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Charles, John; Mosley, Shelley Getting Serious about Romance: Adult Series Romances for Teens 2002 libraries/librarians, Harlequin Mills & Boon
Bettinotti, Julia; Jeannesson, Gaëlle; Truel, Marie-Françoise Séries, suites et redites en culture médiatique 2002 sheikh romance, E. M. Hull, Johanna Lindsey, trash/literary and or intellectual quality
Bloom, Clive Bestsellers: Popular Fiction Since 1900 2002 UK, readers, Publishing, Older and/or precursor texts (may not be "romance" as now defined), Florence Barclay, Marie Corelli, Charles Garvice, Elinor Glyn, Baroness Orczy, Effie Adelaide Rowlands, also known as Madame Albanesi, Berta Ruck, Ethel M. Dell, Ruby M. Ayres, Jeffrey Farnol, E. M. Hull, Rafael Sabatini, Daphne du Maurier, Georgette Heyer, Margaret Mitchell, Mary Renault, Jackie Collins, Victoria Holt/Jean Plaidy/Eleanor Burford Hibbert, Barbara Taylor Bradford, Barbara Cartland, Catherine Cookson, Charlotte Lamb, Penny Jordan/Caroline Courtney, M. M. Kaye, Colleen McCullough, Danielle Steel, Phyllis A. Whitney
De Silva Miguel, Donna Love conquers all: the rhetoric, culture, and appeal of the contemporary romance novel, and coming to terms with coming out of the closet 2002
Inge, M. Thomas; Hall, Dennis The Greenwood Guide to American Popular Culture: Volume Four (Pulps and Dime Novels through Young Adult Fiction) 2002
Moudileno, Lydie Pas de romance sans finance: la construction du couple moderne dans les romans sentimentaux de l'Afrique de l'Ouest 2002 Africa, settings, love, sex/sexuality, gender, fashion/clothing, wealth/prosperity
Smith, William Clay Kinchen Revising Captivity Narratives 2002 United States of America, historical romance, Native American romance, Fern Michaels, race/ethnicity, Nan Ryan, Karen A. Bale
Bettinotti, Julia; Jeannesson, Gaëlle; Truel, Marie-Françoise Séries, suites et redites en culture médiatique 2002 sheikh romance, E. M. Hull, Johanna Lindsey, trash/literary and or intellectual quality
Carmona González, Ángeles Corín Tellado: el erotismo rosa 2002 Corín Tellado
Inge, M. Thomas; Hall, Dennis The Greenwood Guide to American Popular Culture: Volume Four (Pulps and Dime Novels through Young Adult Fiction) 2002
Brooker, Will; Jermyn, Deborah The Audience Studies Reader 2002
Bettinotti, Julia; Jeannesson, Gaëlle; Truel, Marie-Françoise Séries, suites et redites en culture médiatique 2002 sheikh romance, E. M. Hull, Johanna Lindsey, trash/literary and or intellectual quality
Meyer, Michael The Bedford Introduction to Literature: Reading, Thinking, Writing (Sixth Edition) 2002 Karen van der Zee, teaching romance
Sonnet, Esther '"Just a book", she said ...': Refiguring Ethnography for the Female Readers of Sexual Fiction 2002 readers, sex/sexuality
Scott, Alison M. Romance in the Stacks; or, Popular Romance Fiction Imperiled 2002 libraries/librarians, trash/literary and or intellectual quality, romance scholarship
Andreu, Alicia G. La Sección Femenina de la Falange en la obra de Carmen Martín Gaite: La popularidad de las novelas rosa en la posguerra española 2002 Spain, fascism/right-wing authoritarianism
Brooker, Will; Jermyn, Deborah The Audience Studies Reader 2002
Boni, Tanella L’éducation sentimentale selon Adoras 2003 Africa
Kustritz, Anne Slashing the Romance Narrative 2003 fanfiction, gender, emotions, sex/sexuality
Burley, Stephanie Carol Hearts of Darkness: The Racial Politics of Popular Romance 2003 race/ethnicity, B. J. James, Native American romance, Dara Joy, Sandra Kitt, science fiction/futuristic romance, African American romance
DeBlase, Gina Acknowledging agency while accommodating romance: Girls negotiating meaning in literacy transactions 2003 readers, gender, social/economic class
Levina, Mariia Readers of Mass Literature, 1994-200: From Paternalism to Individualism? 2003 Russia, Publishing, readers
Strehle, Susan; Carden, Mary Paniccia Doubled Plots: Romance and History 2003
Strehle, Susan; Carden, Mary Paniccia Doubled Plots: Romance and History 2003
Adams, Kathleen Barzun Thirty years of change: heroes, heroines, and the popular romance 2003 gender
Blake, Susan L. What "Race" is the Sheik?: Rereading a Desert Romance 2003 E. M. Hull, rape and/or intimate partner violence/abuse, race/ethnicity, history, marriage, gender, sheikh romance
Regis, Pamela A Natural History of the Romance Novel 2003 genre definitions, trash/literary and or intellectual quality, Samuel Richardson, Jane Austen, Older and/or precursor texts (may not be "romance" as now defined), Charlotte Brontë, Anthony Trollope, E. M. Forster, Georgette Heyer, Mary Stewart, Harlequin Mills & Boon, Janet Dailey, Jayne Ann Krentz/Amanda Quick/Jayne Castle, Nora Roberts/J. D. Robb, rape and/or intimate partner violence/abuse, E. M. Hull
Lutz, Deborah Heidegger, the Erotics of Ontology, and the Mass-Market Romance 2003 love, death, philosophy
Ouyang, Huining Behind the Mask of Coquetry: The Trickster Narrative in Miss Numè of Japan: A Japanese-American Romance 2003 Onoto Watanna/Winnifred Eaton, Older and/or precursor texts (may not be "romance" as now defined), Japan, race/ethnicity
Burley, Stephanie What's a Nice Girl like You Doing in a Book like This?: Homoerotic Reading and Popular Romance 2003 sex/sexuality, readers, Karen Robards, Kristin Hannah, virginity, BDSM, LGBT+ characters, readers and/or authors
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
Eden, Edward; Goertz, Dee Carol Shields, Narrative Hunger, and the Possibilities of Fiction 2003
Burton, Antoinette After the Imperial Turn: Thinking with and through the Nation 2003
Linke, Gabriele Populärliteratur als kulturelles Gedächtnis: Eine vergleichende Studie zu zeitgenössischen britischen und amerikanischen popular romances der Verlagsgruppe Harlequin Mills & Boon 2003 Harlequin Mills & Boon
Fife, Leslie The 2000-2003 Proceedings of the SW/Texas PCA/ACA Conference 2003
Hinnant, Charles H. Desire and the Marketplace: A Reading of Kathleen Woodiwiss's The Flame and the Flower 2003 Kathleen Woodiwiss, capitalism/business, rape and/or intimate partner violence/abuse, fashion/clothing
Wright, Laura Bell The Appeal of Vampire Romance: Why Do Readers Like These Stories? 2003 paranormal/fantasy/time-travel romance, readers
Barrett, Rebecca Kaye Higher Love: What Women Gain from Christian Romance Novels 2003 Christian romance, readers, religion/spirituality
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
Eden, Edward; Goertz, Dee Carol Shields, Narrative Hunger, and the Possibilities of Fiction 2003
Jarvis, Christine A. Desirable Reading: The Relationship between Women Students' Lives and their Reading Practices 2003 readers, teaching romance, gender, Islam, sex/sexuality, UK
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
Lang, Miriam Taiwanese Romance: San Mao and Qiong Yao 2003 Taiwan, Qiongyao/Qiong Yao
Creed, Barbara Media Matrix: Sexing the New Reality 2003 Harlequin Mills & Boon
Martin, Darcy 'Womanhood Reinvented: Eve Dallas, Protagonist in J. D. Robb's "In Death" Series 2003 Nora Roberts/J. D. Robb, feminism, science fiction/futuristic romance, gender, work, rape and/or intimate partner violence/abuse, marriage, community
Neylon, Virginia Lyn Reading and Writing the Romance Novel: An Analysis of Romance Fiction and Its Place in the Community College Classroom 2003 genre definitions, Older and/or precursor texts (may not be "romance" as now defined), teaching romance
Salmon, Catherine; Symons, Donald Warrior Lovers: Erotic Fiction, Evolution and Female Sexuality 2003 evolutionary psychology, m/m romance, sex/sexuality
Dandridge, Rita B. The Race, Gender, Romance Connection: A Black Feminist Reading of African American Women's Historical Romances 2003 historical romance, African American romance, feminism, race/ethnicity, gender, Beverly Jenkins, Shirley Hailstock, Roberta Gayle, history, sex/sexuality, United States of America
Hammill, Faye The Republic of Love and Popular Romance 2003 love, Jane Austen, metafiction, work
Dandridge, Rita B. African American Women's Historical Romances: Race and Gender Revisited 2003 African American romance, race/ethnicity, gender, Beverly Jenkins, Shirley Hailstock, historical romance, sex/sexuality
Salmon, Catherine; Symons, Donald Warrior Lovers: Erotic Fiction, Evolution and Female Sexuality 2003 evolutionary psychology, m/m romance, sex/sexuality
Osborne, Gwendolyn E. In Search of Women Who Look Like Me: A Brief History of the African-American Romance 2003 African American romance, race/ethnicity, Older and/or precursor texts (may not be "romance" as now defined), Publishing, Eva Rutland, paratext, readers
Morgan, Paula “Like Bush Fire in My Arms”: Interrogating the World of Caribbean Romance 2003 Caribbean, race/ethnicity, Valerie Belgrave, Dorothy Jolly, Deidre D'Allan, Lynn-Ann Ali, Lucille Colleton, Annette Charles, settings, social/economic class, sex/sexuality, work, Islam
Mostow, Joshua S. The Columbia Companion to Modern East Asian Literature 2003
Teo, Hsu-Ming The Romance of White Nations: Imperialism, Popular Culture and National Histories 2003 national identity, race/ethnicity, UK, history, Africa, gender, Mary Gaunt, with John Ridgwell Essex, E. M. Hull, sheikh romance, Harlequin Mills & Boon, United States of America, Native American romance
Delamoir, Jeanette Marie Bjelke Petersen's 'virile story': Jewelled Nights, gender instability, and the bush 2003 cross-dressing, Marie Bjelke Petersen, Australia, LGBT+ characters, readers and/or authors, trash/literary and or intellectual quality, Publishing, settings, fashion/clothing, film/movies, religion/spirituality, gender, social/economic class, rape and/or intimate partner violence/abuse
Rempel, Valerie Gale “The soft white strong hand of God”: Gender and the expression of evangelical piety in the religious fiction of Grace Livingston Hill, 1897–1948 2003 Grace Livingston Hill, Christian romance, religion/spirituality, gender, marriage, family
Onega, Susana; Gutleben, Christian Refracting the Canon in Contemporary British Literature and Film 2004
Pearce, Lynne Popular Romance and Its Readers 2004 Jeanette Winterson, food, drink, settings, psychology, Violet Winspear, readers, sex/sexuality
Gillespie, Diane F. Virginia Woolf and the Curious Case of Berta Ruck 2004 Berta Ruck, trash/literary and or intellectual quality, gender, paratext
Saunders, Corinne A Companion to Romance: From Classical to Contemporary 2004
Perrot, Jean Les métamorphoses du conte 2004
Pearce, Elizabeth Florence Reading the Lesbian Romance: Re-imagining Love, Sex, Relationships, and Community 2004 lesbian romance
Fletcher, Lisa “Mere Costumery”? Georgette Heyer’s Cross-Dressing Novels 2004 historical romance, Georgette Heyer, fashion/clothing, cross-dressing, gender
Okamoto, Shigeko; Shibamoto Smith, Janet S. Japanese Language, Gender, and Ideology: Cultural Models and Real People 2004
Dandridge, Rita B. Black Women's Activism: Reading African American Women's Historical Romances 2004 historical romance, African American romance, romance and, or as, activism, United States of America, race/ethnicity, Anita Richmond Bunkley, Beverly Jenkins, Shirley Hailstock, Francine Craft, Gay G. Gunn, gender, history, sex/sexuality
Darian-Smith, Kate; Grimshaw, Patricia; Lindsey, Kiera; Mcintyre, Stuart Exploring the British World: Identity, Cultural Production, Institutions 2004
Okamoto, Shigeko; Shibamoto Smith, Janet S. Japanese Language, Gender, and Ideology: Cultural Models and Real People 2004
Lutz, Deborah The Dangerous Lover and the Erotics of Failure: Nineteenth-century Byronism and the Contemporary Romance 2004 Older and/or precursor texts (may not be "romance" as now defined), love, historical romance, death, philosophy
Faura, Salvador; Godsland, Shelley; Moody, Nickianne The Romance Novel, or, the Generalisimo's Control of the Popular Imagination 2004 Corín Tellado, Spain, fascism/right-wing authoritarianism
Darian-Smith, Kate; Grimshaw, Patricia; Lindsey, Kiera; Mcintyre, Stuart Exploring the British World: Identity, Cultural Production, Institutions 2004
Craddock, Louise Bridget Jones's Little Red Dress: Chicklit, mass-market popular romance and feminism 2004 chick lit, Melissa Senate, Harlequin Mills & Boon
Godsland, Shelley; Moody, Nickianne Reading the Popular in Contemporary Spanish Texts 2004
Osborne, Gwendolyn E. "Women Who Look Like Me": Cultural Identity and Reader Responses to African American Romance Novels 2004 African American romance, race/ethnicity, readers, United States of America, love, sex/sexuality, social/economic class, paratext
Shibamoto Smith, Janet S. Language and Gender in the (Hetero)Romance: "Reading" the Ideal Hero/ine through Lovers' Dialogue in Japanese Romance Fiction 2004 Japan
Adkins, Denice; Esser, Linda; Velasquez, Diane Perceptions of Romance Readers: An Analysis of Missouri Librarians 2004 libraries/librarians
Gelder, Ken Popular Fiction: The Logics and Practices of a Literary Field 2004 trash/literary and or intellectual quality, Harlequin Mills & Boon, Kathleen Winsor, Georgette Heyer, Stephanie Laurens, historical romance, Mary Balogh, Margaret Mitchell, Victoria Holt/Jean Plaidy/Eleanor Burford Hibbert, Nora Roberts/J. D. Robb, Barbara Taylor Bradford
Faura, Salvador; Godsland, Shelley; Moody, Nickianne The Romance Novel, or, the Generalisimo's Control of the Popular Imagination 2004 Corín Tellado, Spain, fascism/right-wing authoritarianism
Darian-Smith, Kate; Grimshaw, Patricia; Lindsey, Kiera; Mcintyre, Stuart Exploring the British World: Identity, Cultural Production, Institutions 2004
Godsland, Shelley; Moody, Nickianne Reading the Popular in Contemporary Spanish Texts 2004
Labanyi, Jo Romancing the Early Franco Regime: the Novelas Románticas of Concha Linares-Becerra and Luisa-María Linares 2004 Concha Linares-Becerra, Luisa-María Linares, fascism/right-wing authoritarianism, Spain, film/movies, war/armed forces, work, metafiction, wealth/prosperity
Adkins, Denice; Esser, Linda; Velasquez, Diane Perceptions of Romance Readers: An Analysis of Missouri Librarians 2004 libraries/librarians
Faura, Salvador; Godsland, Shelley; Moody, Nickianne The Romance Novel, or, the Generalisimo's Control of the Popular Imagination 2004 Corín Tellado, Spain, fascism/right-wing authoritarianism
Raymundo, Sarah Jane S. In the Concrete Now: Investigating Feminist Challenges to Popular Romance Production 2004 Philippines, feminism, gender, Joi Barrios, Lualhati Bautista
Sánchez Calle, Pilar; Malcolm, David; López-Peláez Casellas, Jesús Masquerades: Disguise in Literature in English from the Middle Ages to the Present 2004
Darian-Smith, Kate; Grimshaw, Patricia; Lindsey, Kiera; Mcintyre, Stuart Exploring the British World: Identity, Cultural Production, Institutions 2004
Lind, Rebecca Ann Race/Gender/Media: Considering Diversity Across Audiences, Content, and Producers 2004
Thirard, Marie-Agnès Les romans "Adoras" ou les nouveaux contes de fées à l’africaine 2004 Africa, fairytales/folktales, paratext
Radhika, P. Narratives of Fractured Conjugality: Women’s Romance Novels in Kannada, 1950s-1960s 2004 India
Adkins, Denice; Esser, Linda; Velasquez, Diane Perceptions of Romance Readers: An Analysis of Missouri Librarians 2004 libraries/librarians
Johnson-Woods, Toni Pulp: A Collector's Book of Australian Pulp Fiction Covers 2004 paratext
Sánchez Calle, Pilar; Malcolm, David; López-Peláez Casellas, Jesús Masquerades: Disguise in Literature in English from the Middle Ages to the Present 2004
Carpan, Carolyn Rocked by Romance: A Guide to Teen Romance Fiction 2004 YA/teenage romance, libraries/librarians, genre definitions, contemporary romance, paranormal/fantasy/time-travel romance, romantic suspense, Christian romance
Sánchez Calle, Pilar; Malcolm, David; López-Peláez Casellas, Jesús Masquerades: Disguise in Literature in English from the Middle Ages to the Present 2004
Kloester, Jennifer V. Georgette Heyer: writing the Regency. History in fiction from Regency Buck to Lady of Quality 1935-1972 2004 Georgette Heyer, history, historical romance
Stotesbury, John A. Genre and Islam in Recent Anglophone Romantic Fiction 2004 Islam, Leila Aboulela, Rayda Jacobs, religion/spirituality
Teo, Hsu-Ming Romancing the Raj: Interracial Relations in Anglo-Indian Romance Novels 2004 India, UK, social/economic class, history, race/ethnicity, gender, Flora Annie Steel, Mrs F. E. Penny, Alice Perrin, Maud Diver, Alice Eustace, Juliet Armstrong, Harlequin Mills & Boon, national identity
Fuchs, Barbara Romance 2004 Older and/or precursor texts (may not be "romance" as now defined)
Flesch, Juliet From Australia With Love: A History of Modern Australian Popular Romance Novels 2004 Australia, national identity, Helen Bianchin, Harlequin Mills & Boon, Emma Darcy, Ann Charlton, authors, Marion Lennox, Joyce Dingwell/Kate Starr, Valerie Parv, feminism, Victoria Gordon, Alison Kelly, race/ethnicity, Publishing, translation, paratext, readers, Lucy Walker, sex/sexuality, rape and/or intimate partner violence/abuse, Meredith Webber
Reeves, Anne R. Adolescents Talk about Reading: Exploring Resistance to and Engagement with Text 2004 readers
Funderburk, Amy Romance collections in North Carolina public libraries: Are all genres treated equally? 2004 libraries/librarians
Philadelphoff-Puren, Nina The Mark of Refusal: Sexual Violence and the Politics of Recontextualization 2004 rape and/or intimate partner violence/abuse, Charlotte Lamb
Bryson, Mary Public Library Services to the Romance Reader: An Online Survey of Romance Readers 2004 libraries/librarians
Onega, Susana; Gutleben, Christian Refracting the Canon in Contemporary British Literature and Film 2004
Jossart, Deborah A. Transforming the fairytale: a diachronic study of utopias of popular romance 2004 fairytales/folktales
Kloester, Jennifer V. Images of England: Georgette Heyer's Regency World in the Dominions 2004 Georgette Heyer
Engler, Sandra "A Career's Wonderful, but Love is More Wonderful Still": Femininity and Masculinity in the Fiction of Mills & Boon 2005 gender, Harlequin Mills & Boon
Larcombe, Wendy Compelling Engagements: Feminism, Rape Law and Romance Fiction 2005 rape and/or intimate partner violence/abuse, feminism, gender
Gottschall, Jonathan; Wilson, David Sloan The Literary Animal: Evolution and the Nature of Narrative 2005
Cherniak, Mariia Russian Romantic Fiction 2005 Russia, socialism and/or communism, Harlequin Mills & Boon
Gottschall, Jonathan; Wilson, David Sloan The Literary Animal: Evolution and the Nature of Narrative 2005
Still, Julie Reading Between the Lines: Librarians as Authors of Fiction 2005 libraries/librarians, Jayne Ann Krentz/Amanda Quick/Jayne Castle
Wu, Huei-Hsia; Walsh, Anthony Romance Novels and Female Sexuality: Vicarious Participation? 2005 sociology, sex/sexuality, readers
Fera-VanGent, Tania Popular Romance Novels: Seeking out the 'Sisterhood' 2005 Older and/or precursor texts (may not be "romance" as now defined), Harlequin Mills & Boon, chick lit
Harlan, Kimber Leigh Romancing the reader: constructing a discursive and social female identity through romance novels 2005 gender, readers
Ducoulombier, Martine La comédie romantique – un genre mal-aimé? 2005 film/movies, Africa
Donalson, Tara A. The Parody of Romance 2005 Christian romance, religion/spirituality
van Buuren, Johanna Maria De taal van het hart : retorica en receptie van de hedendaagse streekroman 2005 Netherlands, love, family
Thompson, Anne B. Rereading Fifties Teen Romance: Reflections on Janet Lambert 2005 Janet Lambert, YA/teenage romance, family, war/armed forces
Wu, Huei-Hsia; Walsh, Anthony Romance Novels and Female Sexuality: Vicarious Participation? 2005 sociology, sex/sexuality, readers
Downey, Kristin Irony, Ideology, and Resistance: The Amazing Double Life of Harlequin Presents 2005 Harlequin Mills & Boon, marriage, family, sex/sexuality, readers, gender, national identity, race/ethnicity
Rampure, Archana Doctors in the Darkness: Reading Race, Gender, and History in the Popular Medical Romance 2005 medical romance, race/ethnicity, UK, Olivia Gates, war/armed forces, national identity, Harlequin Mills & Boon, United States of America, feminism, work, Juliet Shore/Anne Vinton, Debbie Macomber, health/medical, history, Lucy Agnes Hancock, Louise Gerard, Helen Dore Boylston, Lilian Warren as Kathryn Blair/Rosalind Brett/Celine Conway, Charlotte Lamb, Africa, war/armed forces
Santaemilia, José Gender, Sex and Translation: The Manipulation of Identities 2005
Potter, Jane Boys in Khaki, Girls in Print: Women's Literary Responses to the Great War 1914-1918 2005 war/armed forces, Ruby M. Ayres, Berta Ruck, Mary Ward/Mrs. Humphry Ward, Florence Barclay, disability, gender, social/economic class, paratext, Bessie Marchant, Janet Laing, Marie Belloc Lowndes, religion/spirituality, national identity
Shibamoto Smith, Janet S. Translating True Love: Japanese Romance Fiction, Harlequin-Style 2005 Japan, Harlequin Mills & Boon, linguistics, gender, emotions, translation
Jackson, Elaine Riding the tosh horse: women writers of popular romance between the wars 2005 E. M. Hull, Berta Ruck, Marguerite Jervis/Oliver Sandys
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
Blanding, Cristen Interracial romance novels and the resolution of racial difference 2005 race/ethnicity, African American romance
Genz, Carole Romance Revisited: Transformations of the Marital Love Triangle in Women’s Fictions 2005 feminism, Charlotte Brontë, Daphne du Maurier
Clawson, Laura Cowboys and Schoolteachers: Gender in Romance Novels, Secular and Christian 2005 Christian romance, family, gender, United States of America, work, sex/sexuality, religion/spirituality, sociology
Harzewski, Stephanie The new novel of manners: Chick lit and postfeminist sexual politics 2005 chick lit
Davis, Sara N. Values and the Romance Novel: Journeys of the Reader 2005 readers, psychology, teaching romance
Atzenhoffer, Régine Ecrire l'amour kitsch - Approches narratologiques de l'oeuvre romanesque de Hedwig Courths-Mahler (1867-1950) 2005 Hedwig Courths-Mahler
González-Allende, Iker La novela rosa de ambientación vasca e ideología franquista durante la Guerra Civil española 2005 Spain, national identity, war/armed forces, gender, history, work, religion/spirituality, marriage, romance and, or as, activism, fascism/right-wing authoritarianism
Kapell, Matthew; Becker, Suzanne Patriarchy, the Christian Romance Novel, and the 'Ecosystem of Sex' 2005 Christian romance, sex/sexuality, feminism, religion/spirituality, Janette Oke, Francine Rivers, readers, Jane Almquist
Hapgood, Lynne Margins of Desire: The Suburbs in Fiction and Culture, 1880-1925 2005 Publishing, readers, emotions, social/economic class, romances in magazines and newspapers, war/armed forces, Sophie Cole, Alice Askew, Louise Gerard, Mary Hamilton, gender, settings, race/ethnicity, Africa, India
Charles, John; Linz, Cathie Romancing Your Readers: How Public Libraries Can Become More Romance Reader Friendly 2005 libraries/librarians, emotions, paratext
Olivier, Séverine Passionnément, à la folie...: Lecteurs et modes de lecture du roman d'amour contemporain 2005 readers, translation, Publishing
Kapell, Matthew; Becker, Suzanne Patriarchy, the Christian Romance Novel, and the 'Ecosystem of Sex' 2005 Christian romance, sex/sexuality, feminism, religion/spirituality, Janette Oke, Francine Rivers, readers, Jane Almquist
Ross, Catherine Bourland Carmen de Icaza: Novela rosa as Feminist Discourse? 2005 Carmen de Icaza
Ávila, Debbie Maria The Romance Novel of the 1930s and 1940s in Spain and Portugal: The Cases of Carmen de Icaza and Alice Ogando 2005 Carmen de Icaza, Alice Ogando writing as Mary Love, fascism/right-wing authoritarianism, Spain, Portugal, trash/literary and or intellectual quality
Charles, John; Linz, Cathie Romancing Your Readers: How Public Libraries Can Become More Romance Reader Friendly 2005 libraries/librarians, emotions, paratext
Philadelphoff-Puren, Nina Contextualising Consent: The Problem of Rape and Romance 2005 rape and/or intimate partner violence/abuse, Charlotte Lamb
Lovell, Stephen; Menzel, Birgit Reading for Entertainment in Contemporary Russia: Post-Soviet Popular Literature in Historical Perspective 2005
Salmon, Catherine Crossing the Abyss: Erotica and the Intersection of Evolutionary Psychology and Literary Studies 2005 evolutionary psychology, sex/sexuality, feminism, pornography, fanfiction
Flesch, Juliet Blushing Bride to Bush Matriarch: Women in the Fiction of Lucy Walker 2005 Lucy Walker
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
Moudileno, Lydie L’invention du romantique. La littérature rose révolutionne l'édition africaine 2005 Africa, settings
Costas Rodríguez, Jenaro Ad amicam amicissime scripta: homenaje a la profesora María José López de Ayala y Genovés (Volumen II) 2005
Montejo Gurruchaga, Lucía El discurso de la novela rosa de autora en la narrativa española de mediados del siglo XX. La transgresión del canon oficial 2005 Spain
Lovell, Stephen; Menzel, Birgit Reading for Entertainment in Contemporary Russia: Post-Soviet Popular Literature in Historical Perspective 2005
Servén, Carmen Éxito y olvido de Carmen de Icaza 2005 Carmen de Icaza
Wallace, Doris B. Education, Arts, and Morality: Creative Journeys 2005
Rodriguez, Simone Meirelles Leitoras com coração: usos de leitura dos romances sentimentais de massa 2005 Brazil, readers
Paizis, George Category Romance in the Era of Globalization: The Story of Harlequin 2006 Harlequin Mills & Boon, Publishing, comics/manga
Lam, Adam; McNaughton, Howard D. The Reinvention of Everyday Life: Culture in the twenty-first century 2006
Guttman, Anna; Hockx, Michel; Paizis, George The Global Literary Field 2006
Hodgson, Kathleen The representation of the female hero in the romantic fiction of Mills & Boon 2006 Harlequin Mills & Boon
Thomas, Glen; James, Bridie The Romance Industry: A Study of Reading and Writing Romance 2006 authors, readers
Gill, Rosalind; Herdieckerhoff, Elena Rewriting The Romance: New Femininities in Chick Lit? 2006 chick lit, gender, feminism, Helen Fielding, sex/sexuality, work
Kloester, Jennifer Georgette Heyer and the Great Jane 2006 Georgette Heyer, Jane Austen
Lohmann, Jennifer 'Beauty and the Beast' Themes in Romance Novels 2006 fairytales/folktales
Gill, Rosalind; Herdieckerhoff, Elena Rewriting The Romance: New Femininities in Chick Lit? 2006 chick lit, gender, feminism, Helen Fielding, sex/sexuality, work
Jarvis, Christine Using Fiction for Transformation 2006 teaching romance, feminism, gender, readers
Ochoa, Debra J. Critiques of the "Novela Rosa": Martín Gaite, Almodóvar, and Etxebarría 2006 Spain, fascism/right-wing authoritarianism, gender
Driscoll, Catherine One True Pairing: The Romance of Pornography and the Pornography of Romance 2006 fanfiction, pornography, sex/sexuality, gender
Frost, Laura The Romance of Cliché: E. M. Hull, D. H. Lawrence, and Interwar Erotic Fiction 2006 E. M. Hull, trash/literary and or intellectual quality, sex/sexuality, sheikh romance, romance scholarship, readers, pornography
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
Lutz, Deborah The Dangerous Lover: Gothic Villains, Byronism, and the Nineteenth-Century Seduction Narrative 2006 love, death, philosophy, Older and/or precursor texts (may not be "romance" as now defined), historical romance, Rosemary Rogers, Daphne du Maurier, E. M. Hull, Victoria Holt/Jean Plaidy/Eleanor Burford Hibbert, Georgette Heyer, Emily Brontë, Charlotte Brontë, Samuel Richardson
Hellekson, Karen; Busse, Kristina Fan Fiction and Fan Communities in the Age of the Internet: New Essays 2006
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
Hellekson, Karen; Busse, Kristina Fan Fiction and Fan Communities in the Age of the Internet: New Essays 2006
Mao, Douglas; Walkowitz, Rebecca L. Bad Modernisms 2006
Adkins, Denice; Esser, Linda; Velasquez, Diane Relations Between Librarians and Romance Readers: A Missouri Survey 2006 libraries/librarians, readers, trash/literary and or intellectual quality
Ebert, Teresa L. Romance Novels, Class and Abu Ghraib 2006 capitalism/business, war/armed forces, rape and/or intimate partner violence/abuse, social/economic class, Elizabeth Lowell, romantic suspense, Mary Jo Putney, Linda Howard, Suzanne Brockmann
Mao, Douglas; Walkowitz, Rebecca L. Bad Modernisms 2006
Adkins, Denice; Esser, Linda; Velasquez, Diane Relations Between Librarians and Romance Readers: A Missouri Survey 2006 libraries/librarians, readers, trash/literary and or intellectual quality
Neal, Lynn S. Romancing God: Evangelical Women and Inspirational Fiction 2006 Christian romance, religion/spirituality, readers, Grace Livingston Hill, Publishing, United States of America, authors, gender, Robin Lee Hatcher, Beverly Lewis, marriage, Catherine Marshall, Janette Oke, race/ethnicity, Francine Rivers, sex/sexuality, Peggy Stoks, Lori Wick, Brenda Wilbee
Jurilla, Patricia May Bantug Tagalog bestsellers and the history of the book in the Philippines 2006 Philippines, Publishing, Older and/or precursor texts (may not be "romance" as now defined)
Green, Marie Fantasy, fiction, and feminism: a study of feminists reading romance 2006 feminism, readers, trash/literary and or intellectual quality, authors, metafiction, Meagan McKinney, Charlotte Vale-Allen, race/ethnicity, Suzanne Brockmann, Karen Harper, Faye Kellerman, gender, disability, Sandra Brown, ageism, Karen Robards, social/economic class, Nora Roberts/J. D. Robb, Jasmine Cresswell
Bigey, Magali Corpus et diachronie: de la constitution au traitement. Un cas d’espèce: le roman sentimental moderne 2006 linguistics
Adkins, Denice; Esser, Linda; Velasquez, Diane Relations Between Librarians and Romance Readers: A Missouri Survey 2006 libraries/librarians, readers, trash/literary and or intellectual quality
Gagne-Hawes, Genevieve Anatomy of a Romance: Questioning genre conventions in the novels of Nora Roberts 2006 Nora Roberts/J. D. Robb, paranormal/fantasy/time-travel romance
Smith, Lindsay Lea Feminism and romance novels : is Irigaray's utopia found in bestselling romance novels? 2006 feminism
Livingston, Eric The Textuality of Pleasure 2006 close reading, readers, trash/literary and or intellectual quality, Gina Wilkins
Ross, Catherine Bourland Carmen de Icaza: Novela Rosa as Feminist Discourse? 2006 Carmen de Icaza, feminism, Spain, fascism/right-wing authoritarianism, work
Long, Bridget L. Romance novels: women's motivation for readership and effects of reading 2006 readers
Forbes, Curdella X Press Publications: Pop Culture, “Pop Lit” and Caribbean Literary Criticism: An Essay of Provocation 2006 Caribbean, Valerie Belgrave, UK, race/ethnicity, sex/sexuality
Browder, Laura Dystopian Romance: True Crime and the Female Reader 2006 rape and/or intimate partner violence/abuse
Sanders, Lise Shapiro Consuming Fantasies: Labor, Leisure, and the London Shopgirl, 1880-1920 2006 social/economic class, history, gender, readers, Older and/or precursor texts (may not be "romance" as now defined), Publishing, romances in magazines and newspapers, work
Williams, Jeffrey J. The Culture of Books: An Interview with Janice Radway 2006 romance scholarship, Publishing
Holmes, Diana Romance and Readership in Twentieth-Century France: Love Stories 2006 history, France, religion/spirituality, Christian romance, Delly, Older and/or precursor texts (may not be "romance" as now defined), genre definitions, gender, readers, Georges Ohnet, Maryan, pen name of Marie Cadiou, Marcelle Tinayre, Colette, Max du Veuzit, Magali, pen name of Jeanne Philbert, Harlequin Mills & Boon, sex/sexuality, lesbian romance, Marine Rambach and Anne Rousseau, LGBT+ characters, readers and/or authors
Guttman, Anna; Hockx, Michel; Paizis, George The Global Literary Field 2006
Coulibaly, Isaïe Biton Les nouvelles reines d'Adoras 2006 Africa, Yeveny Bomou/Bomou Karidja, Koussoh Mélika/Hélène Soungalo Diomandé, K. Fatym/Kaba Fanta, Amani N'Guessan/Nathalie Amani N'Guessan épouse Gbalou
Erekli, Arzu Medeni ya da müslüman: popüler aşk romanlarında Feyza olmak 2006 Islam, gender, Turkey, Kerime Nadir
Gargano, Elizabeth "English Sheiks" and Arab Stereotypes: E. M. Hull, T. E. Lawrence, and the Imperial Masquerade 2006 sheikh romance, E. M. Hull, race/ethnicity, sex/sexuality, gender, BDSM
Lam, Adam; McNaughton, Howard D. The Reinvention of Everyday Life: Culture in the twenty-first century 2006
Guttman, Anna; Hockx, Michel; Paizis, George The Global Literary Field 2006
Thomas, Glen; James, Bridie The Romance Industry: A Study of Reading and Writing Romance 2006 authors, readers
Selinger, Eric Murphy Foils and Fakers, Monsters and Makers 2006 Georgette Heyer, Eloisa James, A. S. Byatt
Bun, Jennifer C. The Effects of Romance Novel Readership on Relationship Beliefs, Romantic Ideals, and Relational Satisfaction 2007 readers, psychology
Teo, Hsu-Ming Orientalism and Mass Market Romance Novels in the Twentieth Century 2007 sheikh romance, gender, race/ethnicity, sex/sexuality, history, E. M. Hull, UK, United States of America, work, feminism, family
Carter, David; Galligan, Anne Making Books: Contemporary Australian Publishing 2007
Charles, John; Mosley, Shelley Romance Today: An A-to-Z Guide to Contemporary American Romance Writers 2007 Shana Abé, Cherry Adair, Catherine Anderson, Judith Arnold, Adele Ashworth, Patti Berg, Elizabeth Bevarly, Rosanne Bittner, Stephanie Bond, Elizabeth Boyle, Pamela Britton, Suzanne Brockmann, Connie Brockway, Lisa Cach, Laurie Schnebly Campbell, Susannah Carleton, Liz Carlyle, Emily Carmichael, Maureen Child, Jennifer Crusie, Claudia Dain, Geralyn Dawson, Eileen Dreyer/Kathleen Korbel, Alice Duncan, Elisabeth Fairchild, Diane Farr, Colleen Faulkner, Jo Ann Ferguson, Christine Flynn, Gaelen Foley, Gwynne Forster, Lori Foster, Roz Denny Fox, Barbara Freethy, Judith E. French, Patricia Gaffney, Lisa Gardner, Roberta Gellis, Tess Gerritsen, Rachel Gibson, Elizabeth Grayson, Jennifer Greene/Jeanne Grant/Jessica Massey/Alison Hart, Leigh Greenwood, Shirley Hailstock, Robin Lee Hatcher, Lorraine Heath, Candice Hern, Sandra Hill, Vicki Hinze, Kate Huntington, Eloisa James, Susan Johnson, Nicole Jordan, Julie Kenner, Lynn Kerstan, April Kihlstrom, Sandra Kitt, Patricia Knoll, Betina Krahn, Jayne Ann Krentz/Amanda Quick/Jayne Castle, Susan Krinard, Leslie LaFoy, Jill Marie Landis, Cathie Linz, Merline Lovelace, Katie MacAlister, Debbie Macomber, Annette Mahon, Sandra Marton, Amanda McCabe, Judi McCoy, May McGoldrick, Teresa Medeiros, Linda Lael Miller, Mary Alice Monroe, Brenda Novak, Janeen O'Kerry, Kayla Perrin, Carly Phillips, Susan Elizabeth Phillips, Lisa Plumley, Mary Jo Putney, Tara Taylor Quinn, Francis Ray, Jaclyn Reding, Emilie Richards, Evelyn Richardson, Nora Roberts/J. D. Robb, Lauren Royal, Ruth Wind/Barbara Samuel/Barbara O'Neal, Regina Scott, Kathryn Shay, Christina Skye, Bertrice Small, Tina St. John, Deb Stover, Sharon Swann, Vicki Lewis Thompson, Jane Toombs, Pat Warren, Sherri WhiteFeather, Susan Wiggs, Rebecca York
Gill, Rosalind Gender and the Media 2007 gender, chick lit
Bigey, Magali Rencontres en séries. Matériel romanesque, lecteurs et lexique : une analyse du roman sentimental de type sériel (1942-2004) 2007 readers, linguistics
Dillon, George L. The Genres Speak; Using Large Corpora to Profile Generic Registers 2007 linguistics, Harlequin Mills & Boon, sex/sexuality
Foley, J. A. Critical Awareness: Romance Novels in English for the Asian Market. A Critical Study of Locally Published "Romance Novels" in English 2007 linguistics, Singapore, gender
Parv, Valerie Healing Writes: Restorying the Authorial Self through Creative Practice: and Birthright, a speculative fiction novel 2007 authors, psychology, Valerie Parv
Tegan, Mary Beth Becoming Both Poet and Poem: Feminists Repossess the Romance 2007 feminism, Mary Stewart, Jennifer Crusie, Vicki Lewis Thompson, Georgette Heyer
Edmondson, Belinda The Black Romance 2007 African American romance, Older and/or precursor texts (may not be "romance" as now defined), sex/sexuality, race/ethnicity, Frances Watkins Harper, Caribbean, film/movies, social/economic class, national identity
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
Drayton, Arthur D.; Ajayi-Soyinka, Omofolabo; Ukpokodu, I. Peter African Literatures at the Millennium 2007
Thomas, Glen The Best Australian Romance Novelist: Emma Darcy 2007 Emma Darcy, Helen Bianchin, settings, Australia, sex/sexuality, family, metafiction
Chen, Eva Y. I. Forms of Pleasure in the Reading of Popular Romance: Psychic and Cultural Dimensions 2007 readers, emotions, feminism, psychology
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
Ryden, Wendy Bourgeois Realism or Working Class Kitsch?: The Aesthetics of Class in Composition 2007 trash/literary and or intellectual quality, social/economic class, Karen van der Zee, teaching romance, family, marriage
Drayton, Arthur D.; Ajayi-Soyinka, Omofolabo; Ukpokodu, I. Peter African Literatures at the Millennium 2007
Long, Bridget L. Women's Romance Novel Readership: Motivations, Expectations, and Relationship Satisfaction 2007 readers
Núñez Puente, Sonia Novela rosa y cultura popular: Carmen de Icaza y Concha Linares Becerra 2007 Carmen de Icaza, Concha Linares-Becerra, Spain, fascism/right-wing authoritarianism, gender
Schoene, Berthold The Edinburgh Companion to Contemporary Scottish Literature 2007
Pearce, Lynne Romance Writing 2007 love, Jane Rule, LGBT+ characters, readers and/or authors, Ann Bannon, Margaret Mitchell, Daphne du Maurier, Jeanette Winterson
Haddad, Emily A. Bound to Love: Captivity in Harlequin Sheikh Novels 2007 sheikh romance, Harlequin Mills & Boon, Susan Mallery, Alexandra Sellers, marriage, race/ethnicity, war/armed forces, Jane Porter, Susan Stephens, Kristi Gold, Laura Wright
Gandolfo, Anita Faith and Fiction: Christian Literature in America Today 2007 Christian romance, United States of America, Janette Oke, Francine Rivers, Karen Kingsbury, Dee Henderson, religion/spirituality
Kebadze, Nino Fictions of Surrender: Romance and Exemplarity in Post-War Spanish Women's Narratives 2007 Luisa-María Linares, Concha Linares-Becerra, Carmen de Icaza, Spain, fascism/right-wing authoritarianism, gender
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
Drayton, Arthur D.; Ajayi-Soyinka, Omofolabo; Ukpokodu, I. Peter African Literatures at the Millennium 2007
Rastier, François; Ballabriga, Michel Corpus en Lettres et Sciences sociales : des documents numériques à l'interprétation, Actes du colloque international d'Albi, juillet 2006 2007
Corbin, Joanie Lady Guimauve ou la (re)fabrication de l’auteur populaire 2007 Barbara Cartland
Rosier, Laurence; Pollet, Marie-Christine Les mauvais genres en classe de français?: Retour sur la question. 2007
Lutz, Deborah The Haunted Space of the Mind: The Revival of the Gothic Romance in the Twenty-First Century 2007 gothic romance, settings, Evelyn Rogers
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
Lennard, John Of Modern Dragons and other essays on Genre Fiction 2007 Nora Roberts/J. D. Robb, romantic suspense, paranormal/fantasy/time-travel romance, genre definitions, gender, sex/sexuality, rape and/or intimate partner violence/abuse, science fiction/futuristic romance
Rastier, François; Ballabriga, Michel Corpus en Lettres et Sciences sociales : des documents numériques à l'interprétation, Actes du colloque international d'Albi, juillet 2006 2007
Rosier, Laurence; Pollet, Marie-Christine Les mauvais genres en classe de français?: Retour sur la question. 2007
Barrett-Fox, Rebecca Hope, Faith and Toughness: An Analysis of the Christian Hero 2007 Christian romance, gender, family, religion/spirituality, United States of America, readers
Wu, Huei-Hsia Reading Romance Novels and Female Sexuality among American Heterosexual and Lesbian College Students 2007 readers, LGBT+ characters, readers and/or authors, sex/sexuality, gender, psychology
Matter, Laura Sewell Pursuing the Great Bad Novelist 2007 Charles Garvice, trash/literary and or intellectual quality, Older and/or precursor texts (may not be "romance" as now defined)
Taylor, Jessica And You Can Be My Sheikh: Gender, Race, and Orientalism in Contemporary Romance Novels 2007 gender, race/ethnicity, sheikh romance, settings, paratext
Foster, Guy Mark How Dare a Black Woman Make Love to a White Man! Black Women Romance Novelists and the Taboo of Interracial Desire 2007 race/ethnicity, rape and/or intimate partner violence/abuse, United States of America, Lizzette Carter, Dyanne Davis, Monica White, history, psychology, African American romance, gender, sex/sexuality, readers
McKinley, Tracey Lynn The Female Quest: An Analysis of Archetypal Layering in Harlequin Presents 2007 teaching romance, Lynne Graham, Diana Hamilton, gender, Harlequin Mills & Boon
Hague, Euan; Stenhouse, David A Very Interesting Place: Representing Scotland in American Romance Novels 2007 Scotland, Karen Marie Moning, paratext, Sue-Ellen Welfonder, linguistics, readers, historical romance, Diana Gabaldon, paranormal/fantasy/time-travel romance
Olivier, Séverine Lecture d'un «mauvais genre»: le «roman sentimental» 2007 genre definitions
Gómez Calderón, María José Romancing the Dark Ages: The Viking Hero in Sentimental Narrative 2007 historical romance, history, Johanna Lindsey, Sandra Hill, paranormal/fantasy/time-travel romance, Heather Graham, Jackie Rose, metafiction, family, gender, war/armed forces
Curthoys, Ned; Ganguly, Debjani Edward Said: The Legacy of a Public Intellectual 2007
Seale, Maura "I find some Hindu practices like burning widows, utterly bizarre": Representations of Sati and Questions of Choice in Veils of Silk 2007 Mary Jo Putney, India, historical romance, feminism, race/ethnicity, gender, religion/spirituality, death, family, marriage
Kendra, April Silver Forks, Stereotypes, and Regency Romance 2007 Older and/or precursor texts (may not be "romance" as now defined), historical romance
Goade, Sally Introduction 2007 readers, genre definitions, trash/literary and or intellectual quality
Hague, Euan; Stenhouse, David A Very Interesting Place: Representing Scotland in American Romance Novels 2007 Scotland, Karen Marie Moning, paratext, Sue-Ellen Welfonder, linguistics, readers, historical romance, Diana Gabaldon, paranormal/fantasy/time-travel romance
Curthoys, Ned; Ganguly, Debjani Edward Said: The Legacy of a Public Intellectual 2007