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Older and/or precursor texts (may not be "romance" as now defined)

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India

Kaplan, Deborah (2012) ""Why would any woman want to read such stories?": The Distinctions Between Genre Romances and Slash Fictions " New Approaches to Popular Romance Fiction: Critical Essays 121-132

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fanfiction

Suzanne Brockmann

Kaufman, Alexander L. Vlagopoulos, Penny (2019) Food and Feast in Modern Outlaw Tales New York: Routledge

Kaveney, Roz (2012) "Dark fantasy and paranormal romance " The Cambridge Companion to Fantasy Literature 214-223 DOI:https://doi.org/10.1017/CCOL9780521429597.020

Topic

Charlaine Harris

Laurell K. Hamilton

Twilight

Kaye, Marilyn Janice (1983) The nature of didacticism as related to romance and sexuality in young adult novels 1965-1978 PhD, University of Chicago

Topic

Kebadze, Nino (2007) Fictions of Surrender: Romance and Exemplarity in Post-War Spanish Women's Narratives PhD, University of Kentucky

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Luisa-María Linares

Concha Linares-Becerra

Carmen de Icaza

Kebadze, Nino (2009) Romance and Exemplarity in Post-War Spanish Women's Narratives Woodbridge, Suffolk: Tamesis

Topic

Luisa-María Linares

Concha Linares-Becerra

Carmen de Icaza

María Mercedes Ortoll

Keegan, Faye Jessica (2016) Soft metafiction(s) : Mary Stewart and the self-reflective middlebrow PhD, University of Newcastle, UK

Topic

Mary Stewart

Keegan, Faye (2017) ‘Snob Value’: Gender and Literary Value in Mary Stewart Women: A Cultural Review 28.3:240-261

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Mary Stewart

Keen, Suzanne (2018) Probable Impossibilities: Historical Romance Readers Talk Back Style: A Quarterly Journal of Aesthetics, Poetics, Stylistics, and Literary Criticism 52.1-2:127-132

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Diana Gabaldon

Kelly, Patricia P. (1991) Transitional Novels for Readers of Teen Romances ALAN Review 19.1:19-21

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Kelly, Brendan D. (2007) Medical Romance The Lancet 370.9597:1482

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Kelly, Brendan D. (2016) Medical romance: love never dies The Lancet 388.10063:2989

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Kelman, Suanne (1995) Heroine addiction Chatelaine 68.9:59-63

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Jennifer Crusie

Margaret Moore

Susanna Kearsley

Kelso, Sylvia (1996) Singularities: the interaction of feminism(s) and two strands of popular American fiction, 1968-89 PhD, James Cook University of North Queensland

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Barbara Michaels a.k.a. Elizabeth Peters a.k.a. Barbara Mertz

Phyllis A. Whitney

Kelso, Sylvia (1997) Stitching Time: Feminism(s) and Thirty Years of Gothic Romance Para.doxa: Studies in World Literary Genres 3.1-2:164-179

Topic

Barbara Michaels a.k.a. Elizabeth Peters a.k.a. Barbara Mertz

Kemppinen, Anne-Mari Katriina (1988) Translating for popular literature with special reference to Harlequin books and their Finnish translations , University of Joensuu

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Finland

Kemppinen, Anne (1989) "Translation for Popular Literature with Special Reference to Harlequin Books and their Finnish Translation " Empirical Studies in Translation and Linguistics 25-36

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Finland

Kendal, Evie (2019) The use of free indirect discourse in J. R. Ward's Black Dagger Brotherhood series Colloquy: Text, Theory, Critique 38:20-43

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Older and/or precursor texts (may not be "romance" as now defined)

Kendra, April (2007) Silver Forks, Stereotypes, and Regency Romance Studies in the Humanities (Indiana) 34.2:142-163

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Kerr, Ashley Elizabeth (2019) Indigenous Lovers and Villainous Scientists: Rewriting Nineteenth-Century Ideas of Race in Argentine Romance Novels Chasqui 48.1:293-310

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Khuankaew, Sasinee (2015) Femininity and masculinity in three selected twentieth-century Thai romance fictions PhD, Cardiff University

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Khuankaew, Sasinee (2017) Femininity and Masculinity in Twenty-First Century Thai Romantic Fictions The Asian Conference on Literature 2017: Official Conference Proceedings :

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Killeen, Jarlath (2018) "Nora Roberts: the Power of Love " Twenty-First-Century Popular Fiction 53-65

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Killing, Peter (1978) Harlequin Enterprises Limited: Case Material of the Western School of Business Administration London, Ontario: University of Western Ontario

Kinard, Amanda Marette (1999) Forbidden Pleasures: The Romance and Its Readers PhD, Vanderbilt University

Topic

King, Laura (2015) "The Perfect Man: Fatherhood, Masculinity and Romance in Popular Culture in Mid-Twentieth-Century Britain " Love and Romance in Britain, 1918-1970 41–60 DOI:10.1057/9781137328632_3

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Kingston, Elizabeth (2018) History's Been Hijacked: How To Combat White Supremacy Through Popular Literature Researching the Romance, conference held at Bowling Green State University, on 13 April :

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Kinsale, Laura (1992) "The Androgynous Reader: Point of View in the Romance " Dangerous Men and Adventurous Women: Romance Writers on the Appeal of the Romance 31-44

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Kirkham, Pat Thoms, David (1995) War Culture: Social Change and Changing Experience in World War Two Britain London: Lawrence and Wishart

Kirkland, Catherine Elisabeth (1984) For The Love Of It: Women Writers And The Popular Romance PhD, University of Pennsylvania

Topic

Kitchen, Veronica (2018) Veterans and Military Masculinity in Popular Romance Fiction Critical Military Studies 4.1:34-51

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war/armed forces

disability

Kiyawa, Haruna Alkasim (2021) Female Readers as Literary Critics: Reading Experiences of Kano Market Romance Fiction International Journal of English and Comparative Literary Studies 2.1:34-45

Topic

Nigeria

Klaber, Lara (2014) Taming the Perfect Beast: the Monster as Romantic Hero in Contemporary Fiction Master of Arts, Cleveland State University

Topic

Twilight

Klarich, Morgan L. (2012) Multiculturalism, Sex, and Powerful Women: The New Romance Novel as the Voice of Neofeminism? MA thesis, Dartmouth College

Topic

Kloester, Jennifer V. (2004) Georgette Heyer: writing the Regency. History in fiction from Regency Buck to Lady of Quality 1935-1972 PhD, University of Melbourne

Topic

Kloester, Jennifer V. (2004) "Images of England: Georgette Heyer's Regency World in the Dominions " Exploring the British World: Identity, Cultural Production, Institutions 598-608

Topic

Kloester, Jennifer (2006) Georgette Heyer and the Great Jane Sensibilities 32:101-117

Topic

Jane Austen

Kloester, Jennifer (2011) Georgette Heyer: Biography of a Bestseller London: William Heinemann

Topic

Kohlman, Marla H. Krieg, Dana B. (2017) Discourses on Gender and Sexual Inequality: The Legacy of Sandra L. Bem Bingley: Emerald Publishing

Kohlman, Marla H. Simpson, Samantha N. (2017) "For the Sake of Hearth and Home: Gender Schematicity in the Romance Novel " Discourses on Gender and Sexual Inequality: The Legacy of Sandra L. Bem 115-128 DOI:10.1108/S1529-212620170000023006

Topic

Kokkola, Lydia (2011) Virtuous Vampires and Voluptuous Vamps: Romance Conventions Reconsidered in Stephenie Meyer’s ‘‘Twilight’’ Series Children's Literature in Education 42.2:165-179

Topic

Twilight

Kolko, Beth E. (1994) Writing the Romance: Cultural Studies, Community, and the Teaching of Writing PhD, University of Texas at Austin

Topic

Kollman, Kathleen W. Taylor (2018) Contemporary Paranormal Romance: Theories and Development of the Genre’s Feminism (Or Lack Thereof) Researching the Romance, conference held at Bowling Green State University, on 14 April :

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Kolmes, Sara Hoffman, Matthew A. (2021) Harlequin Resistance? Romance Novels as a Model for Resisting Objectification The Journal of Aesthetics and Art Criticism ONLINE FIRST:ONLINE FIRST

Topic

Koolen, Corina van Dalen-Oskam, Karina van Cranenburgh, Andreas Nagelhout, Erica (2020) Literary quality in the eye of the Dutch reader: The National Reader Survey Poetics ONLINE FIRST:ONLINE FIRST

Topic

Netherlands

Koski, Patricia Holyfield, Lori Thompson, Marcella (1997) Romance Novels as Women's Myths Para.doxa: Studies in World Literary Genres 3.1-2:219-232

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myth

emotions

Koster, Cees (1997) Stuiverromans - vertaald? Filter. Tijdschrift over vertalen 4.1:33-37

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Netherlands

Kramer, Kyra (2011) Raising Veils and other Bold Acts: The Heroine's Agency in Female Gothic Novels Studies in Gothic Fiction 1.2:23-36

Topic

Victoria Holt/Jean Plaidy/Eleanor Burford Hibbert

Elizabeth Lowell

Kramer, Kyra (2012) Getting Laid, Getting Old, and Getting Fed: The Cultural Resistance of Jennifer Crusie’s Romance Heroines Journal of Popular Romance Studies 2.2:

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Kramer, Devon J. (2010) Truth through the medium of cheerfulness: Romance novels as points of resistance Master of Arts, Kutztown University of Pennsylvania

Topic

Older and/or precursor texts (may not be "romance" as now defined)

Kramer, Daniela Moore, Michael (2001) Family Myths in Romantic Fiction Psychological Reports 88.1:29-41

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virginity

Kramer, Daniela Moore, Michael (2001) Gender Roles, Romantic Fiction and Family Therapy Psycoloquy 12.24:

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marriage

Kramp, Michael (2018) Jane Austen and Masculinity Lewisburg/Lanham, Maryland: Bucknell University Press/Rowman & Littlefield

Kratzer, Jessica M. W. (2020) Communication in Kink: Understanding the Influence of the Fifty Shades of Grey Phenomenon Lanham, Maryland: Lexington

Kray, Susan (1987) Deconstructive Laughter: Romance Author as Subject, The Pleasure of Writing the Text Journal of Communication Inquiry 11.2:26-46

Topic

emotions

Krentz, Jayne Ann (1992) Dangerous Men and Adventurous Women: Romance Writers on the Appeal of the Romance Philadelphia: University of Pennsylvania Press

Topic

Laura Kinsale

Susan Elizabeth Phillips

Older and/or precursor texts (may not be "romance" as now defined)

Daphne Clair

Suzanne Simmons Guntrum

Diana Palmer

Kathleen Gilles Seidel

Krentz, Jayne Ann (1997) All the Right Reasons: Romance Fiction in the Public Library Public Libraries 36, May/June:162–166

Topic

Kress, Gunther (1988) "Textual Matters: The Social Effectiveness of Style " Functions of Style 126-141

Topic

Kroeg, Susan M. (2012) 'Truly Our Contemporary Jane Austen': Thinking Like an Austen Fan about Regency Romances Kentucky Philological Review 27:50-58

Topic

Krueger, Kate (2017) The Woman at Home in the World: Annie Swan's Lady Doctor and the Problem of the Fin de Siècle Working Woman Victorian Periodicals Review 50.3:517-533

Topic

Annie S. Swan

Kundin, Susan G. (1985) Romance versus Reality: A Look at YA Romantic Fiction Top of the News 41.4:361-368

Topic

Künne, Regina (2015) Eternally Yours - Challenge and Response: Contemporary US American Romance Novels by Jayne Ann Krentz and Barbara Delinsky Zürich: Lit Verlag

Topic

Barbara Delinsky

Kuortti, Joel Ilmonen, Kaisa Valovirta, Elina Korkka, Janne (2019) Thinking with the Familiar in Contemporary Literature and Culture 'Out of the Ordinary' Leiden: Brill Rodopi

Kustritz, Anne (2003) Slashing the Romance Narrative The Journal of American Culture 26.3:371-384

Topic

Kutzer, M. Daphne (1986) "I Won't Grow up"—Yet: Teen Formula Romance Children's Literature Association Quarterly 11.2:90-95

Topic

Kuznets, Lois Zarin, Eve (1982) Sweet Dreams for Sleeping Beauties: Pre-Teen Romances Children's Literature Association Quarterly 7.1:28-32

Topic

La Mothe, Jacques (1992) Actes du colloque "Les mauvais genres" organisé au Centre culturel canadien de Paris les 23, 24 et 25 novembre 1989 Liège: Éditions du C.L.P.C.F.

Topic

Labanyi, Jo (2004) Romancing the Early Franco Regime: the Novelas Románticas of Concha Linares-Becerra and Luisa-María Linares UC Berkeley: Institute of European Studies: Occasional Papers Working Paper OP-13:

Topic

Concha Linares-Becerra

Luisa-María Linares

LaDousa, Chaise Davis, Christina P. (2021) Language, Education, and Identity: Medium in South Asia FORTHCOMING: Routledge

Laframboise, Donna (1996) The Princess at the Window: A New Gender Morality Toronto: Penguin

Topic

Lam, Maylyn (1986) Reading the sweet dream: adolescent girls and romance fiction M.Ed. thesis, University of Melbourne

Topic

Lam, Maylyn (1994) The romance of feminism: feminism on and as popular romance PhD, University of Melbourne

Topic

Lam, Adam McNaughton, Howard D. (2006) The Reinvention of Everyday Life: Culture in the twenty-first century Christchurch, New Zealand: Canterbury University Press

Lambert, Jérémy (2016) Le roman sentimental gay francophone Revue critique de fixxion française contemporaine 12:18-26

Topic

Anne Singe et Marine Ange

Lambert Barr, DeAnn M. (1996) Romance-novel genre Master of Arts, California State University, Dominguez Hills

Topic

Lamprinou, Artemis (2011) Translated Romances: the Effect of Cultural Textual Norms on the Communication of Emotions Journal of Popular Romance Studies 2.1:

Topic

emotions

Greece

Lamprinou, Artemis (2012) A Study on the Cultural Variations in the Verbalisation of Near-Universal Emotions: Translating Emotions from British English into Greek in Popular Bestseller Romances PhD, University of Surrey

Topic

Greece

Lamy, Odile (1997) La représentation du couple à travers les pages couvertures des romans Harlequin Cahiers de la recherche en éducation 4.2:269–297

Topic

Alice Williamson/A. M. Williamson/Mrs. C. N. Williamson

Lancashire, Anne (2020) Venetia: Georgette Heyer’s Pastoral Romance Journal of Popular Romance Studies 9:

Topic

Lancaster, Rosemary (2020) "Fact and Fiction: Alice Williamson’s Monte Carlo " Women Writing on the French Riviera: Travellers and Trendsetters, 1870-1970 83–112 DOI:10.1163/9789004433922_005

Topic

Older and/or precursor texts (may not be "romance" as now defined)

Lancaster, Rosemary (2020) Women Writing on the French Riviera: Travellers and Trendsetters, 1870-1970 Leiden: Brill Rodopi

Lang, Miriam (2003) "Taiwanese Romance: San Mao and Qiong Yao " The Columbia Companion to Modern East Asian Literature 515-519

Topic

Qiongyao/Qiong Yao

Langeveld, Cornelis H. (Kees) (2011) Medische missers in doktersromans Nederlands Tijdschrift voor Geneeskunde 155:A4372:1-5

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health/medical

Laquintano, Timothy (2013) The Legacy of the Vanity Press and Digital Transitions The Journal of Electronic Publishing 16.1:

Topic

Larcombe, Wendy (2005) Compelling Engagements: Feminism, Rape Law and Romance Fiction Sydney: The Federation Press

Topic

Larrier, Renée (2007) ""Quand la lecture devient passion": Romance Novels and Literacy in Abidjan " African Literatures at the Millennium 315-324

Topic

Ivory Coast

Africa

Larson, Christine (2017) An Economy of Words: Precarity, Solidarity and Innovation in Digital Book Publishing PhD, Stanford University

Topic

Larson, Christine (2019) Open networks, open books: gender, precarity and solidarity in digital publishing Information, Communication & Society :

Topic

Larson, Christine (2019) "The Color of Romance: Gatekeeping in the Age of Digital Media " Voices: Exploring the Shifting Contours of Communication 99-??? DOI:10.3726/b14771

Topic

Lawrence, Kelsey (2020) No Happy Ending: Leadership Falls Apart at the Romance Writers of America SAGE Business Cases :

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capitalism/business

Lawrence, E. E. (2020) On the problem of oppressive tastes in the public library Journal of Documentation ONLINE FIRST:ONLINE FIRST

Topic

philosophy

Lawrence, E. E. (2020) The trouble with diverse books, part I: on the limits of conceptual analysis for political negotiation in Library & Information Science Journal of Documentation ONLINE FIRST:ONLINE FIRST

Topic

Lawrey, Jeffrey A. McLuckie, Alyx Mulberry, Benjamin J. Mullins, Erin K. Shuler, Autumn R. Kratzer, Jessica M. W. (2018) "Communication, Kink, and Sexual Education: What Young Women Learned from Fifty Shades of Grey " Communication in Kink: Understanding the Influence of the Fifty Shades of Grey Phenomenon 77-96

Topic

Lazere, Donald (1987) American Media and Mass Culture: Left Perspectives Berkeley: University of California Press

Lazzarato, Francesca Moretti, Valeria (1981) La fiaba rosa: itinerari di lettura attraverso i romanzi per signorine Roma: Bulzoni

Topic

Liala, pen name of Amalia Liana Cambiasi Negretti Odescalchi

Leavenworth, Maria Lindgren (2009) Lover Revamped: Sexualities and Romance in the Black Dagger Brotherhood and Slash Fan Fiction Extrapolation: A Journal of Science Fiction and Fantasy 50.3:442-462

Topic

fanfiction

J. R. Ward

Ledford-Miller, Linda (2011) Gender and Genre Bending: The Futuristic Detective Fiction of J.D. Robb Reconstruction: Studies in Contemporary Culture 11.3:

Topic

science fiction/futuristic romance

Lee, Zi-Ying Liao, Min-Hsiu (2018) The “Second” Bride: The Retranslation of Romance Novels Babel 64.2:186-204

Topic

Lee, Linda J. (2008) Guilty Pleasures: Reading Romance Novels as Reworked Fairy Tales Marvels & Tales 22.1:52-66

Topic

Christine Feehan

Lee, Amy (2007) "Forming a Local Identity: Romance Novels in Hong Kong " Empowerment versus Oppression: Twenty-First Century Views of Popular Romance Novels 174-197

Topic

Hong Kong

Leedy, Helen (1985) The Portrayal of Women in Romance Novels Michigan Sociological Review 1:61-71

Topic

Rosemary Rogers

Kathleen Woodiwiss

Legallois, Dominique Charnois, Thierry Poibeau, Thierry (2016) Repérer les clichés dans les romans sentimentaux grâce à la méthode des ‘motifs’ Lidil. Revue de linguistique et de didactique des langues 53:95–117

Topic

linguistics

Leith, Murray Stewart Sim, Duncan (2014) The Modern Scottish Diaspora: Contemporary Debates and Perspectives Edinburgh: Edinburgh University Press

Lemay, Catherine (2016) La traduction dela scène de sexe dans le roman sentimental érotique: Analyse descriptive et comparative Mémoire de maîtrise, l’Université Laval

Topic

Lencevičienė, Lina (2011) Selected Problems of Translation of the Romance Genre: Analysis of Barbara Cartland's Romance Novel Bewitched Translation into Lithuanian Masters, Vytauto Didžiojo universitetas

Topic

Lennard, John (2007) Of Modern Dragons and other essays on Genre Fiction Tirril, Penrith: Humanities-Ebooks

Topic

science fiction/futuristic romance

Lennard, John (2010) Of Sex and Faerie: Further essays on Genre Fiction Tirril, Penrith: Humanities-Ebooks

Topic

Leonzini, Alexandra (2018) "“All the Better to Eat You With”: The Eroticization of the Werewolf and the Rise of Monster Porn in the Digital Age " Exploring the Fantastic: Genre, Ideology, and Popular Culture 269-294

Topic

Liala, pen name of Amalia Liana Cambiasi Negretti Odescalchi

pornography

Lepschy, Anna Laura (2000) "The Popular Novel, 1850-1920 " A History of Women’s Writing in Italy 177-189

Topic

Lessard, Victoria (2017) 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) MA thesis, McGill University

Topic

Cassie Edwards

Native American romance

Letourneux, Matthieu (2011) "« La petite pâquerette était morte ». Sérialités éditoriales et réception de l’œuvre de Delly " L’Œuvre de Delly 163-186

Topic

Levi, Antonia McHarry, Mark Pagliassotti, Dru (2010) Boys’ Love Manga: Essays on the Sexual Ambiguity and Cross-Cultural Fandom of the Genre Jefferson, North Carolina: McFarland & Company

Levi, Anna (2013) Delly: la Cenerentola di Versailles : vita di Jeanne Marie Henriette Petitjean de la Rosière Pontedera: Bibliografia e informazione

Topic

Levina, Mariia (2003) Readers of Mass Literature, 1994-200: From Paternalism to Individualism? Russian Studies in Literature 40.1:79-95

Topic

Russia

Levy, Bronwen (1987) Up From Under, or On Not Marrying the Racist Aussie Boss: Strategies for Reading Romantic Fiction Hecate 13.1:7-20

Topic

Margaret Way

Liffen, Jane (2008) "A very Glamorized Picture, that": Images of Scottish Female Herring Workers on Romance Novel Covers Social Semiotics 18.3:349-361

Topic

Light, Alison (1984) Returning to Manderley – Romance Fiction, Female Sexuality and Class Feminist Review 16:7-25

Topic

Light, Alison (1994) "Preface (to the third edition) " Twentieth-Century Romance and Historical Writers (3rd edition) xi-xvi

Topic

Lin, Pei-yin Kim, Su Yun (2019) East Asian Transwar Popular Culture: Literature and Film from Taiwan and Korea Singapore: Palgrave Macmillan

Topic

Older and/or precursor texts (may not be "romance" as now defined)

Korea

Lin, Fang-mei (1992) 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 PhD, University of Pennsylvania

Topic

Lin, Fang-mei (2016) 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 Journal of Modern Literature in Chinese 13.1-2:174-200

Topic

sheikh romance

Lind, Rebecca Ann (2004) Race/Gender/Media: Considering Diversity Across Audiences, Content, and Producers Boston: Pearson

Lindfors, Bernth (1993) "Romances for the Office Worker: Aubrey Kalitera and Malawi's White-Collar Reading Public " Major Minorities: English Literatures in Transit 77-88

Topic

Linke, Gabriele (1997) Contemporary Mass Market Romances as National and International Culture: A Comparative Study of Mills & Boon and Harlequin Romances Para.doxa: Studies in World Literary Genres 3.1-2:195-213

Topic

national identity

Linke, Gabriele (1997) Local Color in Contemporary Harlequin and Silhouette Romances: Popular Imagery of the American South and West Mid-Atlantic Almanack: The Journal of the Mid-Atlantic Popular/American Culture Association 6:15-30

Topic

Linke, Gabriele (2000) Visions and Versions of Parenthood in British and American Series Romances Diegesis: Journal of the Association for Research in Popular Fictions 6:18-29

Topic

Linke, Gabriele (2003) Populärliteratur als kulturelles Gedächtnis: Eine vergleichende Studie zu zeitgenössischen britischen und amerikanischen popular romances der Verlagsgruppe Harlequin Mills & Boon Heidelberg: Universitätsverlag Winter

Topic

Linz, Cathie Bouricius, Ann Byrnes, Carole (1995) Exploring the World of Romance Novels Public Libraries 34.3:144–151

Topic

Litton, Joyce A. (1987) Double Date to Double Love: Female Sex Roles in Teen Romances ALAN Review 14.3:45-46, 55

Topic

Litton, Joyce A. (1991) Sunfire Historical Romances ALAN Review 19.1:22

Topic

Litton, Joyce A. (1991) The Wild West, Floods, Wars and Boys: Sunfire Historical Romances for Young Adults ALAN Review 19.1:22-25

Topic

Litton, Joyce A. (1994) "From Seventeenth Summer to Miss Teen Sweet Valley: Female and Male Sex Roles in Teen Romances, 1942-91 " Images of the Child 19-34

Topic

Litton, Joyce A. (1995) Dreams, Guys, Lies, and Occasionally Books: The Young Women of the Freshman Dorm Series ALAN Review 22.2:10

Topic

Liu, Su-hsen (2012) The Translation/Mutation of Romantic Love: An Exploration of the Translation History of Modern Romances in Taiwan after 1960 PhD, National Taiwan Normal University

Topic

Livingston, Eric (2006) The Textuality of Pleasure New Literary History 37.3:655-672

Topic

close reading

Gina Wilkins

Lohmann, Jennifer (2006) 'Beauty and the Beast' Themes in Romance Novels Master of Science in Library Science, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill

Topic

Lois, Jennifer Gregson, Joanna (2015) Sneers and Leers: Romance Writers and Gendered Sexual Stigma Gender & Society 29.4:459-483

Topic

Lois, Jennifer Gregson, Joanna (2019) Aspirational Emotion Work: Calling, Emotional Capital, and Becoming a 'Real' Writer Journal of Contemporary Ethnography 48.1:51-79

Topic

Long, Bridget L. (2006) Romance novels: women's motivation for readership and effects of reading MA, Central Michigan University

Topic

Long, Bridget L. (2007) "Women's Romance Novel Readership: Motivations, Expectations, and Relationship Satisfaction "

Topic

Lorinc, John (1994) Romance Language: How Harlequin Became Synonymous with Romance and then Translated that Success Around the World Quill & Quire 60.5:1-13, 14-15

Topic

Losano, Antonia (2015) "Sneaking It In at the End: Teaching Popular Romance in the Liberal Arts Classroom " Teaching Tainted Lit: Popular American Fiction in Today's Classroom 77-88

Topic

teaching romance

Susan Elizabeth Phillips

E. M. Hull

Jennifer Crusie

Lovell, Stephen Menzel, Birgit (2005) Reading for Entertainment in Contemporary Russia: Post-Soviet Popular Literature in Historical Perspective Munich: Otto Sagner

Lövgren, Karin (1991) "Farlig lockelse - tonårsflickors läsning av romantikböcker " Om unga kvinnor: identitet, kultur och livsvillkor 97-117

Topic

Lowery, Karalyne (2018) The Militarized Shapeshifter: Authorized Violence and Military Connections as an Antidote to Monstrosity University of Toronto Quarterly 87.1:196-213

Topic

war/armed forces

Lozano Sampedro, Mª Teresa (2011) "La réception de Delly en Espagne et en Amérique Latine " L’Œuvre de Delly 209-232

Topic

Older and/or precursor texts (may not be "romance" as now defined)

Lozano Sampedro, Mª Teresa (2012) La recepción de Delly en España NERTER 17-18:34-36

Lozano Sampedro, Mª Teresa (2014) La culture et le travail de la femme. Une approche comparative entre Delly et Corín Tellado L'Ull crític 17-18:235-248

Topic

Lozano Sampedro, Mª Teresa (2018) Pour une typologie de la marginalité dans les romans de Delly: la fonction de la femme L'Ull crític 21-22:137-152

Topic

Lozano Sampedro, Mª Teresa (2020) " Las clases sociales y el poder económico en la obra de Delly: la mujer y su triunfo sobre la opresión " Voces e identidades exocanónicas (1880-1920): recuperando (auto) narrativas femeninas de los márgenes 137-153

Topic

Lugan-Dardigna, Anne-Marie (1984) "Presse du cœur et roman rose: la quête de l'amour vrai ou comment se trouver un maître " Le récit amoureux: Colloque de Cerisy-la-Salle 284-296

Topic

Luneau, Marie-Pier (2008) « Tant d’amour à donner »: Le biographique, l’œuvre, et la figure de l’auteur Harlequin COnTEXTES 3:

Topic

Luneau, Marie-Pier Warren, Jean-Philippe (2019) Ce que le roman catholique fait au roman sentimental : le cas de la collection « Amour et aventure » COnTEXTES 23:

Topic

Luther, Amy Victoria (2010) Men reading fiction: A study of the relationship between reader, (con)text, consumption and gender identity. PhD, Cardiff University

Topic

pornography

Lutz, Deborah (2003) Heidegger, the Erotics of Ontology, and the Mass-Market Romance Comparative Literature and Culture 5.3:

Topic

Older and/or precursor texts (may not be "romance" as now defined)

death

philosophy

Lutz, Deborah (2004) The Dangerous Lover and the Erotics of Failure: Nineteenth-century Byronism and the Contemporary Romance PhD, City University of New York

Topic

Lutz, Deborah (2006) The Dangerous Lover: Gothic Villains, Byronism, and the Nineteenth-Century Seduction Narrative Columbus: Ohio State University Press

Topic

Older and/or precursor texts (may not be "romance" as now defined)

death

philosophy

Victoria Holt/Jean Plaidy/Eleanor Burford Hibbert

Lutz, Deborah (2007) "The Haunted Space of the Mind: The Revival of the Gothic Romance in the Twenty-First Century " Empowerment versus Oppression: Twenty-First Century Views of Popular Romance Novels 81-92

Topic

Evelyn Rogers

Lynch, Katherine E. Sternglantz, Ruth E. Barot, Len (2012) Queering the Romantic Heroine: Where Her Power Lies Journal of Popular Romance Studies 3.1:

Topic

Older and/or precursor texts (may not be "romance" as now defined)

lesbian romance

Radclyffe Hall

Mabee, Norma Augusta (1993) La novela rosa de Corín Tellado: Desorden, conflicto y escape de la ectopia PhD, Arizona State University

Topic

Corín Tellado

Macdonald, Andrew Macdonald, Gina Sheridan, Mary Ann (2000) Shape-shifting: Images of Native Americans in Recent Popular Fiction Westport, Connecticut: Greenwood Press

Topic

Native American romance

Magenya, Sheena Gimase (2020) Reading between the lines: A review of Dark Juices and Afrodisiacs: Erotic Diaries Vol 1 Agenda ONLINE FIRST:ONLINE FIRST

Topic

Africa

Maher, Jennifer (2001) Ripping the Bodice: Eating, Reading, and Revolt College Literature 28.1:64-83

Topic

Maier, Sarah E. Ayres, Brenda (2020) Neo-Victorian Madness: Rediagnosing Nineteenth-Century Mental Illness in Literature and Other Media Cham, Switzerland: Palgrave Macmillan

Mäkelä, Veera (2020) ""World Turned Upside Down": The Role of Revolutions in Maya Rodale's Regency-Set Romances " Love Across the Atlantic: US-UK Romance in Popular Culture 38-52

Topic

Maya Rodale

Makinen, Merja (2001) Feminist Popular Fiction Houndmills, Basingstoke: Palgrave

Topic

Malinowska, Anna (2017) Paternal Structures of the Romance Romanica Silesiana 12:40-52

Topic

Malloy, Audrey Miles (2017) Remnants of the Bodice Ripper: How Consent is Characterized in Heterosexual and Lesbian Erotic Romance Novels Undergraduate, Bard College

Topic

lesbian romance

Mangat, T. K. (1998) The surgeon in popular fiction - The Mills and Boon doctor-nurse romance Theoretical Surgery 3.2:89-92

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Mann, Peter H. (1969) The Romantic Novel: A Survey of Reading Habits London: Mills & Boon

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Mann, Peter H. (1974) A New Survey: The Facts About Romantic Fiction London: Mills & Boon

Topic

Mann, Peter H. (1979) "Romantic Fiction and Its Readers " Entertainment: A Cross-Cultural Examination 34-42

Topic

Mann, Peter H. (1981) The Romantic Novel and its Readers Journal of Popular Culture 15.1:9-18

Topic

Mann, Peter H. (1985) Romantic Fiction and Its Readership Poetics 14.1-2:95-105

Topic

Manzano Badía, Benjamín (2000) "Carmen de Icaza, una apología pequeño-burguesa y conservadora de la familia " Mujeres novelistas en el panorama literario del siglo XX: I Congreso de narrativa española (en lengua castellana). 107-121

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Carmen de Icaza

wealth/prosperity

capitalism/business

Mao, Douglas Walkowitz, Rebecca L. (2006) Bad Modernisms Durham, North Carolina: Duke University Press

Marchand, Jacques (1983) Harlequin et Colombine : l’industrie plafonne, l’amour aussi Études littéraires 16.3:351–362

Topic

Margolies, David (1982) Mills & Boon: guilt without sex Red Letters 14:5-13

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Margolis, Harriet (1992) "Feminist Irony or Poisonous FANTASY?: Category Romance and the Conscious Reader " Yearbook of Interdisciplinary Studies in the Fine Arts, Volume 3 165-178

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Margolis, Harriet (1995) The Lover's Value(s): Women's Romance Novels in an Exchange-Based Society Conference Papers (New Zealand Women's Studies Association Annual Meeting, 1994) :78-82

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Margolis, Harriet (1997) A Childe in Love, Or Is It Just Fantasy? The Values of Women's Genres Para.doxa: Studies in World Literary Genres 3.1-2:121-144

Topic

Margolis, Ann (2009) In Defense of Romantic Fiction Master of Science in Publishing, Pace University

Topic

Markert, John (1984) Beyond Gatekeepers: Romance Publishing and the Production of Culture PhD, Vanderbilt University

Topic

Markert, John (1985) Romance Publishing and the Production of Culture Poetics 14.1-2:69-93

Topic

Kathleen Woodiwiss

Markert, John (1987) The publishing decision: Managerial policy and its effect on editorial decision making—The case of romance publishing Book Research Quarterly 3.2:33-59

Topic

Markert, John (2016) Publishing Romance: The History of an Industry, 1940s to the Present Jefferson, North Carolina: McFarland & Company

Topic

African American romance

Avon

Ellora's Cave

BDSM

Markert, John (2017) God is Love: The Christian Romance Market Publishing Research Quarterly 33.3:268–28

Topic

Christian romance

Markert, John (2021) "Publishing the romance novel " The Routledge Research Companion to Popular Romance Fiction 352-370 DOI:10.4324/9781315613468-16

Topic

Kathleen Woodiwiss

contemporary romance

Marks, Pamela (1999) "The Good Provider in Romance Novels " Romantic Conventions 10-22

Topic

Older and/or precursor texts (may not be "romance" as now defined)

Martens, Debra (1993) Weaving Alliances: Selected Papers Presented For The Canadian Women's Studies Association at the 1991 and 1992 Learned Societies Conferences Ottawa: Canadian Women's Studies Association

Martin, Michèle (1991) Communication et médias de masse : culture, domination et opposition Québec: Presses de l'Université du Québec

Topic

romance scholarship

Martin, Darcy (2003) "'Womanhood Reinvented: Eve Dallas, Protagonist in J. D. Robb's "In Death" Series " The 2000-2003 Proceedings of the SW/Texas PCA/ACA Conference 1989-2019

Topic

science fiction/futuristic romance

Older and/or precursor texts (may not be "romance" as now defined)

marriage

community

Martínez Garrido, Elisa (2000) Bildungsroman y crítica de género: Novela rosa y narrativa de mujeres Cuadernos de filología italiana :529-546

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Italy

Martínez de la Hidalga, Fernando (2000) La novela popular en España (vol 1.) Madrid: Robel

Mason, Gillian (2008) Rosemary Rogers Teaching American Literature: A Journal of Theory and Practice 2.2/3:1-8

Topic

Rosemary Rogers

Older and/or precursor texts (may not be "romance" as now defined)

erotic romance

BDSM

Masteller, Jean Carwile (1996) "Romancing the Reader: From Laura Jean Libbey to Harlequin Romance and Beyond " Pioneers, Passionate Ladies, and Private Eyes: Dime Novels, Series Books, and Paperbacks 263-284

Topic

Laura Jean Libbey

metafiction

Matelski, Elizabeth (2016) ""I'm Not the Only Lesbian Who Wears a Skirt": Lesbian Romance Fiction and Identity in Post-World War II America " Romance Fiction and American Culture: Love as the Practice of Freedom? 71-88

Topic

fashion/clothing

Older and/or precursor texts (may not be "romance" as now defined)

Claire Morgan/Patricia Highsmith

metafiction

Mathis, Gilles (1998) Le cliché Toulouse: Presses Universitaires du Mirail

Matter, Laura Sewell (2007) Pursuing the Great Bad Novelist The Georgia Review 61.3:444-459

Topic

Charles Garvice

Older and/or precursor texts (may not be "romance" as now defined)

Matthews, Amy T. (2016) Entangled: the exegetical process of a romance writer Arts and Humanities as Higher Education :

Topic

Matthews, Amy T. (2016) The hopeful romantic Kill Your Darlings 27:44-56

Topic

Maunder, Andrew (2016) "Berta Ruck " British Literature of World War I: The Short Story and the Novella 35-39

Topic

Berta Ruck

war/armed forces

Maunder, Andrew (2016) British Literature of World War I: The Short Story and the Novella Abingdon, Oxon: Routledge

Mayfield, Kerrita K. (2014) Liminal eRoticism: Emerging Forms of Gender Identity and Performance in e-Romances and Their Feminist Electronic Communities Taboo: The Journal of Culture and Education 14.1:53-70

Topic

happy ending

BDSM

m/m romance

Maynard, Lee Anna (2008) LaVyrle Spencer Teaching American Literature: A Journal of Theory and Practice 2.2/3:1-17

Topic

death

Mazloomian, Maryam Mohammadi, Nahid (2018) Discursive Vulnerability and Identity Development: A Triangular Model of Bio-Forces in Cultural Ecological Analysis of American Romance Fiction Forum for World Literature Studies 10.3:413–432

Topic

Debbie Macomber

Mazzarella, Sharon R. Pecora, Norma Odom (1999) Growing Up Girls: Popular Culture and the Construction of Identity New York: Peter Lang

McAleer, Joseph (1990) Scenes from Love and Marriage: Mills and Boon and the Popular Publishing Industry in Britain, 1908-1950 Twentieth Century British History 1.3:264-288

Topic

Mary Burchell, pen name of Ida Cook

Jean S. MacLeod/Catherine Airlie

McAleer, Joseph (1992) Popular Reading and Publishing in Britain, 1914-1950 Oxford: Clarendon Press

Topic

Mary Burchell, pen name of Ida Cook

Jean S. MacLeod/Catherine Airlie

McAleer, Joseph (1999) Passion's Fortune: The Story of Mills & Boon Oxford: Oxford University Press

Topic

Mary Burchell, pen name of Ida Cook

Betty Beaty

Elizabeth Carfrae

Fay Chandos/Jan Tempest

Sophie Cole

Lilian Warren as Rosalind Brett/Kathryn Blair/Celine Conway

Iris Danbury

Joyce Dingwell/Kate Starr

Roberta Leigh/Rachel Lindsay

Jean S. MacLeod/Catherine Airlie

Mary Lutyens/Esther Wyndham

Kate Norway/Olive Norton

Denise Robins

Sara Seale

Juliet Shore/Anne Vinton

Ireland

McAleer, Joseph (2011) "Love, Romance, and the National Health Service " Classes, Cultures, & Politics: Essays on British History for Ross McKibbin 173-191 DOI:10.1093/acprof:osobl/9780199579884.003.0011

McAlister, Jodi Ann (2015) Romancing the Virgin: Female Virginity Loss and Love in Popular Literature in the West PhD, Macquarie University

Topic

virginity

McAlister, Jodi (2014) ‘That complete fusion of spirit as well as body’: Heroines, heroes, desire and compulsory demisexuality in the Harlequin Mills & Boon romance novel Australasian Journal of Popular Culture 3.3:299-310

Topic

McAlister, Jodi (2015) Breaking the Hard Limits: Romance, Pornography, and the Question of Genre in the Fifty Shades Trilogy Analyses/Rereadings/Theories 3.2:23-33

Topic

McAlister, Jodi (2016) "Between Pleasure and Pain: The Textual Politics of the Hymen " Virgin Envy: The Cultural Insignificance of the Hymen 45-64

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virginity

McAlister, Jodi (2016) "Traveling Through Time and Genre: Are the Outlander Books Romance Novels? " Adoring Outlander: Essays on Fandom, Genre and the Female Audience 94-105

Topic

Diana Gabaldon

McAlister, Jodi (2016) “You and I are humans, and there is something complicated between us”: Untamed and queering the heterosexual historical romance Journal of Popular Romance Studies 5.2:

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McAlister, Jodi Teo, Hsu-Ming (2017) "Love in Australian Romance Novels " The Popular Culture of Romantic Love in Australia 194-222

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McAlister, Jodi (2018) Defining and Redefining Popular Genres: The Evolution of ‘New Adult’ Fiction Australian Literary Studies 33.4:

Topic

McAlister, Jodi (2018) The literary text as historical artifact: The colonial couple in Australian romantic fiction by women, 1838-1860 Lilith: A Feminist History Journal 24:38-51

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Australia

Older and/or precursor texts (may not be "romance" as now defined)

Older and/or precursor texts (may not be "romance" as now defined)

national identity

McAlister, Jodi (2018) “Feelings Like the Women in Books”: Declarations of Love in Australian Romance Novels, 1859–1891 Emotions: History, Culture, Society 2.1:91-112

Topic

McAlister, Jodi Parnell, Claire Trinidad, Andrea Anne (2020) #RomanceClass: Genre World, Intimate Public, Found Family Publishing Research Quarterly ONLINE FIRST:ONLINE FIRST

Topic

Older and/or precursor texts (may not be "romance" as now defined)

McAlister, Jodi (2020) The Consummate Virgin: Female Virginity Loss and Love in Anglophone Popular Literatures Cham, Switzerland: Palgrave Macmillan

McAlister, Jodi (2021) "Erotic romance " The Routledge Research Companion to Popular Romance Fiction 212-228 DOI:10.4324/9781315613468-9

Topic

McAlpine, Rachel (1998) The Passionate Pen: New Zealand’s Romance Writers Talk to Rachel McAlpine Christchurch, New Zealand: Hazard Press

Topic

McCafferty, Kate (1994) Palimpsest of Desire: The Re-Emergence of the American Captivity Narrative as Pulp Romance Journal of Popular Culture 27.4:43-56

Topic

Native American romance

McCann, Hannah Roach, Catherine M. (2021) "Sex and sexuality " The Routledge Research Companion to Popular Romance Fiction 411-427 DOI:10.4324/9781315613468-19

Topic

McCay, Mary A. (2001) Love's Labors Won: Romance Fiction and the Politics of Love New Orleans Review 27.1:171-183

Topic

Laura Kinsale

Mary Jo Putney

Older and/or precursor texts (may not be "romance" as now defined)

McCracken, Scott (1998) Pulp: Reading Popular Fiction Manchester: Manchester University Press

Topic

Penny Jordan/Caroline Courtney

McKay, Jade Parsons, Elizabeth (2009) Out of Wedlock: The Consummation and Consumption of Marriage in Contemporary Romance Fiction Genders 50:

Topic

marriage

McKee, Alan (2007) Beautiful Things in Popular Culture Malden, MA: Blackwell

McKinley, Tracey Lynn (2007) The Female Quest: An Analysis of Archetypal Layering in Harlequin Presents Master of Education, Queen's University

Topic

McKnight-Trontz, Jennifer (2002) The Look of Love: The Art of the Romance Novel New York: Princeton Architectural Press

Topic

McLennon, Leigh (2014) Defining Urban Fantasy and Paranormal Romance: Crossing Boundaries of Genre, Media, Self and Other in New Supernatural Worlds Refractory: a Journal of Entertainment Media 23:

Topic

McLennon, Leigh (2017) Contemporary vampire genre fiction: ethical feeding and the posthuman vampire in urban fantasy and paranormal romance PhD, University of Melbourne

Topic

McNamara, Sallie (2000) "Georgette Heyer: The Historical Romance and the Consumption of the Erotic, 1918-1939 " All the World and Her Husband: Women in Twentieth-Century Consumer Culture 82-96

Topic

McNeil, Helen (1981) She trembled at his touch Quarto May:17-18

Topic

McWilliam, Kelly (2009) Romance in foreign accents: Harlequin-Mills & Boon in Australia Continuum: Journal of Media & Cultural Studies 23.2:137-145

Topic

Australia

Meirelles, Simone Regina Ferreira (2002) Das bancas ao coraçao: romances sentimentais e leitura hoje Mestre em Letras, Universidade Federal do Paraná

Topic

Brazil

Meirelles, Simone (2008) Romances com coração: leitura e edição de romances sentimentais no Brasil PhD, Universidade Federal do Paraná

Topic

Brazil

Older and/or precursor texts (may not be "romance" as now defined)

Melman, Billie (1988) Women and the Popular Imagination in the Twenties: Flappers and Nymphs Houndmills, Basingstoke: Macmillan

Topic

pornography

community

Ménard, A. Dana Cabrera, Christine (2011) ‘Whatever the Approach, Tab B Still Fits into Slot A’: Twenty Years of Sex Scripts in Romance Novels Sexuality & Culture 15.3:240–255

Topic

Ménard, A. Dana (2013) Note from the Field: Reflecting on Romance Novel Research: Past, Present and Future Journal of Popular Romance Studies 3.2:

Topic

romance scholarship

Méndez, José Luis (1986) The Novels of Corín Tellado Studies in Latin American Popular Culture 5:31-40

Topic

Corín Tellado

Meyer, Michaela D. E. (2015) Living the Romance through Castle: Exploring Autoethnography, Popular Culture and Romantic Television Narratives The Popular Culture Studies Journal 3.1&2:245-269

Topic

Meyer, Michael (2002) The Bedford Introduction to Literature: Reading, Thinking, Writing (Sixth Edition) Boston: Bedford/St Martin's

Topic

Karen van der Zee

teaching romance

Michel, Anita (1997) Re-reading the (series) romance: toward a typology of recent series romance novels MA thesis, Bowling Green State University

Micheletti, Ellen (2010) Wandering the Web Wandering-Reviews of Romance Novels: Online Sources for Evaluating Popular Fiction Against the Grain 22.4:48

Topic