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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
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
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
Gruner, Elisabeth Rose Constructing the Adolescent Reader in Contemporary Young Adult Fiction 2019 YA/teenage romance
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
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
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
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
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
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
Kuortti, Joel; Ilmonen, Kaisa; Valovirta, Elina; Korkka, Janne Thinking with the Familiar in Contemporary Literature and Culture 'Out of the Ordinary' 2019
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
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
Kuortti, Joel; Ilmonen, Kaisa; Valovirta, Elina; Korkka, Janne Thinking with the Familiar in Contemporary Literature and Culture 'Out of the Ordinary' 2019
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
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
Kuortti, Joel; Ilmonen, Kaisa; Valovirta, Elina; Korkka, Janne Thinking with the Familiar in Contemporary Literature and Culture 'Out of the Ordinary' 2019
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
Sanders, Lise Shapiro Making the Modern Girl: Fantasy, Consumption, and Desire in Romance Weeklies of the 1920s 2018 romances in magazines and newspapers, gender, social/economic class, fashion/clothing, work, Older and/or precursor texts (may not be "romance" as now defined)
Lawrey, Jeffrey A.; McLuckie, Alyx; Mulberry, Benjamin J.; Mullins, Erin K.; Shuler, Autumn R.; Kratzer, Jessica M. W. Communication, Kink, and Sexual Education: What Young Women Learned from Fifty Shades of Grey 2018 Fifty Shades, readers, sex/sexuality, erotic romance, BDSM
Fletcher, Lisa; Driscoll, Beth; Wilkins, Kim Genre Worlds and Popular Fiction: The Case of Twenty-First-Century Australian Romance 2018 Publishing, Australia
Riba, Caterina; Sanmartí, Carme The Reception of Elinor Glyn's Work in Spain (1926–57) 2018 Elinor Glyn, Spain, Rafael Pérez y Pérez, religion/spirituality, sex/sexuality
Smith, Clarissa; Attwood, Feona; McNair, Brian The Routledge Companion to Media, Sex and Sexuality 2018
Leonzini, Alexandra “All the Better to Eat You With”: The Eroticization of the Werewolf and the Rise of Monster Porn in the Digital Age 2018 paranormal/fantasy/time-travel romance, sex/sexuality, pornography
Peukert, Christian; Reimers, Imke Digital Disintermediation and Efficiency in the Market for Ideas 2018 Publishing
Fletcher, Lisa; Driscoll, Beth; Wilkins, Kim What is Australian Popular Fiction? 2018 Australia, national identity, settings
Savchuk, O. H.; Marchenko, N. M. The concept of LOVE and its conceptualization in modern English romance novels 2018 love, metaphor/symbolism, linguistics
Mazloomian, Maryam; Mohammadi, Nahid Discursive Vulnerability and Identity Development: A Triangular Model of Bio-Forces in Cultural Ecological Analysis of American Romance Fiction 2018 Debbie Macomber, psychology
McAlister, Jodi “Feelings Like the Women in Books”: Declarations of Love in Australian Romance Novels, 1859–1891 2018 Older and/or precursor texts (may not be "romance" as now defined), Australia, love, history, national identity, marriage
Zhou, Yanyan; Paul, Bryant; Sherman, Ryland Still a Hetero-Gendered World: A Content Analysis of Gender Stereotypes and Romantic Ideals in Chinese Boy Love Stories 2018 m/m romance, gender, China, LGBT+ characters, readers and/or authors
Kingston, Elizabeth History's Been Hijacked: How To Combat White Supremacy Through Popular Literature 2018 historical romance, race/ethnicity, history, Elizabeth Kingston, Publishing, UK, social/economic class
Kramp, Michael Jane Austen and Masculinity 2018
Lawrey, Jeffrey A.; McLuckie, Alyx; Mulberry, Benjamin J.; Mullins, Erin K.; Shuler, Autumn R.; Kratzer, Jessica M. W. Communication, Kink, and Sexual Education: What Young Women Learned from Fifty Shades of Grey 2018 Fifty Shades, readers, sex/sexuality, erotic romance, BDSM
Abdullah-Poulos, Layla The Stable Muslim Love Triangle - Triangular Desire in African American Muslim Romance Fiction 2018 Islam, African American romance, United States of America, religion/spirituality, race/ethnicity, marriage, Muslim romance
Fletcher, Lisa; Driscoll, Beth; Wilkins, Kim Genre Worlds and Popular Fiction: The Case of Twenty-First-Century Australian Romance 2018 Publishing, Australia
Sequeiros, Paula “Holding the Dream”: Women’s Favorite Reading Matter in a Portuguese Prison 2018 readers, Portugal
Rabanal, Hayley Courting convivencia: Hispano-Arab identity and Spanish women’s Orientalism in the Franco regime’s years of “unbearable solitude” (1946–1950) 2018 Spain, fascism/right-wing authoritarianism, race/ethnicity, religion/spirituality, sheikh romance, María Adela Durango, Ana Marcela García, María del Pilar Carré, Lía Ramos, E. M. Hull, history, Morocco, Carmen de Icaza, Egypt, rape and/or intimate partner violence/abuse, gender
Riba, Caterina; Sanmartí, Carme The Reception of Elinor Glyn's Work in Spain (1926–57) 2018 Elinor Glyn, Spain, Rafael Pérez y Pérez, religion/spirituality, sex/sexuality
Sanna, Antonio Pirates in History and Popular Culture 2018 pirates and outlaws, historical romance
Smith, Clarissa; Attwood, Feona; McNair, Brian The Routledge Companion to Media, Sex and Sexuality 2018
McAlister, Jodi Defining and Redefining Popular Genres: The Evolution of ‘New Adult’ Fiction 2018 genre definitions, YA/teenage romance
[Sigroha], Suman Gendered Migrations and Literary Narratives: Writing Communities in South Asian Diaspora 2018 authors, work, family, gender, Publishing
Peukert, Christian; Reimers, Imke Digital Disintermediation and Efficiency in the Market for Ideas 2018 Publishing
Ali, Kecia Romance Fiction in the Archives 2018 authors, romance scholarship, Nora Roberts/J. D. Robb, race/ethnicity, gender, Publishing, sex/sexuality, LGBT+ characters, readers and/or authors
Fletcher, Lisa; Driscoll, Beth; Wilkins, Kim What is Australian Popular Fiction? 2018 Australia, national identity, settings
Andrade, Roberta Manuela Barros de; Feitosa, Ricardo Augusto de Sabóia A cultura emotiva das comunidades virtuais de leitura de livros de amor 2018 readers, emotions, Brazil
Savchuk, O. H.; Marchenko, N. M. The concept of LOVE and its conceptualization in modern English romance novels 2018 love, metaphor/symbolism, linguistics
Olivarez, Omar; Hardie, Ryan; Blackburn, Kate G. The Language of Romance: An Open Vocabulary Analysis of the Highest Rated Words Used in Romance Novels 2018 languages, psychology, sex/sexuality
Hallock, Jennifer History Ever After: Fabricated Historical Chronotopes in Romance Genre Fiction 2018 historical romance, history, Publishing, race/ethnicity, Jennifer Hallock, UK, settings, social/economic class, Jane Austen, Georgette Heyer, Alyssa Cole, readers, United States of America
Coote, Lesley; Kaufman, Alexander L. Robin Hood and the Outlaw/ed Literary Canon 2018
Simon, Jenni M. Consuming Agency and Desire in Romance: Stories of Love, Laughter, and Empowerment 2018 feminism, authors, romance and, or as, activism, rape and/or intimate partner violence/abuse
Lawrey, Jeffrey A.; McLuckie, Alyx; Mulberry, Benjamin J.; Mullins, Erin K.; Shuler, Autumn R.; Kratzer, Jessica M. W. Communication, Kink, and Sexual Education: What Young Women Learned from Fifty Shades of Grey 2018 Fifty Shades, readers, sex/sexuality, erotic romance, BDSM
Taylor, Jessica Flexible Nations: Canadian Romance Writers, American Romance, and the Romance of Canada 2018 Canada, authors, national identity, Kate Bridges, settings, Publishing, Harlequin Mills & Boon, race/ethnicity, historical romance, history
Bhasin, Neeta Romancing the 'Illegal' Immigrant 2018 Serena Bell, race/ethnicity, United States of America, social/economic class, gender, sex/sexuality, languages, readers
Fletcher, Lisa; Driscoll, Beth; Wilkins, Kim Genre Worlds and Popular Fiction: The Case of Twenty-First-Century Australian Romance 2018 Publishing, Australia
Villar-Argáiz, Pilar Ireland and the Popular Genre of Historical Romance: The Novels of Karen Robards 2018 Ireland, historical romance, Karen Robards, UK, race/ethnicity, gender, cross-dressing, settings, rape and/or intimate partner violence/abuse, sex/sexuality
Gehrhardt, Marjorie Losing Face, Finding Love? The Fate of Facially Disfigured Soldiers in Narratives of the First World War 2018 war/armed forces, disability, health/medical
Smith, Clarissa; Attwood, Feona; McNair, Brian The Routledge Companion to Media, Sex and Sexuality 2018
Spears, Jessica D. The Romance Novel Cover 2018 paratext, Publishing, gender, sex/sexuality, pornography
Parnell, Claire Models of Publishing and Opportunities for Change: Representations in Harlequin, Montlake and Self-Published Romance Novels 2018 Publishing, Harlequin Mills & Boon, gender, sex/sexuality, social/economic class
Fletcher, Lisa; Driscoll, Beth; Wilkins, Kim What is Australian Popular Fiction? 2018 Australia, national identity, settings
Lozano Sampedro, Mª Teresa Pour une typologie de la marginalité dans les romans de Delly: la fonction de la femme 2018 Delly, religion/spirituality, gender, social/economic class
Andrade, Roberta Manuela Barros de; Feitosa, Ricardo Augusto de Sabóia A cultura emotiva das comunidades virtuais de leitura de livros de amor 2018 readers, emotions, Brazil
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
Coote, Lesley; Kaufman, Alexander L. Robin Hood and the Outlaw/ed Literary Canon 2018
Reed, Eleanor Domestic Culture in Woman's Weekly, 1918-1958 2018 history, social/economic class, romances in magazines and newspapers, Older and/or precursor texts (may not be "romance" as now defined), UK
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
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
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
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
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
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
Hernández, María Beatriz; Brito, Manuel; Monterrey, Tomás Broadening Horizons: A Peak Panorama of English Studies in Spain 2018
Killeen, Jarlath Nora Roberts: the Power of Love 2018 Nora Roberts/J. D. Robb, love
Pérez-Gil, María del Mar Exoticism, Ethnocentrism, and Englishness in Popular Romance Fiction: Constructing the European Other 2018 Spain, national identity, UK, race/ethnicity, islands, Harlequin Mills & Boon
Ramsdell, Kristin Encyclopedia of Romance Fiction 2018 Publishing, paranormal/fantasy/time-travel romance, comics/manga, Christian romance, marriage, Jane Austen, Charlotte Brontë, Emily Brontë, Barbara Cartland, Janet Dailey, Daphne du Maurier, Ethel M. Dell, erotic romance, feminism, science fiction/futuristic romance, Elinor Glyn, Margaret Mitchell, Harlequin Mills & Boon, Georgette Heyer, Victoria Holt/Jean Plaidy/Eleanor Burford Hibbert, historical romance, E. M. Hull, romance scholarship, LGBT+ characters, readers and/or authors, libraries/librarians, romantic suspense, Samuel Richardson, rape and/or intimate partner violence/abuse, Nora Roberts/J. D. Robb, Bertrice Small, Mary Stewart, translation, Patricia Veryan, Phyllis A. Whitney, Kathleen Winsor, Kathleen Woodiwiss, race/ethnicity
Johnson, Valerie B. What a Canon Wants: Robin Hood, Romance Novels, and Carrie Lofty’s What a Scoundrel Wants 2018 Carrie Lofty, Older and/or precursor texts (may not be "romance" as now defined), historical romance, pirates and outlaws
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
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
Roberts, Gillian Reading between the Borderlines: Cultural Production and Consumption across the 49th Parallel 2018
Arnold-Forster, Agnes; Moulds, Alison Medical women in popular fiction 2018 health/medical, history, Harlequin Mills & Boon, gender, medical romance
González de la Rosa, María del Pilar Intersections of Inner and Outer Journeys in Contemporary Popular Romance Fiction Novels 2018 settings, Harlequin Mills & Boon
Schell, Heather; Brown, Ann K. G. Romancelandia on Twitter: Designing a Digital Humanities Research Assignment for First-Year Writing Students 2018 teaching romance, authors
Hernández, María Beatriz; Brito, Manuel; Monterrey, Tomás Broadening Horizons: A Peak Panorama of English Studies in Spain 2018
Popova, Milena Rewriting the Romance: Emotion Work and Consent in Arranged Marriage Fanfiction 2018 fanfiction, sex/sexuality, marriage, emotions
Gómez Gray, Alana Lectura, paraliteratura y mujeres en España: de la novela rosa a cincuenta sombras 2018 romance scholarship, Spain, Publishing, history, Fifty Shades, readers
Driscoll, Beth; Fletcher, Lisa; Wilkins, Kim; Carter, David The Publishing Ecosystems of Contemporary Australian Genre Fiction 2018 Publishing, Australia
Chelton, Mary K. Searching for Birth Parents or Adopted Children: Finding without Seeking in Romance Novels 2018 family
Hopkins, Lisa After Austen: Reinventions, Rewritings, Revisitings 2018
Batzke, Ina; Erbacher, Eric C.; Heß, Linda M.; Lenhardt, Corinna Exploring the Fantastic: Genre, Ideology, and Popular Culture 2018
Hopkins, Lisa Waltzing with Wellington, Biting with Byron: Heroes in Austen Tribute Texts 2018 Jane Austen, Georgette Heyer, gender, historical romance
Pérez Casal, Inmaculada Mass-market romance and the question of genre: N. Sparks, E. L. James and D. Gabaldon 2018 Diana Gabaldon, Fifty Shades, Nicholas Sparks, genre definitions, film/movies
Paige, Lori A. The Gothic Romance Wave: A Critical History of the Mass Market Novels, 1960-1993 2018 gothic romance, Older and/or precursor texts (may not be "romance" as now defined), historical romance
Hernández, María Beatriz; Brito, Manuel; Monterrey, Tomás Broadening Horizons: A Peak Panorama of English Studies in Spain 2018
Güvendi Yalçın, Elif The Transformation of Romance Novels Based on the Theories of Sociologist Anthony Giddens 2018 sociology, gender, love, marriage, Kathleen Woodiwiss, Jayne Ann Krentz/Amanda Quick/Jayne Castle, rape and/or intimate partner violence/abuse, historical romance
Harris, Racheal Really Romantic? Pirates in Romantic Fiction 2018 pirates and outlaws, sex/sexuality, historical romance, rape and/or intimate partner violence/abuse, virginity
Clay, Catherine; DiCenzo, Maria; Green, Barbara; Hackney, Fiona Women's Periodicals and Print Culture in Britain, 1918-1939: The Interwar Period 2018
Abrahamsson, Elin Enahanda läsning: En queer tolkning av romancegenren 2018 Fifty Shades, Twilight, Sweden, readers, sex/sexuality, feminism, gender, trash/literary and or intellectual quality, LGBT+ characters, readers and/or authors
Suwanban, Pauline From Exhalation to Transformation: The Female Body in the Orientalist Romance 2018 E. M. Hull, gender, sex/sexuality, race/ethnicity
Rudisill, Kristen Full-Blooded Desi Romance: Contemporary English-Language Romance Novels in India 2018 India, readers, Publishing, national identity, Harlequin Mills & Boon, family
Fernández Rodríguez, Carolina Del cuento de hadas a la novela romántica: Una visión de la sub/literatura como gimnasio mental y laboratorio de sub/versión cultural 2018 trash/literary and or intellectual quality, Nora Roberts/J. D. Robb, feminism, readers, sex/sexuality, psychology, romance and, or as, activism, fairytales/folktales
Taylor, Jessica Animating Creative Selves: Pen Names as Property in the Careers of Canadian and American Romance Writers 2018 authors, Publishing, work
White, Bonnie; Pope, Johnathan H. Spinsters, war widows, and wounded soldiers: the Great War novels of Berta Ruck 2018 Berta Ruck, war/armed forces, gender, disability, marriage
Murphy, Bernice M.; Matterson, Stephen Twenty-First-Century Popular Fiction 2018
Ferrández San Miguel, María; Neumann, Claus-Peter Taking Stock to Look Ahead: Celebrating Forty Years of English Studies in Spain 2018
Pérez Casal, Inmaculada The Romance Novel as Bildungsroman in the Works of Rosamunde Pilcher and Lisa Kleypas 2018 gender, Rosamunde Pilcher, Lisa Kleypas, historical romance
Keen, Suzanne Probable Impossibilities: Historical Romance Readers Talk Back 2018 Diana Gabaldon, readers, history
Clay, Catherine; DiCenzo, Maria; Green, Barbara; Hackney, Fiona Women's Periodicals and Print Culture in Britain, 1918-1939: The Interwar Period 2018
Neville, Lucy Girls Who Like Boys Who Like Boys: Women and Gay Male Pornography and Erotica 2018 pornography, m/m romance, sex/sexuality, LGBT+ characters, readers and/or authors
Po-Yu, Rick Wei “She is a Jade”: A Georgian Gaming Woman Re-imagined in Georgette Heyer’s Faro’s Daughter 2018 Georgette Heyer, history, feminism, historical romance
Gillis, Stacy Manners, Money, and Marriage: Austen, Heyer, and the Literary Genealogy of the Regency Romance 2018 Jane Austen, Georgette Heyer, Older and/or precursor texts (may not be "romance" as now defined), gender, sex/sexuality, social/economic class, history, trash/literary and or intellectual quality, marriage, historical romance
McAlister, Jodi The literary text as historical artifact: The colonial couple in Australian romantic fiction by women, 1838-1860 2018 Australia, love, Older and/or precursor texts (may not be "romance" as now defined), history, national identity
Kitchen, Veronica Veterans and Military Masculinity in Popular Romance Fiction 2018 war/armed forces, gender, disability
Bird, Paul Issues of Socioeconomic Class in Barbara Cartland’s A Duel of Hearts and Catherine Cookson’s The Menagerie 2018 social/economic class, Barbara Cartland, Catherine Cookson
White, Bonnie; Pope, Johnathan H. Spinsters, war widows, and wounded soldiers: the Great War novels of Berta Ruck 2018 Berta Ruck, war/armed forces, gender, disability, marriage
Murphy, Bernice M.; Matterson, Stephen Twenty-First-Century Popular Fiction 2018
Ferrández San Miguel, María; Neumann, Claus-Peter Taking Stock to Look Ahead: Celebrating Forty Years of English Studies in Spain 2018
Glennemeier, Jaelyn “And he was an Arab!:” Imperial Femininity and Pleasure in E. M. Hull's 1919 Desert Romance, The Sheik 2018 E. M. Hull, race/ethnicity, history, rape and/or intimate partner violence/abuse
Clay, Catherine; DiCenzo, Maria; Green, Barbara; Hackney, Fiona Women's Periodicals and Print Culture in Britain, 1918-1939: The Interwar Period 2018
Lee, Zi-Ying; Liao, Min-Hsiu The “Second” Bride: The Retranslation of Romance Novels 2018 translation, Publishing, Taiwan
Zhou, Yanyan; Paul, Bryant; Sherman, Ryland Still a Hetero-Gendered World: A Content Analysis of Gender Stereotypes and Romantic Ideals in Chinese Boy Love Stories 2018 m/m romance, gender, China, LGBT+ characters, readers and/or authors
Hopkins, Lisa Georgette Heyer: What Austen Left Out 2018 Georgette Heyer, Jane Austen, history, war/armed forces, historical romance
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
Gehrmann, Susanne Remediating Romance: Forms and Functions of New Media in Contemporary Love Stories from Togo and South Africa 2018 Publishing, Africa, chick lit
Blouin, Michael J. Mass-Market Fiction and the Crisis of American Liberalism, 1972–2017 2018 family, social/economic class, work, capitalism/business
Vani, Christina Immortal Words: The Language and Style of the Contemporary Italian Undead-Romance Novel 2018 paranormal/fantasy/time-travel romance, Italy
Lowery, Karalyne The Militarized Shapeshifter: Authorized Violence and Military Connections as an Antidote to Monstrosity 2018 paranormal/fantasy/time-travel romance, war/armed forces, United States of America
Clay, Catherine; DiCenzo, Maria; Green, Barbara; Hackney, Fiona Women's Periodicals and Print Culture in Britain, 1918-1939: The Interwar Period 2018
Mazloomian, Maryam; Mohammadi, Nahid Discursive Vulnerability and Identity Development: A Triangular Model of Bio-Forces in Cultural Ecological Analysis of American Romance Fiction 2018 Debbie Macomber, psychology
Lee, Zi-Ying; Liao, Min-Hsiu The “Second” Bride: The Retranslation of Romance Novels 2018 translation, Publishing, Taiwan
Zhou, Yanyan; Paul, Bryant; Sherman, Ryland Still a Hetero-Gendered World: A Content Analysis of Gender Stereotypes and Romantic Ideals in Chinese Boy Love Stories 2018 m/m romance, gender, China, LGBT+ characters, readers and/or authors
Gillingham, Erica Representations of same-sex relationships between female characters in all-ages comics: Princess Princess Ever After and Lumberjanes 2018 comics/manga, LGBT+ characters, readers and/or authors
Nilson, Maria Nådens tuttar : Om skönheter, odjur och den frälsande kvinnokroppen i modern romance 2017 fairytales/folktales, paranormal/fantasy/time-travel romance, Fifty Shades, Twilight, sex/sexuality
Clasen, Tricia; Hassel, Holly Gender(ed) Identities: Critical Rereadings of Gender in Children’s and Young Adult Literature 2017
Teo, Hsu-Ming The Popular Culture of Romantic Love in Australia 2017
Capps, Stephanie Carol What You Read and What You Believe: Genre Exposure and Beliefs about Relationships 2017 readers, gender, sex/sexuality, psychology, love
O'Mahony, Lauren Death and the Australian Rural Romance Novel 2017 rural romance, Australia, death
Betz, Phyllis M. Katherine V. Forrest: A Critical Appreciation 2017 lesbian romance, Katherine V. Forrest, Older and/or precursor texts (may not be "romance" as now defined), LGBT+ characters, readers and/or authors
McLennon, Leigh Contemporary vampire genre fiction: ethical feeding and the posthuman vampire in urban fantasy and paranormal romance 2017 paranormal/fantasy/time-travel romance
McAlister, Jodi; Teo, Hsu-Ming Love in Australian Romance Novels 2017 national identity, Australia, love, rural romance, gender, sex/sexuality, history, Publishing, genre definitions, race/ethnicity, settings, feminism
Barba, Shelley E.; Perrin, Joy M. The Ascendance of Harley Quinn: Essays on DC's Enigmatic Villain 2017
Dyhouse, Carol Hearthrobs: A History of Women and Desire 2017 gender, sex/sexuality, Charles Garvice, E. M. Hull, Georgette Heyer, Barbara Cartland, race/ethnicity
Regan, Lisa Women and the 'War Machine' in the Desert Romances of E. M. Hull and Rosita Forbes 2017 E. M. Hull, UK, war/armed forces, national identity
Krueger, Kate The Woman at Home in the World: Annie Swan's Lady Doctor and the Problem of the Fin de Siècle Working Woman 2017 Annie S. Swan
Malloy, Audrey Miles Remnants of the Bodice Ripper: How Consent is Characterized in Heterosexual and Lesbian Erotic Romance Novels 2017 gender, sex/sexuality, lesbian romance, rape and/or intimate partner violence/abuse, LGBT+ characters, readers and/or authors
McAlister, Jodi; Teo, Hsu-Ming Love in Australian Romance Novels 2017 national identity, Australia, love, rural romance, gender, sex/sexuality, history, Publishing, genre definitions, race/ethnicity, settings, feminism
González Cruz, María Isabel Conciencia Sociolingüística e Hispanismos en un Corpus de Novela Rosa Inglesa 2017 Spain, languages, Harlequin Mills & Boon, linguistics
Turner, Katherine Daphne Du Maurier's Mary Anne: Rewriting the Regency Romance as Feminist History 2017 history, Daphne du Maurier
Gifford, James Mary Stewart’s Greek Novels: Hellenism, Orientalism and the Cultural Politics of Pulp Presentation 2017 Mary Stewart, Greece, gender, romantic suspense, national identity
Andrade, Roberta Manuela Barros de; Silva, Erotilde Honório; Feitosa, Ricardo Augusto de Sabóia O casamento em perigo no romance sentimental de Corin Tellado e a imprensa feminina na ditadura militar brasileira 2017 Brazil, Corín Tellado, marriage, fascism/right-wing authoritarianism
Álvarez, Marta; Hekmat, Ida; Lauret-Taft, Sabine L’amour. Création et société 2017
Vivanco, Laura A Place “We All Dream About”: Greece in Mills & Boon Romances 2017 Greece, race/ethnicity, Harlequin Mills & Boon, sex/sexuality, science/technology, myth
Johnson, Heather Yorkshire English in Georgette Heyer's The Unknown Ajax 2017 languages, Georgette Heyer, historical romance
Markert, John God is Love: The Christian Romance Market 2017 Christian romance, Publishing, sex/sexuality
Engelking, Tama Lea Reading the Romance with Colette in ‘La Lune de pluie' 2017 Colette
Whalen, Kacey A Consumption of Gay Men: Navigating the Shifting Boundaries of M/M Romantic Readership 2017 m/m romance, readers, gender, sex/sexuality, K. J. Charles, LGBT+ characters, readers and/or authors
Andrade, Roberta Manuela Barros de; Silva, Erotilde Honório; Feitosa, Ricardo Augusto de Sabóia O casamento em perigo no romance sentimental de Corin Tellado e a imprensa feminina na ditadura militar brasileira 2017 Brazil, Corín Tellado, marriage, fascism/right-wing authoritarianism
van der Putten, Jan; Arnez, Monika; Wieringa, Edwin P.; Graf, Arndt Traditions Redirecting Contemporary Indonesian Cultural Productions 2017
Álvarez, Marta; Hekmat, Ida; Lauret-Taft, Sabine L’amour. Création et société 2017
Jackson, Cia Harlequin Romance: The Power of Parody and Subversion 2017 Harlequin Mills & Boon
Malinowska, Anna Paternal Structures of the Romance 2017 family, love, gender
Pyrhönen, Heta Love under Threat: The Emotional Valences of the Twilight Saga 2017 Twilight, emotions, love, happy ending
Fragero Guerra, Carmen Del azul al rosa: la narrativa de Carmen de Icaza (1936-1960) 2017 Carmen de Icaza, Luisa-María Linares, Spain, fascism/right-wing authoritarianism
Achieng’, Okang’a Nancy A Cosmopolitan National Romance: A Study of In Dependence by Sarah Ladipo Manyika 2017 Sarah Ladipo Manyika, Nigeria, trash/literary and or intellectual quality, Africa, race/ethnicity, gender
González Cruz, María Isabel Exploring the dynamics of English/Spanish codeswitching in a written corpus 2017 languages, Spain, Harlequin Mills & Boon, linguistics
Khuankaew, Sasinee Femininity and Masculinity in Twenty-First Century Thai Romantic Fictions 2017 gender, Thailand, sex/sexuality, Buddhism
Nilson, Maria Kärlek i kyligt klimat: Om nordisk romance 2017 Sweden, Norway, Simona Ahrnstedt, Natalie Normann, national identity, gender, sex/sexuality
Alpalhão, Margarida Santos; Carreto, Carlos F. Clamote; Dias, Isabel de Barros O jogo do mundo: ensaios sobre o imaginário lúdico 2017
Andrade, Roberta Manuela Barros de; Silva, Erotilde Honório; Feitosa, Ricardo Augusto de Sabóia O casamento em perigo no romance sentimental de Corin Tellado e a imprensa feminina na ditadura militar brasileira 2017 Brazil, Corín Tellado, marriage, fascism/right-wing authoritarianism
van der Putten, Jan; Arnez, Monika; Wieringa, Edwin P.; Graf, Arndt Traditions Redirecting Contemporary Indonesian Cultural Productions 2017
Álvarez, Marta; Hekmat, Ida; Lauret-Taft, Sabine L’amour. Création et société 2017
Waldschmidt, Anne; Berressem, Hanjo; Ingwersen, Moritz Culture - Theory – Disability: Encounters between Disability Studies and Cultural Studies 2017
Lessard, Victoria Marketing Desire: The "Normative/Other" Male Body and the "Pure" White Female Body on the Cover Art of Cassie Edwards' Savage Dream (1990), Savage Persuasion (1991), and Savage Mists (1992) 2017 Cassie Edwards, Native American romance, paratext, race/ethnicity, historical romance
Veros, Vassiliki Keepers: Marking the Value of the Books on my Shelves 2017 readers, trash/literary and or intellectual quality
Alpalhão, Margarida Santos; Carreto, Carlos F. Clamote; Dias, Isabel de Barros O jogo do mundo: ensaios sobre o imaginário lúdico 2017
Clasen, Tricia Masculinity and Romantic Myth in Contemporary YA Romance 2017 gender, love, YA/teenage romance
Golubov, Nattie El amor en tiempos neoliberales: apuntes críticos sobre la novela rosa contemporánea 2017 trash/literary and or intellectual quality, Loretta Chase, gender, genre definitions, readers, feminism, Publishing, Jennifer Crusie
van der Putten, Jan; Arnez, Monika; Wieringa, Edwin P.; Graf, Arndt Traditions Redirecting Contemporary Indonesian Cultural Productions 2017
Barker, Clare; Murray, Stuart The Cambridge Companion to Literature and Disability 2017
Waldschmidt, Anne; Berressem, Hanjo; Ingwersen, Moritz Culture - Theory – Disability: Encounters between Disability Studies and Cultural Studies 2017
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Cheyne, Ria Disability Studies Reads the Romance: Sexuality, Prejudice, and the Happily-Ever-After in the Work of Mary Balogh 2017 disability, sex/sexuality, Mary Balogh, historical romance
van der Putten, Jan; Arnez, Monika; Wieringa, Edwin P.; Graf, Arndt Traditions Redirecting Contemporary Indonesian Cultural Productions 2017
Crane, Ralph; Fletcher, Lisa Island Genres, Genre Islands: Conceptualisation and Representation in Popular Fiction 2017 islands, settings, Margaret Evans Porter, Nora Roberts/J. D. Robb
Barker, Clare; Murray, Stuart The Cambridge Companion to Literature and Disability 2017
Jandl, Ingeborg; Knaller, Susanne; Schönfellner, Sabine; Tockner, Gudrun Writing Emotions: Theoretical Concepts and Selected Case Studies in Literature 2017
Golubov, Nattie Reading the Romance Writer as an Author-Entrepreneur 2017 authors, work, race/ethnicity, readers