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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
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
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
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
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
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
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
Teo, Hsu-Ming The Contemporary Anglophone Romance Genre 2018 gender, sex/sexuality, Publishing, race/ethnicity
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
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
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
Cheyne, Ria Disability in Genre Fiction 2018 disability, sex/sexuality, Fay Robinson/Carmel Parsons Thomaston
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
Gruner, Elisabeth Rose Constructing the Adolescent Reader in Contemporary Young Adult Fiction 2019 YA/teenage romance
Trower, Shelley; Tooth Murphy, Amy; Smith, Graham ‘Me mum likes a book, me dad’s a newspaper man’: Reading, gender and domestic life in ‘100 Families’ 2019 gender, readers
Schell, Heather; Larsen, Katherine How the Story Ends: Gender, Sexuality, and Nation in the Happy Ending 2019 happy ending, Sonali Dev, Radclyffe/Len Barot, United States of America, gender, trash/literary and or intellectual quality
Golubov, Nattie La promesa utópica del final feliz 2019 genre definitions, happy ending
Sagun, Karryl Kim Abella Book Mavens of Manila: an interpretative phenomenological analysis of contemporary niche publishers in the Philippines 2019 Philippines, Publishing, Mina V. Esguerra
Arvanitaki, Eirini Gender in Recent Romance Novels: A Third Wave Feminist Mills and Boon Love Affair? 2019 gender, feminism, love, Jane Porter, Leah Ashton, Kate Hewitt, Natalie Anderson, work, sex/sexuality
Veros, Vassiliki Metatextual Conversations: The Exclusion/Inclusion of Genre Fiction in Public Libraries and Social Media Book Groups 2019 libraries/librarians, trash/literary and or intellectual quality, readers
Haruna, Alkasim; Abd Aziz, Noor Hashima Towards an Understanding of the Efferent Reading Stance of Hausa Popular Romance Novels 2019 Nigeria, Africa, readers
Moy, Patricia; Matheson, Donald Voices: Exploring the Shifting Contours of Communication 2019
Kuortti, Joel; Ilmonen, Kaisa; Valovirta, Elina; Korkka, Janne Thinking with the Familiar in Contemporary Literature and Culture 'Out of the Ordinary' 2019
Toscano, Angela The Idolatry of the Real: Form, Formula, and Happy Endings in Romance Literature 2019 trash/literary and or intellectual quality, genre definitions, readers, Jennifer Crusie, happy ending
Andrade, Roberta Manuela Barros de; Feitosa, Ricardo Augusto de Sabóia; Silva, Erotilde Honório Emoção e moralidade em tempos de ruptura: o estupro nas relações conjugais nos romances sentimentais e suas comunidades de leitura 2019 rape and/or intimate partner violence/abuse, marriage, readers, Brazil
Cheyne, Ria Disability, Literature, Genre: Representation and Affect in Contemporary Fiction 2019 disability, emotions, Julia Quinn, family, Barbara McMahon, Christina Dodd, Barbara Delinsky, Mary Balogh
Larson, Christine Open networks, open books: gender, precarity and solidarity in digital publishing 2019 authors, Publishing
Reitemeier, Rebecca Romance Novels and Higher Education 2019 Older and/or precursor texts (may not be "romance" as now defined), feminism, readers, psychology, teaching romance
Schell, Heather; Larsen, Katherine How the Story Ends: Gender, Sexuality, and Nation in the Happy Ending 2019 happy ending, Sonali Dev, Radclyffe/Len Barot, United States of America, gender, trash/literary and or intellectual quality
Kuortti, Joel; Ilmonen, Kaisa; Valovirta, Elina; Korkka, Janne Thinking with the Familiar in Contemporary Literature and Culture 'Out of the Ordinary' 2019
Brock, Alexander; Pflaeging, Jana; Schildhauer, Peter Genre Emergence: Developments in Print, TV and Digital Media 2019
Choyke, Kelly L. The Power of Popular Romance Culture: Community, Fandom, and Sexual Politics 2019 feminism, community, readers
Valovirta, Elina No Ordinary Love: The Romantic Formula of Stepsibling Erotica 2019 NA romance, erotic romance, family
Driscoll, Beth Book Blogs as Tastemakers 2019 readers
Pérez-Gil, María del Mar Representations of Nation and Spanish Masculinity in Popular Romance Novels: The Alpha Male as “Other” 2019 Spain, gender, national identity, Harlequin Mills & Boon, UK
Brouillette, Sarah Romance Work 2019 Publishing, readers, capitalism/business
Stern, Stephanie C.; Robbins, Brianne; Black, Jessica E.; Barnes, Jennifer L. What You Read and What You Believe: Genre Exposure and Beliefs About Relationships 2019 psychology, readers, love, gender
Fresno-Calleja, Paloma Chick-Lit Pasifika-Style or How to B(l)end the Formula: Lani Young’s Scarlet Series 2019 Lani Wendt Young, chick lit, Samoa, metafiction, YA/teenage romance, race/ethnicity, feminism, food, drink, metaphor/symbolism, family, wealth/prosperity, national identity, sex/sexuality, rape and/or intimate partner violence/abuse
Fernández Rodríguez, Carolina Chamorro WWII Romances: Combating Erasure with Tales of Survival and Vitality 2019 Guam, United States of America, race/ethnicity, Paula Quinene, Cathy Sablan Gault, islands, history, romance and, or as, activism, languages, religion/spirituality, war/armed forces, historical romance
Kuortti, Joel; Ilmonen, Kaisa; Valovirta, Elina; Korkka, Janne Thinking with the Familiar in Contemporary Literature and Culture 'Out of the Ordinary' 2019
Kaufman, Alexander L.; Vlagopoulos, Penny Food and Feast in Modern Outlaw Tales 2019
Brock, Alexander; Pflaeging, Jana; Schildhauer, Peter Genre Emergence: Developments in Print, TV and Digital Media 2019
Farooqui, Javaria; Ashraf, Rabia Reconnaissance of ‘Difference’ in Cognitive Maps: Authenticating Happily Ever After in Julia Quinn’s To Sir Philip with Love 2019 psychology, Julia Quinn, historical romance
Stern, Stephanie C.; Robbins, Brianne; Black, Jessica E.; Barnes, Jennifer L. What You Read and What You Believe: Genre Exposure and Beliefs About Relationships 2019 psychology, readers, love, gender
Luneau, Marie-Pier; Warren, Jean-Philippe Ce que le roman catholique fait au roman sentimental : le cas de la collection « Amour et aventure » 2019 religion/spirituality, Christian romance, race/ethnicity, Canada, Publishing
Ivanski, Chantelle Judging a Book by Its Author's Gender 2019 trash/literary and or intellectual quality, gender
Sule, Sani Exploring the Benefit and Significance of Reading Hausa Popular Romance Genre: A Thematic Analysis 2019 Nigeria, readers
Kuortti, Joel; Ilmonen, Kaisa; Valovirta, Elina; Korkka, Janne Thinking with the Familiar in Contemporary Literature and Culture 'Out of the Ordinary' 2019
Kaufman, Alexander L.; Vlagopoulos, Penny Food and Feast in Modern Outlaw Tales 2019
Brock, Alexander; Pflaeging, Jana; Schildhauer, Peter Genre Emergence: Developments in Print, TV and Digital Media 2019
Nikbakht, H. Female Agency in the Harlequin Romance Formula: developments within the timeframe of second wave feminism 2019 Harlequin Mills & Boon, feminism, family, work, sex/sexuality, gender, Carole Mortimer, Roberta Leigh/Rachel Lindsay, virginity, rape and/or intimate partner violence/abuse, health/medical, marriage
Larson, Christine The Color of Romance: Gatekeeping in the Age of Digital Media 2019 Publishing, race/ethnicity
Farooqui, Javaria; Ashraf, Rabia Reconnaissance of ‘Difference’ in Cognitive Maps: Authenticating Happily Ever After in Julia Quinn’s To Sir Philip with Love 2019 psychology, Julia Quinn, historical romance
Jarc, Klara Ljubezenski roman v Sloveniji: knjižnična izposoja, bralci in produkcija 2019 libraries/librarians, Slovenia, Publishing, readers
Stern, Stephanie C.; Robbins, Brianne; Black, Jessica E.; Barnes, Jennifer L. What You Read and What You Believe: Genre Exposure and Beliefs About Relationships 2019 psychology, readers, love, gender
Lois, Jennifer; Gregson, Joanna Aspirational Emotion Work: Calling, Emotional Capital, and Becoming a 'Real' Writer 2019 authors, work, emotions, sociology
Luneau, Marie-Pier; Warren, Jean-Philippe Ce que le roman catholique fait au roman sentimental : le cas de la collection « Amour et aventure » 2019 religion/spirituality, Christian romance, race/ethnicity, Canada, Publishing
Taylor, Helen Why Women Read Fiction: The Stories of Our Lives 2019 readers, Harlequin Mills & Boon, Fifty Shades
González Pérez, Teresa La educación de las mujeres en Iberoamérica: análisis histórico 2019
Γραφανάκη, Ρωξάνη Γυναίκες και ροζ λογοτεχνία: η περίπτωση των εκδόσεων Άρλεκιν 2019 Harlequin Mills & Boon, feminism, capitalism/business, gender, sex/sexuality
Kerr, Ashley Elizabeth Indigenous Lovers and Villainous Scientists: Rewriting Nineteenth-Century Ideas of Race in Argentine Romance Novels 2019 history, race/ethnicity, Argentina, science/technology, national identity, historical romance
Fletcher, Lisa; McAlister, Jodi; Temple, Kurt; Williams, Kathleen #loveyourshelfie: Mills & Boon books and how to find them 2019 Harlequin Mills & Boon, paratext, trash/literary and or intellectual quality, readers, Publishing, Australia
Haruna, Alkasim; Abd Aziz, Noor Hashima Understanding How Novels Shape Identities of Female Readers: A Transactional Reader-Response Approach 2019 readers, Nigeria
Carlos, Giovana Santana Fandom e mercado literário: um mapa das mediações das fãs de romance no contexto brasileiro 2019 readers, Brazil, Publishing
Stern, Stephanie C.; Robbins, Brianne; Black, Jessica E.; Barnes, Jennifer L. What You Read and What You Believe: Genre Exposure and Beliefs About Relationships 2019 psychology, readers, love, gender
Lois, Jennifer; Gregson, Joanna Aspirational Emotion Work: Calling, Emotional Capital, and Becoming a 'Real' Writer 2019 authors, work, emotions, sociology
Chen, Eva “The Hate that Changed”: Cycling Romance and the Aestheticization of Women Cyclists 2019 Older and/or precursor texts (may not be "romance" as now defined), romances in magazines and newspapers
Chaplin, Sue ‘Daddy, I’m falling for a monster’: Women, Sex, and Sacrifice in Contemporary Paranormal Romance 2019 paranormal/fantasy/time-travel romance, Twilight, J. R. Ward, Lara Adrian, family, gender, sex/sexuality, rape and/or intimate partner violence/abuse, LGBT+ characters, readers and/or authors
Fletcher, Lisa; McAlister, Jodi; Temple, Kurt; Williams, Kathleen #loveyourshelfie: Mills & Boon books and how to find them 2019 Harlequin Mills & Boon, paratext, trash/literary and or intellectual quality, readers, Publishing, Australia
Haruna, Alkasim; Abd Aziz, Noor Hashima Understanding How Novels Shape Identities of Female Readers: A Transactional Reader-Response Approach 2019 readers, Nigeria
Rosanowski, Annika Can She Have It All? Pregnancy Narratives in Contemporary Category Romance 2019 family, gender, Harlequin Mills & Boon, marriage
Kendal, Evie The use of free indirect discourse in J. R. Ward's Black Dagger Brotherhood series 2019 J. R. Ward, close reading, linguistics, genre definitions, paranormal/fantasy/time-travel romance, readers
Béja, Alice La new romance et ses nuances. Marché littéraire, sexualité imaginaire et condition féminine 2019 France, erotic romance, sex/sexuality, Fifty Shades, Publishing, m/m romance, fanfiction, readers
Shields, Juliet Preaching without Practicing: Middle-Class Domesticity in Annie S. Swan's Serial Fiction 2019 Annie S. Swan
Raineri, Rosalia Verde bianco e rosa. Il romanzo 'femminile' e l'educazione sentimentale delle italiane (1911-1946) 2019 Annie Vivanti/Annie Vivanti Chartres, Mura, Luciana Peverelli, Italy, national identity, gender, Older and/or precursor texts (may not be "romance" as now defined), linguistics, family
Fletcher, Lisa; McAlister, Jodi; Temple, Kurt; Williams, Kathleen #loveyourshelfie: Mills & Boon books and how to find them 2019 Harlequin Mills & Boon, paratext, trash/literary and or intellectual quality, readers, Publishing, Australia
Lin, Pei-yin; Kim, Su Yun East Asian Transwar Popular Culture: Literature and Film from Taiwan and Korea 2019 Taiwan, Korea, Older and/or precursor texts (may not be "romance" as now defined)
Chaves, Duarte Nuno Memoria e Identidade Insular: Religiosidade, Festividades e Turismo nos Arquipélagos da Madeira e Açores 2019
Moore, Laura M. Sexual Agency, Safe Sex, and Consent Negotiations in Erotic Romance Novels 2019 sex/sexuality, rape and/or intimate partner violence/abuse, erotic romance
Kraxenberger, Maria Erotic Romances: An Emerging Subgenre Succeeding Fifty Shades 2019 erotic romance, Fifty Shades
Fletcher, Lisa; McAlister, Jodi; Temple, Kurt; Williams, Kathleen #loveyourshelfie: Mills & Boon books and how to find them 2019 Harlequin Mills & Boon, paratext, trash/literary and or intellectual quality, readers, Publishing, Australia
Basu, Soumi Sinha Ray The Allure and the Shame of Popular Fiction: An Analysis of Mills & Boon Romances 2019 Harlequin Mills & Boon
Lin, Pei-yin; Kim, Su Yun East Asian Transwar Popular Culture: Literature and Film from Taiwan and Korea 2019 Taiwan, Korea, Older and/or precursor texts (may not be "romance" as now defined)
Gardner, Dora Abigail Defending the Bodice Ripper 2019 feminism, readers, sex/sexuality, history, rape and/or intimate partner violence/abuse
Gerlitz, Laura Michelle Judging a Book By Its Cover: Bringing the Digital Humanities into Reader’s Advisory 2019 Harlequin Mills & Boon, paratext, libraries/librarians
Williams, Elizabeth W. Queering Settler Romance: The Reparative Eugenic Landscape in Nora Strange's Kenyan Novels 2019 Nora K. Strange, sex/sexuality, race/ethnicity, Kenya, Africa, family, science/technology, history, settings, rural romance, rape and/or intimate partner violence/abuse
Ali, Kecia Sacrifices, Sidekicks, and Scapegoats: Black Characters and White Stories in Nora Roberts’s Romances 2019 Nora Roberts/J. D. Robb, race/ethnicity, death, romantic suspense, paranormal/fantasy/time-travel romance, rape and/or intimate partner violence/abuse, police officers/police forces, authors
Fraysse, Mélie; Garcia, Marie-Carmen Les Thug Love : des romans sentimentaux à l'épreuve de la classe et de la race 2019 France, race/ethnicity, social/economic class, Islam, gender, virginity, sex/sexuality
Cella, Laurie J. C. The Personal and the Political in American Working-Class Literature, 1850-1939: Defining the Radical Romance 2019 gender, history, United States of America, Older and/or precursor texts (may not be "romance" as now defined), Laura Jean Libbey, sex/sexuality, work, fashion/clothing, social/economic class, socialism and/or communism
Pérez Casal, Inmaculada Antecedents and Development of the Contemporary Romance Novel in English: A Study of the Contribution to the Genre by Rosamunde Pilcher and Lisa Kleypas 2019 feminism, Lisa Kleypas, Rosamunde Pilcher
Muryn, Teresa Rougir / devenir rouge : l’expression linguistique du langage corporel et ce qu’elle laisse inférer dans un genre textuel 2019 linguistics, emotions, Harlequin Mills & Boon
Escolar, Marisa Allied Encounters: The Gendered Redemption of World War II Italy 2019 Luciana Peverelli, Italy
Trower, Shelley; Tooth Murphy, Amy; Smith, Graham ‘Me mum likes a book, me dad’s a newspaper man’: Reading, gender and domestic life in ‘100 Families’ 2019 gender, readers
Noone, Kristin Succulent Texts: Desire, Outlaws, and Consumption in Popular Romance 2019 food, drink, Suzanne Enoch, pirates and outlaws, Diane Carey, Alexis Hall, historical romance, steampunk, LGBT+ characters, readers and/or authors, community, religion/spirituality, rural romance
González Cruz, María Isabel; Vera-Cazorla, María Jesús Género e identidad cultural: perfiles femeninos en un corpus de novela rosa 2019 Spain, gender, linguistics
Rollins, Shannon Marie Crafting women’s narratives: the material impact of twenty-first century romance fiction on contemporary steampunk dress 2019 steampunk, fashion/clothing, gender, Gail Carriger, feminism, race/ethnicity, Adrienne Kress
Al Thobaiti, Fatmah Afterlife of the Romance Hero: Readers’ Reproduction of Romance 2019 readers, gender, fanfiction, Twilight
Fraysse, Mélie; Garcia, Marie-Carmen Les Thug Love : des romans sentimentaux à l'épreuve de la classe et de la race 2019 France, race/ethnicity, social/economic class, Islam, gender, virginity, sex/sexuality
Huang, Yu-ting; Weaver-Hightower, Rebecca Archiving Settler Colonialism: Culture, Space and Race 2019
Stapleton, Rachel F.; Viselli, Antonio Iconoclasm: The Breaking and Making of Images 2019
Dryden, Therese The Valentine Wars 2019 feminism, family, Susan Elizabeth Phillips, Nora Roberts/J. D. Robb, Rachel Gibson, Robyn Carr, Marie Force, Kristan Higgins, Ruthie Knox, Bella Andre, Grace Burrowes, Sharon Sala, Michelle Douglas
Romera Pintor, Angela Magdalena L’enfance dans l’œuvre de Delly 2019 Delly, family
Andrade, Roberta Manuela Barros de; Feitosa, Ricardo Augusto de Sabóia; Silva, Erotilde Honório Emoção e moralidade em tempos de ruptura: o estupro nas relações conjugais nos romances sentimentais e suas comunidades de leitura 2019 rape and/or intimate partner violence/abuse, marriage, readers, Brazil
Çamoğlu, Dikmen Yakalı Re/Presenting Gender and Love 2019
Ujma, Alicja One Author, Two Pen Names. A Stylometric Analysis of Novels by Nora Roberts/J.D. Robb 2019 linguistics, Nora Roberts/J. D. Robb, translation
Trower, Shelley; Tooth Murphy, Amy; Smith, Graham ‘Me mum likes a book, me dad’s a newspaper man’: Reading, gender and domestic life in ‘100 Families’ 2019 gender, readers
González Cruz, María Isabel; Vera-Cazorla, María Jesús Género e identidad cultural: perfiles femeninos en un corpus de novela rosa 2019 Spain, gender, linguistics
Billekens, Franciska Never Mind Me When There’s You: The Submission Of The Heroine In Young Adult Supernatural Romance Fiction 2019 YA/teenage romance, gender, paranormal/fantasy/time-travel romance
Jones, Amanda Madness, Monks and Mutiny: Neo-Victorianism in the Work of Victoria Holt 2019 Victoria Holt/Jean Plaidy/Eleanor Burford Hibbert, gothic romance, romantic suspense, feminism, Charlotte Brontë, gender, marriage, family, Wilkie Collins, health/medical, Mary Elizabeth Braddon, India
Haruna, Alkasim; Abd Aziz, Noor Hashima Towards an Understanding of the Efferent Reading Stance of Hausa Popular Romance Novels 2019 Nigeria, Africa, readers
González Cruz, María Isabel Viaje y romance en Canarias: el discurso del paraíso en dos novelas publicadas en los Estados Unidos 2019 Spain, Nancy Kennedy, settings
Moy, Patricia; Matheson, Donald Voices: Exploring the Shifting Contours of Communication 2019
Huang, Yu-ting; Weaver-Hightower, Rebecca Archiving Settler Colonialism: Culture, Space and Race 2019
Stapleton, Rachel F.; Viselli, Antonio Iconoclasm: The Breaking and Making of Images 2019
Popova, Milena Sexual Consent 2019 sex/sexuality, rape and/or intimate partner violence/abuse
Bazenga, Aline Turismo e Romance na Literatura Popular Cor-de-rosa Tendo por Cenário a Ilha da Madeira 2019 Portugal, languages, Harlequin Mills & Boon, settings
Delpech, Jeanine Le cas Delly 2019 Delly
Andrade, Roberta Manuela Barros de; Feitosa, Ricardo Augusto de Sabóia; Silva, Erotilde Honório Emoção e moralidade em tempos de ruptura: o estupro nas relações conjugais nos romances sentimentais e suas comunidades de leitura 2019 rape and/or intimate partner violence/abuse, marriage, readers, Brazil
Brickman, Barbara Jane; Jermyn, Deborah; Trost, Theodore Louis Love Across the Atlantic: US-UK Romance in Popular Culture 2020
Wheeler, Duncan Following Franco: Spanish culture and politics in transition, 1962–92 2020 Spain, fascism/right-wing authoritarianism, Corín Tellado
Violi, Patrizia Breve storia della letteratura rosa 2020 Older and/or precursor texts (may not be "romance" as now defined), Carolina Invernizio, Liala, pen name of Amalia Liana Cambiasi Negretti Odescalchi, Publishing, Harlequin Mills & Boon, romances in magazines and newspapers, Fifty Shades, fanfiction
Fragero Guerra, Carmen Carmen de Icaza: la imagen de identidad femenina durante el primer franquismo (1936-1949) 2020 Carmen de Icaza, fascism/right-wing authoritarianism, Spain, gender
Taylor, Jessica Garçon Manqué: A Queer Rereading (of) The Sheik 2020 E. M. Hull, Radclyffe Hall, gender, LGBT+ characters, readers and/or authors, sex/sexuality, readers, fashion/clothing, race/ethnicity
Ramos-García, María T.; Vivanco, Laura Love, Language, Place, and Identity in Popular Culture: Romancing the Other 2020
Habermann, Ina; Krug, Christian And Thereby Hangs a Tale: A Critical Anatomy of (Popular) Tales 2020
Ramos-García, María T. Representations of Otherness in Paranormal Romance: Race and Wealth in Nalini Singh and J. R. Ward 2020 Nalini Singh, J. R. Ward, paranormal/fantasy/time-travel romance, race/ethnicity, United States of America, capitalism/business
Maier, Sarah E.; Ayres, Brenda Neo-Victorian Madness: Rediagnosing Nineteenth-Century Mental Illness in Literature and Other Media 2020
Barkman, Adam; Sanna, Antonio A Critical Companion to Robert Zemeckis 2020
Andrade, Roberta Manuela Barros de; Silva, Erotilde Honório; Feitosa, Ricardo Augusto de Sabóia; Viana, Thiago Mena Barreto Um século de romances de amor: A trajetória da literatura sentimental no Brasil (1920 - 2020) 2020 Brazil
Borham-Puyal, Miriam; Sánchez, Jorge Diego; García-Pérez, María-Isabel Documentando la memoria cultural: las mujeres en las (auto)narraciones exocanónicas 2020
Randell, Karen; Weedon, Alexis Atlantic Liners, It Girls and Old Europe in Elinor Glyn’s Romantic Adventures 2020 Elinor Glyn, social/economic class, wealth/prosperity, Older and/or precursor texts (may not be "romance" as now defined), marriage, United States of America, history
Gymnich, Marion; Dyka, Susanne Falling in love with vs. sich verlieben in: a corpus-based analysis of English and German romance novels 2020 linguistics, love
Burge, Amy Introduction to the special issue on The Sheik 2020 sheikh romance, E. M. Hull
Jansen, Annie Rethinking romance: An argument for adding the genre to the popular shelf 2020 libraries/librarians, Helen Hoang, Jasmine Guillory, Sonali Dev, race/ethnicity, Uzma Jalaluddin
Fitzsimmons, Rebekah; Wilson, Casey Alane Beyond the Blockbusters: Themes and Trends in Contemporary Young Adult Fiction 2020
Day, Sara K. Reimagining Forever...: The Marriage Plot in Recent Young Adult Literature 2020 YA/teenage romance, marriage
Pierini, Francesca Olive Skin, Chocolate Eyes: The Legacy of The Sheik on Descriptive Patterns of the Italian Romantic Hero in Harlequin Short Contemporaries 2020 Italy, national identity, Harlequin Mills & Boon, race/ethnicity, gender, E. M. Hull, metaphor/symbolism, animals
Ramos-García, María T.; Vivanco, Laura Love, Language, Place, and Identity in Popular Culture: Romancing the Other 2020
Pérez Casal, Inmaculada “There’s Something Charming about a Man with an Accent, Isn’t There?”: The Representation of Otherness in Three Novels by Lisa Kleypas 2020 Lisa Kleypas, race/ethnicity, historical romance, languages, social/economic class, UK
Veros, Vassiliki The selective tradition, the role of romance fiction donations, and public library practices in New South Wales, Australia 2020 Australia, libraries/librarians
Sabino, Rosimeri Ferraz; Bezerra, Antônio Ponciano Romance-folhetim em tela: linguagem, personagens e sentidos sociais 2020 Brazil, Faith Baldwin, gender, film/movies
Bloom, Clive The Palgrave Handbook of Contemporary Gothic 2020
Barkman, Adam; Sanna, Antonio A Critical Companion to Robert Zemeckis 2020
Andrade, Roberta Manuela Barros de; Silva, Erotilde Honório; Feitosa, Ricardo Augusto de Sabóia; Viana, Thiago Mena Barreto Um século de romances de amor: A trajetória da literatura sentimental no Brasil (1920 - 2020) 2020 Brazil
Borham-Puyal, Miriam; Sánchez, Jorge Diego; García-Pérez, María-Isabel Documentando la memoria cultural: las mujeres en las (auto)narraciones exocanónicas 2020
Randell, Karen; Weedon, Alexis Atlantic Liners, It Girls and Old Europe in Elinor Glyn’s Romantic Adventures 2020 Elinor Glyn, social/economic class, wealth/prosperity, Older and/or precursor texts (may not be "romance" as now defined), marriage, United States of America, history
Suwanban, Pauline The Oriental Beast: The Sheik and Fairy Tales 2020 E. M. Hull, race/ethnicity, fairytales/folktales, animals, gender
Fitzsimmons, Rebekah; Wilson, Casey Alane Beyond the Blockbusters: Themes and Trends in Contemporary Young Adult Fiction 2020
Moss, Madi Markle Review: When Was the Last Time You Read a Romance Novel? 2020 Christian romance, race/ethnicity, Ilima Todd
Vivanco, Laura Let’s Not Get Carried Away by The Sheik 2020 E. M. Hull, Older and/or precursor texts (may not be "romance" as now defined), Berta Ruck, gender, LGBT+ characters, readers and/or authors, marriage
George, Sam; Hughes, Bill Introduction: from preternatural pastoral to paranormal romance 2020 paranormal/fantasy/time-travel romance, animals
Cameron, Lauren The Romance Publishing Industry and Its Reputation 2020 trash/literary and or intellectual quality, gender, feminism, readers, authors
Vidotto, Ilaria; Goossens, Vannina D’une fenêtre à l’autre. Étude d’un motif spécifique à la littérature blanche et au roman sentimental 2020 linguistics
Farooqui, Javaria The Kitchen and Beyond: The Romantic Chronotope in Pakistani Popular Fiction 2020 romances in magazines and newspapers, Pakistan, settings, food, drink, metaphor/symbolism
Sabino, Rosimeri Ferraz; Bezerra, Antônio Ponciano Romance-folhetim em tela: linguagem, personagens e sentidos sociais 2020 Brazil, Faith Baldwin, gender, film/movies
Bhat, Shilpa Daithota Diasporic Inquiries into South Asian Women’s Narratives: Alien Domiciles 2020
Escandell Montiel, Daniel; Oliveira Dias, Sofia Raquel Voces e identidades exocanónicas (1880-1920): recuperando (auto) narrativas femeninas de los márgenes 2020
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Diwersy, Sascha; Gonon, Laetitia; Goossens, Vannina; Gymnich, Marion; Tutin, Agnès Speech Verbs in French and English Novels 2020 linguistics, emotions, languages
Franck, Kaja Growing Pains of the Teenage Werewolf: Young Adult Literature and the Metaphorical Wolf 2020 paranormal/fantasy/time-travel romance, YA/teenage romance, Maggie Stiefvater, animals, fairytales/folktales, Twilight
Paradis, Kenneth Types and Tropes: History and Moral Agency in Evangelical Inspirational Fiction 2020 Christian romance, Francine Rivers, religion/spirituality, history, United States of America, settings, metafiction, historical romance
García Fernández, Aurora; Fresno-Calleja, Paloma Competence, Complicity and Complexity: Hsu-Ming Teo on the Pitfalls and Nuances of Reading and Researching Popular Romance 2020 romance scholarship, feminism, historical romance, rape and/or intimate partner violence/abuse, love, Australia
Nickel, Eleanor Hersey Christian Popular Culture from The Chronicles of Narnia to Duck Dynasty 2020 Christian romance, Francine Rivers, sex/sexuality, feminism, fairytales/folktales
Ramos-García, María T.; Vivanco, Laura Introduction 2020 race/ethnicity
McAlister, Jodi; Parnell, Claire; Trinidad, Andrea Anne #RomanceClass: Genre World, Intimate Public, Found Family 2020 Philippines, genre definitions, Publishing, readers, authors, Mina V. Esguerra, LGBT+ characters, readers and/or authors, sex/sexuality
Philips, Deborah In defence of reading (and watching) trash: Feminists reading the romance 2020 romance scholarship, feminism
Turner, Ellen The Sheik and Modernism 2020 E. M. Hull, trash/literary and or intellectual quality
George, Sam; Hughes, Bill Introduction: from preternatural pastoral to paranormal romance 2020 paranormal/fantasy/time-travel romance, animals
Vidotto, Ilaria; Goossens, Vannina D’une fenêtre à l’autre. Étude d’un motif spécifique à la littérature blanche et au roman sentimental 2020 linguistics
Anita,; Nababan, Mangatur Rudolf; Santosa, Riyadi; Wibowo, Agus Hari Shift on Functions of Sexual Euphemisms in English-Indonesian Translation of Duke of Her Own by Eloisa James 2020 translation, sex/sexuality, Indonesia, Eloisa James
Carter, Ellen Asexual Romance in an Allosexual World: How Ace-Spectrum Characters (and Authors) Create Space for Romantic Love 2020 LGBT+ characters, readers and/or authors, sex/sexuality, love
Escandell Montiel, Daniel; Oliveira Dias, Sofia Raquel Voces e identidades exocanónicas (1880-1920): recuperando (auto) narrativas femeninas de los márgenes 2020
Diwersy, Sascha; Gonon, Laetitia; Goossens, Vannina; Gymnich, Marion; Tutin, Agnès Speech Verbs in French and English Novels 2020 linguistics, emotions, languages
Kamitsuka, Margaret D. Prolife Christian Romance Novels: A Sign that the Abortion-as-Murder Center Is Not Holding? 2020 Christian romance, religion/spirituality, health/medical, rape and/or intimate partner violence/abuse, Francine Rivers, family, United States of America
García Fernández, Aurora; Fresno-Calleja, Paloma Competence, Complicity and Complexity: Hsu-Ming Teo on the Pitfalls and Nuances of Reading and Researching Popular Romance 2020 romance scholarship, feminism, historical romance, rape and/or intimate partner violence/abuse, love, Australia
Birthisel, Jessica The Good, the Bad, and the Kinky: Erotic Romance Writing in a Post-Fifty Shades of Grey Landscape 2020 erotic romance, Fifty Shades, authors, sex/sexuality, Publishing, BDSM
Ramos-García, María T.; Vivanco, Laura Introduction 2020 race/ethnicity
Servén, Carmen Mujer y persona narrativa en tres novelas de siglo XX: Carmen de Icaza, Carmen Martín Gaite y Rosa Montero 2020 Carmen de Icaza
McAlister, Jodi; Parnell, Claire; Trinidad, Andrea Anne #RomanceClass: Genre World, Intimate Public, Found Family 2020 Philippines, genre definitions, Publishing, readers, authors, Mina V. Esguerra, LGBT+ characters, readers and/or authors, sex/sexuality
Dixon, jay The Depiction of Masculinity and Nationality in The Sheik 2020 E. M. Hull, gender, race/ethnicity, UK, Scotland
Mäkelä, Veera "World Turned Upside Down": The Role of Revolutions in Maya Rodale's Regency-Set Romances 2020 Maya Rodale, United States of America, UK, historical romance, social/economic class, gender, race/ethnicity, emotions, feminism
Jacquot, Clémence; Goossens, Vannina; Novakova, Iva Étude contrastive des motifs spécifiques aux romans sentimentaux et aux romans Harlequin 2020 linguistics, Harlequin Mills & Boon
Anita,; Nababan, Mangatur Rudolf; Santosa, Riyadi; Wibowo, Agus Hari Shift on Functions of Sexual Euphemisms in English-Indonesian Translation of Duke of Her Own by Eloisa James 2020 translation, sex/sexuality, Indonesia, Eloisa James
Allan, Jonathan A. “And he absolutely fascinated me”: Masculinity and Virginity in Sherilee Gray’s Breaking Him 2020 Sherilee Gray, gender, virginity, sex/sexuality
Neale, Gillian Annie S. Swan, Publishing Phenomenon: A Book Historical Perspective 2020 Annie S. Swan
Novakova, Iva; Siepmann, Dirk Phraseology and Style in Subgenres of the Novel: A Synthesis of Corpus and Literary Perspectives 2020 linguistics, languages, translation
George, Sam; Hughes, Bill In the company of wolves: Werewolves, wolves and wild children 2020
Vivanco, Laura Faith, Love, Hope and Popular Romance Fiction 2020 religion/spirituality, love, death, authors, readers, romance and, or as, activism, Lindsay Evans, health/medical, psychology, Piper Huguley, race/ethnicity, Publishing, romance scholarship, Rose Lerner, Older and/or precursor texts (may not be "romance" as now defined), sex/sexuality, LGBT+ characters, readers and/or authors, Alyssa Cole, wealth/prosperity, emotions, metaphor/symbolism, Carola Dunn, Georgette Heyer, Lisa Kleypas, Meljean Brook, Elizabeth Hoyt, Justine Davis/Justine Dare, Suleikha Snyder, Nora Roberts/J. D. Robb, rape and/or intimate partner violence/abuse, community, happy ending
Burke, Nicola Mills and Fur: Feminism and Femininity in the Supernatural Romance 2020 Older and/or precursor texts (may not be "romance" as now defined), fairytales/folktales, YA/teenage romance, paranormal/fantasy/time-travel romance, sex/sexuality, animals, food, drink, gender, Jackson Pearce, Ivy Devlin, Sarah Blakley-Cartwright, Maggie Stiefvater
Diwersy, Sascha; Gonon, Laetitia; Goossens, Vannina; Gymnich, Marion; Tutin, Agnès Speech Verbs in French and English Novels 2020 linguistics, emotions, languages
Lancaster, Rosemary Fact and Fiction: Alice Williamson’s Monte Carlo 2020 Alice Williamson/A. M. Williamson/Mrs. C. N. Williamson, Older and/or precursor texts (may not be "romance" as now defined)
Romera Pintor, Angela Magdalena Maryan (1847-1927) et le déclassement du roman sentimental 2020 Maryan, pen name of Marie Cadiou, Older and/or precursor texts (may not be "romance" as now defined)
Lawrence, Kelsey No Happy Ending: Leadership Falls Apart at the Romance Writers of America 2020 capitalism/business, authors, race/ethnicity
Nibafasha, Spes The politics of the popular: Definitions and uses of African popular fiction 2020 Africa, genre definitions, trash/literary and or intellectual quality, readers, gender
Sterling, Alexandra Love in the Ton: Georgette Heyer’s Legacy in Regency Romance World-Building 2020 Georgette Heyer, historical romance, race/ethnicity, history
Blanshard, Alastair J.L.; Stafford, Emma The Modern Hercules: Images of the Hero from the Nineteenth to the Early Twenty-First Century 2020
Fesenmeier, Ludwig; Novakova, Iva Phraséologie et stylistique de la langue littéraire/Phraseology and Stylistics of Literary Language; Approches interdisciplinaires/Interdisciplinary Approaches 2020
Alexi, Sarah Girl, woman, spinster—‘desire, fear, ridicule’: the feminine and the failed in twentieth-century Australian women’s writing 2020 Older and/or precursor texts (may not be "romance" as now defined), Louise Mack, Australia, national identity, Mabel Forrest
Pérez-Gil, María del Mar Britannia’s Daughters: Popular Romance Fiction and the Ideology of National Superiority (1950s–1970s) 2020 national identity, race/ethnicity, UK, history, Violet Winspear, Lilian Warren as Kathryn Blair/Rosalind Brett/Celine Conway, Kay Thorpe, Greece, Spain, Jean S. MacLeod/Catherine Airlie, gender, feminism
McAlister, Jodi; Parnell, Claire; Trinidad, Andrea Anne #RomanceClass: Genre World, Intimate Public, Found Family 2020 Philippines, genre definitions, Publishing, readers, authors, Mina V. Esguerra, LGBT+ characters, readers and/or authors, sex/sexuality
Jarmakani, Amira On Eligible Princes: The medieval modernity of sheikh romance 2020 sheikh romance
Adair, Joshua G.; Levin, Amy K. Museums, Sexuality, and Gender Activism 2020
Pérez-Casal, Inmaculada Business-like Lords and Gentlemanly Businessmen: The Romance Hero in Lisa Kleypas's Wallflowers Series 2020 Lisa Kleypas, capitalism/business, historical romance, United States of America, UK, national identity, social/economic class
Jacquot, Clémence; Goossens, Vannina; Novakova, Iva Étude contrastive des motifs spécifiques aux romans sentimentaux et aux romans Harlequin 2020 linguistics, Harlequin Mills & Boon
Anita,; Nababan, Mangatur Rudolf; Santosa, Riyadi; Wibowo, Agus Hari Shift on Functions of Sexual Euphemisms in English-Indonesian Translation of Duke of Her Own by Eloisa James 2020 translation, sex/sexuality, Indonesia, Eloisa James
Intan, Tania Formula Romance Dalam Perfect Romance Karya Indah Hanaco: Kajian Sastra Feminis 2020 Indah Hanaco, genre definitions, feminism, family, Indonesia
Novakova, Iva; Siepmann, Dirk Phraseology and Style in Subgenres of the Novel: A Synthesis of Corpus and Literary Perspectives 2020 linguistics, languages, translation
George, Sam; Hughes, Bill In the company of wolves: Werewolves, wolves and wild children 2020
McAlister, Jodi The Consummate Virgin: Female Virginity Loss and Love in Anglophone Popular Literatures 2020 sex/sexuality, love, virginity, history, romance scholarship, historical romance, rape and/or intimate partner violence/abuse, Harlequin Mills & Boon, Twilight, Fifty Shades, race/ethnicity, Kathleen Woodiwiss, Catherine Coulter, Loretta Chase, Teresa Medeiros, Julia Quinn, Lisa Kleypas, Stephanie Laurens, Courtney Milan, Johanna Lindsey, Denise Robins, Sophie Cole, Louise Gerard, Lilian Warren as Kathryn Blair/Rosalind Brett/Celine Conway, national identity, UK, readers
Veros, Vassiliki What the Librarians Did: The Marginalisation of Romance Fiction Through the Practices of Public Librarianship 2020 libraries/librarians, Australia
Diwersy, Sascha; Gonon, Laetitia; Goossens, Vannina; Gymnich, Marion; Tutin, Agnès Speech Verbs in French and English Novels 2020 linguistics, emotions, languages
Ayres, Brenda "A Necessary Madness": PTSD in Mary Balogh's Survivors' Club Novels 2020 Mary Balogh, disability, war/armed forces, death
Folie, Sandra The Ethnic Labelling of a Genre Gone Global: A Distant Comparison of African-American and African Chick Lit 2020 chick lit, Africa, South Africa, Kenya, race/ethnicity
Charlton, Michael Till Death Do Us Part: Romancing the Stone, Death Becomes Her, and the Romance Genre 2020 film/movies
Lozano Sampedro, Mª Teresa Las clases sociales y el poder económico en la obra de Delly: la mujer y su triunfo sobre la opresión 2020 Delly, social/economic class, wealth/prosperity, gender
Lancashire, Anne Venetia: Georgette Heyer’s Pastoral Romance 2020 Georgette Heyer, rural romance, Shakespeare, settings
Andrade, Roberta Manuela Barros de; Viana, Thiago Mena Barreto; Feitosa, Ricardo Augusto de Sabóia Prazer, Emoção e Cotidiano na Leitura de Romances Sentimentais 2020 Brazil, readers
Blanshard, Alastair J.L.; Stafford, Emma The Modern Hercules: Images of the Hero from the Nineteenth to the Early Twenty-First Century 2020
Fesenmeier, Ludwig; Novakova, Iva Phraséologie et stylistique de la langue littéraire/Phraseology and Stylistics of Literary Language; Approches interdisciplinaires/Interdisciplinary Approaches 2020
Liang, William Tham Wai Paper & Text: The Trials and Trade of Malaysian Literature 2020
Bazenga, Aline Language Awareness in Four Romances Set on the Island of Madeira 2020 linguistics, languages, Portugal, Harlequin Mills & Boon
Izharuddin, Alicia Sweet Surrender: The Ethno-Religious Spaces of Malay Romance 2020 Malaysia, religion/spirituality
Kamblé, Jayashree When Wuxia Met Romance: The Pleasures and Politics of Transculturalism in Sherry Thomas’s My Beautiful Enemy 2020 Sherry Thomas, China, war/armed forces, race/ethnicity, historical romance, UK, gender, national identity, family
Burge, Amy; Robinson, Rachel Review essay on The Sheik 2020 E. M. Hull, sheikh romance, romance scholarship
Adair, Joshua G.; Levin, Amy K. Museums, Sexuality, and Gender Activism 2020
Fernández Ulloa, Teresa; Soler Gallo, Miguel Aproximaciones a la configuración de la identidad en la cultura y sociedad hispanas e italianas contemporáneas 2020
Moreno-Álvarez, Alejandra India, Heat, Dust, and Tea? Alienness and Marketability in Ruth Prawer Jhabvala and Nicole C. Vosseler 2020 India, trash/literary and or intellectual quality, Nicole C. Vosseler, Ruth Prawer Jhabvala, happy ending, race/ethnicity
Jacquot, Clémence; Goossens, Vannina; Novakova, Iva Étude contrastive des motifs spécifiques aux romans sentimentaux et aux romans Harlequin 2020 linguistics, Harlequin Mills & Boon
Koolen, Corina; van Dalen-Oskam, Karina; van Cranenburgh, Andreas; Nagelhout, Erica Literary quality in the eye of the Dutch reader: The National Reader Survey 2020 trash/literary and or intellectual quality, gender, Netherlands
Anita,; Nababan, Mangatur Rudolf; Santosa, Riyadi; Wibowo, Agus Hari Shift on Functions of Sexual Euphemisms in English-Indonesian Translation of Duke of Her Own by Eloisa James 2020 translation, sex/sexuality, Indonesia, Eloisa James
Riseman, Noah Intimatopias and the queering of Australian war fiction 2020 Australia, history, war/armed forces, m/m romance, LGBT+ characters, readers and/or authors
Nowacki, Dariusz Access Paths: On Popular Women’s Literature and Criticism 2020 romance scholarship
Diwersy, Sascha; Gonon, Laetitia; Goossens, Vannina; Gymnich, Marion; Tutin, Agnès Speech Verbs in French and English Novels 2020 linguistics, emotions, languages
Hirst, Holly The Gothic Romance 2020 gothic romance, Victoria Holt/Jean Plaidy/Eleanor Burford Hibbert, Phyllis A. Whitney, rape and/or intimate partner violence/abuse, gender, readers, Daphne du Maurier, romance scholarship, social/economic class, Catherine Cookson, Christine Marion Fraser, Georgette Heyer
Heiss, Karin Snow White of the (Un)Dead Reading the Anita Blake: Vampire Hunter Series as Tales of Female Desire 2020 Laurell K. Hamilton, fairytales/folktales, paranormal/fantasy/time-travel romance, sex/sexuality
Adamenko, Olga; Klymenko, Olga Communicative Behavior via Gender Identity (Based on the English language “Love Stories”) 2020 gender, linguistics, Victoria Gordon, Leigh Greenwood, Madeleine Ker, Gil Sanderson, Harlequin Mills & Boon
Andrade, Roberta Manuela Barros de; Viana, Thiago Mena Barreto; Feitosa, Ricardo Augusto de Sabóia Prazer, Emoção e Cotidiano na Leitura de Romances Sentimentais 2020 Brazil, readers
Vera-Cazorla, María Jesús “And they Drive on the Wrong Side of the Road”: The Anglo-centric Vision of the Canary Islands in Mills & Boon Romance Novels (1955–1987) 2020 UK, Spain, Harlequin Mills & Boon, settings, national identity, history, gender, fascism/right-wing authoritarianism, family, marriage, religion/spirituality
Lawrence, E. E. On the problem of oppressive tastes in the public library 2020 libraries/librarians, race/ethnicity, philosophy