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 |
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, LGBT+ 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 |
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) |
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 |
|
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 |
LGBT+ 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 |
|
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, LGBT+ 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, LGBT+ characters, readers and/or authors |
Larsson, Lisbeth |
En annan historia: om kvinnors läsning och svensk veckopress |
1989 |
Sweden, romances in magazines and newspapers |
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, LGBT+ 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 |
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 |
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 |
|
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 |
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 |
Davies, Ben; Lupton, Christina; Gormsen Schmidt, Johanne |
Reading Novels During the Covid-19 Pandemic |
2022 |
readers, Sally Rooney |
Luther, Amy Victoria |
Men reading fiction: A study of the relationship between reader, (con)text, consumption and gender identity. |
2010 |
gender, readers, pornography |
Lutz, Deborah |
Heidegger, the Erotics of Ontology, and the Mass-Market Romance |
2003 |
love, death, philosophy |
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 |
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 |
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 |
Lynch, Katherine E.; Sternglantz, Ruth E.; Barot, Len |
Queering the Romantic Heroine: Where Her Power Lies |
2012 |
LGBT+ characters, readers and/or authors, lesbian romance, Radclyffe Hall, Older and/or precursor texts (may not be "romance" as now defined), Katherine V. Forrest, Radclyffe/Len Barot, Lea Santos, gender, paranormal/fantasy/time-travel romance |
Mabee, Norma Augusta |
La novela rosa de Corín Tellado: Desorden, conflicto y escape de la ectopia |
1993 |
Corín Tellado |
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 |
Macdonald, Andrew; Macdonald, Gina; Sheridan, Mary Ann |
Shape-shifting: Images of Native Americans in Recent Popular Fiction |
2000 |
Native American romance, race/ethnicity |
Macdonald, Andrew; Macdonald, Gina; Sheridan, Mary Ann |
Shape-shifting: Images of Native Americans in Recent Popular Fiction |
2000 |
Native American romance, race/ethnicity |
Allen, Margaret; Blackburn, Jean; Johnson, Carol; King, Margaret; Mackinnon, Alison |
All Her Labours: Embroidering the Framework |
1984 |
|
Gifford, Douglas; Macmillan, Dorothy |
A History of Scottish Women’s Writing |
1997 |
|
Magenya, Sheena Gimase |
Reading between the lines: A review of Dark Juices and Afrodisiacs: Erotic Diaries Vol 1 |
2020 |
Africa, LGBT+ characters, readers and/or authors, sex/sexuality, feminism, race/ethnicity |
Maher, Jennifer |
Ripping the Bodice: Eating, Reading, and Revolt |
2001 |
food, drink, romance scholarship, feminism, readers, fat, fatness |
Maier, Sarah E.; Ayres, Brenda |
Neo-Victorian Madness: Rediagnosing Nineteenth-Century Mental Illness in Literature and Other Media |
2020 |
|
Mäkelä, Veera |
"World Turned Upside Down": The Role of Revolutions in Maya Rodale's Regency-Set Romances |
2020 |
Maya Rodale, United States of America, UK, historical romance, social/economic class, gender, race/ethnicity, emotions, feminism |
Mäkelä, Veera |
Reading Response in Mary Balogh: A Critical Engagement |
2021 |
Mary Balogh, romance scholarship, gender, sex/sexuality |
Makinen, Merja |
Feminist Popular Fiction |
2001 |
feminism, romance scholarship, Susan Napier, work, sex/sexuality, gender, Lisa Shapiro, LGBT+ characters, readers and/or authors, love, family |
Sánchez Calle, Pilar; Malcolm, David; López-Peláez Casellas, Jesús |
Masquerades: Disguise in Literature in English from the Middle Ages to the Present |
2004 |
|
Malinowska, Anna |
Paternal Structures of the Romance |
2017 |
family, love, gender |
Malinowska, Ania |
Global Popular Culture for Local Infrastructures: Migration of Texts and Problems of Transferability (the Polish Case) |
2021 |
translation, Fifty Shades, Poland |
Wu, Yan; Mallan, Kerry; McGillis, Roderick |
(Re)Imagining the World: Children’s Literature’s Response to Changing Times |
2013 |
|
Malloy, Audrey Miles |
Remnants of the Bodice Ripper: How Consent is Characterized in Heterosexual and Lesbian Erotic Romance Novels |
2017 |
gender, sex/sexuality, lesbian romance, rape and/or intimate partner violence/abuse, LGBT+ characters, readers and/or authors |
Alberti, Paola; Fortunati, Vita; Franci, Giovanna; Galateria, Daria; Mangaroni, Rosella; Pozzato, Maria Pia; Sabbadini, Tiziana; Tempera, Mariangela |
Maestre d'amore: eroine e scrittrici nell'impero del rosa inglese |
1986 |
UK, Elinor Glyn, E. M. Hull |
Fortunati, Vita; Franci, Giovanna; Mangaroni, Rosella |
Prefazione |
1986 |
|
Mangat, T. K. |
The surgeon in popular fiction - The Mills and Boon doctor-nurse romance |
1998 |
Harlequin Mills & Boon, medical romance |
Mann, Peter H. |
The Romantic Novel: A Survey of Reading Habits |
1969 |
Harlequin Mills & Boon, readers |
Mann, Peter H. |
A New Survey: The Facts About Romantic Fiction |
1974 |
Harlequin Mills & Boon, readers |
Mann, Peter H. |
Romantic Fiction and Its Readers |
1979 |
readers, Harlequin Mills & Boon, trash/literary and or intellectual quality |
Mann, Peter H. |
The Romantic Novel and its Readers |
1981 |
trash/literary and or intellectual quality, sex/sexuality, readers |
Mann, Peter H. |
Romantic Fiction and Its Readership |
1985 |
readers, genre definitions |
Stinson, Emmett; Mannion, Aaron |
The Return of Print?: Contemporary Australian Publishing |
2016 |
|
Manzano Badía, Benjamín |
Carmen de Icaza, una apología pequeño-burguesa y conservadora de la familia |
2000 |
Carmen de Icaza, family, Spain, fascism/right-wing authoritarianism, work, gender, marriage, feminism, religion/spirituality, wealth/prosperity, social/economic class, capitalism/business |
Mao, Douglas; Walkowitz, Rebecca L. |
Bad Modernisms |
2006 |
|
Fong, Katrina; Mullin, Justin B.; Mar, Raymond A. |
What You Read Matters: The Role of Fiction Genre in Predicting Interpersonal Sensitivity |
2013 |
readers, psychology |
Fong, Katrina; Mullin, Justin B.; Mar, Raymond A. |
How Exposure to Literary Genres Relates to Attitudes Toward Gender Roles and Sexual Behavior |
2015 |
psychology, readers, sex/sexuality, gender |
Ivanski, Chantelle; Humphries, Stacey; van Dalen-Oskam, Karina; Mar, Raymond A. |
Do We Judge Fiction by the Author’s Gender? |
2022 |
trash/literary and or intellectual quality, gender |
Ivanski, Chantelle; Maslej, Marta M.; Mar, Raymond A. |
Empirical Approaches to Studying Emotion in Literature: The Case of Gender |
2022 |
science/technology, emotions, gender, readers, authors, romance scholarship |
Marchand, Jacques |
Harlequin et Colombine : l’industrie plafonne, l’amour aussi |
1983 |
Harlequin Mills & Boon, Publishing, settings, readers |
Savchuk, O. H.; Marchenko, N. M. |
The concept of LOVE and its conceptualization in modern English romance novels |
2018 |
love, metaphor/symbolism, linguistics |
Margolies, David |
Mills & Boon: guilt without sex |
1982 |
Harlequin Mills & Boon, work, gender, emotions, rape and/or intimate partner violence/abuse |
Margolis, Harriet |
Feminist Irony or Poisonous FANTASY?: Category Romance and the Conscious Reader |
1992 |
readers, feminism |
Margolis, Harriet |
The Lover's Value(s): Women's Romance Novels in an Exchange-Based Society |
1995 |
feminism, readers |
Margolis, Harriet |
A Childe in Love, Or Is It Just Fantasy? The Values of Women's Genres |
1997 |
Emma Darcy, emotions, work, family, love |
Margolis, Ann |
In Defense of Romantic Fiction |
2009 |
Publishing, genre definitions |
Markasović, Valentina |
Challenging Gender Stereotypes in Holly Black’s The Folk of the Air Trilogy |
2023 |
Holly Black, paranormal/fantasy/time-travel romance, YA/teenage romance, gender |
Markert, John |
Beyond Gatekeepers: Romance Publishing and the Production of Culture |
1984 |
Publishing |
Markert, John |
Romance Publishing and the Production of Culture |
1985 |
Publishing, Harlequin Mills & Boon, United States of America, sex/sexuality, historical romance, Kathleen Woodiwiss |
Markert, John |
The publishing decision: Managerial policy and its effect on editorial decision making—The case of romance publishing |
1987 |
Publishing |
Markert, John |
Publishing Romance: The History of an Industry, 1940s to the Present |
2016 |
Publishing, Harlequin Mills & Boon, historical romance, erotic romance, m/m romance, lesbian romance, gothic romance, romantic suspense, African American romance, paranormal/fantasy/time-travel romance, Avon, Ellora's Cave, LGBT+ characters, readers and/or authors, BDSM, paratext |
Markert, John |
God is Love: The Christian Romance Market |
2017 |
Christian romance, Publishing, sex/sexuality |
Markert, John |
Publishing the romance novel |
2021 |
Publishing, Harlequin Mills & Boon, United States of America, historical romance, Kathleen Woodiwiss, contemporary romance |
Markova, M. V. |
Georgette Heyer, history, and historical fiction. |
2024 |
Georgette Heyer, history, historical romance |
Marks, Pamela |
The Good Provider in Romance Novels |
1999 |
marriage, wealth/prosperity, emotions, history, United States of America, Older and/or precursor texts (may not be "romance" as now defined), Susan Warner, disability, sex/sexuality, work |
Martens, Debra |
Weaving Alliances: Selected Papers Presented For The Canadian Women's Studies Association at the 1991 and 1992 Learned Societies Conferences |
1993 |
|
Martin, Michèle |
Communication et médias de masse : culture, domination et opposition |
1991 |
romance scholarship, Harlequin Mills & Boon, feminism, gender, rape and/or intimate partner violence/abuse |
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 |
Martínez Garrido, Elisa |
Bildungsroman y crítica de género: Novela rosa y narrativa de mujeres |
2000 |
Italy, Older and/or precursor texts (may not be "romance" as now defined), gender, love, fairytales/folktales |
Martínez de la Hidalga, Fernando |
La novela popular en España (vol 1.) |
2000 |
|
Bruttini, Adriano; Marucci, Franco |
La performance del testo: atti del VII Congresso Nazionale dell'Associazione Italiana di Anglistica (A.I.A.), Siena, 2-4 Novembre 1984 |
1986 |
|
Ivanski, Chantelle; Maslej, Marta M.; Mar, Raymond A. |
Empirical Approaches to Studying Emotion in Literature: The Case of Gender |
2022 |
science/technology, emotions, gender, readers, authors, romance scholarship |
Mason, Gillian |
Rosemary Rogers |
2008 |
Rosemary Rogers, historical romance, rape and/or intimate partner violence/abuse, sex/sexuality, erotic romance, BDSM |
Masteller, Jean Carwile |
Romancing the Reader: From Laura Jean Libbey to Harlequin Romance and Beyond |
1996 |
Older and/or precursor texts (may not be "romance" as now defined), Laura Jean Libbey, romances in magazines and newspapers, Publishing, work, social/economic class, Harlequin Mills & Boon, sex/sexuality, Jayne Ann Krentz/Amanda Quick/Jayne Castle, metafiction |
Matelski, Elizabeth |
"I'm Not the Only Lesbian Who Wears a Skirt": Lesbian Romance Fiction and Identity in Post-World War II America |
2016 |
LGBT+ characters, readers and/or authors, fashion/clothing, United States of America, gender, Older and/or precursor texts (may not be "romance" as now defined), history, metafiction, Claire Morgan/Patricia Highsmith, lesbian romance, Valerie Taylor, Ann Bannon, Rita Mae Brown |
Moy, Patricia; Matheson, Donald |
Voices: Exploring the Shifting Contours of Communication |
2019 |
|
Mathis, Gilles |
Le cliché |
1998 |
|
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) |