Nadir Muazzez Tahsin Berkand
Donalson, Tara A. (2005) The Parody of Romance MA thesis, University of Texas at Arlington Topic Christian romance religion/spirituality
Douglas, Ann (1980) Soft-Porn Culture: Punishing the Liberated Woman The New Republic 183.9:25-29 Topic BDSM pornography Harlequin Mills & Boon feminism virginity readers gender
Downey, Kristin (2005) Irony, Ideology, and Resistance: The Amazing Double Life of Harlequin Presents PhD, McMaster University Topic Harlequin Mills & Boon marriage family sex/sexuality readers gender national identity race/ethnicity
Doyle, Marsha Vanderford (1985) The Rhetoric of Romance: A Fantasy Theme Analysis of Barbara Cartland Novels Southern Speech Communication Journal 51.1:24-48 DOI: 10.1080/10417948509372645 Topic Barbara Cartland gender religion/spirituality love
Drakulić-Ilić, Slavenka (1984) Smrtni grijesi feminizma. Ogledi u mudologiji Zagreb: Znanje Topic readers sex/sexuality trash/literary and or intellectual quality socialism and/or communism
Drayton, Arthur D. Ajayi-Soyinka, Omofolabo Ukpokodu, I. Peter (2007) African Literatures at the Millennium Trenton, NJ and Asmara, Eritrea: Africa World Press
Dreimane, Jana (2015) Authors, Publishers and Readers of Popular Literature in Latvia in the Late 1980s and Early 1990s Interlitteraria 20.2:56–70 DOI: 10.12697/IL.2015.20.2.6 Topic Latvia Publishing readers translation Hedwig Courths-Mahler Ethel M. Dell trash/literary and or intellectual quality socialism and/or communism
Drescher, Horst W. Hagemann, Susanne (1996) Scotland to Slovenia: European Identities and Transcultural Communication. Proceedings of the Fourth International Scottish Studies Symposium Frankfurt am Main: Peter Lang
Drew, Bernard A. (2007) 100 Most Popular African American Authors: Biographical Sketches and Bibliographies Westport, Connecticut: Libraries Unlimited Topic African American romance Rochelle Alers Tina McElroy Ansa Leslie Esdaile Banks Angela Benson Michele Andrea Bowen Connie Briscoe Anita Richmond Bunkley Aisha Ford Gwynne Forster Sharon Ewell Foster Patricia Haley E. Lynn Harris Donna Hill Brenda Jackson Beverly Jenkins Sandra Kitt Felicia Mason Evelyn Palfrey Francis Ray Kimberla Lawson Ruby Eboni Snoe Chassie L. West Alice Wootson Courtni Wright Frank Yerby Zane
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Driscoll, Beth Fletcher, Lisa Wilkins, Kim (2011) "Women, Akubras and Ereaders: Romance Fiction and Australian Publishing " The Return of Print?: Contemporary Australian Publishing 67-87 Topic Australia Publishing rural romance Harlequin Mills & Boon
Driscoll, Beth (2014) Genre, Author, Text, Reader: Teaching Nora Roberts’s Spellbound Journal of Popular Romance Studies 4.2: Topic teaching romance Nora Roberts/J. D. Robb
Driscoll, Beth Fletcher, Lisa Wilkins, Kim Carter, David (2018) The Publishing Ecosystems of Contemporary Australian Genre Fiction Creative Industries Journal 11.2:203-221 DOI: 10.1080/17510694.2018.1480851 Topic Publishing Australia
Driscoll, Beth Wilkins, Kim (2023) "Australian Fantasy, Crime and Romance Fiction in the Twentieth and Twenty-First Centuries " The Cambridge History of the Australian Novel 540-556 DOI:10.1017/9781009090049.033 Topic Australia Publishing
Dryden, Therese Michelle (2011) Bachelor Dad on Her Doorstep Masters, University of Newcastle, Australia Topic Harlequin Mills & Boon authors love Georgette Heyer Daphne du Maurier Jane Austen Charlotte Brontë Michelle Douglas
Dryden, Therese (2019) The Valentine Wars PhD, University of Newcastle, Australia Topic feminism family Susan Elizabeth Phillips Nora Roberts/J. D. Robb Rachel Gibson Robyn Carr Marie Force Kristan Higgins Ruthie Knox Bella Andre Grace Burrowes Sharon Sala Michelle Douglas
Dryden, Therese (2022) "The single-mother and the law: romance novels making room for female voices in patriarchal spaces " The Routledge Companion to Romantic Love DOI:10.4324/9781003022343-31 Topic family Robyn Carr
Dubino, Jeanne (1993) The Cinderella Complex: Romance Fiction, Patriarchy, and Capitalism Journal of Popular Culture 27.3:103-118 DOI: 10.1111/j.0022-3840.1993.00103.x Topic capitalism/business readers work gender
Dubrûle, Marie-Andrée (1984) Systèmes narratifs et systèmes de valeurs dans le roman sentimental paralittéraire MA, Université de Montréal
Dubrûle, Marie-Andrée (1986) Le cas Harlequin : la mise à l’épreuve du sujet femme : une analyse des procédés narratifs et littéraires Québec: Groupe de recherche multidisciplinaire féministe, Université Laval Topic Harlequin Mills & Boon Janet Dailey gender feminism
Ducoulombier, Martine (2005) La comédie romantique – un genre mal-aimé? Africultures 63.2:43-45 DOI: 10.3917/afcul.063.0043 Topic film/movies Africa
Dudek, Debra Reid Boyd, Elizabeth Grobbelaar, Madalena Williams, Rose (2022) "Tingles and Shivers: First Kisses and Intimate Civility in Eliza Redgold’s Historical Harlequin Romances Pre–and Post-#MeToo " New Frontiers in Popular Romance: Essays on the Genre in the 21st Century 47-61 Topic Harlequin Mills & Boon sex/sexuality Elizabeth Reid Boyd (pen name Eliza Redgold) psychology feminism
Duder, C. J. D. (1991) Love and the Lions: The Image of White Settlement in Kenya in Popular Fiction, 1919-1939 African Affairs 90.360:427-438 DOI: 10.1093/oxfordjournals.afraf.a098441 Topic Kenya UK national identity history race/ethnicity Florence Riddell Nora K. Strange trash/literary and or intellectual quality fascism/right-wing authoritarianism
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Dulong, Delphine Neveu, Erik Guionnet, Christine (2012) Boys Don't Cry! Les coûts de la domination masculine Rennes: Presses universitaires de Rennes
Dummer, Kathleen Ann (1990) A study of character development of main characters in young adult category romance literature Master of Science, University of Wyoming Topic YA/teenage romance trash/literary and or intellectual quality
Dunnion, Janne May (1997) Mapping Normalcy: Romance and the Postmodern Body MA thesis, University of Toronto Topic Harlequin Mills & Boon
Duranti, Daniela (2008) Le soglie del genere: identità femminile e modelli semiotici nel paratesto editoriale , Topic gender paratext
Dutton, Lucie Bea (2021) "A reluctant movie? The Reluctant Widow on screen " Georgette Heyer, History, and Historical Fiction 215-239 DOI:10.2307/j.ctv15d818n.17 Topic Georgette Heyer film/movies
Duvezin-Caubet, Caroline (2020) Gaily Ever After: Neo-Victorian M/M Genre Romance for the Twenty-First Century Neo-Victorian Studies 13.1:242-269 DOI: 10.5281/zenodo.4320839 Topic m/m romance K. J. Charles Cat Sebastian Georgette Heyer happy ending LGBT+ characters, readers and/or authors historical romance gender race/ethnicity Publishing family
Dyhouse, Carol (2017) Hearthrobs: A History of Women and Desire Oxford: Oxford University Press Topic gender sex/sexuality Charles Garvice E. M. Hull Georgette Heyer Barbara Cartland race/ethnicity
Dymock, Alex (2013) Flogging sexual transgression: Interrogating the costs of the ‘Fifty Shades effect’ Sexualities 16.8:880-895 DOI: 10.1177/1363460713508884 Topic Fifty Shades chick lit capitalism/business sex/sexuality BDSM
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Ebert, Teresa L. (1988) The Romance of Patriarchy: Ideology, Subjectivity, and Postmodern Feminist Cultural Theory Cultural Critique 10:19-57 Topic gender capitalism/business work Harlequin Mills & Boon feminism readers Sarah James Janet Dailey
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Edwards, Holly (2000) Noble Dreams, Wicked Pleasures: Orientalism in America, 1870-1930 Princeton: Princeton University Press
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Elliott, Jack (2014) "Patterns and Trends in Harlequin Category Romance " Advancing Digital Humanities: Research, Methods, Theories 54-67 DOI:10.1057/9781137337016_4 Topic Harlequin Mills & Boon linguistics authors
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Ellis, Kate (1987) "Gimme Shelter: Feminism, Fantasy, and Women's Popular Fiction " American Media and Mass Culture: Left Perspectives 216-230 Topic feminism gothic romance virginity rape and/or intimate partner violence/abuse Victoria Holt/Jean Plaidy/Eleanor Burford Hibbert Charlotte Brontë settings family work Kathleen Woodiwiss readers
Emrys, A. B. (1994) Magic Regencies: How Fantasy Forms a Hybrid Popular Culture Review 5.1:85-93 Topic historical romance paranormal/fantasy/time-travel romance Patricia Wrede Caroline Stevermer Teresa Edgerton Walter Jon Williams
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Encanto, Georgina R. (2008) Savoring Romance Pinoy Style in Foreign Climes: Why Women Migrants Love Reading Tagalog Romance Novels Review of Women's Studies 18.1:27-52 Topic Philippines readers social/economic class
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English, Jessica (2017) Reading the Romance: Through the Eyes of a Millenial Feminist Masters of Science in Communication, Eastern Washington University Topic feminism readers
English Studies Group, 1978–9, The (1980) "Recent Developments in English Studies at the Centre " Culture, Media, Language: Working Papers in Cultural Studies, 1972-79 227-262 DOI:10.4324/9780203381182 Topic linguistics Barbara Cartland family settings social/economic class gender capitalism/business
Erekli, Arzu (2006) Medeni ya da müslüman: popüler aşk romanlarında Feyza olmak Yayınlanmamış Yüksek Lisans Tezi, Bilkent University, Ankara Topic Islam gender Turkey Kerime Nadir
Erhart, Virginia (1973) "Amor, ideología y enmascaramiento en Corín Tellado " Imperialismo y medios masivos de comunicación 93-101 Topic Corín Tellado
Erhart, Virginia (1974) "Amor, ideología y enmascaramiento en Corín Tellado " Penetración cultural imperialista en América Latina: comics y revistas femeninas 71-123 Topic Corín Tellado
Erhart, Virginia (1974) Corín Tellado: la Cenicienta en la sociedad de consumo Crisis 1.9:71-80 Topic Corín Tellado work ageism marriage
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Escolar, Marisa (2019) Allied Encounters: The Gendered Redemption of World War II Italy New York: Fordham University Press Topic Luciana Peverelli Italy
Esquibel, Catrióna Rueda (1991) Loving the other woman: contemporary lesbian romance novels Masters, University of Colorado Topic lesbian romance LGBT+ characters, readers and/or authors
Esquibel, Catrióna Rueda (1992) "A Duel of Wits and the Lesbian Romance Novel or Verbal Intercourse in Fictional Regency England " New Perspectives on Women and Comedy 123-133 Topic lesbian romance LGBT+ characters, readers and/or authors Michelle Martin historical romance
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Fanetti, Susan (2022) "Introduction—Popular Romance in the 21st Century: Time to Claim Its Due " New Frontiers in Popular Romance: Essays on the Genre in the 21st Century 1-13 Topic romance scholarship genre definitions happy ending Publishing Fifty Shades
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Farooqui, Javaria (2022) Reading historical popular romance in 21st-century Pakistan PhD thesis, University of Tasmania Topic Pakistan readers historical romance social/economic class settings Julia Quinn Stephanie Laurens Judith McNaught Gaelen Foley
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Faura, Salvador Godsland, Shelley Moody, Nickianne (2004) "The Romance Novel, or, the Generalisimo's Control of the Popular Imagination " Reading the Popular in Contemporary Spanish Texts 46-58 Topic Corín Tellado Spain fascism/right-wing authoritarianism
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Fekete, Maleah (2022) Confluent Love and the Evolution of Ideal Intimacy: Romance Reading in 1980 and 2016 Journal of Popular Romance Studies 11: Topic readers sex/sexuality gender sociology love emotions
Felski, Rita (1990) Kitsch, Romance Fiction and Male Paranoia: Stephen King meets the Frankfurt School Continuum: The Australian Journal of Media & Culture 4.1:54-70 DOI: 10.1080/10304319009388181 Topic trash/literary and or intellectual quality
Feng, Jin (2009) "Addicted to Beauty": Consuming and Producing Web-based Chinese Danmei Fiction at Jinjiang Modern Chinese Literature and Culture 21.2:1-41 Topic China m/m romance LGBT+ characters, readers and/or authors authors readers gender paranormal/fantasy/time-travel romance rape and/or intimate partner violence/abuse
Feng, Jin (2011) Men Conquer the World and Women Save Mankind: Rewriting Patriarchal Traditions through Web-based Matriarchal Romances Journal of Popular Romance Studies 1.2: Topic China socialism and/or communism paranormal/fantasy/time-travel romance gender war/armed forces
Feng, Jin (2013) Romancing the Internet: Producing and Consuming Chinese Web Romance Leiden: Brill Topic China
Fenske, Emma K. (2022) Romancing the New Evangelical Woman Master of Arts, Baylor University Topic Christian romance United States of America religion/spirituality Francine Rivers Janette Oke Karen Kingsbury gender health/medical family historical romance
Fenty, Linda D. (1987) A Comparative Analysis of Female Role Models in Selected Contemporary Teen Romances Educat.D., Auburn University Topic YA/teenage romance
Fera-VanGent, Tania (2005) Popular Romance Novels: Seeking out the 'Sisterhood' MA thesis, Brock University Topic Older and/or precursor texts (may not be "romance" as now defined) Harlequin Mills & Boon chick lit
Fernández Rodríguez, Carolina (2018) "Del cuento de hadas a la novela romántica: Una visión de la sub/literatura como gimnasio mental y laboratorio de sub/versión cultural " Repercusión de la lectura y otras formas de arte en nuestra vida y nuestra obra: Memorias del VII coloquio de LART, Centro Español de Manhattan, Nueva York, 26-28 de octubre de 2016 69-95 Topic trash/literary and or intellectual quality Nora Roberts/J. D. Robb feminism readers sex/sexuality psychology romance and, or as, activism fairytales/folktales
Fernández Rodríguez, Carolina (2019) Chamorro WWII Romances: Combating Erasure with Tales of Survival and Vitality Journal of Popular Romance Studies 8: Topic Guam United States of America race/ethnicity Paula Quinene Cathy Sablan Gault islands history romance and, or as, activism languages religion/spirituality war/armed forces historical romance
Fernández Rodríguez, Carolina (2021) American Quaker Romances: Building the Myth of the White Christian Nation Valencia: Universitat de València Topic United States of America Christian romance race/ethnicity gender religion/spirituality
Fernández Rodríguez, Carolina (2021) "Nora Roberts’s Boonsboro Empire: Boosting Business through Romance, Invigorating Romance with Affective Capitalism " Romantic Escapes: Post-Millennial Trends in Contemporary Popular Romance Fiction 97-119 Topic Nora Roberts/J. D. Robb capitalism/business work metaphor/symbolism
Fernández Ulloa, Teresa Morazzani, Joanne Schmidt (2016) Images of Women in Hispanic Culture Newcastle upon Tyne: Cambridge Scholars Publishing
Fernández Ulloa, Teresa Soler Gallo, Miguel (2020) Aproximaciones a la configuración de la identidad en la cultura y sociedad hispanas e italianas contemporáneas Madrid: Liceus
Ferrández San Miguel, María Neumann, Claus-Peter (2018) Taking Stock to Look Ahead: Celebrating Forty Years of English Studies in Spain Zaragoza: Prensas Universitarias de la Universidad de Zaragoza
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Fisher, Maryanne L. Meredith, Tami M. (2022) Evolutionary and sociocultural themes in cover art on Harlequin romance novels: A temporal analysis Evolutionary Behavioral Sciences 16.2:157–175 DOI: 10.1037/ebs0000258 Topic evolutionary psychology paratext
Fisher, Maryanne Cox, Anthony (2010) Man Change Thyself: Hero Versus Heroine Development in Harlequin Romance Novels Journal of Social, Evolutionary, and Cultural Psychology 4.4:305-316 Topic evolutionary psychology gender Harlequin Mills & Boon
Fitzsimmons, Rebekah Wilson, Casey Alane (2020) Beyond the Blockbusters: Themes and Trends in Contemporary Young Adult Fiction Jackson: University Press of Mississippi
Fjelkestam, Kristina Hill, Helena Tjeder, David (2013) Kvinnorna gör mannen: maskulinitetskonstruktioner i kvinnors text och bild 1500-2000 Göteborg: Makadam förlag
Flegel, Monica Roth, Jenny (2010) Annihilating love and heterosexuality without women: Romance, generic difference, and queer politics in "Supernatural" fan fiction Transformative Works and Cultures 4: DOI: 10.3983/twc.2010.0133 Topic fanfiction LGBT+ characters, readers and/or authors
Fleites-Lear, Marisela (2009) ¿Victoria contra Corín Tellado?: La novela rosa revolucionaria cubana y la ficción en Mujeres Romance Notes 49.1:91-100 DOI: 10.1353/rmc.2009.0014 Topic Corín Tellado Cuba readers socialism and/or communism
Flesch, Juliet Ella (2001) From Australia with love: Australian romance novels, 1950-2000 PhD, University of Melbourne Topic national identity Australia feminism Lucy Walker Publishing readers sex/sexuality rape and/or intimate partner violence/abuse race/ethnicity translation settings Marion Lennox Ann Charlton Alison Kelly Joyce Dingwell/Kate Starr Edwina Shore Helen Bianchin paratext Harlequin Mills & Boon
Flesch, Juliet (1995) Love Brought to Book: A Bio-Bibliography of 20th Century Australian Romance Novels Melbourne: National Centre for Australian Studies Topic Australia
Flesch, Juliet (1996) A Labour of Love? Compiling a Bibliography of Twentieth Century Australian Romance Novels Australasian Public Libraries and Information Services 9.3-4:170-178 Topic libraries/librarians Australia authors Margaret Way Marion Lennox Emma Darcy Victoria Gordon paratext
Flesch, Juliet (1996) A Labour of Love? The Story Behind the Compilation of Love Brought to Book: A Bio-bibliography of 20th Century Australian Romance Novels Australian Academic & Research Libraries 27.3:182-190 DOI: 10.1080/00048623.1996.10754974 Topic Australia libraries/librarians Margaret Way Marion Lennox Emma Darcy Victoria Gordon authors paratext
Flesch, Juliet (1997) Not just housewives and old maids Collection Building 16.3:119-124 DOI: 10.1108/01604959710172404 Topic libraries/librarians
Flesch, Juliet (2004) From Australia With Love: A History of Modern Australian Popular Romance Novels Fremantle: Curtin University Books Topic Australia national identity Helen Bianchin Harlequin Mills & Boon Emma Darcy Ann Charlton authors Marion Lennox Joyce Dingwell/Kate Starr Valerie Parv feminism Victoria Gordon Alison Kelly race/ethnicity Publishing translation paratext readers Lucy Walker sex/sexuality rape and/or intimate partner violence/abuse Meredith Webber
Flesch, Juliet (2005) Blushing Bride to Bush Matriarch: Women in the Fiction of Lucy Walker Journal of Publishing 1:37-52 Topic Lucy Walker
Flesch, Juliet (2007) "Love under the Coolabah: Australian Romance Publishing since 1990 " Making Books: Contemporary Australian Publishing 279-285 Topic Australia Publishing
Flesch, Juliet (2009) "”Feminists Talk about Sisterhood: I Do Not Know How Deeply They Feel It”: Australian Mass Market Romance Novels and Their Critics " Reading Down Under: Australian Literary Studies Reader 419-428 Topic feminism
Flesch, Juliet (2012) "The Wide Brown Land and the Big Smoke: The Setting of Australian Popular Romance " Sold by the Millions: Australia's Bestsellers 82-95 Topic Australia settings
Fletcher, Lisa (2002) I love you: historical romance fiction and heterosexuality PhD, University of Melbourne Topic historical romance
Fletcher, Lisa (2004) "“Mere Costumery”? Georgette Heyer’s Cross-Dressing Novels " Masquerades: Disguise in Literature in English from the Middle Ages to the Present 196-212 Topic historical romance Georgette Heyer fashion/clothing cross-dressing gender
Fletcher, Lisa (2008) Historical Romance Fiction: Heterosexuality and Performativity Burlington: Ashgate Topic love sex/sexuality Georgette Heyer historical romance linguistics fashion/clothing A. S. Byatt
Fletcher, Lisa Gaby, Rosemary Kloester, Jennifer (2011) Pedagogy Report: Embedding Popular Romance Studies in Undergraduate English Units: Teaching Georgette Heyer’s Sylvester Journal of Popular Romance Studies 1.2: Topic teaching romance Georgette Heyer history metafiction
Fletcher, Lisa (2013) The Scholarship of Teaching and Learning Popular Romance Studies: What is it, and why does it matter? Journal of Popular Romance Studies 3.2: Topic teaching romance
Fletcher, Lisa (2014) Writing the Happy Ever After: An Interview with Anne Gracie Journal of Popular Romance Studies 4.2: Topic Anne Gracie trash/literary and or intellectual quality metafiction Jane Austen readers emotions family wealth/prosperity sex/sexuality happy ending
Fletcher, Lisa (2016) Popular Fiction and Spatiality: Reading Genre Settings New York: Palgrave Macmillan
Fletcher, Lisa Driscoll, Beth Wilkins, Kim (2018) Genre Worlds and Popular Fiction: The Case of Twenty-First-Century Australian Romance Journal of Popular Culture 51.4:997-1015 DOI: 10.1111/jpcu.12706 Topic Publishing Australia
Fletcher, Lisa Driscoll, Beth Wilkins, Kim (2018) What is Australian Popular Fiction? Australian Literary Studies 33.4:1-11 DOI: 10.20314/als.4e3df0ec9c Topic Australia national identity settings
Fletcher, Lisa McAlister, Jodi Temple, Kurt Williams, Kathleen (2019) #loveyourshelfie: Mills & Boon books and how to find them Mémoires du livre / Studies in Book Culture 11.1: DOI: 10.7202/1066945ar Topic Harlequin Mills & Boon paratext trash/literary and or intellectual quality readers Publishing Australia
Flora, Cornelia Butler Flora, Jan L. (1978) The Fotonovela As a Tool for Class and Cultural Domination Latin American Perspectives 5.1:134-150 DOI: 10.1177/0094582X7800500110 Topic Latin America Mexico Brazil Corín Tellado sociology capitalism/business social/economic class wealth/prosperity fotonovela
Foley, J. A. (2007) Critical Awareness: Romance Novels in English for the Asian Market. A Critical Study of Locally Published "Romance Novels" in English Asian Journal of Literature, Culture and Society 3.2:93-108 Topic linguistics Singapore gender
Folie, Sandra (2020) "The Ethnic Labelling of a Genre Gone Global: A Distant Comparison of African-American and African Chick Lit " Literary Translation, Reception, and Transfer: The Many Languages of Comparative Literature 313–326 DOI:10.1515/9783110641998-026 Topic chick lit Africa South Africa Kenya race/ethnicity
Fong, Katrina Mullin, Justin B. Mar, Raymond A. (2013) What You Read Matters: The Role of Fiction Genre in Predicting Interpersonal Sensitivity Psychology of Aesthetics, Creativity, and the Arts 7.4:370-376 DOI: 10.1037/a0034084 Topic readers psychology
Fong, Katrina Mullin, Justin B. Mar, Raymond A. (2015) How Exposure to Literary Genres Relates to Attitudes Toward Gender Roles and Sexual Behavior Psychology of Aesthetics, Creativity, and the Arts 9.3:274–285 DOI: 10.1037/a0038864 Topic psychology readers sex/sexuality gender
Forbes, Curdella (2006) X Press Publications: Pop Culture, “Pop Lit” and Caribbean Literary Criticism: An Essay of Provocation Anthurium: A Caribbean Studies Journal 4.1: DOI: 10.33596/anth.61 Topic Caribbean Valerie Belgrave UK race/ethnicity sex/sexuality
Fordham, Helen (2014) ‘That’s love for you’: Destabilizing divides and re-imaging subjectivities in the romantic fiction of Eloisa James Australasian Journal of Popular Culture 3.3:273-284 DOI: 10.1386/ajpc.3.3.273_1 Topic trash/literary and or intellectual quality readers Eloisa James Shakespeare
Forte, Gioacchino (1966) I persuasori rosa: sociologia curiosa del rotocalco femminile in Italia Naples: Edizioni Scientifiche Italiane Topic Italy romances in magazines and newspapers sociology
Fortunati, Vita Franci, Giovanna (1982) 'Ma c'è sempre un arcobaleno': La 'romantic fiction' di Barbara Cartland Quaderni di Filologia Germanica della Facolta di Lettere e Filosofia dell'Universita di Bologna 2:167-192 Topic Barbara Cartland
Fortunati, Vita Franci, Giovanna Mangaroni, Rosella (1986) "Prefazione " Maestre d'amore: eroine e scrittrici nell'impero del rosa inglese 5-16
Fortunati, Vita Franci, Giovanna (1986) "Tre romantiche ‘figlie d’Inghilterra’ alla conquista della storia: Eleanor Hibbert, Georgette Heyer e Barbara Cartland " Maestre d'amore: eroine e scrittrici nell'impero del rosa inglese 17-53 Topic Victoria Holt/Jean Plaidy/Eleanor Burford Hibbert Georgette Heyer Barbara Cartland
Fortunati, Vita Franci, Giovanna (1987) "Barbara Cartland, la regina del rosa " Intorno al rosa Topic Barbara Cartland
Foss, Kimberly Kay (1997) An Analysis to Determine if Popular Romance Novels, Read by Today’s High School Students, Reflect the Characteristics and Roles of Women in Current Society M.S. in Education with Emphasis in Library Science, University of Wyoming Topic YA/teenage romance work feminism United States of America race/ethnicity social/economic class