| 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 |
| Wellié, Delphine Marie |
Queer and in Love: The Radical Potential of Queer Historical Romances - Disruptions of Cis- and Heteronormativity. Past and Present in A Lady for a Duke and The Doctor's Discretion |
2024 |
Alexis Hall, E. E. Ottoman, LGBTQ+ characters, readers and/or authors, historical romance |
| 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 |
| Cassady, Zoe A.; Crisp, Laura; Wickens, Corrine M. |
Struggling in the Heartland: Romance Novels and Rural Adolescent Identity of Failure |
2025 |
readers, trash/literary and or intellectual quality |
| 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 |
| Wilder, Mims |
(Wo)Men in Love: An Analysis of Sexual Scripts, Escapism, and Queer Explorations Among Woman Readers and Authors of Male/Male Romance Novels |
2025 |
m/m romance, readers, LGBTQ+ characters, readers and/or authors, gender, sex/sexuality, health/medical, disability, race/ethnicity, BDSM |
| 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 |
| Williams, Elizabeth W. |
Queering Settler Romance: The Reparative Eugenic Landscape in Nora Strange's Kenyan Novels |
2019 |
Nora K. Strange, sex/sexuality, race/ethnicity, Kenya, Africa, family, science/technology, history, settings, rural romance, rape and/or intimate partner violence/abuse |
| Patell, Cyrus R. K.; Williams, Deborah Lindsay |
The Oxford History of the Novel in English: Volume 8: American Fiction since 1940 |
2024 |
|
| Williams, Clover; Freedman, Jean R. |
Shakespeare's Step-Sisters: Romance Novels and the Community of Women |
1995 |
readers, feminism, gender, trash/literary and or intellectual quality |
| Williams, Clover |
Keepers of the Flame: The Romance Novel and Its Fans |
1998 |
readers |
| Williamson, Val |
Labour of Love: Gender and the Delivery of the Nineties Mills & Boon "Medical" |
1998 |
medical romance, Harlequin Mills & Boon, work, paratext, health/medical, Gil Sanderson, Margaret Holt |
| Williamson, Margaret |
The Greek romance |
1986 |
Older and/or precursor texts (may not be "romance" as now defined), Chariton, Xenophon of Ephesus, Achilles Tatius, Longus, Heliodorus, love, rural romance |
| Willinsky, John; Hunniford, R. Mark |
Reading the Romance Younger: The Mirrors and Fears of a Preparatory Literature |
1993 |
Canada, YA/teenage romance, readers, gender |
| Hall, Stuart; Hobson, Dorothy; Lowe, Andrew; Willis, Paul |
Culture, Media, Language: Working Papers in Cultural Studies, 1972-79 |
1980 |
|
| Wilson, Nicola |
The Book World: Selling and Distributing British Literature, 1900-1940 |
2016 |
|
| Parke, Maggie; Wilson, Natalie |
Theorizing Twilight: Critical Essays on What's at Stake in a Post-Vampire World |
2011 |
|
| Wilson, Frances |
Byromania: Portraits of the Artist in Nineteenth- and Twentieth-Century Culture |
1999 |
|
| Wilson, Elizabeth Suzanne |
Women creating men: the history of the hero in contemporary category romance fiction since the 1950s |
1986 |
gender |
| 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 |
| Carroll, Joseph; McAdams, Dan P.; Wilson, Edward O. |
Darwin's Bridge: Uniting the Humanities and Sciences |
2016 |
|
| Gottschall, Jonathan; Wilson, David Sloan |
The Literary Animal: Evolution and the Nature of Narrative |
2005 |
|
| Fitzsimmons, Rebekah; Wilson, Casey Alane |
Beyond the Blockbusters: Themes and Trends in Contemporary Young Adult Fiction |
2020 |
|
| Wilson, Bernard; Osman, Sharifah Aishah |
The Asian Family in Literature and Film: Challenges and Contestations-South Asia, Southeast Asia and Asian Diaspora, Volume II |
2024 |
|
| Wilt, Judith |
Women Writers and the Hero of Romance |
2014 |
Older and/or precursor texts (may not be "romance" as now defined), E. M. Hull, gender, Baroness Orczy, Twilight, Fifty Shades |
| Winks, Robin W.; Corrigan, Maureen |
Mystery and Suspense Writers: The Literature of Crime, Detection, and Espionage, Volume 2 |
1998 |
|
| Wintle, Sarah |
The Sheik: What Can be Made of a Daydream |
1996 |
E. M. Hull, film/movies, sex/sexuality, gender, race/ethnicity, Robert Hitchens, animals |
| Wiseman, Sarah Rose |
Hearts and Hashtags: How BookTok is Reshaping Romance Literature |
2024 |
feminism, gender, work, readers |
| Pearce, Lynne; Wisker, Gina |
Fatal Attractions: Rescripting Romance in Contemporary Literature and Film |
1998 |
|
| Panizza, Letizia; Wood, Sharon |
A History of Women’s Writing in Italy |
2000 |
|
| Wood, Christine V. |
Tender Heroes and Twilight Lovers: Re-Reading the Romance in Mass-Market Pulp Novels, 1950–1965 |
2014 |
LGBTQ+ characters, readers and/or authors, gender, United States of America, Older and/or precursor texts (may not be "romance" as now defined), Paula Christian, Ann Bannon, Randy Salem, sex/sexuality |
| Wood, Andrea |
Radicalizing Romance: Subculture, Sex, and Media at the Margins |
2008 |
LGBTQ+ characters, readers and/or authors, m/m romance, lesbian romance, comics/manga, race/ethnicity, pornography, sex/sexuality |
| Wood, Andrea |
Making the Invisible Visible: Lesbian Romance Comics for Women |
2015 |
sex/sexuality, comics/manga, lesbian romance, LGBTQ+ characters, readers and/or authors |
| 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, LGBTQ+ characters, readers and/or authors, Lyn Gala, Lexi Ander, gender |
| Woodruff, Juliette |
A spate of words, full of sound & fury, signifying nothing: or, How to read in Harlequin |
1985 |
gothic romance, Harlequin Mills & Boon, historical romance, Barbara Cartland, Georgette Heyer, marriage |
| Woods, Robert H. |
Evangelical Christians and Popular Culture: Pop Goes the Gospel. Volume 2: Literature, Music, Popular Art, and Merchandise |
2013 |
|
| Worpole, Ken |
Reading by Numbers: Contemporary Publishing & Popular Fiction |
1984 |
Publishing, UK, Harlequin Mills & Boon, trash/literary and or intellectual quality, feminism, romances in magazines and newspapers |
| Wright, Laura Bell |
The Appeal of Vampire Romance: Why Do Readers Like These Stories? |
2003 |
paranormal/fantasy/time-travel romance, readers |
| Wu, Yan; Mallan, Kerry; McGillis, Roderick |
(Re)Imagining the World: Children’s Literature’s Response to Changing Times |
2013 |
|
| Wu, Huei-Hsia; Walsh, Anthony |
Romance Novels and Female Sexuality: Vicarious Participation? |
2005 |
sociology, sex/sexuality, readers |
| Wu, Huei-Hsia |
Gender, Romance Novels and Plastic Sexuality in the United States: A Focus on Female College Students |
2006 |
sex/sexuality, readers, gender, psychology |
| Wu, Huei-Hsia |
Reading Romance Novels and Female Sexuality among American Heterosexual and Lesbian College Students |
2007 |
readers, LGBTQ+ characters, readers and/or authors, sex/sexuality, gender, psychology |
| Hohne, Karen; Wussow, Helen |
A Dialogue of Voices: Feminist Literary Theory and Bakhtin |
1994 |
|
| 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 |
| 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 |
| Porter, J. D.; Eimannsberger, Angelina; English, James; Hathaway, May; Yakoob, Ashna |
Genre Juggernaut: Measuring “Romance” |
2023 |
genre definitions, readers |
| Nagasaki, Hiroko; Yamane, So; Kawasaki, Yutaka |
Currents of Metamorphosis across the Indian Ocean |
2025 |
|
| Yáñez-Bouza, Nuria; Rodríguez-Gil, María E.; Pérez-Guerra, Javier |
New Horizons in Prescriptivism Research |
2024 |
linguistics |
| 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 |
| Yeung, Jessica Siu-yin |
Hong Kong Literature and the Taiwanese Encounter: Literary Magazines, Popular Literature and Shih Shu-Ching’s Hong Kong Stories |
2023 |
romances in magazines and newspapers, Older and/or precursor texts (may not be "romance" as now defined), Taiwan, China |
| York, Chris; York, Rafiel |
Comic Books and the Cold War, 1946-1962: Essays on Graphic Treatment of Communism, the Code and Social Concerns |
2012 |
|
| York, Chris; York, Rafiel |
Comic Books and the Cold War, 1946-1962: Essays on Graphic Treatment of Communism, the Code and Social Concerns |
2012 |
|
| Patthey-Chavez, G. Genevieve; Clare, Lindsay; Youmans, Madeleine |
Watery Passion: The Struggle between Hegemony and Sexual Liberation in Erotic Fiction for Women |
1996 |
metaphor/symbolism, erotic romance, gender, sex/sexuality, linguistics, Shirlee Busbee, Julie Garwood, Roberta Gellis, Johanna Lindsey, Jayne Ann Krentz/Amanda Quick/Jayne Castle, Bertrice Small, Rachel Lee/Sue Civil-Brown, Elizabeth Lowell, Emma Merritt, Fayrene Preston, Kasey Stuart, Linda Turner, virginity, food, drink, war/armed forces, rape and/or intimate partner violence/abuse, work |
| Young, Whitney A. |
Monsters in My Bed: Accounting for the Popularity of Young Adult Paranormal Romances |
2013 |
YA/teenage romance, paranormal/fantasy/time-travel romance, gender, Twilight |
| Young, Helen |
The Middle Ages in Popular Culture: Medievalism and Genre |
2015 |
|
| Young, Erin S. |
Corporate Heroines and Utopian Individualism: A Study of the Romance Novel in Global Capitalism |
2010 |
work, paranormal/fantasy/time-travel romance, capitalism/business, Jayne Ann Krentz/Amanda Quick/Jayne Castle, Nora Roberts/J. D. Robb, Elizabeth Lowell, Katherine Stone, Laurell K. Hamilton, Charlaine Harris, Kelley Armstrong, Carrie Vaughn, race/ethnicity, national identity |
| Young, Erin S. |
Escaping the “Time Bind”: Negotiations of Love and Work in Jayne Ann Krentz's “Corporate Romances” |
2010 |
Jayne Ann Krentz/Amanda Quick/Jayne Castle, work, capitalism/business, family, gender, marriage, race/ethnicity, food, drink, romantic suspense |
| Young, Erin S. |
Flexible Heroines, Flexible Narratives: The Werewolf Romances of Kelley Armstrong and Carrie Vaughn |
2011 |
Kelley Armstrong, Carrie Vaughn, paranormal/fantasy/time-travel romance, capitalism/business, wealth/prosperity, sex/sexuality, family, health/medical, gender, food, drink, rape and/or intimate partner violence/abuse |
| Young, Erin S. |
Saving China: The Transformative Power of Whiteness in Elizabeth Lowell's Jade Island and Katherine Stone's Pearl Moon |
2016 |
race/ethnicity, China, Elizabeth Lowell, Katherine Stone, capitalism/business, national identity, work, family, love, United States of America, wealth/prosperity, settings, romantic suspense |
| Young, Erin S. |
Race, ethnicity, and whiteness |
2021 |
race/ethnicity, Mary Balogh |
| Young, Beth Rapp |
But are they any good? Women readers, formula fiction, and the sacralization of the literary canon |
1995 |
trash/literary and or intellectual quality, readers, Jayne Ann Krentz/Amanda Quick/Jayne Castle |
| Young, Beth Rapp |
Accidental Authors, Random Readers, and the Art of Popular Romance |
1997 |
trash/literary and or intellectual quality, romance scholarship, 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 |
| Zachik-Smith, Susie |
Romance by the book: a morphological analysis of the popular romance |
1993 |
genre definitions, readers, psychology, fairytales/folktales |
| Zaini, Ahmad Zuhdi |
Personality structure of the main character Reid Buchanan in Susan Mallery's Sizzling |
2024 |
psychology, Susan Mallery |
| Zakreski, Patricia |
Tell Me Lies: Lying, Storytelling, and the Romance Novel as Feminist Fiction |
2012 |
Jennifer Crusie, feminism, gender, metafiction |
| O’Neill, Maria; Zamorano Llena, Carmen |
The Aesthetics of Ageing: Critical Approaches to Literary Representations of the Ageing Process |
2002 |
|
| Del Grosso Destreri, Luigi; Brodesco, Alberto; Giovanetti, Silvia; Zanatta, Sara |
Una galassia rosa: Ricerche sulla letteratura femminile di consumo |
2009 |
|
| Soubeyroux, Marie-Hélène; Zapata, Mónica |
Miradas sobre una obra polifacética: Homenaje a Jean Louis Guereña |
2016 |
|
| 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 |
|
| Kuznets, Lois; Zarin, Eve |
Sweet Dreams for Sleeping Beauties: Pre-Teen Romances |
1982 |
YA/teenage romance, settings |
| Zeiger, Melissa F. |
"Less Than Perfect": Negotiating Breast Cancer in Popular Romance Novels |
2013 |
health/medical, feminism |
| Coste, Didier; Zéraffa, Michel |
Le récit amoureux: Colloque de Cerisy-la-Salle |
1984 |
|
| Zhaboriuk, I. A.; Rukshtel, Yu. A. |
The Artistic Detail in the Novel "The Reluctant Widow" by G. Heyer |
2021 |
Georgette Heyer, linguistics |
| Zhang, Chunjie; Krimmer, Elisabeth |
Gender and German Colonialism: Intimacies, Accountabilities, Intersections |
2023 |
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| Zhou, Yanyan; Paul, Bryant; Sherman, Ryland |
Still a Hetero-Gendered World: A Content Analysis of Gender Stereotypes and Romantic Ideals in Chinese Boy Love Stories |
2018 |
m/m romance, gender, China, LGBTQ+ characters, readers and/or authors |
| Zibrak, Arielle |
Avidly Reads Guilty Pleasures |
2021 |
readers, sex/sexuality, historical romance, gender, Older and/or precursor texts (may not be "romance" as now defined), Susan Warner, E. D. E. N. Southworth, Rosemary Rogers, Jill Marie Landis, fairytales/folktales, feminism |
| Zidle, Abby |
From Bodice-Ripper to Baby-Sitter: The New Hero in Mass-Market Romance |
1999 |
gender, emotions, psychology, readers, sex/sexuality, wealth/prosperity |
| Zille, Tom |
Georgette Heyer and the language of the historical novel |
2021 |
Georgette Heyer, linguistics, history, historical romance |
| Zimmermann, Hans Dieter |
Schema-Literatur: ästhetische Norm und literarisches System |
1979 |
genre definitions, trash/literary and or intellectual quality, dime novels, Germany |
| Zwar, Jan; Lawson, Airlie |
Success Story - International Rights Sales of Australian- Authored Books: Case Studies |
2021 |
Publishing, Australia, Kylie Scott |
| [Sigroha], Suman |
Gendered Migrations and Literary Narratives: Writing Communities in South Asian Diaspora |
2018 |
authors, work, family, gender, Publishing |
| Γραφανάκη, Ρωξάνη |
Γυναίκες και ροζ λογοτεχνία: η περίπτωση των εκδόσεων Άρλεκιν |
2019 |
Harlequin Mills & Boon, feminism, capitalism/business, gender, sex/sexuality |
| Στάμου, Εύα |
Η επέλαση της ροζ λογοτεχνίας. Δοκίμιο για την Ευδοκίμηση μιας Μορφής Αφηγηματικού Λόγου |
2014 |
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| 尾崎, 俊介 |
ハーレクイン対フェミニズム － フォーミュラ・ロマンス批評史をめぐる一考察 － |
2005 |
Harlequin Mills & Boon, feminism |