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Rannaud, Adrien Désirs d’amour, magazine et culture moyenne chez Gabrielle Roy. Autour de trois nouvelles sentimentales publiées dans La Revue moderne en 1940 2022 romances in magazines and newspapers, Gabrielle Roy
Morrison, Kevin A.; Rantala, Pälvi Historical Research, Creative Writing, and the Past: Methods of Knowing 2023
Rao, Sathya Genres populaires et «érographiques» en Afrique francophone: le cas des romans de la collection Adoras 2009 Africa, Publishing, settings
Rapp, Adrian; Dodgen, Lynda; Kaler, Anne K. A Romance Writer Gets Away with Murder 2000 Sandra Brown, romantic suspense, death
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
Rashid, Hussein; Petersen, Kristian The Bloomsbury Handbook of Muslims and Popular Culture 2023
Rastier, François; Ballabriga, Michel Corpus en Lettres et Sciences sociales : des documents numériques à l'interprétation, Actes du colloque international d'Albi, juillet 2006 2007
Rata, Georgeta Linguistic Studies of Human Language 2013
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
Raub, Patricia Issues of Passion and Power in E. M. Hull's The Sheik 1992 E. M. Hull, sex/sexuality, United States of America, history, gender, Older and/or precursor texts (may not be "romance" as now defined), Elinor Glyn, Harlequin Mills & Boon
Raub, Patricia Yesterday's Stories: Popular Women's Novels of the Twenties and Thirties 1994 Older and/or precursor texts (may not be "romance" as now defined), Temple Bailey, Kathleen Thompson Norris, E. M. Hull, Gene Stratton-Porter, Viña Delmar, sex/sexuality, marriage, family, work, Dorothy Canfield, United States of America, history, Faith Baldwin, fashion/clothing, Daphne du Maurier, Margaret Mitchell, gender
Raw, Laurence The Silk Road of Adaptation: Transformations across Disciplines and Cultures 2013
Raymundo, Sarah Jane S. In the Concrete Now: Investigating Feminist Challenges to Popular Romance Production 2004 Philippines, feminism, gender, Joi Barrios, Lualhati Bautista
Rayner, Samantha J.; Wilkins, Kim Georgette Heyer, History, and Historical Fiction 2021 Georgette Heyer
Rayner, Samantha J.; Wilkins, Kim Introduction: the persistence of Georgette Heyer 2021 Georgette Heyer
Larson, Christine; Ready, Elspeth Networking down: Networks, innovation, and relational labor in digital book publishing 2022 authors, Publishing
Reed, Eleanor Domestic Culture in Woman's Weekly, 1918-1958 2018 history, social/economic class, romances in magazines and newspapers, Older and/or precursor texts (may not be "romance" as now defined), UK
Reed, Eleanor Romance in Woman’s Weekly and Woman’s Weekly as Romance, 1918–39 2020 romances in magazines and newspapers, social/economic class, UK, readers, work
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
Reep, Diana The Rescue And Romance: Popular Novels Before World War I 1982 Older and/or precursor texts (may not be "romance" as now defined), United States of America, gender, race/ethnicity, social/economic class
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
Reeves, Anne R. Adolescents Talk about Reading: Exploring Resistance to and Engagement with Text 2004 readers
Regan, Lisa Women and the 'War Machine' in the Desert Romances of E. M. Hull and Rosita Forbes 2017 E. M. Hull, UK, war/armed forces, national identity
Regis, Pamela Complicating Romances and their Readers: Barrier and Point of Ritual Death in Nora Roberts's Category Fiction 1997 Nora Roberts/J. D. Robb, romance scholarship, genre definitions
Regis, Pamela A Natural History of the Romance Novel 2003 genre definitions, trash/literary and or intellectual quality, Samuel Richardson, Jane Austen, Older and/or precursor texts (may not be "romance" as now defined), Charlotte Brontë, Anthony Trollope, E. M. Forster, Georgette Heyer, Mary Stewart, Harlequin Mills & Boon, Janet Dailey, Jayne Ann Krentz/Amanda Quick/Jayne Castle, Nora Roberts/J. D. Robb, rape and/or intimate partner violence/abuse, E. M. Hull
Regis, Pamela Female genre fiction in the twentieth century 2011 genre definitions, Samuel Richardson, Older and/or precursor texts (may not be "romance" as now defined), E. D. E. N. Southworth, religion/spirituality, Kathleen Thompson Norris, Faith Baldwin, Claire Morgan/Patricia Highsmith, LGBTQ+ characters, readers and/or authors, Kathleen Woodiwiss, Jennifer Crusie, Beverly Jenkins, Ann Herendeen, Nora Roberts/J. D. Robb, marriage
Regis, Pamela What Do Critics Owe the Romance? Keynote Address at the Second Annual Conference of the International Association for the Study of Popular Romance 2011 feminism, trash/literary and or intellectual quality, pornography, readers, emotions, romance scholarship
Regis, Pamela Pamela Crosses the Atlantic; or, Pamela Andrews's Story Inaugurates the American Romance Novel 2016 Samuel Richardson, United States of America
Regis, Pamela The evolution of the American romance novel 2021 United States of America, Older and/or precursor texts (may not be "romance" as now defined), romance scholarship, Charles Brockden Brown, Sukey Vickery, Catharine Maria Sedgwick, Lydia Maria Child, E. D. E. N. Southworth, Louisa May Alcott, Frances Watkins Harper, race/ethnicity, Onoto Watanna/Winnifred Eaton, Jean Webster, Kathleen Thompson Norris, Viña Delmar, family, Claire Morgan/Patricia Highsmith, LGBTQ+ characters, readers and/or authors
Reid, Charlotte A Cursory Visit of Inspection to Annie S. Swan 1990 Annie S. Swan
Reid Boyd, Elizabeth Romancing feminism: From women’s studies to women’s fiction 2014 feminism, love, readers, Elizabeth Reid Boyd (pen name Eliza Redgold)
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
Reid-Walsh, Jacqueline Adolescent Girls' Romance Fiction: Contemporary Conduct Books? 1993 YA/teenage romance, readers, Older and/or precursor texts (may not be "romance" as now defined), gender
Peukert, Christian; Reimers, Imke Digital Disintermediation and Efficiency in the Market for Ideas 2018 Publishing
Cassuto, Leonard; Eby, Clare Virginia; Reiss, Benjamin The Cambridge History of the American Novel 2011
Reitemeier, Rebecca Romance Novels and Higher Education 2019 Older and/or precursor texts (may not be "romance" as now defined), feminism, readers, psychology, teaching romance
Rempel, Valerie Gale “The soft white strong hand of God”: Gender and the expression of evangelical piety in the religious fiction of Grace Livingston Hill, 1897–1948 2003 Grace Livingston Hill, Christian romance, religion/spirituality, gender, marriage, family
Frantz, Sarah S. G.; Rennhak, Katharina Women Constructing Men: Female Novelists and their Male Characters, 1750-2000 2009
Reuter, Yves Le roman sentimental: système de personnages et circulation sociale de la thématique amoureuse 1990 love, gender, genre definitions
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
Hedrick, Donald; Reynolds, Bryan Shakespeare without Class: Misappropriations of Cultural Capital 2000
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
Rholetter, Wylene Nora Roberts 2008 Nora Roberts/J. D. Robb, rape and/or intimate partner violence/abuse, family, romantic suspense, feminism, work, Janet Dailey, fairytales/folktales, paranormal/fantasy/time-travel romance, Harlequin Mills & Boon
Riba, Caterina; Sanmartí, Carme La traducción de literatura sentimental entre 1920 y 1960. El rosario de Florence Barclay: versiones, adaptaciones y censura 2018 Florence Barclay, translation, Spain
Riba, Caterina; Sanmartí, Carme The Reception of Elinor Glyn's Work in Spain (1926–57) 2018 Elinor Glyn, Spain, Rafael Pérez y Pérez, religion/spirituality, sex/sexuality
Riba, Caterina; Sanmartí, Carme Semblanza de La Novela Rosa (Barcelona, 1924-1937, Madrid, 1939-1948) 2021 Publishing, translation, Spain, Older and/or precursor texts (may not be "romance" as now defined)
Riba Sanmartí, Caterina; Sanmartí Roset, Carme Censura moral en la novela rosa. El caso de Elinor Glyn. 2017 Elinor Glyn, Spain, fascism/right-wing authoritarianism, translation, Older and/or precursor texts (may not be "romance" as now defined)
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
Richaudeau, François La galaxie Harlequin, des auteurs et des romans 1986 Harlequin Mills & Boon, linguistics, translation, Margaret Rome, Delly, Barbara Cartland, metaphor/symbolism
Riche, Martha Farnsworth Why Romance Novels Are Like the Rustbelt 1986 readers, Publishing
Richey, Weston (Loves) Me, (Loves) Me Not: Unbuilding of Selfhood in the Romance of the Present 2023 readers, LGBTQ+ characters, readers and/or authors, gender, psychology, Kris Ripper
Richey, Emily Southern Charmed: The Stigma Surrounding the Contemporary Romance Novel 2024
Richlin, Amy Pornography and Representation in Greece and Rome 1992
Ricker-Wilson, Carol Busting Textual Bodices: Gender, Reading, and the Popular Romance 1999 gender, Danielle Steel, readers, feminism, work, social/economic class, trash/literary and or intellectual quality
Rigato, Ayşegül From Private to Public: #Bookstagram as a Safe Space for Romance Readers 2025 readers
Cook, Jennifer R.; Rostosky, Sharon S.; Riggle, Ellen D. B. Gender Role Models in Fictional Novels for Emerging Adult Lesbians 2013 YA/teenage romance, LGBTQ+ characters, readers and/or authors
Rihoit, Catherine Regards de femmes 1984 Harlequin Mills & Boon, readers
Rimmer, Abi Can I have a side hustle as a doctor? 2024 Fearne Hill
Ripoll Fonollar, Mariana Wording deeds: the figure of the suffragette in contemporary british fiction 2023 feminism, historical romance, Katie MacAlister, Courtney Milan, Evie Dunmore
Ripoll Fonollar, Mariana Suffragette Historical Romances: Re-Purposing Women’s Suffrage in a Postfeminist Context 2024 historical romance
Riseman, Noah Intimatopias and the queering of Australian war fiction 2020 Australia, history, war/armed forces, m/m romance, LGBTQ+ characters, readers and/or authors
Suárez Coalla, Paquita; Rivera Valdés, Sonia; Íñigo, Ainoa Repercusión de la lectura y otras formas de arte en nuestra vida y nuestra obra: Memorias del VII coloquio de LART, Centro Español de Manhattan, Nueva York, 26-28 de octubre de 2016 2018
Rix, Robert W. “Love in the Clouds”: Barbara Cartland’s Religious Romances 2009 Barbara Cartland, religion/spirituality, love, gender, Christian romance, Marie Corelli, Ethel M. Dell
Rizkyane Machmuri, Alya; Nurulaen, Yuyun; Priyawan, Pepen Romance Formula in Zoulfa Katouh’s Novel As Long As The Lemon Trees Grow 2025 Zoulfa Katouh
Roach, David A Very British Affair – The Best of Classic Romance Comics 2023 comics/manga, UK
Roach, Catherine M. Getting a Good Man to Love: Popular Romance Fiction and the Problem of Patriarchy 2010 love, religion/spirituality, happy ending, sex/sexuality, BDSM, Maya Banks, Joey W. Hill, J. R. Ward
Roach, Catherine M. 'Going Native': Aca-Fandom and Deep Participant Observation in Popular Romance Studies 2014 authors, romance scholarship
Roach, Catherine M. Happily Ever After: The Romance Story in Popular Culture 2016 authors, religion/spirituality, love, sex/sexuality, Beverly Jenkins, gender, rape and/or intimate partner violence/abuse, genre definitions, BDSM, J. R. Ward, readers, LGBTQ+ characters, readers and/or authors, happy ending, romance scholarship, marriage, pornography, Publishing, feminism
Roach, Catherine M. Love as the Practice of Bondage: Popular Romance Narratives and the Conundrum of Erotic Love 2016 love, BDSM, Beverly Jenkins, James Buchanan, J. R. Ward, gender, LGBTQ+ characters, readers and/or authors, m/m romance
Roach, Catherine M. Erotica 2018 erotic romance, sex/sexuality, pornography, love, LGBTQ+ characters, readers and/or authors, feminism, rape and/or intimate partner violence/abuse, BDSM, Alexis Hall
McCann, Hannah; Roach, Catherine M. Sex and sexuality 2021 sex/sexuality, pornography, feminism, gender
Roach, Catherine M. Fantasy and Desire: From my Mother’s Stack of Trashy Novels to an Experiment in Writing at Field’s Edge 2024 romance scholarship
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
Roberts, Sherron Killingsworth Meet Jessica and Elizabeth from Sweet Valley: Who Are the Female Role Models in Popular Romance Novels for Children? 2002 YA/teenage romance
Roberts, Sherron Killingsworth Twenty-five years and counting of Sweet Valley: Jessica and Elizabeth in romance novels for young children? 2010 YA/teenage romance
Roberts, Gillian Reading between the Borderlines: Cultural Production and Consumption across the 49th Parallel 2018
Robertson, Rachel ‘Driven by Tens’: Obsession and cognitive difference in Toni Jordan’s romantic comedy Addition 2014 disability, Toni Jordan
Robine, Nicole Roman sentimental et jeunes travailleuses 1995 sociology, readers
Burge, Amy; Robinson, Rachel Review essay on The Sheik 2020 E. M. Hull, sheikh romance, romance scholarship
Robinson, Rachel Reading and writing dogs in popular romance fiction 2023 animals
Robinson, Lillian S. Sex, Class, and Culture 1978 historical romance, history, Jane Austen, Georgette Heyer, fashion/clothing, sex/sexuality, social/economic class, gender, trash/literary and or intellectual quality
Roccella, Eugenia La letteratura rosa 1998 Liala, pen name of Amalia Liana Cambiasi Negretti Odescalchi
Roces, Mina Women's Movements and the Filipina 1986-2008 2012 Philippines, feminism, health/medical, family, Lualhati Bautista, Carmen Cabiling
Roche, Emma Women, Violence and Postmillennial Romance Fiction 2023 Twilight, Fifty Shades, feminism, rape and/or intimate partner violence/abuse, capitalism/business
Moruzi, Kristine; Rodgers, Beth; Smith, Michelle J. The Edinburgh History of Children's Periodicals 2024
Rodriguez, Simone Meirelles Leitoras com coração: usos de leitura dos romances sentimentais de massa 2005 Brazil, readers
Yáñez-Bouza, Nuria; Rodríguez-Gil, María E.; Pérez-Guerra, Javier New Horizons in Prescriptivism Research 2024 linguistics
Roger, Isabel M. Recreación crítica de la novela rosa en El cuarto de atrás 1986 metafiction
Rollins, Shannon Marie Crafting women’s narratives: the material impact of twenty-first century romance fiction on contemporary steampunk dress 2019 steampunk, fashion/clothing, gender, Gail Carriger, feminism, race/ethnicity, Adrienne Kress
Roman, Leslie G.; Christian-Smith, Linda K.; Ellsworth, Elizabeth Becoming Feminine: The Politics of Popular Culture 1988
Romera Pintor, Angela Magdalena L’enfance dans l’œuvre de Delly 2019 Delly, family
Romera Pintor, Angela Magdalena Maryan (1847-1927) et le déclassement du roman sentimental 2020 Maryan, pen name of Marie Cadiou, Older and/or precursor texts (may not be "romance" as now defined)
Núñez Cubero, Luis; Romero Pérez, Clara Emociones, cultura y educación: Un enfoque interdisciplinar 2009
Romney, Rebecca The Romance Novel in English: A Survey in Rare Books, 1769-1999 2021 Publishing, Older and/or precursor texts (may not be "romance" as now defined), work, Harlequin Mills & Boon, historical romance, Christian romance, gothic romance, romantic suspense, paranormal/fantasy/time-travel romance, YA/teenage romance, African American romance, LGBTQ+ characters, readers and/or authors, Frances Brooke, Canada, Elizabeth Inchbald, Frances Burney, Sydney Owenson, national identity, Ireland, Ouida, May Agnes Fleming, Laura Jean Libbey, Emma Wolf, religion/spirituality, Judaism, Pauline Hopkins, Onoto Watanna/Winnifred Eaton, Japan, Elinor Glyn, Louise Gerard, Barbara Cartland, Laura Lou Brookman, Kathleen Thompson Norris, romances in magazines and newspapers, Elizabeth Carfrae, Frances Shelley Wees, Lilian Warren as Kathryn Blair/Rosalind Brett/Celine Conway, Jean S. MacLeod/Catherine Airlie, Alice Lent Covert, Joyce Dingwell/Kate Starr, Australia, Faith Baldwin, Mary Renault, medical romance, Mary Burchell, pen name of Ida Cook, Juliet Shore/Anne Vinton, Della Field, pseudonym of Fanny Howe, Janet Dailey, Lydia Maria Child, Charlotte M. Yonge, Mary Johnston, Susa Young Gates, Kathleen Woodiwiss, Rosemary Rogers, June Lund Shiplett, paratext, Jayne Ann Krentz/Amanda Quick/Jayne Castle, science fiction/futuristic romance, Valerie Belgrave, Caribbean, Beverly Jenkins, Jane Austen, Susan Ferrier, Georgette Heyer, Amii Lorin, Nora Roberts/J. D. Robb, Marisa de Zavala/Ana Lisa de Leon/Rachel Scott/Celina Rios Mullan, Sandra Kitt, Maureen Wartski, Augusta Jane Evans, Florence Barclay, Ethel M. Dell, Janette Oke, Beverly Lewis, Charlotte Brontë, Harriet Lewis, Virginia Coffman, Victoria Holt/Jean Plaidy/Eleanor Burford Hibbert, Phyllis A. Whitney, Mary Stewart, Daoma Winston, Chelsea Quinn Yarbro, Rita Clay Estrada, Lori Herter, Jean Webster, Robin McKinley, Tracy West/Joyce McGill/Chassie West, Marie G. Lee, race/ethnicity, Paula Christian, Isabel Miller, Gordon Merrick, Ann Allen Shockley, Vincent Virga, Nancy Garden, Katherine V. Forrest, Loretta Chase, Brenda Jackson
Roper, Holly N. Representing the Romance: Diversity and Inclusion in the Romance Collections of Public Libraries​ 2020 libraries/librarians, disability, race/ethnicity, LGBTQ+ characters, readers and/or authors
Rosanowski, Annika Can She Have It All? Pregnancy Narratives in Contemporary Category Romance 2019 family, gender, Harlequin Mills & Boon, marriage
Rose, Suzanna Is Romance Dysfunctional? 1985 sex/sexuality, gender, psychology, fairytales/folktales, readers
Muram, David; Rosenthal, Ted L.; Tolley, Elizabeth A.; Peeler, Molly M.; Pitts, Bridget Teenage Pregnancy: Dating and Sexual Attitudes 1992 readers, sex/sexuality, race/ethnicity
Rosier, Laurence; Pollet, Marie-Christine Les mauvais genres en classe de français?: Retour sur la question. 2007
Ross, Marlon B. “What’s Love But a Second Hand Emotion?”: Man-on-Man Passion in the Contemporary Black Gay Romance Novel 2013 African American romance, LGBTQ+ characters, readers and/or authors, race/ethnicity, Larry Duplechan, James Earl Hardy, m/m romance, family, E. Lynn Harris
Ross, Catherine Sheldrick Reader on Top: Public Libraries, Pleasure Reading, and Models of Reading 2009 libraries/librarians, readers, trash/literary and or intellectual quality
Ross, Catherine Bourland Carmen de Icaza: Novela rosa as Feminist Discourse? 2005 Carmen de Icaza
Ross, Catherine Bourland Carmen de Icaza: Novela Rosa as Feminist Discourse? 2006 Carmen de Icaza, feminism, Spain, fascism/right-wing authoritarianism, work
Cook, Jennifer R.; Rostosky, Sharon S.; Riggle, Ellen D. B. Gender Role Models in Fictional Novels for Emerging Adult Lesbians 2013 YA/teenage romance, LGBTQ+ characters, readers and/or authors
Flegel, Monica; Roth, Jenny Annihilating love and heterosexuality without women: Romance, generic difference, and queer politics in "Supernatural" fan fiction 2010 fanfiction, LGBTQ+ characters, readers and/or authors
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
Rowe, Simone The Map to Black Love: The Information Behaviours of Black Readers Seeking Romance Books with Black Character Representation 2025 libraries/librarians, readers, race/ethnicity
Roy, Pierre; Pellegrin-Boucher, Estelle Business Model Innovation in Creative and Cultural Industries 2024
Rudisill, Kristen Full-Blooded Desi Romance: Contemporary English-Language Romance Novels in India 2018 India, readers, Publishing, national identity, Harlequin Mills & Boon, family
Nayrou, Félicie; Rudy, Alain La Rencontre: figures du destin 1993
Ruggiero, Josephine A.; Weston, Louise C. Sex-Role Characterization of Women in "Modern Gothic Novels" 1977 gender, gothic romance, feminism, Mary Stewart, Victoria Holt/Jean Plaidy/Eleanor Burford Hibbert, Phyllis A. Whitney, Jane Blackmore, Dorothy Eden, Susan Howatch, Anne Maybury, social/economic class, work, readers
Weston, Louise C.; Ruggiero, Josephine A. Male-Female Relationships in Best-Selling "Modern Gothic" Novels 1978 gothic romance, romantic suspense, gender, Mary Stewart, Victoria Holt/Jean Plaidy/Eleanor Burford Hibbert, Phyllis A. Whitney, Jane Blackmore, Dorothy Eden, Susan Howatch, Anne Maybury
Ruggiero, Josephine A.; Weston, Louise C. Conflicting Images of Women in Romance Novels 1983 gothic romance, historical romance, gender, readers
Zhaboriuk, I. A.; Rukshtel, Yu. A. The Artistic Detail in the Novel "The Reluctant Widow" by G. Heyer 2021 Georgette Heyer, linguistics
Pupipat, Apisak; Rungkaew, Titirut; Meeparp, Lampoon Judging a Book by its Back Cover: Spoken/Informal Register as Found in Happily-Ever-After Women’s Novel Blurbs 2022 linguistics, paratext
Rush, Ramona R.; Allen, Donna Communications at the Crossroads: The Gender Gap Connection 1989
Russ, Joanna Somebody's Trying to Kill Me and I Think It's My Husband: The Modern Gothic 1973 gothic romance, genre definitions, settings, Phyllis A. Whitney, Margaret Summerton, Helen Arvonen, Susan Howatch, Anne Maybury, Dorothy Eden, food, drink, fashion/clothing, sex/sexuality, gender
Russ, Joanna Magic Mommas, Trembling Sisters, Puritans & Perverts: Femininst Essays 1985
Russ, Joanna Pornography By Women For Women, With Love 1985 fanfiction, m/m romance, pornography, readers, gender, sex/sexuality, rape and/or intimate partner violence/abuse, science fiction/futuristic romance
Russell, Shannon Dangerous Young Men: Themes of Female Sexuality and Masculinity in Paranormal Romance Novels for Young Adults 2014 YA/teenage romance, paranormal/fantasy/time-travel romance, sex/sexuality, gender, rape and/or intimate partner violence/abuse
Russo, Stephanie These old shades: Georgette Heyer’s unruly eighteenth century 2022 Georgette Heyer, gender, history, fashion/clothing
Pifarré, Alexandra-Flora; Rutigliano-Daspet, Sandrine Re- Répéter - Répétitions 2010
Ryan, Mary Amongst women: Male romance authors and Irish chick lit author, Andrew O’Connor 2011 authors, gender, chick lit, Andrew O’Connor
Ryden, Wendy Bourgeois Realism or Working Class Kitsch?: The Aesthetics of Class in Composition 2007 trash/literary and or intellectual quality, social/economic class, Karen van der Zee, teaching romance, family, marriage
Ryder, Mary Ellen Smoke and mirrors: Event patterns in the discourse structure of a romance novel 1999 linguistics, Barbara Cartland
Alberti, Paola; Fortunati, Vita; Franci, Giovanna; Galateria, Daria; Mangaroni, Rosella; Pozzato, Maria Pia; Sabbadini, Tiziana; Tempera, Mariangela Maestre d'amore: eroine e scrittrici nell'impero del rosa inglese 1986 UK, Elinor Glyn, E. M. Hull
Sabino, Rosimeri Ferraz; Bezerra, Antônio Ponciano Romance-folhetim em tela: linguagem, personagens e sentidos sociais 2020 Brazil, Faith Baldwin, gender, film/movies
Sabo, Oana Translingualism 2.0 2024 France, linguistics
Sagun, Karryl Kim Abella Book Mavens of Manila: an interpretative phenomenological analysis of contemporary niche publishers in the Philippines 2019 Philippines, Publishing, Mina V. Esguerra
Bleton, Paul; Saint-German, Richard Les hauts et les bas de l'imaginaire western dans la culture médiatique 1997
Saint-Jacques, Denis La recherche sur le roman sentimental au CRELIQ de l'Université de Laval 1990 romance scholarship
Saint-Jacques, Denis; de la Garde, Roger Les pratiques culturelles de grande consommation. Le marché francophone 1992
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
Saint-Jacques, Denis L'acte de lecture 1998
Saint-Jacques, Denis Que vaut la littérature? 2000
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
Salamone, Frank A. Global Cultures 2009
Sales, Roger The Loathsome Lord and the Disdainful Dame: Byron, Cartland and the Regency Romance 1999 Barbara Cartland, historical romance
Salmon, Catherine; Symons, Donald Warrior Lovers: Erotic Fiction, Evolution and Female Sexuality 2003 evolutionary psychology, m/m romance, sex/sexuality
Salmon, Catherine Crossing the Abyss: Erotica and the Intersection of Evolutionary Psychology and Literary Studies 2005 evolutionary psychology, sex/sexuality, feminism, pornography, fanfiction
Salmon, Catherine The Pop Culture of Sex: An Evolutionary Window on the Worlds of Pornography and Romance 2012 evolutionary psychology, pornography, gender, feminism
Salmon, Catherine What Do Romance Novels, Pro Wrestling, and Mack Bolan Have in Common?: Consilience and the Pop Culture of Storytelling 2016 evolutionary psychology
Salter, Anastasia Plundered Hearts: Infocom, Romance, and the History of Feminist Game Design 2020 computer/video/digital games, pirates and outlaws, fashion/clothing, feminism
Salvador Miguel, Nicasio Letras de la España contemporánea. Homenaje a José Luis Varela 1995
Salvador Miguel, Nicasio ¿Hay precedentes de la novela rosa? 1995 Older and/or precursor texts (may not be "romance" as now defined), genre definitions, trash/literary and or intellectual quality
Sama, Lisa Mary Love's Ardent Writer 1982 Barbara Delinsky
Samuel, Barbara The Art of Romance Novels 1997 Ruth Wind/Barbara Samuel/Barbara O'Neal, authors, feminism, emotions, gender, readers
Borham-Puyal, Miriam; Sánchez, Jorge Diego; García-Pérez, María-Isabel Documentando la memoria cultural: las mujeres en las (auto)narraciones exocanónicas 2020
Sánchez Alvarez-Insúa, Alberto Entre la aristocracia y el falangismo: Carmen de Icaza, una escritora falangista representante del fascismo español del primer franquismo y su novela Cristina Guzmán, profesora de idiomas 2009 Carmen de Icaza, Spain, fascism/right-wing authoritarianism
Sánchez Calle, Pilar; Malcolm, David; López-Peláez Casellas, Jesús Masquerades: Disguise in Literature in English from the Middle Ages to the Present 2004
Sánchez Díaz-Aldagalán, Carlos María de la O Lejárragala: imagen de la mujer en su literatura 2018 Spain, feminism, María de la O Lejárragala/ Gregorio Martínez Sierra
Sánchez-Palencia Carazo, Carolina El discurso femenino de la novela rosa en lengua inglesa la mujer como protagonista, autora y lectora del género 1994 gender, authors, readers, genre definitions, Older and/or precursor texts (may not be "romance" as now defined), gothic romance, historical romance, erotic romance, Katherine V. Forrest
Sánchez-Palencia Carazo, Carolina El discurso femenino de la novela rosa en lengua inglesa 1997 gender
Sanconie, Maïca Au-delà du vertige. Mises en abyme ou la traduction des réseaux de clichés dans les romans Harlequin 2001 Harlequin Mills & Boon, translation, emotions
Sanconie, Maïca « Tout un monde d’évasion » : adapter les romans sentimentaux pour un lectorat français 2010 historical romance, translation, settings, Julie Anne Long, Pamela Britton, France, UK, United States of America
Sandbakken, Asta Margrethe Feeling Men: Masculinity, Sexuality, and Emotion in the Contemporary Romance 2016 sex/sexuality, gender, Nora Roberts/J. D. Robb, Susan Elizabeth Phillips, emotions
Sanders, Lise Shapiro Consuming Fantasies: Labor, Leisure, and the London Shopgirl, 1880-1920 2006 social/economic class, history, gender, readers, Older and/or precursor texts (may not be "romance" as now defined), Publishing, romances in magazines and newspapers, work
Sanders, Lise Shapiro Making the Modern Girl: Fantasy, Consumption, and Desire in Romance Weeklies of the 1920s 2018 romances in magazines and newspapers, gender, social/economic class, fashion/clothing, work, Older and/or precursor texts (may not be "romance" as now defined), readers
Sanders, Lise Shapiro Girls Growing Up: Reading ‘Erotic Bloods’ in Interwar Britain 2024 romances in magazines and newspapers, Older and/or precursor texts (may not be "romance" as now defined), readers
Sanders, Lise Shapiro Reading Historical Romance/Reading Romance Historically 2025 historical romance
Riba, Caterina; Sanmartí, Carme La traducción de literatura sentimental entre 1920 y 1960. El rosario de Florence Barclay: versiones, adaptaciones y censura 2018 Florence Barclay, translation, Spain
Riba, Caterina; Sanmartí, Carme The Reception of Elinor Glyn's Work in Spain (1926–57) 2018 Elinor Glyn, Spain, Rafael Pérez y Pérez, religion/spirituality, sex/sexuality
Riba, Caterina; Sanmartí, Carme Semblanza de La Novela Rosa (Barcelona, 1924-1937, Madrid, 1939-1948) 2021 Publishing, translation, Spain, Older and/or precursor texts (may not be "romance" as now defined)
Sanmartí i Roset, Carme; Sanmartí Roset, Montserrat La transmisión de los valores femeninos a través de la lectura (1900-1939) 2008 Spain, readers, gender, religion/spirituality, social/economic class, work, marriage
Sanmartí i Roset, Carme; Sanmartí Roset, Montserrat La transmisión de los valores femeninos a través de la lectura (1900-1939) 2008 Spain, readers, gender, religion/spirituality, social/economic class, work, marriage
Riba Sanmartí, Caterina; Sanmartí Roset, Carme Censura moral en la novela rosa. El caso de Elinor Glyn. 2017 Elinor Glyn, Spain, fascism/right-wing authoritarianism, translation, Older and/or precursor texts (may not be "romance" as now defined)
Sanna, Antonio Pirates in History and Popular Culture 2018 pirates and outlaws, historical romance
Barkman, Adam; Sanna, Antonio A Critical Companion to Robert Zemeckis 2020
Santa, Angels Delly et ses illustrateurs 2011 Delly
Santa, Angels; Buard, Jean-Luc Delly romancière 2011 Delly
Buard, Jean-Luc; Santa, Angels L’Œuvre de Delly 2011 Delly
Santaemilia, José Gender, Sex and Translation: The Manipulation of Identities 2005
Santaulària, M. Isabel The Part of the Iceberg That Doesn’t Show: Romance, Good Husbands, and Mr Julia Child 2023 film/movies, gender, marriage
Martín, Sara; Santaulària, M. Isabel Detoxing Masculinity in Anglophone Literature and Culture: In Search of Good Men 2024
Santaulària, Isabel The Fallacy of Eternal Love: Romance, Vampires and the Deconstruction of Love in Linda Lael Miller's Forever and the Night and For All Eternity 2002 paranormal/fantasy/time-travel romance, death, happy ending, Linda Lael Miller, gender, religion/spirituality
Allan, Jonathan A.; Santos, Cristina; Spahr, Adriana Virgin Envy: The Cultural Insignificance of the Hymen 2016
Anita,; Nababan, Mangatur Rudolf; Santosa, Riyadi; Wibowo, Agus Hari Shift on Functions of Sexual Euphemisms in English-Indonesian Translation of Duke of Her Own by Eloisa James 2020 translation, sex/sexuality, Indonesia, Eloisa James
Sanyal, Madhuparna Re-imagining the late-colonial Anglo-Indian woman's romance: Reading Maud Diver 2008 Maud Diver, India, UK, race/ethnicity, Older and/or precursor texts (may not be "romance" as now defined)
Priya, S Vishnu; Saravanan, P Exploring Gender Roles in Nora Roberts’ Northern Lights: A Critical Analysis 2025 gender, Nora Roberts/J. D. Robb
Wyatt, Neal; Olsen, Georgine; Ramsdell, Kristin; Saricks, Joyce; Welch, Lynne Core Collections in Genre Studies: Romance Fiction 101 2007 libraries/librarians, historical romance, romantic suspense, paranormal/fantasy/time-travel romance, genre definitions
Sarwal, Amit; Sarwal, Reema Reading Down Under: Australian Literary Studies Reader 2009
Sarwal, Amit; Sarwal, Reema Reading Down Under: Australian Literary Studies Reader 2009
Johnson-Woods, Toni; Sarwal, Amit Sold by the Millions: Australia's Bestsellers 2012
Satoh, Kyoko Ideologically Constructed Intimacy: Personal Address in Japanese Romance Novels 2013 Japan, linguistics, love
Saunders, Corinne A Companion to Romance: From Classical to Contemporary 2004
Savchuk, O. H.; Marchenko, N. M. The concept of LOVE and its conceptualization in modern English romance novels 2018 love, metaphor/symbolism, linguistics
Savinainen, Raija Gender-specific features of male/female interaction in a popular romantic novel by Barbara Cartland 2001 linguistics, Barbara Cartland, 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
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
Desmet, Christy; Sawyer, Robert Shakespeare and Appropriation 1999
Saxena, Vandana Memory and Nation-Building: World War II in Malaysian Literature 2022 Malaysia, Noel Barber
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
Harrow, Sharon R.; Saxton, Kirsten T. Adapting the Eighteenth Century: A Handbook of Pedagogies and Practices 2020
Sceats, Sarah; Cunningham, Gail Image & Power: Women in Fiction in the Twentieth Century 1996
Hiergeist, Teresa; Schäfer, Stefanie Ladies in Arms: Women, Guns, and Feminisms in Contemporary Popular Culture 2024 feminism
Schalk, Sami Happily Ever After for Whom? Blackness and Disability in Romance Narratives 2016 disability, race/ethnicity, sex/sexuality, African American romance, Gwynne Forster, gender, war/armed forces, N. K. Jemisin, paranormal/fantasy/time-travel romance
Schell, Heather The Big Bad Wolf: Masculinity and Genetics in Popular Culture 2007 animals, health/medical, gender, evolutionary psychology, paranormal/fantasy/time-travel romance
Schell, Heather The Love Life of a Fact 2011 gender, evolutionary psychology, authors, feminism, romance scholarship, sex/sexuality, animals, Linda Howard, paranormal/fantasy/time-travel romance
Schell, Heather Bringing the Mid-West to the Middle-East: An Analysis of a Harlequin Romance in English and Turkish 2013 translation, Harlequin Mills & Boon, Turkey, Shirley Jump, readers, family, social/economic class, gender
Schell, Heather; Brown, Ann K. G. Romancelandia on Twitter: Designing a Digital Humanities Research Assignment for First-Year Writing Students 2018 teaching romance, authors
Schell, Heather; Larsen, Katherine How the Story Ends: Gender, Sexuality, and Nation in the Happy Ending 2019 happy ending, Sonali Dev, Radclyffe/Len Barot, United States of America, gender, trash/literary and or intellectual quality
Schell, Heather After “I Do”: Turkish Harlequin Readers Re-Imagine the Happy Ending 2020 Turkey, Harlequin Mills & Boon, happy ending, Shirley Jump, family, readers, love, work
Schiffman, Leon G.; Schnaars, Steven P. The Consumption of Historical Romance Novels: Consumer Aesthetics in Popular Literature 1981 historical romance, Publishing, readers
Brock, Alexander; Pflaeging, Jana; Schildhauer, Peter Genre Emergence: Developments in Print, TV and Digital Media 2019
Schiffman, Leon G.; Schnaars, Steven P. The Consumption of Historical Romance Novels: Consumer Aesthetics in Popular Literature 1981 historical romance, Publishing, readers
Schoene, Berthold The Edinburgh Companion to Contemporary Scottish Literature 2007
Jandl, Ingeborg; Knaller, Susanne; Schönfellner, Sabine; Tockner, Gudrun Writing Emotions: Theoretical Concepts and Selected Case Studies in Literature 2017
Schopp, Claude Delly. Les Trois châteaux d’Ourida 2011 Delly
Schulmann-Darsy, Louise Mr. Darcy as the Perfect Book Boyfriend, or the Impact of BookTok on Male Characters in Romance Books 2025 Jane Austen, gender
Schultz Nybacka, Pamela Bookonomy: The Consumption Practice and Value of Book Reading 2011 Sweden, Harlequin Mills & Boon, readers, trash/literary and or intellectual quality, Publishing
Sullivan, Larry E.; Schurman, Lydia Cushman Pioneers, Passionate Ladies, and Private Eyes: Dime Novels, Series Books, and Paperbacks 1996
Schurman, Lydia Cushman; Johnson, Deidre Scorned Literature: Essays on the History and Criticism of Popular Mass-Produced Fiction in America 2002
Schwab, Sandra Martina Of Dragons, Knights, and Virgin Maidens: Dragonslaying and Gender Roles from Richard Johnson to Modern Popular Fiction 2013 historical romance, Teresa Medeiros, Gaelen Foley, Stephanie Laurens, metaphor/symbolism, genre definitions, Harlequin Mills & Boon, happy ending, Sandra Schwab, gender, Penelope Williamson, animals, Julia Ross, virginity, romance scholarship
Schwab, Sandra “It Is Only with One’s Heart That One Can See Clearly”: The Loss of Sight in Teresa Medeiros’s The Bride and the Beast and Yours until Dawn 2012 disability, Teresa Medeiros, metaphor/symbolism, fairytales/folktales, settings, Charlotte Brontë, myth
Gilmour, Rachael; Schwarz, Bill End of Empire and the English Novel since 1945 2011
Teo, Hsu-Ming; Schwegler-Castañer, Astrid Post/Colonial Nostalgia and Melancholia in Dinah Jefferies' The Tea Planter's Wife and Before the Rains * 2025 India, Sri Lanka, history, historical romance, race/ethnicity, Dinah Jefferies
Scott, Alison M. Romance in the Stacks; or, Popular Romance Fiction Imperiled 2002 libraries/librarians, trash/literary and or intellectual quality, romance scholarship
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
Seale, Maura "I find some Hindu practices like burning widows, utterly bizarre": Representations of Sati and Questions of Choice in Veils of Silk 2007 Mary Jo Putney, India, historical romance, feminism, race/ethnicity, gender, religion/spirituality, death, family, marriage
Secrease, Cassandra L A comparative analysis of lesbian romance novels and heterosexual romance novel themes 2000 LGBTQ+ characters, readers and/or authors, Karin Kallmaker, Peggy Herring, Lyn Denison, Katherine V. Forrest, Diana Simmonds
Alcala Gonzalez, Antonio; Sederholm, Carl H. Lovecraft in the 21st Century: Dead, But Still Dreaming 2022
Seidel, Kathleen Gilles Judge Me by the Joy I Bring 1992 readers, happy ending, love, settings, emotions, feminism
Seifert, Christine Virginity in Young Adult Literature after Twilight 2015 YA/teenage romance, paranormal/fantasy/time-travel romance, sex/sexuality, virginity, Twilight, contemporary romance
Seifrit, Rachel Joy Come Out, Come Out, Wherever You Are: Sexuality and Gender Exploration in Contemporary Slash Fanfiction 2021 LGBTQ+ characters, readers and/or authors, fanfiction, gender, sex/sexuality
Selinger, Margaret “Midsummer Nights’ Affaires:” Shakespeare in the Work of Eloisa James 2021 Eloisa James, Shakespeare, trash/literary and or intellectual quality, gender
Selinger, Eric Murphy Foils and Fakers, Monsters and Makers 2006 Georgette Heyer, Eloisa James, A. S. Byatt
Selinger, Eric Murphy Rereading the Romance 2007 romance scholarship
Selinger, Eric Murphy How to Read a Romance Novel (and Fall in Love with Popular Romance) 2012 close reading, trash/literary and or intellectual quality, Laura Kinsale, marriage, Milton, disability, religion/spirituality, love
Selinger, Eric Murphy; Frantz, Sarah S. G. Introduction: New Approaches to Popular Romance Fiction 2012 Loretta Chase, romance scholarship
Frantz, Sarah S. G.; Selinger, Eric Murphy New Approaches to Popular Romance Fiction: Critical Essays 2012
Selinger, Eric Murphy Nothing But Good Times Ahead: A Special Forum on Jennifer Crusie (Editor’s Introduction) 2012 Jennifer Crusie, romance scholarship, marriage, family, feminism
Moore, Kate; Selinger, Eric Murphy The Heroine as Reader, the Reader as Heroine: Jennifer Crusie’s Welcome to Temptation 2012 Jennifer Crusie, readers, metafiction, romance scholarship, sex/sexuality, marriage
Selinger, Eric Murphy My Metatextual Romance: Thinking With (and About) Jaane Tu Ya Janne Na 2014 film/movies, metafiction
Selinger, Eric Murphy An Interview with Susan Elizabeth Phillips 2015 Susan Elizabeth Phillips, rape and/or intimate partner violence/abuse, romance scholarship, United States of America, religion/spirituality, authors
Selinger, Eric Murphy Erotica: romance novels 2015 genre definitions
Selinger, Eric Murphy; Gleason, William A. Introduction: Love as the Practice of Freedom? 2016 genre definitions, Nell Stark, romance scholarship
Gleason, William A.; Selinger, Eric Murphy Romance Fiction and American Culture: Love as the Practice of Freedom? 2016
Frantz Lyons, Sarah; Selinger, Eric Murphy Strange Stirrings, Strange Yearnings: The Flame and the Flower, Sweet Savage Love, and the Lost Diversities of Blockbuster Historical Romance 2016 historical romance, Kathleen Woodiwiss, feminism, sex/sexuality, Rosemary Rogers, rape and/or intimate partner violence/abuse, United States of America
Selinger, Eric Murphy When I Paint My Masterpiece: Bob Dylan, Ekphrasis, and the Art of Susan Elizabeth Phillips 2016 Susan Elizabeth Phillips, metafiction, close reading, trash/literary and or intellectual quality, gender, music
Selinger, Eric Murphy Use Heart in Your (Re)Search: The Invitations of Popular Romance 2018 teaching romance, readers, Sherry Thomas, trash/literary and or intellectual quality, romance scholarship
Selinger, Eric Murphy On Teaching, Not Teaching, and Teaching The Sheik 2020 teaching romance, E. M. Hull, music, race/ethnicity
Kamblé, Jayashree; Selinger, Eric Murphy; Teo, Hsu-Ming Introduction 2021 romance scholarship
Selinger, Eric Murphy Literary approaches 2021 trash/literary and or intellectual quality, romance scholarship
Selinger, Eric Murphy; Vivanco, Laura Romance and/as religion 2021 religion/spirituality, love, history, happy ending, Christian romance, Judaism, Islam, Buddhism, Hinduism, Paganism/Wicca, Jennifer Crusie
Kamblé, Jayashree; Selinger, Eric Murphy; Teo, Hsu-Ming The Routledge Research Companion to Popular Romance Fiction 2021 romance scholarship
Selinger, Eric Murphy Cant and Canonicity 2022 romance scholarship, trash/literary and or intellectual quality, teaching romance, genre definitions
Selinger, Eric Murphy Disaggregating attraction: asexuality and genre critique in Alex Beecroft's Blue Steel Chain 2022 Alex Beecroft, LGBTQ+ characters, readers and/or authors, sex/sexuality, religion/spirituality, love, marriage, Ann Herendeen, metafiction, trash/literary and or intellectual quality, Christian romance, food, drink, metaphor/symbolism
Selinger, Eric Murphy Disenchantment and its discontents: “modern love” and irony in popular romance fiction 2022 love, Jennifer Crusie, science/technology, religion/spirituality, marriage, Alisha Rai, feminism, emotions, Alexis Hall, metafiction, Francine Rivers, fairytales/folktales, health/medical