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Author Title Publication year Topic
Luneau, Marie-Pier; Warren, Jean-Philippe; Boivin, Karol'Ann; Bérubé, Harold Amour à 10 sous: Le roman sentimental québécois de l'après-guerre 2023 Older and/or precursor texts (may not be "romance" as now defined), Canada, dime novels
Burnett, Ann; Beto, Rhea Reinhardt Reading Romance Novels: An Application of Parasocial Relationship Theory 2000 readers, psychology
Bédard-Cazabon, Hélène; Bettinotti, Julia; Provost, Christiane Harlequin: Quand l'amour est une guerre 1983 Harlequin Mills & Boon, Janet Dailey, Anne Hampson, Charlotte Lamb, Anne Mather, Violet Winspear, gender, love
Bettinotti, Julia; Bédard-Cazabon, Hélène; Gagnon, Jocelyn; Noizet, Pascale; Provost, Christiane La corrida de l'amour: Le Roman Harlequin 1986 Harlequin Mills & Boon, Publishing, gender, settings, marriage, trash/literary and or intellectual quality, paratext, family, Janet Dailey, Charlotte Lamb, sex/sexuality, work
Bettinotti, Julia; Lizé, Claude Les stratégies de dévalorisation de la littérature populaire: l’exemple du roman Harlequin 1986 Harlequin Mills & Boon
Bettinotti, Julia; Noizet, Pascale Le récit en littérature populaire: répétition et invention dans le roman d’amour 1989 Harlequin Mills & Boon, Delly, sheikh romance
Bettinotti, Julia Les débuts du roman Harlequin : l’année 1949 1989 Harlequin Mills & Boon
Bettinotti, Julia Répétition et invention dans le roman d'amour: L'Evolution des collections Harlequin 1990 Harlequin Mills & Boon
Bettinotti, Julia; Noizet, Pascale Ægritudo amoris : le topos d’un piège somato-physiologique 1990 love
Bettinotti, Julia; Bleton, Paul Le mauvais goût, ça s'apprend 1992 readers
Bettinotti, Julia Un Harlequin de A à Z: création ou production industrielle? 1992 Harlequin Mills & Boon, trash/literary and or intellectual quality
Bettinotti, Julia; Bérard, Sylvie Quand Éros flirte avec Thanatos. La perception de la mort dans le roman Harlequin 1993 Harlequin Mills & Boon, death
Bettinotti, Julia Crime et châtiment dans l'oeuvre de Delly: une lecture "gothique" 1994 Delly, gothic romance
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
Bettinotti, Julia Crime et châtiment dans l’oeuvre de Delly: une lecture ‘gothique’ 1995 Delly, gothic romance
Bettinotti, Julia; Noizet, Pascale Guimauve et fleurs d’oranger: Delly 1995 Delly
Bettinotti, Julia Medieval romances in today's popular culture: The feminist in the castle 1996 historical romance, history, Laurie Grant, Arnette Lamb, feminism, gender
Bettinotti, Julia; Savoie, Chantal Du bon sauvage au beau sauvage : un roman d’amour "politically correct" 1997 United States of America, Native American romance
Bettinotti, Julia; Truel, Marie-Françoise Lust and Dust: Desert Fabula in Romances and Media 1997 sheikh romance, E. M. Hull
Bettinotti, Julia; Truel, Marie-Françoise Lust and Dust: voyages de femmes, roman d’amour ou les enjeux d’une fabula 1997 E. M. Hull, sheikh romance
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 Lecture sérielle et roman sentimental 1998 readers
Bettinotti, Julia Re-imagining the Gold Rush; Prospectors, Log Cabins and Mail-Order Brides in Contemporary Western Romances 1998 settings, historical romance, Canada, United States of America, Ana Seymour, Kristin Hannah, history
Bettinotti, Julia; des Rivières, Marie-José Un élargissement du canon littéraire : le cas du roman d'amour 2000 romance scholarship, feminism, readers
Bettinotti, Julia; Jeannesson, Gaëlle; Truel, Marie-Françoise Séries, suites et redites en culture médiatique 2002 sheikh romance, E. M. Hull, Johanna Lindsey, trash/literary and or intellectual quality
Betz, Phyllis M. Lesbian Romance Novels: A History and Critical Analysis 2009 lesbian romance, Older and/or precursor texts (may not be "romance" as now defined), sex/sexuality, Isabel Miller, Jane Rule, Katherine V. Forrest, settings, social/economic class, community, Radclyffe/Len Barot, Karin Kallmaker, Jennifer Fulton, readers, LGBTQ+ characters, readers and/or authors
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), LGBTQ+ characters, readers and/or authors
Beyer, Jennifer Ann Perry The romance novel revolution: a study of criticisms and readers 2000 readers
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
Beyer, Charlotte Decolonising the Literature Curriculum 2022
Sabino, Rosimeri Ferraz; Bezerra, Antônio Ponciano Romance-folhetim em tela: linguagem, personagens e sentidos sociais 2020 Brazil, Faith Baldwin, gender, film/movies
Bharathi, L. Divya; Muthuraman, K. Nicholas Charles Sparks’s The Notebook: A Novel Of Love Or Romance? 2023 Nicholas Sparks, genre definitions, happy ending
Bhasin, Neeta Romancing the 'Illegal' Immigrant 2018 Serena Bell, race/ethnicity, United States of America, social/economic class, gender, sex/sexuality, languages, readers
Bhat, Shilpa Daithota Diasporic Inquiries into South Asian Women’s Narratives: Alien Domiciles 2020
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
Bianchi, Diana I gentiluomini si prendono per la gola: cibo e identità nei romanzi di Georgette Heyer 2017 Georgette Heyer, historical romance
Bigey, Magali Corpus et diachronie: de la constitution au traitement. Un cas d’espèce: le roman sentimental moderne 2006 linguistics
Bigey, Magali Rencontres en séries. Matériel romanesque, lecteurs et lexique : une analyse du roman sentimental de type sériel (1942-2004) 2007 readers, linguistics
Bigey, Magali Stratégies narratives et mises en scène lexicales du roman sentimental sériel contemporain: l'auteure, le corps et les sentiments 2008 genre definitions, linguistics, emotions
Bigey, Magali Discorde et règlements de comptes autour du romanesque sentimental: une analyse de blogs 2010 readers
Bigey, Magali Entre répétition lexicale et répétition narrative: les procédés imposés du roman sentimental de type sériel 2010 linguistics
Bigey, Magali; Olivier, Séverine Ils aiment le roman sentimental et alors? Lecteurs d'un 'mauvais genre', des lecteurs en danger? 2010 feminism, trash/literary and or intellectual quality, readers, rape and/or intimate partner violence/abuse, linguistics
Bigey, Magali Romances en séries, amour toujours et marketing 2012 Publishing, France, readers, Harlequin Mills & Boon, paratext
Bigey, Magali Réflexions sur l’amour et analyse de réception : La rencontre amoureuse dans les romans sériels et au prisme du lectorat 2017
Rader, Kara; Hovick, Shelly R.; Bigsby, Elisabeth “Are You Clean?” Encouraging STI Communication in Casual Encounters through Narrative Messages in Romance Novels 2021 sex/sexuality, health/medical, psychology, readers
Billekens, Franciska Never Mind Me When There’s You: The Submission Of The Heroine In Young Adult Supernatural Romance Fiction 2019 YA/teenage romance, gender, paranormal/fantasy/time-travel romance
Billekens, Franciska The Editor and Translator's Passionate Embrace: Cultural and Linguistic Alterations in Translated Harlequin Category Romance Novels 2021 Harlequin Mills & Boon, paratext, translation, linguistics
Bilodeau, Isabelle How Romance Translators Write Themselves and Their Readers into Afterwords 2022 paratext, translation, Japan
Birch, David; O’Toole, Michael Functions of Style 1988
Bird, S. Elizabeth Dressing in Feathers: The Construction of the Indian in American Popular Culture 1996
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
Birthisel, Jessica The Good, the Bad, and the Kinky: Erotic Romance Writing in a Post-Fifty Shades of Grey Landscape 2020 erotic romance, Fifty Shades, authors, sex/sexuality, Publishing, BDSM
Bissessar, Ann Marie; Huggins, Camille Gender and Domestic Violence in the Caribbean 2021
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
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
Allen, Margaret; Blackburn, Jean; Johnson, Carol; King, Margaret; Mackinnon, Alison All Her Labours: Embroidering the Framework 1984
Blake, Susan L. What "Race" is the Sheik?: Rereading a Desert Romance 2003 E. M. Hull, rape and/or intimate partner violence/abuse, race/ethnicity, history, marriage, gender, sheikh romance
Blanding, Cristen Interracial romance novels and the resolution of racial difference 2005 race/ethnicity, African American romance
Blanshard, Alastair J.L.; Stafford, Emma The Modern Hercules: Images of the Hero from the Nineteenth to the Early Twenty-First Century 2020
Bleton, Paul; Bonaccorsi, Robert Cahiers pour la littérature populaire. Recherches québécoises 1986
Bettinotti, Julia; Bleton, Paul Le mauvais goût, ça s'apprend 1992 readers
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
Bleton, Paul Armes, larmes, charmes: sérialité et paralittérature 1995
Bleton, Paul; Saint-German, Richard Les hauts et les bas de l'imaginaire western dans la culture médiatique 1997
Bleton, Paul Amours, aventures et mystères ou : les romans qu’on ne peut pas lâcher 1998
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
Caland, Fabienne Claire; Rouby, Bertrand; Bleton, Paul L'amour au temps du roman 2015 Older and/or precursor texts (may not be "romance" as now defined), Harlequin Mills & Boon, Delly, Max du Veuzit, Magali, pen name of Jeanne Philbert, Barbara Cartland
Blodgett, Jan Protestant Evangelical Literary Culture and Contemporary Society 1997 Christian romance, religion/spirituality, Janette Oke, rural romance, historical romance, Hilda Stahl, Leonora Pruner, Leslie Holden, Lurlene McDaniel, Mary LaPietra
Day, Gary; Bloom, Clive Perspectives on Pornography: Sexuality in Film and Literature 1988
Bloom, Clive Bestsellers: Popular Fiction Since 1900 2002 UK, readers, Publishing, Older and/or precursor texts (may not be "romance" as now defined), Florence Barclay, Marie Corelli, Charles Garvice, Elinor Glyn, Baroness Orczy, Effie Adelaide Rowlands, also known as Madame Albanesi, Berta Ruck, Ethel M. Dell, Ruby M. Ayres, Jeffrey Farnol, E. M. Hull, Rafael Sabatini, Daphne du Maurier, Georgette Heyer, Margaret Mitchell, Mary Renault, Jackie Collins, Victoria Holt/Jean Plaidy/Eleanor Burford Hibbert, Barbara Taylor Bradford, Barbara Cartland, Catherine Cookson, Charlotte Lamb, Penny Jordan/Caroline Courtney, M. M. Kaye, Colleen McCullough, Danielle Steel, Phyllis A. Whitney
Bloom, Clive The Palgrave Handbook of Contemporary Gothic 2020
Blouin, Michael J. Mass-Market Fiction and the Crisis of American Liberalism, 1972–2017 2018 family, social/economic class, work, capitalism/business
Bly, Mary On Popular Romance, J. R. Ward, and the Limits of Genre Study 2012 J. R. Ward, fashion/clothing, gender, United States of America, war/armed forces, sex/sexuality, LGBTQ+ characters, readers and/or authors, Suzanne Brockmann
Arthur, Paul Longley; Bode, Katherine Advancing Digital Humanities: Research, Methods, Theories 2014
Böhmová, Petra Contemporary American Christian Fiction: Young and Rivers 2012 Francine Rivers, Christian romance
Boisvert, Anik Le roman historique sentimental: le cas des « J'ai lu » 2009 historical romance, Jane Feather, Lisa Kleypas, gender
Boivin, Karol'Ann; Luneau, Marie-Pier Qu’ont en commun Mimi Estival, Roxanne d’Avril et Georgette Mars? Auctorialité et roman sentimental québécois de l’après guerre (1944-1965) 2021 Canada, authors, Publishing, dime novels
Boivin, Karol'Ann Jeune fille moderne, jeune fille instruite. L’instruction des héroïnes sentimentales chez Police Journal (1944-1965) 2022 Canada, dime novels, Older and/or precursor texts (may not be "romance" as now defined), work
Luneau, Marie-Pier; Warren, Jean-Philippe; Boivin, Karol'Ann; Bérubé, Harold Amour à 10 sous: Le roman sentimental québécois de l'après-guerre 2023 Older and/or precursor texts (may not be "romance" as now defined), Canada, dime novels
Bold, Rudolph Trash in the Library 1980 readers, trash/literary and or intellectual quality, Harlequin Mills & Boon
Bleton, Paul; Bonaccorsi, Robert Cahiers pour la littérature populaire. Recherches québécoises 1986
Bonciarelli, Sarah Reading women’s fiction. Liala’s novels between uniqueness and standardization 2012 Liala, pen name of Amalia Liana Cambiasi Negretti Odescalchi, Publishing
Bonelli, María Valentina La virgen desollada: la perdida de la virginidad en las novelas de Corín Tellado durante el franquismo 2012 Corín Tellado, sex/sexuality, virginity
Boni, Tanella L’éducation sentimentale selon Adoras 2003 Africa
Bontly, Susan W.; Sheridan, Carol J. Enchanted Journeys Beyond the Imagination: An Annotated Bibliography of Fantasy, Futuristic, Supernatural, and Time Travel Romances 1996 paranormal/fantasy/time-travel romance
Booth, Sandra Marie Remaking the "Angel" and "Monster": ethical shifts in the contemporary popular romance 1996 feminism, paranormal/fantasy/time-travel romance, contemporary romance
Booth, Sandra Paradox in Popular Romances of the 1990s: The Paranormal versus Feminist Humor 1997 paranormal/fantasy/time-travel romance, rom-com romance, gender, rape and/or intimate partner violence/abuse, Nora Roberts/J. D. Robb, Mallory Rush, Maggie Shayne, Rebecca Flanders, Jennifer Crusie, feminism, Beverly Sommers
Booth, Naomi Good Vibrations: Shaken Subjects and the Disintegrative Romance Heroine 2015 Samuel Richardson, Thomas Hardy, Bram Stoker, Fifty Shades, food, drink, BDSM
Bordoni, Carlo Il romanzo senza qualità: sociologia del nuovo rosa 1984 sociology
Borgia, Danielle N. Twilight: The Glamorization of Abuse, Codependency, and White Privilege 2014 paranormal/fantasy/time-travel romance, Twilight, gender, rape and/or intimate partner violence/abuse, race/ethnicity, religion/spirituality
Borham-Puyal, Miriam; Sánchez, Jorge Diego; García-Pérez, María-Isabel Documentando la memoria cultural: las mujeres en las (auto)narraciones exocanónicas 2020
Dixon, Peter; Bortolussi, Marisa Readers' Knowledge of Popular Genre 2009 psychology, genre definitions, readers, emotions
Botts, Amber Cavewoman Impulses: The Jungian Shadow Archetype in Popular Romantic Fiction 1999 gender, feminism, psychology, sex/sexuality, emotions, readers
Bouchard, Pierrette Les romans Harlequin et Cie : plus que du rêve 1980 Harlequin Mills & Boon, feminism
Boulet, Yvan Ces petits romans si agréables à lire 1983 Harlequin Mills & Boon, Anne Mather, linguistics, trash/literary and or intellectual quality
Linz, Cathie; Bouricius, Ann; Byrnes, Carole Exploring the World of Romance Novels 1995 libraries/librarians, paranormal/fantasy/time-travel romance, Publishing, paratext, race/ethnicity, trash/literary and or intellectual quality
Charles, John; Mosley, Shelley; Bouricius, Ann Romancing the YA Reader 1999 libraries/librarians
Bouricius, Ann The Romance Readers' Advisory: The Librarian's Guide to Love in the Stacks 2000 libraries/librarians, genre definitions
Boussahba-Bravard, Myriam Le roman sentimental Regency, entre continuités et ruptures (2000-2020) 2021 historical romance
Bowman, Barbara Victoria Holt's Gothic Romances: A Structuralist Inquiry 1983 Victoria Holt/Jean Plaidy/Eleanor Burford Hibbert, gothic romance
Bowring, Joanna; O’Brien, Margaret The Art of Romance: Mills & Boon and Harlequin Cover Designs 2008 Harlequin Mills & Boon, paratext
Brackett, Kim Pettigrew Facework Strategies Among Romance Fiction Readers 2000 psychology, readers, paratext
Bradford, Robin The Readers’ Advisory Guide to Romance 2023 libraries/librarians
Bradford, Clare Monsters: Monstrous Identities in Young Adult Romance 2013 YA/teenage romance, paranormal/fantasy/time-travel romance, race/ethnicity, family
Sharma, Vishal; Bray, Kirsten E.; Kumar, Neha; Grinter, Rebecca E. Romancing the Algorithm: Navigating Constantly, Frequently, and Silently Changing Algorithms for Digital Work 2022 Publishing, authors
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
Breeden, Amanda L. Neo romance: gender renegotiation in Harlequin romance novels 2007 gender, Harlequin Mills & Boon
Brenner, Suzanne Holy matrimony?: The print politics of polygamy in Indonesia 2011 Habiburrahman El-Shirazy, marriage, Indonesia, Islam, Muslim romance
Breslin, Carol Ann Medieval Magic and Witchcraft in the Popular Romance Novel 1999 religion/spirituality, historical romance, history, Jude Deveraux, Elizabeth Lowell, Arnette Lamb
Brickman, Barbara Jane; Jermyn, Deborah; Trost, Theodore Louis Love Across the Atlantic: US-UK Romance in Popular Culture 2020
Piatti-Farnell, Lorna; Brien, Donna Lee New Directions in 21st Century Gothic: The Gothic Compass 2015
Hernández, María Beatriz; Brito, Manuel; Monterrey, Tomás Broadening Horizons: A Peak Panorama of English Studies in Spain 2018
Basu, Balaka; Broad, Katherine R.; Hintz, Carrie Contemporary Dystopian Fiction for Young Adults: Brave New Teenagers 2013
Broad, Katherine R. “The Dandelion in the Spring”: Utopia as Romance in Suzanne Collins’s The Hunger Games Trilogy 2013 YA/teenage romance, Suzanne Collins, war/armed forces, family, gender, feminism
Brock, Alexander; Pflaeging, Jana; Schildhauer, Peter Genre Emergence: Developments in Print, TV and Digital Media 2019
Brodbeck, Liselotte Roman als Ware: Zur Analyse der Liebesromanhefte 1974 Germany
Brodesco, Alberto Harmony: L’amore in edicola 2009 Publishing, Italy, Harlequin Mills & Boon
Del Grosso Destreri, Luigi; Brodesco, Alberto; Giovanetti, Silvia; Zanatta, Sara Una galassia rosa: Ricerche sulla letteratura femminile di consumo 2009
Bronstein, Carolyn The Political Uses of Lesbian Romance Fiction: Reading Patrick Califia’s Macho Sluts as a Response to 1980s Anti-Pornography Feminism 2014 BDSM, LGBTQ+ characters, readers and/or authors, Patrick Califia
Brooker, Will; Jermyn, Deborah The Audience Studies Reader 2002
Brooks, Ann The Routledge Companion to Romantic Love 2022 love
Brouillette, Sarah Romance Work 2019 Publishing, readers, capitalism/business
Browder, Laura Dystopian Romance: True Crime and the Female Reader 2006 rape and/or intimate partner violence/abuse
Brown, Sonya C. Does This Book Make Me Look Fat? 2011 readers, health/medical, fashion/clothing, food, drink, Susan Donovan, Cathie Linz, Eloisa James, paratext, Jennifer Crusie, fat, fatness
Brown, Lisa L. Recovering the reader: literary theory, mass culture, and the modern romance 1990 readers
Brown, Julie Ethnicity and the American Short Story 1997
Brown, Fahamisha Patricia Anita Richmond Bunkley 2008 Anita Richmond Bunkley, African American romance, historical romance, race/ethnicity, romantic suspense, history
Brown, Fahamisha Patricia Beverly Jenkins 2008 Beverly Jenkins, historical romance, African American romance, history, romantic suspense, race/ethnicity
Brown, Eleanor M.  Romance Novel of One's Own: The Nature and "Failure" of the Lesbian Romance Sub-Genre 2001 LGBTQ+ characters, readers and/or authors, paratext, Katherine V. Forrest, Diana Simmonds, Marianne K. Martin, Karin Kallmaker, sex/sexuality
Schell, Heather; Brown, Ann K. G. Romancelandia on Twitter: Designing a Digital Humanities Research Assignment for First-Year Writing Students 2018 teaching romance, authors
Browne, Ray B.; Fishwick, Marshall W. The Hero in Transition 1983
Browne, Pat Heroines of Popular Culture 1987
Brumme, Jenny; Espunya, Anna The Translation of Fictive Dialogue 2012
Brunet, Peyton; Davis, Blair Comic Book Women: Characters, Creators, and Culture in the Golden Age 2022 comics/manga, African American romance, LGBTQ+ characters, readers and/or authors
Bruni, Domenica Love, sex, and language: Gender differences in sexual fantasizing and evolutionary evidence from storytelling evolutionary psychology
Brunt, Rosalind A Career in Love: The Romantic World of Barbara Cartland 1984 Barbara Cartland, social/economic class, gender, religion/spirituality, Ethel M. Dell, Elinor Glyn, virginity
Bruttini, Adriano; Marucci, Franco La performance del testo: atti del VII Congresso Nazionale dell'Associazione Italiana di Anglistica (A.I.A.), Siena, 2-4 Novembre 1984 1986
Bruyère, Claire La place du roman sentimental dans les pratiques culturelles de ses lectrices dans les États-Unis d’aujourd’hui 1990 readers, United States of America
Bruyère, Claire Pour le meilleur et pour le pire : critères d’évaluation des romans d’amour contemporains (romances) aux États-Unis 1992 United States of America, trash/literary and or intellectual quality
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
Bryce, Jane 'A World of Caribbean Romance': Reformulating the Legend of Love (or: 'Can a Caress Be Culturally Specific?') 1994 Caribbean, Harlequin Mills & Boon, social/economic class, gender, rape and/or intimate partner violence/abuse, Valerie Belgrave, race/ethnicity, settings, community, sex/sexuality
Bryce, Jane Women & Modern African Popular Fiction 1997 Africa, trash/literary and or intellectual quality, sex/sexuality, gender, religion/spirituality
Bryson, Mary Public Library Services to the Romance Reader: An Online Survey of Romance Readers 2004 libraries/librarians
Santa, Angels; Buard, Jean-Luc Delly romancière 2011 Delly
Buard, Jean-Luc; Santa, Angels L’Œuvre de Delly 2011 Delly
Buchanan, Nancy L. Selection Tools for Popular Romances 1993 libraries/librarians
Buckingham, David Reading Audiences: Young People and the Media 1993
Pereira, Simone Luci; das Neves, Thiago Tavares; Budag, Fernanda Elouise Comunicação e Culturas Urbanas: temas, debates e perspectivas 2021
Bun, Jennifer C. The Effects of Romance Novel Readership on Relationship Beliefs, Romantic Ideals, and Relational Satisfaction 2007 readers, psychology
Burg, Jacob Houses of Genre Fiction: The Shared Estrangement of Postwar American Culture 2020 settings, Kathleen Woodiwiss, Helen Hoang, rape and/or intimate partner violence/abuse, social/economic class, Danielle Steel, work, family, sex/sexuality, disability
Burge, Amy Desiring the east: a comparative study of Middle English romance and modern popular sheikh romance 2012 sheikh romance, war/armed forces, religion/spirituality, race/ethnicity, gender, fashion/clothing
Burge, Amy Do Knights Still Rescue Damsels in Distress?: Reimagining the Medieval in the Mills & Boon Historical Romance 2012 history, Harlequin Mills & Boon, paratext, social/economic class, religion/spirituality, food, drink, fashion/clothing, sex/sexuality, rape and/or intimate partner violence/abuse, war/armed forces, gender
Burge, Amy ‘For you are a man and she is a maid’: Performing masculinity in Orientalist medieval and modern popular romance fiction 2014 sheikh romance, Older and/or precursor texts (may not be "romance" as now defined), gender, Harlequin Mills & Boon, settings, fashion/clothing
Burge, Amy Representing Difference in the Medieval and Modern Orientalist Romance 2016 Older and/or precursor texts (may not be "romance" as now defined), sheikh romance, history, gender, race/ethnicity, sex/sexuality, settings, UK, fashion/clothing, Harlequin Mills & Boon, virginity, rape and/or intimate partner violence/abuse
Burge, Amy ‘I Will Cut Myself and Smear Blood on the Sheet’: Testing Virginity in Medieval and Modern Orientalist Romance 2016 sex/sexuality, history, Older and/or precursor texts (may not be "romance" as now defined), sheikh romance, gender, Harlequin Mills & Boon, virginity
Burge, Amy Introduction to the special issue on The Sheik 2020 sheikh romance, E. M. Hull
Burge, Amy; Robinson, Rachel Review essay on The Sheik 2020 E. M. Hull, sheikh romance, romance scholarship
Burge, Amy Class and wealth in popular romance fiction 2021 social/economic class, wealth/prosperity, gender, work, race/ethnicity, capitalism/business
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
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
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
Burge, Amy A decolonised alpha hero? Negotiating masculinities in Nigerian romance novels 2024 Nigeria, Africa, gender
Burge, Amy Marriage migration, intimacy and genre in Helen Hoang’s The Bride Test (2019) and Brigitte Bautista’s You, Me, U.S. (2019) 2024 marriage, love, Helen Hoang, Brigitte Bautista, Vietnam, Philippines, United States of America, LGBTQ+ characters, readers and/or authors, rape and/or intimate partner violence/abuse
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
Burke, Nicola Mills and Fur: Feminism and Femininity in the Supernatural Romance 2020 Older and/or precursor texts (may not be "romance" as now defined), fairytales/folktales, YA/teenage romance, paranormal/fantasy/time-travel romance, sex/sexuality, animals, food, drink, gender, Jackson Pearce, Ivy Devlin, Sarah Blakley-Cartwright, Maggie Stiefvater
Burley, Stephanie Carol Hearts of Darkness: The Racial Politics of Popular Romance 2003 race/ethnicity, B. J. James, Native American romance, Dara Joy, Sandra Kitt, science fiction/futuristic romance, African American romance
Burley, Stephanie Shadows and Silhouettes: The Racial Politics of Category Romance 2000 Harlequin Mills & Boon, race/ethnicity, B. J. James, Scotland, gender, United States of America
Burley, Stephanie What's a Nice Girl like You Doing in a Book like This?: Homoerotic Reading and Popular Romance 2003 sex/sexuality, readers, Karen Robards, Kristin Hannah, virginity, BDSM, LGBTQ+ characters, readers and/or authors
Burnett, Hannah Eisler Shame game: Romance novels and feminist shame, a mad lib for collective feeling 2013 readers
Burnett, Ann; Beto, Rhea Reinhardt Reading Romance Novels: An Application of Parasocial Relationship Theory 2000 readers, psychology
Burnside, Mary Elizabeth The novels of Mills and Boon in the post-war period 1996 Harlequin Mills & Boon
Burrows, J. F. Computation Into Criticism: A Study of Jane Austen's Novels and an Experiment in Method 1987 linguistics, Jane Austen, Georgette Heyer
Burt, Richard Shakespeare after Mass Media 2002
Burton, Antoinette After the Imperial Turn: Thinking with and through the Nation 2003
Hellekson, Karen; Busse, Kristina Fan Fiction and Fan Communities in the Age of the Internet: New Essays 2006
Buttrick, Nicholas; Westgate, Erin C.; Oishi, Shigehiro Reading Literary Fiction Is Associated With a More Complex Worldview 2022 psychology, readers, trash/literary and or intellectual quality
Byatt, A. S. An Honourable Escape: Georgette Heyer 1969 Georgette Heyer, A. S. Byatt, Baroness Orczy, Jane Austen, social/economic class, fashion/clothing, history
Byatt, A. S. Passions of the Mind: Selected Writings 1991
Linz, Cathie; Bouricius, Ann; Byrnes, Carole Exploring the World of Romance Novels 1995 libraries/librarians, paranormal/fantasy/time-travel romance, Publishing, paratext, race/ethnicity, trash/literary and or intellectual quality
Armstrong, Jane; Byrski, Liz; Merrick, Helen Love works: Reading and writing romance in the twenty-first century 2014 readers, authors
Bywaters, Barbara Lee 'Re-reading Jane': Jane Austen's legacy to twentieth-century women writers 1989 Jane Austen, Georgette Heyer
Bywaters, Barbara Decentering the Romance: Jane Austen, Georgette Heyer, and Popular Romance Fiction 2001 Jane Austen, Georgette Heyer
Ménard, A. Dana; Cabrera, Christine ‘Whatever the Approach, Tab B Still Fits into Slot A’: Twenty Years of Sex Scripts in Romance Novels 2011 sex/sexuality, psychology
Cabrera, Christine; Ménard, Amy Dana 'She Exploded into a Million Pieces': A Qualitative and Quantitative Analysis of Orgasms in Contemporary Romance Novels 2013 sex/sexuality, psychology
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Cabrera Infante, Guillermo Una inocente pornógrafa. Manes y desmanes de Corín Tellado 1975 Corín Tellado
Cadet, Christiane Roman sentimental ou histoire de sentiments 1986 France, Publishing, teaching romance
Cadogan, Mary And Then Their Hearts Stood Still: An Exuberant Look at Romantic Fiction Past and Present 1994 Older and/or precursor texts (may not be "romance" as now defined), Victoria Holt/Jean Plaidy/Eleanor Burford Hibbert, Mary Stewart, M. M. Kaye, Charlotte M. Yonge, Augusta Jane Evans, Rhoda Broughton, Marie Corelli, Florence Barclay, Annie S. Swan, Barbara Cartland, Judith McNaught, Mary Webb, Ouida, Rita, pen name of Mrs. Eliza Margaret Humphreys, Elinor Glyn, Ethel M. Dell, romances in magazines and newspapers, Charlotte Brontë, war/armed forces, disability, Daphne du Maurier, Colleen McCullough, E. M. Hull, Violet Winspear, Flora Annie Steel, Berta Ruck, Georgette Heyer, Jane Aiken Hodge, Sylvia Andrews, Anthony Hope, Baroness Orczy, Margaret Mitchell, Mabel Barnes Grundy, Ruby M. Ayres, Denise Robins, Maysie Greig, Mary Lutyens/Esther Wyndham, Roberta Leigh/Rachel Lindsay, Radclyffe Hall, Janet Dailey, Lucilla Andrews, Jane Arbor, Caroline Anderson
Suleiman, Michael W.; Joseph, Suad; Cainkar, Louise Arab American Women: Representation and Refusal 2021
Caland, Fabienne Claire; Rouby, Bertrand; Bleton, Paul L'amour au temps du roman 2015 Older and/or precursor texts (may not be "romance" as now defined), Harlequin Mills & Boon, Delly, Max du Veuzit, Magali, pen name of Jeanne Philbert, Barbara Cartland
Calhoun-French, Diane M. "New" Women in Old Stories: Silhouette "Intimate Moments" 1987 work
Calhoun-French, Diane M. Time-Travel and Related Phenomena in Contemporary Popular Romance Fiction 1999 paranormal/fantasy/time-travel romance, gender, historical romance, Constance O'Day Flannery, Jo Ann Simon, Heather Graham, religion/spirituality, sex/sexuality, Jayne Ann Krentz/Amanda Quick/Jayne Castle, rape and/or intimate partner violence/abuse
Calhoun-French, Diane M. Of Love and Death: Murder and Mayhem Meet the Romance 2000 romantic suspense
Cameron, Lauren The Romance Publishing Industry and Its Reputation 2020 trash/literary and or intellectual quality, gender, feminism, readers, authors
Çamoğlu, Dikmen Yakalı Re/Presenting Gender and Love 2019
Velasquez, Diane L.; Campbell-Meier, Jennifer Romance Genre and Collection Management in Australia and New Zealand Public Libraries 2024 libraries/librarians, Australia, New Zealand
Cannatella, Bonnie M. The "Demon lover" : female psychology and the alter ego in the romance and gothic novel of the nineteenth and twentieth centuries 1988 gothic romance
Cothran, Casey A.; Cannon, Mercy New Perspectives on Detective Fiction: Mystery Magnified 2016
Cannon, Emanni N Contemporary Romance and the Question of Literary Value 2022 trash/literary and or intellectual quality, Jane Austen, Georgette Heyer, Colleen Hoover
Cantor, Muriel G. Popular culture and the portrayal of women: Content and control 1987 sociology, gender, sex/sexuality
Cantor, Muriel G. Writing Fiction as Women's Work 1989 authors, Publishing, feminism, sociology
Capelle, Annick Harlequin Romances in Western Europe: The Cultural Interactions of Romantic Literature 1996 Harlequin Mills & Boon
Capps, Stephanie Carol What You Read and What You Believe: Genre Exposure and Beliefs about Relationships 2017 readers, gender, sex/sexuality, psychology, love
Strehle, Susan; Carden, Mary Paniccia Doubled Plots: Romance and History 2003
Carlos, Giovana Santana Fandom e mercado literário: um mapa das mediações das fãs de romance no contexto brasileiro 2019 readers, Brazil, Publishing
Carlos, Giovana Santana Literatura pop feminina: as fãs de romance no Brasil 2021 Brazil, readers, paratext
Carmichael, Lynne Patricia A romantic past : a study of historical romance as a form of recreational fiction in public libraries 1985 historical romance, libraries/librarians
Carmichael, Lynne Romantic fiction: a neglected area of research 1988 libraries/librarians, romance scholarship
Carmona González, Ángeles Corín Tellado: el erotismo rosa 2002 Corín Tellado
Carpan, Carolyn Rocked by Romance: A Guide to Teen Romance Fiction 2004 YA/teenage romance, libraries/librarians, genre definitions, contemporary romance, paranormal/fantasy/time-travel romance, romantic suspense, Christian romance
Carpan, Carolyn Sisters, Schoolgirls, and Sleuths: Girls' Series Books in America 2009 YA/teenage romance
Carr, Helen From My Guy to Sci-Fi: Genre and Women's Writing in the Postmodern World 1989
Alpalhão, Margarida Santos; Carreto, Carlos F. Clamote; Dias, Isabel de Barros O jogo do mundo: ensaios sobre o imaginário lúdico 2017
Carroll, Noël The Paradox of Junk Fiction 1994 philosophy, trash/literary and or intellectual quality, Leigh Michaels, Betty Neels
Carroll, Joseph; McAdams, Dan P.; Wilson, Edward O. Darwin's Bridge: Uniting the Humanities and Sciences 2016
Cart, Michael From Romance to Realism: 50 Years of Growth and Change in Young Adult Literature 1996 YA/teenage romance, Betty Cavanna, Rosamond du Jardin, Mary Stolz
Carter, Ellen Asexual Romance in an Allosexual World: How Ace-Spectrum Characters (and Authors) Create Space for Romantic Love 2020 LGBTQ+ characters, readers and/or authors, sex/sexuality, love
Carter, Ellen Eating Disorders and Romance 2022 food, drink, health/medical, Jenny B. Jones, Courtney Milan, M. B. Mulhall, Janette Kenny, Katherine Locke
Carter, Ellen What's in a name? A corpus study of phonological differences between gay and straight romance heroes' names 2022 LGBTQ+ characters, readers and/or authors, gender, linguistics
Carter, David; Galligan, Anne Making Books: Contemporary Australian Publishing 2007
Driscoll, Beth; Fletcher, Lisa; Wilkins, Kim; Carter, David The Publishing Ecosystems of Contemporary Australian Genre Fiction 2018 Publishing, Australia
Carter, David The Cambridge History of the Australian Novel 2023
Carter, Catherine Poverty, Payment, Power: Kathleen Thompson Norris and Popular Romance 2008 Kathleen Thompson Norris, Older and/or precursor texts (may not be "romance" as now defined), marriage, work, social/economic class, capitalism/business, virginity, gender
Larson, Christine; Carter, Ashley Love is love: Reverse isomorphism and the rise of LGBTQ+ romance publishing 2023 Publishing, LGBTQ+ characters, readers and/or authors
Casey, Janet G. Teaching Tainted Lit: Popular American Fiction in Today's Classroom 2015
Cassiday, Julie A. A World Without Safe Words: Fifty Shades of Russian Grey 2020 Russia, Alisa Klever/Tatiana Vedenska, Fifty Shades, BDSM, national identity, romantic suspense, rape and/or intimate partner violence/abuse, sex/sexuality
Cassuto, Leonard; Eby, Clare Virginia; Reiss, Benjamin The Cambridge History of the American Novel 2011
Castagna, JoAnn; Radespiel, Robin L. Making Rape Romantic: A Study of Rosemary Rogers' "Steve and Ginny" Novels 1990 rape and/or intimate partner violence/abuse, Rosemary Rogers, paratext, historical romance, feminism, sex/sexuality, gender
Caton, Steven C. The Sheik: Instabilities of Race and Gender in Transatlantic Popular Culture of the Early 1920s 2000 E. M. Hull, United States of America, UK, race/ethnicity, settings, gender, history, rape and/or intimate partner violence/abuse
Cawelti, John G. Adventure, Mystery, and Romance: Formula Stories as Art and Popular Culture 1976 genre definitions, trash/literary and or intellectual quality
Cawelti, John Romance: The Once and Future Queen 1978 Older and/or precursor texts (may not be "romance" as now defined), gothic romance, Harlequin Mills & Boon, Roberta Leigh/Rachel Lindsay, Phyllis A. Whitney
Cecil, Mirabel Heroines in Love 1750-1974 1974 romances in magazines and newspapers, Older and/or precursor texts (may not be "romance" as now defined)
Cella, Laurie J. C. The Personal and the Political in American Working-Class Literature, 1850-1939: Defining the Radical Romance 2019 gender, history, United States of America, Older and/or precursor texts (may not be "romance" as now defined), Laura Jean Libbey, sex/sexuality, work, fashion/clothing, social/economic class, socialism and/or communism
Cenarro, Ángela Carmen de Icaza: Novela rosa y fascismo 2010 Carmen de Icaza, fascism/right-wing authoritarianism, Spain
Centro di documentazione ricerca e iniziativa delle donne, Intorno al rosa 1987
Zaragoza Ninet, Gora; Martínez Sierra, Juan José; Cerezo Merchán, Beatriz; Richart Marset, Mabel Traducción, género y censura en la literatura y en los medios de comunicación 2018
Steiner, Peter; Červenka, Miroslav; Vroon, Ronald The Structure of the Literary Process Studies dedicated to the Memory of Felix Vodička 1982
Chakrabarti, Reema; Singh, Rajni Gender Stereotypes and Feminist Strokes: Negotiating the Spaces in Mills and Boon 2016 Harlequin Mills & Boon, Sandra Marton, Riya Lakhani, Tessa Radley, gender, feminism
Chandra, Elizabeth Blossoming Dahlia: Chinese Women Novelists in Colonial Indonesia 2015 Indonesia, Older and/or precursor texts (may not be "romance" as now defined), marriage, gender, history, family, race/ethnicity
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, LGBTQ+ characters, readers and/or authors
Chappel, Deborah K. American romances: narratives of culture and identity 1991 Jude Deveraux, LaVyrle Spencer, Janet Dailey, Older and/or precursor texts (may not be "romance" as now defined), Kathleen Winsor, Margaret Mitchell, E. D. E. N. Southworth
Chappel, Deborah K. LaVyrle Spencer and the Anti-Essentialist Argument 1997 LaVyrle Spencer, feminism, food, drink, sex/sexuality, LGBTQ+ characters, readers and/or authors
Mosley, Shelley; Charles, John; Havir, Julie The Librarian as Effete Snob: Why Romance? 1995 libraries/librarians, Ginger Chambers
Charles, John; Mosley, Shelley; Bouricius, Ann Romancing the YA Reader 1999 libraries/librarians
Charles, John; Mosley, Shelley Getting Serious about Romance: Adult Series Romances for Teens 2002 libraries/librarians, Harlequin Mills & Boon
Charles, John; Linz, Cathie Romancing Your Readers: How Public Libraries Can Become More Romance Reader Friendly 2005 libraries/librarians, emotions, paratext
Charles, John; Mosley, Shelley Romance Today: An A-to-Z Guide to Contemporary American Romance Writers 2007 Shana Abé, Cherry Adair, Catherine Anderson, Judith Arnold, Adele Ashworth, Patti Berg, Elizabeth Bevarly, Rosanne Bittner, Stephanie Bond, Elizabeth Boyle, Pamela Britton, Suzanne Brockmann, Connie Brockway, Lisa Cach, Laurie Schnebly Campbell, Susannah Carleton, Liz Carlyle, Emily Carmichael, Maureen Child, Jennifer Crusie, Claudia Dain, Geralyn Dawson, Eileen Dreyer/Kathleen Korbel, Alice Duncan, Elisabeth Fairchild, Diane Farr, Colleen Faulkner, Jo Ann Ferguson, Christine Flynn, Gaelen Foley, Gwynne Forster, Lori Foster, Roz Denny Fox, Barbara Freethy, Judith E. French, Patricia Gaffney, Lisa Gardner, Roberta Gellis, Tess Gerritsen, Rachel Gibson, Elizabeth Grayson, Jennifer Greene/Jeanne Grant/Jessica Massey/Alison Hart, Leigh Greenwood, Shirley Hailstock, Robin Lee Hatcher, Lorraine Heath, Candice Hern, Sandra Hill, Vicki Hinze, Kate Huntington, Eloisa James, Susan Johnson, Nicole Jordan, Julie Kenner, Lynn Kerstan, April Kihlstrom, Sandra Kitt, Patricia Knoll, Betina Krahn, Jayne Ann Krentz/Amanda Quick/Jayne Castle, Susan Krinard, Leslie LaFoy, Jill Marie Landis, Cathie Linz, Merline Lovelace, Katie MacAlister, Debbie Macomber, Annette Mahon, Sandra Marton, Amanda McCabe, Judi McCoy, May McGoldrick, Teresa Medeiros, Linda Lael Miller, Mary Alice Monroe, Brenda Novak, Janeen O'Kerry, Kayla Perrin, Carly Phillips, Susan Elizabeth Phillips, Lisa Plumley, Mary Jo Putney, Tara Taylor Quinn, Francis Ray, Jaclyn Reding, Emilie Richards, Evelyn Richardson, Nora Roberts/J. D. Robb, Lauren Royal, Ruth Wind/Barbara Samuel/Barbara O'Neal, Regina Scott, Kathryn Shay, Christina Skye, Bertrice Small, Tina St. John, Deb Stover, Sharon Swann, Vicki Lewis Thompson, Jane Toombs, Pat Warren, Sherri WhiteFeather, Susan Wiggs, Rebecca York
Charlton, Michael Till Death Do Us Part: Romancing the Stone, Death Becomes Her, and the Romance Genre 2020 film/movies
Legallois, Dominique; Charnois, Thierry; Poibeau, Thierry Repérer les clichés dans les romans sentimentaux grâce à la méthode des ‘motifs’ 2016 trash/literary and or intellectual quality, Harlequin Mills & Boon, linguistics
Chaves, Duarte Nuno Memoria e Identidade Insular: Religiosidade, Festividades e Turismo nos Arquipélagos da Madeira e Açores 2019