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Tuñón, Johanna (1995) An Appetite for Romance: How to Understand, Buy, Display, and Promote Romance Fiction Library Acquisitions: Practice & Theory 19.4:471-475 DOI: 10.1016/0364-6408(95)00064-G Topic libraries/librarians
Turnbull, Sue (2002) 'Nice Dress, Take It Off': Crime, Romance and the Pleasure of the Text International Journal of Cultural Studies 5.1:67-82 DOI: 10.1177/13678779020050010501 Topic Janet Evanovich readers
Turner, Katherine (2017) Daphne Du Maurier's Mary Anne: Rewriting the Regency Romance as Feminist History University of Toronto Quarterly: A Canadian Journal of the Humanities 86.4:54-77 Topic history Daphne du Maurier
Turner, Ellen (2011) E.M. Hull and the Valentino cult: gender reversal after The sheik Journal of Gender Studies 20.2:171–182 DOI: 10.1080/09589236.2011.565197 Topic E. M. Hull gender
Turner, Ellen (2014) "The Sheik Returns: Imitations and Parodies of the Desert Romance " Hype: Bestsellers and Literary Cultures 185-202 Topic E. M. Hull sheikh romance trash/literary and or intellectual quality sex/sexuality Harlequin Mills & Boon rape and/or intimate partner violence/abuse
Turner, Ellen (2015) E. M. Hull's Camping in the Sahara: desert romance meets desert reality Studies in Travel Writing 19.2:127-146 DOI: 10.1080/13645145.2015.1046236 Topic E. M. Hull
Turner, Ellen (2020) The Sheik and Modernism Journal of Popular Romance Studies 9: Topic E. M. Hull trash/literary and or intellectual quality
Turner, Ellen Wadsö Lecaros, Cecilia (2022) The desert-governess romance: Regency England meets exotic Arabia Lund Journal of English Studies 4:1-24 DOI: 10.48148/ljes.v4i.24863 Topic sheikh romance historical romance settings Marguerite Kaye Laura Martin Lynne Graham Kate Hewitt E. M. Hull work genre definitions Harlequin Mills & Boon paratext
Ty, Eleanor (1994) " Desire and Temptation: Dialogism and the Carnivalesque in Category Romances " A Dialogue of Voices: Feminist Literary Theory and Bakhtin 97-113 Topic readers metafiction Harlequin Mills & Boon gender metaphor/symbolism sex/sexuality fashion/clothing disability
Ty, Eleanor (1995) "Amour, sexe et carnaval: le plaisir du texte Harlequin " Armes, larmes, charmes: sérialité et paralittérature 23-48 Topic Harlequin Mills & Boon gender sex/sexuality
Uddin-Khan, Evelyn Angelina (1995) Gender, Ethnicity and the Romance Novel Ed.D., Teachers College, Columbia University Topic readers gender race/ethnicity
Ujma, Alicja (2019) One Author, Two Pen Names. A Stylometric Analysis of Novels by Nora Roberts/J.D. Robb Masters thesis, Jagiellonian University Topic linguistics Nora Roberts/J. D. Robb translation
Uparkar, Shilpa (2014) Desi love stories: Harlequin Mills & Boon’s Indian enterprise Australasian Journal of Popular Culture 3.3:321-333 DOI: 10.1386/ajpc.3.3.321_1 Topic Harlequin Mills & Boon India languages
Uszkurat, Carol Ann (1993) "Mid Twentieth Century Lesbian Romance: Reception and Redress " Outwrite: Lesbianism and Popular Culture 26-47 Topic lesbian romance Publishing Older and/or precursor texts (may not be "romance" as now defined) history feminism psychology gender sex/sexuality LGBT+ characters, readers and/or authors
Valeo, Christina A. (2012) Crusie and the Con Journal of Popular Romance Studies 2.2: Topic Jennifer Crusie metafiction happy ending readers
Valeo, Christina A. (2012) "The Power of Three: Nora Roberts and Serial Magic " New Approaches to Popular Romance Fiction: Critical Essays 229-239 Topic Nora Roberts/J. D. Robb paranormal/fantasy/time-travel romance religion/spirituality community family love Paganism/Wicca
Valovirta, Elina (2019) "No Ordinary Love: The Romantic Formula of Stepsibling Erotica " Thinking with the Familiar in Contemporary Literature and Culture 'Out of the Ordinary' 161–180 DOI:10.1163/9789004406742_010 Topic NA romance erotic romance family
Valovirta, Elina (2021) "Repeated Pleasure: Reading the Threesome Ménage Romance as Digital Literature " Powerful Prose: How Textual Features Impact Readers 45-61 Topic sex/sexuality readers NA romance Marie Carnay Charlotte Stein Sierra Sparks Juliana Conners
Valovirta, Elina (2021) "The Stuff of Which Fairy Tales Are Made: Royal Romance, Ordinariness, and Affectivity in the Literary Market " Romantic Escapes: Post-Millennial Trends in Contemporary Popular Romance Fiction 75-94 Topic Publishing social/economic class feminism
Valverde, Mariana (1985) Sex, Power and Pleasure Toronto: The Women's Press Topic pornography sex/sexuality gender BDSM wealth/prosperity lesbian romance Jane Rule marriage LGBT+ characters, readers and/or authors
van Buuren, Johanna Maria (2005) De taal van het hart : retorica en receptie van de hedendaagse streekroman PhD, University of Groningen Topic Netherlands love family
van der Putten, Jan Arnez, Monika Wieringa, Edwin P. Graf, Arndt (2017) Traditions Redirecting Contemporary Indonesian Cultural Productions Newcastle upon Tyne: Cambridge Scholars
van Halteren, Hans (2022) "Automatic Authorship Investigation " Language as Evidence: Doing Forensic Linguistics 219-255 DOI:10.1007/978-3-030-84330-4_8 Topic linguistics Harlequin Mills & Boon Stephanie Howard
van Hattum, Fatima Y. (2023) Orientalist Public Pedagogy: Visual Representation of Muslims in Pop Culture and Desert Romance Novels PhD, University of New Mexico Topic sheikh romance paratext Islam race/ethnicity
van Lent, Peter (1996) "“Her Beautiful Savage”: The Current Sexual Image of the Native American Male " Dressing in Feathers: The Construction of the Indian in American Popular Culture 211-227 Topic Native American romance race/ethnicity sex/sexuality gender United States of America
Vani, Christina (2018) Immortal Words: The Language and Style of the Contemporary Italian Undead-Romance Novel PhD, University of Toronto Topic paranormal/fantasy/time-travel romance Italy
Vany, Romain (2013) Les mauvais genres en bibliothèques publiques: quelle place pour le roman sentimental paralittéraire? Masters, Enssib, Université de Lyon Topic libraries/librarians
Vasudevan, Aruna Henderson, Lesley (1994) Twentieth-Century Romance and Historical Writers (3rd edition) London: St. James Press Topic Effie Adelaide Rowlands, also known as Madame Albanesi Lucilla Andrews Ruby M. Ayres Faith Baldwin Mary Balogh Florence Barclay Sandra Brown Mary Burchell, pen name of Ida Cook Shirlee Busbee Barbara Cartland Fay Chandos/Jan Tempest Marie Corelli Penny Jordan/Caroline Courtney Janet Dailey Emma Darcy Barbara Delinsky Ethel M. Dell Jude Deveraux Robyn Donald Jeffrey Farnol Charles Garvice Roberta Gellis Elinor Glyn Maysie Greig Radclyffe Hall Anne Hampson Georgette Heyer Jane Aiken Hodge Linda Howard Elizabeth Hoy Iris Johansen Susan Johnson M. M. Kaye Jayne Ann Krentz/Amanda Quick/Jayne Castle Charlotte Lamb Roberta Leigh/Rachel Lindsay Johanna Lindsey Elizabeth Lowell Jean S. MacLeod/Catherine Airlie Anne Mather Patricia Matthews Lindsay McKenna Judith McNaught Barbara Michaels a.k.a. Elizabeth Peters a.k.a. Barbara Mertz Fern Michaels Linda Lael Miller Margaret Mitchell Carole Mortimer Netta Muskett Susan Napier Betty Neels Kathleen Thompson Norris Kate Norway/Olive Norton Baroness Orczy Diana Palmer Margaret Pargeter Victoria Holt/Jean Plaidy/Eleanor Burford Hibbert Mary Renault Emilie Richards Mary Roberts Rinehart Francine Rivers Nora Roberts/J. D. Robb Denise Robins Rosemary Rogers Berta Ruck Kathleen Gilles Seidel Bertrice Small LaVyrle Spencer Mary Stewart Rebecca Stratton Essie Summers Annie S. Swan Kay Thorpe Sylvia Thorpe Karen van der Zee Patricia Veryan Lucy Walker Sheila Walsh Margaret Way Anne Weale Jean Webster Doreen Hornsblow as Sally Wentworth Phyllis A. Whitney Violet Winspear Sara Wood Kathleen Woodiwiss Mary Lutyens/Esther Wyndham
Veibæk, Eva (1983) Gift dig og bliv lykkelig: romantikkens kærlighedsmyte og triviallitteraturen Århus: Arkona
Veldman-Genz, Carole (2012) "The More the Merrier? Transformations of the Love Triangle Across the Romance " New Approaches to Popular Romance Fiction: Critical Essays 108-120 Topic love Lisa Kleypas Christina Dodd Linda Howard Catherine George Isabelle Holland Jude Deveraux Amanda Scott Catherine Coulter Maggie Osborne/Margaret St. George Karen Ranney Sandra Brown Nicole Jordan LaVyrle Spencer Penelope Williamson Susan Elizabeth Phillips feminism erotic romance Emma Holly Rachel Bo marriage Mardi Ballou Ellora's Cave Samantha Kane LGBT+ characters, readers and/or authors
Veldman-Genz, Carole (2015) "Selling Gay Sex to Women: The Romance of M/M and M/M/F Romantica " Women and Erotic Fiction: Critical Essays on Genres, Markets & Readers 133-149 Topic sex/sexuality erotic romance m/m romance Ellora's Cave gender BDSM LGBT+ characters, readers and/or authors
Vera-Cazorla, María Jesús (2018) Cultural symbols, myth and identity in four 20th-century English popular romance fiction novels set in Tenerife Anuario de Estudios Atlánticos 64:1-16 Topic Spain Harlequin Mills & Boon settings family
Vera-Cazorla, María Jesús (2020) "“And they Drive on the Wrong Side of the Road”: The Anglo-centric Vision of the Canary Islands in Mills & Boon Romance Novels (1955–1987) " Love, Language, Place, and Identity in Popular Culture: Romancing the Other 25-39 Topic UK Spain Harlequin Mills & Boon settings national identity history gender fascism/right-wing authoritarianism family marriage religion/spirituality
Vera-Cazorla, María Jesús (2022) "Canarian culture and identity and their representation in the novels of the FFI2014-53962-P corpus " 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 275-296 Topic national identity Spain UK metaphor/symbolism
Vera-Cazorla, María Jesús (2022) "La cultura y la identidad canarias y su representación en las novelas del corpus FFI2014-53962-P " 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 85-107 Topic national identity Spain UK metaphor/symbolism
Vermeer, Lina (2023) The Affective Power of Intimacy: A Case Study of a Men’s Hockey Real Person Fan Fiction’s Literary and Social Contexts Master of Arts, Trent University Topic fanfiction genre definitions LGBT+ characters, readers and/or authors emotions love pornography readers Canada sport
Veros, Vassiliki (2012) Scholarship-In-Practice: The Romance Reader and the Public Library Australian Library Journal 61.4:298-306 DOI: 10.1080/00049670.2012.10739063 Topic libraries/librarians trash/literary and or intellectual quality readers Australia
Veros, Vassiliki (2015) A Matter of Meta: Category Romance Fiction and the Interplay of Paratext and Library Metadata Journal of Popular Romance Studies 5.1: Topic libraries/librarians Harlequin Mills & Boon paratext
Veros, Vassiliki (2017) Keepers: Marking the Value of the Books on my Shelves Proceedings from the Document Academy 4.1: DOI: 10.35492/docam/4/1/4 Topic readers trash/literary and or intellectual quality
Veros, Vassiliki (2019) Metatextual Conversations: The Exclusion/Inclusion of Genre Fiction in Public Libraries and Social Media Book Groups Journal of the Australian Library and Information Association 68.3:254-267 DOI: 10.1080/24750158.2019.1654741 Topic libraries/librarians trash/literary and or intellectual quality readers
Veros, Vassiliki (2020) The selective tradition, the role of romance fiction donations, and public library practices in New South Wales, Australia Information Research 25.2: Topic Australia libraries/librarians
Veros, Vassiliki (2020) What the Librarians Did: The Marginalisation of Romance Fiction Through the Practices of Public Librarianship PhD, University of Technology, Sydney Topic libraries/librarians Australia
Veros, Vassiliki (2023) Nobody Puts Romance Fiction in the Corner: Public Librarians in New South Wales and Their Dalliance with Romance Fiction Journal of Popular Romance Studies 12: Topic libraries/librarians trash/literary and or intellectual quality Australia Harlequin Mills & Boon
Vidotto, Ilaria Goossens, Vannina (2020) "D’une fenêtre à l’autre. Étude d’un motif spécifique à la littérature blanche et au roman sentimental " Phraséologie et stylistique de la langue littéraire/Phraseology and Stylistics of Literary Language; Approches interdisciplinaires/Interdisciplinary Approaches 49-70 DOI:10.3726/b17628 Topic linguistics
Villalba Álvarez, Marina (2000) Mujeres novelistas en el panorama literario del siglo XX: I Congreso de narrativa española (en lengua castellana). Cuenca: Ediciones de la Universidad de Castilla-La Mancha
Villar-Argáiz, Pilar (2018) Ireland and the Popular Genre of Historical Romance: The Novels of Karen Robards ABEI: Brazilian Journal of Irish Studies 20.2:97-109 DOI: 10.37389/abei.v20i2.3204 Topic Ireland historical romance Karen Robards UK race/ethnicity gender cross-dressing settings rape and/or intimate partner violence/abuse sex/sexuality
Vinson, James Kirkpatrick, D. L. (1982) Twentieth Century Romance and Gothic Writers Detroit, Michigan: Gale Research Company Topic Jane Aiken Hodge Effie Adelaide Rowlands, also known as Madame Albanesi Lucilla Andrews Jane Arbor Elizabeth Ashton Ruby M. Ayres Faith Baldwin Florence Barclay Betty Beaty Lilian Warren as Kathryn Blair/Rosalind Brett/Celine Conway Mary Burchell, pen name of Ida Cook Barbara Cartland Catherine Cookson Marie Corelli Janet Dailey Iris Danbury Ethel M. Dell Viña Delmar Joyce Dingwell/Kate Starr Maud Diver Daphne du Maurier Dorothy Eden Eleanor Farnes Jeffrey Farnol Charles Garvice Roberta Gellis Elinor Glyn Maysie Greig Anne Hampson Georgette Heyer Grace Livingston Hill Victoria Holt/Jean Plaidy/Eleanor Burford Hibbert Elizabeth Hoy E. M. Hull Charlotte Lamb Roumelia Lane Roberta Leigh/Rachel Lindsay Jean S. MacLeod/Catherine Airlie Anne Mather Patricia Matthews Barbara Michaels a.k.a. Elizabeth Peters a.k.a. Barbara Mertz Margaret Mitchell Netta Muskett Betty Neels Kathleen Thompson Norris Kate Norway/Olive Norton Baroness Orczy Margaret Pargeter Mary Roberts Rinehart Denise Robins Rosemary Rogers Margaret Rome Berta Ruck Rafael Sabatini Sara Seale Danielle Steel Mary Stewart Rebecca Stratton Essie Summers Annie S. Swan Kay Thorpe Patricia Veryan Lucy Walker Margaret Way Phyllis A. Whitney Kathleen Winsor Violet Winspear Kathleen Woodiwiss Mary Lutyens/Esther Wyndham
Violi, Patrizia (2020) Breve storia della letteratura rosa Perugia: Graphe.it Edizioni Topic Older and/or precursor texts (may not be "romance" as now defined) Carolina Invernizio Liala, pen name of Amalia Liana Cambiasi Negretti Odescalchi Publishing Harlequin Mills & Boon romances in magazines and newspapers Fifty Shades fanfiction
Vitackova, Martina (2018) Representation of racial and sexual ‘others’ in Afrikaans popular romantic fiction by Sophia Kapp Tydskrif vir letterkunde 55.1:122-133 DOI: 10.17159/2309-9070/tvl.v.55i1.3480 Topic Sophia Kapp race/ethnicity sex/sexuality Africa South Africa
Vivanco, Laura Kramer, Kyra (2010) There Are Six Bodies in This Relationship: An Anthropological Approach to the Romance Genre Journal of Popular Romance Studies 1.1: Topic gender Harlequin Mills & Boon Christian romance family sex/sexuality lesbian romance LGBT+ characters, readers and/or authors
Vivanco, Laura (2011) For Love and Money: The Literary Art of the Harlequin Mills & Boon Romance Tirril, Penrith: Humanities-Ebooks Topic Harlequin Mills & Boon trash/literary and or intellectual quality metafiction Shakespeare Jane Austen fairytales/folktales myth metaphor/symbolism Louise Allen Caroline Anderson Elizabeth Ashton Mary Burchell, pen name of Ida Cook Julie Cohen Sophie Cole Jennifer Crusie Carola Dunn Liz Fielding Polly Forrester Kate Hardy Linda Harrel Jessica Hart Madeline Ker Marcia King-Gamble Charlotte Lamb Marion Lennox Margaret Malcolm Paula Marshall Sandra Marton Hilary Neal Betty Neels Diana Palmer Emilie Richards Fay Robinson/Carmel Parsons Thomaston Sara Seale Deborah Simmons Anne Stuart Michelle Styles Jane Sullivan Hope Tarr Claire Thornton Anne Weale Sophie Weston ecocriticism/environmentalism/climate change
Vivanco, Laura (2012) Feminism and Early Twenty-First Century Harlequin Mills & Boon Romances Journal of Popular Culture 45.5:1060–1089 DOI: 10.1111/j.1540-5931.2012.00973.x Topic feminism Harlequin Mills & Boon
Vivanco, Laura (2012) Jennifer Crusie's Literary Lingerie Journal of Popular Romance Studies 2.2: Topic Jennifer Crusie sex/sexuality fashion/clothing metaphor/symbolism
Vivanco, Laura (2012) "One Ring to Bind Them: Ring Symbolism in Popular Romance Fiction " New Approaches to Popular Romance Fiction: Critical Essays 99-107 Topic fashion/clothing marriage Lisa Kleypas Jennifer Crusie Loretta Chase Melissa McClone Jayne Ann Krentz/Amanda Quick/Jayne Castle Jessica Hart Dorie Graham Roslyn Hardy Holcomb Margot Early Laura Abbot sex/sexuality metaphor/symbolism
Vivanco, Laura (2013) Georgette Heyer: The Nonesuch of Regency Romance Journal of Popular Romance Studies 3.2: DOI: 10.17613/4nan-1375 Topic social/economic class race/ethnicity Georgette Heyer history historical romance
Vivanco, Laura (2016) Pursuing Happiness: Reading American Romance as Political Fiction Tirril, Penrith: Humanities-Ebooks Topic United States of America gender disability race/ethnicity history national identity Linnea Sinclair Pamela Morsi Nora Roberts/J. D. Robb Sharon Shinn LaVyrle Spencer Beverly Jenkins Karin Kallmaker work community historical romance Sharon Brondos Mary Burton Ruth Jean Dale Joan Johnston Ruth Wind/Barbara Samuel/Barbara O'Neal Joan Wolf LGBT+ characters, readers and/or authors
Vivanco, Laura (2017) "A Place “We All Dream About”: Greece in Mills & Boon Romances " Greece in British Women’s Literary Imagination, 1913-2013 81-98 Topic Greece race/ethnicity Harlequin Mills & Boon sex/sexuality science/technology myth
Vivanco, Laura (2020) "Changing Attitudes to Others: Meljean Brook’s Riveted (2012) and its Context " Love, Language, Place, and Identity in Popular Culture: Romancing the Other 113-126 Topic Meljean Brook Publishing authors readers race/ethnicity disability gender steampunk LGBT+ characters, readers and/or authors Zoë Archer war/armed forces
Vivanco, Laura (2020) Faith, Love, Hope and Popular Romance Fiction Online: Topic religion/spirituality love death authors readers romance and, or as, activism Lindsay Evans health/medical psychology Piper Huguley race/ethnicity Publishing romance scholarship Rose Lerner Older and/or precursor texts (may not be "romance" as now defined) sex/sexuality LGBT+ characters, readers and/or authors Alyssa Cole wealth/prosperity emotions metaphor/symbolism Carola Dunn Georgette Heyer Lisa Kleypas Meljean Brook Elizabeth Hoyt Justine Davis/Justine Dare Suleikha Snyder Nora Roberts/J. D. Robb rape and/or intimate partner violence/abuse community happy ending
Vivanco, Laura (2020) Let’s Not Get Carried Away by The Sheik Journal of Popular Romance Studies 9: Topic E. M. Hull Older and/or precursor texts (may not be "romance" as now defined) Berta Ruck gender LGBT+ characters, readers and/or authors marriage
Vivanco, Laura (2022) Historical Accuracy, Racism, Courtney Milan, and The Duke Who Didn’t Conform to Genre Norms Journal of Popular Romance Studies 11: Topic race/ethnicity historical romance authors Courtney Milan history United States of America UK humour
Vivanco, Laura (2024) Feeling Judged: Reflections on Pornography and Romance from a Minotaur Milking Farm Journal of Popular Romance Studies 13: Topic pornography trash/literary and or intellectual quality paranormal/fantasy/time-travel romance sex/sexuality race/ethnicity emotions C. M. Nascosta metafiction family
Voaden, Rosalynn (1995) "The Language of Love: Medieval Erotic Vision and Modern Romance Fiction " Romance Revisited 78-88 Topic gender religion/spirituality
Wagner, Wendy (2008) Jennifer Crusie Teaching American Literature: A Journal of Theory and Practice 2.2/3:1-16 Topic Jennifer Crusie fairytales/folktales romantic suspense rom-com romance LGBT+ characters, readers and/or authors
Wagner, Wendy (2022) "The “Grandly and Inhospitably Strange” World of Autistic Heroines in Romance Fiction " New Frontiers in Popular Romance: Essays on the Genre in the 21st Century 150-164 Topic health/medical disability Helen Hoang Sherry Thomas Talia Hibbert gender community
Waldschmidt, Anne Berressem, Hanjo Ingwersen, Moritz (2017) Culture - Theory – Disability: Encounters between Disability Studies and Cultural Studies Bielefeld, Germany: transcript
Walker, Lisa (2014) Polar bears and evil scientists: Romance, comedy and climate change Australasian Journal of Popular Culture 3.3:363-374 DOI: 10.1386/ajpc.3.3.363_1 Topic science/technology romance and, or as, activism authors settings ecocriticism/environmentalism/climate change
Walker, Alyssa Chen (2013) Bringing the Laboratory Dog Home: Elizabeth Stuart Phelps and the Antivivisection Narrative Humanimalia 4.2: DOI: 10.52537/humanimalia.9995 Topic Elizabeth Stuart Phelps animals romance and, or as, activism Older and/or precursor texts (may not be "romance" as now defined)
Wallace, Jennifer (2022) "Army trenches and school benches: the Philippine-American War in the Sugar Sun series " The Routledge Companion to Romantic Love DOI:10.4324/9781003022343-17 Topic Jennifer Hallock war/armed forces Philippines United States of America
Wallace, Doris B. (2005) Education, Arts, and Morality: Creative Journeys New York: Kluwer Academic Publishers
Wallace, Diana (2005) The Woman's Historical Novel: British Women Writers, 1900-2000 Houndmills, Basingstoke: Palgrave Macmillan Topic Georgette Heyer Daphne du Maurier Mary Renault Victoria Holt/Jean Plaidy/Eleanor Burford Hibbert Catherine Cookson Jeanette Winterson A. S. Byatt historical romance
Waller, Philip (2006) Writers, Readers, and Reputations: Literary Life in Britain 1870-1918 Oxford: Oxford University Press Topic Charles Garvice Florence Barclay Older and/or precursor texts (may not be "romance" as now defined) authors
Wardrop, Stephanie (1995) The Heroine is Being Beaten: Freud, Sadomasochism, and Reading the Romance Style: A Quarterly Journal of Aesthetics, Poetics, Stylistics, and Literary Criticism 29.3:459-473 Topic Kathleen Woodiwiss rape and/or intimate partner violence/abuse psychology BDSM Linda Howard gender family virginity readers
Wardrop, Stephanie (1997) Last of the Red Hot Mohicans: Miscegenation in the Popular American Romance MELUS 22.2:61-74 DOI: 10.2307/468135 Topic United States of America Native American romance race/ethnicity religion/spirituality Older and/or precursor texts (may not be "romance" as now defined) Colleen Faulkner gender Genell Dellin
Warnaar, Karin (2023) Dresses and Drapery: The Material Essie Summers Scope: Contemporary Research Topics art & design 25:91-96 DOI: 10.34074/scop.1025005 Topic Essie Summers fashion/clothing Harlequin Mills & Boon New Zealand
Warner, Celeste R. (2010) Heyer’s heroes: An investigation into Georgette Heyer and her literary ‘mark’ on the Regency hero Master of Arts, University of Waikato, New Zealand Topic Georgette Heyer gender
Warnes, Christopher (2014) "Desired State: Black Economic Empowerment and the South African Popular Romance " Popular Culture in Africa: The Episteme of the Everyday 154-171 Topic Africa work race/ethnicity South Africa gender
Warren, Jean-Philippe Luneau, Marie-Pier (2021) The Best Romance Dime Novels on the (French-Canadian) Market: The Promotional Strategies of Police-Journal, 1944-1963 Journal of Popular Romance Studies 10: Topic Canada Publishing paratext dime novels
Washington, AlTonya (2015) "An Indie Author in a Library World " Self-Publishing and Collection Development: Opportunities and Challenges for Libraries 139-147 Topic Publishing authors readers libraries/librarians
Waters, Chris (1993) "New Women and Socialist-Feminist Fiction: The Novels of Isabella Ford and Katharine Bruce Glasier " Rediscovering Forgotten Radicals: British Women Writers 1889-1939 25-42 Topic socialism and/or communism LGBT+ characters, readers and/or authors Older and/or precursor texts (may not be "romance" as now defined) Katharine Bruce Glasier
Watson, Daphne (1995) Their Own Worst Enemies: Women Writers of Women's Fiction London: Pluto Press Topic Daphne du Maurier Mary Stewart Harlequin Mills & Boon fairytales/folktales gender Charlotte Brontë BDSM social/economic class food, drink fashion/clothing work
Watson, Courtney (2022) "I Thought You’d Never Ask: Consent in Contemporary Romance " New Frontiers in Popular Romance: Essays on the Genre in the 21st Century 62-75 Topic sex/sexuality K. J. Charles feminism romance scholarship
Weaver-Zercher, Valerie (2012) Tracing the Backstory of Amish Romance Novels Mennonite Quarterly Review 86.4:409-435 Topic Christian romance rural romance Older and/or precursor texts (may not be "romance" as now defined) religion/spirituality paratext Helen Reimensnyder Martin Beverly Lewis Cora Gottschalk Welty race/ethnicity Ruth Lininger Dobson Joseph W. Yoder Clara Bernice Miller Janette Oke Publishing
Weaver-Zercher, Valerie (2013) Thrill of the Chaste: the Allure of Amish Romance Novels Baltimore: The Johns Hopkins University Press Topic Christian romance United States of America religion/spirituality paratext Publishing Beverly Lewis Wanda Brunstetter Cindy Woodsmall sex/sexuality virginity readers gender Helen Reimensnyder Martin Older and/or precursor texts (may not be "romance" as now defined) Clara Bernice Miller Cora Gottschalk Welty rural romance Ruth Lininger Dobson Joseph W. Yoder Janette Oke settings happy ending marriage family Linda Byler race/ethnicity
Weibel, Kathryn (1977) Mirror Mirror: Images of Women Reflected in Popular Culture Garden City, New York: Anchor Press/Doubleday Topic Harlequin Mills & Boon gothic romance
Weil, Françoise (1990) "La lecture du roman sentimental dans les bibliothèques publiques: l’exemple de Dijon " Le roman sentimental: actes du colloque des 14-15-16 mars 1989 à la Faculté des lettres de Limoges, volume 1 317-3?? Topic France libraries/librarians
Weimer, Christopher (2021) Romancing Weird Fiction: Lovecraftian Reinscriptions in Jordan L. Hawk's Whyborne and Griffin Aeternum: The Journal of Contemporary Gothic Studies 8.1:61-76 Topic Jordan L. Hawk m/m romance LGBT+ characters, readers and/or authors paranormal/fantasy/time-travel romance race/ethnicity
Weintraub, Andrew N. (2011) Islam and Popular Culture in Indonesia and Malaysia Abingdon, Oxon: Routledge
Weir, Angela Wilson, Elizabeth (1992) "The Greyhound Bus Station in the Evolution of Lesbian Popular Culture " New Lesbian Criticism: Literary and Cultural Readings 95-113 Topic LGBT+ characters, readers and/or authors Older and/or precursor texts (may not be "romance" as now defined) Ann Bannon Valerie Taylor Claire Morgan/Patricia Highsmith history March Hastings marriage psychology cross-dressing Gale Wilhelm Radclyffe Hall Randy Salem gender sex/sexuality
Weis, Lois Fine, Michelle (1993) Beyond Silenced Voices: Class, Race, and Gender in United States Schools Albany: State University of New York Press
Weisser, Susan Ostrov Fleischner, Jennifer (1994) Feminist Nightmares: Women at Odds: Feminism and the Problem of Sisterhood New York and London: New York University Press
Weisser, Susan Ostrov (1994) "The Wonderful-Terrible Bitch Figure in Harlequin Novels " Feminist Nightmares: Women at Odds: Feminism and the Problem of Sisterhood 269-282 Topic Harlequin Mills & Boon gender Anne Hampson sex/sexuality Charlotte Lamb
Weisser, Susan Ostrov (2013) The Glass Slipper: Women and Love Stories New Brunswick, New Jersey: Rutgers University Press Topic love gender feminism Twilight romance scholarship Isabel Sharpe African American romance race/ethnicity Harlequin Mills & Boon pornography
Wells, Juliette (2008) True Love Waits: Austen and the Christian Romance in the Contemporary U. S. Persuasions 28.2: Topic Jane Austen Christian romance Debra White Smith religion/spirituality
Wells, Juliette (2022) "Afterword: Sex, Romance, and Representation in Uzma Jalaluddin’s Ayesha at Last " Jane Austen, Sex, and Romance: Engaging with Desire in the Novels and Beyond 243-252 DOI:10.1017/9781800106758.017 Topic Uzma Jalaluddin Jane Austen sex/sexuality religion/spirituality Islam
Wendell, Sarah (2012) ""You call me a bitch like that's a bad thing": Romance Criticism and Redefining the Word "Bitch" " New Approaches to Popular Romance Fiction: Critical Essays 178-194 Topic readers gender feminism fashion/clothing authors
Westman, Karin E. (2003) "A Story of Her Weaving: The Self-Authoring Heroines of Georgette Heyer's Regency Romance " Doubled Plots: Romance and History 165-184 Topic Georgette Heyer trash/literary and or intellectual quality historical romance
Weston, Louise C. Ruggiero, Josephine A. (1978) Male-Female Relationships in Best-Selling "Modern Gothic" Novels Sex Roles 4.5:647-655 DOI: 10.1007/BF00287330 Topic gothic romance romantic suspense gender Mary Stewart Victoria Holt/Jean Plaidy/Eleanor Burford Hibbert Phyllis A. Whitney Jane Blackmore Dorothy Eden Susan Howatch Anne Maybury
Whalen, Kacey (2017) A Consumption of Gay Men: Navigating the Shifting Boundaries of M/M Romantic Readership MA thesis, DePaul University Topic m/m romance readers gender sex/sexuality K. J. Charles LGBT+ characters, readers and/or authors
Wheeler, Duncan (2020) Following Franco: Spanish culture and politics in transition, 1962–92 Manchester: Manchester University Press Topic Spain fascism/right-wing authoritarianism Corín Tellado
Wherry, Maryan (2015) "More than a Love Story: The Complexities Of the Popular Romance " The Bloomsbury Introduction to Popular Fiction 53-69 Topic genre definitions Older and/or precursor texts (may not be "romance" as now defined) fairytales/folktales Jennifer Crusie sex/sexuality
Whissell, Cynthia (1994) Objective Analysis of Text: I. A Comparison of Adventure and Romance Novels Perceptual and Motor Skills 79:1567-1570 DOI: 10.2466/pms.1994.79.3f.1567 Topic linguistics
Whissell, Cynthia (1996) Mate Selection in Popular Women's Fiction Human Nature 7:427-447 DOI: 10.1007/BF02732902 Topic evolutionary psychology family gender
Whissell, Cynthia (1998) The Formula Behind Women's Romantic Formula Fiction (Statistical survey of 50 Harlequin-Presents novels) Arachne 5.1:89-119 Topic Harlequin Mills & Boon genre definitions
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White, Ann Yvonne (2008) Genesis Press: Cultural Representation and the Production of African American Romance Novels PhD, University of Iowa Topic African American romance Publishing readers race/ethnicity Older and/or precursor texts (may not be "romance" as now defined) Dyanne Davis sex/sexuality
Whitehead, Frances (1992) Love Makes the World Go Round (?): The Romantic Novel as a Publishing Phenomenon Logos 3.2:62-68 DOI: 10.2959/logo.1992.3.2.62 Topic Older and/or precursor texts (may not be "romance" as now defined) genre definitions Harlequin Mills & Boon Japan Africa readers Publishing
Whitsitt, Novian (2002) Islamic-Hausa Feminism and Kano Market Literature: Qur'anic Reinterpretation in the Novels of Balaraba Yakubu Research in African Literatures 33.2:119-136 Topic Nigeria Africa Islam gender marriage feminism religion/spirituality Balaraba Ramat Yakubu sex/sexuality family health/medical
Whitsitt, Novian (2003) Hausa Women Writers Confronting the Traditional Status of Women in Modern Islamic Society: Feminist Thought in Nigerian Popular Fiction Tulsa Studies In Women's Literature 22.2:387-408 DOI: 10.2307/20059159 Topic Nigeria Africa Islam religion/spirituality gender Bilkisu Ahmed Funtuwa marriage love work Balaraba Ramat Yakubu
Whitsitt, Novian (2003) Islamic-Hausa Feminism Meets Northern Nigerian Romance: The Cautious Rebellion of Bilkisu Funtuwa African Studies Review 46.1:137-153 DOI: 10.2307/1514984 Topic Nigeria Africa Islam Bilkisu Ahmed Funtuwa marriage gender religion/spirituality feminism work love family
Whitsitt, Novian (2021) "Northern Nigerian Popular Literature and the Boundaries of Hausa Feminism: The Works of Balaraba Yakubu and Bilkisu Funtuwa " Hausa Prose-Fiction: A Reader 184-205 Topic Balaraba Ramat Yakubu Bilkisu Ahmed Funtuwa feminism Nigeria
Whyte, Tamara Lynn (2013) Shakespeare in Love: Appropriation of Shakespeare in Popular Romance Novels PhD, University of Alabama Topic Shakespeare
Whyte, Tamara (2012) ""A consummation devoutly to be wished": Shakespeare in Popular Historical Romance Fiction " New Approaches to Popular Romance Fiction: Critical Essays 218-228 Topic Shakespeare Jacquie D'Allessandro Sabrina Jefferies Kalen Hughes/Isobel Carr readers Eloisa James Susan Wiggs Andrea Pickens Kathryn Caskie Suzanne Enoch historical romance Kasey Michaels Mary Balogh Margaret Moore
Wiebe, Laura (2012) Speculative Matter: Generic Affinities, Posthumanisms and Science-Fictional Imaginings PhD, McMaster University Topic paranormal/fantasy/time-travel romance Christine Feehan
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Wijanarka, Hirmawan (2022) Cinderella Formula: The Romance Begins Journal of Language and Literature 22.2:481-489 DOI: 10.24071/joll.v22i2.5121 Topic Harlequin Mills & Boon genre definitions
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Wilkins, Kim (2016) “Ravished by Vikings”: The Pre-modern and the Paranormal in Viking Romance Fiction Journal of Popular Romance Studies 5.2: Topic historical romance paranormal/fantasy/time-travel romance sex/sexuality history feminism gender war/armed forces rape and/or intimate partner violence/abuse
Wilkins, Kim Driscoll, Beth Fletcher, Lisa (2022) Genre Worlds: Popular Fiction and 21st-Century Book Culture Amherst and Boston: University of Massachusetts Press Topic Publishing readers
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Williamson, Val (1998) "Labour of Love: Gender and the Delivery of the Nineties Mills & Boon "Medical" " Medical Fictions 103-116 Topic medical romance Harlequin Mills & Boon work paratext health/medical Gil Sanderson Margaret Holt
Williamson, Margaret (1986) "The Greek romance " The Progress of Romance: The Politics of Popular Fiction 23-45 Topic Older and/or precursor texts (may not be "romance" as now defined) Chariton Xenophon of Ephesus Achilles Tatius Longus Heliodorus love rural romance
Willinsky, John Hunniford, R. Mark (1993) "Reading the Romance Younger: The Mirrors and Fears of a Preparatory Literature " Texts of Desire: Essays on Fiction, Femininity and Schooling 87–105 DOI:10.4324/9781315810119 Topic Canada YA/teenage romance readers gender
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Wilson, Frances (1999) Byromania: Portraits of the Artist in Nineteenth- and Twentieth-Century Culture Houndmills, Basingstoke: Macmillan
Wilson, Elizabeth Suzanne (1986) Women creating men: the history of the hero in contemporary category romance fiction since the 1950s MA thesis, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill Topic gender
Wilt, Judith (2014) Women Writers and the Hero of Romance Houndmills, Basingstoke: Palgrave Macmillan Topic Older and/or precursor texts (may not be "romance" as now defined) E. M. Hull gender Baroness Orczy Twilight Fifty Shades
Winks, Robin W. Corrigan, Maureen (1998) Mystery and Suspense Writers: The Literature of Crime, Detection, and Espionage, Volume 2 New York: Charles Scribner's Sons
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Wood, Andrea (2008) Radicalizing Romance: Subculture, Sex, and Media at the Margins PhD, University of Florida Topic LGBT+ characters, readers and/or authors m/m romance lesbian romance comics/manga race/ethnicity pornography sex/sexuality
Wood, Andrea (2015) Making the Invisible Visible: Lesbian Romance Comics for Women Feminist Studies 41.2:293-334 DOI: 10.15767/feministstudies.41.2.293 Topic sex/sexuality comics/manga lesbian romance LGBT+ characters, readers and/or authors
Wood, Andrea (2022) "His Baby Daddy is an Alien?!: Mpreg Fantasies and Queer Reproductive Intimacies in Contemporary M/M Science Fiction Romance " Imagining "We" in the Age of "I": Romance and Social Bonding in Contemporary Culture Topic m/m romance science fiction/futuristic romance family health/medical LGBT+ characters, readers and/or authors Lyn Gala Lexi Ander
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Woods, Robert H. (2013) Evangelical Christians and Popular Culture: Pop Goes the Gospel. Volume 2: Literature, Music, Popular Art, and Merchandise Santa Barbara: Praeger
Worpole, Ken (1984) Reading by Numbers: Contemporary Publishing & Popular Fiction London: Comedia Publishing Group Topic Publishing UK Harlequin Mills & Boon trash/literary and or intellectual quality feminism romances in magazines and newspapers
Wright, Laura Bell (2003) The Appeal of Vampire Romance: Why Do Readers Like These Stories? Masters, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill Topic paranormal/fantasy/time-travel romance readers
Wu, Yan Mallan, Kerry McGillis, Roderick (2013) (Re)Imagining the World: Children’s Literature’s Response to Changing Times Heidelberg: Springer
Wu, Huei-Hsia Walsh, Anthony (2005) Romance Novels and Female Sexuality: Vicarious Participation? Free Inquiry in Creative Sociology 33.2:105-109 Topic sociology sex/sexuality readers
Wu, Huei-Hsia (2006) Gender, Romance Novels and Plastic Sexuality in the United States: A Focus on Female College Students Journal of International Women’s Studies 8.1:125-134 Topic sex/sexuality readers gender psychology
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Ya’u, Mohammed Sani Rashid, Sabariah Md Ali, Afida Mohamad Singh, Hardev Kaur Jujar (2023) Semantic Extensions of Hausa Visual and Auditory Perception Verbs gani and ji in Romance Fiction Pertanika Journal of Social Science and Humanities 31.4:1441-1464 DOI: 10.47836/pjssh.31.4.06 Topic linguistics
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Young, Whitney A. (2013) Monsters in My Bed: Accounting for the Popularity of Young Adult Paranormal Romances MA thesis, Georgia State University Topic YA/teenage romance paranormal/fantasy/time-travel romance gender Twilight
Young, Helen (2015) The Middle Ages in Popular Culture: Medievalism and Genre Amhurst, NY: Cambria Press
Young, Erin S. (2010) Corporate Heroines and Utopian Individualism: A Study of the Romance Novel in Global Capitalism PhD, University of Oregon Topic work paranormal/fantasy/time-travel romance capitalism/business Jayne Ann Krentz/Amanda Quick/Jayne Castle Nora Roberts/J. D. Robb Elizabeth Lowell Katherine Stone Laurell K. Hamilton Charlaine Harris Kelley Armstrong Carrie Vaughn race/ethnicity national identity
Young, Erin S. (2010) Escaping the “Time Bind”: Negotiations of Love and Work in Jayne Ann Krentz's “Corporate Romances” The Journal of American Culture 33.2:92–106 DOI: 10.1111/j.1542-734X.2010.00736.x Topic Jayne Ann Krentz/Amanda Quick/Jayne Castle work capitalism/business family gender marriage race/ethnicity food, drink romantic suspense
Young, Erin S. (2011) Flexible Heroines, Flexible Narratives: The Werewolf Romances of Kelley Armstrong and Carrie Vaughn Extrapolation: A Journal of Science Fiction and Fantasy 52.2:204-226 DOI: 10.3828/extr.2011.52.2.5 Topic Kelley Armstrong Carrie Vaughn paranormal/fantasy/time-travel romance capitalism/business wealth/prosperity sex/sexuality family health/medical gender food, drink rape and/or intimate partner violence/abuse
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Young, Erin S. (2021) "Race, ethnicity, and whiteness " The Routledge Research Companion to Popular Romance Fiction 511-528 DOI:10.4324/9781315613468-23 Topic race/ethnicity Mary Balogh
Young, Beth Rapp (1995) But are they any good? Women readers, formula fiction, and the sacralization of the literary canon PhD, University of Southern California Topic trash/literary and or intellectual quality readers Jayne Ann Krentz/Amanda Quick/Jayne Castle
Young, Beth Rapp (1997) Accidental Authors, Random Readers, and the Art of Popular Romance Para.doxa: Studies in World Literary Genres 3.1-2:29-45 Topic trash/literary and or intellectual quality romance scholarship authors readers
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Zakreski, Patricia (2012) Tell Me Lies: Lying, Storytelling, and the Romance Novel as Feminist Fiction Journal of Popular Romance Studies 2.2: Topic Jennifer Crusie feminism gender metafiction
Zeiger, Melissa F. (2013) "Less Than Perfect": Negotiating Breast Cancer in Popular Romance Novels Tulsa Studies In Women's Literature 32.2/33.1:107-128 Topic health/medical feminism
Zhaboriuk, I. A. Rukshtel, Yu. A. (2021) The Artistic Detail in the Novel "The Reluctant Widow" by G. Heyer Education and science of today: intersectoral issues and development of sciences 1:121-122 DOI: 10.36074/logos-29.10.2021.v1.37 Topic Georgette Heyer linguistics
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Zhou, Yanyan Paul, Bryant Sherman, Ryland (2018) Still a Hetero-Gendered World: A Content Analysis of Gender Stereotypes and Romantic Ideals in Chinese Boy Love Stories Sex Roles 78.1-2:107–118 DOI: 10.1007/s11199-017-0762-y Topic m/m romance gender China LGBT+ characters, readers and/or authors
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Zidle, Abby (1999) "From Bodice-Ripper to Baby-Sitter: The New Hero in Mass-Market Romance " Romantic Conventions 23-34 Topic gender emotions psychology readers sex/sexuality wealth/prosperity
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Στάμου, Εύα (2014) Η επέλαση της ροζ λογοτεχνίας. Δοκίμιο για την Ευδοκίμηση μιας Μορφής Αφηγηματικού Λόγου Αθήνα: Gutenberg
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