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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)
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
Kluger, Johanna "On Thursdays We Shoot": Guns and Gender Binaries in Regency Romance Novels 2024 historical romance, gender, Tessa Dare, 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
Hiergeist, Teresa; Schäfer, Stefanie Ladies in Arms: Women, Guns, and Feminisms in Contemporary Popular Culture 2024 feminism
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
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
Burge, Amy A decolonised alpha hero? Negotiating masculinities in Nigerian romance novels 2024 Nigeria, Africa, gender
Deane, Katie Romance Self-Publishing and UK Legal Deposit 2024 Publishing, libraries/librarians
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
Cho, Hyerim; Adkins, Denice; da Silva Santos, Diogenes; Long, Alicia K. Platform, Visuals, and Sound: Webtoon’s Immersive Romance Reading Engagement 2024 comics/manga, readers
McInnis, Lauren Filing The Serial Numbers Off: The Role Of The Author In Fanfiction Published As Original FictionFanfiction Published As Original Fiction 2024 fanfiction, paratext, Fifty Shades, Christina Lauren, Ali Hazelwood
Johnson, Jacqueline E. Lusting out loud: racialized aurality, podcast intimacy, and the uses of thirst 2024 race/ethnicity, happy ending, sex/sexuality
Frankel, Valerie Estelle Adapting Bridgerton: Essays on the Netflix Show in Context 2024 Julia Quinn
Cho, Hyerim; Adkins, Denice; da Silva Santos, Diogenes; Long, Alicia K. Platform, Visuals, and Sound: Webtoon’s Immersive Romance Reading Engagement 2024 comics/manga, readers
Goyal, Yogita The Cambridge Companion to Contemporary African American Literature 2024
Benge, Alie; O'Brien, Lil; Van Beek, Kathryn Otherhood: Essays on being childless, childfree and child-adjacent 2024
Cho, Hyerim; Adkins, Denice; da Silva Santos, Diogenes; Long, Alicia K. Platform, Visuals, and Sound: Webtoon’s Immersive Romance Reading Engagement 2024 comics/manga, readers
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
Sabo, Oana Translingualism 2.0 2024 France, linguistics
Cho, Hyerim; Adkins, Denice; da Silva Santos, Diogenes; Long, Alicia K. Platform, Visuals, and Sound: Webtoon’s Immersive Romance Reading Engagement 2024 comics/manga, readers
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
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
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
Bacon, Simon The Palgrave Handbook of the Vampire 2024
Henderson, Aneeka Ayanna Popular Romance and Literary Undergrounds 2024 African American romance
Spencer, Lynda Gichanda “Walk like a chameleon”: Reflecting on my teaching journey at a South African university 2024 teaching romance
Arvanitaki, Eirini Emotionality: Heterosexual Love and Emotional Development in Popular Romance 2024 love
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
Porter, J. D.; Eimannsberger, Angelina; English, James; Hathaway, May; Yakoob, Ashna Genre Juggernaut: Measuring “Romance” 2023 genre definitions, readers
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
Phumithammarat, Nanphatchaon The Cultural Politics of Chinese-Thai Identities in Ethnic Romance Novels by Female Authors 2023 Thailand, race/ethnicity, China
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
Driscoll, Beth; Wilkins, Kim Australian Fantasy, Crime and Romance Fiction in the Twentieth and Twenty-First Centuries 2023 Australia, Publishing
Parks, Amy Noelle The Feminist Possibilities of Heteroglossic Spaces in Contemporary Young Adult Romance Novels 2023 feminism, YA/teenage romance, love, sex/sexuality, Jenny Han, Katie Cotugno, Nicola Yoon, Laura Steven
Conley, Willow M.; Grinnell, Natalie The Queer Temporality of Gail Carriger’s Parasol Protectorate 2023 Gail Carriger, paranormal/fantasy/time-travel romance, LGBT+ characters, readers and/or authors, steampunk, gender, family
Bradford, Robin The Readers’ Advisory Guide to Romance 2023 libraries/librarians
Garcia, Christina The Race of Publishing: The Troubling Whiteness in Publishing and the Forces Pushing Back 2023 Publishing, race/ethnicity, readers, romance and, or as, activism
Piatti-Farnell, Lorna; Johnson-Hunt, Nancy Vampires and Desire: Blood, Sex, and Ritual in Paranormal Romance and Urban Fantasy Fiction 2023 paranormal/fantasy/time-travel romance
Bharathi, L. Divya; Muthuraman, K. Nicholas Charles Sparks’s The Notebook: A Novel Of Love Or Romance? 2023 Nicholas Sparks, genre definitions, happy ending
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
Grover, Mary Steel City Readers: Reading for Pleasure in Sheffield, 1925-1955 2023 readers, social/economic class, history, UK, libraries/librarians, Mary Burchell, pen name of Ida Cook, Sophie Cole, Harlequin Mills & Boon
Heying, Sarah M. "Sealed With a Kiss on Your Artery": An Archive of Southern Lesbian Desire 2023 LGBT+ characters, readers and/or authors, Ann Allen Shockley, libraries/librarians, race/ethnicity
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
Roche, Emma Women, Violence and Postmillennial Romance Fiction 2023 Twilight, Fifty Shades, feminism, rape and/or intimate partner violence/abuse, capitalism/business
Piatti-Farnell, Lorna; Johnson-Hunt, Nancy Vampires and Desire: Blood, Sex, and Ritual in Paranormal Romance and Urban Fantasy Fiction 2023 paranormal/fantasy/time-travel romance
Pupipat, Apisak Should a Book Be Judged by its Back Cover? Some Written/Formal Features as Observed in Happily- Ever-After Women’s Novel Blurbs 2023 paratext, linguistics
Bharathi, L. Divya; Muthuraman, K. Nicholas Charles Sparks’s The Notebook: A Novel Of Love Or Romance? 2023 Nicholas Sparks, genre definitions, happy ending
Ya’u, Mohammed Sani; Rashid, Sabariah Md; Ali, Afida Mohamad; Singh, Hardev Kaur Jujar Semantic Extensions of Hausa Visual and Auditory Perception Verbs gani and ji in Romance Fiction 2023 linguistics
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
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
Morrison, Kevin A.; Rantala, Pälvi Historical Research, Creative Writing, and the Past: Methods of Knowing 2023
Stobaugh, Rebecca Halfway-Sexual: Exploring Demisexuality in American Literature 2023 sex/sexuality, LGBT+ characters, readers and/or authors, Fifty Shades, Jack Byrne
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
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
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
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
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
Robinson, Rachel Reading and writing dogs in popular romance fiction 2023 animals
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
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
Carter, David The Cambridge History of the Australian Novel 2023
Phipps, Catherine Sex, race and power: colonial and interracial sexuality in the French Empire in Morocco, 1912-1956 2023 history, Morocco, sheikh romance, sex/sexuality, race/ethnicity
Hutter, Verena Fire, Savannah, and Passion: The New Africa Novel and the Construction of White Femininity 2023 Africa, Germany, history, historical romance, race/ethnicity, Patricia Mennen, Leah Bach, gender
Parnell, Claire; Trinidad, Andrea Anne; McAlister, Jodi Live literature in the Philippines: an ethnographic study of #RomanceClass and reading as performance 2023 Philippines, readers, authors, Publishing, Mina V. Esguerra
Nichols, Sue Love matters: the case for an inclusive, contemporary approach to romance themes and texts in subject English 2023 YA/teenage romance, teaching romance, LGBT+ characters, readers and/or authors
Fresno-Calleja, Paloma New Romantic Narratives for the Twenty-First Century 2023 romance scholarship
Porter, J. D.; Eimannsberger, Angelina; English, James; Hathaway, May; Yakoob, Ashna Genre Juggernaut: Measuring “Romance” 2023 genre definitions, readers
Morden, Christina Innovations in Romance Novel Distribution at Harlequin, Sourcebooks, and Raincoast Books 2023 Publishing, Canada, Harlequin Mills & Boon
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
Grobbelaar, Madalena; Reid Boyd, Elizabeth; Dudek, Debra Contemporary Love Studies in the Arts and Humanities: What's Love Got To Do With It? 2023
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
Arnold-Forster, Agnes Cold, Hard Steel: The Myth of the Modern Surgeon 2023 health/medical, Elizabeth Gilzean, Harlequin Mills & Boon
Petrović, Janja Breaking the stereotype – romance novel today 2023 genre definitions, gender, Mariana Zapata, Abby Jimenez, Christina Lauren, Emily Henry, Colleen Hoover
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
Porter, J. D.; Eimannsberger, Angelina; English, James; Hathaway, May; Yakoob, Ashna Genre Juggernaut: Measuring “Romance” 2023 genre definitions, readers
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
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
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
Roach, David A Very British Affair – The Best of Classic Romance Comics 2023 comics/manga, UK
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
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
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
Porter, J. D.; Eimannsberger, Angelina; English, James; Hathaway, May; Yakoob, Ashna Genre Juggernaut: Measuring “Romance” 2023 genre definitions, readers
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
Ripoll Fonollar, Mariana Wording deeds: the figure of the suffragette in contemporary british fiction 2023 feminism, historical romance, Katie MacAlister, Courtney Milan, Evie Dunmore
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
Limond, Verity ‘The door is open to everyone’: The public libraries of Gozo 2023 libraries/librarians, Malta, Harlequin Mills & Boon
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
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
Porter, J. D.; Eimannsberger, Angelina; English, James; Hathaway, May; Yakoob, Ashna Genre Juggernaut: Measuring “Romance” 2023 genre definitions, readers
Chawla, Gitanjali; Mittal, Sangeeta Indian Popular Fiction: Redefining the Canon 2022
Hogan, Patrick Colm; Irish, Bradley J.; Hogan, Lalita Pandit The Routledge Companion to Literature and Emotion 2022
Farooqui, Javaria Reading historical popular romance in 21st-century Pakistan 2022 Pakistan, readers, historical romance, social/economic class, settings, Julia Quinn, Stephanie Laurens, Judith McNaught, Gaelen Foley
Befeler, Paige LGBTQ(NA), Queer New Adult Fiction: The Emergence of a New Genre and Its Impact on the LGBTQIA+ Community 2022 YA/teenage romance, LGBT+ characters, readers and/or authors, Casey McQuiston, Morgan Rogers, race/ethnicity
Bazenga, Aline The sociocultural and linguistic landscape of Madeira: Anglocentric visions in a sample of six romance novels 2022 Portugal, UK, Harlequin Mills & Boon, settings, metaphor/symbolism, linguistics
Watson, Courtney I Thought You’d Never Ask: Consent in Contemporary Romance 2022 sex/sexuality, K. J. Charles, feminism, romance scholarship
Bilodeau, Isabelle How Romance Translators Write Themselves and Their Readers into Afterwords 2022 paratext, translation, Japan
Allan, Jonathan A. ‘Impossibly erotic things’: On men’s underwear in Brief Encounters by Suzanne Forster 2022 fashion/clothing, Harlequin Mills & Boon, Suzanne Forster, sex/sexuality, gender
LaDousa, Chaise; Davis, Christina P. Language, Education, and Identity: Medium in South Asia 2022
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
Moody-Freeman, Julie E. Black Cultural Studies and Black Love: Why Black Love Matters 2022 love, race/ethnicity, teaching romance
Moody-Freeman, Julie E. Romance, Hip-Hop Feminism, and Black Love: From Theory to Praxis 2022 Gwyneth Bolton/Gwendolyn Pough, feminism, African American romance, gender, teaching romance, sex/sexuality, music, romance and, or as, activism, race/ethnicity
González-Cruz, María Isabel Discursos e Identidades en la Ficción Romántica: Visiones Anglófonas de Madeira y Canarias / Discourses and Identities in Romance Fiction: Anglophone Visions from Madeira and the Canaries 2022 teaching romance
Jussawalla, Feroza; Omran, Doaa Muslim Women’s Writing from across South and Southeast Asia 2022
Davies, Ben; Lupton, Christina; Gormsen Schmidt, Johanne Reading Novels During the Covid-19 Pandemic 2022 readers, Sally Rooney
Selinger, Eric Murphy The wild heart of the continent: love and place in the Silk Road novels of Sherry Thomas 2022 Sherry Thomas, settings, trash/literary and or intellectual quality, love, Buddhism, religion/spirituality, historical romance, race/ethnicity, China, Asia
Pérez-Gil, María del Mar Paraísos imperfectos: Madeira en las novelas de Margaret Rome, Katrina Britt y Sally Wentworth 2022 Harlequin Mills & Boon, settings, national identity, race/ethnicity, Portugal, UK, Margaret Rome, Ethel Connell as Katrina Britt, Doreen Hornsblow as Sally Wentworth, Sara Wood, gender
Golubov, Nattie La promesa de felicidad: la novela rosa y el placer de la lectura afectiva 2022 readers, emotions, happy ending
Ayala Rodríguez, Ida María; Almaral Cereijo, Iraida Thalia Deconstructionism of the heroine in the novel The Grand Sophy by Georgette Heyer 2022 Jane Austen, Georgette Heyer
Turner, Ellen; Wadsö Lecaros, Cecilia The desert-governess romance: Regency England meets exotic Arabia 2022 sheikh romance, historical romance, settings, Marguerite Kaye, Laura Martin, Lynne Graham, Kate Hewitt, E. M. Hull, work, genre definitions, Harlequin Mills & Boon, paratext
Hogan, Patrick Colm; Irish, Bradley J.; Hogan, Lalita Pandit The Routledge Companion to Literature and Emotion 2022
Vera-Cazorla, María Jesús Canarian culture and identity and their representation in the novels of the FFI2014-53962-P corpus 2022 national identity, Spain, UK, metaphor/symbolism
Sheerman, Lucy “Place the glass before you, and draw in chalk your own picture”: The Recasting of Jane Eyre 2022 Charlotte Brontë, Beverly Jenkins, Alyssa Cole, race/ethnicity
Larson, Christine; Ready, Elspeth Networking down: Networks, innovation, and relational labor in digital book publishing 2022 authors, Publishing
Pierini, Francesca Romance and Metagenre: A Response to Burkhard Niederhoff 2022 romance scholarship, E. M. Forster, happy ending
LaDousa, Chaise; Davis, Christina P. Language, Education, and Identity: Medium in South Asia 2022
Wilkins, Kim; Driscoll, Beth; Fletcher, Lisa Genre Worlds: Popular Fiction and 21st-Century Book Culture 2022 Publishing, readers
Nachumi, Nora; Oppenheim, Stephanie Jane Austen, Sex, and Romance: Engaging with Desire in the Novels and Beyond 2022
Scupham, Hannah Elizabeth “Reader, I Married Him”: Readership, Imagination, and Politics of the Marriage Plot in the Nineteenth-Century Novel 2022 historical romance, Older and/or precursor texts (may not be "romance" as now defined), readers, Jane Austen, Elizabeth Gaskell, George Eliot
Huguley, Piper In Search of the Black Historical Hottie: The Sad Situation of the Black Hero in Historical Romance 2022 historical romance, race/ethnicity, gender, Piper Huguley, happy ending, wealth/prosperity
Deng, Yiwei The Aesthetic form of Childhood Sweetheart: I Love You, None of Your Business 2022 China, emotions
Grinnell, Natalie The Challenge to Dominance Theory in Patricia Briggs's and Carrie Vaughn's Paranormal Romance Novels 2022 Patricia Briggs, Carrie Vaughn, paranormal/fantasy/time-travel romance, gender, rape and/or intimate partner violence/abuse, feminism
Jussawalla, Feroza; Omran, Doaa Muslim Women’s Writing from across South and Southeast Asia 2022
Davies, Ben; Lupton, Christina; Gormsen Schmidt, Johanne Reading Novels During the Covid-19 Pandemic 2022 readers, Sally Rooney
Herrera, Carolina M. Examining the relation between media engagement and developmental outcomes in adolescents and emerging adults: an exploration of engagement with and impact of young adult literature media among youth 2022 readers, psychology, YA/teenage romance, Twilight
Hoorenman, Johanna Remembering love: Parsons-Yazzie's historical romance novel and the (re)writing of Navajo history 2022 Evangeline Parsons Yazzie, Native American romance, race/ethnicity, settings, United States of America
Bazenga, Aline Paisaje sociocultural y lingüístico de la isla de Madeira: Visiones anglocéntricas en una muestra de seis novelas rosa 2022 Portugal, UK, Harlequin Mills & Boon, settings, metaphor/symbolism, linguistics
Jan, Jariah Mohd; Ujum, Diana Abu Negotiating Conflicts amongst Muslim Female Characters in Malay Romance Novels: A Narratological Perspective 2022 Malaysia, Muslim romance, gender
Turner, Ellen; Wadsö Lecaros, Cecilia The desert-governess romance: Regency England meets exotic Arabia 2022 sheikh romance, historical romance, settings, Marguerite Kaye, Laura Martin, Lynne Graham, Kate Hewitt, E. M. Hull, work, genre definitions, Harlequin Mills & Boon, paratext
Hogan, Patrick Colm; Irish, Bradley J.; Hogan, Lalita Pandit The Routledge Companion to Literature and Emotion 2022
Søndberg Spaabæk, Anne Sofie The “Infernal” Value of the Gothic: A Reading of Gothicness and Romanceness in Cassandra Clare’s The Infernal Devices 2022 gothic romance, paranormal/fantasy/time-travel romance, Cassandra Clare, genre definitions
González de la Rosa, María del Pilar Female voices and feminist discourse in some Harlequin/Mills & Boon romances 2022 Harlequin Mills & Boon, feminism, gender
Alexander, Camille S. “The Realness” in Jasmine Guillory’s Sista Lit Rom Com Novels 2022 Jasmine Guillory, African American romance, rom-com romance, race/ethnicity, ageism
Larson, Christine; Ready, Elspeth Networking down: Networks, innovation, and relational labor in digital book publishing 2022 authors, Publishing
Michelson, Anna Pushing the boundaries: Erotic romance and the symbolic boundary nexus 2022 genre definitions, erotic romance, authors, sex/sexuality, Fifty Shades, Publishing, fanfiction, sociology
Wilkins, Kim; Driscoll, Beth; Fletcher, Lisa Genre Worlds: Popular Fiction and 21st-Century Book Culture 2022 Publishing, readers
Nachumi, Nora; Oppenheim, Stephanie Jane Austen, Sex, and Romance: Engaging with Desire in the Novels and Beyond 2022
van Halteren, Hans Automatic Authorship Investigation 2022 linguistics, Harlequin Mills & Boon, Stephanie Howard
O'Brien, Lee Telling Gaps and Domestic Tyranny: Georgette Heyer’s Regency Romances 2022 Georgette Heyer, happy ending, family, history, health/medical, sex/sexuality, gender, social/economic class, rape and/or intimate partner violence/abuse, marriage
Konle, Leonard; Jannidis, Fotis Modeling Plots of Narrative Texts as Temporal Graphs 2022 linguistics
Ivanski, Chantelle; Humphries, Stacey; van Dalen-Oskam, Karina; Mar, Raymond A. Do We Judge Fiction by the Author’s Gender? 2022 trash/literary and or intellectual quality, gender
Davies, Ben; Lupton, Christina; Gormsen Schmidt, Johanne Reading Novels During the Covid-19 Pandemic 2022 readers, Sally Rooney
Hernandez, Carmen E. Romance and Revolution 2022 Older and/or precursor texts (may not be "romance" as now defined), Samuel Richardson, wealth/prosperity, Jane Austen, Fifty Shades, social/economic class, Sylvain Reynard, Erika Wilde, Carly Phillips, rape and/or intimate partner violence/abuse, virginity, Eliza Haywood
Burge, Amy; Folie, Sandra Girls of Riyadh and Desperate in Dubai: reading and writing romance in the Middle East 2022 chick lit, race/ethnicity, Islam, Rajaa Alsanea, Ameera Al Hakawati, Saudi Arabia, United Arab Emirates, sheikh romance
Vera-Cazorla, María Jesús La cultura y la identidad canarias y su representación en las novelas del corpus FFI2014-53962-P 2022 national identity, Spain, UK, metaphor/symbolism
Jan, Jariah Mohd; Ujum, Diana Abu Negotiating Conflicts amongst Muslim Female Characters in Malay Romance Novels: A Narratological Perspective 2022 Malaysia, Muslim romance, gender
Balteskard, Susanna Feminism in Romance: How the romance genre has(n't) changed since the 1950s 2022 feminism, Georgette Heyer, Barbara Cartland, Julia Quinn, Peggy Gaddis Dern with many pseudonyms including Perry Lindsay, Charlotte Lamb, Susan Elizabeth Phillips
Wood, Andrea His Baby Daddy is an Alien?!: Mpreg Fantasies and Queer Reproductive Intimacies in Contemporary M/M Science Fiction Romance 2022 m/m romance, science fiction/futuristic romance, family, health/medical, LGBT+ characters, readers and/or authors, Lyn Gala, Lexi Ander
Ramos-García, María Teresa Transatlantic definitions of Whiteness in Louise Bergstrom’s Gothic romances in the Canary Islands (1971-1972) 2022 Louise Bergstrom, gothic romance, race/ethnicity
Carter, Ellen Eating Disorders and Romance 2022 food, drink, health/medical, Jenny B. Jones, Courtney Milan, M. B. Mulhall, Janette Kenny, Katherine Locke
Hendricks, Margo; Moody-Freeman, Julie E. Introduction to the Special Issue on Black Romance 2022 romance scholarship
Wijanarka, Hirmawan Cinderella Formula: The Romance Begins 2022 Harlequin Mills & Boon, genre definitions
Wilkins, Kim; Driscoll, Beth; Fletcher, Lisa Genre Worlds: Popular Fiction and 21st-Century Book Culture 2022 Publishing, readers
Gómez, Sarah Hannah Romance Has Broken My Dichotomous Key 2022 readers, trash/literary and or intellectual quality
Fekete, Maleah Confluent Love and the Evolution of Ideal Intimacy: Romance Reading in 1980 and 2016 2022 readers, sex/sexuality, gender, sociology, love, emotions
Konle, Leonard; Jannidis, Fotis Modeling Plots of Narrative Texts as Temporal Graphs 2022 linguistics
Ivanski, Chantelle; Humphries, Stacey; van Dalen-Oskam, Karina; Mar, Raymond A. Do We Judge Fiction by the Author’s Gender? 2022 trash/literary and or intellectual quality, gender
Iché, Virginie; Sorlin, Sandrine The Rhetoric of Literary Communication: From Classical English Novels to Contemporary Digital Fiction 2022
Frederick, Rhonda D. Evidence of Things Not Seen: Fantastical Blackness in Genre Fictions 2022 Colin Channer, Jamaica, readers, Caribbean, race/ethnicity
Belk, Jaime Save Our Love 2022 African American romance, Christian romance, Harlequin Mills & Boon, happy ending
Burge, Amy; Folie, Sandra Girls of Riyadh and Desperate in Dubai: reading and writing romance in the Middle East 2022 chick lit, race/ethnicity, Islam, Rajaa Alsanea, Ameera Al Hakawati, Saudi Arabia, United Arab Emirates, sheikh romance
González de la Rosa, María del Pilar Voces femeninas y discurso feminista en algunas novelas de Harlequin/Mills & Boon 2022 Harlequin Mills & Boon, feminism, gender
Fanetti, Susan Introduction—Popular Romance in the 21st Century: Time to Claim Its Due 2022 romance scholarship, genre definitions, happy ending, Publishing, Fifty Shades
White, Bonnie Freedom, Sincerity, and the Modern Woman in the Interwar Romances of Berta Ruck 2022 Berta Ruck, history, gender, UK, cross-dressing, LGBT+ characters, readers and/or authors, sex/sexuality, fashion/clothing, emotions
Burge, Amy Beyond Outlander: Annie S. Swan and the Scottish popular romance novel 2022 Annie S. Swan, Scotland, Older and/or precursor texts (may not be "romance" as now defined), Karen Marie Moning, Lynsay Sands, settings
Namysłowska, Karolina Romance novels in translation: Focus on defining features of selected texts translated from English into Polish. 2022 Poland, translation, Penny Jordan/Caroline Courtney, Diana Palmer, Sandra Brown, Jude Deveraux
de los Heros, Susana Language ideologies, landscape and narrative voice in The Wind off the Small Isles 2022 Mary Stewart, linguistics, race/ethnicity, settings
Wagner, Wendy The “Grandly and Inhospitably Strange” World of Autistic Heroines in Romance Fiction 2022 health/medical, disability, Helen Hoang, Sherry Thomas, Talia Hibbert, gender, community
Hendricks, Margo; Moody-Freeman, Julie E. Introduction to the Special Issue on Black Romance 2022 romance scholarship
Selinger, Eric Murphy Cant and Canonicity 2022 romance scholarship, trash/literary and or intellectual quality, teaching romance, genre definitions
Nilson, Maria; Posti, Piia K Speglingar av feelgood: Genre, etikett eller känsla? 2022
Russo, Stephanie These old shades: Georgette Heyer’s unruly eighteenth century 2022 Georgette Heyer, gender, history, fashion/clothing
Ivanski, Chantelle; Maslej, Marta M.; Mar, Raymond A. Empirical Approaches to Studying Emotion in Literature: The Case of Gender 2022 science/technology, emotions, gender, readers, authors, romance scholarship
Beyer, Charlotte Centring Women of Colour: Decolonising the Literature Curriculum with Kamila Shamsie’s Home Fire and Bolu Babalola’s Love in Colour 2022 teaching romance, myth, Bolu Babalola, race/ethnicity
Vivanco, Laura Historical Accuracy, Racism, Courtney Milan, and The Duke Who Didn’t Conform to Genre Norms 2022 race/ethnicity, historical romance, authors, Courtney Milan, history, United States of America, UK, humour
Ivanski, Chantelle; Humphries, Stacey; van Dalen-Oskam, Karina; Mar, Raymond A. Do We Judge Fiction by the Author’s Gender? 2022 trash/literary and or intellectual quality, gender
Iché, Virginie; Sorlin, Sandrine The Rhetoric of Literary Communication: From Classical English Novels to Contemporary Digital Fiction 2022
Fanetti, Susan New Frontiers in Popular Romance: Essays on the Genre in the 21st Century 2022 Diana Gabaldon, India, LGBT+ characters, readers and/or authors, China
Parnell, Claire Reading and writing Muslim romance on Wattpad 2022 Muslim romance, Publishing
Ramos-García, María Teresa Definiciones transatlánticas de la raza blanca en las novelas góticas de Louise Bergstrom en Canarias (1971-1972) 2022 Louise Bergstrom, gothic romance, race/ethnicity
Allan, Jonathan A. Healing Toxic Masculinity in Sweatpants Season by Danielle Allen 2022 Danielle Allen, gender, feminism
Sutton, Denise Hardesty Marketing Love: Romance Publishers Mills & Boon and Harlequin Enterprises, 1930–1990 2022 Harlequin Mills & Boon, Publishing, capitalism/business
Tang, Ning Reading Online Romance Novels Is Related To Chinese Readers' View of Love 2022 China, readers, love
Dexl, Carmen; Gerlsbeck, Silvia The Male Body in Representation: Returning to Matter 2022
Michelson, Anna Redefining the Romance: Classification and Community in a Popular Fiction Genre 2022 genre definitions, sociology, authors, romance and, or as, activism, sex/sexuality, LGBT+ characters, readers and/or authors, race/ethnicity, erotic romance, happy ending, readers, Publishing, fanfiction, Fifty Shades, Suzanne Brockmann, m/m romance, African American romance, Native American romance
Farooqui, Javaria Romance, Austen, and English-Medium Schooling in Pakistan 2022 Pakistan, readers, historical romance, Jane Austen, social/economic class
González-Cruz, María Isabel Interdisciplinarity in Romance Fiction 2022 romance scholarship, romance and, or as, activism
Golubov, Nattie Women Policing Whiteness: Deviance and Surveillance in Contemporary Police Procedural Romance 2022 race/ethnicity, romantic suspense, gender, social/economic class, Catherine Coulter, Marie Force, Kendra Elliot, family, work, community
Dandridge, Rita B. Vivian Lorraine Stephens: Romance Pioneer 2022 Vivian Stephens, Publishing, race/ethnicity, African American romance, sex/sexuality, Rosalind Welles - pen name of Elsie B. Washington, Amii Lorin, Jayne Ann Krentz/Amanda Quick/Jayne Castle, disability, Harlequin Mills & Boon, United States of America, Sandra Kitt, ageism, authors