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Keegan, Faye Jessica Soft metafiction(s) : Mary Stewart and the self-reflective middlebrow 2016 Mary Stewart, romantic suspense, trash/literary and or intellectual quality, national identity, history, metafiction, fairytales/folktales, gothic romance, UK
Salmon, Catherine What Do Romance Novels, Pro Wrestling, and Mack Bolan Have in Common?: Consilience and the Pop Culture of Storytelling 2016 evolutionary psychology
Legallois, Dominique; Charnois, Thierry; Poibeau, Thierry Repérer les clichés dans les romans sentimentaux grâce à la méthode des ‘motifs’ 2016 trash/literary and or intellectual quality, Harlequin Mills & Boon, linguistics
Vivanco, Laura Pursuing Happiness: Reading American Romance as Political Fiction 2016 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
Frantz Lyons, Sarah; Selinger, Eric Murphy Strange Stirrings, Strange Yearnings: The Flame and the Flower, Sweet Savage Love, and the Lost Diversities of Blockbuster Historical Romance 2016 historical romance, Kathleen Woodiwiss, feminism, sex/sexuality, Rosemary Rogers, rape and/or intimate partner violence/abuse, United States of America
Radick, Caryn Romance Writers’ Use of Archives 2016 libraries/librarians, authors, historical romance, trash/literary and or intellectual quality
Soler Gallo, Miguel El ideal de la mujer de la Sección Femenina de Falange a través de las ilustraciones de la novela rosa de los años cuarenta 2016 gender, fascism/right-wing authoritarianism, Spain, paratext, Carmen de Icaza
Burge, Amy Representing Difference in the Medieval and Modern Orientalist Romance 2016 Older and/or precursor texts (may not be "romance" as now defined), sheikh romance, history, gender, race/ethnicity, sex/sexuality, settings, UK, fashion/clothing, Harlequin Mills & Boon, virginity, rape and/or intimate partner violence/abuse
Gordis, Lisa M. "Jesus loves your girl more than you do": Marriage as Triangle in Evangelical Romance and Puritan Narratives 2016 Christian romance, religion/spirituality, marriage, Francine Rivers, gender
Tidwell, Christy “A Little Wildness”: Negotiating Relationships between Human and Nonhuman in Historical Romance 2016 animals, paratext, historical romance, Bertrice Small, Patricia Gaffney, metaphor/symbolism, gender, rape and/or intimate partner violence/abuse, family, sex/sexuality, happy ending
Hirdman, Anja Speaking through the flesh: Affective encounters, gazes and desire in Harlequin romances 2016 emotions, gender, sex/sexuality, Harlequin Mills & Boon
Edlins, Mariglynn Superhero, Sleeping Beauty, or Devil? The Making of Orphan Myths and Public Administration 2016 family, emotions
Stinson, Emmett; Mannion, Aaron The Return of Print?: Contemporary Australian Publishing 2016
Frantz Lyons, Sarah; Selinger, Eric Murphy Strange Stirrings, Strange Yearnings: The Flame and the Flower, Sweet Savage Love, and the Lost Diversities of Blockbuster Historical Romance 2016 historical romance, Kathleen Woodiwiss, feminism, sex/sexuality, Rosemary Rogers, rape and/or intimate partner violence/abuse, United States of America
Pérez Casal, Inmaculada Love in Times of Crisis: An Approach to Contemporary Romance Novels in Spain 2016 Spain, Publishing, Older and/or precursor texts (may not be "romance" as now defined)
Thierauf, Doreen Forever After: Desire in the 21st-Century Romance Blockbuster 2016 Jane Austen, sex/sexuality, marriage, gender, feminism, readers, psychology, Twilight, Fifty Shades, rape and/or intimate partner violence/abuse, BDSM
McAlister, Jodi Traveling Through Time and Genre: Are the Outlander Books Romance Novels? 2016 Diana Gabaldon, genre definitions
Tanner, David Literary Success and Popular Romantic Fiction: Ethel M. Dell, a Case Study 2016 Ethel M. Dell, trash/literary and or intellectual quality, Older and/or precursor texts (may not be "romance" as now defined), Publishing, romances in magazines and newspapers, India, settings
Barrett-Fox, Rebecca Christian Romance Novels: Inspiring Convention and Challenge 2016 Christian romance, readers, gender, religion/spirituality, marriage, work
Schalk, Sami Happily Ever After for Whom? Blackness and Disability in Romance Narratives 2016 disability, race/ethnicity, sex/sexuality, African American romance, Gwynne Forster, gender, war/armed forces, N. K. Jemisin, paranormal/fantasy/time-travel romance
Lambert, Jérémy Le roman sentimental gay francophone 2016 LGBT+ characters, readers and/or authors, Anne Singe et Marine Ange
Allan, Jonathan A.; Santos, Cristina; Spahr, Adriana Virgin Envy: The Cultural Insignificance of the Hymen 2016
Gleason, William The Inside Story: Jennifer Crusie and the Architecture of Love 2016 Jennifer Crusie, settings, emotions, sex/sexuality
Allan, Jonathan A. Reading from Behind: A Cultural Analysis of the Anus 2016 m/m romance, Anne Tenino, sex/sexuality, LGBT+ characters, readers and/or authors
Nash, Jennifer C. Gender: Love 2016
Tienkamp, Aaf New Adult Romance: An Emerging Genre 2016 NA romance, sex/sexuality, genre definitions
Swaminathan, Srividhya J. D. Robb’s Police Procedurals and the Critique of Modernity 2016 Nora Roberts/J. D. Robb, romantic suspense, science fiction/futuristic romance
Moody-Freeman, Julie E. Scripting Black Love in the 1990s: Pleasure, Respectability, and Responsibility in an Era of HIV/AIDS 2016 health/medical, Brenda Jackson, African American romance, sex/sexuality, gender, race/ethnicity, United States of America, history, romance and, or as, activism
Moody, Stephanie Building Social Worlds: Examining Women’s Uses of Romance Novels 2016 readers
Roach, Catherine M. Love as the Practice of Bondage: Popular Romance Narratives and the Conundrum of Erotic Love 2016 love, BDSM, Beverly Jenkins, James Buchanan, J. R. Ward, gender, LGBT+ characters, readers and/or authors, m/m romance
Crane, Ralph; Fletcher, Lisa The Genre of Islands: Popular Fiction and Performative Geographies 2016 islands, settings, rural romance
Allan, Jonathan A.; Santos, Cristina; Spahr, Adriana Virgin Envy: The Cultural Insignificance of the Hymen 2016
Soubeyroux, Marie-Hélène; Zapata, Mónica Miradas sobre una obra polifacética: Homenaje a Jean Louis Guereña 2016
Stavropoulou, Marina Romance Fiction: At the Frontline of Digital Publishing 2016 Publishing
González Cruz, María Isabel Discourse Types and Functions in Popular Romance Fiction Novels ("Work in Progress") 2016 languages, islands, gender, national identity, linguistics
Peabody, Rebecca Kara Walker: American Romance in Black and White 2016 historical romance, race/ethnicity, sex/sexuality, Barbara Ferry Johnson
Chakrabarti, Reema; Singh, Rajni Gender Stereotypes and Feminist Strokes: Negotiating the Spaces in Mills and Boon 2016 Harlequin Mills & Boon, Sandra Marton, Riya Lakhani, Tessa Radley, gender, feminism
Lemay, Catherine La traduction de la scène de sexe dans le roman sentimental érotique: Analyse descriptive et comparative 2016 translation, sex/sexuality, erotic romance, Sylvia Day
Silliman, Daniel Fictions of Belief: Reading Evangelical Novels in A Secular Age 2016 Christian romance, religion/spirituality, United States of America, Janette Oke, Beverly Lewis, Publishing
Maunder, Andrew Berta Ruck 2016 Berta Ruck, war/armed forces
Barot, Len Queer Romance in Twentieth- and Twenty-First-Century America: Snapshots of a Revolution 2016 Older and/or precursor texts (may not be "romance" as now defined), LGBT+ characters, readers and/or authors, lesbian romance, history, Publishing, Sarah Aldridge, Katherine V. Forrest, Isabel Miller, m/m romance, Wallace Hamilton, Marion Zimmer Bradley, Gordon Merrick, Radclyffe/Len Barot, erotic romance
Crane, Ralph; Fletcher, Lisa The Genre of Islands: Popular Fiction and Performative Geographies 2016 islands, settings, rural romance
Allan, Jonathan A.; Santos, Cristina; Spahr, Adriana Virgin Envy: The Cultural Insignificance of the Hymen 2016
Carroll, Joseph; McAdams, Dan P.; Wilson, Edward O. Darwin's Bridge: Uniting the Humanities and Sciences 2016
Soubeyroux, Marie-Hélène; Zapata, Mónica Miradas sobre una obra polifacética: Homenaje a Jean Louis Guereña 2016
Dandridge, Rita B. Love Prevailed Despite What American History Said: Agape and Eros in Beverly Jenkins's Night Song and Through the Storm 2016 Beverly Jenkins, love, sex/sexuality, history, gender, race/ethnicity, United States of America, rape and/or intimate partner violence/abuse, family, wealth/prosperity
Chakrabarti, Reema; Singh, Rajni Gender Stereotypes and Feminist Strokes: Negotiating the Spaces in Mills and Boon 2016 Harlequin Mills & Boon, Sandra Marton, Riya Lakhani, Tessa Radley, gender, feminism
Kelly, Brendan D. Medical romance: love never dies 2016 medical romance
Wilson, Nicola The Book World: Selling and Distributing British Literature, 1900-1940 2016
Abdullah-Poulos, Layla Muslim Love American Style: Islamic-American Hybrid Culture and Native-Born American Black Muslim Romance 2016 religion/spirituality, African American romance, Islam, Muslim romance
Herendeen, Ann Having it Both Ways; or, Writing from the Third Perspective: The Revolutionary M/M/F Ménage Romance Novel 2016 LGBT+ characters, readers and/or authors, Ann Herendeen, marriage, metafiction, Georgette Heyer
Soler Gallo, Miguel Novela rosa y fantasía amorosa en la España de los años Cuarenta: análisis de La rival de Julieta de Josefina de la Torre 2016 Spain, fascism/right-wing authoritarianism, Laura de Cominges/Josefina de la Torre, gender
Carroll, Joseph; McAdams, Dan P.; Wilson, Edward O. Darwin's Bridge: Uniting the Humanities and Sciences 2016
Selinger, Eric Murphy; Gleason, William A. Introduction: Love as the Practice of Freedom? 2016 genre definitions, Nell Stark, romance scholarship
Hernández Guerrero, María José Prosumidoras de traducciones: Aproximación al fenómeno de la traducción fan de novela romántica 2016 readers, translation
Elliott, Jack Vocabulary decay in category romance 2016 linguistics, Harlequin Mills & Boon, authors, Jane Austen
Franssen, Thomas; Velthuis, Olav Making materiality matter: a sociological analysis of prices on the Dutch fiction book market, 1980–2009 2016 Publishing, Netherlands, trash/literary and or intellectual quality
Piper, Andrew; Portelance, Eva How Cultural Capital Works: Prizewinning Novels, Bestsellers, and the Time of Reading 2016 linguistics, trash/literary and or intellectual quality
Kohlman, Marla H.; Krieg, Dana B. Discourses on Gender and Sexual Inequality: The Legacy of Sandra L. Bem 2017
Jandl, Ingeborg; Knaller, Susanne; Schönfellner, Sabine; Tockner, Gudrun Writing Emotions: Theoretical Concepts and Selected Case Studies in Literature 2017
English, Jessica Reading the Romance: Through the Eyes of a Millenial Feminist 2017 feminism, readers
McAlister, Jodi; Teo, Hsu-Ming Love in Australian Romance Novels 2017 national identity, Australia, love, rural romance, gender, sex/sexuality, history, Publishing, genre definitions, race/ethnicity, settings, feminism
Bianchi, Diana I gentiluomini si prendono per la gola: cibo e identità nei romanzi di Georgette Heyer 2017 Georgette Heyer, historical romance
Elliott, Jack Whole genre sequencing 2017 genre definitions, Harlequin Mills & Boon, authors, linguistics
Papargyriou, Eleni; Assinder, Semele; Holton, David Greece in British Women’s Literary Imagination, 1913-2013 2017
Clasen, Tricia; Hassel, Holly Gender(ed) Identities: Critical Rereadings of Gender in Children’s and Young Adult Literature 2017
Jandl, Ingeborg; Knaller, Susanne; Schönfellner, Sabine; Tockner, Gudrun Writing Emotions: Theoretical Concepts and Selected Case Studies in Literature 2017
Nilson, Maria Nådens tuttar : Om skönheter, odjur och den frälsande kvinnokroppen i modern romance 2017 fairytales/folktales, paranormal/fantasy/time-travel romance, Fifty Shades, Twilight, sex/sexuality
McAlister, Jodi; Teo, Hsu-Ming Love in Australian Romance Novels 2017 national identity, Australia, love, rural romance, gender, sex/sexuality, history, Publishing, genre definitions, race/ethnicity, settings, feminism
O'Mahony, Lauren Death and the Australian Rural Romance Novel 2017 rural romance, Australia, death
Barba, Shelley E.; Perrin, Joy M. The Ascendance of Harley Quinn: Essays on DC's Enigmatic Villain 2017
Clasen, Tricia; Hassel, Holly Gender(ed) Identities: Critical Rereadings of Gender in Children’s and Young Adult Literature 2017
Teo, Hsu-Ming The Popular Culture of Romantic Love in Australia 2017
Betz, Phyllis M. Katherine V. Forrest: A Critical Appreciation 2017 lesbian romance, Katherine V. Forrest, Older and/or precursor texts (may not be "romance" as now defined), LGBT+ characters, readers and/or authors
Capps, Stephanie Carol What You Read and What You Believe: Genre Exposure and Beliefs about Relationships 2017 readers, gender, sex/sexuality, psychology, love
McLennon, Leigh Contemporary vampire genre fiction: ethical feeding and the posthuman vampire in urban fantasy and paranormal romance 2017 paranormal/fantasy/time-travel romance
Gifford, James Mary Stewart’s Greek Novels: Hellenism, Orientalism and the Cultural Politics of Pulp Presentation 2017 Mary Stewart, Greece, gender, romantic suspense, national identity
Regan, Lisa Women and the 'War Machine' in the Desert Romances of E. M. Hull and Rosita Forbes 2017 E. M. Hull, UK, war/armed forces, national identity
Krueger, Kate The Woman at Home in the World: Annie Swan's Lady Doctor and the Problem of the Fin de Siècle Working Woman 2017 Annie S. Swan
Barba, Shelley E.; Perrin, Joy M. The Ascendance of Harley Quinn: Essays on DC's Enigmatic Villain 2017
Vivanco, Laura A Place “We All Dream About”: Greece in Mills & Boon Romances 2017 Greece, race/ethnicity, Harlequin Mills & Boon, sex/sexuality, science/technology, myth
Dyhouse, Carol Hearthrobs: A History of Women and Desire 2017 gender, sex/sexuality, Charles Garvice, E. M. Hull, Georgette Heyer, Barbara Cartland, race/ethnicity
González Cruz, María Isabel Conciencia Sociolingüística e Hispanismos en un Corpus de Novela Rosa Inglesa 2017 Spain, languages, Harlequin Mills & Boon, linguistics
Malloy, Audrey Miles Remnants of the Bodice Ripper: How Consent is Characterized in Heterosexual and Lesbian Erotic Romance Novels 2017 gender, sex/sexuality, lesbian romance, rape and/or intimate partner violence/abuse, LGBT+ characters, readers and/or authors
Turner, Katherine Daphne Du Maurier's Mary Anne: Rewriting the Regency Romance as Feminist History 2017 history, Daphne du Maurier
Jackson, Cia Harlequin Romance: The Power of Parody and Subversion 2017 Harlequin Mills & Boon
Pyrhönen, Heta Love under Threat: The Emotional Valences of the Twilight Saga 2017 Twilight, emotions, love, happy ending
Andrade, Roberta Manuela Barros de; Silva, Erotilde Honório; Feitosa, Ricardo Augusto de Sabóia O casamento em perigo no romance sentimental de Corin Tellado e a imprensa feminina na ditadura militar brasileira 2017 Brazil, Corín Tellado, marriage, fascism/right-wing authoritarianism
Johnson, Heather Yorkshire English in Georgette Heyer's The Unknown Ajax 2017 languages, Georgette Heyer, historical romance
Markert, John God is Love: The Christian Romance Market 2017 Christian romance, Publishing, sex/sexuality
Engelking, Tama Lea Reading the Romance with Colette in ‘La Lune de pluie' 2017 Colette
Álvarez, Marta; Hekmat, Ida; Lauret-Taft, Sabine L’amour. Création et société 2017
Andrade, Roberta Manuela Barros de; Silva, Erotilde Honório; Feitosa, Ricardo Augusto de Sabóia O casamento em perigo no romance sentimental de Corin Tellado e a imprensa feminina na ditadura militar brasileira 2017 Brazil, Corín Tellado, marriage, fascism/right-wing authoritarianism
Malinowska, Anna Paternal Structures of the Romance 2017 family, love, gender
Whalen, Kacey A Consumption of Gay Men: Navigating the Shifting Boundaries of M/M Romantic Readership 2017 m/m romance, readers, gender, sex/sexuality, K. J. Charles, LGBT+ characters, readers and/or authors
Clasen, Tricia Masculinity and Romantic Myth in Contemporary YA Romance 2017 gender, love, YA/teenage romance
González Cruz, María Isabel Exploring the dynamics of English/Spanish codeswitching in a written corpus 2017 languages, Spain, Harlequin Mills & Boon, linguistics
Khuankaew, Sasinee Femininity and Masculinity in Twenty-First Century Thai Romantic Fictions 2017 gender, Thailand, sex/sexuality, Buddhism
Nilson, Maria Kärlek i kyligt klimat: Om nordisk romance 2017 Sweden, Norway, Simona Ahrnstedt, Natalie Normann, national identity, gender, sex/sexuality
van der Putten, Jan; Arnez, Monika; Wieringa, Edwin P.; Graf, Arndt Traditions Redirecting Contemporary Indonesian Cultural Productions 2017
Álvarez, Marta; Hekmat, Ida; Lauret-Taft, Sabine L’amour. Création et société 2017
Andrade, Roberta Manuela Barros de; Silva, Erotilde Honório; Feitosa, Ricardo Augusto de Sabóia O casamento em perigo no romance sentimental de Corin Tellado e a imprensa feminina na ditadura militar brasileira 2017 Brazil, Corín Tellado, marriage, fascism/right-wing authoritarianism
Fragero Guerra, Carmen Del azul al rosa: la narrativa de Carmen de Icaza (1936-1960) 2017 Carmen de Icaza, Luisa-María Linares, Spain, fascism/right-wing authoritarianism
Achieng’, Okang’a Nancy A Cosmopolitan National Romance: A Study of In Dependence by Sarah Ladipo Manyika 2017 Sarah Ladipo Manyika, Nigeria, trash/literary and or intellectual quality, Africa, race/ethnicity, gender
Alpalhão, Margarida Santos; Carreto, Carlos F. Clamote; Dias, Isabel de Barros O jogo do mundo: ensaios sobre o imaginário lúdico 2017
Cheyne, Ria Disability Studies Reads the Romance: Sexuality, Prejudice, and the Happily-Ever-After in the Work of Mary Balogh 2017 disability, sex/sexuality, Mary Balogh, historical romance
Veros, Vassiliki Keepers: Marking the Value of the Books on my Shelves 2017 readers, trash/literary and or intellectual quality
van der Putten, Jan; Arnez, Monika; Wieringa, Edwin P.; Graf, Arndt Traditions Redirecting Contemporary Indonesian Cultural Productions 2017
Álvarez, Marta; Hekmat, Ida; Lauret-Taft, Sabine L’amour. Création et société 2017
Waldschmidt, Anne; Berressem, Hanjo; Ingwersen, Moritz Culture - Theory – Disability: Encounters between Disability Studies and Cultural Studies 2017
Lessard, Victoria Marketing Desire: The "Normative/Other" Male Body and the "Pure" White Female Body on the Cover Art of Cassie Edwards' Savage Dream (1990), Savage Persuasion (1991), and Savage Mists (1992) 2017 Cassie Edwards, Native American romance, paratext, race/ethnicity, historical romance
Bigey, Magali Réflexions sur l’amour et analyse de réception : La rencontre amoureuse dans les romans sériels et au prisme du lectorat 2017
Alpalhão, Margarida Santos; Carreto, Carlos F. Clamote; Dias, Isabel de Barros O jogo do mundo: ensaios sobre o imaginário lúdico 2017
Soler Gallo, Miguel El juego amoroso en la novela rosa española femenina de los años cuarenta 2017 Spain, love, fascism/right-wing authoritarianism, gender, family, marriage, history
Golubov, Nattie El amor en tiempos neoliberales: apuntes críticos sobre la novela rosa contemporánea 2017 trash/literary and or intellectual quality, Loretta Chase, gender, genre definitions, readers, feminism, Publishing, Jennifer Crusie
van der Putten, Jan; Arnez, Monika; Wieringa, Edwin P.; Graf, Arndt Traditions Redirecting Contemporary Indonesian Cultural Productions 2017
Barker, Clare; Murray, Stuart The Cambridge Companion to Literature and Disability 2017
Waldschmidt, Anne; Berressem, Hanjo; Ingwersen, Moritz Culture - Theory – Disability: Encounters between Disability Studies and Cultural Studies 2017
Arimbi, Diah Ariani Women in Indonesian Popular Fiction: Romance, Beauty, and Identity Politics in Metropop Novels 2017 Indonesia, settings, languages, gender, fashion/clothing, marriage
Golubov, Nattie Reading the Romance Writer as an Author-Entrepreneur 2017 authors, work, race/ethnicity, readers
Ali, Kecia Troubleshooting Post-9/11 America: Religion, Racism, and Stereotypes in Suzanne Brockmann’s Into the Night and Gone Too Far 2017 Suzanne Brockmann, religion/spirituality, race/ethnicity, United States of America, war/armed forces, Islam, sheikh romance, gender, marriage
Crane, Ralph; Fletcher, Lisa Island Genres, Genre Islands: Conceptualisation and Representation in Popular Fiction 2017 islands, settings, Margaret Evans Porter, Nora Roberts/J. D. Robb
Alpalhão, Margarida Santos; Carreto, Carlos F. Clamote; Dias, Isabel de Barros O jogo do mundo: ensaios sobre o imaginário lúdico 2017
van der Putten, Jan; Arnez, Monika; Wieringa, Edwin P.; Graf, Arndt Traditions Redirecting Contemporary Indonesian Cultural Productions 2017
Barker, Clare; Murray, Stuart The Cambridge Companion to Literature and Disability 2017
Jandl, Ingeborg; Knaller, Susanne; Schönfellner, Sabine; Tockner, Gudrun Writing Emotions: Theoretical Concepts and Selected Case Studies in Literature 2017
Soler Gallo, Miguel El ideal de masculinidad en la novela romántica falangista: análisis de Una mujer de veinte años de Mercedes Ballesteros 2017 SylviaVisconti/Mercedes Ballesteros Gaibrois, Spain, fascism/right-wing authoritarianism, gender, war/armed forces, history, Rosa María Aranda, Elena Puerto/Mercedes Formica
Waldschmidt, Anne; Berressem, Hanjo; Ingwersen, Moritz Culture - Theory – Disability: Encounters between Disability Studies and Cultural Studies 2017
Kohlman, Marla H.; Simpson, Samantha N. For the Sake of Hearth and Home: Gender Schematicity in the Romance Novel 2017 gender, Harlequin Mills & Boon, race/ethnicity, work, marriage, family
Higashi, Sumiko Adapting Middlebrow Taste to Sell Stars, Romance, and Consumption 2017 romances in magazines and newspapers
Papargyriou, Eleni; Assinder, Semele; Holton, David Greece in British Women’s Literary Imagination, 1913-2013 2017
Crane, Ralph; Fletcher, Lisa Island Genres, Genre Islands: Conceptualisation and Representation in Popular Fiction 2017 islands, settings, Margaret Evans Porter, Nora Roberts/J. D. Robb
Kamble, Jayashree From Barbarized to Disneyfied: Viewing 1990s New York City Through Eve Dallas, J.D. Robb’s Futuristic Homicide Detective 2017 Nora Roberts/J. D. Robb, science fiction/futuristic romance, capitalism/business, romantic suspense
Kohlman, Marla H.; Krieg, Dana B. Discourses on Gender and Sexual Inequality: The Legacy of Sandra L. Bem 2017
Jandl, Ingeborg; Knaller, Susanne; Schönfellner, Sabine; Tockner, Gudrun Writing Emotions: Theoretical Concepts and Selected Case Studies in Literature 2017
Ali, Kecia Human in Death: Morality and Mortality in J. D. Robb's Novels 2017 Nora Roberts/J. D. Robb, science fiction/futuristic romance, family, community, race/ethnicity, work, gender, romantic suspense, police officers/police forces
Larson, Christine An Economy of Words: Precarity, Solidarity and Innovation in Digital Book Publishing 2017 Publishing, authors, work
Kohlman, Marla H.; Simpson, Samantha N. For the Sake of Hearth and Home: Gender Schematicity in the Romance Novel 2017 gender, Harlequin Mills & Boon, race/ethnicity, work, marriage, family
Keegan, Faye ‘Snob Value’: Gender and Literary Value in Mary Stewart 2017 Mary Stewart, romantic suspense, trash/literary and or intellectual quality, gender, authors
Arvanitaki, Eirini Postmillennial femininities in the popular romance novel 2017 feminism, gender, Harlequin Mills & Boon
Papargyriou, Eleni; Assinder, Semele; Holton, David Greece in British Women’s Literary Imagination, 1913-2013 2017
Sanders, Lise Shapiro Making the Modern Girl: Fantasy, Consumption, and Desire in Romance Weeklies of the 1920s 2018 romances in magazines and newspapers, gender, social/economic class, fashion/clothing, work, Older and/or precursor texts (may not be "romance" as now defined)
Lawrey, Jeffrey A.; McLuckie, Alyx; Mulberry, Benjamin J.; Mullins, Erin K.; Shuler, Autumn R.; Kratzer, Jessica M. W. Communication, Kink, and Sexual Education: What Young Women Learned from Fifty Shades of Grey 2018 Fifty Shades, readers, sex/sexuality, erotic romance, BDSM
Lee, Zi-Ying; Liao, Min-Hsiu The “Second” Bride: The Retranslation of Romance Novels 2018 translation, Publishing, Taiwan
Zhou, Yanyan; Paul, Bryant; Sherman, Ryland Still a Hetero-Gendered World: A Content Analysis of Gender Stereotypes and Romantic Ideals in Chinese Boy Love Stories 2018 m/m romance, gender, China, LGBT+ characters, readers and/or authors
Murphy, Bernice M.; Matterson, Stephen Twenty-First-Century Popular Fiction 2018
Ferrández San Miguel, María; Neumann, Claus-Peter Taking Stock to Look Ahead: Celebrating Forty Years of English Studies in Spain 2018
Glennemeier, Jaelyn “And he was an Arab!:” Imperial Femininity and Pleasure in E. M. Hull's 1919 Desert Romance, The Sheik 2018 E. M. Hull, race/ethnicity, history, rape and/or intimate partner violence/abuse
Leonzini, Alexandra “All the Better to Eat You With”: The Eroticization of the Werewolf and the Rise of Monster Porn in the Digital Age 2018 paranormal/fantasy/time-travel romance, sex/sexuality, pornography
Gehrmann, Susanne Remediating Romance: Forms and Functions of New Media in Contemporary Love Stories from Togo and South Africa 2018 Publishing, Africa, chick lit
Clay, Catherine; DiCenzo, Maria; Green, Barbara; Hackney, Fiona Women's Periodicals and Print Culture in Britain, 1918-1939: The Interwar Period 2018
Lowery, Karalyne The Militarized Shapeshifter: Authorized Violence and Military Connections as an Antidote to Monstrosity 2018 paranormal/fantasy/time-travel romance, war/armed forces, United States of America
Lawrey, Jeffrey A.; McLuckie, Alyx; Mulberry, Benjamin J.; Mullins, Erin K.; Shuler, Autumn R.; Kratzer, Jessica M. W. Communication, Kink, and Sexual Education: What Young Women Learned from Fifty Shades of Grey 2018 Fifty Shades, readers, sex/sexuality, erotic romance, BDSM
Mazloomian, Maryam; Mohammadi, Nahid Discursive Vulnerability and Identity Development: A Triangular Model of Bio-Forces in Cultural Ecological Analysis of American Romance Fiction 2018 Debbie Macomber, psychology
Lee, Zi-Ying; Liao, Min-Hsiu The “Second” Bride: The Retranslation of Romance Novels 2018 translation, Publishing, Taiwan
Zhou, Yanyan; Paul, Bryant; Sherman, Ryland Still a Hetero-Gendered World: A Content Analysis of Gender Stereotypes and Romantic Ideals in Chinese Boy Love Stories 2018 m/m romance, gender, China, LGBT+ characters, readers and/or authors
Gillingham, Erica Representations of same-sex relationships between female characters in all-ages comics: Princess Princess Ever After and Lumberjanes 2018 comics/manga, LGBT+ characters, readers and/or authors
Blouin, Michael J. Mass-Market Fiction and the Crisis of American Liberalism, 1972–2017 2018 family, social/economic class, work, capitalism/business
Vani, Christina Immortal Words: The Language and Style of the Contemporary Italian Undead-Romance Novel 2018 paranormal/fantasy/time-travel romance, Italy
Fletcher, Lisa; Driscoll, Beth; Wilkins, Kim Genre Worlds and Popular Fiction: The Case of Twenty-First-Century Australian Romance 2018 Publishing, Australia
Riba, Caterina; Sanmartí, Carme The Reception of Elinor Glyn's Work in Spain (1926–57) 2018 Elinor Glyn, Spain, Rafael Pérez y Pérez, religion/spirituality, sex/sexuality
Clay, Catherine; DiCenzo, Maria; Green, Barbara; Hackney, Fiona Women's Periodicals and Print Culture in Britain, 1918-1939: The Interwar Period 2018
Peukert, Christian; Reimers, Imke Digital Disintermediation and Efficiency in the Market for Ideas 2018 Publishing
Fletcher, Lisa; Driscoll, Beth; Wilkins, Kim What is Australian Popular Fiction? 2018 Australia, national identity, settings
Savchuk, O. H.; Marchenko, N. M. The concept of LOVE and its conceptualization in modern English romance novels 2018 love, metaphor/symbolism, linguistics
Lawrey, Jeffrey A.; McLuckie, Alyx; Mulberry, Benjamin J.; Mullins, Erin K.; Shuler, Autumn R.; Kratzer, Jessica M. W. Communication, Kink, and Sexual Education: What Young Women Learned from Fifty Shades of Grey 2018 Fifty Shades, readers, sex/sexuality, erotic romance, BDSM
Taylor, Jessica Flexible Nations: Canadian Romance Writers, American Romance, and the Romance of Canada 2018 Canada, authors, national identity, Kate Bridges, settings, Publishing, Harlequin Mills & Boon, race/ethnicity, historical romance, history
Mazloomian, Maryam; Mohammadi, Nahid Discursive Vulnerability and Identity Development: A Triangular Model of Bio-Forces in Cultural Ecological Analysis of American Romance Fiction 2018 Debbie Macomber, psychology
McAlister, Jodi “Feelings Like the Women in Books”: Declarations of Love in Australian Romance Novels, 1859–1891 2018 Older and/or precursor texts (may not be "romance" as now defined), Australia, love, history, national identity, marriage
Zhou, Yanyan; Paul, Bryant; Sherman, Ryland Still a Hetero-Gendered World: A Content Analysis of Gender Stereotypes and Romantic Ideals in Chinese Boy Love Stories 2018 m/m romance, gender, China, LGBT+ characters, readers and/or authors
Kingston, Elizabeth History's Been Hijacked: How To Combat White Supremacy Through Popular Literature 2018 historical romance, race/ethnicity, history, Elizabeth Kingston, Publishing, UK, social/economic class
Smith, Clarissa; Attwood, Feona; McNair, Brian The Routledge Companion to Media, Sex and Sexuality 2018
Abdullah-Poulos, Layla The Stable Muslim Love Triangle - Triangular Desire in African American Muslim Romance Fiction 2018 Islam, African American romance, United States of America, religion/spirituality, race/ethnicity, marriage, Muslim romance
Fletcher, Lisa; Driscoll, Beth; Wilkins, Kim Genre Worlds and Popular Fiction: The Case of Twenty-First-Century Australian Romance 2018 Publishing, Australia
Sequeiros, Paula “Holding the Dream”: Women’s Favorite Reading Matter in a Portuguese Prison 2018 readers, Portugal
Rabanal, Hayley Courting convivencia: Hispano-Arab identity and Spanish women’s Orientalism in the Franco regime’s years of “unbearable solitude” (1946–1950) 2018 Spain, fascism/right-wing authoritarianism, race/ethnicity, religion/spirituality, sheikh romance, María Adela Durango, Ana Marcela García, María del Pilar Carré, Lía Ramos, E. M. Hull, history, Morocco, Carmen de Icaza, Egypt, rape and/or intimate partner violence/abuse, gender
Riba, Caterina; Sanmartí, Carme The Reception of Elinor Glyn's Work in Spain (1926–57) 2018 Elinor Glyn, Spain, Rafael Pérez y Pérez, religion/spirituality, sex/sexuality
McAlister, Jodi Defining and Redefining Popular Genres: The Evolution of ‘New Adult’ Fiction 2018 genre definitions, YA/teenage romance
[Sigroha], Suman Gendered Migrations and Literary Narratives: Writing Communities in South Asian Diaspora 2018 authors, work, family, gender, Publishing
Peukert, Christian; Reimers, Imke Digital Disintermediation and Efficiency in the Market for Ideas 2018 Publishing
Ali, Kecia Romance Fiction in the Archives 2018 authors, romance scholarship, Nora Roberts/J. D. Robb, race/ethnicity, gender, Publishing, sex/sexuality, LGBT+ characters, readers and/or authors
Fletcher, Lisa; Driscoll, Beth; Wilkins, Kim What is Australian Popular Fiction? 2018 Australia, national identity, settings
Andrade, Roberta Manuela Barros de; Feitosa, Ricardo Augusto de Sabóia A cultura emotiva das comunidades virtuais de leitura de livros de amor 2018 readers, emotions, Brazil
Savchuk, O. H.; Marchenko, N. M. The concept of LOVE and its conceptualization in modern English romance novels 2018 love, metaphor/symbolism, linguistics
Kramp, Michael Jane Austen and Masculinity 2018
Lawrey, Jeffrey A.; McLuckie, Alyx; Mulberry, Benjamin J.; Mullins, Erin K.; Shuler, Autumn R.; Kratzer, Jessica M. W. Communication, Kink, and Sexual Education: What Young Women Learned from Fifty Shades of Grey 2018 Fifty Shades, readers, sex/sexuality, erotic romance, BDSM
Olivarez, Omar; Hardie, Ryan; Blackburn, Kate G. The Language of Romance: An Open Vocabulary Analysis of the Highest Rated Words Used in Romance Novels 2018 languages, psychology, sex/sexuality
Hallock, Jennifer History Ever After: Fabricated Historical Chronotopes in Romance Genre Fiction 2018 historical romance, history, Publishing, race/ethnicity, Jennifer Hallock, UK, settings, social/economic class, Jane Austen, Georgette Heyer, Alyssa Cole, readers, United States of America
Sanna, Antonio Pirates in History and Popular Culture 2018 pirates and outlaws, historical romance
Smith, Clarissa; Attwood, Feona; McNair, Brian The Routledge Companion to Media, Sex and Sexuality 2018
Roach, Catherine M. Erotica 2018 erotic romance, sex/sexuality, pornography, love, LGBT+ characters, readers and/or authors, feminism, rape and/or intimate partner violence/abuse, BDSM, Alexis Hall
Bhasin, Neeta Romancing the 'Illegal' Immigrant 2018 Serena Bell, race/ethnicity, United States of America, social/economic class, gender, sex/sexuality, languages, readers
Fletcher, Lisa; Driscoll, Beth; Wilkins, Kim Genre Worlds and Popular Fiction: The Case of Twenty-First-Century Australian Romance 2018 Publishing, Australia
Villar-Argáiz, Pilar Ireland and the Popular Genre of Historical Romance: The Novels of Karen Robards 2018 Ireland, historical romance, Karen Robards, UK, race/ethnicity, gender, cross-dressing, settings, rape and/or intimate partner violence/abuse, sex/sexuality
Gehrhardt, Marjorie Losing Face, Finding Love? The Fate of Facially Disfigured Soldiers in Narratives of the First World War 2018 war/armed forces, disability, health/medical
Teo, Hsu-Ming The Contemporary Anglophone Romance Genre 2018 gender, sex/sexuality, Publishing, race/ethnicity
Parnell, Claire Models of Publishing and Opportunities for Change: Representations in Harlequin, Montlake and Self-Published Romance Novels 2018 Publishing, Harlequin Mills & Boon, gender, sex/sexuality, social/economic class
Fletcher, Lisa; Driscoll, Beth; Wilkins, Kim What is Australian Popular Fiction? 2018 Australia, national identity, settings
Lozano Sampedro, Mª Teresa Pour une typologie de la marginalité dans les romans de Delly: la fonction de la femme 2018 Delly, religion/spirituality, gender, social/economic class
Andrade, Roberta Manuela Barros de; Feitosa, Ricardo Augusto de Sabóia A cultura emotiva das comunidades virtuais de leitura de livros de amor 2018 readers, emotions, Brazil
Coote, Lesley; Kaufman, Alexander L. Robin Hood and the Outlaw/ed Literary Canon 2018
Simon, Jenni M. Consuming Agency and Desire in Romance: Stories of Love, Laughter, and Empowerment 2018 feminism, authors, romance and, or as, activism, rape and/or intimate partner violence/abuse
Lawrey, Jeffrey A.; McLuckie, Alyx; Mulberry, Benjamin J.; Mullins, Erin K.; Shuler, Autumn R.; Kratzer, Jessica M. W. Communication, Kink, and Sexual Education: What Young Women Learned from Fifty Shades of Grey 2018 Fifty Shades, readers, sex/sexuality, erotic romance, BDSM
Olivarez, Omar; Hardie, Ryan; Blackburn, Kate G. The Language of Romance: An Open Vocabulary Analysis of the Highest Rated Words Used in Romance Novels 2018 languages, psychology, sex/sexuality
Selinger, Eric Murphy Use Heart in Your (Re)Search: The Invitations of Popular Romance 2018 teaching romance, readers, Sherry Thomas, trash/literary and or intellectual quality, romance scholarship
Smith, Clarissa; Attwood, Feona; McNair, Brian The Routledge Companion to Media, Sex and Sexuality 2018
Spears, Jessica D. The Romance Novel Cover 2018 paratext, Publishing, gender, sex/sexuality, pornography
Cheyne, Ria Disability in Genre Fiction 2018 disability, sex/sexuality, Fay Robinson/Carmel Parsons Thomaston
Driscoll, Beth; Fletcher, Lisa; Wilkins, Kim; Carter, David The Publishing Ecosystems of Contemporary Australian Genre Fiction 2018 Publishing, Australia
González Cruz, María-Isabel Hispanismos en el discurso romántico de Harlequin y Mills & Boon. Ámbitos temáticos y funciones socio-pragmáticas 2018 languages, islands, Spain, Harlequin Mills & Boon, linguistics
Vera-Cazorla, María Jesús Cultural symbols, myth and identity in four 20th-century English popular romance fiction novels set in Tenerife 2018 Spain, Harlequin Mills & Boon, settings, family
Killeen, Jarlath Nora Roberts: the Power of Love 2018 Nora Roberts/J. D. Robb, love
Vitackova, Martina Representation of racial and sexual ‘others’ in Afrikaans popular romantic fiction by Sophia Kapp 2018 Sophia Kapp, race/ethnicity, sex/sexuality, Africa, South Africa
Coote, Lesley; Kaufman, Alexander L. Robin Hood and the Outlaw/ed Literary Canon 2018
Reed, Eleanor Domestic Culture in Woman's Weekly, 1918-1958 2018 history, social/economic class, romances in magazines and newspapers, Older and/or precursor texts (may not be "romance" as now defined), UK
Johnson, Valerie B. What a Canon Wants: Robin Hood, Romance Novels, and Carrie Lofty’s What a Scoundrel Wants 2018 Carrie Lofty, Older and/or precursor texts (may not be "romance" as now defined), historical romance, pirates and outlaws
Olivarez, Omar; Hardie, Ryan; Blackburn, Kate G. The Language of Romance: An Open Vocabulary Analysis of the Highest Rated Words Used in Romance Novels 2018 languages, psychology, sex/sexuality
Newns, Lucinda Renegotiating romantic genres: Textual resistance and Muslim chick lit 2018 chick lit, Islam, feminism, religion/spirituality
Kollman, Kathleen W. Taylor Contemporary Paranormal Romance: Theories and Development of the Genre’s Feminism (Or Lack Thereof) 2018 paranormal/fantasy/time-travel romance, feminism, gender
Suárez Coalla, Paquita; Rivera Valdés, Sonia; Íñigo, Ainoa Repercusión de la lectura y otras formas de arte en nuestra vida y nuestra obra: Memorias del VII coloquio de LART, Centro Español de Manhattan, Nueva York, 26-28 de octubre de 2016 2018
Batzke, Ina; Erbacher, Eric C.; Heß, Linda M.; Lenhardt, Corinna Exploring the Fantastic: Genre, Ideology, and Popular Culture 2018
Driscoll, Beth; Fletcher, Lisa; Wilkins, Kim; Carter, David The Publishing Ecosystems of Contemporary Australian Genre Fiction 2018 Publishing, Australia
O'Mahony, Lauren; Murphy, Olivia From polite society to the Pilbara: The ingénue abroad in Evelina and The Girl in Steel-Capped Boots 2018 Frances Burney, Older and/or precursor texts (may not be "romance" as now defined), Australia, Loretta Hill, gender
González de la Rosa, María del Pilar Intersections of Inner and Outer Journeys in Contemporary Popular Romance Fiction Novels 2018 settings, Harlequin Mills & Boon
Smith, Michelle J.; Moruzi, Kristine Vampires and Witches Go to School: Contemporary Young Adult Fiction, Gender, and the Gothic 2018 YA/teenage romance, gothic romance, paranormal/fantasy/time-travel romance
Arnold-Forster, Agnes; Moulds, Alison Medical women in popular fiction 2018 health/medical, history, Harlequin Mills & Boon, gender, medical romance
Schell, Heather; Brown, Ann K. G. Romancelandia on Twitter: Designing a Digital Humanities Research Assignment for First-Year Writing Students 2018 teaching romance, authors
Pérez-Gil, María del Mar Exoticism, Ethnocentrism, and Englishness in Popular Romance Fiction: Constructing the European Other 2018 Spain, national identity, UK, race/ethnicity, islands, Harlequin Mills & Boon
Suárez Coalla, Paquita; Rivera Valdés, Sonia; Íñigo, Ainoa Repercusión de la lectura y otras formas de arte en nuestra vida y nuestra obra: Memorias del VII coloquio de LART, Centro Español de Manhattan, Nueva York, 26-28 de octubre de 2016 2018
Batzke, Ina; Erbacher, Eric C.; Heß, Linda M.; Lenhardt, Corinna Exploring the Fantastic: Genre, Ideology, and Popular Culture 2018
Hopkins, Lisa Waltzing with Wellington, Biting with Byron: Heroes in Austen Tribute Texts 2018 Jane Austen, Georgette Heyer, gender, historical romance
Driscoll, Beth; Fletcher, Lisa; Wilkins, Kim; Carter, David The Publishing Ecosystems of Contemporary Australian Genre Fiction 2018 Publishing, Australia
O'Mahony, Lauren; Murphy, Olivia From polite society to the Pilbara: The ingénue abroad in Evelina and The Girl in Steel-Capped Boots 2018 Frances Burney, Older and/or precursor texts (may not be "romance" as now defined), Australia, Loretta Hill, gender
Smith, Michelle J.; Moruzi, Kristine Vampires and Witches Go to School: Contemporary Young Adult Fiction, Gender, and the Gothic 2018 YA/teenage romance, gothic romance, paranormal/fantasy/time-travel romance
Hernández, María Beatriz; Brito, Manuel; Monterrey, Tomás Broadening Horizons: A Peak Panorama of English Studies in Spain 2018
Harris, Racheal Really Romantic? Pirates in Romantic Fiction 2018 pirates and outlaws, sex/sexuality, historical romance, rape and/or intimate partner violence/abuse, virginity
Arnold-Forster, Agnes; Moulds, Alison Medical women in popular fiction 2018 health/medical, history, Harlequin Mills & Boon, gender, medical romance
Schell, Heather; Brown, Ann K. G. Romancelandia on Twitter: Designing a Digital Humanities Research Assignment for First-Year Writing Students 2018 teaching romance, authors
Ramsdell, Kristin Encyclopedia of Romance Fiction 2018 Publishing, paranormal/fantasy/time-travel romance, comics/manga, Christian romance, marriage, Jane Austen, Charlotte Brontë, Emily Brontë, Barbara Cartland, Janet Dailey, Daphne du Maurier, Ethel M. Dell, erotic romance, feminism, science fiction/futuristic romance, Elinor Glyn, Margaret Mitchell, Harlequin Mills & Boon, Georgette Heyer, Victoria Holt/Jean Plaidy/Eleanor Burford Hibbert, historical romance, E. M. Hull, romance scholarship, LGBT+ characters, readers and/or authors, libraries/librarians, romantic suspense, Samuel Richardson, rape and/or intimate partner violence/abuse, Nora Roberts/J. D. Robb, Bertrice Small, Mary Stewart, translation, Patricia Veryan, Phyllis A. Whitney, Kathleen Winsor, Kathleen Woodiwiss, race/ethnicity
Roberts, Gillian Reading between the Borderlines: Cultural Production and Consumption across the 49th Parallel 2018
Popova, Milena Rewriting the Romance: Emotion Work and Consent in Arranged Marriage Fanfiction 2018 fanfiction, sex/sexuality, marriage, emotions
Gómez Gray, Alana Lectura, paraliteratura y mujeres en España: de la novela rosa a cincuenta sombras 2018 romance scholarship, Spain, Publishing, history, Fifty Shades, readers
Suárez Coalla, Paquita; Rivera Valdés, Sonia; Íñigo, Ainoa Repercusión de la lectura y otras formas de arte en nuestra vida y nuestra obra: Memorias del VII coloquio de LART, Centro Español de Manhattan, Nueva York, 26-28 de octubre de 2016 2018
Batzke, Ina; Erbacher, Eric C.; Heß, Linda M.; Lenhardt, Corinna Exploring the Fantastic: Genre, Ideology, and Popular Culture 2018
Driscoll, Beth; Fletcher, Lisa; Wilkins, Kim; Carter, David The Publishing Ecosystems of Contemporary Australian Genre Fiction 2018 Publishing, Australia
Chelton, Mary K. Searching for Birth Parents or Adopted Children: Finding without Seeking in Romance Novels 2018 family
Hernández, María Beatriz; Brito, Manuel; Monterrey, Tomás Broadening Horizons: A Peak Panorama of English Studies in Spain 2018
Fernández Rodríguez, Carolina Del cuento de hadas a la novela romántica: Una visión de la sub/literatura como gimnasio mental y laboratorio de sub/versión cultural 2018 trash/literary and or intellectual quality, Nora Roberts/J. D. Robb, feminism, readers, sex/sexuality, psychology, romance and, or as, activism, fairytales/folktales
Pérez Casal, Inmaculada Mass-market romance and the question of genre: N. Sparks, E. L. James and D. Gabaldon 2018 Diana Gabaldon, Fifty Shades, Nicholas Sparks, genre definitions, film/movies
Pérez Casal, Inmaculada The Romance Novel as Bildungsroman in the Works of Rosamunde Pilcher and Lisa Kleypas 2018 gender, Rosamunde Pilcher, Lisa Kleypas, historical romance