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Faust, Beatrice

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Fekete, Maleah

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Fendley, Gina

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m/m romance

authors

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:

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war/armed forces

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Fenske, Emma K.

(2022) Romancing the New Evangelical Woman Master of Arts, Baylor University

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Christian romance

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

Fera-VanGent, Tania

(2005) Popular Romance Novels: Seeking out the 'Sisterhood' MA thesis, Brock University

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chick lit

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fairytales/folktales

(2019) Chamorro WWII Romances: Combating Erasure with Tales of Survival and Vitality Journal of Popular Romance Studies 8:

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Guam

war/armed forces

(2021) American Quaker Romances: Building the Myth of the White Christian Nation Valencia: Universitat de València

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Christian romance

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(2024) "The US Civil War and its Aftermath in Historical Quaker Romances Hailing White Heroines as Builders and Healers of the Nation " Conflict and Colonialism in 21st Century Romantic Historical Fiction: Repairing the Past, Repurposing History DOI:10.4324/9781003493792-7

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Morazzani, Joanne Schmidt

Fernández Ulloa, Teresa

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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

Fernández Ulloa, Teresa

Soler Gallo, Miguel

(2021) Las insolentes: desafío e insumisión femenina en las letras y el arte hispanos Berlin: Peter Lang

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

Fesenmeier, Ludwig

Novakova, Iva

(2020) Phraséologie et stylistique de la langue littéraire/Phraseology and Stylistics of Literary Language; Approches interdisciplinaires/Interdisciplinary Approaches Berlin: Peter Lang

Fialkoff, Francine

(1992) Romancing the Patron: Romance novels don't get equal review treatment Library Journal 117.21:118

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Ficke, Sarah H.

(2021) "The historical romance " The Routledge Research Companion to Popular Romance Fiction 118-140 DOI:10.4324/9781315613468-5

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Beverly Jenkins

Ficke, Sarah H.

(2025) "Falling in Love Outside of the Law: Piracy, Race, and Freedom in Caribbean Historical Romance " Travel and Colonialism in 21st Century Romantic Historical Fiction: Exotic Journeys, Reparative Histories? DOI:10.4324/9781003495840-2

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(2022) "House, home and husband in historical romance fiction " The Routledge Companion to Romantic Love DOI:10.4324/9781003022343-11

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(2026) Narrating Histories of Love and Violence: The Civil War and Alyssa Cole’s A Hope Divided Journal of Popular Romance Studies 15.1: DOI: 10.70138/NARS8652

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Alyssa Cole

Fife, Leslie

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Figuerola, M. Carme

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Delly

Filbrun, Tricia

(2026) Judging a Book by Its Cover: Exploring Ethical Solutions for Marketing & Labeling Romance Novels with Illustrated Cover Art Honors thesis, Bowling Green State University

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Filimon, Andreea-Gabriela

Coman, Dan-Ioan

Răileanu-Olariu, Teodor

(2026) Dark Romance as an AI-Mediated Experience: Identification with Characters and Attitudes towards Romantic AI International Journal of Research and Innovation in Social Science 10.17:306-323 DOI: 10.47772/IJRISS.2026.1017PSY0018

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psychology

Finn, Geraldine

(1988) "Women, Fantasy, and Popular Culture: The Wonderful World of Harlequin Romance " Popular Cultures and Political Practices 51-68 DOI:10.3138/9781442602861-006

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Fischer, Heinz-Dietrich

Melnik, Stefan Reinhard

(1979) Entertainment: A Cross-Cultural Examination New York: Hastings House

Fisher, Maryanne L.

Meredith, Tami M.

(2012) The Success behind the Candy-Colored Covers: An Evolutionary Perspective on Romance Novels Evolutionary Review 3.1:154-167

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evolutionary psychology

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

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evolutionary psychology

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

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evolutionary psychology

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

Fleenor, Juliann E.

(1983) The Female Gothic Montreal: Eden Press

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gothic romance

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

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fanfiction

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

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Cuba

(1995) Love Brought to Book: A Bio-Bibliography of 20th Century Australian Romance Novels Melbourne: National Centre for Australian Studies

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(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

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(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

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(1997) Not just housewives and old maids Collection Building 16.3:119-124 DOI: 10.1108/01604959710172404

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(2005) Blushing Bride to Bush Matriarch: Women in the Fiction of Lucy Walker Journal of Publishing 1:37-52

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Lucy Walker

(2007) "Love under the Coolabah: Australian Romance Publishing since 1990 " Making Books: Contemporary Australian Publishing 279-285

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(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

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(2012) "The Wide Brown Land and the Big Smoke: The Setting of Australian Popular Romance " Sold by the Millions: Australia's Bestsellers 82-95

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(2002) I love you: historical romance fiction and heterosexuality PhD, University of Melbourne

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(2004) "“Mere Costumery”? Georgette Heyer’s Cross-Dressing Novels " Masquerades: Disguise in Literature in English from the Middle Ages to the Present 196-212

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(2008) Historical Romance Fiction: Heterosexuality and Performativity Burlington: Ashgate

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(2011) Pedagogy Report: Embedding Popular Romance Studies in Undergraduate English Units: Teaching Georgette Heyer’s Sylvester Journal of Popular Romance Studies 1.2:

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(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:

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teaching romance

(2014) Writing the Happy Ever After: An Interview with Anne Gracie Journal of Popular Romance Studies 4.2:

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Anne Gracie

(2016) Popular Fiction and Spatiality: Reading Genre Settings New York: Palgrave Macmillan

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

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(2018) What is Australian Popular Fiction? Australian Literary Studies 33.4:1-11 DOI: 10.20314/als.4e3df0ec9c

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(2019) #loveyourshelfie: Mills & Boon books and how to find them Mémoires du livre / Studies in Book Culture 11.1: DOI: 10.7202/1066945ar

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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

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wealth/prosperity

fotonovela

Lacôte-Gabrysiak, Lylette

(2024) Série « New Romance et bibliothèques », no 1 • Les professionnels du livre et la New Romance : entre valorisation, réticences et rejet Bulletin des bibliothèques de France :

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Gabrysiak, Louis

(2025) New Romance : anatomie d’un phénomène éditorial Nancy: Éditions de l’Université de Lorraine

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sociology

Gabrysiak, Louis

(2026) Lire la New Romance : pratiques, réceptions et illégitimation Revue française des sciences de l’information et de la communication 31: DOI: 10.4000/15v5c

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Gabrysiak, Louis

(2026) New romance Publictionnaire. Dictionnaire encyclopédique et critique des publics :

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

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(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

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(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

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(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

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(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

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(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

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(1966) I persuasori rosa: sociologia curiosa del rotocalco femminile in Italia Naples: Edizioni Scientifiche Italiane

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Italy

Victoria Holt/Jean Plaidy/Eleanor Burford Hibbert

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

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(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

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(1987) "Barbara Cartland, la regina del rosa " Intorno al rosa

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Barbara Cartland

Fortune, Teagan Bailey

(2024) Rape Beyond Fantasy: Exploring the Influence of BookTok's Erotica and Dark Romance Literature on Young Adult Perceptions of Consent and Boundaries Master’s thesis, University of Northern Colorado

Topic

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

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work

Foster, Guy Mark

(2007) "How Dare a Black Woman Make Love to a White Man! Black Women Romance Novelists and the Taboo of Interracial Desire " Empowerment versus Oppression: Twenty-First Century Views of Popular Romance Novels 103-128

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(2015) What To Do If Your Inner Tomboy Is a Homo: Straight Women, Bisexuality, and Pleasure in M/M Gay Romance Fictions Journal of Bisexuality 15.4:509-531 DOI: 10.1080/15299716.2015.1092910

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Fowler, Bridget

(1979) "True to Me Always": An Analysis of Women's Magazine Fiction The British Journal of Sociology 30.1:91-119 DOI: 10.2307/589503

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

(1991) The Alienated Reader: Women and Romantic Literature in the Twentieth Century Hemel Hempstead: Harvester Wheatsheaf

Fox, Pamela A.

(1993) "Ethel Carnie Holdsworth's "Revolt of the Gentle": Romance and the Politics of Resistance in Working-Class Women's Writing " Rediscovering Forgotten Radicals: British Women Writers 1889-1939 57-74

Topic

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

Ethel Carnie Holdsworth

Fox, Pamela

(1994) The "Revolt of the Gentle": Romance and the Politics of Resistance in Working-Class Women's Writing NOVEL: A Forum on Fiction 27.2:140-160 DOI: 10.2307/1345818

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Ethel Carnie Holdsworth

Ellen Wilkinson

capitalism/business

work

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

(2013) La técnica narrativa del espejo en Carmen de Icaza (1899-1979) y en Carmen Martín Gaite (1925-2000) Tejuelo: Didáctica de la Lengua y la Literatura. Educación 16:23-34

Topic

(2013) Fifty shades of grey: Una novela popular en España Investigaciones Feministas 4:255-269 DOI: 10.5209/rev_INFE.2013.v4.43892

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Fifty Shades

(2014) "Soñar la vida": La narrativa de Carmen de Icaza (1936-1960) PhD, Universidad de Córdoba

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fashion/clothing

film/movies

(2014) Auxilio Social en La casa de enfrente (1960) de Carmen de Icaza Tejuelo: Didáctica de la Lengua y la Literatura. Educación 20:57-77

Topic

(2017) Del azul al rosa: la narrativa de Carmen de Icaza (1936-1960) Madrid: Sial Pigmalión

Topic

Luisa-María Linares

(2020) "Carmen de Icaza: la imagen de identidad femenina durante el primer franquismo (1936-1949) " Aproximaciones a la configuración de la identidad en la cultura y sociedad hispanas e italianas contemporáneas 61-87

Topic

Fralick, Kaitlyn

(2024) “Friend in Need”: Cultivating homosocial communities in Love Story Magazine's fiction and editorial departments The Journal of American Culture 47.3:199-206 DOI: 10.1111/jacc.13576

Topic

(2020) Matizes do gótico: três séculos de Horace Walpole Rio de Janeiro: Dialogarts

Francis, Conseula

(2016) "Flipping the Script: Romancing Zane's Urban Erotica " Romance Fiction and American Culture: Love as the Practice of Freedom? 167-180

Topic

Zane

(2020) "Growing Pains of the Teenage Werewolf: Young Adult Literature and the Metaphorical Wolf " In the company of wolves: Werewolves, wolves and wild children 163-177 DOI:10.7765/9781526129048.00020

Topic

(2024) Reader, I Included It: Reading Lists and Romance Journal of Popular Romance Studies 13: DOI: 10.70138/BQRY8070

Topic

(1986) "Plotting Women: Popular Narratives for Women in the United States and in Latin America " Reinventing the Americas: Comparative Studies of Literature of the United States and Spanish America 249–268 DOI:10.1215/9780822385462-010

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Anne Mather

Mexico

Franco, Jean

(1986) "The Incorporation of Women: A Comparison of North American and Mexican Popular Narrative " Studies in Entertainment: Critical Approaches to Mass Culture 119-138

Topic

Frankel, Valerie Estelle

(2016) Adoring Outlander: Essays on Fandom, Genre and the Female Audience Jefferson, North Carolina: McFarland & Company

Frankel, Valerie Estelle

(2021) Bridgerton Uncovered: Exploring the Scandalous, Salacious Gender Roles of Season One : Self-published

Topic

Julia Quinn

Frankel, Valerie Estelle

(2024) Adapting Bridgerton: Essays on the Netflix Show in Context Jefferson, North Carolina: McFarland

Topic

Julia Quinn

Franssen, Thomas

Velthuis, Olav

(2016) Making materiality matter: a sociological analysis of prices on the Dutch fiction book market, 1980–2009 Socio-Economic Review 14.2:363–381 DOI: 10.1093/ser/mwu025

Topic

Netherlands

Jayne Ann Krentz/Amanda Quick/Jayne Castle

(2002) ""Expressing" Herself: The Romance Novel and the Feminine Will to Power " Scorned Literature: Essays on the History and Criticism of Popular Mass-Produced Fiction in America 17-36

Topic

(2008) "Suzanne Brockmann" Teaching American Literature: A Journal of Theory and Practice 2.2/3:1-19

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Suzanne Brockmann

war/armed forces

Islam

(2009) Darcy’s Vampiric Descendants: Austen’s Perfect Romance Hero and J. R. Ward’s Black Dagger Brotherhood Persuasions 30.1:

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(2009) "I’ve tried my entire life to be a good man': Suzanne Brockmann’s Sam Starrett, Ideal Romance Hero " Women Constructing Men: Female Novelists and their Male Characters, 1750-2000 227-247

Topic

(2009) Women Constructing Men: Female Novelists and their Male Characters, 1750-2000 Lanham, Maryland: Lexington

(2012) ""How we love is our soul": Joey W. Hill's BDSM Romance Holding the Cards " New Approaches to Popular Romance Fiction: Critical Essays 47-59

Topic

Selinger, Eric Murphy

(2012) New Approaches to Popular Romance Fiction: Critical Essays Jefferson, North Carolina: McFarland

(2012) "The History of BDSM Fiction and Romance " Fifty Writers on Fifty Shades of Grey 159-172

Topic

Selinger, Eric Murphy

(2016) "Strange Stirrings, Strange Yearnings: The Flame and the Flower, Sweet Savage Love, and the Lost Diversities of Blockbuster Historical Romance " Romance Fiction and American Culture: Love as the Practice of Freedom? 89-110

Topic

Fraysse, Mélie

Garcia, Marie-Carmen

(2019) Les Thug Love : des romans sentimentaux à l'épreuve de la classe et de la race Genre en séries : cinéma, télévision, médias 9:15-37

Topic

France

(2022) Evidence of Things Not Seen: Fantastical Blackness in Genre Fictions : Rutgers University Press

Topic

(2013) Making Jamaican Love: Colin Channer's Waiting in Vain and Romance-ified Diaspora Identities Small Axe: A Caribbean Journal Of Criticism 17.3:63-84 DOI: 10.1215/07990537-2378919

Topic

erotic romance

Frenier, Mariam Darce

(1988) Good-bye Heathcliff: Changing Heroes, Heroines, Roles, and Values in Women’s Category Romances New York: Greenwood Press

Topic

work

(2019) Chick-Lit Pasifika-Style or How to B(l)end the Formula: Lani Young’s Scarlet Series Contemporary Women's Writing 13.2:203–221 DOI: 10.1093/cww/vpaa003

Topic

(2021) "Rugby Romances and the Branding of New Zealand " Romantic Escapes: Post-Millennial Trends in Contemporary Popular Romance Fiction 177-201

Topic

(2023) New Romantic Narratives for the Twenty-First Century Esferas Literarias 6:1-5 DOI: 10.21071/elrl.vi6.15636

Topic

romance scholarship

(2023) Repurposing Fantasy Island: Lani Wendt Young’s Telesā Series and the Politics of Postcolonial Romance Interventions: International Journal of Postcolonial Studies 25.1:100-117 DOI: 10.1080/1369801X.2022.2054011

Topic

Lani Wendt Young

Teo, Hsu-Ming

(2024) Travel and Colonialism in 21st Century Romantic Historical Fiction: Exotic Journeys, Reparative Histories? : Routledge

Teo, Hsu-Ming

(2025) " Introduction. Travel and Colonialism in Twenty-First Century Romantic Historical Fiction: Exotic Journeys, Reparative Histories? * " Travel and Colonialism in 21st Century Romantic Historical Fiction: Exotic Journeys, Reparative Histories? 1-25 DOI:10.4324/9781003495840-1

Topic

(1990) Mary Stewart Boston: Twayne

Topic

Mary Stewart

Fromont, Daniel

(2011) "Lire Delly, un plaisir toujours renouvelé " L’Œuvre de Delly 83-90

Topic

Delly

Frost, Laura

(2006) "The Romance of Cliché: E. M. Hull, D. H. Lawrence, and Interwar Erotic Fiction " Bad Modernisms 94-118 DOI:10.2307/j.ctv125jq8v.8

Topic

(2013) The Problem with Pleasure: Modernism and Its Discontents New York: Columbia University Press

Topic

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

(2004) Romance New York: Routledge

Topic

Funderburk, Amy

(2004) Romance collections in North Carolina public libraries: Are all genres treated equally? Masters, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill

Topic

Gagne-Hawes, Genevieve

(2006) Anatomy of a Romance: Questioning genre conventions in the novels of Nora Roberts Modern Mask 1.2:

Topic

Gagnon, Andrée

(1987) Et si je t'aime, prends garde à toi : essai d'anthropologie sur la sexualité dans les romans Harlequin Mémoire (M.A.), l’Université Laval

Topic

Gaines, Judith

(1990) Tracing feminism through the romance novel, or, the vines (clinging) and the swines (chauvinistic), they are a-changin' M.A., Ball State University

Topic

Galateria, Daria

(1986) "Erotismo e buona creanza in Georgette Heyer " Maestre d'amore: eroine e scrittrici nell'impero del rosa inglese

Topic

Galateria, Daria

(1987) "Accorgimenti antibovaristi di Georgette Heyer " Intorno al rosa

Topic

Gale, Jody

James, Eloisa

(2016) The Official Essex Sisters Companion Guide : Avon Impulse

Gallon, Kim

(2013) “How Much Can You Read about Interracial Love and Sex without Getting Sore?”: Readers’ Debate over Interracial Relationships in the Baltimore Afro-American Journalism History 39.2:104-114 DOI: 10.1080/00947679.2013.12062906

Topic

Ganapathy, Subha

(2002) Who Is Afraid of Romance Novels?: Women Readers, Patriarchy and Popular Culture PhD thesis, Mother Teresa Women’s University

Topic

(2007) Faith and Fiction: Christian Literature in America Today Westport, Connecticut: Praeger Publishers

Topic

Christian romance

Ganetz, Hillevi

Lövgren, Karin

(1991) Om unga kvinnor: identitet, kultur och livsvillkor Lund: Studentlitteratur

Ganguly, Keya

(1991) Alien(ated) Readers: Harlequin Romances and the Politics of Popular Culture Communication 12.2:129-150

Topic

(2021) Novel Approaches to Lesbian History Cham, Switzerland: Palgrave Macmillan

Topic

pirates and outlaws

lesbian romance

Garber, Linda

(2025) "The Present in Our Past: Reading Lesbian Historical Fiction " Women’s Historical Fiction Across the Globe 59-75 DOI:10.1007/978-3-031-36360-3_4

Topic

(2023) The Race of Publishing: The Troubling Whiteness in Publishing and the Forces Pushing Back Master of Arts in English, Texas Christian University

Topic

García Fernández, Aurora

(2020) Competence, Complicity and Complexity: Hsu-Ming Teo on the Pitfalls and Nuances of Reading and Researching Popular Romance Raudem, Revista de Estudios de las Mujeres 8:261-280 DOI: http://dx.doi.org/10.25115/raudem.v8i0.4297

Topic

romance scholarship

love

Sylvia Visconti/Mercedes Ballesteros Gaibrois

García-Aguilar, Alberto

(2023) De la novela rosa a la comedia romántica: Mi marido es usted (1938), de Mercedes Ballesteros, y el guion de Volver a soñar (1942), de Claudio de la Torre y José López Rubio Ogigia. Revista Electrónica De Estudios Hispánicos 33:97–118 DOI: 10.24197/ogigia.33.2023.97-118

Topic

film/movies

Geraldizo-Pabriga, Maria Gemma

family

Garciano, Shylyn G.

Cuevas, Gloria Con-ui

Macabodbod, Saira Jay J.

Yu, Jaciah Mae B.

Pinote, Ma. Jezan A.

(2023) Romance-Themed Novels: Influenced on Relationship Satisfaction International Journal of Literature Studies 3.3:35-48 DOI: 10.32996/ijts.2023.3.3.5

Topic

psychology

Gardiner, Edmond F.

(1974) Annie S. Swan—forerunner of modern popular fiction Library Review 24.6:251-254 DOI: 10.1108/eb012603

Topic

Annie S. Swan

Gardner, Jeanne Emerson

(2012) ""Dreams May End, But Love Never Does": Marriage and Materialism in American Romance Comics, 1947-1954 " Comic Books and American Cultural History: An Anthology 94-109

Topic

Gardner, Jeanne Emerson

(2013) She Got Her Man, but Could She Keep Him? Love and Marriage in American Romance Comics, 1947–1954 The Journal of American Culture 36.1:16-24 DOI: 10.1111/jacc.12009

Topic

marriage

Gardner, Jeanne

(2011) 'True-To-Life': Romance Comics and Teen-Age Desire, 1947-1954 Forum for World Literature Studies 3.1:118-128

Topic

Gardner, Jeanne

(2012) "Girls Who Sinned in Secret and Paid in Public: Romance Comics, 1949-1954 " Comic Books and the Cold War, 1946-1962: Essays on Graphic Treatment of Communism, the Code and Social Concerns 92-102

Topic

Gardner, Dora Abigail

(2019) Defending the Bodice Ripper MA thesis, Eastern Kentucky University

Topic

Gargano, Elizabeth

(2006) "English Sheiks" and Arab Stereotypes: E. M. Hull, T. E. Lawrence, and the Imperial Masquerade Texas Studies in Literature and Language 48.2:171-186 DOI: 10.1353/tsl.2006.0007

Topic

(2012) "Ornamentalism: Desire, Disavowal, and Displacement in E. M. Hull's The Sheik " Must Read: Rediscovering American Bestsellers from Charlotte Temple to The Da Vinci Code 197-216

Topic

Garton, Stephen

(2008) 'Fit Only for the Scrap Heap': Rebuilding Returned Soldier Manhood in Australia After 1945 Gender & History 20.1:48-67 DOI: 10.1111/j.1468-0424.2007.00501.x

Topic

(2023) Return Fantasies: Martial Masculinity, Misogyny and Homosocial Bonding in the Aftermath of Second World War Gender & History 37.2:715-730 DOI: 10.1111/1468-0424.12742

Topic

Gates, Sarah

(2016) Feminism, NASCAR and the Italian billionaire's secret baby: Defending the romance genre Voiceworks 103 (Autumn):95-101

Topic

authors

Gautier-Villon, Claire-Elizabeth

(1994) The Appeal of the Mass-Market Romance M.A., University of Alberta

Topic

Jayne Ann Krentz/Amanda Quick/Jayne Castle

(2018) Losing Face, Finding Love? The Fate of Facially Disfigured Soldiers in Narratives of the First World War Litteraria Copernicana 3.27:75-89 DOI: 10.12775/LC.2018.032

Topic

(2018) Remediating Romance: Forms and Functions of New Media in Contemporary Love Stories from Togo and South Africa Africa Today 65.1:65-84 DOI: 10.2979/africatoday.65.1.05

Topic

(2022) "Varieties of Romance in Contemporary Popular Togolese Literature " Routledge Handbook of African Popular Culture DOI:10.4324/9781003080855-4

Topic

(1986) Changing heroes: depictions of the male sex role in category romance novels, 1976-1983 MA thesis, Ohio State University

Topic

Gelder, Ken

(2004) Popular Fiction: The Logics and Practices of a Literary Field Abingdon, Oxon: Routledge

Topic

Victoria Holt/Jean Plaidy/Eleanor Burford Hibbert

Barbara Taylor Bradford

Gelder, Ken

Weaver, Rachael

(2010) Louise Mack and Colonial Pseudo Literature Southerly 70.2:82-95

Topic

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

Louise Mack

national identity

metafiction

Gelder, Ken

(2016) New Directions in Popular Fiction: Genre, Distribution, Reproduction Houndmills, Basingstoke: Palgrave Macmillan

Genz, Carole

(2004) Romance Revisited: Transformations of the Marital Love Triangle in Women’s Fictions PhD, University of Stirling

Topic

Jayne Ann Krentz/Amanda Quick/Jayne Castle

Sandra Brown

Nicole Jordan

Stephanie Mittman

Maggie Osborne/Margaret St. George

Susan Elizabeth Phillips

(2020) In the company of wolves: Werewolves, wolves and wild children Manchester: Manchester University Press

George, Sam

Hughes, Bill

(2020) "Introduction: from preternatural pastoral to paranormal romance " In the company of wolves: Werewolves, wolves and wild children 1-17 DOI:10.7765/9781526129048.00007

Topic

animals

George, Laura J.

(2021) "Judith Taverner as dandy-in-training in Georgette Heyer’s Regency Buck " Georgette Heyer, History, and Historical Fiction 53-72 DOI:10.2307/j.ctv15d818n.9

Topic

Gerlitz, Laura Michelle

(2019) Judging a Book By Its Cover: Bringing the Digital Humanities into Reader’s Advisory MA thesis, University of Alberta

Topic

(2007) Histoire du livre et de l'imprimé au Canada, Vol. III: De 1918 à 1980 Toronto: Presses de l’Université de Montréal

Ghiazza, Silvana

(1991) "Così donna mi piaci. La letteratura rosa negli anni venti-quaranta " I best seller del ventennio: Il regime e il libro di massa 129-277

Ghosh, Srijani

(2023) Diversity Sells: Uzma Jalaluddin’s Muslim Adaptation of Pride and Prejudice English Studies 104.3:539-558 DOI: 10.1080/0013838X.2023.2180896

Topic

Uzma Jalaluddin

Islam

(2025) On Christian Nationalism: Critical and Theological Perspectives London: Routledge

Giet, Sylvette

(1990) "Un récit sentimental en images: Le roman-dessiné " Le roman sentimental: actes du colloque des 14-15-16 mars 1989 à la Faculté des lettres de Limoges, volume 1 81-92

Topic

Gifford, James

(2017) "Mary Stewart’s Greek Novels: Hellenism, Orientalism and the Cultural Politics of Pulp Presentation " Greece in British Women’s Literary Imagination, 1913-2013 99-118

Topic

(1997) A History of Scottish Women’s Writing Edinburgh: Edinburgh University Press

Gil Gómez, Alicia

Escrig Gil, Gemma

Forcada Martínez, Águeda

(2009) Poder, poderes y empoderamiento… ¿Y el amor? ¡Ah, el amor!: Actas 5º Congreso Estatal Isonomía sobre Igualdad entre mujeres y hombres Castelló de la Plana: Fundación Isonomía. Universitat Jaume I; Publicacions de la Universitat Jaume I

Gilbert, Pam

Taylor, Sandra

(1991) Fashioning the Feminine: Girls, Popular Culture, and Schooling North Sydney, Australia: Allen & Unwin

Topic

Gilbert, Pam

(1993) "Dolly Fictions: Teen Romance Down Under " Texts of Desire: Essays on Fiction, Femininity and Schooling 69-86 DOI:10.4324/9781315810119

Topic

(1993) "Reading the Romance " Nation, Culture, Text: Australian Cultural and Media Studies 246-256 DOI:10.4324/9780203131992

Topic

Gildersleeve, Jessica

(2021) The Routledge Companion to Australian Literature New York: Routledge

Giles, Judy

(1995) "'You Meet 'Em and That's It': Working Class Women's Refusal of Romance Between the Wars in Britain " Romance Revisited 279-292

Topic

Gilkison, Jean

(1992) A asunción das normas da novela rosa en "De amor y de sombra" de Isabel Allende Boletín Galego de Literatura 7:23-31

Topic

Isabel Allende

Gill, Rosalind

Herdieckerhoff, Elena

(2006) Rewriting The Romance: New Femininities in Chick Lit? Feminist Media Studies 6.4:487-504 DOI: 10.1080/14680770600989947

Topic

(2007) Gender and the Media Cambridge: Polity

Topic

chick lit

Gillespie, Diane F.

(2004) Virginia Woolf and the Curious Case of Berta Ruck Woolf Studies Annual 10:109-138

Topic

Berta Ruck

Gillingham, Erica

(2018) Representations of same-sex relationships between female characters in all-ages comics: Princess Princess Ever After and Lumberjanes Journal of Lesbian Studies 22.4:390-401 DOI: https://doi.org/10.1080/10894160.2018.1450600

Topic

lesbian romance

Gillis, Stacy

(2015) The Cross-Dresser, the Thief, His Daughter and Her Lover: Queer Desire and Romance in Georgette Heyer’s These Old Shades Women: A Cultural Review 26.1-2:57-74 DOI: 10.1080/09574042.2015.1035024

Topic

Gillis, Stacy

(2018) "Manners, Money, and Marriage: Austen, Heyer, and the Literary Genealogy of the Regency Romance " After Austen: Reinventions, Rewritings, Revisitings 81-101 DOI:10.1007/978-3-319-95894-1_5

Topic

Jane Austen

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

(2015) Sexual Content in Young Adult Literature: Reading between the Sheets Lanham, Maryland: Rowman & Littlefield

Topic

Gilmour, Rachael

Schwarz, Bill

(2011) End of Empire and the English Novel since 1945 Manchester and New York: Manchester University Press

Giovanni, Chiara

(2023) Hetero Ever After? Romance Novels, Race, and the Limits of Social Dreaming Post45 :

Topic

Jasmine Guillory

Alisha Rai

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

Glass, E. R.

Mineo, A.

(1986) "Georgette Heyer and the Uses of Regency " La performance del testo: atti del VII Congresso Nazionale dell'Associazione Italiana di Anglistica (A.I.A.), Siena, 2-4 Novembre 1984 283-292

Topic

(2016) "Postbellum, Pre-Harlequin: American Romance Publishing in the Late Nineteenth and Early Twentieth Century " Romance Fiction and American Culture: Love as the Practice of Freedom? 57-70

Topic

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

Selinger, Eric Murphy

(2016) Romance Fiction and American Culture: Love as the Practice of Freedom? Farnham, Surrey: Ashgate

Gleason, William

(2011) Belles, Beaux, and Paratexts: American Story Papers and the Project of Romance Journal of Popular Romance Studies 2.1:

Topic

Gleason, William

(2016) "The Inside Story: Jennifer Crusie and the Architecture of Love " Popular Fiction and Spatiality: Reading Genre Settings 79-93

Topic

(2026) Sport as Suitor: The Presence and Disruption of Romance Tropes in Young Adult Sports Fiction Literature 6.2: DOI: 10.3390/literature6020009

Topic

(2018) “And he was an Arab!:” Imperial Femininity and Pleasure in E. M. Hull's 1919 Desert Romance, The Sheik Honors thesis, University of Kansas

Topic

Glover, Thomasine

Hearvey, Crystal Monay

McCoy, Shuntay

Curtright, Lauren

(2000) Anita Richmond Bunkley Voices from the Gaps :

Topic

Anita Richmond Bunkley

Goade, Sally A.

(1999) "And With the Land, Our Spirits So Blended": Interrelated Frontier Quests of Self in Contemporary Historical Romance - A Study of Rosanne Bittner's 'Savage Destiny' series Doctor of Arts, Idaho State University

Topic

Rosanne Bittner

Native American romance

Goade, Sally

(2007) Empowerment versus Oppression: Twenty-First Century Views of Popular Romance Novels Newcastle: Cambridge Scholars Publishing

Goade, Sally

(2007) "Introduction " Empowerment versus Oppression: Twenty-First Century Views of Popular Romance Novels 1-11

Topic

Goade, Sally

(2007) "Understanding the Pleasure: An Undergraduate Romance Reading Community " Empowerment versus Oppression: Twenty-First Century Views of Popular Romance Novels 206-230

Topic

(2004) Reading the Popular in Contemporary Spanish Texts Newark, Delaware: University of Delaware Press

Goldman, Crystal

(2012) Love in the Stacks: Popular Romance Collection Development in Academic Libraries Journal of Popular Romance Studies 3.1:

Topic

Goldman, Crystal

(2015) Special Issue: Romancing the Library (Editor’s Introduction) Journal of Popular Romance Studies 5.1:

Topic

(2017) El amor en tiempos neoliberales: apuntes críticos sobre la novela rosa contemporánea Ciudad de México: Bonilla Artigas

Topic

(2017) Reading the Romance Writer as an Author-Entrepreneur Interférences littéraires/Literaire interferenties 21:131-160

Topic

(2019) La promesa utópica del final feliz Encuentros2050 32:8-11

Topic

happy ending

(2020) "Amores peligrosos: nacionalismo, territorio y violencia en la novela rosa paramilitar y policial " Canon sin fronteras: Estudios críticos sobre géneros populares

Topic

police officers/police forces

Catherine Coulter

(2022) El placer de la lectura: cuerpos, afectos, textos Ciudad de México: Universidad Nacional Autónoma de México

(2022) "La promesa de felicidad: la novela rosa y el placer de la lectura afectiva " El placer de la lectura: cuerpos, afectos, textos 65-94

Topic

(2022) "Women Policing Whiteness: Deviance and Surveillance in Contemporary Police Procedural Romance " New Frontiers in Popular Romance: Essays on the Genre in the 21st Century 167-186

Topic

police officers/police forces

(2023) Female Warriors, Social Injustice and the Transformational Force of Anger in Jaye Wells' Sabina Kane Series Esferas Literarias 6:21-37 DOI: 10.21071/elrl.vi6.16293

Topic

(2022) "Romance Has Broken My Dichotomous Key " Black Love Matters: Real Talk on Romance, Being Seen, and Happily Ever After 189-205

Topic

Gómez Calderón, María José

(2007) Romancing the Dark Ages: The Viking Hero in Sentimental Narrative Boletín Millares Carlo 26:287-297

Topic

Heather Graham/Shannon Drake/Heather Graham Pozzessere

(2010) "La dominación rosa: Corín Tellado y la construcción de la identidad de la pareja mexicana " Caleidoscopio hispánico: estudios lingüísticos y literarios 27-50

Topic

Mexico

Hernández López, María de la O

Gómez Gray, Alana

(2018) Lectura, paraliteratura y mujeres en España: de la novela rosa a cincuenta sombras Arenal 25.1:215-236

Topic

Fernández Amaya, Lucía

(2009) Pragmatics Applied to Language Teaching and Learning Newcastle upon Tyne: Cambridge Scholars Publishing

González Cruz, María-Isabel

(2018) Hispanismos en el discurso romántico de Harlequin y Mills & Boon. Ámbitos temáticos y funciones socio-pragmáticas Moderna språk 112.1:163-184

Topic

islands

(2016) "Discourse Types and Functions in Popular Romance Fiction Novels ("Work in Progress") " On the move: Glancing Backwards To Build a Future in English Studies 265-271

Topic

(2017) Conciencia Sociolingüística e Hispanismos en un Corpus de Novela Rosa Inglesa Pragmática Sociocultural/Sociocultural Pragmatics 5.2:125-149 DOI: 10.1515/soprag-2017-0014

Topic

(2017) Exploring the dynamics of English/Spanish codeswitching in a written corpus Alicante Journal of English Studies / Revista Alicantina de Estudios Ingleses 30:331-355 DOI: 10.14198/raei.2017.30.12

Topic

Vera-Cazorla, María Jesús

(2019) " Género e identidad cultural: perfiles femeninos en un corpus de novela rosa " La educación de las mujeres en Iberoamérica: análisis histórico 627-674

Topic

(2019) Viaje y romance en Canarias: el discurso del paraíso en dos novelas publicadas en los Estados Unidos Revista de Filología de la Universidad de La Laguna 38:111-124 DOI: 10.25145/j.refiull.2019.38.007

Topic

Nancy Kennedy

(2020) Hacia un glosario de hispanismos en un corpus de novela rosa inglesa contemporánea Onomázein: Revista de lingüística, filología y traducción de la Pontificia Universidad Católica de Chile 48:178-201 DOI: 10.7764/onomazein.48.08

Topic

(2021) "Constructing the Exotic Other: Paradise Discourse and Environmental Awareness in a Corpus of Popular Romance Fiction Novels " Romantic Escapes: Post-Millennial Trends in Contemporary Popular Romance Fiction 203-222

Topic

ecocriticism/environmentalism/climate change