| Deng, Yiwei |
The Aesthetic form of Childhood Sweetheart: I Love You, None of Your Business |
2022 |
China, emotions |
| Grinnell, Natalie |
The Challenge to Dominance Theory in Patricia Briggs's and Carrie Vaughn's Paranormal Romance Novels |
2022 |
Patricia Briggs, Carrie Vaughn, paranormal/fantasy/time-travel romance, gender, rape and/or intimate partner violence/abuse, feminism |
| Harrod, Mary; Leonard, Suzanne; Negra, Diane |
Imagining "We" in the Age of "I": Romance and Social Bonding in Contemporary Culture |
2022 |
|
| Hendricks, Margo; Moody-Freeman, Julie E. |
Journal of Popular Romance Studies: Special Issue: Black Romance |
2022 |
African American romance, Sandra Kitt, Brenda Jackson, Beverly Jenkins, Vivian Stephens, Alyssa Cole, Rebekah Weatherspoon, Gwyneth Bolton/Gwendolyn Pough, Rochelle Alers, Margo Hendricks/Elysabeth Grace |
| Selinger, Eric Murphy |
Disaggregating attraction: asexuality and genre critique in Alex Beecroft's Blue Steel Chain |
2022 |
Alex Beecroft, LGBT+ 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 |
| González-Cruz, María Isabel |
Introduction |
2022 |
genre definitions, teaching romance |
| 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 |
| Turner, Ellen; Wadsö Lecaros, Cecilia |
The desert-governess romance: Regency England meets exotic Arabia |
2022 |
sheikh romance, historical romance, settings, Marguerite Kaye, Laura Martin, Lynne Graham, Kate Hewitt, E. M. Hull, work, genre definitions, Harlequin Mills & Boon, paratext |
| Saxena, Vandana |
Memory and Nation-Building: World War II in Malaysian Literature |
2022 |
Malaysia, Noel Barber |
| Arvanitaki, Eirini |
Masculinities in Post-Millennial Popular Romance |
2022 |
gender, Harlequin Mills & Boon |
| Karaminas, Vicki; Geczy, Adam; Gibson, Pamela Church |
Fashionable Masculinities: Queers, Pimp Daddies, and Lumbersexuals |
2022 |
|
| 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 |
| Bell, Carole V. |
I'm Rooting for Everybody Black: Black Solidarity, Black World-Building, and Black Love |
2022 |
United States of America, race/ethnicity, African American romance, romance and, or as, activism, community, Alexandria House, Christina C. Jones, Alyssa Cole, social/economic class, fat, fatness, feminism, gender |
| Larson, Christine; Ready, Elspeth |
Networking down: Networks, innovation, and relational labor in digital book publishing |
2022 |
authors, Publishing |
| Michelson, Anna |
Pushing the boundaries: Erotic romance and the symbolic boundary nexus |
2022 |
genre definitions, erotic romance, authors, sex/sexuality, Fifty Shades, Publishing, fanfiction, sociology |
| Hendricks, Margo |
Race and Romance: Coloring the Past |
2022 |
race/ethnicity, Older and/or precursor texts (may not be "romance" as now defined), Heliodorus, Beverly Jenkins, Margo Hendricks/Elysabeth Grace, trash/literary and or intellectual quality, genre definitions |
| Lindström Kruse, Miranda |
Pinsamma läsningar: En affektteoretisk studie av #SpicyBooks på TikTok |
2022 |
readers, libraries/librarians |
| Allan, Jonathan |
Self-improvement as proof of love in The Bromance Book Club |
2022 |
gender, love, Lyssa Kay Adams |
| Johnson, Brian |
Weird Bedfellows: H. P. Lovecraft, m/m Romance, and the New Queer Families of Jordan L. Hawk's Whyborne & Griffin Series |
2022 |
Jordan L. Hawk, m/m romance, paranormal/fantasy/time-travel romance, LGBT+ characters, readers and/or authors |
| O'Brien, Lee |
Telling Gaps and Domestic Tyranny: Georgette Heyer’s Regency Romances |
2022 |
Georgette Heyer, happy ending, family, history, health/medical, sex/sexuality, gender, social/economic class, rape and/or intimate partner violence/abuse, marriage |
| Konle, Leonard; Jannidis, Fotis |
Modeling Plots of Narrative Texts as Temporal Graphs |
2022 |
linguistics |
| Ivanski, Chantelle; Humphries, Stacey; van Dalen-Oskam, Karina; Mar, Raymond A. |
Do We Judge Fiction by the Author’s Gender? |
2022 |
trash/literary and or intellectual quality, gender |
| Harrod, Mary; Leonard, Suzanne; Negra, Diane |
Imagining "We" in the Age of "I": Romance and Social Bonding in Contemporary Culture |
2022 |
|
| Hendricks, Margo; Moody-Freeman, Julie E. |
Journal of Popular Romance Studies: Special Issue: Black Romance |
2022 |
African American romance, Sandra Kitt, Brenda Jackson, Beverly Jenkins, Vivian Stephens, Alyssa Cole, Rebekah Weatherspoon, Gwyneth Bolton/Gwendolyn Pough, Rochelle Alers, Margo Hendricks/Elysabeth Grace |
| 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 |
| Pérez-Casal, Inmaculada |
Popular romance novels: past, present and future |
2022 |
genre definitions, Older and/or precursor texts (may not be "romance" as now defined), romance and, or as, activism, romance scholarship |
| 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 |
| Guillén-Nieto, Victoria; Stein, Dieter |
Language as Evidence: Doing Forensic Linguistics |
2022 |
|
| Karaminas, Vicki; Geczy, Adam; Gibson, Pamela Church |
Fashionable Masculinities: Queers, Pimp Daddies, and Lumbersexuals |
2022 |
|
| Jackson, Nicole M. |
Finding Queer Black Women in Romance. Finding Bits and Pieces of Me. |
2022 |
Nicole M. Jackson/Katrina Jackson/Brandy Bush, LGBT+ characters, readers and/or authors, African American romance, Rebekah Weatherspoon, Alyssa Cole, Ann Allen Shockley |
| Hendricks, Margo; Moody-Freeman, Julie E. |
Introduction to the Special Issue on Black Romance |
2022 |
romance scholarship |
| Wijanarka, Hirmawan |
Cinderella Formula: The Romance Begins |
2022 |
Harlequin Mills & Boon, genre definitions |
| González-Cruz, María Isabel |
Hispanicisms in Romance Fiction: An Annotated Glossary |
2022 |
linguistics, Spain, Harlequin Mills & Boon |
| Teo, Hsu-Ming |
Transported for life, transported by love: love and the Australian convict romance novel |
2022 |
Australia, historical romance, history, gender, love, Tea Cooper, Lena Dowling, Joanna Lloyd, Candice Proctor |
| González-Cruz, María Isabel |
Introducción |
2022 |
genre definitions, teaching romance |
| Abrahamsson, Elin |
Rättvisemärkt romantik: Feelgood, flärd och feminism i samtida svensk romance |
2022 |
feminism, contemporary romance, Sweden, Simona Ahrnstedt, Sofia Fritzson, Fifty Shades, Twilight, Christina Schiller |
| Fekete, Maleah |
Confluent Love and the Evolution of Ideal Intimacy: Romance Reading in 1980 and 2016 |
2022 |
readers, sex/sexuality, gender, sociology, love, emotions |
| Konle, Leonard; Jannidis, Fotis |
Modeling Plots of Narrative Texts as Temporal Graphs |
2022 |
linguistics |
| Ivanski, Chantelle; Humphries, Stacey; van Dalen-Oskam, Karina; Mar, Raymond A. |
Do We Judge Fiction by the Author’s Gender? |
2022 |
trash/literary and or intellectual quality, gender |
| Harrod, Mary; Leonard, Suzanne; Negra, Diane |
Imagining "We" in the Age of "I": Romance and Social Bonding in Contemporary Culture |
2022 |
|
| Musila, Grace A. |
Routledge Handbook of African Popular Culture |
2022 |
|
| Dryden, Therese |
The single-mother and the law: romance novels making room for female voices in patriarchal spaces |
2022 |
family, Robyn Carr |
| Pérez-Gil, María del Mar |
Imperfect paradise: Madeira in the novels of Margaret Rome, Katrina Britt, and Sally Wentworth |
2022 |
Harlequin Mills & Boon, settings, national identity, race/ethnicity, Portugal, UK, Margaret Rome, Ethel Connell as Katrina Britt, Doreen Hornsblow as Sally Wentworth, Sara Wood, gender |
| 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 |
| White, Bonnie |
Freedom, Sincerity, and the Modern Woman in the Interwar Romances of Berta Ruck |
2022 |
Berta Ruck, history, gender, UK, cross-dressing, LGBT+ characters, readers and/or authors, sex/sexuality, fashion/clothing, emotions |
| Burge, Amy |
Beyond Outlander: Annie S. Swan and the Scottish popular romance novel |
2022 |
Annie S. Swan, Scotland, Older and/or precursor texts (may not be "romance" as now defined), Karen Marie Moning, Lynsay Sands, settings |
| Guillén-Nieto, Victoria; Stein, Dieter |
Language as Evidence: Doing Forensic Linguistics |
2022 |
|
| Karaminas, Vicki; Geczy, Adam; Gibson, Pamela Church |
Fashionable Masculinities: Queers, Pimp Daddies, and Lumbersexuals |
2022 |
|
| Hendricks, Margo |
How a Black Author Found Her Romance History |
2022 |
Margo Hendricks/Elysabeth Grace, Older and/or precursor texts (may not be "romance" as now defined), teaching romance, race/ethnicity, African American romance, readers, Beverly Jenkins, Alyssa Cole, paratext, historical romance, Publishing |
| Wells, Juliette |
Afterword: Sex, Romance, and Representation in Uzma Jalaluddin’s Ayesha at Last |
2022 |
Uzma Jalaluddin, Jane Austen, sex/sexuality, religion/spirituality, Islam |
| Hendricks, Margo; Moody-Freeman, Julie E. |
Introduction to the Special Issue on Black Romance |
2022 |
romance scholarship |
| Selinger, Eric Murphy |
Cant and Canonicity |
2022 |
romance scholarship, trash/literary and or intellectual quality, teaching romance, genre definitions |
| Brooks, Ann |
The Routledge Companion to Romantic Love |
2022 |
love |
| Cannon, Emanni N |
Contemporary Romance and the Question of Literary Value |
2022 |
trash/literary and or intellectual quality, Jane Austen, Georgette Heyer, Colleen Hoover |
| Wallace, Jennifer |
Army trenches and school benches: the Philippine-American War in the Sugar Sun series |
2022 |
Jennifer Hallock, war/armed forces, Philippines, United States of America |
| Pérez-Casal, Inmaculada |
La novela rosa o romántica: pasado, presente y futuro |
2022 |
genre definitions, Older and/or precursor texts (may not be "romance" as now defined), romance and, or as, activism, romance scholarship |
| Gehrmann, Susanne |
Varieties of Romance in Contemporary Popular Togolese Literature |
2022 |
Togo, Africa, Serge Azialé/Seraz, Jeannette Ahonsou, romantic suspense, Lauren Ekué, chick lit |
| Vivanco, Laura |
Historical Accuracy, Racism, Courtney Milan, and The Duke Who Didn’t Conform to Genre Norms |
2022 |
race/ethnicity, historical romance, authors, Courtney Milan, history, United States of America, UK, humour |
| Ivanski, Chantelle; Humphries, Stacey; van Dalen-Oskam, Karina; Mar, Raymond A. |
Do We Judge Fiction by the Author’s Gender? |
2022 |
trash/literary and or intellectual quality, gender |
| Alcala Gonzalez, Antonio; Sederholm, Carl H. |
Lovecraft in the 21st Century: Dead, But Still Dreaming |
2022 |
|
| Beyer, Charlotte |
Decolonising the Literature Curriculum |
2022 |
|
| Bazenga, Aline |
The sociocultural and linguistic landscape of Madeira: Anglocentric visions in a sample of six romance novels |
2022 |
Portugal, UK, Harlequin Mills & Boon, settings, metaphor/symbolism, linguistics |
| Watson, Courtney |
I Thought You’d Never Ask: Consent in Contemporary Romance |
2022 |
sex/sexuality, K. J. Charles, feminism, romance scholarship |
| Sutton, Denise Hardesty |
Marketing Love: Romance Publishers Mills & Boon and Harlequin Enterprises, 1930–1990 |
2022 |
Harlequin Mills & Boon, Publishing, capitalism/business |
| Tang, Ning |
Reading Online Romance Novels Is Related To Chinese Readers' View of Love |
2022 |
China, readers, love |
| Chawla, Gitanjali; Mittal, Sangeeta |
Indian Popular Fiction: Redefining the Canon |
2022 |
|
| Moody-Freeman, Julie E. |
Black Cultural Studies and Black Love: Why Black Love Matters |
2022 |
love, race/ethnicity, teaching romance |
| 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 |
| Moody-Freeman, Julie E. |
Response to Eric Selinger’s “Cant and Canonicity” |
2022 |
romance scholarship, Publishing, race/ethnicity, Brenda Jackson, Rochelle Alers, teaching romance |
| 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 |
| Hanson, Donna Maree |
Romance fiction as a bridge to understanding changing gender roles in society |
2022 |
readers, authors, feminism, gender, science fiction/futuristic romance, rape and/or intimate partner violence/abuse, Rachel Lee/Sue Civil-Brown, Rosemary Carter, Darynda Jones, Penny Jordan/Caroline Courtney, Daphne Clair, Nora Roberts/J. D. Robb, Robyn Donald, Marjorie Lewty, Pamela Kent, Elizabeth Graham, Donna Maree Hanson |
| Selinger, Eric Murphy |
The wild heart of the continent: love and place in the Silk Road novels of Sherry Thomas |
2022 |
Sherry Thomas, settings, trash/literary and or intellectual quality, love, Buddhism, religion/spirituality, historical romance, race/ethnicity, China, Asia |
| Pérez-Gil, María del Mar |
Paraísos imperfectos: Madeira en las novelas de Margaret Rome, Katrina Britt y Sally Wentworth |
2022 |
Harlequin Mills & Boon, settings, national identity, race/ethnicity, Portugal, UK, Margaret Rome, Ethel Connell as Katrina Britt, Doreen Hornsblow as Sally Wentworth, Sara Wood, gender |
| Golubov, Nattie |
La promesa de felicidad: la novela rosa y el placer de la lectura afectiva |
2022 |
readers, emotions, happy ending |
| Pierini, Francesca |
Critical Approaches to the Modern and Contemporary Anglophone Romance Novel (From A Room with a View to Fifty Shades of Grey) |
2022 |
teaching romance, E. M. Forster, Jennifer Crusie, E. M. Hull, Beverly Jenkins, Alyssa Cole, Fifty Shades, K. J. Charles |
| Ivanski, Chantelle; Humphries, Stacey; van Dalen-Oskam, Karina; Mar, Raymond A. |
Do We Judge Fiction by the Author’s Gender? |
2022 |
trash/literary and or intellectual quality, gender |
| Alcala Gonzalez, Antonio; Sederholm, Carl H. |
Lovecraft in the 21st Century: Dead, But Still Dreaming |
2022 |
|
| Golubov, Nattie |
El placer de la lectura: cuerpos, afectos, textos |
2022 |
|
| Allan, Jonathan A. |
Men, Masculinities, and Infertilities |
2022 |
health/medical, family, gender, LaVyrle Spencer, Emilie Richards |
| Vera-Cazorla, María Jesús |
Canarian culture and identity and their representation in the novels of the FFI2014-53962-P corpus |
2022 |
national identity, Spain, UK, metaphor/symbolism |
| Sheerman, Lucy |
“Place the glass before you, and draw in chalk your own picture”: The Recasting of Jane Eyre |
2022 |
Charlotte Brontë, Beverly Jenkins, Alyssa Cole, race/ethnicity |
| Fisher, Maryanne L.; Meredith, Tami M. |
Evolutionary and sociocultural themes in cover art on Harlequin romance novels: A temporal analysis |
2022 |
evolutionary psychology, paratext |
| Farooqui, Javaria |
Romance in an Old Bookshop |
2022 |
Pakistan, Publishing, social/economic class, readers |
| LaDousa, Chaise; Davis, Christina P. |
Language, Education, and Identity: Medium in South Asia |
2022 |
|
| Chawla, Gitanjali; Mittal, Sangeeta |
Indian Popular Fiction: Redefining the Canon |
2022 |
|
| Hogan, Patrick Colm; Irish, Bradley J.; Hogan, Lalita Pandit |
The Routledge Companion to Literature and Emotion |
2022 |
|
| Farooqui, Javaria |
Reading historical popular romance in 21st-century Pakistan |
2022 |
Pakistan, readers, historical romance, social/economic class, settings, Julia Quinn, Stephanie Laurens, Judith McNaught, Gaelen Foley |
| Befeler, Paige |
LGBTQ(NA), Queer New Adult Fiction: The Emergence of a New Genre and Its Impact on the LGBTQIA+ Community |
2022 |
YA/teenage romance, LGBT+ characters, readers and/or authors, Casey McQuiston, Morgan Rogers, race/ethnicity |
| Huguley, Piper |
In Search of the Black Historical Hottie: The Sad Situation of the Black Hero in Historical Romance |
2022 |
historical romance, race/ethnicity, gender, Piper Huguley, happy ending, wealth/prosperity |
| Huguley, Piper |
Her Bodyguard: Sandra Kitt’s The Color of Love as a foundational text for BWWM romance |
2022 |
Sandra Kitt, race/ethnicity, African American romance, police officers/police forces |
| McAlister, Jodi |
Isn’t It Iconic: Canonical Logics and the Romance Genre |
2022 |
romance scholarship |
| 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 |
| Hoorenman, Johanna |
Remembering love: Parsons-Yazzie's historical romance novel and the (re)writing of Navajo history |
2022 |
Evangeline Parsons Yazzie, Native American romance, race/ethnicity, settings, United States of America |
| Bazenga, Aline |
Paisaje sociocultural y lingüístico de la isla de Madeira: Visiones anglocéntricas en una muestra de seis novelas rosa |
2022 |
Portugal, UK, Harlequin Mills & Boon, settings, metaphor/symbolism, linguistics |
| Jan, Jariah Mohd; Ujum, Diana Abu |
Negotiating Conflicts amongst Muslim Female Characters in Malay Romance Novels: A Narratological Perspective |
2022 |
Malaysia, Muslim romance, gender |
| Farooqui, Javaria |
On Loving Popular Fiction in Pakistan |
2022 |
trash/literary and or intellectual quality, genre definitions, Pakistan |
| 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 |
| González-Cruz, María Isabel |
Discursos e Identidades en la Ficción Romántica: Visiones Anglófonas de Madeira y Canarias / Discourses and Identities in Romance Fiction: Anglophone Visions from Madeira and the Canaries |
2022 |
teaching romance |
| Jussawalla, Feroza; Omran, Doaa |
Muslim Women’s Writing from across South and Southeast Asia |
2022 |
|
| Davies, Ben; Lupton, Christina; Gormsen Schmidt, Johanne |
Reading Novels During the Covid-19 Pandemic |
2022 |
readers, Sally Rooney |
| González de la Rosa, María del Pilar |
Female voices and feminist discourse in some Harlequin/Mills & Boon romances |
2022 |
Harlequin Mills & Boon, feminism, gender |
| Alexander, Camille S. |
“The Realness” in Jasmine Guillory’s Sista Lit Rom Com Novels |
2022 |
Jasmine Guillory, African American romance, rom-com romance, race/ethnicity, ageism |
| Fisher, Maryanne L.; Meredith, Tami M. |
Evolutionary and sociocultural themes in cover art on Harlequin romance novels: A temporal analysis |
2022 |
evolutionary psychology, paratext |
| Larson, Christine |
Streaming books: confluencers, Kindle Unlimited and the platform imaginary |
2022 |
Publishing, authors |
| LaDousa, Chaise; Davis, Christina P. |
Language, Education, and Identity: Medium in South Asia |
2022 |
|
| Hogan, Patrick Colm; Irish, Bradley J.; Hogan, Lalita Pandit |
The Routledge Companion to Literature and Emotion |
2022 |
|
| van Halteren, Hans |
Automatic Authorship Investigation |
2022 |
linguistics, Harlequin Mills & Boon, Stephanie Howard |
| Tindall, Natalie T. J. |
Black Romance Authors and Community Cultural Wealth: A Case Study of Brenda Jackson’s Career |
2022 |
Brenda Jackson, race/ethnicity, Publishing, authors, readers, community, African American romance |
| 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 |
| Wilkins, Kim; Driscoll, Beth; Fletcher, Lisa |
Genre Worlds: Popular Fiction and 21st-Century Book Culture |
2022 |
Publishing, readers |
| Nachumi, Nora; Oppenheim, Stephanie |
Jane Austen, Sex, and Romance: Engaging with Desire in the Novels and Beyond |
2022 |
|
| Scupham, Hannah Elizabeth |
“Reader, I Married Him”: Readership, Imagination, and Politics of the Marriage Plot in the Nineteenth-Century Novel |
2022 |
historical romance, Older and/or precursor texts (may not be "romance" as now defined), readers, Jane Austen, Elizabeth Gaskell, George Eliot |
| Burge, Amy; Folie, Sandra |
Girls of Riyadh and Desperate in Dubai: reading and writing romance in the Middle East |
2022 |
chick lit, race/ethnicity, Islam, Rajaa Alsanea, Ameera Al Hakawati, Saudi Arabia, United Arab Emirates, sheikh romance |
| Vera-Cazorla, María Jesús |
La cultura y la identidad canarias y su representación en las novelas del corpus FFI2014-53962-P |
2022 |
national identity, Spain, UK, metaphor/symbolism |
| Jan, Jariah Mohd; Ujum, Diana Abu |
Negotiating Conflicts amongst Muslim Female Characters in Malay Romance Novels: A Narratological Perspective |
2022 |
Malaysia, Muslim romance, gender |
| 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 |
| 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 |
| Jussawalla, Feroza; Omran, Doaa |
Muslim Women’s Writing from across South and Southeast Asia |
2022 |
|
| Davies, Ben; Lupton, Christina; Gormsen Schmidt, Johanne |
Reading Novels During the Covid-19 Pandemic |
2022 |
readers, Sally Rooney |
| Herrera, Carolina M. |
Examining the relation between media engagement and developmental outcomes in adolescents and emerging adults: an exploration of engagement with and impact of young adult literature media among youth |
2022 |
readers, psychology, YA/teenage romance, Twilight |
| Wood, Andrea |
His Baby Daddy is an Alien?!: Mpreg Fantasies and Queer Reproductive Intimacies in Contemporary M/M Science Fiction Romance |
2022 |
m/m romance, science fiction/futuristic romance, family, health/medical, LGBT+ characters, readers and/or authors, Lyn Gala, Lexi Ander |
| Ramos-García, María Teresa |
Transatlantic definitions of Whiteness in Louise Bergstrom’s Gothic romances in the Canary Islands (1971-1972) |
2022 |
Louise Bergstrom, gothic romance, race/ethnicity |
| Carter, Ellen |
Eating Disorders and Romance |
2022 |
food, drink, health/medical, Jenny B. Jones, Courtney Milan, M. B. Mulhall, Janette Kenny, Katherine Locke |
| Priyatna, Aquarini; Wardiani, Sri Rijati |
Naturalization and Romanticization of Violence in Indonesian Teen Lit Jingga Series by Esti Kinasih |
2022 |
Esti Kinasih, Indonesia, YA/teenage romance, rape and/or intimate partner violence/abuse, gender |
| Hogan, Patrick Colm; Irish, Bradley J.; Hogan, Lalita Pandit |
The Routledge Companion to Literature and Emotion |
2022 |
|
| Søndberg Spaabæk, Anne Sofie |
The “Infernal” Value of the Gothic: A Reading of Gothicness and Romanceness in Cassandra Clare’s The Infernal Devices |
2022 |
gothic romance, paranormal/fantasy/time-travel romance, Cassandra Clare, genre definitions |
| Gómez, Sarah Hannah |
Romance Has Broken My Dichotomous Key |
2022 |
readers, trash/literary and or intellectual quality |
| Hendricks, Margo |
Against Odds: Beverly Jenkins’ Indigo and Black Historical Romance |
2022 |
Beverly Jenkins, historical romance, race/ethnicity, social/economic class, United States of America, African American romance, history |
| 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 |
| Wilkins, Kim; Driscoll, Beth; Fletcher, Lisa |
Genre Worlds: Popular Fiction and 21st-Century Book Culture |
2022 |
Publishing, readers |
| Nachumi, Nora; Oppenheim, Stephanie |
Jane Austen, Sex, and Romance: Engaging with Desire in the Novels and Beyond |
2022 |
|
| Burge, Amy; Folie, Sandra |
Girls of Riyadh and Desperate in Dubai: reading and writing romance in the Middle East |
2022 |
chick lit, race/ethnicity, Islam, Rajaa Alsanea, Ameera Al Hakawati, Saudi Arabia, United Arab Emirates, sheikh romance |
| González de la Rosa, María del Pilar |
Voces femeninas y discurso feminista en algunas novelas de Harlequin/Mills & Boon |
2022 |
Harlequin Mills & Boon, feminism, gender |
| Fanetti, Susan |
Introduction—Popular Romance in the 21st Century: Time to Claim Its Due |
2022 |
romance scholarship, genre definitions, happy ending, Publishing, Fifty Shades |
| 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 |
| 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 |
| Davies, Ben; Lupton, Christina; Gormsen Schmidt, Johanne |
Reading Novels During the Covid-19 Pandemic |
2022 |
readers, Sally Rooney |
| Hernandez, Carmen E. |
Romance and Revolution |
2022 |
Older and/or precursor texts (may not be "romance" as now defined), Samuel Richardson, wealth/prosperity, Jane Austen, Fifty Shades, social/economic class, Sylvain Reynard, Erika Wilde, Carly Phillips, rape and/or intimate partner violence/abuse, virginity, Eliza Haywood |
| de los Heros, Susana |
Language ideologies, landscape and narrative voice in The Wind off the Small Isles |
2022 |
Mary Stewart, linguistics, race/ethnicity, settings |
| Wagner, Wendy |
The “Grandly and Inhospitably Strange” World of Autistic Heroines in Romance Fiction |
2022 |
health/medical, disability, Helen Hoang, Sherry Thomas, Talia Hibbert, gender, community |
| Stetson, Suzanne |
Reconciling Reader Response and Feminism in Late Twentieth-Century Erotic Historical Romances |
2022 |
feminism, sex/sexuality |
| Priyatna, Aquarini; Wardiani, Sri Rijati |
Naturalization and Romanticization of Violence in Indonesian Teen Lit Jingga Series by Esti Kinasih |
2022 |
Esti Kinasih, Indonesia, YA/teenage romance, rape and/or intimate partner violence/abuse, gender |
| Balteskard, Susanna |
Feminism in Romance: How the romance genre has(n't) changed since the 1950s |
2022 |
feminism, Georgette Heyer, Barbara Cartland, Julia Quinn, Peggy Gaddis Dern with many pseudonyms including Perry Lindsay, Charlotte Lamb, Susan Elizabeth Phillips |
| Russo, Stephanie |
These old shades: Georgette Heyer’s unruly eighteenth century |
2022 |
Georgette Heyer, gender, history, fashion/clothing |
| Ivanski, Chantelle; Maslej, Marta M.; Mar, Raymond A. |
Empirical Approaches to Studying Emotion in Literature: The Case of Gender |
2022 |
science/technology, emotions, gender, readers, authors, romance scholarship |
| Beyer, Charlotte |
Centring Women of Colour: Decolonising the Literature Curriculum with Kamila Shamsie’s Home Fire and Bolu Babalola’s Love in Colour |
2022 |
teaching romance, myth, Bolu Babalola, race/ethnicity |
| Jackson, Nicole M. |
Freedom’s Epilogue: Love as Freedom in Alyssa Cole’s Historical Novellas |
2022 |
Alyssa Cole, historical romance, history, race/ethnicity, African American romance, United States of America, emotions, love, family, community, marriage, LGBT+ characters, readers and/or authors, happy ending |
| 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 |
| Wilkins, Kim; Driscoll, Beth; Fletcher, Lisa |
Genre Worlds: Popular Fiction and 21st-Century Book Culture |
2022 |
Publishing, readers |
| Parnell, Claire |
Reading and writing Muslim romance on Wattpad |
2022 |
Muslim romance, Publishing |
| Ramos-García, María Teresa |
Definiciones transatlánticas de la raza blanca en las novelas góticas de Louise Bergstrom en Canarias (1971-1972) |
2022 |
Louise Bergstrom, gothic romance, race/ethnicity |
| Allan, Jonathan A. |
Healing Toxic Masculinity in Sweatpants Season by Danielle Allen |
2022 |
Danielle Allen, gender, feminism |
| 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 |
| Iché, Virginie; Sorlin, Sandrine |
The Rhetoric of Literary Communication: From Classical English Novels to Contemporary Digital Fiction |
2022 |
|
| Frederick, Rhonda D. |
Evidence of Things Not Seen: Fantastical Blackness in Genre Fictions |
2022 |
Colin Channer, Jamaica, readers, Caribbean, race/ethnicity |
| Belk, Jaime |
Save Our Love |
2022 |
African American romance, Christian romance, Harlequin Mills & Boon, happy ending |
| Farooqui, Javaria |
Romance, Austen, and English-Medium Schooling in Pakistan |
2022 |
Pakistan, readers, historical romance, Jane Austen, social/economic class |
| González-Cruz, María Isabel |
Interdisciplinarity in Romance Fiction |
2022 |
romance scholarship, romance and, or as, activism |
| Golubov, Nattie |
Women Policing Whiteness: Deviance and Surveillance in Contemporary Police Procedural Romance |
2022 |
race/ethnicity, romantic suspense, gender, social/economic class, Catherine Coulter, Marie Force, Kendra Elliot, family, work, community |
| Nankervis, Madison |
Diversity in Romance Novels: Race, Sexuality, Neurodivergence, Disability, and Fat Representation |
2022 |
Publishing, race/ethnicity, sex/sexuality, LGBT+ characters, readers and/or authors, disability, fat, fatness |
| Namysłowska, Karolina |
Romance novels in translation: Focus on defining features of selected texts translated from English into Polish. |
2022 |
Poland, translation, Penny Jordan/Caroline Courtney, Diana Palmer, Sandra Brown, Jude Deveraux |
| McAlister, Jodi |
Love and listening: the erotics of talk in the popular romance novel |
2022 |
feminism, gender, Jennifer Crusie, Diana Gabaldon, Alissa Johnson, Courtney Milan |
| Ivanski, Chantelle; Maslej, Marta M.; Mar, Raymond A. |
Empirical Approaches to Studying Emotion in Literature: The Case of Gender |
2022 |
science/technology, emotions, gender, readers, authors, romance scholarship |
| Pritchard, Jamee N. |
Reading the Black Romance: Exploring Black Sexual Politics in the Romance Fiction of Rebekah Weatherspoon |
2022 |
Rebekah Weatherspoon, sex/sexuality, African American romance, gender, race/ethnicity, BDSM, erotic romance, feminism, LGBT+ characters, readers and/or authors, Ann Allen Shockley |
| 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 |
| Pérez-Gil, María del Mar |
Mass Tourism, Ecocriticism, and Mills & Boon Romances (1970s-1980s) |
2022 |
Harlequin Mills & Boon, settings, history, Doreen Hornsblow as Sally Wentworth, Spain, Greece, Margaret Rome, Elizabeth Hunter, Violet Winspear, rural romance, Ethel Connell as Katrina Britt, Kay Thorpe, Iris Danbury, ecocriticism/environmentalism/climate change |
| Nilson, Maria; Posti, Piia K |
Speglingar av feelgood: Genre, etikett eller känsla? |
2022 |
|
| Golubov, Nattie |
The geopolitics of love: patriotism, homeland and the domestication of violent masculinities in US paramilitary romance fiction |
2022 |
war/armed forces, United States of America, national identity, gender, romantic suspense, Cherry Adair, Maya Banks, Pamela Clare, Kaylea Cross, Elizabeth Dyer, Lori Foster, Cindy Gerard, Elle Kennedy, Lynne Raye Harris, Lisa Marie Rice |
| de los Heros, Susana |
Ideologías lingüísticas, paisaje y voz narrativa en The Wind off the Small Isles |
2022 |
Mary Stewart, linguistics, race/ethnicity, settings |
| Sullivan, Ashleigh Taylor |
From Darcy to Dickheads: Why Do Women Love the Bad Boy? |
2022 |
rape and/or intimate partner violence/abuse, readers, gothic romance, gender, L. J. Shen, sex/sexuality, BDSM, Penelope Douglas, Emily Brontë, Charlotte Brontë, Fifty Shades, Jade West |
| Ayala Rodríguez, Ida María; Almaral Cereijo, Iraida Thalia |
Deconstructionism of the heroine in the novel The Grand Sophy by Georgette Heyer |
2022 |
Jane Austen, Georgette Heyer |
| Sheehan, Sarah E. |
The “Popular Romance Canon”: An Academic Librarian’s Response |
2022 |
romance scholarship, libraries/librarians |
| Iché, Virginie; Sorlin, Sandrine |
The Rhetoric of Literary Communication: From Classical English Novels to Contemporary Digital Fiction |
2022 |
|
| Fanetti, Susan |
New Frontiers in Popular Romance: Essays on the Genre in the 21st Century |
2022 |
Diana Gabaldon, India, LGBT+ characters, readers and/or authors, China |
| Sinha, Mona |
Reading Mills and Boon in India From the Post-Colonial to the Millennial Experience |
2022 |
India, Harlequin Mills & Boon, readers, chick lit |
| Lecercle, Jean-Jacques |
Interpellation and Counter-Interpellation in the Novel |
2022 |
readers, Violet Winspear, Jane Austen, trash/literary and or intellectual quality |
| Alberto, Maria |
Original Slash, Romance, and C.S. Pacat’s Captive Prince |
2022 |
C. S. Pacat, fanfiction, Publishing, LGBT+ characters, readers and/or authors, sex/sexuality, rape and/or intimate partner violence/abuse, race/ethnicity |
| Bilodeau, Isabelle |
How Romance Translators Write Themselves and Their Readers into Afterwords |
2022 |
paratext, translation, Japan |
| Allan, Jonathan A. |
‘Impossibly erotic things’: On men’s underwear in Brief Encounters by Suzanne Forster |
2022 |
fashion/clothing, Harlequin Mills & Boon, Suzanne Forster, sex/sexuality, gender |
| Dexl, Carmen; Gerlsbeck, Silvia |
The Male Body in Representation: Returning to Matter |
2022 |
|
| Michelson, Anna |
Redefining the Romance: Classification and Community in a Popular Fiction Genre |
2022 |
genre definitions, sociology, authors, romance and, or as, activism, sex/sexuality, LGBT+ characters, readers and/or authors, race/ethnicity, erotic romance, happy ending, readers, Publishing, fanfiction, Fifty Shades, Suzanne Brockmann, m/m romance, African American romance, Native American romance |
| Carter, Ellen |
What's in a name? A corpus study of phonological differences between gay and straight romance heroes' names |
2022 |
LGBT+ characters, readers and/or authors, gender, linguistics |
| Ivanski, Chantelle; Maslej, Marta M.; Mar, Raymond A. |
Empirical Approaches to Studying Emotion in Literature: The Case of Gender |
2022 |
science/technology, emotions, gender, readers, authors, romance scholarship |
| Moody-Freeman, Julie E. |
Romance, Hip-Hop Feminism, and Black Love: From Theory to Praxis |
2022 |
Gwyneth Bolton/Gwendolyn Pough, feminism, African American romance, gender, teaching romance, sex/sexuality, music, romance and, or as, activism, race/ethnicity |
| Nilson, Maria; Posti, Piia K |
Speglingar av feelgood: Genre, etikett eller känsla? |
2022 |
|
| Kamblé, Jayashree |
The origins of U.S. mass-market category romance novels: Black editors and writers in the early 1980s |
2023 |
race/ethnicity, Publishing, Vivian Stephens, United States of America, social/economic class, work, Rosalind Welles - pen name of Elsie B. Washington, Lia Sanders - pen name of Angela Jackson and Sandra Jackson-Opoku, Sandra Kitt, Barbara Stephens, Valerie Flournoy, history, sex/sexuality, Rochelle Alers, Donna Hill |
| Larson, Christine; Carter, Ashley |
Love is love: Reverse isomorphism and the rise of LGBTQ+ romance publishing |
2023 |
Publishing, LGBT+ characters, readers and/or authors |
| Porter, J. D.; Eimannsberger, Angelina; English, James; Hathaway, May; Yakoob, Ashna |
Genre Juggernaut: Measuring “Romance” |
2023 |
genre definitions, readers |
| Mulvey, Alexandra Hazel |
Gender and Sex Stereotypes in Sports Romance Fiction |
2023 |
sport, gender, LGBT+ characters, readers and/or authors, Mariana Zapata, Tijan, Hannah Grace, Rachel Spangler, Kelly Quindlen, Katia Rose, food, drink, happy ending, family |
| 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 |
| McAlister, Jodi; Parnell, Claire; Trinidad, Andrea Anne |
Publishing Romance Fiction in the Philippines |
2023 |
Philippines, Publishing, social/economic class, Mina V. Esguerra, wealth/prosperity, Keene Alicante, sex/sexuality, work, LGBT+ characters, readers and/or authors, settings, authors, paratext |
| Rashid, Hussein; Petersen, Kristian |
The Bloomsbury Handbook of Muslims and Popular Culture |
2023 |
|
| Hutter, Verena |
Fire, Savannah, and Passion: The New Africa Novel and the Construction of White Femininity |
2023 |
Africa, Germany, history, historical romance, race/ethnicity, Patricia Mennen, Leah Bach, gender |
| Ali, Kecia |
The End of the World as We Know It: Climate Catastrophe in Nalini Singh's Paranormal Romance Fiction |
2023 |
Nalini Singh, ecocriticism/environmentalism/climate change, paranormal/fantasy/time-travel romance |
| Golubov, Nattie |
Female Warriors, Social Injustice and the Transformational Force of Anger in Jaye Wells' Sabina Kane Series |
2023 |
paranormal/fantasy/time-travel romance, feminism, emotions, Jaye Wells, gender, settings |
| Morrison, Kevin A.; Rantala, Pälvi |
Historical Research, Creative Writing, and the Past: Methods of Knowing |
2023 |
|
| Sparks, Tabitha |
Reading the Women’s Sentimental Novel: A Romance |
2023 |
Older and/or precursor texts (may not be "romance" as now defined), metafiction, authors, Annie S. Swan, Sarah Doudney, Emily Jolly, Adeline Sergeant |
| Warnaar, Karin |
Dresses and Drapery: The Material Essie Summers |
2023 |
Essie Summers, fashion/clothing, Harlequin Mills & Boon, New Zealand |
| Robinson, Rachel |
Reading and writing dogs in popular romance fiction |
2023 |
animals |
| Sharma, Vishal; Bray, Kirsten E.; Kumar, Neha; Grinter, Rebecca E. |
It Takes (at least) Two: The Work to Make Romance Work |
2023 |
Publishing, authors, readers |
| Garciano, Shylyn G.; Cuevas, Gloria Con-ui; Geraldizo-Pabriga, Maria Gemma; Macabodbod, Saira Jay J.; Yu, Jaciah Mae B.; Pinote, Ma. Jezan A. |
Romance-Themed Novels: Influenced on Relationship Satisfaction |
2023 |
readers, psychology |
| McAlister, Jodi; Parnell, Claire; Trinidad, Andrea Anne |
Publishing Romance Fiction in the Philippines |
2023 |
Philippines, Publishing, social/economic class, Mina V. Esguerra, wealth/prosperity, Keene Alicante, sex/sexuality, work, LGBT+ characters, readers and/or authors, settings, authors, paratext |
| Veros, Vassiliki |
Nobody Puts Romance Fiction in the Corner: Public Librarians in New South Wales and Their Dalliance with Romance Fiction |
2023 |
libraries/librarians, trash/literary and or intellectual quality, Australia, Harlequin Mills & Boon |
| Carter, David |
The Cambridge History of the Australian Novel |
2023 |
|
| Phipps, Catherine |
Sex, race and power: colonial and interracial sexuality in the French Empire in Morocco, 1912-1956 |
2023 |
history, Morocco, sheikh romance, sex/sexuality, race/ethnicity |
| Morden, Christina |
Innovations in Romance Novel Distribution at Harlequin, Sourcebooks, and Raincoast Books |
2023 |
Publishing, Canada, Harlequin Mills & Boon |
| 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 |
| Sharma, Vishal; Bray, Kirsten E.; Kumar, Neha; Grinter, Rebecca E. |
It Takes (at least) Two: The Work to Make Romance Work |
2023 |
Publishing, authors, readers |
| Garciano, Shylyn G.; Cuevas, Gloria Con-ui; Geraldizo-Pabriga, Maria Gemma; Macabodbod, Saira Jay J.; Yu, Jaciah Mae B.; Pinote, Ma. Jezan A. |
Romance-Themed Novels: Influenced on Relationship Satisfaction |
2023 |
readers, psychology |
| Grobbelaar, Madalena; Reid Boyd, Elizabeth; Dudek, Debra |
Contemporary Love Studies in the Arts and Humanities: What's Love Got To Do With It? |
2023 |
|
| Abdullah-Poulos, Layla |
Sisters, Skanks, and Jezebels: American Muslim Fiction and the Other Woman |
2023 |
United States of America, Islam, religion/spirituality, African American romance |
| Parks, Amy Noelle |
The Feminist Possibilities of Heteroglossic Spaces in Contemporary Young Adult Romance Novels |
2023 |
feminism, YA/teenage romance, love, sex/sexuality, Jenny Han, Katie Cotugno, Nicola Yoon, Laura Steven |
| Conley, Willow M.; Grinnell, Natalie |
The Queer Temporality of Gail Carriger’s Parasol Protectorate |
2023 |
Gail Carriger, paranormal/fantasy/time-travel romance, LGBT+ characters, readers and/or authors, steampunk, gender, family |
| Arnold-Forster, Agnes |
Cold, Hard Steel: The Myth of the Modern Surgeon |
2023 |
health/medical, Elizabeth Gilzean, Harlequin Mills & Boon |
| Petrović, Janja |
Breaking the stereotype – romance novel today |
2023 |
genre definitions, gender, Mariana Zapata, Abby Jimenez, Christina Lauren, Emily Henry, Colleen Hoover |
| Bharathi, L. Divya; Muthuraman, K. |
Nicholas Charles Sparks’s The Notebook: A Novel Of Love Or Romance? |
2023 |
Nicholas Sparks, genre definitions, happy ending |
| Sharma, Vishal; Bray, Kirsten E.; Kumar, Neha; Grinter, Rebecca E. |
It Takes (at least) Two: The Work to Make Romance Work |
2023 |
Publishing, authors, readers |
| Garciano, Shylyn G.; Cuevas, Gloria Con-ui; Geraldizo-Pabriga, Maria Gemma; Macabodbod, Saira Jay J.; Yu, Jaciah Mae B.; Pinote, Ma. Jezan A. |
Romance-Themed Novels: Influenced on Relationship Satisfaction |
2023 |
readers, psychology |
| Pates, Giuliana |
Reading Practices and Gender Politicization: How do Young Argentinean Women Read Romantic Novels |
2023 |
Argentina, YA/teenage romance |
| Grobbelaar, Madalena; Reid Boyd, Elizabeth; Dudek, Debra |
Contemporary Love Studies in the Arts and Humanities: What's Love Got To Do With It? |
2023 |
|
| Hua, Shaoqi; Xiao, Chengli |
What shapes a parasocial relationship in RVGs? The effects of avatar images, avatar identification, and romantic jealousy among potential, casual, and core players |
2023 |
computer/video/digital games |
| Richey, Weston |
(Loves) Me, (Loves) Me Not: Unbuilding of Selfhood in the Romance of the Present |
2023 |
readers, LGBT+ characters, readers and/or authors, gender, psychology, Kris Ripper |
| Conley, Willow M.; Grinnell, Natalie |
The Queer Temporality of Gail Carriger’s Parasol Protectorate |
2023 |
Gail Carriger, paranormal/fantasy/time-travel romance, LGBT+ characters, readers and/or authors, steampunk, gender, family |
| Roach, David |
A Very British Affair – The Best of Classic Romance Comics |
2023 |
comics/manga, UK |
| Horgheim, Celina |
From Rape to Romance: Sexual Consent Negotiation in Romantic Retellings of the Myth of Persephone |
2023 |
myth, sex/sexuality, rape and/or intimate partner violence/abuse, gender, Rachel Alexander, Ophelia Silk, feminism |
| Pupipat, Apisak |
Should a Book Be Judged by its Back Cover? Some Written/Formal Features as Observed in Happily- Ever-After Women’s Novel Blurbs |
2023 |
paratext, linguistics |
| Bharathi, L. Divya; Muthuraman, K. |
Nicholas Charles Sparks’s The Notebook: A Novel Of Love Or Romance? |
2023 |
Nicholas Sparks, genre definitions, happy ending |
| Ya’u, Mohammed Sani; Rashid, Sabariah Md; Ali, Afida Mohamad; Singh, Hardev Kaur Jujar |
Semantic Extensions of Hausa Visual and Auditory Perception Verbs gani and ji in Romance Fiction |
2023 |
linguistics |
| Kamblé, Jayashree |
Creating Identity: The Popular Romance Heroine's Journey to Selfhood and Self-Presentation |
2023 |
gender, sex/sexuality, work, national identity, race/ethnicity, Susan Napier, Nora Roberts/J. D. Robb, Karen Marie Moning, Lisa Kleypas, Beverly Jenkins, Linda Howard, Kresley Cole, Joanna Bourne, Sherry Thomas, Alyssa Cole, metafiction, social/economic class, community, emotions |
| Ripoll Fonollar, Mariana |
Wording deeds: the figure of the suffragette in contemporary british fiction |
2023 |
feminism, historical romance, Katie MacAlister, Courtney Milan, Evie Dunmore |
| Phipps, Catherine |
‘The Machine for Showing Desire’: Desert Romance Fiction and Knowing Sexual Desire |
2023 |
sheikh romance, history, race/ethnicity, sex/sexuality, E. M. Hull, Leonard Noel Barker writing as L. Noel |
| Sharma, Vishal; Bray, Kirsten E.; Kumar, Neha; Grinter, Rebecca E. |
It Takes (at least) Two: The Work to Make Romance Work |
2023 |
Publishing, authors, readers |
| Garciano, Shylyn G.; Cuevas, Gloria Con-ui; Geraldizo-Pabriga, Maria Gemma; Macabodbod, Saira Jay J.; Yu, Jaciah Mae B.; Pinote, Ma. Jezan A. |
Romance-Themed Novels: Influenced on Relationship Satisfaction |
2023 |
readers, psychology |
| Grobbelaar, Madalena; Reid Boyd, Elizabeth; Dudek, Debra |
Contemporary Love Studies in the Arts and Humanities: What's Love Got To Do With It? |
2023 |
|
| Hua, Shaoqi; Xiao, Chengli |
What shapes a parasocial relationship in RVGs? The effects of avatar images, avatar identification, and romantic jealousy among potential, casual, and core players |
2023 |
computer/video/digital games |
| Giovanni, Chiara |
Hetero Ever After? Romance Novels, Race, and the Limits of Social Dreaming |
2023 |
race/ethnicity, Jasmine Guillory, Alisha Rai, romance and, or as, activism, feminism |
| Vermeer, Lina |
The Affective Power of Intimacy: A Case Study of a Men’s Hockey Real Person Fan Fiction’s Literary and Social Contexts |
2023 |
fanfiction, genre definitions, LGBT+ characters, readers and/or authors, emotions, love, pornography, readers, Canada, sport |
| Saxena, Vandana |
Afterlives of Colonialism: Nostalgia, Reader’s Response and the Case of Noel Barber’s Tanamera |
2023 |
historical romance, history, race/ethnicity, UK, Singapore, national identity, readers, Malaysia, war/armed forces, settings, Noel Barber |
| Ya’u, Mohammed Sani; Rashid, Sabariah Md; Ali, Afida Mohamad; Singh, Hardev Kaur Jujar |
Semantic Extensions of Hausa Visual and Auditory Perception Verbs gani and ji in Romance Fiction |
2023 |
linguistics |
| Teo, Hsu-Ming |
Love Is Not Enough: Australian Romantic Fiction from the Mid-Nineteenth to the Early Twentieth Century |
2023 |
Australia, Older and/or precursor texts (may not be "romance" as now defined), Rosa Praed, Marie Bjelke Petersen, marriage, love, work |
| 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 |
| 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 |
| Parnell, Claire; Trinidad, Andrea Anne; McAlister, Jodi |
Live literature in the Philippines: an ethnographic study of #RomanceClass and reading as performance |
2023 |
Philippines, readers, authors, Publishing, Mina V. Esguerra |
| Küçük, Özlem |
Impossible Love in the Hiccup and the Lily of the Valley Novels and the Social Role of the Women |
2023 |
Kerime Nadir, Turkey, Older and/or precursor texts (may not be "romance" as now defined) |
| Pierini, Francesca |
Towards a Regime of Authenticity. Reading A Room with a View through the Lens of Contemporary Romance Scholarship |
2023 |
E. M. Forster, Older and/or precursor texts (may not be "romance" as now defined), Italy, marriage, emotions, happy ending, trash/literary and or intellectual quality |
| Pierre-Robertson, Petronetta |
Librarian as Creator |
2023 |
romance and, or as, activism, libraries/librarians, rape and/or intimate partner violence/abuse, Petra Pierre-Robertson, Caribbean |
| van Hattum, Fatima Y. |
Orientalist Public Pedagogy: Visual Representation of Muslims in Pop Culture and Desert Romance Novels |
2023 |
sheikh romance, paratext, Islam, race/ethnicity |
| Fresno-Calleja, Paloma |
Repurposing Fantasy Island: Lani Wendt Young’s Telesā Series and the Politics of Postcolonial Romance |
2023 |
Lani Wendt Young, YA/teenage romance, settings, paranormal/fantasy/time-travel romance, islands, Samoa, metafiction, race/ethnicity, sex/sexuality, romance and, or as, activism |
| Ya’u, Mohammed Sani; Rashid, Sabariah Md; Ali, Afida Mohamad; Singh, Hardev Kaur Jujar |
Semantic Extensions of Hausa Visual and Auditory Perception Verbs gani and ji in Romance Fiction |
2023 |
linguistics |
| Neely, Diana |
Who Says Women Can’t Love and Empower?: How Representations of Women Have Progressed in Medical Romance Fiction |
2023 |
medical romance, Elizabeth Stuart Phelps, work, Marjorie Norrell, Alyssa Cole, Ali Hazelwood |