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Fanetti, Susan Introduction—Popular Romance in the 21st Century: Time to Claim Its Due 2022 romance scholarship, genre definitions, happy ending, Publishing, Fifty Shades
White, Bonnie Freedom, Sincerity, and the Modern Woman in the Interwar Romances of Berta Ruck 2022 Berta Ruck, history, gender, UK, cross-dressing, LGBT+ characters, readers and/or authors, sex/sexuality, fashion/clothing, emotions
Burge, Amy Beyond Outlander: Annie S. Swan and the Scottish popular romance novel 2022 Annie S. Swan, Scotland, Older and/or precursor texts (may not be "romance" as now defined), Karen Marie Moning, Lynsay Sands, settings
Iché, Virginie; Sorlin, Sandrine The Rhetoric of Literary Communication: From Classical English Novels to Contemporary Digital Fiction 2022
Frederick, Rhonda D. Evidence of Things Not Seen: Fantastical Blackness in Genre Fictions 2022 Colin Channer, Jamaica, readers, Caribbean, race/ethnicity
Belk, Jaime Save Our Love 2022 African American romance, Christian romance, Harlequin Mills & Boon, happy ending
Burge, Amy; Folie, Sandra Girls of Riyadh and Desperate in Dubai: reading and writing romance in the Middle East 2022 chick lit, race/ethnicity, Islam, Rajaa Alsanea, Ameera Al Hakawati, Saudi Arabia, United Arab Emirates, sheikh romance
de los Heros, Susana Language ideologies, landscape and narrative voice in The Wind off the Small Isles 2022 Mary Stewart, linguistics, race/ethnicity, settings
Wagner, Wendy The “Grandly and Inhospitably Strange” World of Autistic Heroines in Romance Fiction 2022 health/medical, disability, Helen Hoang, Sherry Thomas, Talia Hibbert, gender, community
Hendricks, Margo; Moody-Freeman, Julie E. Introduction to the Special Issue on Black Romance 2022 romance scholarship
Selinger, Eric Murphy Cant and Canonicity 2022 romance scholarship, trash/literary and or intellectual quality, teaching romance, genre definitions
Namysłowska, Karolina Romance novels in translation: Focus on defining features of selected texts translated from English into Polish. 2022 Poland, translation, Penny Jordan/Caroline Courtney, Diana Palmer, Sandra Brown, Jude Deveraux
Ivanski, Chantelle; Maslej, Marta M.; Mar, Raymond A. Empirical Approaches to Studying Emotion in Literature: The Case of Gender 2022 science/technology, emotions, gender, readers, authors, romance scholarship
Beyer, Charlotte Centring Women of Colour: Decolonising the Literature Curriculum with Kamila Shamsie’s Home Fire and Bolu Babalola’s Love in Colour 2022 teaching romance, myth, Bolu Babalola, race/ethnicity
Vivanco, Laura Historical Accuracy, Racism, Courtney Milan, and The Duke Who Didn’t Conform to Genre Norms 2022 race/ethnicity, historical romance, authors, Courtney Milan, history, United States of America, UK, humour
Ivanski, Chantelle; Humphries, Stacey; van Dalen-Oskam, Karina; Mar, Raymond A. Do We Judge Fiction by the Author’s Gender? 2022 trash/literary and or intellectual quality, gender
Nilson, Maria; Posti, Piia K Speglingar av feelgood: Genre, etikett eller känsla? 2022
Russo, Stephanie These old shades: Georgette Heyer’s unruly eighteenth century 2022 Georgette Heyer, gender, history, fashion/clothing
Ramos-García, María Teresa Definiciones transatlánticas de la raza blanca en las novelas góticas de Louise Bergstrom en Canarias (1971-1972) 2022 Louise Bergstrom, gothic romance, race/ethnicity
Allan, Jonathan A. Healing Toxic Masculinity in Sweatpants Season by Danielle Allen 2022 Danielle Allen, gender, feminism
Sutton, Denise Hardesty Marketing Love: Romance Publishers Mills & Boon and Harlequin Enterprises, 1930–1990 2022 Harlequin Mills & Boon, Publishing, capitalism/business
Tang, Ning Reading Online Romance Novels Is Related To Chinese Readers' View of Love 2022 China, readers, love
Iché, Virginie; Sorlin, Sandrine The Rhetoric of Literary Communication: From Classical English Novels to Contemporary Digital Fiction 2022
Fanetti, Susan New Frontiers in Popular Romance: Essays on the Genre in the 21st Century 2022 Diana Gabaldon, India, LGBT+ characters, readers and/or authors, China
Parnell, Claire Reading and writing Muslim romance on Wattpad 2022 Muslim romance, Publishing
González-Cruz, María Isabel Interdisciplinarity in Romance Fiction 2022 romance scholarship, romance and, or as, activism
Golubov, Nattie Women Policing Whiteness: Deviance and Surveillance in Contemporary Police Procedural Romance 2022 race/ethnicity, romantic suspense, gender, social/economic class, Catherine Coulter, Marie Force, Kendra Elliot, family, work, community
Dandridge, Rita B. Vivian Lorraine Stephens: Romance Pioneer 2022 Vivian Stephens, Publishing, race/ethnicity, African American romance, sex/sexuality, Rosalind Welles - pen name of Elsie B. Washington, Amii Lorin, Jayne Ann Krentz/Amanda Quick/Jayne Castle, disability, Harlequin Mills & Boon, United States of America, Sandra Kitt, ageism, authors
Moody-Freeman, Julie E. Response to Eric Selinger’s “Cant and Canonicity” 2022 romance scholarship, Publishing, race/ethnicity, Brenda Jackson, Rochelle Alers, teaching romance
Dexl, Carmen; Gerlsbeck, Silvia The Male Body in Representation: Returning to Matter 2022
Michelson, Anna Redefining the Romance: Classification and Community in a Popular Fiction Genre 2022 genre definitions, sociology, authors, romance and, or as, activism, sex/sexuality, LGBT+ characters, readers and/or authors, race/ethnicity, erotic romance, happy ending, readers, Publishing, fanfiction, Fifty Shades, Suzanne Brockmann, m/m romance, African American romance, Native American romance
Farooqui, Javaria Romance, Austen, and English-Medium Schooling in Pakistan 2022 Pakistan, readers, historical romance, Jane Austen, social/economic class
Ivanski, Chantelle; Maslej, Marta M.; Mar, Raymond A. Empirical Approaches to Studying Emotion in Literature: The Case of Gender 2022 science/technology, emotions, gender, readers, authors, romance scholarship
Pierini, Francesca Critical Approaches to the Modern and Contemporary Anglophone Romance Novel (From A Room with a View to Fifty Shades of Grey) 2022 teaching romance, E. M. Forster, Jennifer Crusie, E. M. Hull, Beverly Jenkins, Alyssa Cole, Fifty Shades, K. J. Charles
Ivanski, Chantelle; Humphries, Stacey; van Dalen-Oskam, Karina; Mar, Raymond A. Do We Judge Fiction by the Author’s Gender? 2022 trash/literary and or intellectual quality, gender
Nilson, Maria; Posti, Piia K Speglingar av feelgood: Genre, etikett eller känsla? 2022
McAlister, Jodi Love and listening: the erotics of talk in the popular romance novel 2022 feminism, gender, Jennifer Crusie, Diana Gabaldon, Alissa Johnson, Courtney Milan
de los Heros, Susana Ideologías lingüísticas, paisaje y voz narrativa en The Wind off the Small Isles 2022 Mary Stewart, linguistics, race/ethnicity, settings
Sullivan, Ashleigh Taylor From Darcy to Dickheads: Why Do Women Love the Bad Boy? 2022 rape and/or intimate partner violence/abuse, readers, gothic romance, gender, L. J. Shen, sex/sexuality, BDSM, Penelope Douglas, Emily Brontë, Charlotte Brontë, Fifty Shades, Jade West
Fisher, Maryanne L.; Meredith, Tami M. Evolutionary and sociocultural themes in cover art on Harlequin romance novels: A temporal analysis 2022 evolutionary psychology, paratext
Farooqui, Javaria Romance in an Old Bookshop 2022 Pakistan, Publishing, social/economic class, readers
Pryde, Jessica P. Black Love Matters: Real Talk on Romance, Being Seen, and Happily Ever After 2022 African American romance, race/ethnicity, readers, LGBT+ characters, readers and/or authors, Adriana Herrera, Jasmine Guillory, food, drink, Kosoko Jackson, Christina C. Jones, Publishing
Hallett, Hilary A. Inventing the It Girl: How Elinor Glyn Created the Modern Romance and Conquered Early Hollywood 2022 Elinor Glyn, Older and/or precursor texts (may not be "romance" as now defined)
Fenske, Emma K. Romancing the New Evangelical Woman 2022 Christian romance, United States of America, religion/spirituality, Francine Rivers, Janette Oke, Karen Kingsbury, gender, health/medical, family, historical romance
Golubov, Nattie The geopolitics of love: patriotism, homeland and the domestication of violent masculinities in US paramilitary romance fiction 2022 war/armed forces, United States of America, national identity, gender, romantic suspense, Cherry Adair, Maya Banks, Pamela Clare, Kaylea Cross, Elizabeth Dyer, Lori Foster, Cindy Gerard, Elle Kennedy, Lynne Raye Harris, Lisa Marie Rice
Lecercle, Jean-Jacques Interpellation and Counter-Interpellation in the Novel 2022 readers, Violet Winspear, Jane Austen, trash/literary and or intellectual quality
Alberto, Maria Original Slash, Romance, and C.S. Pacat’s Captive Prince 2022 C. S. Pacat, fanfiction, Publishing, LGBT+ characters, readers and/or authors, sex/sexuality, rape and/or intimate partner violence/abuse, race/ethnicity
Huguley, Piper Her Bodyguard: Sandra Kitt’s The Color of Love as a foundational text for BWWM romance 2022 Sandra Kitt, race/ethnicity, African American romance, police officers/police forces
McAlister, Jodi Isn’t It Iconic: Canonical Logics and the Romance Genre 2022 romance scholarship
Dexl, Carmen; Gerlsbeck, Silvia The Male Body in Representation: Returning to Matter 2022
Long, Veronica Lee Individuation and the Romance Novel 2022 gender, myth, psychology, love, readers, Jane Austen
Sinha, Mona Reading Mills and Boon in India From the Post-Colonial to the Millennial Experience 2022 India, Harlequin Mills & Boon, readers, chick lit
Ivanski, Chantelle; Maslej, Marta M.; Mar, Raymond A. Empirical Approaches to Studying Emotion in Literature: The Case of Gender 2022 science/technology, emotions, gender, readers, authors, romance scholarship
Farooqui, Javaria On Loving Popular Fiction in Pakistan 2022 trash/literary and or intellectual quality, genre definitions, Pakistan
Pupipat, Apisak; Rungkaew, Titirut; Meeparp, Lampoon Judging a Book by its Back Cover: Spoken/Informal Register as Found in Happily-Ever-After Women’s Novel Blurbs 2022 linguistics, paratext
Harrod, Mary; Leonard, Suzanne; Negra, Diane Imagining "We" in the Age of "I": Romance and Social Bonding in Contemporary Culture 2022
Hendricks, Margo; Moody-Freeman, Julie E. Journal of Popular Romance Studies: Special Issue: Black Romance 2022 African American romance, Sandra Kitt, Brenda Jackson, Beverly Jenkins, Vivian Stephens, Alyssa Cole, Rebekah Weatherspoon, Gwyneth Bolton/Gwendolyn Pough, Rochelle Alers, Margo Hendricks/Elysabeth Grace
Carter, Ellen What's in a name? A corpus study of phonological differences between gay and straight romance heroes' names 2022 LGBT+ characters, readers and/or authors, gender, linguistics
González-Cruz, María Isabel La interdisciplinariedad en la ficción romántica 2022 romance scholarship, romance and, or as, activism
Dudek, Debra; Reid Boyd, Elizabeth; Grobbelaar, Madalena; Williams, Rose Tingles and Shivers: First Kisses and Intimate Civility in Eliza Redgold’s Historical Harlequin Romances Pre–and Post-#MeToo 2022 Harlequin Mills & Boon, sex/sexuality, Elizabeth Reid Boyd (pen name Eliza Redgold), psychology, feminism
Fisher, Maryanne L.; Meredith, Tami M. Evolutionary and sociocultural themes in cover art on Harlequin romance novels: A temporal analysis 2022 evolutionary psychology, paratext
Larson, Christine Streaming books: confluencers, Kindle Unlimited and the platform imaginary 2022 Publishing, authors
Saxena, Vandana Memory and Nation-Building: World War II in Malaysian Literature 2022 Malaysia, Noel Barber
Arvanitaki, Eirini Masculinities in Post-Millennial Popular Romance 2022 gender, Harlequin Mills & Boon
Karaminas, Vicki; Geczy, Adam; Gibson, Pamela Church Fashionable Masculinities: Queers, Pimp Daddies, and Lumbersexuals 2022
Cruz-Bibb, Rosanna Patriarchy, Feminism, and The Space Between: The Production and Consumption of Feminism in Romance Novels 2022 feminism, readers, authors, Publishing, race/ethnicity, happy ending
Pierini, Francesca “Roma” spelled backwards: love and heterotopic space in contemporary romance novels set in Italy 2022 Italy, settings
Jenkins, Beverly A Short History of African American Romance 2022 Older and/or precursor texts (may not be "romance" as now defined), Frances Watkins Harper, romances in magazines and newspapers, African American romance, Publishing, Beverly Jenkins
Allan, Jonathan A. One Sexy Daddy: Desirable Dad "Bods" and the Popular Romance Novel 2022 gender, fat, fatness, family
Tindall, Natalie T. J. Black Romance Authors and Community Cultural Wealth: A Case Study of Brenda Jackson’s Career 2022 Brenda Jackson, race/ethnicity, Publishing, authors, readers, community, African American romance
Sharma, Vishal; Bray, Kirsten E.; Kumar, Neha; Grinter, Rebecca E. Romancing the Algorithm: Navigating Constantly, Frequently, and Silently Changing Algorithms for Digital Work 2022 Publishing, authors
Hendricks, Margo Race and Romance: Coloring the Past 2022 race/ethnicity, Older and/or precursor texts (may not be "romance" as now defined), Heliodorus, Beverly Jenkins, Margo Hendricks/Elysabeth Grace, trash/literary and or intellectual quality, genre definitions
Lindström Kruse, Miranda Pinsamma läsningar: En affektteoretisk studie av #SpicyBooks på TikTok 2022 readers, libraries/librarians
Holmes, Diana Plaisirs d'amour: Love and popular fiction in contemporary France 2022 France
Allan, Jonathan A. “A Most Unlikely Hero”: Disability, Masculinity, and Sexuality in Harlequin Superromance Novels 2022 gender, disability, sex/sexuality, Fay Robinson/Carmel Parsons Thomaston, Kay Stockham, readers, romance scholarship
Buttrick, Nicholas; Westgate, Erin C.; Oishi, Shigehiro Reading Literary Fiction Is Associated With a More Complex Worldview 2022 psychology, readers, trash/literary and or intellectual quality
Pupipat, Apisak; Rungkaew, Titirut; Meeparp, Lampoon Judging a Book by its Back Cover: Spoken/Informal Register as Found in Happily-Ever-After Women’s Novel Blurbs 2022 linguistics, paratext
Harrod, Mary; Leonard, Suzanne; Negra, Diane Imagining "We" in the Age of "I": Romance and Social Bonding in Contemporary Culture 2022
Hendricks, Margo; Moody-Freeman, Julie E. Journal of Popular Romance Studies: Special Issue: Black Romance 2022 African American romance, Sandra Kitt, Brenda Jackson, Beverly Jenkins, Vivian Stephens, Alyssa Cole, Rebekah Weatherspoon, Gwyneth Bolton/Gwendolyn Pough, Rochelle Alers, Margo Hendricks/Elysabeth Grace
Ficke, Sarah House, home and husband in historical romance fiction 2022 historical romance, Jane Austen, Cecilia Grant, Anna Cowan, Anna Harrington, Courtney Milan, history, work, family, marriage, settings
González-Cruz, María Isabel Introduction 2022 genre definitions, teaching romance
Dudek, Debra; Reid Boyd, Elizabeth; Grobbelaar, Madalena; Williams, Rose Tingles and Shivers: First Kisses and Intimate Civility in Eliza Redgold’s Historical Harlequin Romances Pre–and Post-#MeToo 2022 Harlequin Mills & Boon, sex/sexuality, Elizabeth Reid Boyd (pen name Eliza Redgold), psychology, feminism
Priyatna, Aquarini; Wardiani, Sri Rijati Naturalization and Romanticization of Violence in Indonesian Teen Lit Jingga Series by Esti Kinasih 2022 Esti Kinasih, Indonesia, YA/teenage romance, rape and/or intimate partner violence/abuse, gender
Guillén-Nieto, Victoria; Stein, Dieter Language as Evidence: Doing Forensic Linguistics 2022
Karaminas, Vicki; Geczy, Adam; Gibson, Pamela Church Fashionable Masculinities: Queers, Pimp Daddies, and Lumbersexuals 2022
Selinger, Eric Murphy Disaggregating attraction: asexuality and genre critique in Alex Beecroft's Blue Steel Chain 2022 Alex Beecroft, LGBT+ characters, readers and/or authors, sex/sexuality, religion/spirituality, love, marriage, Ann Herendeen, metafiction, trash/literary and or intellectual quality, Christian romance, food, drink, metaphor/symbolism
Bell, Carole V. I'm Rooting for Everybody Black: Black Solidarity, Black World-Building, and Black Love 2022 United States of America, race/ethnicity, African American romance, romance and, or as, activism, community, Alexandria House, Christina C. Jones, Alyssa Cole, social/economic class, fat, fatness, feminism, gender
Hendricks, Margo Against Odds: Beverly Jenkins’ Indigo and Black Historical Romance 2022 Beverly Jenkins, historical romance, race/ethnicity, social/economic class, United States of America, African American romance, history
Sharma, Vishal; Bray, Kirsten E.; Kumar, Neha; Grinter, Rebecca E. Romancing the Algorithm: Navigating Constantly, Frequently, and Silently Changing Algorithms for Digital Work 2022 Publishing, authors
González-Cruz, María Isabel Hispanicisms in Romance Fiction: An Annotated Glossary 2022 linguistics, Spain, Harlequin Mills & Boon
Buttrick, Nicholas; Westgate, Erin C.; Oishi, Shigehiro Reading Literary Fiction Is Associated With a More Complex Worldview 2022 psychology, readers, trash/literary and or intellectual quality
Pupipat, Apisak; Rungkaew, Titirut; Meeparp, Lampoon Judging a Book by its Back Cover: Spoken/Informal Register as Found in Happily-Ever-After Women’s Novel Blurbs 2022 linguistics, paratext
Harrod, Mary; Leonard, Suzanne; Negra, Diane Imagining "We" in the Age of "I": Romance and Social Bonding in Contemporary Culture 2022
Musila, Grace A. Routledge Handbook of African Popular Culture 2022
Allan, Jonathan Self-improvement as proof of love in The Bromance Book Club 2022 gender, love, Lyssa Kay Adams
Johnson, Brian Weird Bedfellows: H. P. Lovecraft, m/m Romance, and the New Queer Families of Jordan L. Hawk's Whyborne & Griffin Series 2022 Jordan L. Hawk, m/m romance, paranormal/fantasy/time-travel romance, LGBT+ characters, readers and/or authors
Pérez-Casal, Inmaculada Popular romance novels: past, present and future 2022 genre definitions, Older and/or precursor texts (may not be "romance" as now defined), romance and, or as, activism, romance scholarship
Dudek, Debra; Reid Boyd, Elizabeth; Grobbelaar, Madalena; Williams, Rose Tingles and Shivers: First Kisses and Intimate Civility in Eliza Redgold’s Historical Harlequin Romances Pre–and Post-#MeToo 2022 Harlequin Mills & Boon, sex/sexuality, Elizabeth Reid Boyd (pen name Eliza Redgold), psychology, feminism
Stetson, Suzanne Reconciling Reader Response and Feminism in Late Twentieth-Century Erotic Historical Romances 2022 feminism, sex/sexuality
Priyatna, Aquarini; Wardiani, Sri Rijati Naturalization and Romanticization of Violence in Indonesian Teen Lit Jingga Series by Esti Kinasih 2022 Esti Kinasih, Indonesia, YA/teenage romance, rape and/or intimate partner violence/abuse, gender
Guillén-Nieto, Victoria; Stein, Dieter Language as Evidence: Doing Forensic Linguistics 2022
Karaminas, Vicki; Geczy, Adam; Gibson, Pamela Church Fashionable Masculinities: Queers, Pimp Daddies, and Lumbersexuals 2022
Selinger, Eric Murphy Disenchantment and its discontents: “modern love” and irony in popular romance fiction 2022 love, Jennifer Crusie, science/technology, religion/spirituality, marriage, Alisha Rai, feminism, emotions, Alexis Hall, metafiction, Francine Rivers, fairytales/folktales, health/medical
Jackson, Nicole M. Finding Queer Black Women in Romance. Finding Bits and Pieces of Me. 2022 Nicole M. Jackson/Katrina Jackson/Brandy Bush, LGBT+ characters, readers and/or authors, African American romance, Rebekah Weatherspoon, Alyssa Cole, Ann Allen Shockley
Jackson, Nicole M. Freedom’s Epilogue: Love as Freedom in Alyssa Cole’s Historical Novellas 2022 Alyssa Cole, historical romance, history, race/ethnicity, African American romance, United States of America, emotions, love, family, community, marriage, LGBT+ characters, readers and/or authors, happy ending
Sharma, Vishal; Bray, Kirsten E.; Kumar, Neha; Grinter, Rebecca E. Romancing the Algorithm: Navigating Constantly, Frequently, and Silently Changing Algorithms for Digital Work 2022 Publishing, authors
Brooks, Ann The Routledge Companion to Romantic Love 2022 love
Cannon, Emanni N Contemporary Romance and the Question of Literary Value 2022 trash/literary and or intellectual quality, Jane Austen, Georgette Heyer, Colleen Hoover
Abrahamsson, Elin Rättvisemärkt romantik: Feelgood, flärd och feminism i samtida svensk romance 2022 feminism, contemporary romance, Sweden, Simona Ahrnstedt, Sofia Fritzson, Fifty Shades, Twilight, Christina Schiller
Buttrick, Nicholas; Westgate, Erin C.; Oishi, Shigehiro Reading Literary Fiction Is Associated With a More Complex Worldview 2022 psychology, readers, trash/literary and or intellectual quality
Alcala Gonzalez, Antonio; Sederholm, Carl H. Lovecraft in the 21st Century: Dead, But Still Dreaming 2022
Beyer, Charlotte Decolonising the Literature Curriculum 2022
Teo, Hsu-Ming Transported for life, transported by love: love and the Australian convict romance novel 2022 Australia, historical romance, history, gender, love, Tea Cooper, Lena Dowling, Joanna Lloyd, Candice Proctor
González-Cruz, María Isabel Introducción 2022 genre definitions, teaching romance
Pérez-Gil, María del Mar Imperfect paradise: Madeira in the novels of Margaret Rome, Katrina Britt, and Sally Wentworth 2022 Harlequin Mills & Boon, settings, national identity, race/ethnicity, Portugal, UK, Margaret Rome, Ethel Connell as Katrina Britt, Doreen Hornsblow as Sally Wentworth, Sara Wood, gender
Dudek, Debra; Reid Boyd, Elizabeth; Grobbelaar, Madalena; Williams, Rose Tingles and Shivers: First Kisses and Intimate Civility in Eliza Redgold’s Historical Harlequin Romances Pre–and Post-#MeToo 2022 Harlequin Mills & Boon, sex/sexuality, Elizabeth Reid Boyd (pen name Eliza Redgold), psychology, feminism
Nankervis, Madison Diversity in Romance Novels: Race, Sexuality, Neurodivergence, Disability, and Fat Representation 2022 Publishing, race/ethnicity, sex/sexuality, LGBT+ characters, readers and/or authors, disability, fat, fatness
Chawla, Gitanjali; Mittal, Sangeeta Indian Popular Fiction: Redefining the Canon 2022
Dryden, Therese The single-mother and the law: romance novels making room for female voices in patriarchal spaces 2022 family, Robyn Carr
Hendricks, Margo How a Black Author Found Her Romance History 2022 Margo Hendricks/Elysabeth Grace, Older and/or precursor texts (may not be "romance" as now defined), teaching romance, race/ethnicity, African American romance, readers, Beverly Jenkins, Alyssa Cole, paratext, historical romance, Publishing
Wells, Juliette Afterword: Sex, Romance, and Representation in Uzma Jalaluddin’s Ayesha at Last 2022 Uzma Jalaluddin, Jane Austen, sex/sexuality, religion/spirituality, Islam
Pritchard, Jamee N. Reading the Black Romance: Exploring Black Sexual Politics in the Romance Fiction of Rebekah Weatherspoon 2022 Rebekah Weatherspoon, sex/sexuality, African American romance, gender, race/ethnicity, BDSM, erotic romance, feminism, LGBT+ characters, readers and/or authors, Ann Allen Shockley
Sharma, Vishal; Bray, Kirsten E.; Kumar, Neha; Grinter, Rebecca E. Romancing the Algorithm: Navigating Constantly, Frequently, and Silently Changing Algorithms for Digital Work 2022 Publishing, authors
Pérez-Gil, María del Mar Mass Tourism, Ecocriticism, and Mills & Boon Romances (1970s-1980s) 2022 Harlequin Mills & Boon, settings, history, Doreen Hornsblow as Sally Wentworth, Spain, Greece, Margaret Rome, Elizabeth Hunter, Violet Winspear, rural romance, Ethel Connell as Katrina Britt, Kay Thorpe, Iris Danbury, ecocriticism/environmentalism/climate change
Brunet, Peyton; Davis, Blair Comic Book Women: Characters, Creators, and Culture in the Golden Age 2022 comics/manga, African American romance, LGBT+ characters, readers and/or authors
Hanson, Donna Maree Romance fiction as a bridge to understanding changing gender roles in society 2022 readers, authors, feminism, gender, science fiction/futuristic romance, rape and/or intimate partner violence/abuse, Rachel Lee/Sue Civil-Brown, Rosemary Carter, Darynda Jones, Penny Jordan/Caroline Courtney, Daphne Clair, Nora Roberts/J. D. Robb, Robyn Donald, Marjorie Lewty, Pamela Kent, Elizabeth Graham, Donna Maree Hanson
Gehrmann, Susanne Varieties of Romance in Contemporary Popular Togolese Literature 2022 Togo, Africa, Serge Azialé/Seraz, Jeannette Ahonsou, romantic suspense, Lauren Ekué, chick lit
Ayala Rodríguez, Ida María; Almaral Cereijo, Iraida Thalia Deconstructionism of the heroine in the novel The Grand Sophy by Georgette Heyer 2022 Jane Austen, Georgette Heyer
Sheehan, Sarah E. The “Popular Romance Canon”: An Academic Librarian’s Response 2022 romance scholarship, libraries/librarians
Alcala Gonzalez, Antonio; Sederholm, Carl H. Lovecraft in the 21st Century: Dead, But Still Dreaming 2022
Golubov, Nattie El placer de la lectura: cuerpos, afectos, textos 2022
Allan, Jonathan A. Men, Masculinities, and Infertilities 2022 health/medical, family, gender, LaVyrle Spencer, Emilie Richards
Wallace, Jennifer Army trenches and school benches: the Philippine-American War in the Sugar Sun series 2022 Jennifer Hallock, war/armed forces, Philippines, United States of America
Pérez-Casal, Inmaculada La novela rosa o romántica: pasado, presente y futuro 2022 genre definitions, Older and/or precursor texts (may not be "romance" as now defined), romance and, or as, activism, romance scholarship
Bazenga, Aline The sociocultural and linguistic landscape of Madeira: Anglocentric visions in a sample of six romance novels 2022 Portugal, UK, Harlequin Mills & Boon, settings, metaphor/symbolism, linguistics
Watson, Courtney I Thought You’d Never Ask: Consent in Contemporary Romance 2022 sex/sexuality, K. J. Charles, feminism, romance scholarship
Bilodeau, Isabelle How Romance Translators Write Themselves and Their Readers into Afterwords 2022 paratext, translation, Japan
Allan, Jonathan A. ‘Impossibly erotic things’: On men’s underwear in Brief Encounters by Suzanne Forster 2022 fashion/clothing, Harlequin Mills & Boon, Suzanne Forster, sex/sexuality, gender
LaDousa, Chaise; Davis, Christina P. Language, Education, and Identity: Medium in South Asia 2022
Chawla, Gitanjali; Mittal, Sangeeta Indian Popular Fiction: Redefining the Canon 2022
Hogan, Patrick Colm; Irish, Bradley J.; Hogan, Lalita Pandit The Routledge Companion to Literature and Emotion 2022
Farooqui, Javaria Reading historical popular romance in 21st-century Pakistan 2022 Pakistan, readers, historical romance, social/economic class, settings, Julia Quinn, Stephanie Laurens, Judith McNaught, Gaelen Foley
Befeler, Paige LGBTQ(NA), Queer New Adult Fiction: The Emergence of a New Genre and Its Impact on the LGBTQIA+ Community 2022 YA/teenage romance, LGBT+ characters, readers and/or authors, Casey McQuiston, Morgan Rogers, race/ethnicity
Moody-Freeman, Julie E. Black Cultural Studies and Black Love: Why Black Love Matters 2022 love, race/ethnicity, teaching romance
Moody-Freeman, Julie E. Romance, Hip-Hop Feminism, and Black Love: From Theory to Praxis 2022 Gwyneth Bolton/Gwendolyn Pough, feminism, African American romance, gender, teaching romance, sex/sexuality, music, romance and, or as, activism, race/ethnicity
Brunet, Peyton; Davis, Blair Comic Book Women: Characters, Creators, and Culture in the Golden Age 2022 comics/manga, African American romance, LGBT+ characters, readers and/or authors
Golubov, Nattie La promesa de felicidad: la novela rosa y el placer de la lectura afectiva 2022 readers, emotions, happy ending
Ayala Rodríguez, Ida María; Almaral Cereijo, Iraida Thalia Deconstructionism of the heroine in the novel The Grand Sophy by Georgette Heyer 2022 Jane Austen, Georgette Heyer
Turner, Ellen; Wadsö Lecaros, Cecilia The desert-governess romance: Regency England meets exotic Arabia 2022 sheikh romance, historical romance, settings, Marguerite Kaye, Laura Martin, Lynne Graham, Kate Hewitt, E. M. Hull, work, genre definitions, Harlequin Mills & Boon, paratext
González-Cruz, María Isabel 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 2022 teaching romance
Jussawalla, Feroza; Omran, Doaa Muslim Women’s Writing from across South and Southeast Asia 2022
Davies, Ben; Lupton, Christina; Gormsen Schmidt, Johanne Reading Novels During the Covid-19 Pandemic 2022 readers, Sally Rooney
Selinger, Eric Murphy The wild heart of the continent: love and place in the Silk Road novels of Sherry Thomas 2022 Sherry Thomas, settings, trash/literary and or intellectual quality, love, Buddhism, religion/spirituality, historical romance, race/ethnicity, China, Asia
Pérez-Gil, María del Mar Paraísos imperfectos: Madeira en las novelas de Margaret Rome, Katrina Britt y Sally Wentworth 2022 Harlequin Mills & Boon, settings, national identity, race/ethnicity, Portugal, UK, Margaret Rome, Ethel Connell as Katrina Britt, Doreen Hornsblow as Sally Wentworth, Sara Wood, gender
Vera-Cazorla, María Jesús Canarian culture and identity and their representation in the novels of the FFI2014-53962-P corpus 2022 national identity, Spain, UK, metaphor/symbolism
Sheerman, Lucy “Place the glass before you, and draw in chalk your own picture”: The Recasting of Jane Eyre 2022 Charlotte Brontë, Beverly Jenkins, Alyssa Cole, race/ethnicity
Larson, Christine; Ready, Elspeth Networking down: Networks, innovation, and relational labor in digital book publishing 2022 authors, Publishing
Pierini, Francesca Romance and Metagenre: A Response to Burkhard Niederhoff 2022 romance scholarship, E. M. Forster, happy ending
LaDousa, Chaise; Davis, Christina P. Language, Education, and Identity: Medium in South Asia 2022
Hogan, Patrick Colm; Irish, Bradley J.; Hogan, Lalita Pandit The Routledge Companion to Literature and Emotion 2022
Huguley, Piper In Search of the Black Historical Hottie: The Sad Situation of the Black Hero in Historical Romance 2022 historical romance, race/ethnicity, gender, Piper Huguley, happy ending, wealth/prosperity
Deng, Yiwei The Aesthetic form of Childhood Sweetheart: I Love You, None of Your Business 2022 China, emotions
Grinnell, Natalie The Challenge to Dominance Theory in Patricia Briggs's and Carrie Vaughn's Paranormal Romance Novels 2022 Patricia Briggs, Carrie Vaughn, paranormal/fantasy/time-travel romance, gender, rape and/or intimate partner violence/abuse, feminism
Wilkins, Kim; Driscoll, Beth; Fletcher, Lisa Genre Worlds: Popular Fiction and 21st-Century Book Culture 2022 Publishing, readers
Nachumi, Nora; Oppenheim, Stephanie Jane Austen, Sex, and Romance: Engaging with Desire in the Novels and Beyond 2022
Scupham, Hannah Elizabeth “Reader, I Married Him”: Readership, Imagination, and Politics of the Marriage Plot in the Nineteenth-Century Novel 2022 historical romance, Older and/or precursor texts (may not be "romance" as now defined), readers, Jane Austen, Elizabeth Gaskell, George Eliot
Jan, Jariah Mohd; Ujum, Diana Abu Negotiating Conflicts amongst Muslim Female Characters in Malay Romance Novels: A Narratological Perspective 2022 Malaysia, Muslim romance, gender
Turner, Ellen; Wadsö Lecaros, Cecilia The desert-governess romance: Regency England meets exotic Arabia 2022 sheikh romance, historical romance, settings, Marguerite Kaye, Laura Martin, Lynne Graham, Kate Hewitt, E. M. Hull, work, genre definitions, Harlequin Mills & Boon, paratext
Jussawalla, Feroza; Omran, Doaa Muslim Women’s Writing from across South and Southeast Asia 2022
Davies, Ben; Lupton, Christina; Gormsen Schmidt, Johanne Reading Novels During the Covid-19 Pandemic 2022 readers, Sally Rooney
Herrera, Carolina M. Examining the relation between media engagement and developmental outcomes in adolescents and emerging adults: an exploration of engagement with and impact of young adult literature media among youth 2022 readers, psychology, YA/teenage romance, Twilight
Hoorenman, Johanna Remembering love: Parsons-Yazzie's historical romance novel and the (re)writing of Navajo history 2022 Evangeline Parsons Yazzie, Native American romance, race/ethnicity, settings, United States of America
Bazenga, Aline Paisaje sociocultural y lingüístico de la isla de Madeira: Visiones anglocéntricas en una muestra de seis novelas rosa 2022 Portugal, UK, Harlequin Mills & Boon, settings, metaphor/symbolism, linguistics
González de la Rosa, María del Pilar Female voices and feminist discourse in some Harlequin/Mills & Boon romances 2022 Harlequin Mills & Boon, feminism, gender
Alexander, Camille S. “The Realness” in Jasmine Guillory’s Sista Lit Rom Com Novels 2022 Jasmine Guillory, African American romance, rom-com romance, race/ethnicity, ageism
Larson, Christine; Ready, Elspeth Networking down: Networks, innovation, and relational labor in digital book publishing 2022 authors, Publishing
Michelson, Anna Pushing the boundaries: Erotic romance and the symbolic boundary nexus 2022 genre definitions, erotic romance, authors, sex/sexuality, Fifty Shades, Publishing, fanfiction, sociology
Hogan, Patrick Colm; Irish, Bradley J.; Hogan, Lalita Pandit The Routledge Companion to Literature and Emotion 2022
Søndberg Spaabæk, Anne Sofie The “Infernal” Value of the Gothic: A Reading of Gothicness and Romanceness in Cassandra Clare’s The Infernal Devices 2022 gothic romance, paranormal/fantasy/time-travel romance, Cassandra Clare, genre definitions
van Halteren, Hans Automatic Authorship Investigation 2022 linguistics, Harlequin Mills & Boon, Stephanie Howard
O'Brien, Lee Telling Gaps and Domestic Tyranny: Georgette Heyer’s Regency Romances 2022 Georgette Heyer, happy ending, family, history, health/medical, sex/sexuality, gender, social/economic class, rape and/or intimate partner violence/abuse, marriage
Konle, Leonard; Jannidis, Fotis Modeling Plots of Narrative Texts as Temporal Graphs 2022 linguistics
Ivanski, Chantelle; Humphries, Stacey; van Dalen-Oskam, Karina; Mar, Raymond A. Do We Judge Fiction by the Author’s Gender? 2022 trash/literary and or intellectual quality, gender
Wilkins, Kim; Driscoll, Beth; Fletcher, Lisa Genre Worlds: Popular Fiction and 21st-Century Book Culture 2022 Publishing, readers
Nachumi, Nora; Oppenheim, Stephanie Jane Austen, Sex, and Romance: Engaging with Desire in the Novels and Beyond 2022
Phumithammarat, Nanphatchaon The Cultural Politics of Chinese-Thai Identities in Ethnic Romance Novels by Female Authors 2023 Thailand, race/ethnicity, China
Sharma, Vishal; Bray, Kirsten E.; Kumar, Neha; Grinter, Rebecca E. It Takes (at least) Two: The Work to Make Romance Work 2023 Publishing, authors, readers
Garciano, Shylyn G.; Cuevas, Gloria Con-ui; Geraldizo-Pabriga, Maria Gemma; Macabodbod, Saira Jay J.; Yu, Jaciah Mae B.; Pinote, Ma. Jezan A. Romance-Themed Novels: Influenced on Relationship Satisfaction 2023 readers, psychology
Zhang, Chunjie; Krimmer, Elisabeth Gender and German Colonialism: Intimacies, Accountabilities, Intersections 2023
Driscoll, Beth; Wilkins, Kim Australian Fantasy, Crime and Romance Fiction in the Twentieth and Twenty-First Centuries 2023 Australia, Publishing
Parks, Amy Noelle The Feminist Possibilities of Heteroglossic Spaces in Contemporary Young Adult Romance Novels 2023 feminism, YA/teenage romance, love, sex/sexuality, Jenny Han, Katie Cotugno, Nicola Yoon, Laura Steven
Conley, Willow M.; Grinnell, Natalie The Queer Temporality of Gail Carriger’s Parasol Protectorate 2023 Gail Carriger, paranormal/fantasy/time-travel romance, LGBT+ characters, readers and/or authors, steampunk, gender, family
Piatti-Farnell, Lorna; Johnson-Hunt, Nancy Vampires and Desire: Blood, Sex, and Ritual in Paranormal Romance and Urban Fantasy Fiction 2023 paranormal/fantasy/time-travel romance
Bharathi, L. Divya; Muthuraman, K. Nicholas Charles Sparks’s The Notebook: A Novel Of Love Or Romance? 2023 Nicholas Sparks, genre definitions, happy ending
Bradford, Robin The Readers’ Advisory Guide to Romance 2023 libraries/librarians
Garcia, Christina The Race of Publishing: The Troubling Whiteness in Publishing and the Forces Pushing Back 2023 Publishing, race/ethnicity, readers, romance and, or as, activism
Sharma, Vishal; Bray, Kirsten E.; Kumar, Neha; Grinter, Rebecca E. It Takes (at least) Two: The Work to Make Romance Work 2023 Publishing, authors, readers
Garciano, Shylyn G.; Cuevas, Gloria Con-ui; Geraldizo-Pabriga, Maria Gemma; Macabodbod, Saira Jay J.; Yu, Jaciah Mae B.; Pinote, Ma. Jezan A. Romance-Themed Novels: Influenced on Relationship Satisfaction 2023 readers, psychology
Pates, Giuliana Reading Practices and Gender Politicization: How do Young Argentinean Women Read Romantic Novels 2023 Argentina, YA/teenage romance
Hua, Shaoqi; Xiao, Chengli What shapes a parasocial relationship in RVGs? The effects of avatar images, avatar identification, and romantic jealousy among potential, casual, and core players 2023 computer/video/digital games
Richey, Weston (Loves) Me, (Loves) Me Not: Unbuilding of Selfhood in the Romance of the Present 2023 readers, LGBT+ characters, readers and/or authors, gender, psychology, Kris Ripper
Conley, Willow M.; Grinnell, Natalie The Queer Temporality of Gail Carriger’s Parasol Protectorate 2023 Gail Carriger, paranormal/fantasy/time-travel romance, LGBT+ characters, readers and/or authors, steampunk, gender, family
Grover, Mary Steel City Readers: Reading for Pleasure in Sheffield, 1925-1955 2023 readers, social/economic class, history, UK, libraries/librarians, Mary Burchell, pen name of Ida Cook, Sophie Cole, Harlequin Mills & Boon
Heying, Sarah M. "Sealed With a Kiss on Your Artery": An Archive of Southern Lesbian Desire 2023 LGBT+ characters, readers and/or authors, Ann Allen Shockley, libraries/librarians, race/ethnicity
Piatti-Farnell, Lorna; Johnson-Hunt, Nancy Vampires and Desire: Blood, Sex, and Ritual in Paranormal Romance and Urban Fantasy Fiction 2023 paranormal/fantasy/time-travel romance
Pupipat, Apisak Should a Book Be Judged by its Back Cover? Some Written/Formal Features as Observed in Happily- Ever-After Women’s Novel Blurbs 2023 paratext, linguistics
Bharathi, L. Divya; Muthuraman, K. Nicholas Charles Sparks’s The Notebook: A Novel Of Love Or Romance? 2023 Nicholas Sparks, genre definitions, happy ending
Ya’u, Mohammed Sani; Rashid, Sabariah Md; Ali, Afida Mohamad; Singh, Hardev Kaur Jujar Semantic Extensions of Hausa Visual and Auditory Perception Verbs gani and ji in Romance Fiction 2023 linguistics
Roche, Emma Women, Violence and Postmillennial Romance Fiction 2023 Twilight, Fifty Shades, feminism, rape and/or intimate partner violence/abuse, capitalism/business
Sharma, Vishal; Bray, Kirsten E.; Kumar, Neha; Grinter, Rebecca E. It Takes (at least) Two: The Work to Make Romance Work 2023 Publishing, authors, readers
Garciano, Shylyn G.; Cuevas, Gloria Con-ui; Geraldizo-Pabriga, Maria Gemma; Macabodbod, Saira Jay J.; Yu, Jaciah Mae B.; Pinote, Ma. Jezan A. Romance-Themed Novels: Influenced on Relationship Satisfaction 2023 readers, psychology
McAlister, Jodi; Parnell, Claire; Trinidad, Andrea Anne Publishing Romance Fiction in the Philippines 2023 Philippines, Publishing, social/economic class, Mina V. Esguerra, wealth/prosperity, Keene Alicante, sex/sexuality, work, LGBT+ characters, readers and/or authors, settings, authors, paratext
Rashid, Hussein; Petersen, Kristian The Bloomsbury Handbook of Muslims and Popular Culture 2023
Hua, Shaoqi; Xiao, Chengli What shapes a parasocial relationship in RVGs? The effects of avatar images, avatar identification, and romantic jealousy among potential, casual, and core players 2023 computer/video/digital games
Giovanni, Chiara Hetero Ever After? Romance Novels, Race, and the Limits of Social Dreaming 2023 race/ethnicity, Jasmine Guillory, Alisha Rai, romance and, or as, activism, feminism
Morrison, Kevin A.; Rantala, Pälvi Historical Research, Creative Writing, and the Past: Methods of Knowing 2023
Stobaugh, Rebecca Halfway-Sexual: Exploring Demisexuality in American Literature 2023 sex/sexuality, LGBT+ characters, readers and/or authors, Fifty Shades, Jack Byrne
Saxena, Vandana Afterlives of Colonialism: Nostalgia, Reader’s Response and the Case of Noel Barber’s Tanamera 2023 historical romance, history, race/ethnicity, UK, Singapore, national identity, readers, Malaysia, war/armed forces, settings, Noel Barber
Ya’u, Mohammed Sani; Rashid, Sabariah Md; Ali, Afida Mohamad; Singh, Hardev Kaur Jujar Semantic Extensions of Hausa Visual and Auditory Perception Verbs gani and ji in Romance Fiction 2023 linguistics
Mulvey, Alexandra Hazel Gender and Sex Stereotypes in Sports Romance Fiction 2023 sport, gender, LGBT+ characters, readers and/or authors, Mariana Zapata, Tijan, Hannah Grace, Rachel Spangler, Kelly Quindlen, Katia Rose, food, drink, happy ending, family
Garciano, Shylyn G.; Cuevas, Gloria Con-ui; Geraldizo-Pabriga, Maria Gemma; Macabodbod, Saira Jay J.; Yu, Jaciah Mae B.; Pinote, Ma. Jezan A. Romance-Themed Novels: Influenced on Relationship Satisfaction 2023 readers, psychology
McAlister, Jodi; Parnell, Claire; Trinidad, Andrea Anne Publishing Romance Fiction in the Philippines 2023 Philippines, Publishing, social/economic class, Mina V. Esguerra, wealth/prosperity, Keene Alicante, sex/sexuality, work, LGBT+ characters, readers and/or authors, settings, authors, paratext
Rashid, Hussein; Petersen, Kristian The Bloomsbury Handbook of Muslims and Popular Culture 2023
Parnell, Claire; Trinidad, Andrea Anne; McAlister, Jodi Live literature in the Philippines: an ethnographic study of #RomanceClass and reading as performance 2023 Philippines, readers, authors, Publishing, Mina V. Esguerra
Küçük, Özlem Impossible Love in the Hiccup and the Lily of the Valley Novels and the Social Role of the Women 2023 Kerime Nadir, Turkey, Older and/or precursor texts (may not be "romance" as now defined)
Pierini, Francesca Towards a Regime of Authenticity. Reading A Room with a View through the Lens of Contemporary Romance Scholarship 2023 E. M. Forster, Older and/or precursor texts (may not be "romance" as now defined), Italy, marriage, emotions, happy ending, trash/literary and or intellectual quality
Pierre-Robertson, Petronetta Librarian as Creator 2023 romance and, or as, activism, libraries/librarians, rape and/or intimate partner violence/abuse, Petra Pierre-Robertson, Caribbean
Morrison, Kevin A.; Rantala, Pälvi Historical Research, Creative Writing, and the Past: Methods of Knowing 2023
Fresno-Calleja, Paloma Repurposing Fantasy Island: Lani Wendt Young’s Telesā Series and the Politics of Postcolonial Romance 2023 Lani Wendt Young, YA/teenage romance, settings, paranormal/fantasy/time-travel romance, islands, Samoa, metafiction, race/ethnicity, sex/sexuality, romance and, or as, activism
Ya’u, Mohammed Sani; Rashid, Sabariah Md; Ali, Afida Mohamad; Singh, Hardev Kaur Jujar Semantic Extensions of Hausa Visual and Auditory Perception Verbs gani and ji in Romance Fiction 2023 linguistics
Robinson, Rachel Reading and writing dogs in popular romance fiction 2023 animals
Allan, Jonathan A. Softcore romance: on naked heroes and beefcakes in popular romance novels 2023 pornography, sex/sexuality, genre definitions, Kathleen Woodiwiss, Kathleen O’Reilly, Jo Davis, Susan Stephens, LGBT+ characters, readers and/or authors, Annabeth Albert, K. C. Wells
Parnell, Claire Algospeak and algo-design in platformed book publishing: Revolutionary creative tactics in digital paratext to circumvent content moderation 2023 Publishing, paratext, LGBT+ characters, readers and/or authors, race/ethnicity, pornography
McAlister, Jodi; Parnell, Claire; Trinidad, Andrea Anne Publishing Romance Fiction in the Philippines 2023 Philippines, Publishing, social/economic class, Mina V. Esguerra, wealth/prosperity, Keene Alicante, sex/sexuality, work, LGBT+ characters, readers and/or authors, settings, authors, paratext
Hutter, Verena Fire, Savannah, and Passion: The New Africa Novel and the Construction of White Femininity 2023 Africa, Germany, history, historical romance, race/ethnicity, Patricia Mennen, Leah Bach, gender
Parnell, Claire; Trinidad, Andrea Anne; McAlister, Jodi Live literature in the Philippines: an ethnographic study of #RomanceClass and reading as performance 2023 Philippines, readers, authors, Publishing, Mina V. Esguerra
Nichols, Sue Love matters: the case for an inclusive, contemporary approach to romance themes and texts in subject English 2023 YA/teenage romance, teaching romance, LGBT+ characters, readers and/or authors
Fresno-Calleja, Paloma New Romantic Narratives for the Twenty-First Century 2023 romance scholarship
Porter, J. D.; Eimannsberger, Angelina; English, James; Hathaway, May; Yakoob, Ashna Genre Juggernaut: Measuring “Romance” 2023 genre definitions, readers
Carter, David The Cambridge History of the Australian Novel 2023
Phipps, Catherine Sex, race and power: colonial and interracial sexuality in the French Empire in Morocco, 1912-1956 2023 history, Morocco, sheikh romance, sex/sexuality, race/ethnicity
McDavis-Conway, Shana Self-conscious, unapologetic, and straight: fat protagonists in romantic fiction 2023 fat, fatness, paratext, race/ethnicity, LGBT+ characters, readers and/or authors, Talia Hibbert, Rebekah Weatherspoon, Rose Lerner, Xan West
Pierini, Francesca Literary Fiction from the Perspective of Romance: Normal People 2023 Sally Rooney
Ya’u, Mohammed Sani; Rashid, Sabariah Md; Ali, Afida Mohamad; Singh, Hardev Kaur Jujar Semantic Extensions of Hausa Visual and Auditory Perception Verbs gani and ji in Romance Fiction 2023 linguistics
Morden, Christina Innovations in Romance Novel Distribution at Harlequin, Sourcebooks, and Raincoast Books 2023 Publishing, Canada, Harlequin Mills & Boon
Davisson, Amber; Hunting, Kyra From private pleasure to erotic spectacle: Adapting Bridgerton to female audience desires 2023 Julia Quinn, film/movies, sex/sexuality, rape and/or intimate partner violence/abuse, pornography, race/ethnicity
Derbyshire, Valerie Grace “Do you think I haven’t paid for what I did?”: Rape in the Mills & Boon Romantic Novels of Penny Jordan 2023 rape and/or intimate partner violence/abuse, Penny Jordan/Caroline Courtney, history, Harlequin Mills & Boon
Grobbelaar, Madalena; Reid Boyd, Elizabeth; Dudek, Debra Contemporary Love Studies in the Arts and Humanities: What's Love Got To Do With It? 2023
Parnell, Claire; Trinidad, Andrea Anne; McAlister, Jodi Live literature in the Philippines: an ethnographic study of #RomanceClass and reading as performance 2023 Philippines, readers, authors, Publishing, Mina V. Esguerra
Prayuana, Ratu; De Ferras, Rayhan Romombe; Ramadhan, Fitra Wahyu The Rules of Romance Manifested in the Textual Structure of the Novel Fireside 2023 Susan Wiggs