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Kapila, Shuchi Educating Seeta: The Anglo-Indian Family Romance and the Poetics of Indirect Rule 2010 India, Older and/or precursor texts (may not be "romance" as now defined), Flora Annie Steel, Maud Diver, Bithia Mary Croker, Alice Perrin
Kaplan, Deborah "Why would any woman want to read such stories?": The Distinctions Between Genre Romances and Slash Fictions 2012 fanfiction, genre definitions, LGBTQ+ characters, readers and/or authors, Suzanne Brockmann, gender
Kapstein, Helen Petrofeminism: Love in the Age of Oil 2021 ecocriticism/environmentalism/climate change, Nigeria, feminism, Chimamanda Adichie, Myne Whitman, metafiction, Balaraba Ramat Yakubu, work, capitalism/business
Karaminas, Vicki; Geczy, Adam; Gibson, Pamela Church Fashionable Masculinities: Queers, Pimp Daddies, and Lumbersexuals 2022
Helgason, Jon; Kärrholm, Sara; Steiner, Ann Hype: Bestsellers and Literary Cultures 2014
Coote, Lesley; Kaufman, Alexander L. Robin Hood and the Outlaw/ed Literary Canon 2018
Kaufman, Alexander L.; Vlagopoulos, Penny Food and Feast in Modern Outlaw Tales 2019
Kaveney, Roz Dark fantasy and paranormal romance 2012 paranormal/fantasy/time-travel romance, Charlaine Harris, Laurell K. Hamilton, Twilight
Kaye, Marilyn Janice The nature of didacticism as related to romance and sexuality in young adult novels 1965-1978 1983 YA/teenage romance
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
Kebadze, Nino Romance and Exemplarity in Post-War Spanish Women's Narratives 2009 Luisa-María Linares, Concha Linares-Becerra, Carmen de Icaza, María Mercedes Ortoll, gender, fascism/right-wing authoritarianism, Spain
Keegan, Faye Jessica Soft metafiction(s) : Mary Stewart and the self-reflective middlebrow 2016 Mary Stewart, romantic suspense, trash/literary and or intellectual quality, national identity, history, metafiction, fairytales/folktales, gothic romance, UK
Keegan, Faye ‘Snob Value’: Gender and Literary Value in Mary Stewart 2017 Mary Stewart, romantic suspense, trash/literary and or intellectual quality, gender, authors
Keen, Suzanne Probable Impossibilities: Historical Romance Readers Talk Back 2018 Diana Gabaldon, readers, history
Kelly, Patricia P. Transitional Novels for Readers of Teen Romances 1991 YA/teenage romance
Kelly, Brendan D. Medical Romance 2007 medical romance
Kelly, Brendan D. Medical romance: love never dies 2016 medical romance
Kelman, Suanne Heroine addiction 1995 Georgette Heyer, Harlequin Mills & Boon, Jennifer Crusie, Margaret Moore, Susanna Kearsley
Kelso, Sylvia Singularities: the interaction of feminism(s) and two strands of popular American fiction, 1968-89 1996 gothic romance, Barbara Michaels a.k.a. Elizabeth Peters a.k.a. Barbara Mertz, Phyllis A. Whitney, feminism
Kelso, Sylvia Stitching Time: Feminism(s) and Thirty Years of Gothic Romance 1997 gothic romance, Barbara Michaels a.k.a. Elizabeth Peters a.k.a. Barbara Mertz, feminism, family
Kemppinen, Anne-Mari Katriina Translating for popular literature with special reference to Harlequin books and their Finnish translations 1988 translation, Harlequin Mills & Boon, Finland
Kemppinen, Anne Translation for Popular Literature with Special Reference to Harlequin Books and their Finnish Translation 1989 translation, Finland, Harlequin Mills & Boon
Kendal, Evie The use of free indirect discourse in J. R. Ward's Black Dagger Brotherhood series 2019 J. R. Ward, close reading, linguistics, genre definitions, paranormal/fantasy/time-travel romance, readers
Kendra, April Silver Forks, Stereotypes, and Regency Romance 2007 Older and/or precursor texts (may not be "romance" as now defined), historical romance
Keran, Molly The Genre of Rape: Women’s Popular Literature and Contemporary Representations of Sexual Violence 2024 rape and/or intimate partner violence/abuse, Alyssa Cole, Courtney Milan, Lorraine Heath, historical romance, Lisa Kleypas, Julia Quinn, Margaret Mallory, gender, race/ethnicity, social/economic class, sex/sexuality, health/medical
Kerr, Ashley Elizabeth Indigenous Lovers and Villainous Scientists: Rewriting Nineteenth-Century Ideas of Race in Argentine Romance Novels 2019 history, race/ethnicity, Argentina, science/technology, national identity, historical romance
Khuankaew, Sasinee Femininity and masculinity in three selected twentieth-century Thai romance fictions 2015 gender, Thailand, Buddhism, marriage, sex/sexuality, feminism, religion/spirituality
Khuankaew, Sasinee Femininity and Masculinity in Twenty-First Century Thai Romantic Fictions 2017 gender, Thailand, sex/sexuality, Buddhism
Khumwongdee, Yanisa Reading and Rewriting Fat Romance: A Study of Twenty-First Century Thai and US Fat Romance Novels 2021 fat, fatness, gender, LGBTQ+ characters, readers and/or authors
Kies, Bridget Saying “I Don’t”: Queer Romance in the Post–Marriage Equality World 2024 marriage, happy ending, LGBTQ+ characters, readers and/or authors, film/movies, Alexis Hall
Killeen, Jarlath Nora Roberts: the Power of Love 2018 Nora Roberts/J. D. Robb, love
Killing, Peter Harlequin Enterprises Limited: Case Material of the Western School of Business Administration 1978 Publishing
Lin, Pei-yin; Kim, Su Yun East Asian Transwar Popular Culture: Literature and Film from Taiwan and Korea 2019 Taiwan, Korea, Older and/or precursor texts (may not be "romance" as now defined)
Kinard, Amanda Marette Forbidden Pleasures: The Romance and Its Readers 1999 sex/sexuality, social/economic class, virginity, readers, capitalism/business, wealth/prosperity
Kindleysides, Alicia Broken Hearts: Writing The Representation of Trauma and Trauma Recovery in a Post-Trauma Romance Novel 2024 health/medical, psychology, A.K. Leigh, genre definitions, feminism, romance and, or as, activism, myth
Allen, Margaret; Blackburn, Jean; Johnson, Carol; King, Margaret; Mackinnon, Alison All Her Labours: Embroidering the Framework 1984
King, Laura The Perfect Man: Fatherhood, Masculinity and Romance in Popular Culture in Mid-Twentieth-Century Britain 2015 family, gender, marriage, history, UK
Towheed, Shafquat; King, Edmund G. C. Reading and the First World War: Readers, Texts, Archives 2015
Kingston, Elizabeth History's Been Hijacked: How To Combat White Supremacy Through Popular Literature 2018 historical romance, race/ethnicity, history, Elizabeth Kingston, Publishing, UK, social/economic class
Kinsale, Laura The Androgynous Reader: Point of View in the Romance 1992 readers, gender, psychology, happy ending, feminism, paratext
Hotz-Davies, Ingrid; Kirchhofer, Anton; Leppänen, Sirpa Internet Fictions 2009
Kirkham, Pat; Thoms, David War Culture: Social Change and Changing Experience in World War Two Britain 1995
Kirkland, Catherine Elisabeth For The Love Of It: Women Writers And The Popular Romance 1984 authors, work, Publishing, feminism, trash/literary and or intellectual quality
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
Henderson, Lesley; Kirkpatrick, D. L. Twentieth-Century Romance and Historical Writers (2nd edition) 1990 historical romance, Older and/or precursor texts (may not be "romance" as now defined), Effie Adelaide Rowlands, also known as Madame Albanesi, Lucilla Andrews, Elizabeth Ashton, Ruby M. Ayres, Faith Baldwin, Florence Barclay, Betty Beaty, Lilian Warren as Kathryn Blair/Rosalind Brett/Celine Conway, Barbara Taylor Bradford, Sandra Brown, Mary Burchell, pen name of Ida Cook, Barbara Cartland, Catherine Cookson, Marie Corelli, Janet Dailey, Iris Danbury, Barbara Delinsky, Ethel M. Dell, Viña Delmar, Jude Deveraux, Joyce Dingwell/Kate Starr, Maud Diver, Jane Donnelly, Daphne du Maurier, Dorothy Eden, Eleanor Farnes, Jeffrey Farnol, Charles Garvice, Roberta Gellis, Elinor Glyn, Maysie Greig, Anne Hampson, Georgette Heyer, Robert Hitchens, Grace Livingston Hill, Margery Hilton, Jane Aiken Hodge, Victoria Holt/Jean Plaidy/Eleanor Burford Hibbert, Linda Howard, Susan Howatch, Elizabeth Hoy, E. M. Hull, Elizabeth Hunter, Iris Johansen, Susan Johnson, Jayne Ann Krentz/Amanda Quick/Jayne Castle, Charlotte Lamb, Roumelia Lane, Laura Jean Libbey, Roberta Leigh/Rachel Lindsay, Johanna Lindsey, Elizabeth Lowell, Jean S. MacLeod/Catherine Airlie, Anne Mather, Patricia Matthews, Anne Maybury, Colleen McCullough, Judith McNaught, Barbara Michaels a.k.a. Elizabeth Peters a.k.a. Barbara Mertz, Fern Michaels, Margaret Mitchell, Netta Muskett, Betty Neels, Kathleen Thompson Norris, Kate Norway/Olive Norton, Baroness Orczy, Diana Palmer, Margaret Pargeter, Mary Renault, Mary Roberts Rinehart, Francine Rivers, Nora Roberts/J. D. Robb, Denise Robins, Rosemary Rogers, Margaret Rome, Berta Ruck, Rafael Sabatini, Kathleen Gilles Seidel, Alexandra Sellers, Anya Seton, Valerie Sherwood, Bertrice Small, LaVyrle Spencer, Danielle Steel, Mary Stewart, Rebecca Stratton, Essie Summers, Annie S. Swan, Kay Thorpe, Patricia Veryan, Lucy Walker, Margaret Way, Anne Weale, Jean Webster, Phyllis A. Whitney, Kathleen Winsor, Violet Winspear, Kathleen Woodiwiss, Mary Lutyens/Esther Wyndham
Kirtley, William M.; Kirtley, Patricia M. Happily, Ever After: An Analysis of Romance Novels 2021 genre definitions
Kirtley, William M.; Kirtley, Patricia M. How About a Little Romance?: An Analysis of Romance Novels 2021 genre definitions
Kirtley, William M.; Kirtley, Patricia M. Happily, Ever After: An Analysis of Romance Novels 2021 genre definitions
Kirtley, William M.; Kirtley, Patricia M. How About a Little Romance?: An Analysis of Romance Novels 2021 genre definitions
Kitchen, Veronica Veterans and Military Masculinity in Popular Romance Fiction 2018 war/armed forces, gender, disability
Kiyawa, Haruna Alkasim Female Readers as Literary Critics: Reading Experiences of Kano Market Romance Fiction 2021 Nigeria, readers
Klaber, Lara Taming the Perfect Beast: the Monster as Romantic Hero in Contemporary Fiction 2014 Twilight, paranormal/fantasy/time-travel romance
Klarich, Morgan L. Multiculturalism, Sex, and Powerful Women: The New Romance Novel as the Voice of Neofeminism? 2012 feminism, sex/sexuality, gender, race/ethnicity, United States of America
Klein, Ula Lukszo Fifty Shades of Pamela in the Undergraduate Classroom 2020 teaching romance, Older and/or precursor texts (may not be "romance" as now defined), Samuel Richardson, Fifty Shades
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
Kloester, Jennifer V. Images of England: Georgette Heyer's Regency World in the Dominions 2004 Georgette Heyer
Kloester, Jennifer Georgette Heyer and the Great Jane 2006 Georgette Heyer, Jane Austen
Kloester, Jennifer Georgette Heyer: Biography of a Bestseller 2011 Georgette Heyer
Fletcher, Lisa; Gaby, Rosemary; Kloester, Jennifer Pedagogy Report: Embedding Popular Romance Studies in Undergraduate English Units: Teaching Georgette Heyer’s Sylvester 2011 teaching romance, Georgette Heyer, history, metafiction
Kluger, Johanna "On Thursdays We Shoot": Guns and Gender Binaries in Regency Romance Novels 2024 historical romance, gender, Tessa Dare, Julia Quinn
Kluger, Johanna Post-Trump masculinity in popular romance novels 2024 United States of America, gender, sex/sexuality, Tessa Dare, Sarah MacLean, romance and, or as, activism
Adamenko, Olga; Klymenko, Olga Communicative Behavior via Gender Identity (Based on the English language “Love Stories”) 2020 gender, linguistics, Victoria Gordon, Leigh Greenwood, Madeleine Ker, Gil Sanderson, Harlequin Mills & Boon
Jandl, Ingeborg; Knaller, Susanne; Schönfellner, Sabine; Tockner, Gudrun Writing Emotions: Theoretical Concepts and Selected Case Studies in Literature 2017
Kraxenberger, Maria; Knoop, Christine A.; Menninghaus, Winfried Who reads contemporary erotic novels and why? 2021 readers, Fifty Shades, Sylvia Day, erotic romance, sex/sexuality, Germany
Kohlman, Marla H.; Krieg, Dana B. Discourses on Gender and Sexual Inequality: The Legacy of Sandra L. Bem 2017
Kohlman, Marla H.; Simpson, Samantha N. For the Sake of Hearth and Home: Gender Schematicity in the Romance Novel 2017 gender, Harlequin Mills & Boon, race/ethnicity, work, marriage, family
Kokkola, Lydia Virtuous Vampires and Voluptuous Vamps: Romance Conventions Reconsidered in Stephenie Meyer’s ‘‘Twilight’’ Series 2011 Twilight, religion/spirituality, YA/teenage romance, love, sex/sexuality, family, health/medical
Kolko, Beth E. Writing the Romance: Cultural Studies, Community, and the Teaching of Writing 1994 authors, feminism, work, community, capitalism/business, Publishing
Kollman, Kathleen W. Taylor Contemporary Paranormal Romance: Theories and Development of the Genre’s Feminism (Or Lack Thereof) 2018 paranormal/fantasy/time-travel romance, feminism, gender
Kolmes, Sara; Hoffman, Matthew A. Harlequin Resistance? Romance Novels as a Model for Resisting Objectification 2021 sex/sexuality, genre definitions, philosophy, Tessa Dare, feminism
Konle, Leonard; Jannidis, Fotis Modeling Plots of Narrative Texts as Temporal Graphs 2022 linguistics
Koolen, Corina; van Dalen-Oskam, Karina; van Cranenburgh, Andreas; Nagelhout, Erica Literary quality in the eye of the Dutch reader: The National Reader Survey 2020 trash/literary and or intellectual quality, gender, Netherlands
Kuortti, Joel; Ilmonen, Kaisa; Valovirta, Elina; Korkka, Janne Thinking with the Familiar in Contemporary Literature and Culture 'Out of the Ordinary' 2019
Thompson, Marcella; Koski, Patricia; Holyfield, Lori Romance and agency: An argument revisited 1997 romance scholarship, readers, feminism
Koski, Patricia; Holyfield, Lori; Thompson, Marcella Romance Novels as Women's Myths 1997 myth, emotions
Koster, Cees Stuiverromans - vertaald? 1997 translation, Harlequin Mills & Boon, Netherlands
Kousholt, Moa A Time, A Place, and A Person: A comparative literary analysis of Red, White & Royal Blue and One Last Stop by Casey McQuiston and how queer representation can be problematized in a classroom context 2024 Casey McQuiston, LGBTQ+ characters, readers and/or authors, YA/teenage romance, teaching romance
Kołodziej, Gaja Unforgettably in love: uses of the amnesia trope in contemporary romance 2021 contemporary romance, romantic suspense, health/medical, love
Kraaykamp, Gerbert; Kalmijn, Matthijs Een stille liefde. Over de lezeressen van romantische lectuur 1995 readers, social/economic class, Netherlands
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
Kramer, Kyra Raising Veils and other Bold Acts: The Heroine's Agency in Female Gothic Novels 2011 gothic romance, romantic suspense, gender, Victoria Holt/Jean Plaidy/Eleanor Burford Hibbert, Elizabeth Lowell
Kramer, Kyra Getting Laid, Getting Old, and Getting Fed: The Cultural Resistance of Jennifer Crusie’s Romance Heroines 2012 Jennifer Crusie, ageism, food, drink, gender, feminism, sex/sexuality, fat, fatness
Kramer, Devon J. Truth through the medium of cheerfulness: Romance novels as points of resistance 2010 Maria Edgeworth, Elizabeth Gaskell, Georgette Heyer, Lisa Kleypas, Older and/or precursor texts (may not be "romance" as now defined)
Moore, Michael; Kramer, Daniela SATIR FOR BEGINNERS: Incongruent Communication Patterns in Romantic Fiction 1999 linguistics, Harlequin Mills & Boon, psychology
Kramer, Daniela; Moore, Michael Family Myths in Romantic Fiction 2001 psychology, love, family, marriage, myth, Harlequin Mills & Boon, gender, rape and/or intimate partner violence/abuse, virginity, sex/sexuality, work
Kramer, Daniela; Moore, Michael Gender Roles, Romantic Fiction and Family Therapy 2001 psychology, Harlequin Mills & Boon, gender, marriage, family, rape and/or intimate partner violence/abuse
Kramp, Michael Jane Austen and Masculinity 2018
Lawrey, Jeffrey A.; McLuckie, Alyx; Mulberry, Benjamin J.; Mullins, Erin K.; Shuler, Autumn R.; Kratzer, Jessica M. W. Communication, Kink, and Sexual Education: What Young Women Learned from Fifty Shades of Grey 2018 Fifty Shades, readers, sex/sexuality, erotic romance, BDSM
Kratzer, Jessica M. W. Communication in Kink: Understanding the Influence of the Fifty Shades of Grey Phenomenon 2020
Kraxenberger, Maria Erotic Romances: An Emerging Subgenre Succeeding Fifty Shades 2019 erotic romance, Fifty Shades
Kraxenberger, Maria; Knoop, Christine A.; Menninghaus, Winfried Who reads contemporary erotic novels and why? 2021 readers, Fifty Shades, Sylvia Day, erotic romance, sex/sexuality, Germany
Kray, Susan Deconstructive Laughter: Romance Author as Subject, The Pleasure of Writing the Text 1987 authors, readers, emotions
Krentz, Jayne Ann Dangerous Men and Adventurous Women: Romance Writers on the Appeal of the Romance 1992 Jayne Ann Krentz/Amanda Quick/Jayne Castle, readers, gender, authors, emotions, myth, Cathie Linz, Linda Barlow, metaphor/symbolism, linguistics, happy ending, rape and/or intimate partner violence/abuse, Laura Kinsale, psychology, Susan Elizabeth Phillips, feminism, Daphne Clair, Older and/or precursor texts (may not be "romance" as now defined), Robyn Donald, Anne Stuart, love, Elizabeth Lowell, war/armed forces, Mary Jo Putney, virginity, Doreen Owens Malek, Brittany Young, sex/sexuality, Penelope Williamson, trash/literary and or intellectual quality, Judith Arnold, work, Stella Cameron, Sandra Brown, Suzanne Simmons Guntrum, Diana Palmer, Kathleen Gilles Seidel
Krentz, Jayne Ann All the Right Reasons: Romance Fiction in the Public Library 1997 Jayne Ann Krentz/Amanda Quick/Jayne Castle, libraries/librarians
Kress, Gunther Textual Matters: The Social Effectiveness of Style 1988 linguistics, readers, medical romance, settings
Kohlman, Marla H.; Krieg, Dana B. Discourses on Gender and Sexual Inequality: The Legacy of Sandra L. Bem 2017
Zhang, Chunjie; Krimmer, Elisabeth Gender and German Colonialism: Intimacies, Accountabilities, Intersections 2023
Kroeg, Susan M. 'Truly Our Contemporary Jane Austen': Thinking Like an Austen Fan about Regency Romances 2012 historical romance
Shapiro, Joan; Kroeger, Lee Is Life a Romantic Novel? The Relationship Between Attitudes About Intimate Relationships and the Popular Media 1991 psychology, readers
Krueger, Kate The Woman at Home in the World: Annie Swan's Lady Doctor and the Problem of the Fin de Siècle Working Woman 2017 Annie S. Swan
Habermann, Ina; Krug, Christian And Thereby Hangs a Tale: A Critical Anatomy of (Popular) Tales 2020
Kuchta, Estella Carolye Imagining Love: Teen Romance Novels and American Teen Relational Capacity 2021 YA/teenage romance, readers, psychology, love
Kuchta, Estella Carolye The Epistemological Possibilities of Love: Towards Relational and Ecological Healing 2024 YA/teenage romance, readers, psychology, love
Küçük, Özlem Impossible Love in the Hiccup and the Lily of the Valley Novels and the Social Role of the Women 2023 Kerime Nadir, Turkey, Older and/or precursor texts (may not be "romance" as now defined)
Kuehn, Julia A Female Poetics of Empire: From Eliot to Woolf 2014 Older and/or precursor texts (may not be "romance" as now defined), India, sheikh romance, E. M. Hull, Bithia Mary Croker, Maud Diver, Alice Eustace, Mrs F. E. Penny, Alice Perrin, Flora Annie Steel, Kathlyn Rhodes
Bennett, Susan G.; Kuhn, Alice Love and Lust in the Secondary School: Do Formula Romances Have a Place in the Schools? 1987
Sharma, Vishal; Bray, Kirsten E.; Kumar, Neha; Grinter, Rebecca E. Romancing the Algorithm: Navigating Constantly, Frequently, and Silently Changing Algorithms for Digital Work 2022 Publishing, authors
Sharma, Vishal; Bray, Kirsten E.; Kumar, Neha; Grinter, Rebecca E. It Takes (at least) Two: The Work to Make Romance Work 2023 Publishing, authors, readers
Kundin, Susan G. Romance versus Reality: A Look at YA Romantic Fiction 1985 YA/teenage romance
Künne, Regina Eternally Yours - Challenge and Response: Contemporary US American Romance Novels by Jayne Ann Krentz and Barbara Delinsky 2015 Jayne Ann Krentz/Amanda Quick/Jayne Castle, Barbara Delinsky, United States of America, religion/spirituality
Kuortti, Joel; Ilmonen, Kaisa; Valovirta, Elina; Korkka, Janne Thinking with the Familiar in Contemporary Literature and Culture 'Out of the Ordinary' 2019
Kustritz, Anne Slashing the Romance Narrative 2003 fanfiction, gender, emotions, sex/sexuality
Kutzer, M. Daphne "I Won't Grow up"—Yet: Teen Formula Romance 1986 YA/teenage romance, family, love, sex/sexuality, readers
Kuznets, Lois; Zarin, Eve Sweet Dreams for Sleeping Beauties: Pre-Teen Romances 1982 YA/teenage romance, settings
La Mothe, Jacques Actes du colloque "Les mauvais genres" organisé au Centre culturel canadien de Paris les 23, 24 et 25 novembre 1989 1992 trash/literary and or intellectual quality
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
LaDousa, Chaise; Davis, Christina P. Language, Education, and Identity: Medium in South Asia 2022
Laframboise, Donna The Princess at the Window: A New Gender Morality 1996 rape and/or intimate partner violence/abuse, BDSM, pornography, feminism, race/ethnicity, Johanna Lindsey, Catherine Hart, Susan Johnson, Kathleen Morgan, Heather Graham, Katharine Kincaid
Chevigny, Bell Gale; Laguardia, Gari Reinventing the Americas: Comparative Studies of Literature of the United States and Spanish America 1986
Latva, Otto; Lähdesmäki, Heta; Sonck-Rautio, Kirsi; Uusitalo, Harri Arrivals and Departures: The Human Relationship with Changing Biodiversity 2024
Lam, Maylyn Reading the sweet dream: adolescent girls and romance fiction 1986 readers
Lam, Maylyn The romance of feminism: feminism on and as popular romance 1994 feminism
Lam, Adam; McNaughton, Howard D. The Reinvention of Everyday Life: Culture in the twenty-first century 2006
Lambert, Jérémy Le roman sentimental gay francophone 2016 LGBTQ+ characters, readers and/or authors, Anne Singe et Marine Ange
Lambert Barr, DeAnn M. Romance-novel genre 1996 readers, Danielle Steel, Kathleen Eagle, Julie Garwood
Lamprinou, Artemis Translated Romances: the Effect of Cultural Textual Norms on the Communication of Emotions 2011 translation, emotions, Greece
Lamprinou, Artemis A Study on the Cultural Variations in the Verbalisation of Near-Universal Emotions: Translating Emotions from British English into Greek in Popular Bestseller Romances 2012 translation, Greece
Lamy, Odile La représentation du couple à travers les pages couvertures des romans Harlequin 1997 paratext, Harlequin Mills & Boon, fashion/clothing, settings, metaphor/symbolism, sex/sexuality, emotions
Lancashire, Anne Venetia: Georgette Heyer’s Pastoral Romance 2020 Georgette Heyer, rural romance, Shakespeare, settings
Lancaster, Rosemary Fact and Fiction: Alice Williamson’s Monte Carlo 2020 Alice Williamson/A. M. Williamson/Mrs. C. N. Williamson, Older and/or precursor texts (may not be "romance" as now defined)
Lancaster, Rosemary Women Writing on the French Riviera: Travellers and Trendsetters, 1870-1970 2020
Lancaster, Guy "God loves you nearly as much as I do": Toward a Poetics of Natality in Maureen Bronson's Delta Pearl, a 1989 Harlequin Historical Romance. 2024 trash/literary and or intellectual quality, Maureen Bronson, death, family, philosophy
Lang, Miriam Taiwanese Romance: San Mao and Qiong Yao 2003 Taiwan, Qiongyao/Qiong Yao
Langeveld, Cornelis H. (Kees) Medische missers in doktersromans 2011 medical romance, health/medical
Laquintano, Timothy The Legacy of the Vanity Press and Digital Transitions 2013 Publishing, Harlequin Mills & Boon
Larcombe, Wendy Compelling Engagements: Feminism, Rape Law and Romance Fiction 2005 rape and/or intimate partner violence/abuse, feminism, gender
Larkin, Brian Indian Films and Nigerian Lovers: Media and the Creation of Parallel Modernities 1997 Nigeria, film/movies, Ado Ahmad, Maryam Sahabi Liman
Larrier, Renée "Quand la lecture devient passion": Romance Novels and Literacy in Abidjan 2007 Ivory Coast, Africa
Schell, Heather; Larsen, Katherine How the Story Ends: Gender, Sexuality, and Nation in the Happy Ending 2019 happy ending, Sonali Dev, Radclyffe/Len Barot, United States of America, gender, trash/literary and or intellectual quality
Larson, Christine An Economy of Words: Precarity, Solidarity and Innovation in Digital Book Publishing 2017 Publishing, authors, work
Larson, Christine Open networks, open books: gender, precarity and solidarity in digital publishing 2019 authors, Publishing
Larson, Christine The Color of Romance: Gatekeeping in the Age of Digital Media 2019 Publishing, race/ethnicity
Larson, Christine; Ready, Elspeth Networking down: Networks, innovation, and relational labor in digital book publishing 2022 authors, Publishing
Larson, Christine Streaming books: confluencers, Kindle Unlimited and the platform imaginary 2022 Publishing, authors
Larson, Christine; Carter, Ashley Love is love: Reverse isomorphism and the rise of LGBTQ+ romance publishing 2023 Publishing, LGBTQ+ characters, readers and/or authors
Larson, Christine Love in the Time of Self-Publishing: How Romance Writers Changed the Rules of Writing and Success 2024 authors, Publishing, United States of America, race/ethnicity, LGBTQ+ characters, readers and/or authors, Nora Roberts/J. D. Robb, Vivian Stephens, Rita Clay Estrada, readers, Harlequin Mills & Boon, Brenda Jackson, Shirley Hailstock, Bella Andre, Courtney Milan, LaQuette
Larsson, Lisbeth En annan historia: om kvinnors läsning och svensk veckopress 1989 Sweden, romances in magazines and newspapers
Latva, Otto; Lähdesmäki, Heta; Sonck-Rautio, Kirsi; Uusitalo, Harri Arrivals and Departures: The Human Relationship with Changing Biodiversity 2024
Álvarez, Marta; Hekmat, Ida; Lauret-Taft, Sabine L’amour. Création et société 2017
Nachbar, Jack; Lause, Kevin Popular Culture: An Introductory Text 1992
Lawrence, Kelsey No Happy Ending: Leadership Falls Apart at the Romance Writers of America 2020 capitalism/business, authors, race/ethnicity
Lawrence, E. E. On the problem of oppressive tastes in the public library 2020 libraries/librarians, race/ethnicity, philosophy
Lawrence, E. E. The trouble with diverse books, part I: on the limits of conceptual analysis for political negotiation in Library & Information Science 2020 libraries/librarians, Publishing, race/ethnicity, sheikh romance, philosophy, LGBTQ+ characters, readers and/or authors
Lawrey, Jeffrey A.; McLuckie, Alyx; Mulberry, Benjamin J.; Mullins, Erin K.; Shuler, Autumn R.; Kratzer, Jessica M. W. Communication, Kink, and Sexual Education: What Young Women Learned from Fifty Shades of Grey 2018 Fifty Shades, readers, sex/sexuality, erotic romance, BDSM
Zwar, Jan; Lawson, Airlie Success Story - International Rights Sales of Australian- Authored Books: Case Studies 2021 Publishing, Australia, Kylie Scott
Lazere, Donald American Media and Mass Culture: Left Perspectives 1987
Lazzarato, Francesca; Moretti, Valeria La fiaba rosa: itinerari di lettura attraverso i romanzi per signorine 1981 fairytales/folktales, Delly, Liala, pen name of Amalia Liana Cambiasi Negretti Odescalchi
Leavenworth, Maria Lindgren Lover Revamped: Sexualities and Romance in the Black Dagger Brotherhood and Slash Fan Fiction 2009 fanfiction, J. R. Ward, paranormal/fantasy/time-travel romance, gender
Lecercle, Jean-Jacques Interpellation and Counter-Interpellation in the Novel 2022 readers, Violet Winspear, Jane Austen, trash/literary and or intellectual quality
Ledford-Miller, Linda Gender and Genre Bending: The Futuristic Detective Fiction of J.D. Robb 2011 Nora Roberts/J. D. Robb, romantic suspense, science fiction/futuristic romance, genre definitions
Lee, Zi-Ying; Liao, Min-Hsiu The “Second” Bride: The Retranslation of Romance Novels 2018 translation, Publishing, Taiwan
Lee, Linda J. Guilty Pleasures: Reading Romance Novels as Reworked Fairy Tales 2008 fairytales/folktales, paranormal/fantasy/time-travel romance, Christine Feehan, sex/sexuality
Lee, Amy Forming a Local Identity: Romance Novels in Hong Kong 2007 Hong Kong
Leedy, Helen The Portrayal of Women in Romance Novels 1985 Rosemary Rogers, Kathleen Woodiwiss
Leenstra, Lisa Covers of Lovers: A Multimodal Comparison of the Front Covers of Romance Novels in 2011 and 2021 2023 paratext
Leetsch, Jennifer Love and Space in Contemporary African Diasporic Women’s Writing: Making Love, Making Worlds 2021 Chimamanda Adichie, Africa, Nigeria
Legallois, Dominique; Charnois, Thierry; Poibeau, Thierry Repérer les clichés dans les romans sentimentaux grâce à la méthode des ‘motifs’ 2016 trash/literary and or intellectual quality, Harlequin Mills & Boon, linguistics
Leith, Murray Stewart; Sim, Duncan The Modern Scottish Diaspora: Contemporary Debates and Perspectives 2014
Lemay, Catherine La traduction de la scène de sexe dans le roman sentimental érotique: Analyse descriptive et comparative 2016 translation, sex/sexuality, erotic romance, Sylvia Day
Lencevičienė, Lina Selected Problems of Translation of the Romance Genre: Analysis of Barbara Cartland's Romance Novel Bewitched Translation into Lithuanian 2011 Barbara Cartland, translation, paratext, linguistics
Batzke, Ina; Erbacher, Eric C.; Heß, Linda M.; Lenhardt, Corinna Exploring the Fantastic: Genre, Ideology, and Popular Culture 2018
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
Lennard, John Of Sex and Faerie: Further essays on Genre Fiction 2010 sex/sexuality, paranormal/fantasy/time-travel romance, rape and/or intimate partner violence/abuse
K., Nikohl; Lennard, John A Reader's Companion to A Civil Campaign by Lois McMaster Bujold, Compiled and Presented to Her by Members of the Official LMB Mailing-List to Celebrate the Silver Anniversary of Shards of Honor 1986–2011 2011 Lois McMaster Bujold, Georgette Heyer, science fiction/futuristic romance
Harrod, Mary; Leonard, Suzanne; Negra, Diane Imagining "We" in the Age of "I": Romance and Social Bonding in Contemporary Culture 2022
Leonzini, Alexandra “All the Better to Eat You With”: The Eroticization of the Werewolf and the Rise of Monster Porn in the Digital Age 2018 paranormal/fantasy/time-travel romance, sex/sexuality, pornography
Hotz-Davies, Ingrid; Kirchhofer, Anton; Leppänen, Sirpa Internet Fictions 2009
Lepschy, Anna Laura The Popular Novel, 1850-1920 2000 Liala, pen name of Amalia Liana Cambiasi Negretti Odescalchi
Lessard, Victoria Marketing Desire: The "Normative/Other" Male Body and the "Pure" White Female Body on the Cover Art of Cassie Edwards' Savage Dream (1990), Savage Persuasion (1991), and Savage Mists (1992) 2017 Cassie Edwards, Native American romance, paratext, race/ethnicity, historical romance
Letourneux, Matthieu « La petite pâquerette était morte ». Sérialités éditoriales et réception de l’œuvre de Delly 2011 Delly
Levi, Antonia; McHarry, Mark; Pagliassotti, Dru Boys’ Love Manga: Essays on the Sexual Ambiguity and Cross-Cultural Fandom of the Genre 2010
Levi, Anna Delly: la Cenerentola di Versailles : vita di Jeanne Marie Henriette Petitjean de la Rosière 2013 Delly
Adair, Joshua G.; Levin, Amy K. Museums, Sexuality, and Gender Activism 2020
Levina, Mariia Readers of Mass Literature, 1994-200: From Paternalism to Individualism? 2003 Russia, Publishing, readers
Levy, Bronwen Up From Under, or On Not Marrying the Racist Aussie Boss: Strategies for Reading Romantic Fiction 1987 feminism, social/economic class, romance scholarship, Australia, race/ethnicity, Harlequin Mills & Boon, Margaret Way
Cruz, Jon; Lewis, Justin Viewing, Reading, Listening: Audiences and Cultural Reception 1994
Lin, Chi-Shiou; Liang, Yu-Tzu A model of romance fiction search behavior 2020 readers
Liang, William Tham Wai Paper & Text: The Trials and Trade of Malaysian Literature 2020
Lee, Zi-Ying; Liao, Min-Hsiu The “Second” Bride: The Retranslation of Romance Novels 2018 translation, Publishing, Taiwan
Lienhard, Alissa “I’ll Call it Platonic Magic”: Queer Joy, Metafiction, and Aro-Ace Autofictional Selves in Alice Oseman’s Loveless 2024 Alice Oseman, LGBTQ+ characters, readers and/or authors, metafiction, YA/teenage romance, sex/sexuality
Liffen, Jane "A very Glamorized Picture, that": Images of Scottish Female Herring Workers on Romance Novel Covers 2008 paratext, psychology, work
Light, Alison Returning to Manderley – Romance Fiction, Female Sexuality and Class 1984 Daphne du Maurier, readers, psychology, social/economic class, sex/sexuality, UK
Light, Alison Preface (to the third edition) 1994 history, genre definitions, gender, trash/literary and or intellectual quality
Limond, Verity ‘The door is open to everyone’: The public libraries of Gozo 2023 libraries/librarians, Malta, Harlequin Mills & Boon
Lin, Pei-yin; Kim, Su Yun East Asian Transwar Popular Culture: Literature and Film from Taiwan and Korea 2019 Taiwan, Korea, Older and/or precursor texts (may not be "romance" as now defined)
Lin, Fang-mei Social Change and Romantic Ideology: The Impact of the Publishing Industry, Family Organization, and Gender Roles on the Reception and Interpretation of Romance Fiction in Taiwan, 1960-1990 1992 love, family, Publishing, Taiwan
Lin, Fang-mei 性別化東方主義 : 女性沙漠羅曼史的重層東方想像 = Gendering orientalism: women's desert romance and the multiplicity of oriental imagination 2016 sheikh romance, translation, Taiwan
Lin, Chi-Shiou; Liang, Yu-Tzu A model of romance fiction search behavior 2020 readers
Lind, Rebecca Ann Race/Gender/Media: Considering Diversity Across Audiences, Content, and Producers 2004
Lindfors, Bernth Romances for the Office Worker: Aubrey Kalitera and Malawi's White-Collar Reading Public 1993 Malawi, Africa, Publishing, metafiction
Lindqvist, Yvonne Översättning som social praktik: Toni Morrison och Harlequinserien Passion på svenska 2002 Harlequin Mills & Boon, linguistics, translation
Darian-Smith, Kate; Grimshaw, Patricia; Lindsey, Kiera; Mcintyre, Stuart Exploring the British World: Identity, Cultural Production, Institutions 2004
Lindström Kruse, Miranda Pinsamma läsningar: En affektteoretisk studie av #SpicyBooks på TikTok 2022 readers, libraries/librarians
Linke, Gabriele Contemporary Mass Market Romances as National and International Culture: A Comparative Study of Mills & Boon and Harlequin Romances 1997 Harlequin Mills & Boon, United States of America, UK, national identity, race/ethnicity
Linke, Gabriele Local Color in Contemporary Harlequin and Silhouette Romances: Popular Imagery of the American South and West 1997 United States of America, settings, Harlequin Mills & Boon
Linke, Gabriele Visions and Versions of Parenthood in British and American Series Romances 2000 family
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
Linz, Cathie; Bouricius, Ann; Byrnes, Carole Exploring the World of Romance Novels 1995 libraries/librarians, paranormal/fantasy/time-travel romance, Publishing, paratext, race/ethnicity, 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
Litton, Joyce A. Double Date to Double Love: Female Sex Roles in Teen Romances 1987 YA/teenage romance, gender
Litton, Joyce A. Sunfire Historical Romances 1991 YA/teenage romance, historical romance
Litton, Joyce A. The Wild West, Floods, Wars and Boys: Sunfire Historical Romances for Young Adults 1991 YA/teenage romance, historical romance
Litton, Joyce A. From Seventeenth Summer to Miss Teen Sweet Valley: Female and Male Sex Roles in Teen Romances, 1942-91 1994 YA/teenage romance, gender, Rosamond du Jardin, Betty Cavanna, Maureen Daly, family
Litton, Joyce A. Dreams, Guys, Lies, and Occasionally Books: The Young Women of the Freshman Dorm Series 1995 YA/teenage romance
Liu, Su-hsen The Translation/Mutation of Romantic Love: An Exploration of the Translation History of Modern Romances in Taiwan after 1960 2012 translation, Taiwan
Livingston, Eric The Textuality of Pleasure 2006 close reading, readers, trash/literary and or intellectual quality, Gina Wilkins
Bettinotti, Julia; Lizé, Claude Les stratégies de dévalorisation de la littérature populaire: l’exemple du roman Harlequin 1986 Harlequin Mills & Boon
Lohmann, Jennifer 'Beauty and the Beast' Themes in Romance Novels 2006 fairytales/folktales
Lois, Jennifer; Gregson, Joanna Sneers and Leers: Romance Writers and Gendered Sexual Stigma 2015 authors, sex/sexuality, gender, sociology
Lois, Jennifer; Gregson, Joanna Aspirational Emotion Work: Calling, Emotional Capital, and Becoming a 'Real' Writer 2019 authors, work, emotions, sociology
Gregson, Joanna; Lois, Jennifer Social science reads romance 2021 sociology, psychology, readers, authors
Long, Veronica Lee Individuation and the Romance Novel 2022 gender, myth, psychology, love, readers, Jane Austen
Long, Eileen M. Modern Love: Reading, Writing, and Publishing the Romance Novel 2021 feminism, Jennifer Crusie, Jane Austen, authors, Publishing
Long, Bridget L. Romance novels: women's motivation for readership and effects of reading 2006 readers
Long, Bridget L. Women's Romance Novel Readership: Motivations, Expectations, and Relationship Satisfaction 2007 readers
Cho, Hyerim; Adkins, Denice; da Silva Santos, Diogenes; Long, Alicia K. Platform, Visuals, and Sound: Webtoon’s Immersive Romance Reading Engagement 2024 comics/manga, readers
López-Maestre, María D. 'Man the hunter': A critical reading of hunt-based conceptual metaphors of love and sexual desire 2015 metaphor/symbolism, gender, animals, love, linguistics, Harlequin Mills & Boon
Sánchez Calle, Pilar; Malcolm, David; López-Peláez Casellas, Jesús Masquerades: Disguise in Literature in English from the Middle Ages to the Present 2004
Loranger, Caroline Parcours amoureux et économiques dans le roman sentimental publié par les éditions Édouard Garand 2022 Canada, Older and/or precursor texts (may not be "romance" as now defined)
Lorinc, John Romance Language: How Harlequin Became Synonymous with Romance and then Translated that Success Around the World 1994 Harlequin Mills & Boon
Losano, Antonia Sneaking It In at the End: Teaching Popular Romance in the Liberal Arts Classroom 2015 teaching romance, Georgette Heyer, Susan Elizabeth Phillips, E. M. Hull, Nora Roberts/J. D. Robb, Jennifer Crusie
Lovell, Stephen; Menzel, Birgit Reading for Entertainment in Contemporary Russia: Post-Soviet Popular Literature in Historical Perspective 2005
Lövgren, Karin Farlig lockelse - tonårsflickors läsning av romantikböcker 1991 readers
Ganetz, Hillevi; Lövgren, Karin Om unga kvinnor: identitet, kultur och livsvillkor 1991
Hall, Stuart; Hobson, Dorothy; Lowe, Andrew; Willis, Paul Culture, Media, Language: Working Papers in Cultural Studies, 1972-79 1980
Lowery, Karalyne The Militarized Shapeshifter: Authorized Violence and Military Connections as an Antidote to Monstrosity 2018 paranormal/fantasy/time-travel romance, war/armed forces, United States of America
Lozano Sampedro, Mª Teresa La réception de Delly en Espagne et en Amérique Latine 2011 Delly, Spain
Lozano Sampedro, Mª Teresa La recepción de Delly en España 2012
Lozano Sampedro, Mª Teresa La culture et le travail de la femme. Une approche comparative entre Delly et Corín Tellado 2014 Delly, Corín Tellado, work, marriage, fairytales/folktales, Older and/or precursor texts (may not be "romance" as now defined)
Lozano Sampedro, Mª Teresa Pour une typologie de la marginalité dans les romans de Delly: la fonction de la femme 2018 Delly, religion/spirituality, gender, social/economic class
Lozano Sampedro, Mª Teresa Las clases sociales y el poder económico en la obra de Delly: la mujer y su triunfo sobre la opresión 2020 Delly, social/economic class, wealth/prosperity, gender
Lugan-Dardigna, Anne-Marie Presse du cœur et roman rose: la quête de l'amour vrai ou comment se trouver un maître 1984 gender, religion/spirituality, love
Lukas, Iwan; Muarifuddin,; Azi, Rahmawati Formula Romance dalam Roman Mes Amis Mes Amours Karya Marc Lévy 2024 Marc Levy
Luneau, Marie-Pier « Tant d’amour à donner »: Le biographique, l’œuvre, et la figure de l’auteur Harlequin 2008 authors, Harlequin Mills & Boon, paratext, family, work
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
Boivin, Karol'Ann; Luneau, Marie-Pier Qu’ont en commun Mimi Estival, Roxanne d’Avril et Georgette Mars? Auctorialité et roman sentimental québécois de l’après guerre (1944-1965) 2021 Canada, authors, Publishing, dime novels
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