| Sabo, Oana |
Translingualism 2.0 |
2024 |
France, linguistics |
| Benge, Alie; O'Brien, Lil; Van Beek, Kathryn |
Otherhood: Essays on being childless, childfree and child-adjacent |
2024 |
|
| Benge, Alie; O'Brien, Lil; Van Beek, Kathryn |
Otherhood: Essays on being childless, childfree and child-adjacent |
2024 |
|
| Hennessey, John L. |
History and Speculative Fiction |
2024 |
|
| Henderson, Aneeka Ayanna |
Popular Romance and Literary Undergrounds |
2024 |
African American romance |
| Parisot, Eric |
Jane Austen and Vampires: Love, Sex and Immortality in the New Millennium |
2024 |
paranormal/fantasy/time-travel romance, Jane Austen, Colleen Gleason, Twilight, Regina Jeffers, Amanda Grange, fanfiction |
| Spencer, Lynda Gichanda |
“Walk like a chameleon”: Reflecting on my teaching journey at a South African university |
2024 |
teaching romance |
| Larson, Christine |
Love in the Time of Self-Publishing: How Romance Writers Changed the Rules of Writing and Success |
2024 |
authors, Publishing, United States of America, race/ethnicity, LGBT+ characters, readers and/or authors |
| Kluger, Johanna |
Post-Trump masculinity in popular romance novels |
2024 |
United States of America, gender, sex/sexuality, Tessa Dare, Sarah MacLean, romance and, or as, activism |
| Bacon, Simon |
The Palgrave Handbook of the Vampire |
2024 |
|
| Burge, Amy; McAlister, Jodi; Ireland, Charlotte |
“Prince Charming with an Erection”: The Sensational Pleasures of the Bonkbuster |
2024 |
bonkbuster, Jilly Cooper, Jackie Collins, Shirley Conran, Judith Krantz |
| Arvanitaki, Eirini |
Emotionality: Heterosexual Love and Emotional Development in Popular Romance |
2024 |
love |
| Posti, Piia K |
‘I Get to Exist as a Black Person in the World’: Bridgerton as Speculative Romance and Alternate History on Screen |
2024 |
race/ethnicity, history, historical romance, Julia Quinn |
| Burge, Amy; McAlister, Jodi; Ireland, Charlotte |
“Prince Charming with an Erection”: The Sensational Pleasures of the Bonkbuster |
2024 |
bonkbuster, Jilly Cooper, Jackie Collins, Shirley Conran, Judith Krantz |
| Farooqui, Javaria |
Romance Fandom in 21st-Century Pakistan: Reading the Regency |
2024 |
readers, Pakistan, historical romance |
| Kluger, Johanna |
"On Thursdays We Shoot": Guns and Gender Binaries in Regency Romance Novels |
2024 |
historical romance, gender, Tessa Dare, Julia Quinn |
| Vivanco, Laura |
Feeling Judged: Reflections on Pornography and Romance from a Minotaur Milking Farm |
2024 |
pornography, trash/literary and or intellectual quality, paranormal/fantasy/time-travel romance, sex/sexuality, race/ethnicity, emotions, C. M. Nascosta, metafiction, family |
| Burge, Amy; McAlister, Jodi; Ireland, Charlotte |
“Prince Charming with an Erection”: The Sensational Pleasures of the Bonkbuster |
2024 |
bonkbuster, Jilly Cooper, Jackie Collins, Shirley Conran, Judith Krantz |
| Tanner, David |
Riding The Tosh Horse: Ethel M. Dell, A Written Life |
2024 |
Ethel M. Dell, Older and/or precursor texts (may not be "romance" as now defined) |
| Reese, Tracy H.Z. |
Beyond the Pale: Genre, Race, and Intersectional Feminist Tensions in Bridgerton |
2024 |
Julia Quinn, race/ethnicity, rape and/or intimate partner violence/abuse |
| Kies, Bridget |
Saying “I Don’t”: Queer Romance in the Post–Marriage Equality World |
2024 |
marriage, happy ending, LGBT+ characters, readers and/or authors, film/movies, Alexis Hall |
| Burge, Amy |
A decolonised alpha hero? Negotiating masculinities in Nigerian romance novels |
2024 |
Nigeria, Africa, gender |
| Markova, M. V. |
Georgette Heyer, history, and historical fiction. |
2024 |
Georgette Heyer, history, historical romance |
| Hiergeist, Teresa; Schäfer, Stefanie |
Ladies in Arms: Women, Guns, and Feminisms in Contemporary Popular Culture |
2024 |
feminism |
| Green, Steff |
More schlongs, more cats |
2024 |
family, Steffanie Holmes, pen name of Steff Green, happy ending |
| Allen, Amanda K. |
Ruling the Court: Reflections on Midcentury Junior Novel Romances |
2024 |
YA/teenage romance |
| Johnson, Jacqueline E. |
Lusting out loud: racialized aurality, podcast intimacy, and the uses of thirst |
2024 |
race/ethnicity, happy ending, sex/sexuality |
| Hiergeist, Teresa; Schäfer, Stefanie |
Ladies in Arms: Women, Guns, and Feminisms in Contemporary Popular Culture |
2024 |
feminism |
| Frankel, Valerie Estelle |
Adapting Bridgerton: Essays on the Netflix Show in Context |
2024 |
Julia Quinn |
| Goyal, Yogita |
The Cambridge Companion to Contemporary African American Literature |
2024 |
|
| Pérez-Fernández, Irene |
Black British love matters: Asserting the transformative power of love in Bolu Babalola’s Love in Colour: Mythical Tales Around the World Retold |
2024 |
Bolu Babalola, race/ethnicity, UK, myth |
| Benge, Alie; O'Brien, Lil; Van Beek, Kathryn |
Otherhood: Essays on being childless, childfree and child-adjacent |
2024 |
|
| 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 |
| Roche, Emma |
Women, Violence and Postmillennial Romance Fiction |
2023 |
Twilight, Fifty Shades, feminism, rape and/or intimate partner violence/abuse, capitalism/business |
| 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 |
| 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 |
|
| Stobaugh, Rebecca |
Halfway-Sexual: Exploring Demisexuality in American Literature |
2023 |
sex/sexuality, LGBT+ characters, readers and/or authors, Fifty Shades, Jack Byrne |
| 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 |
| Morrison, Kevin A.; Rantala, Pälvi |
Historical Research, Creative Writing, and the Past: Methods of Knowing |
2023 |
|
| 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 |
| 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 |
| 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 |
| 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 |
|
| 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 |
| 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 |
| Morrison, Kevin A.; Rantala, Pälvi |
Historical Research, Creative Writing, and the Past: Methods of Knowing |
2023 |
|
| Robinson, Rachel |
Reading and writing dogs in popular romance fiction |
2023 |
animals |
| 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 |
| 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 |
| 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 |
| 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 |
| 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 |
| Carter, David |
The Cambridge History of the Australian Novel |
2023 |
|
| Morden, Christina |
Innovations in Romance Novel Distribution at Harlequin, Sourcebooks, and Raincoast Books |
2023 |
Publishing, Canada, Harlequin Mills & Boon |
| 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 |
| Miclea, Adelina |
Colleen Hoover’s Formulas for Best-Sellers as Seen in Reminders of Him and it Ends with Us |
2023 |
Colleen Hoover, United States of America |
| Burge, Amy |
Romantic Love across Borders: Marriage Migration in Popular Romance Fiction |
2023 |
Helen Hoang, Brigitte Bautista, United States of America, Philippines, Vietnam, marriage, metaphor/symbolism |
| Henderson, Alex |
Genre-savvy Protagonists in Queer YA Rom-coms |
2023 |
LGBT+ characters, readers and/or authors, rom-com romance, YA/teenage romance, metafiction, Emery Lee, Alice Oseman |
| Grobbelaar, Madalena; Reid Boyd, Elizabeth; Dudek, Debra |
Contemporary Love Studies in the Arts and Humanities: What's Love Got To Do With It? |
2023 |
|
| Petrović, Janja |
Breaking the stereotype – romance novel today |
2023 |
genre definitions, gender, Mariana Zapata, Abby Jimenez, Christina Lauren, Emily Henry, Colleen Hoover |
| Abdullah-Poulos, Layla |
Sisters, Skanks, and Jezebels: American Muslim Fiction and the Other Woman |
2023 |
United States of America, Islam, religion/spirituality, African American romance |
| 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 |
| Arnold-Forster, Agnes |
Cold, Hard Steel: The Myth of the Modern Surgeon |
2023 |
health/medical, Elizabeth Gilzean, Harlequin Mills & Boon |
| 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 |
| Markasović, Valentina |
Challenging Gender Stereotypes in Holly Black’s The Folk of the Air Trilogy |
2023 |
Holly Black, paranormal/fantasy/time-travel romance, YA/teenage romance, gender |
| Rattanamathuwong, Bancha |
Time Is on Our Side?: Homo Economicus in Time-Travel Romance |
2023 |
paranormal/fantasy/time-travel romance, capitalism/business, Jude Deveraux, Rompaeng, Thomyantri, Thailand, Audrey Niffenegger |
| Garton, Stephen |
Return Fantasies: Martial Masculinity, Misogyny and Homosocial Bonding in the Aftermath of Second World War |
2023 |
war/armed forces, Australia, history, gender, romances in magazines and newspapers, sex/sexuality |
| Grobbelaar, Madalena; Reid Boyd, Elizabeth; Dudek, Debra |
Contemporary Love Studies in the Arts and Humanities: What's Love Got To Do With It? |
2023 |
|
| Horgheim, Celina |
From Rape to Romance: Sexual Consent Negotiation in Romantic Retellings of the Myth of Persephone |
2023 |
myth, sex/sexuality, rape and/or intimate partner violence/abuse, gender, Rachel Alexander, Ophelia Silk, feminism |
| Limond, Verity |
‘The door is open to everyone’: The public libraries of Gozo |
2023 |
libraries/librarians, Malta, Harlequin Mills & Boon |
| Roach, David |
A Very British Affair – The Best of Classic Romance Comics |
2023 |
comics/manga, UK |
| Ripoll Fonollar, Mariana |
Wording deeds: the figure of the suffragette in contemporary british fiction |
2023 |
feminism, historical romance, Katie MacAlister, Courtney Milan, Evie Dunmore |
| 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 |
| Larson, Christine; Carter, Ashley |
Love is love: Reverse isomorphism and the rise of LGBTQ+ romance publishing |
2023 |
Publishing, LGBT+ characters, readers and/or authors |
| Kamblé, Jayashree |
Creating Identity: The Popular Romance Heroine's Journey to Selfhood and Self-Presentation |
2023 |
gender, sex/sexuality, work, national identity, race/ethnicity, Susan Napier, Nora Roberts/J. D. Robb, Karen Marie Moning, Lisa Kleypas, Beverly Jenkins, Linda Howard, Kresley Cole, Joanna Bourne, Sherry Thomas, Alyssa Cole, metafiction, social/economic class, community, emotions |
| Phipps, Catherine |
‘The Machine for Showing Desire’: Desert Romance Fiction and Knowing Sexual Desire |
2023 |
sheikh romance, history, race/ethnicity, sex/sexuality, E. M. Hull, Leonard Noel Barker writing as L. Noel |
| Ghosh, Srijani |
Diversity Sells: Uzma Jalaluddin’s Muslim Adaptation of Pride and Prejudice |
2023 |
Uzma Jalaluddin, Islam, religion/spirituality, Jane Austen, race/ethnicity, Canada, marriage |
| Yeung, Jessica Siu-yin |
Hong Kong Literature and the Taiwanese Encounter: Literary Magazines, Popular Literature and Shih Shu-Ching’s Hong Kong Stories |
2023 |
romances in magazines and newspapers, Older and/or precursor texts (may not be "romance" as now defined), Taiwan, China |
| Grobbelaar, Madalena; Reid Boyd, Elizabeth; Dudek, Debra |
Contemporary Love Studies in the Arts and Humanities: What's Love Got To Do With It? |
2023 |
|
| Vermeer, Lina |
The Affective Power of Intimacy: A Case Study of a Men’s Hockey Real Person Fan Fiction’s Literary and Social Contexts |
2023 |
fanfiction, genre definitions, LGBT+ characters, readers and/or authors, emotions, love, pornography, readers, Canada, sport |
| Kamblé, Jayashree |
Romancing the University: BIPOC Scholars in Romance Novels in the 1980s and Now |
2023 |
race/ethnicity, Sandra Kitt, Barbara Stephens, Adriana Herrera, Nicole M. Jackson/Katrina Jackson/Brandy Bush, Talia Hibbert, African American romance, work, romance and, or as, activism |
| Kamblé, Jayashree |
The origins of U.S. mass-market category romance novels: Black editors and writers in the early 1980s |
2023 |
race/ethnicity, Publishing, Vivian Stephens, United States of America, social/economic class, work, Rosalind Welles - pen name of Elsie B. Washington, Lia Sanders - pen name of Angela Jackson and Sandra Jackson-Opoku, Sandra Kitt, Barbara Stephens, Valerie Flournoy, history, sex/sexuality, Rochelle Alers, Donna Hill |
| Larson, Christine; Carter, Ashley |
Love is love: Reverse isomorphism and the rise of LGBTQ+ romance publishing |
2023 |
Publishing, LGBT+ characters, readers and/or authors |
| Teo, Hsu-Ming |
Love Is Not Enough: Australian Romantic Fiction from the Mid-Nineteenth to the Early Twentieth Century |
2023 |
Australia, Older and/or precursor texts (may not be "romance" as now defined), Rosa Praed, Marie Bjelke Petersen, marriage, love, work |
| 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 |
| Reed, Eleanor |
Woman's Weekly and Lower-Middle-Class Domestic Culture in Britain, 1918-1958: Making Homemakers |
2023 |
romances in magazines and newspapers, UK, readers, social/economic class |
| van Hattum, Fatima Y. |
Orientalist Public Pedagogy: Visual Representation of Muslims in Pop Culture and Desert Romance Novels |
2023 |
sheikh romance, paratext, Islam, race/ethnicity |
| Ali, Kecia |
The End of the World as We Know It: Climate Catastrophe in Nalini Singh's Paranormal Romance Fiction |
2023 |
Nalini Singh, ecocriticism/environmentalism/climate change, paranormal/fantasy/time-travel romance |
| Golubov, Nattie |
Female Warriors, Social Injustice and the Transformational Force of Anger in Jaye Wells' Sabina Kane Series |
2023 |
paranormal/fantasy/time-travel romance, feminism, emotions, Jaye Wells, gender, settings |
| Neely, Diana |
Who Says Women Can’t Love and Empower?: How Representations of Women Have Progressed in Medical Romance Fiction |
2023 |
medical romance, Elizabeth Stuart Phelps, work, Marjorie Norrell, Alyssa Cole, Ali Hazelwood |
| Sparks, Tabitha |
Reading the Women’s Sentimental Novel: A Romance |
2023 |
Older and/or precursor texts (may not be "romance" as now defined), metafiction, authors, Annie S. Swan, Sarah Doudney, Emily Jolly, Adeline Sergeant |
| Warnaar, Karin |
Dresses and Drapery: The Material Essie Summers |
2023 |
Essie Summers, fashion/clothing, Harlequin Mills & Boon, New Zealand |
| Driscoll, Beth; Wilkins, Kim |
Australian Fantasy, Crime and Romance Fiction in the Twentieth and Twenty-First Centuries |
2023 |
Australia, Publishing |
| 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 |
| Veros, Vassiliki |
Nobody Puts Romance Fiction in the Corner: Public Librarians in New South Wales and Their Dalliance with Romance Fiction |
2023 |
libraries/librarians, trash/literary and or intellectual quality, Australia, Harlequin Mills & Boon |
| Griffiths, David |
Hearing Ghosts: Writing a Low Fantasy YA Gothic Fiction for young adult males |
2023 |
YA/teenage romance, paranormal/fantasy/time-travel romance, Twilight, gender |
| McDade, Monique |
California Dreams and American Contradictions: Women Writers and the Western Ideal |
2023 |
Eva Rutland, African American romance |
| Zhang, Chunjie; Krimmer, Elisabeth |
Gender and German Colonialism: Intimacies, Accountabilities, Intersections |
2023 |
|
| Leenstra, Lisa |
Covers of Lovers: A Multimodal Comparison of the Front Covers of Romance Novels in 2011 and 2021 |
2023 |
paratext |
| Driscoll, Beth; Wilkins, Kim |
Australian Fantasy, Crime and Romance Fiction in the Twentieth and Twenty-First Centuries |
2023 |
Australia, Publishing |
| 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 |
| Phumithammarat, Nanphatchaon |
The Cultural Politics of Chinese-Thai Identities in Ethnic Romance Novels by Female Authors |
2023 |
Thailand, race/ethnicity, China |
| 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 |
| 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 |
| Bharathi, L. Divya; Muthuraman, K. |
Nicholas Charles Sparks’s The Notebook: A Novel Of Love Or Romance? |
2023 |
Nicholas Sparks, genre definitions, happy ending |
| Zhang, Chunjie; Krimmer, Elisabeth |
Gender and German Colonialism: Intimacies, Accountabilities, Intersections |
2023 |
|
| 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 |
| 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 |
| 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 |
| 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 |
| Bradford, Robin |
The Readers’ Advisory Guide to Romance |
2023 |
libraries/librarians |
| 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 |
| 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 |
| 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 |
| 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 |
| 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 |
| 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 |
| 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 |
| 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 |
| 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 |
| Sinha, Mona |
Reading Mills and Boon in India From the Post-Colonial to the Millennial Experience |
2022 |
India, Harlequin Mills & Boon, readers, chick lit |
| 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 |
| 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 |
| Dexl, Carmen; Gerlsbeck, Silvia |
The Male Body in Representation: Returning to Matter |
2022 |
|
| 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 |
| 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 |
| 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 |
| Nilson, Maria; Posti, Piia K |
Speglingar av feelgood: Genre, etikett eller känsla? |
2022 |
|
| 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 |
| Pierini, Francesca |
“Roma” spelled backwards: love and heterotopic space in contemporary romance novels set in Italy |
2022 |
Italy, settings |
| 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 |
| 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 |
| 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) |
| Long, Veronica Lee |
Individuation and the Romance Novel |
2022 |
gender, myth, psychology, love, readers, Jane Austen |
| Holmes, Diana |
Plaisirs d'amour: Love and popular fiction in contemporary France |
2022 |
France |
| 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 |
| 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 |
| Dexl, Carmen; Gerlsbeck, Silvia |
The Male Body in Representation: Returning to Matter |
2022 |
|
| 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 |
| 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 |
| 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 |
| 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 |
| 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 |
| 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 |
| 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 |
| 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 |
| 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 |
|
| Lindström Kruse, Miranda |
Pinsamma läsningar: En affektteoretisk studie av #SpicyBooks på TikTok |
2022 |
readers, libraries/librarians |
| 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 |
| 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 |
| 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 |
| 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 |
| 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 |
| 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 |
| 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 |
| 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 |
| 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 |
| 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 |
|
| 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 |
| 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 |
| González-Cruz, María Isabel |
Hispanicisms in Romance Fiction: An Annotated Glossary |
2022 |
linguistics, Spain, Harlequin Mills & Boon |
| 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 |
| 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 |
| 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 |
| 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 |
|
| Dryden, Therese |
The single-mother and the law: romance novels making room for female voices in patriarchal spaces |
2022 |
family, Robyn Carr |
| 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 |
| 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 |
| 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 |
|
| Cannon, Emanni N |
Contemporary Romance and the Question of Literary Value |
2022 |
trash/literary and or intellectual quality, Jane Austen, Georgette Heyer, Colleen Hoover |
| 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 |
| 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 |
| Brooks, Ann |
The Routledge Companion to Romantic Love |
2022 |
love |
| 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 |
| Gehrmann, Susanne |
Varieties of Romance in Contemporary Popular Togolese Literature |
2022 |
Togo, Africa, Serge Azialé/Seraz, Jeannette Ahonsou, romantic suspense, Lauren Ekué, chick lit |
| 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 |
| Alcala Gonzalez, Antonio; Sederholm, Carl H. |
Lovecraft in the 21st Century: Dead, But Still Dreaming |
2022 |
|
| Beyer, Charlotte |
Decolonising the Literature Curriculum |
2022 |
|
| 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 |
| 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 |
| Chawla, Gitanjali; Mittal, Sangeeta |
Indian Popular Fiction: Redefining the Canon |
2022 |
|
| 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 |
| Moody-Freeman, Julie E. |
Black Cultural Studies and Black Love: Why Black Love Matters |
2022 |
love, race/ethnicity, teaching romance |
| 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 |
| 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 |
| 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 |
| Golubov, Nattie |
La promesa de felicidad: la novela rosa y el placer de la lectura afectiva |
2022 |
readers, emotions, happy ending |
| 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 |