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Chopra, Radhika Wanted Men: Imaging the Hero in Popular Romantic Fiction 1995 gender
Chopra, Radhika Whose Face Do I See?: Anonymity and Authorship in Popular Romances 1998 authors
Chow, Karen Popular Sexual Knowledges and Women’s Agency in 1920s England: Marie Stopes’s Married Love and E.M. Hull’s The Sheik 1999 sex/sexuality, E. M. Hull, health/medical, history, fashion/clothing
Choyke, Kelly L. The Power of Popular Romance Culture: Community, Fandom, and Sexual Politics 2019 feminism, community, readers
Christian, Linda Kathryn Becoming a Woman through Romance: Adolescent Novels and the Ideology of Femininity 1984 YA/teenage romance, gender
Christian-Smith, Linda K. Gender, Popular Culture, and Curriculum - Adolescent Romance Novels as Gender Text 1987 YA/teenage romance, gender
Roman, Leslie G.; Christian-Smith, Linda K.; Ellsworth, Elizabeth Becoming Feminine: The Politics of Popular Culture 1988
Christian-Smith, Linda K. Girl's Romance Novel Reading and What to Do about It 1988 readers
Christian-Smith, Linda K. Romancing the girl: adolescent romance novels and the construction of femininity 1988 YA/teenage romance
Christian-Smith, Linda K. Becoming a Woman Through Romance 1990 YA/teenage romance, feminism, Publishing, United States of America, gender, social/economic class, readers, race/ethnicity
Christian-Smith, Linda K. Sweet Dreams: Gender and Desire in Teen Romance Novels 1993 YA/teenage romance, gender
Christian-Smith, Linda K. Texts of Desire: Essays on Fiction, Femininity and Schooling 1993
Christian-Smith, Linda K. Voices of Resistance: Young Women Readers of Romance Fiction 1993 YA/teenage romance, social/economic class, race/ethnicity, gender, United States of America, readers, work, Publishing
Christian-Smith, Linda K. Young Women and Their Dream Lovers: Sexuality in Adolescent Fiction 1994 YA/teenage romance, sex/sexuality
Christopherson, Neal Accommodation and Resistance in Religious Fiction: Family Structures and Gender Roles 1999 Christian romance, YA/teenage romance, gender, sociology, family, work
Churchwell, Sarah; Smith, Thomas Ruys Must Read: Rediscovering American Bestsellers from Charlotte Temple to The Da Vinci Code 2012
Patthey-Chavez, G. Genevieve; Clare, Lindsay; Youmans, Madeleine Watery Passion: The Struggle between Hegemony and Sexual Liberation in Erotic Fiction for Women 1996 metaphor/symbolism, erotic romance, gender, sex/sexuality, linguistics, Shirlee Busbee, Julie Garwood, Roberta Gellis, Johanna Lindsey, Jayne Ann Krentz/Amanda Quick/Jayne Castle, Bertrice Small, Rachel Lee/Sue Civil-Brown, Elizabeth Lowell, Emma Merritt, Fayrene Preston, Kasey Stuart, Linda Turner, virginity, food, drink, war/armed forces, rape and/or intimate partner violence/abuse, work
Clark, Beverly Lyon; Bernier, Karen Gennari; Henneberry-Nassau, Michelle; Jenks, Lauren Beth; Moorman, Angie J.; Rhoades, Marah Bianca Reading Romance, Reading Ourselves 1996 readers, feminism, sex/sexuality, trash/literary and or intellectual quality, teaching romance, Harlequin Mills & Boon, rape and/or intimate partner violence/abuse, race/ethnicity, capitalism/business
Clasen, Tricia; Hassel, Holly Gender(ed) Identities: Critical Rereadings of Gender in Children’s and Young Adult Literature 2017
Clasen, Tricia Masculinity and Romantic Myth in Contemporary YA Romance 2017 gender, love, YA/teenage romance
Clawson, Laura Covering genres: romance, science-fiction/fantasy, pleasure, and respectability 1998 trash/literary and or intellectual quality
Clawson, Laura Cowboys and Schoolteachers: Gender in Romance Novels, Secular and Christian 2005 Christian romance, family, gender, United States of America, work, sex/sexuality, religion/spirituality, sociology
Clay, Catherine; DiCenzo, Maria; Green, Barbara; Hackney, Fiona Women's Periodicals and Print Culture in Britain, 1918-1939: The Interwar Period 2018
Clement, Jennifer Loving and giving: realism, emotional hypocrisy and generosity in A Civil Contract 2021 Georgette Heyer, Jane Austen, emotions, gender, social/economic class
Close, Lisa Functional analysis of the contemporary folkloric vampire 2008 Nora Roberts/J. D. Robb
Coddington, Lynn Romance and Power: Writing Romance Novels as a Practice of Critical Literacy 1997
Coddington, Lynn Wavering Between Worlds: Feminist Influences in the Romance Genre 1997 trash/literary and or intellectual quality, feminism, Barbara McMahon, Ruth Wind/Barbara Samuel/Barbara O'Neal, gender, emotions, Jennifer Crusie
Hackett, Lisa J.; Coghlan, Jo The History Bubble: Negotiating Authenticity in Historical Romance Novels 2021 historical romance
Cohn, Jan The Romances of Mary Roberts Rinehart: Some Problems in the Study of Popular Culture 1977 Mary Roberts Rinehart, work, marriage, Older and/or precursor texts (may not be "romance" as now defined)
Cohn, Jan Romance and the Erotics of Property: Mass-Market Fiction for Women 1988 Older and/or precursor texts (may not be "romance" as now defined), wealth/prosperity, capitalism/business, gender, marriage, Jane Austen, Charlotte Brontë, May Agnes Fleming, Harlequin Mills & Boon
Cole, Elizabeth Authors on The Sheik: A conversation with Liz Fielding 2020 Liz Fielding, sheikh romance, E. M. Hull
Coles, Claire D.; Shamp, M. Johnna Some Sexual, Personality, and Demographic Characteristics of Women Readers of Erotic Romances 1984 readers, erotic romance, sex/sexuality, pornography
Colmenero, Laura E. The social construction of gender as represented in popular fiction, 1990-1997 1999 Johanna Lindsey, gender
Tirkkonen-Condit, Sonja; Condit, Stephen Empirical Studies in Translation and Linguistics 1989
Constans, Ellen Cri du coeur, cri du corps dans les romans de Delly 1990 Delly, religion/spirituality, sex/sexuality, Christian romance
Constans, Ellen Le roman sentimental: actes du colloque des 14-15-16 mars 1989 à la Faculté des lettres de Limoges, volume 1 1990
Constans, Ellen Le roman sentimental: actes du colloque des 14-15-16 mars 1989 à la Faculté des lettres de Limoges, Volume 2 1991
Constans, Ellen Roman sentimental, roman d’amour: Amour...toujours... 1991
Constans, Ellen Du bon chic-bon genre dans un mauvais genre: le roman d’amour de Delly 1992 Delly
Constans, Ellen; Vareille, Jean-Claude Crime et châtiment dans le roman populaire de langue française du XIXe siècle: actes du colloque international de mai 1992 à Limoges 1994
Constans, Ellen Cri du Coeur, cri du corps, dans les romans de Delly 1995 Delly, religion/spirituality, sex/sexuality
Constans, Ellen Du bon chic-bon genre dans un mauvais genre: le roman d’amour de Delly 1995 Delly, religion/spirituality
Constans, Ellen Du roman sentimental au roman d'amour: qu'en est-il du déclassement? 1997 trash/literary and or intellectual quality
Constans, Ellen Parlez-moi d’amour: Le roman sentimental. Des romans grecs aux collections de l’an 2000 1999 romance scholarship, Older and/or precursor texts (may not be "romance" as now defined), Publishing, France
Constans, Ellen Ouvrières des lettres: Les Romancières dans la production de la littérature de masse de la première moitié du XXe siècle 2008 France, Older and/or precursor texts (may not be "romance" as now defined), Publishing
Constans, Ellen Images de la femme dans le roman sentimental 2009 love, Older and/or precursor texts (may not be "romance" as now defined), gender, marriage, Delly, religion/spirituality, Georges Ohnet, Christian romance
Constans, Ellen La censure du roman sentimental en France ou le refoulement des mauvais genres 2009 trash/literary and or intellectual quality, Older and/or precursor texts (may not be "romance" as now defined), France, readers, religion/spirituality, Christian romance, love, history, feminism, romance scholarship
Constans, Ellen Roman sentimental, roman d'amour: Amour ... toujours 2009 genre definitions
Constans, Ellen Le premier Delly ou comment l’idéologie subvertit le récit amoureux 2011 Delly
Cook, Nancy Home on the Range: Montana Romances and Geographies of Hope 2009 settings, United States of America, rural romance, Tami Hoag, LGBT+ characters, readers and/or authors, work, community, animals
Cook, Jon Fictional Fathers 1988 psychology, Harlequin Mills & Boon, gender, sex/sexuality, wealth/prosperity
Cook, Jennifer R.; Rostosky, Sharon S.; Riggle, Ellen D. B. Gender Role Models in Fictional Novels for Emerging Adult Lesbians 2013 YA/teenage romance, LGBT+ characters, readers and/or authors
Cook-Lynn, Elizabeth American Indian Intellectualism and the New Indian Story 1996 Native American romance, Kathleen Eagle
Cooper, Katherine; Short, Emma The Female Figure in Contemporary Historical Fiction 2012
Coote, Lesley; Kaufman, Alexander L. Robin Hood and the Outlaw/ed Literary Canon 2018
Copy, Christine C’est une femme qui vous parle: à propos de quelques caractéristiques du discours rapporté dans les romans sentimentaux de la collection Harlequin en anglais 2015 Harlequin Mills & Boon, linguistics, paratext, gender
Coquillat, Michelle Romans d’amour 1988 Harlequin Mills & Boon, France, Delly, gender
Corbin, Joanie Lady Guimauve ou la (re)fabrication de l’auteur populaire 2007 Barbara Cartland
Corbin, Joanie La représentation de l’adolescente dans une collection de romans à grande diffusion 2009 YA/teenage romance, gender
Cordell, Sigrid Loving in Plain Sight: Amish Romance Novels as Evangelical Gothic 2013 Beverly Lewis, Christian romance, religion/spirituality, gothic romance
Corderot, Didier Biblioteca Rocío" (1937-1939) o las virtudes de la novela rosa durante la Guerra Civil española 2015 Spain, fascism/right-wing authoritarianism, Christian romance, France, translation, history, Publishing, Delly, Magali, pen name of Jeanne Philbert
Winks, Robin W.; Corrigan, Maureen Mystery and Suspense Writers: The Literature of Crime, Detection, and Espionage, Volume 2 1998
Cortesi, Taylor D. 'Traitorous Bodies': Cartesian Dualism in Romance Novels by Susan Johnson and E. L. James 2013 Susan Johnson, Fifty Shades
Costas Rodríguez, Jenaro Ad amicam amicissime scripta: homenaje a la profesora María José López de Ayala y Genovés (Volumen II) 2005
Coste, Didier Installments of the Heart: Text Delimitation in Periodical Narrative and Its Consequences 1981 Older and/or precursor texts (may not be "romance" as now defined), Publishing, Spain, translation, Berta Ruck, Hedwig Courths-Mahler, Florence Barclay, Grace Livingston Hill, Rafael Pérez y Pérez, religion/spirituality, Christian romance, marriage, social/economic class
Coste, Didier Conformité et narrativité: travail de reproduction idéologique et discours du changement d'après quelques romans de Rafael Pérez y Pérez 1984 Rafael Pérez y Pérez
Coste, Didier Le genre du roman rose et la dissidence amoureuse 1984
Coste, Didier; Zéraffa, Michel Le récit amoureux: Colloque de Cerisy-la-Salle 1984
Coste, Didier A los principios de la novela rosa: dos novelas de Pérez y Pérez 1986 Rafael Pérez y Pérez, Older and/or precursor texts (may not be "romance" as now defined), Spain
Coste, Didier La littérarité du roman rose: ses mécanismes, ses raisons, ses conséquences 1986 linguistics, trash/literary and or intellectual quality
Cothran, Casey A.; Cannon, Mercy New Perspectives on Detective Fiction: Mystery Magnified 2016
Coulibaly, Isaïe Biton Les nouvelles reines d'Adoras 2006 Africa, Yeveny Bomou/Bomou Karidja, Koussoh Mélika/Hélène Soungalo Diomandé, K. Fatym/Kaba Fanta, Amani N'Guessan/Nathalie Amani N'Guessan épouse Gbalou
Coward, Rosalind Female Desire: Women’s Sexuality Today 1984 gender, feminism, psychology
Cox, Anthony; Fisher, Maryanne The Texas Billionaire's Pregnant Bride: An Evolutionary Interpretation of Romance Fiction Titles 2009 evolutionary psychology, Harlequin Mills & Boon, work, family, social/economic class
Fisher, Maryanne; Cox, Anthony Man Change Thyself: Hero Versus Heroine Development in Harlequin Romance Novels 2010 evolutionary psychology, gender, Harlequin Mills & Boon
Craddock, Louise Bridget Jones's Little Red Dress: Chicklit, mass-market popular romance and feminism 2004 chick lit, Melissa Senate, Harlequin Mills & Boon
Crane, Ralph; Fletcher, Lisa The Genre of Islands: Popular Fiction and Performative Geographies 2016 islands, settings, rural romance
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
Crane, Megan Stacy Holden’s ‘Love in the Desert’: An Author’s Response 2015 sheikh romance, race/ethnicity, Scotland, Greece, gender, Harlequin Mills & Boon
Crane, Lynda L. Romance Novel Readers: in Search of Feminist Change? 1994 feminism, gender, sex/sexuality, readers
Cranny-Francis, Anne Feminist Fiction: Feminist Uses of Generic Fiction 1990 feminism, Charlotte Brontë, Emily Brontë, race/ethnicity, capitalism/business, wealth/prosperity, Sarah James
Crawford, Mary Rethinking the Romance: Teaching the Content and Function of Gender Stereotypes in the Psychology of Women Course 1994 psychology, teaching romance, Harlequin Mills & Boon, gender
Crawford, Joseph The Twilight of the Gothic? Vampire Fiction and the Rise of the Paranormal Romance, 1991-2012 2014 paranormal/fantasy/time-travel romance, genre definitions, Twilight, gothic romance
Crawford, Joseph Old-World Heroes and New-World Heroines in Post-Millennial Anglophone Romance Media 2021 sheikh romance, paranormal/fantasy/time-travel romance, Scotland, history, Karen Marie Moning, Olivia Gates, Diana Gabaldon
Creed, Barbara The women's romance as sexual fantasy: 'Mills & Boon' 1984 Harlequin Mills & Boon
Creed, Barbara Media Matrix: Sexing the New Reality 2003 Harlequin Mills & Boon
Crisp, Thomas From Romance to Magical Realism: Limits and Possibilities in Gay Adolescent Fiction 2009 LGBT+ characters, readers and/or authors, YA/teenage romance
Crusie Smith, Jennifer Romancing Reality: The Power of Romance to Reinforce and Re-vision the Real 1997 readers, fashion/clothing, trash/literary and or intellectual quality, marriage, Jennifer Crusie, sex/sexuality, evolutionary psychology
Crusie Smith, Jennifer The Romantic Suspense Mystery 1998 romantic suspense, genre definitions, settings, Older and/or precursor texts (may not be "romance" as now defined), gothic romance, Horace Walpole, Ann Radcliffe, Jane Austen, Emily Brontë, Charlotte Brontë, Wilkie Collins, death, Mary Roberts Rinehart, Mabel Seeley, Dorothy MacCardle, Georgette Heyer, Vera Caspary, Daphne du Maurier, Mary Stewart, Barbara Michaels a.k.a. Elizabeth Peters a.k.a. Barbara Mertz, Victoria Holt/Jean Plaidy/Eleanor Burford Hibbert, Mary Higgins Clark, family, Eileen Dreyer/Kathleen Korbel
Crusie Smith, Jennifer This Is Not Your Mother's Cinderella: The Romance Novel as Feminist Fairy Tale 1999 feminism, fairytales/folktales, JoAnn Ross, family, sex/sexuality, gender, rape and/or intimate partner violence/abuse
Cruz, Jon; Lewis, Justin Viewing, Reading, Listening: Audiences and Cultural Reception 1994
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
Arriaga Flórez, Mercedes; Cruzado Rodríguez, Ángeles; González de Sande, Estela; González de Sande, Mercedes Escritoras y figuras femeninas (literatura en castellano) 2009
Cudjoe, Selwyn Reginald Caribbean Women Writers: Essays from the First International Conference 1990 Caribbean
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
Cunha, Maria Teresa Santos Armadilhas da sedução: os romances de M. Delly 1999 Delly, Older and/or precursor texts (may not be "romance" as now defined)
Cunha, Maria Teresa Santos Para ler e educar-se: a ciculacao das novelas de Corin Tellado no sul do Brasil (1965-1975) 2009 Corín Tellado, Brazil, emotions
Sceats, Sarah; Cunningham, Gail Image & Power: Women in Fiction in the Twentieth Century 1996
Curiel, Fernando Fotonovela rosa, fotonovela roja 1978 Mexico, fotonovela
Curthoys, Ned; Ganguly, Debjani Edward Said: The Legacy of a Public Intellectual 2007
Curthoys, Ann; Docker, John Popular Romance in the Postmodern Age. And an Unknown Australian Author 1990 Edwina Shore, trash/literary and or intellectual quality, Harlequin Mills & Boon
Glover, Thomasine; Hearvey, Crystal Monay; McCoy, Shuntay; Curtright, Lauren Anita Richmond Bunkley 2000 Anita Richmond Bunkley, African American romance
Cuthbert, Kate The Australian Digital Publishing Bubble, 2012-2016: An Insider Perspective 2021 Australia, Publishing, Harlequin Mills & Boon
Czyba, Lucette Les enjeux de la lecture de Delly 1990 Delly, fairytales/folktales
Bianchi, Diana; D'Arcangelo, Adele Translating History or Romance? Historical Romantic Fiction and Its Translation in a Globalised Market 2015 translation, historical romance, Diana Gabaldon, trash/literary and or intellectual quality, genre definitions, Christian romance, Italy, Scotland
Bryce, Jane; Dako, Kari Textual Deviancy and Cultural Syncretism: Romantic Fiction as a Subversive Strain in Black Women's Writing 1993 Valerie Belgrave, race/ethnicity
Dalsgaard, Inger H. Consumed by Romance: Narration, Branding, and Participation in the Digital Marketplace 2009 readers
Daly, Brenda O. Laughing WITH, or Laughing AT the Young-Adult Romance 1989 YA/teenage romance, food, drink, health/medical, gender, social/economic class, work
Dalziell, Tanya Australia's Long Relationship with Romance 2021 Australia, romance scholarship, national identity, race/ethnicity, Rosa Praed, Joyce Dingwell/Kate Starr
Damian-Gaillard, Béatrice Les romans sentimentaux des collections Harlequin: quelle(s) figure(s) de l’amoureux? Quel(s) modèle(s) de relation(s) amoureuse(s)? 2011 Harlequin Mills & Boon, sex/sexuality, gender
Damian-Gaillard, Béatrice Prince charmant. Représentations des ressources et des coûts des masculinités dans les romans sentimentaux des collections Harlequin 2012 gender, Harlequin Mills & Boon, sex/sexuality, emotions
Dandridge, Rita B. African American Women's Historical Romances: Race and Gender Revisited 2003 African American romance, race/ethnicity, gender, Beverly Jenkins, Shirley Hailstock, historical romance, sex/sexuality
Dandridge, Rita B. The Race, Gender, Romance Connection: A Black Feminist Reading of African American Women's Historical Romances 2003 historical romance, African American romance, feminism, race/ethnicity, gender, Beverly Jenkins, Shirley Hailstock, Roberta Gayle, history, sex/sexuality, United States of America
Dandridge, Rita B. Black Women's Activism: Reading African American Women's Historical Romances 2004 historical romance, African American romance, romance and, or as, activism, United States of America, race/ethnicity, Anita Richmond Bunkley, Beverly Jenkins, Shirley Hailstock, Francine Craft, Gay G. Gunn, gender, history, sex/sexuality
Dandridge, Rita B. The African American Historical Romance: An Interview with Beverly Jenkins 2010 historical romance, African American romance, Beverly Jenkins, race/ethnicity, romance and, or as, activism
Dandridge, Rita B. Love Prevailed Despite What American History Said: Agape and Eros in Beverly Jenkins's Night Song and Through the Storm 2016 Beverly Jenkins, love, sex/sexuality, history, gender, race/ethnicity, United States of America, rape and/or intimate partner violence/abuse, family, wealth/prosperity
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
Dane, Alexandra; Weber, Millicent Post-Digital Book Cultures: Australian Perspectives 2021
Daniels, Mary Heather I Don't Read It for the Sex: Romance Readers and Identity Management 1998 readers, feminism
Dannenberg, Hilary P. Nadine Gordimer’s The Pickup and the Desert Romance Tradition in Post/Colonial Anglophone Fiction. 2008 E. M. Hull
Darbyshire, Peter Romancing the World: Harlequin Romances, the Capitalist Dream, and the Conquest of Europe and Asia 2000 Harlequin Mills & Boon, capitalism/business, Publishing, Poland, Germany, United States of America, socialism and/or communism, wealth/prosperity, work, Japan, France
Darbyshire, Peter The Politics of Love: Harlequin Romances and the Christian Right 2002 sex/sexuality, Christian romance, Harlequin Mills & Boon, gender, United States of America, feminism, work, family, readers, religion/spirituality, capitalism/business
Darian-Smith, Kate; Grimshaw, Patricia; Lindsey, Kiera; Mcintyre, Stuart Exploring the British World: Identity, Cultural Production, Institutions 2004
Pereira, Simone Luci; das Neves, Thiago Tavares; Budag, Fernanda Elouise Comunicação e Culturas Urbanas: temas, debates e perspectivas 2021
Dascăl, Reghina Raj Matriarchs: Women Authors of Anglo-Indian Romance 2012 India, UK, history, Maud Diver, Flora Annie Steel
Daud, Kathrina Mohd In response to Harlequin: Global legacy, local agency 2021 Harlequin Mills & Boon, Africa, China, Japan, India, Malaysia, Nigeria
Davidge, Helen Data science: Georgette Heyer’s historical novels and her readers 2021 Georgette Heyer, linguistics, readers
Batsleer, Janet; Davies, Tony; O'Rourke, Rebecca; Weedon, Chris Rewriting English: Cultural Politics of Gender and Class 1985 genre definitions, gender, capitalism/business, feminism, Florence Barclay, E. M. Hull, history, Barbara Cartland, Catherine Cookson, social/economic class, race/ethnicity, UK, sex/sexuality, fashion/clothing
Davies, Ben; Lupton, Christina; Gormsen Schmidt, Johanne Reading Novels During the Covid-19 Pandemic 2022 readers, Sally Rooney
Davis, Storme G. Nora Roberts: descendant of Jane Austen and Charlotte Brontë? 2008 Nora Roberts/J. D. Robb
Davis, Sara N. Values and the Romance Novel: Journeys of the Reader 2005 readers, psychology, teaching romance
Davis, Mary Louise Romances and the Modern Ms.: a Study of Contemporary (Line) Romances, 1980-1984 1986 paratext, gender, readers, work, sex/sexuality
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
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
Day, Sara K. Reimagining Forever...: The Marriage Plot in Recent Young Adult Literature 2020 YA/teenage romance, marriage
Day, Gary; Bloom, Clive Perspectives on Pornography: Sexuality in Film and Literature 1988
De Donato, Gigliola; Gazzola Stacchini, Vanna I best seller del ventennio: Il regime e il libro di massa 1991
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
de Geest, Dirk; Goris, An Constrained Writing, Creative Writing: The Case of Handbooks for Writing Romances 2010 authors, trash/literary and or intellectual quality, Publishing, readers, genre definitions, rape and/or intimate partner violence/abuse
De Groot, Jerome The Historical Novel 2010 historical romance, Georgette Heyer, Catherine Cookson, Barbara Cartland, Harlequin Mills & Boon
de Jesús, Melinda L. "Two’s Company, Three’s a Crowd?": Reading Interracial Romance in Contemporary Asian American Young Adult Fiction 2001 YA/teenage romance, race/ethnicity, United States of America, LGBT+ characters, readers and/or authors, Haemi Balgassi, Kate Emberg, Lois-Ann Yamanaka
Saint-Jacques, Denis; de la Garde, Roger Les pratiques culturelles de grande consommation. Le marché francophone 1992
de los Heros, Susana Ideologías lingüísticas, paisaje y voz narrativa en The Wind off the Small Isles 2022 Mary Stewart, linguistics, race/ethnicity, settings
de los Heros, Susana Language ideologies, landscape and narrative voice in The Wind off the Small Isles 2022 Mary Stewart, linguistics, race/ethnicity, settings
De Silva Miguel, Donna Love conquers all: the rhetoric, culture, and appeal of the contemporary romance novel, and coming to terms with coming out of the closet 2002
Deal, Clare H. Throbb[ing] with a consciousness of a knowledge that appalled her’: Embodiment and Female Subjectivity in the Desert Romance 2015 E. M. Hull, sheikh romance, feminism, sex/sexuality, gender, rape and/or intimate partner violence/abuse
Dean, John; Gabilliet, Jean-Paul European Readings of American Popular Culture 1996
DeBlase, Gina Acknowledging agency while accommodating romance: Girls negotiating meaning in literacy transactions 2003 readers, gender, social/economic class
Deffenbacher, Kristina Rape Myths' Twilight and Women's Paranormal Revenge in Romantic and Urban Fantasy Fiction 2014 rape and/or intimate partner violence/abuse, paranormal/fantasy/time-travel romance, gender, Twilight, Patricia Briggs, Nicole Peeler, Kresley Cole, Larissa Ione, Christine Feehan, J. R. Ward, Dianne Sylvan, Richelle Mead, Karen Marie Moning, Charlaine Harris
Quiroga Fernández de Soto, Alejandro; del Arco Blanco, Miguel Ángel Soldados de Dios y apóstoles de la patria: Las derechas españolas en la Europa de entreguerras 2010
Del Grosso Destreri, Luigi; Brodesco, Alberto; Giovanetti, Silvia; Zanatta, Sara Una galassia rosa: Ricerche sulla letteratura femminile di consumo 2009
Delamoir, Jeanette Marie Bjelke Petersen's 'virile story': Jewelled Nights, gender instability, and the bush 2003 cross-dressing, Marie Bjelke Petersen, Australia, LGBT+ characters, readers and/or authors, trash/literary and or intellectual quality, Publishing, settings, fashion/clothing, film/movies, religion/spirituality, gender, social/economic class, rape and/or intimate partner violence/abuse
Delany, Samuel R. The Gestation of Genres: Literature, Fiction, Romance, Science Fiction, Fantasy ... 1987 genre definitions, Publishing
Deller, Ruth A.; Smith, Clarissa Reading the BDSM romance: Reader responses to Fifty Shades 2013 Fifty Shades, BDSM, readers, trash/literary and or intellectual quality, sex/sexuality
Delpech, Jeanine Le cas Delly 2019 Delly
Reyes, Daisy Verduzco; Speer, Annika C.; Denes, Amanda White Women and Latina Readers’ Ambivalence Toward Fifty Shades of Grey 2021 Fifty Shades, erotic romance, pornography, sex/sexuality, race/ethnicity, gender, readers, United States of America, rape and/or intimate partner violence/abuse
Deng, Yiwei The Aesthetic form of Childhood Sweetheart: I Love You, None of Your Business 2022 China, emotions
Dennis, Lesley Erin Pornography and Rape Myths in Paranormal Romance Novels 2012 paranormal/fantasy/time-travel romance, rape and/or intimate partner violence/abuse, feminism, readers, sex/sexuality, pornography
Deputter, Barbara Anne Les romans Harlequin, leur contenu et leurs lectrices québécoises 1992 Harlequin Mills & Boon, Canada, readers
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
Derbyshire, Val Why Read Mills & Boon Romances? 2016 Harlequin Mills & Boon, trash/literary and or intellectual quality, settings, Penny Jordan/Caroline Courtney, romance and, or as, activism, rape and/or intimate partner violence/abuse, feminism
des Rivières, Marie-José Le mariage ou la réconciliation comme mauvais genre 1992 trash/literary and or intellectual quality
Bettinotti, Julia; Bleton, Paul; des Rivières, Marie-José; Saint-Jacques, Denis Lecture paralittéraire québécoise : les femmes et le travail de 1945 à aujourd’hui 1994 Canada, Harlequin Mills & Boon
Saint-Jacques, Denis; Bettinotti, Julia; des Rivières, Marie-José; Bleton, Paul; Savoie, Chantal Femmes de rêve au travail : les femmes et le travail dans les productions écrites de grande consommation, au Québec, de 1945 à aujourd'hui 1998 Canada, work, gender, Delly, Barbara Cartland, Harlequin Mills & Boon, Charlotte Lamb, Janet Dailey
Bettinotti, Julia; des Rivières, Marie-José Un élargissement du canon littéraire : le cas du roman d'amour 2000 romance scholarship, feminism, readers
Saint-Jacques, Denis; des Rivières, Marie-José Le féminisme problématique d’un roman d’amour, Anne Mérival 2011 Older and/or precursor texts (may not be "romance" as now defined), feminism, work, marriage, war/armed forces, Canada, trash/literary and or intellectual quality, Delly, religion/spirituality, romances in magazines and newspapers
Desai, Gaurav Teaching the African Novel 2009
Desmet, Christy; Sawyer, Robert Shakespeare and Appropriation 1999
DeVries, Susan; Dunlop, Margaret; Goopy, Suzanne; Moyle, Wendy; Sutherland‐Lockhart, Diane Discipline and passion: meaning, masochism and mythology in popular medical romances 1995 medical romance, history, work, emotions, sex/sexuality, health/medical, death, family, settings, gender, BDSM, Harlequin Mills & Boon
Dexl, Carmen; Gerlsbeck, Silvia The Male Body in Representation: Returning to Matter 2022
Di Leo, Jeffrey The Speed of Publishing 2020 Publishing, Alexa Riley, I. T. Lucas
Diamond, Geneva Medievalism and the Courtship Plot in Julie Garwood's Popular Romance Novels 2015 Julie Garwood, historical romance, gender, romantic suspense
Alpalhão, Margarida Santos; Carreto, Carlos F. Clamote; Dias, Isabel de Barros O jogo do mundo: ensaios sobre o imaginário lúdico 2017
Clay, Catherine; DiCenzo, Maria; Green, Barbara; Hackney, Fiona Women's Periodicals and Print Culture in Britain, 1918-1939: The Interwar Period 2018
Dickson, Beth Annie S. Swan and O. Douglas: Legacies of the Kailyard 1997 Annie S. Swan, O. Douglas/Anna Buchan
Diekman, Amanda B.; McDonald, Mary; Gardner, Wendi L. Love means never having to be careful: The relationship between reading romance novels and safe sex behavior 2000 psychology, sex/sexuality, readers
Díez Borque, José María Literatura y cultura de masas: Estudio de la novela subliteraria 1972 Corín Tellado, Spain, gender, social/economic class, linguistics
Dillon, George L. The Genres Speak; Using Large Corpora to Profile Generic Registers 2007 linguistics, Harlequin Mills & Boon, sex/sexuality
DiVisconte, Jessica The Recession and Its Effect on the Romance Genre 2009 Publishing
Diwersy, Sascha; Gonon, Laetitia; Goossens, Vannina; Gymnich, Marion; Tutin, Agnès Speech Verbs in French and English Novels 2020 linguistics, emotions, languages
Dixon, Peter; Bortolussi, Marisa Readers' Knowledge of Popular Genre 2009 psychology, genre definitions, readers, emotions
Dixon, jay Fantasy Unlimited: the World of Mills and Boon 1987 Harlequin Mills & Boon
Dixon, jay The Romance Fiction of Mills & Boon 1909-1990s 1999 Harlequin Mills & Boon, rural romance, settings, marriage, gender, feminism, war/armed forces, work, love, Publishing, sex/sexuality, rape and/or intimate partner violence/abuse
Dixon, jay The Depiction of Masculinity and Nationality in The Sheik 2020 E. M. Hull, gender, race/ethnicity, UK, Scotland
Dixon, jay History of English romance novels, 1621-1975 2021 UK, Older and/or precursor texts (may not be "romance" as now defined), Harlequin Mills & Boon, historical romance
Soedibio, Sari M. R. D.; Djundjung, Jenny M. The Hypermasculine and Ubersexual Men in the Harlequin Novels of the 1980s and 2000s 2013 gender, Harlequin Mills & Boon, Nora Roberts/J. D. Robb, Diana Palmer, Penny Jordan/Caroline Courtney, Debbie Macomber, Linda Lael Miller, Robyn Carr
Curthoys, Ann; Docker, John Popular Romance in the Postmodern Age. And an Unknown Australian Author 1990 Edwina Shore, trash/literary and or intellectual quality, Harlequin Mills & Boon
Rapp, Adrian; Dodgen, Lynda; Kaler, Anne K. A Romance Writer Gets Away with Murder 2000 Sandra Brown, romantic suspense, death
Doğan Yıldız, Alpay Popüler Türk Romanları ( 1930-1950): Kerime Nadir, Esat Mahmut Karakurt, Muazzez Tahsin Berkand 2010 Turkey, Older and/or precursor texts (may not be "romance" as now defined), Kerime Nadir, Muazzez Tahsin Berkand
Donalson, Tara A. The Parody of Romance 2005 Christian romance, religion/spirituality
Barrett-Fox, Rebecca; Donnelly, Kristen Inspirational Romance 2021 Christian romance, Grace Livingston Hill, religion/spirituality, Janette Oke, Francine Rivers, gender, African American romance, Beverly Jenkins, Angela Benson, Philippines
Douglas, Ann Soft-Porn Culture: Punishing the Liberated Woman 1980 BDSM, pornography, Harlequin Mills & Boon, feminism, virginity, readers, gender
Downey, Kristin Irony, Ideology, and Resistance: The Amazing Double Life of Harlequin Presents 2005 Harlequin Mills & Boon, marriage, family, sex/sexuality, readers, gender, national identity, race/ethnicity
Doyle, Marsha Vanderford The Rhetoric of Romance: A Fantasy Theme Analysis of Barbara Cartland Novels 1985 Barbara Cartland, gender, religion/spirituality, love
Drakulić-Ilić, Slavenka Smrtni grijesi feminizma. Ogledi u mudologiji 1984 readers, sex/sexuality, trash/literary and or intellectual quality, socialism and/or communism
Drayton, Arthur D.; Ajayi-Soyinka, Omofolabo; Ukpokodu, I. Peter African Literatures at the Millennium 2007
Dreimane, Jana Authors, Publishers and Readers of Popular Literature in Latvia in the Late 1980s and Early 1990s 2015 Latvia, Publishing, readers, translation, Hedwig Courths-Mahler, Ethel M. Dell, trash/literary and or intellectual quality, socialism and/or communism
Drescher, Horst W.; Hagemann, Susanne Scotland to Slovenia: European Identities and Transcultural Communication. Proceedings of the Fourth International Scottish Studies Symposium 1996
Drew, Bernard A. 100 Most Popular African American Authors: Biographical Sketches and Bibliographies 2007 African American romance, Rochelle Alers, Tina McElroy Ansa, Leslie Esdaile Banks, Angela Benson, Michele Andrea Bowen, Connie Briscoe, Anita Richmond Bunkley, Aisha Ford, Gwynne Forster, Sharon Ewell Foster, Patricia Haley, E. Lynn Harris, Donna Hill, Brenda Jackson, Beverly Jenkins, Sandra Kitt, Felicia Mason, Evelyn Palfrey, Francis Ray, Kimberla Lawson Ruby, Eboni Snoe, Chassie L. West, Alice Wootson, Courtni Wright, Frank Yerby, Zane
Driscoll, Catherine One True Pairing: The Romance of Pornography and the Pornography of Romance 2006 fanfiction, pornography, sex/sexuality, gender
Driscoll, Beth; Fletcher, Lisa; Wilkins, Kim Women, Akubras and Ereaders: Romance Fiction and Australian Publishing 2011 Australia, Publishing, rural romance, Harlequin Mills & Boon
Driscoll, Beth Genre, Author, Text, Reader: Teaching Nora Roberts’s Spellbound 2014 teaching romance, Nora Roberts/J. D. Robb
Fletcher, Lisa; Driscoll, Beth; Wilkins, Kim Genre Worlds and Popular Fiction: The Case of Twenty-First-Century Australian Romance 2018 Publishing, Australia
Driscoll, Beth; Fletcher, Lisa; Wilkins, Kim; Carter, David The Publishing Ecosystems of Contemporary Australian Genre Fiction 2018 Publishing, Australia
Fletcher, Lisa; Driscoll, Beth; Wilkins, Kim What is Australian Popular Fiction? 2018 Australia, national identity, settings
Driscoll, Beth Book Blogs as Tastemakers 2019 readers
Wilkins, Kim; Driscoll, Beth; Fletcher, Lisa Genre Worlds: Popular Fiction and 21st-Century Book Culture 2022 Publishing, readers
Driscoll, Beth; Wilkins, Kim Australian Fantasy, Crime and Romance Fiction in the Twentieth and Twenty-First Centuries 2023 Australia, Publishing
Dryden, Therese Michelle Bachelor Dad on Her Doorstep 2011 Harlequin Mills & Boon, authors, love, Georgette Heyer, Daphne du Maurier, Jane Austen, Charlotte Brontë, Michelle Douglas
Dryden, Therese The Valentine Wars 2019 feminism, family, Susan Elizabeth Phillips, Nora Roberts/J. D. Robb, Rachel Gibson, Robyn Carr, Marie Force, Kristan Higgins, Ruthie Knox, Bella Andre, Grace Burrowes, Sharon Sala, Michelle Douglas
Dryden, Therese The single-mother and the law: romance novels making room for female voices in patriarchal spaces 2022 family, Robyn Carr
Dubino, Jeanne The Cinderella Complex: Romance Fiction, Patriarchy, and Capitalism 1993 capitalism/business, readers, work, gender
Dubrûle, Marie-Andrée Systèmes narratifs et systèmes de valeurs dans le roman sentimental paralittéraire 1984
Dubrûle, Marie-Andrée Le cas Harlequin : la mise à l’épreuve du sujet femme : une analyse des procédés narratifs et littéraires 1986 Harlequin Mills & Boon, Janet Dailey, gender, feminism
Ducoulombier, Martine La comédie romantique – un genre mal-aimé? 2005 film/movies, Africa
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
Grobbelaar, Madalena; Reid Boyd, Elizabeth; Dudek, Debra Contemporary Love Studies in the Arts and Humanities: What's Love Got To Do With It? 2023
Duder, C. J. D. Love and the Lions: The Image of White Settlement in Kenya in Popular Fiction, 1919-1939 1991 Kenya, UK, national identity, history, race/ethnicity, Florence Riddell, Nora K. Strange, trash/literary and or intellectual quality, fascism/right-wing authoritarianism
Dudovitz, Resa L. The Myth of Superwoman: Women's Bestsellers in France and the United States 1990 France, United States of America, historical romance, Harlequin Mills & Boon
Dugger, Julie M. “I’m a Feminist, But…” Popular Romance in the Women’s Literature Classroom 2014 feminism, teaching romance, readers, Jane Austen, trash/literary and or intellectual quality
Dulong, Delphine; Neveu, Erik; Guionnet, Christine Boys Don't Cry! Les coûts de la domination masculine 2012
Dummer, Kathleen Ann A study of character development of main characters in young adult category romance literature 1990 YA/teenage romance, trash/literary and or intellectual quality
DeVries, Susan; Dunlop, Margaret; Goopy, Suzanne; Moyle, Wendy; Sutherland‐Lockhart, Diane Discipline and passion: meaning, masochism and mythology in popular medical romances 1995 medical romance, history, work, emotions, sex/sexuality, health/medical, death, family, settings, gender, BDSM, Harlequin Mills & Boon
Dunnion, Janne May Mapping Normalcy: Romance and the Postmodern Body 1997 Harlequin Mills & Boon
Duranti, Daniela Le soglie del genere: identità femminile e modelli semiotici nel paratesto editoriale 2008 gender, paratext
Dutton, Lucie Bea A reluctant movie? The Reluctant Widow on screen 2021 Georgette Heyer, film/movies
Duvezin-Caubet, Caroline Gaily Ever After: Neo-Victorian M/M Genre Romance for the Twenty-First Century 2020 m/m romance, K. J. Charles, Cat Sebastian, Georgette Heyer, happy ending, LGBT+ characters, readers and/or authors, historical romance, gender, race/ethnicity, Publishing, family
Aravind, G. S.; Dwivedi, Laxmi Dhar The Representation of Female Characters in the Romances of Hawthorne: A Comparison with the Popular Romance Fiction of America in the Twentieth Century 2021 feminism
Dyhouse, Carol Hearthrobs: A History of Women and Desire 2017 gender, sex/sexuality, Charles Garvice, E. M. Hull, Georgette Heyer, Barbara Cartland, race/ethnicity
Gymnich, Marion; Dyka, Susanne Falling in love with vs. sich verlieben in: a corpus-based analysis of English and German romance novels 2020 linguistics, love
Dymock, Alex Flogging sexual transgression: Interrogating the costs of the ‘Fifty Shades effect’ 2013 Fifty Shades, chick lit, capitalism/business, sex/sexuality, BDSM
Ebert, Teresa L. Language/Sexuality/Power in Harlequin Romances 1986 Harlequin Mills & Boon, sex/sexuality
Ebert, Teresa L. The Romance of Patriarchy: Ideology, Subjectivity, and Postmodern Feminist Cultural Theory 1988 gender, capitalism/business, work, Harlequin Mills & Boon, feminism, readers, Sarah James, Janet Dailey
Ebert, Teresa L. Romance Novels, Class and Abu Ghraib 2006 capitalism/business, war/armed forces, rape and/or intimate partner violence/abuse, social/economic class, Elizabeth Lowell, romantic suspense, Mary Jo Putney, Linda Howard, Suzanne Brockmann
Ebert, Teresa L. The Task of Cultural Critique 2009 capitalism/business, social/economic class, chick lit, Elizabeth Lowell
Ebert, Teresa L. Hegel's “picture-thinking” as the interpretive logic of the popular 2014 capitalism/business, social/economic class, religion/spirituality, Linda Howard, philosophy, emotions
Cassuto, Leonard; Eby, Clare Virginia; Reiss, Benjamin The Cambridge History of the American Novel 2011
Eco, Umberto; Federzoni, Marina; Pezzini, Isabella; Pozzato, Maria Pia Carolina Invernizio, Matilde Serao, Liala 1979 Liala, pen name of Amalia Liana Cambiasi Negretti Odescalchi
Eden, Edward; Goertz, Dee Carol Shields, Narrative Hunger, and the Possibilities of Fiction 2003
Edlins, Mariglynn Superhero, Sleeping Beauty, or Devil? The Making of Orphan Myths and Public Administration 2016 family, emotions
Edmondson, Belinda Caribbean Romances: The Politics of Regional Representation 1999
Edmondson, Belinda The Black Romance 2007 African American romance, Older and/or precursor texts (may not be "romance" as now defined), sex/sexuality, race/ethnicity, Frances Watkins Harper, Caribbean, film/movies, social/economic class, national identity
Edwards, Holly Noble Dreams, Wicked Pleasures: Orientalism in America, 1870-1930 2000
Edwin, Shirin Privately Empowered: Expressing Feminism in Islam in Northern Nigerian Fiction 2016 feminism, Islam, Nigeria, Hauwa Ali, religion/spirituality
Egan, Jesi Cultural Futurity and the Politics of Recovery: Mary Renault's Ambivalent Romances 2016 Mary Renault, romance and, or as, activism, genre definitions, sex/sexuality, UK, national identity, health/medical, trash/literary and or intellectual quality, gender, emotions, modernism, LGBT+ characters, readers and/or authors
Egilsdatter Sleire, Maria “Only I shall taste your body’s joys:” The Erotic Function of Female Corporeality in The Flame and the Flower and Fifty Shades of Grey 2021 Fifty Shades, Kathleen Woodiwiss, pornography, sex/sexuality, virginity, rape and/or intimate partner violence/abuse
Ehnenn, Jill Desperately Seeking Susan Among the Trash: Reinscription, Subversion and Visibility in the Lesbian Romance Novel 1998 lesbian romance, LGBT+ characters, readers and/or authors, readers, trash/literary and or intellectual quality, sex/sexuality, family
Nilson, Maria; Ehriander, Helene Love in a Cold Climate? Teaching Popular Romance at a Swedish University 2020 teaching romance, Sweden, Simona Ahrnstedt, Harlequin Mills & Boon, chick lit
Eickelman, Dale F.; Anderson, Jon W. New Media in the Muslim World: The Emerging Public Sphere 1999