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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, LGBTQ+ characters, readers and/or authors, emotions, love, pornography, readers, Canada, sport
Veros, Vassiliki Scholarship-In-Practice: The Romance Reader and the Public Library 2012 libraries/librarians, trash/literary and or intellectual quality, readers, Australia
Veros, Vassiliki A Matter of Meta: Category Romance Fiction and the Interplay of Paratext and Library Metadata 2015 libraries/librarians, Harlequin Mills & Boon, paratext
Veros, Vassiliki Keepers: Marking the Value of the Books on my Shelves 2017 readers, trash/literary and or intellectual quality
Veros, Vassiliki Metatextual Conversations: The Exclusion/Inclusion of Genre Fiction in Public Libraries and Social Media Book Groups 2019 libraries/librarians, trash/literary and or intellectual quality, readers
Veros, Vassiliki The selective tradition, the role of romance fiction donations, and public library practices in New South Wales, Australia 2020 Australia, libraries/librarians
Veros, Vassiliki What the Librarians Did: The Marginalisation of Romance Fiction Through the Practices of Public Librarianship 2020 libraries/librarians, Australia
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
Andrade, Roberta Manuela Barros de; Viana, Thiago Mena Barreto; Feitosa, Ricardo Augusto de Sabóia Prazer, Emoção e Cotidiano na Leitura de Romances Sentimentais 2020 Brazil, readers
Andrade, Roberta Manuela Barros de; Silva, Erotilde Honório; Feitosa, Ricardo Augusto de Sabóia; Viana, Thiago Mena Barreto Um século de romances de amor: A trajetória da literatura sentimental no Brasil (1920 - 2020) 2020 Brazil
Vidotto, Ilaria; Goossens, Vannina D’une fenêtre à l’autre. Étude d’un motif spécifique à la littérature blanche et au roman sentimental 2020 linguistics
Villalba Álvarez, Marina Mujeres novelistas en el panorama literario del siglo XX: I Congreso de narrativa española (en lengua castellana). 2000
Villar-Argáiz, Pilar Ireland and the Popular Genre of Historical Romance: The Novels of Karen Robards 2018 Ireland, historical romance, Karen Robards, UK, race/ethnicity, gender, cross-dressing, settings, rape and/or intimate partner violence/abuse, sex/sexuality
Vinson, James; Kirkpatrick, D. L. Twentieth Century Romance and Gothic Writers 1982 Jane Aiken Hodge, Effie Adelaide Rowlands, also known as Madame Albanesi, Lucilla Andrews, Jane Arbor, Elizabeth Ashton, Ruby M. Ayres, Faith Baldwin, Florence Barclay, Betty Beaty, Lilian Warren as Kathryn Blair/Rosalind Brett/Celine Conway, Mary Burchell, pen name of Ida Cook, Barbara Cartland, Catherine Cookson, Marie Corelli, Janet Dailey, Iris Danbury, Ethel M. Dell, Viña Delmar, Joyce Dingwell/Kate Starr, Maud Diver, Daphne du Maurier, Dorothy Eden, Eleanor Farnes, Jeffrey Farnol, Charles Garvice, Roberta Gellis, Elinor Glyn, Maysie Greig, Anne Hampson, Georgette Heyer, Grace Livingston Hill, Victoria Holt/Jean Plaidy/Eleanor Burford Hibbert, Elizabeth Hoy, E. M. Hull, Charlotte Lamb, Roumelia Lane, Roberta Leigh/Rachel Lindsay, Jean S. MacLeod/Catherine Airlie, Anne Mather, Patricia Matthews, Barbara Michaels a.k.a. Elizabeth Peters a.k.a. Barbara Mertz, Margaret Mitchell, Netta Muskett, Betty Neels, Kathleen Thompson Norris, Kate Norway/Olive Norton, Baroness Orczy, Margaret Pargeter, Mary Roberts Rinehart, Denise Robins, Rosemary Rogers, Margaret Rome, Berta Ruck, Rafael Sabatini, Sara Seale, Danielle Steel, Mary Stewart, Rebecca Stratton, Essie Summers, Annie S. Swan, Kay Thorpe, Patricia Veryan, Lucy Walker, Margaret Way, Phyllis A. Whitney, Kathleen Winsor, Violet Winspear, Kathleen Woodiwiss, Mary Lutyens/Esther Wyndham
Violi, Patrizia Breve storia della letteratura rosa 2020 Older and/or precursor texts (may not be "romance" as now defined), Carolina Invernizio, Liala, pen name of Amalia Liana Cambiasi Negretti Odescalchi, Publishing, Harlequin Mills & Boon, romances in magazines and newspapers, Fifty Shades, fanfiction
Vişan, Nadina Untranslatability in Regency Romances: Explicitation or Implicitation? 2024 translation, Julia Quinn, Romania, sex/sexuality
Stapleton, Rachel F.; Viselli, Antonio Iconoclasm: The Breaking and Making of Images 2019
Vitackova, Martina Representation of racial and sexual ‘others’ in Afrikaans popular romantic fiction by Sophia Kapp 2018 Sophia Kapp, race/ethnicity, sex/sexuality, Africa, South Africa
Vivanco, Laura; Kramer, Kyra There Are Six Bodies in This Relationship: An Anthropological Approach to the Romance Genre 2010 gender, Harlequin Mills & Boon, Christian romance, family, sex/sexuality, lesbian romance, LGBTQ+ characters, readers and/or authors
Vivanco, Laura For Love and Money: The Literary Art of the Harlequin Mills & Boon Romance 2011 Harlequin Mills & Boon, trash/literary and or intellectual quality, metafiction, Shakespeare, Jane Austen, fairytales/folktales, myth, metaphor/symbolism, Louise Allen, Caroline Anderson, Elizabeth Ashton, Mary Burchell, pen name of Ida Cook, Julie Cohen, Sophie Cole, Jennifer Crusie, Carola Dunn, Liz Fielding, Polly Forrester, Kate Hardy, Linda Harrel, Jessica Hart, Madeline Ker, Marcia King-Gamble, Charlotte Lamb, Marion Lennox, Margaret Malcolm, Paula Marshall, Sandra Marton, Hilary Neal, Betty Neels, Diana Palmer, Emilie Richards, Fay Robinson/Carmel Parsons Thomaston, Sara Seale, Deborah Simmons, Anne Stuart, Michelle Styles, Jane Sullivan, Hope Tarr, Claire Thornton, Anne Weale, Sophie Weston, ecocriticism/environmentalism/climate change
Vivanco, Laura Feminism and Early Twenty-First Century Harlequin Mills & Boon Romances 2012 feminism, Harlequin Mills & Boon
Vivanco, Laura Jennifer Crusie's Literary Lingerie 2012 Jennifer Crusie, sex/sexuality, fashion/clothing, metaphor/symbolism
Vivanco, Laura One Ring to Bind Them: Ring Symbolism in Popular Romance Fiction 2012 fashion/clothing, marriage, Lisa Kleypas, Jennifer Crusie, Loretta Chase, Melissa McClone, Jayne Ann Krentz/Amanda Quick/Jayne Castle, Jessica Hart, Dorie Graham, Roslyn Hardy Holcomb, Margot Early, Laura Abbot, sex/sexuality, metaphor/symbolism
Vivanco, Laura Georgette Heyer: The Nonesuch of Regency Romance 2013 social/economic class, race/ethnicity, Georgette Heyer, history, historical romance
Vivanco, Laura Pursuing Happiness: Reading American Romance as Political Fiction 2016 United States of America, gender, disability, race/ethnicity, history, national identity, Linnea Sinclair, Pamela Morsi, Nora Roberts/J. D. Robb, Sharon Shinn, LaVyrle Spencer, Beverly Jenkins, Karin Kallmaker, work, community, historical romance, Sharon Brondos, Mary Burton, Ruth Jean Dale, Joan Johnston, Ruth Wind/Barbara Samuel/Barbara O'Neal, Joan Wolf, LGBTQ+ characters, readers and/or authors
Vivanco, Laura A Place “We All Dream About”: Greece in Mills & Boon Romances 2017 Greece, race/ethnicity, Harlequin Mills & Boon, sex/sexuality, science/technology, myth
Vivanco, Laura Changing Attitudes to Others: Meljean Brook’s Riveted (2012) and its Context 2020 Meljean Brook, Publishing, authors, readers, race/ethnicity, disability, gender, steampunk, LGBTQ+ characters, readers and/or authors, Zoë Archer, war/armed forces
Vivanco, Laura Faith, Love, Hope and Popular Romance Fiction 2020 religion/spirituality, love, death, authors, readers, romance and, or as, activism, Lindsay Evans, health/medical, psychology, Piper Huguley, race/ethnicity, Publishing, romance scholarship, Rose Lerner, Older and/or precursor texts (may not be "romance" as now defined), sex/sexuality, LGBTQ+ characters, readers and/or authors, Alyssa Cole, wealth/prosperity, emotions, metaphor/symbolism, Carola Dunn, Georgette Heyer, Lisa Kleypas, Meljean Brook, Elizabeth Hoyt, Justine Davis/Justine Dare, Suleikha Snyder, Nora Roberts/J. D. Robb, rape and/or intimate partner violence/abuse, community, happy ending
Ramos-García, María T.; Vivanco, Laura Introduction 2020 race/ethnicity
Vivanco, Laura Let’s Not Get Carried Away by The Sheik 2020 E. M. Hull, Older and/or precursor texts (may not be "romance" as now defined), Berta Ruck, gender, LGBTQ+ characters, readers and/or authors, marriage
Ramos-García, María T.; Vivanco, Laura Love, Language, Place, and Identity in Popular Culture: Romancing the Other 2020
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
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
Vivanco, Laura Feeling Judged: Reflections on Pornography and Romance from a Minotaur Milking Farm 2024 pornography, trash/literary and or intellectual quality, paranormal/fantasy/time-travel romance, sex/sexuality, race/ethnicity, emotions, C. M. Nascosta, metafiction, family
Kaufman, Alexander L.; Vlagopoulos, Penny Food and Feast in Modern Outlaw Tales 2019
Voaden, Rosalynn The Language of Love: Medieval Erotic Vision and Modern Romance Fiction 1995 gender, religion/spirituality
Steiner, Peter; Červenka, Miroslav; Vroon, Ronald The Structure of the Literary Process Studies dedicated to the Memory of Felix Vodička 1982
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
Strinati, Dominic; Wagg, Stephen Come on Down?: Popular Media Culture in Post-War Britain 1992
Wagner, Wendy Jennifer Crusie 2008 Jennifer Crusie, fairytales/folktales, romantic suspense, rom-com romance, LGBTQ+ characters, readers and/or authors
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
Waldschmidt, Anne; Berressem, Hanjo; Ingwersen, Moritz Culture - Theory – Disability: Encounters between Disability Studies and Cultural Studies 2017
Walker, Lisa Polar bears and evil scientists: Romance, comedy and climate change 2014 science/technology, romance and, or as, activism, authors, settings, ecocriticism/environmentalism/climate change
Walker, Alyssa Chen Bringing the Laboratory Dog Home: Elizabeth Stuart Phelps and the Antivivisection Narrative 2013 Elizabeth Stuart Phelps, animals, romance and, or as, activism, Older and/or precursor texts (may not be "romance" as now defined)
Mao, Douglas; Walkowitz, Rebecca L. Bad Modernisms 2006
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
Wallace, Doris B. Education, Arts, and Morality: Creative Journeys 2005
Wallace, Diana The Woman's Historical Novel: British Women Writers, 1900-2000 2005 Georgette Heyer, Daphne du Maurier, Mary Renault, Victoria Holt/Jean Plaidy/Eleanor Burford Hibbert, Catherine Cookson, Jeanette Winterson, A. S. Byatt, historical romance
Waller, Philip Writers, Readers, and Reputations: Literary Life in Britain 1870-1918 2006 Charles Garvice, Florence Barclay, Older and/or precursor texts (may not be "romance" as now defined), authors
Wu, Huei-Hsia; Walsh, Anthony Romance Novels and Female Sexuality: Vicarious Participation? 2005 sociology, sex/sexuality, readers
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
Wardrop, Stephanie The Heroine is Being Beaten: Freud, Sadomasochism, and Reading the Romance 1995 Kathleen Woodiwiss, rape and/or intimate partner violence/abuse, psychology, BDSM, Linda Howard, gender, family, virginity, readers
Wardrop, Stephanie Last of the Red Hot Mohicans: Miscegenation in the Popular American Romance 1997 United States of America, Native American romance, race/ethnicity, religion/spirituality, Older and/or precursor texts (may not be "romance" as now defined), Colleen Faulkner, gender, Genell Dellin
Warnaar, Karin Dresses and Drapery: The Material Essie Summers 2023 Essie Summers, fashion/clothing, Harlequin Mills & Boon, New Zealand
Warner, Celeste R. Heyer’s heroes: An investigation into Georgette Heyer and her literary ‘mark’ on the Regency hero 2010 Georgette Heyer, gender
Warnes, Christopher Desired State: Black Economic Empowerment and the South African Popular Romance 2014 Africa, work, race/ethnicity, South Africa, gender
Luneau, Marie-Pier; Warren, Jean-Philippe Ce que le roman catholique fait au roman sentimental : le cas de la collection « Amour et aventure » 2019 religion/spirituality, Christian romance, race/ethnicity, Canada, Publishing
Warren, Jean-Philippe; Luneau, Marie-Pier The Best Romance Dime Novels on the (French-Canadian) Market: The Promotional Strategies of Police-Journal, 1944-1963 2021 Canada, Publishing, paratext, dime novels
Luneau, Marie-Pier; Warren, Jean-Philippe D’amour et d’or pur. Les impératifs matérialistes du bonheur amoureux dans le roman sentimental québécois de l’après-guerre 2022 dime novels, Canada, wealth/prosperity
Luneau, Marie-Pier; Warren, Jean-Philippe L’amour comme un roman. Le roman sentimental au Québec d’hier à aujourd’hui 2022 Canada, Older and/or precursor texts (may not be "romance" as now defined), Harlequin Mills & Boon, sociology, love, marriage, sex/sexuality
Luneau, Marie-Pier; Warren, Jean-Philippe Une littérature qui refuse de se laisser parler d’amour ? Les romans québécois et l’expression de la passion avant 1960 2022 Older and/or precursor texts (may not be "romance" as now defined), Canada, love, dime novels, wealth/prosperity, family
Luneau, Marie-Pier; Warren, Jean-Philippe; Boivin, Karol'Ann; Bérubé, Harold Amour à 10 sous: Le roman sentimental québécois de l'après-guerre 2023 Older and/or precursor texts (may not be "romance" as now defined), Canada, dime novels
Luneau, Marie-Pier; Warren, Jean-Philippe Le temps des fascicules: Entre pratiques périodiques et pratiques livresques 2023 paratext, dime novels, Canada
Luneau, Marie-Pier; Warren, Jean-Philippe Affaires et sentiments : la figure de l’homme d’affaires dans le roman sentimental québécois de l’après-guerre 2024 wealth/prosperity, capitalism/business, Canada
Luneau, Marie-Pier; Warren, Jean-Philippe Love Stories Now and Then: A History of Les romans d'amour 2024 Canada, Older and/or precursor texts (may not be "romance" as now defined), sociology, love, marriage, sex/sexuality, history, Philippe Aubert de Gaspé Jr., Joseph Doutre, metafiction, Pierre-Joseph-Olivier Chauveau, social/economic class, religion/spirituality, race/ethnicity, Rosanna Leprohon, Ernest Choquette, family, Virginie Dussault, Albertine Laperle-Bernier, dime novels, Harlequin Mills & Boon, YA/teenage romance, chick lit, Marie-Claude Bussières-Tremblay, Micheline Perron, rape and/or intimate partner violence/abuse, Raymond Plante, Bertrand Gauthier, LGBTQ+ characters, readers and/or authors, chick lit, Suzanne Roy, Chloé Duval, BDSM
Washington, AlTonya An Indie Author in a Library World 2015 Publishing, authors, readers, libraries/librarians
Waters, Chris New Women and Socialist-Feminist Fiction: The Novels of Isabella Ford and Katharine Bruce Glasier 1993 socialism and/or communism, LGBTQ+ characters, readers and/or authors, Older and/or precursor texts (may not be "romance" as now defined), Katharine Bruce Glasier
Watson, Daphne Their Own Worst Enemies: Women Writers of Women's Fiction 1995 Daphne du Maurier, Mary Stewart, Harlequin Mills & Boon, fairytales/folktales, gender, Charlotte Brontë, BDSM, social/economic class, food, drink, fashion/clothing, work
Watson, Courtney I Thought You’d Never Ask: Consent in Contemporary Romance 2022 sex/sexuality, K. J. Charles, feminism, romance scholarship
Gelder, Ken; Weaver, Rachael Louise Mack and Colonial Pseudo Literature 2010 Australia, trash/literary and or intellectual quality, Louise Mack, Older and/or precursor texts (may not be "romance" as now defined), national identity, metafiction
Huang, Yu-ting; Weaver-Hightower, Rebecca Archiving Settler Colonialism: Culture, Space and Race 2019
Weaver-Zercher, Valerie Tracing the Backstory of Amish Romance Novels 2012 Christian romance, rural romance, Older and/or precursor texts (may not be "romance" as now defined), religion/spirituality, paratext, Helen Reimensnyder Martin, Beverly Lewis, Cora Gottschalk Welty, race/ethnicity, Ruth Lininger Dobson, Joseph W. Yoder, Clara Bernice Miller, Janette Oke, Publishing
Weaver-Zercher, Valerie Thrill of the Chaste: the Allure of Amish Romance Novels 2013 Christian romance, United States of America, religion/spirituality, paratext, Publishing, Beverly Lewis, Wanda Brunstetter, Cindy Woodsmall, sex/sexuality, virginity, readers, gender, Helen Reimensnyder Martin, Older and/or precursor texts (may not be "romance" as now defined), Clara Bernice Miller, Cora Gottschalk Welty, rural romance, Ruth Lininger Dobson, Joseph W. Yoder, Janette Oke, settings, happy ending, marriage, family, Linda Byler, race/ethnicity
Dane, Alexandra; Weber, Millicent Post-Digital Book Cultures: Australian Perspectives 2021
Batsleer, Janet; Davies, Tony; O'Rourke, Rebecca; Weedon, Chris Rewriting English: Cultural Politics of Gender and Class 1985 genre definitions, gender, capitalism/business, feminism, Florence Barclay, E. M. Hull, history, Barbara Cartland, Catherine Cookson, social/economic class, race/ethnicity, UK, sex/sexuality, fashion/clothing
Randell, Karen; Weedon, Alexis Atlantic Liners, It Girls and Old Europe in Elinor Glyn’s Romantic Adventures 2020 Elinor Glyn, social/economic class, wealth/prosperity, Older and/or precursor texts (may not be "romance" as now defined), marriage, United States of America, history
Weibel, Kathryn Mirror Mirror: Images of Women Reflected in Popular Culture 1977 Harlequin Mills & Boon, gothic romance
Moretto, Shirley; Weidenburner, Kathleen We’ll Take Romance! 1984 libraries/librarians
Weil, Françoise La lecture du roman sentimental dans les bibliothèques publiques: l’exemple de Dijon 1990 France, libraries/librarians
Weimer, Christopher Romancing Weird Fiction: Lovecraftian Reinscriptions in Jordan L. Hawk's Whyborne and Griffin 2021 Jordan L. Hawk, m/m romance, LGBTQ+ characters, readers and/or authors, paranormal/fantasy/time-travel romance, race/ethnicity
Weintraub, Andrew N. Islam and Popular Culture in Indonesia and Malaysia 2011
Weir, Angela; Wilson, Elizabeth The Greyhound Bus Station in the Evolution of Lesbian Popular Culture 1992 LGBTQ+ characters, readers and/or authors, Older and/or precursor texts (may not be "romance" as now defined), Ann Bannon, Valerie Taylor, Claire Morgan/Patricia Highsmith, history, March Hastings, marriage, psychology, cross-dressing, Gale Wilhelm, Radclyffe Hall, Randy Salem, gender, sex/sexuality
Weis, Lois; Fine, Michelle Beyond Silenced Voices: Class, Race, and Gender in United States Schools 1993
Weisser, Susan Ostrov; Fleischner, Jennifer Feminist Nightmares: Women at Odds: Feminism and the Problem of Sisterhood 1994
Weisser, Susan Ostrov The Wonderful-Terrible Bitch Figure in Harlequin Novels 1994 Harlequin Mills & Boon, gender, Anne Hampson, sex/sexuality, Charlotte Lamb
Weisser, Susan Ostrov The Glass Slipper: Women and Love Stories 2013 love, gender, feminism, Twilight, romance scholarship, Isabel Sharpe, African American romance, race/ethnicity, Harlequin Mills & Boon, pornography
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
Wells, Juliette True Love Waits: Austen and the Christian Romance in the Contemporary U. S. 2008 Jane Austen, Christian romance, Debra White Smith, religion/spirituality
Wells, Juliette Afterword: Sex, Romance, and Representation in Uzma Jalaluddin’s Ayesha at Last 2022 Uzma Jalaluddin, Jane Austen, sex/sexuality, religion/spirituality, Islam
Wendell, Sarah "You call me a bitch like that's a bad thing": Romance Criticism and Redefining the Word "Bitch" 2012 readers, gender, feminism, fashion/clothing, authors
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
Westman, Karin E. A Story of Her Weaving: The Self-Authoring Heroines of Georgette Heyer's Regency Romance 2003 Georgette Heyer, trash/literary and or intellectual quality, historical romance
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
Whalen, Kacey A Consumption of Gay Men: Navigating the Shifting Boundaries of M/M Romantic Readership 2017 m/m romance, readers, gender, sex/sexuality, K. J. Charles, LGBTQ+ characters, readers and/or authors
Wheeler, Duncan Following Franco: Spanish culture and politics in transition, 1962–92 2020 Spain, fascism/right-wing authoritarianism, Corín Tellado
Wherry, Maryan More than a Love Story: The Complexities Of the Popular Romance 2015 genre definitions, Older and/or precursor texts (may not be "romance" as now defined), fairytales/folktales, Jennifer Crusie, sex/sexuality
Whissell, Cynthia Objective Analysis of Text: I. A Comparison of Adventure and Romance Novels 1994 linguistics
Whissell, Cynthia Mate Selection in Popular Women's Fiction 1996 evolutionary psychology, family, gender
Whissell, Cynthia The Formula Behind Women's Romantic Formula Fiction (Statistical survey of 50 Harlequin-Presents novels) 1998 Harlequin Mills & Boon, genre definitions
White, Mimi Representing Romance: Reading/Writing/Fantasy and the "Liberated" Heroine of Recent Hollywood Films 1989 film/movies
White, Bonnie; Pope, Johnathan H. Spinsters, war widows, and wounded soldiers: the Great War novels of Berta Ruck 2018 Berta Ruck, war/armed forces, gender, disability, marriage
White, Bonnie Freedom, Sincerity, and the Modern Woman in the Interwar Romances of Berta Ruck 2022 Berta Ruck, history, gender, UK, cross-dressing, LGBTQ+ characters, readers and/or authors, sex/sexuality, fashion/clothing, emotions
Sullivan, Ceri; White, Barbara Writing and Fantasy 1999
White, Ann Yvonne Genesis Press: Cultural Representation and the Production of African American Romance Novels 2008 African American romance, Publishing, readers, race/ethnicity, Older and/or precursor texts (may not be "romance" as now defined), Dyanne Davis, sex/sexuality
Whitehead, Frances Love Makes the World Go Round (?): The Romantic Novel as a Publishing Phenomenon 1992 Older and/or precursor texts (may not be "romance" as now defined), genre definitions, Harlequin Mills & Boon, Japan, Africa, readers, Publishing
Whitsitt, Novian Islamic-Hausa Feminism and Kano Market Literature: Qur'anic Reinterpretation in the Novels of Balaraba Yakubu 2002 Nigeria, Africa, Islam, gender, marriage, feminism, religion/spirituality, Balaraba Ramat Yakubu, sex/sexuality, family, health/medical
Whitsitt, Novian Hausa Women Writers Confronting the Traditional Status of Women in Modern Islamic Society: Feminist Thought in Nigerian Popular Fiction 2003 Nigeria, Africa, Islam, religion/spirituality, gender, Bilkisu Ahmed Funtuwa, marriage, love, work, Balaraba Ramat Yakubu
Whitsitt, Novian Islamic-Hausa Feminism Meets Northern Nigerian Romance: The Cautious Rebellion of Bilkisu Funtuwa 2003 Nigeria, Africa, Islam, Bilkisu Ahmed Funtuwa, marriage, gender, religion/spirituality, feminism, work, love, family
Whitsitt, Novian Northern Nigerian Popular Literature and the Boundaries of Hausa Feminism: The Works of Balaraba Yakubu and Bilkisu Funtuwa 2021 Balaraba Ramat Yakubu, Bilkisu Ahmed Funtuwa, feminism, Nigeria
Griffiths, Clare V. J.; Nott, James J.; Whyte, William Classes, Cultures, & Politics: Essays on British History for Ross McKibbin 2011
Whyte, Tamara Lynn Shakespeare in Love: Appropriation of Shakespeare in Popular Romance Novels 2013 Shakespeare
Whyte, Tamara "A consummation devoutly to be wished": Shakespeare in Popular Historical Romance Fiction 2012 Shakespeare, Jacquie D'Allessandro, Sabrina Jefferies, Kalen Hughes/Isobel Carr, readers, Eloisa James, Susan Wiggs, Andrea Pickens, Kathryn Caskie, Suzanne Enoch, historical romance, Kasey Michaels, Mary Balogh, Margaret Moore
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
Wiebe, Laura Speculative Matter: Generic Affinities, Posthumanisms and Science-Fictional Imaginings 2012 paranormal/fantasy/time-travel romance, Christine Feehan
Wiegand, Wayne A. A Part of Our Lives: A People’s History of the American Public Library 2015 libraries/librarians
van der Putten, Jan; Arnez, Monika; Wieringa, Edwin P.; Graf, Arndt Traditions Redirecting Contemporary Indonesian Cultural Productions 2017
Wijanarka, Hirmawan Cinderella Formula: The Romance Begins 2022 Harlequin Mills & Boon, genre definitions
Wilbur, Shawn P. An Archaeology of Cyberspaces: Virtuality, Community, Identity 1997 Harlequin Mills & Boon, Publishing
Wilcox, Vanda Georgette Heyer, Wellington’s Army and the First World War 2021 Georgette Heyer, war/armed forces, history, gender
Driscoll, Beth; Fletcher, Lisa; Wilkins, Kim Women, Akubras and Ereaders: Romance Fiction and Australian Publishing 2011 Australia, Publishing, rural romance, Harlequin Mills & Boon
Wilkins, Kim “Ravished by Vikings”: The Pre-modern and the Paranormal in Viking Romance Fiction 2016 historical romance, paranormal/fantasy/time-travel romance, sex/sexuality, history, feminism, gender, war/armed forces, rape and/or intimate partner violence/abuse
Fletcher, Lisa; Driscoll, Beth; Wilkins, Kim Genre Worlds and Popular Fiction: The Case of Twenty-First-Century Australian Romance 2018 Publishing, Australia
Driscoll, Beth; Fletcher, Lisa; Wilkins, Kim; Carter, David The Publishing Ecosystems of Contemporary Australian Genre Fiction 2018 Publishing, Australia
Fletcher, Lisa; Driscoll, Beth; Wilkins, Kim What is Australian Popular Fiction? 2018 Australia, national identity, settings
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
Wilkins, Kim; Driscoll, Beth; Fletcher, Lisa Genre Worlds: Popular Fiction and 21st-Century Book Culture 2022 Publishing, readers
Driscoll, Beth; Wilkins, Kim Australian Fantasy, Crime and Romance Fiction in the Twentieth and Twenty-First Centuries 2023 Australia, Publishing
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
Williams, Mary Consent Is Sexy: A Look Into the Influence the ‘Me Too.’ Movement Had On the Romance Genre Through Smart Bitches Trashy Books 2021 sex/sexuality, readers
Fletcher, Lisa; McAlister, Jodi; Temple, Kurt; Williams, Kathleen #loveyourshelfie: Mills & Boon books and how to find them 2019 Harlequin Mills & Boon, paratext, trash/literary and or intellectual quality, readers, Publishing, Australia
Williams, Jeffrey J. The Culture of Books: An Interview with Janice Radway 2006 romance scholarship, Publishing
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Patell, Cyrus R. K.; Williams, Deborah Lindsay The Oxford History of the Novel in English: Volume 8: American Fiction since 1940 2024
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