| Taylor, Jessica Anne |
Write the Book of Your Heart: Career, Passion and Publishing in the Romance Writing Community |
2013 |
authors, Publishing, race/ethnicity, social/economic class, gender, love, work |
| Fletcher, Lisa |
The Scholarship of Teaching and Learning Popular Romance Studies: What is it, and why does it matter? |
2013 |
teaching romance |
| Goris, An |
Happily Ever After ... And After: Serialization and the Popular Romance Novel |
2013 |
genre definitions, Publishing, community, readers, happy ending, Nora Roberts/J. D. Robb, J. R. Ward, work, family, love |
| Roach, Catherine M. |
'Going Native': Aca-Fandom and Deep Participant Observation in Popular Romance Studies |
2014 |
authors, romance scholarship |
| Uparkar, Shilpa |
Desi love stories: Harlequin Mills & Boon’s Indian enterprise |
2014 |
Harlequin Mills & Boon, India, languages |
| Crawford, Joseph |
The Twilight of the Gothic? Vampire Fiction and the Rise of the Paranormal Romance, 1991-2012 |
2014 |
paranormal/fantasy/time-travel romance, genre definitions, Twilight, gothic romance |
| Arthur, Paul Longley; Bode, Katherine |
Advancing Digital Humanities: Research, Methods, Theories |
2014 |
|
| Illouz, Eva |
Hard-Core Romance: Fifty Shades of Grey, Best-Sellers, and Society |
2014 |
Fifty Shades, BDSM |
| Newell, Stephanie; Okome, Onookome |
Popular Culture in Africa: The Episteme of the Everyday |
2014 |
|
| Fletcher, Lisa |
Writing the Happy Ever After: An Interview with Anne Gracie |
2014 |
Anne Gracie, trash/literary and or intellectual quality, metafiction, Jane Austen, readers, emotions, family, wealth/prosperity, sex/sexuality, happy ending |
| Selinger, Eric Murphy |
My Metatextual Romance: Thinking With (and About) Jaane Tu Ya Janne Na |
2014 |
film/movies, metafiction |
| Chivers, Marian; Speed, Lesley; Tasker, Meg |
The warrior woman in Harlequin’s Bombshell Athena Force series |
2014 |
Harlequin Mills & Boon, romantic suspense, war/armed forces, gender |
| Arthur, Paul Longley; Bode, Katherine |
Advancing Digital Humanities: Research, Methods, Theories |
2014 |
|
| Fragero Guerra, Carmen |
Auxilio Social en La casa de enfrente (1960) de Carmen de Icaza |
2014 |
Carmen de Icaza, Spain, fascism/right-wing authoritarianism |
| Goşa, Codruţa |
From Fantastic Twilight to Fifty Shades Fanfiction: Not Another Cinderella Story... |
2014 |
Fifty Shades, Twilight, fairytales/folktales, fanfiction |
| Chivers, Marian; Speed, Lesley; Tasker, Meg |
The warrior woman in Harlequin’s Bombshell Athena Force series |
2014 |
Harlequin Mills & Boon, romantic suspense, war/armed forces, gender |
| Bellanta, Melissa |
A Masculine Romance: The Sentimental Bloke and Australian Culture in the War-and Early Interwar Years |
2014 |
Australia, gender, love, C. J. Dennis, film/movies |
| Leith, Murray Stewart; Sim, Duncan |
The Modern Scottish Diaspora: Contemporary Debates and Perspectives |
2014 |
|
| Armstrong, Jane; Byrski, Liz; Merrick, Helen |
Love works: Reading and writing romance in the twenty-first century |
2014 |
readers, authors |
| Driscoll, Beth |
Genre, Author, Text, Reader: Teaching Nora Roberts’s Spellbound |
2014 |
teaching romance, Nora Roberts/J. D. Robb |
| Graves, Joanne |
Beyond Valentine's Day: The romance novel in the evolving world of publishing |
2014 |
New Zealand, libraries/librarians |
| Petersson, Sara; Söderberg, Daniel |
En berättelse tar form - en studie i hur geometrisk form på bokomslag indikerar populärlitterär genre |
2014 |
paratext |
| Tapper, Olivia |
Romance and Innovation in Twenty-First Century Publishing |
2014 |
Publishing, Harlequin Mills & Boon |
| Chivers, Marian; Speed, Lesley; Tasker, Meg |
The warrior woman in Harlequin’s Bombshell Athena Force series |
2014 |
Harlequin Mills & Boon, romantic suspense, war/armed forces, gender |
| McLennon, Leigh |
Defining Urban Fantasy and Paranormal Romance: Crossing Boundaries of Genre, Media, Self and Other in New Supernatural Worlds |
2014 |
paranormal/fantasy/time-travel romance, genre definitions |
| Hamlyn, Eleanor |
Reading the Genre Codes in Giorgio Scerbanenco's Hybridised Romanzi Rosa |
2014 |
Giorgio Scerbanenco, romantic suspense |
| Quale, Amy E. |
Pursuit of Empowerment: The Evolution of the Romance Novel and Its Readership in Fifty Shades of Grey |
2014 |
Fifty Shades |
| Taylor, Jessica |
Romance and the Female Gaze Obscuring Gendered Violence in The Twilight Saga |
2014 |
gender, rape and/or intimate partner violence/abuse, Twilight |
| Leith, Murray Stewart; Sim, Duncan |
The Modern Scottish Diaspora: Contemporary Debates and Perspectives |
2014 |
|
| Armstrong, Jane; Byrski, Liz; Merrick, Helen |
Love works: Reading and writing romance in the twenty-first century |
2014 |
readers, authors |
| Andrade, Roberta Manuela Barros de; Silva, Erotilde Honório |
Os Romances Sentimentais e suas Comunidades de Leitura |
2014 |
Brazil, readers |
| Borgia, Danielle N. |
Twilight: The Glamorization of Abuse, Codependency, and White Privilege |
2014 |
paranormal/fantasy/time-travel romance, Twilight, gender, rape and/or intimate partner violence/abuse, race/ethnicity, religion/spirituality |
| O'Byrne, Patricia |
Post-War Spanish Women Novelists and the Recuperation of Historical Memory |
2014 |
Spain |
| Greco, Barbara; Pache Carballo, Laura |
Variaciones de lo metarreal en la España de los siglos XX y XXI |
2014 |
|
| Russell, Shannon |
Dangerous Young Men: Themes of Female Sexuality and Masculinity in Paranormal Romance Novels for Young Adults |
2014 |
YA/teenage romance, paranormal/fantasy/time-travel romance, sex/sexuality, gender, rape and/or intimate partner violence/abuse |
| Barletta, Sandra A. |
Cougars, Grannies, Evil Stepmothers, and Menopausal Hot Flashers: Roles, Representations of Age, and the Non-traditional Romance Heroine |
2014 |
ageism, Sandra Antonelli/Sandra A. Barletta |
| Petersson, Sara; Söderberg, Daniel |
En berättelse tar form - en studie i hur geometrisk form på bokomslag indikerar populärlitterär genre |
2014 |
paratext |
| Walker, Lisa |
Polar bears and evil scientists: Romance, comedy and climate change |
2014 |
science/technology, romance and, or as, activism, authors, settings, ecocriticism/environmentalism/climate change |
| Bronstein, Carolyn |
The Political Uses of Lesbian Romance Fiction: Reading Patrick Califia’s Macho Sluts as a Response to 1980s Anti-Pornography Feminism |
2014 |
BDSM, LGBT+ characters, readers and/or authors, Patrick Califia |
| Deffenbacher, Kristina |
Rape Myths' Twilight and Women's Paranormal Revenge in Romantic and Urban Fantasy Fiction |
2014 |
rape and/or intimate partner violence/abuse, paranormal/fantasy/time-travel romance, gender, Twilight, Patricia Briggs, Nicole Peeler, Kresley Cole, Larissa Ione, Christine Feehan, J. R. Ward, Dianne Sylvan, Richelle Mead, Karen Marie Moning, Charlaine Harris |
| Hughes, Bill |
Demon Lovers: Embracing the Monster in Paranormal Romance |
2014 |
paranormal/fantasy/time-travel romance, trash/literary and or intellectual quality, YA/teenage romance, gothic romance, Older and/or precursor texts (may not be "romance" as now defined), sex/sexuality, Alyxandra Harvey, science/technology, gender, Maggie Stiefvater, animals, Julie Kagawa, rural romance, settings, death, Daniel Waters |
| Kamblé, Jayashree |
Making Meaning in Popular Romance Fiction: An Epistemology |
2014 |
war/armed forces, capitalism/business, gender, race/ethnicity, Lisa Kleypas, Nora Roberts/J. D. Robb, genre definitions, Suzanne Brockmann, Gaelen Foley, Diana Gabaldon, Linda Howard, Sherrilyn Kenyon, Johanna Lindsey, Anne Mather, Lindsay McKenna, Judith McNaught, historical romance, paranormal/fantasy/time-travel romance, Susan Elizabeth Phillips, Julia Quinn, Nalini Singh, Violet Winspear, rape and/or intimate partner violence/abuse |
| Turner, Ellen |
The Sheik Returns: Imitations and Parodies of the Desert Romance |
2014 |
E. M. Hull, sheikh romance, trash/literary and or intellectual quality, sex/sexuality, Harlequin Mills & Boon, rape and/or intimate partner violence/abuse |
| Helgason, Jon; Kärrholm, Sara; Steiner, Ann |
Hype: Bestsellers and Literary Cultures |
2014 |
|
| Greenfeld-Benovitz, Miriam |
The Interactive Romance Community: The Case of "Covers Gone Wild" |
2014 |
community, readers, paratext |
| Armstrong, Jane; Byrski, Liz; Merrick, Helen |
Love works: Reading and writing romance in the twenty-first century |
2014 |
readers, authors |
| Andrade, Roberta Manuela Barros de; Silva, Erotilde Honório |
Os Romances Sentimentais e suas Comunidades de Leitura |
2014 |
Brazil, readers |
| Greco, Barbara; Pache Carballo, Laura |
Variaciones de lo metarreal en la España de los siglos XX y XXI |
2014 |
|
| Barra, Andrea Cipriano |
Beyond the Bodice Ripper: Innovation and Change in the Romance Novel Industry |
2014 |
readers, Publishing |
| Ávila, Debbie Maria |
Conflicting Images of Womanhood in the Novels of Alice Ogando |
2014 |
Alice Ogando writing as Mary Love, Portugal, fascism/right-wing authoritarianism, gender, marriage, family, love |
| Berberich, Christine |
The Bloomsbury Introduction to Popular Fiction |
2014 |
|
| Klaber, Lara |
Taming the Perfect Beast: the Monster as Romantic Hero in Contemporary Fiction |
2014 |
Twilight, paranormal/fantasy/time-travel romance |
| 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) |
| Helgason, Jon; Kärrholm, Sara; Steiner, Ann |
Hype: Bestsellers and Literary Cultures |
2014 |
|
| Reid Boyd, Elizabeth |
Romancing feminism: From women’s studies to women’s fiction |
2014 |
feminism, love, readers, Elizabeth Reid Boyd (pen name Eliza Redgold) |
| Dugger, Julie M. |
“I’m a Feminist, But…” Popular Romance in the Women’s Literature Classroom |
2014 |
feminism, teaching romance, readers, Jane Austen, trash/literary and or intellectual quality |
| Percec, Dana |
Reading the Fantastic Imagination: The Avatars of a Literary Genre |
2014 |
|
| Slušná, Zuzana |
Paranormal and Religious as Part of Pop Cultural Consumerism |
2014 |
paranormal/fantasy/time-travel romance, religion/spirituality |
| Wilt, Judith |
Women Writers and the Hero of Romance |
2014 |
Older and/or precursor texts (may not be "romance" as now defined), E. M. Hull, gender, Baroness Orczy, Twilight, Fifty Shades |
| Helgason, Jon; Kärrholm, Sara; Steiner, Ann |
Hype: Bestsellers and Literary Cultures |
2014 |
|
| Kania, Richard R. E. |
Pirates and Piracy in American Popular Culture |
2014 |
pirates and outlaws, historical romance, Daphne du Maurier |
| Fordham, Helen |
‘That’s love for you’: Destabilizing divides and re-imaging subjectivities in the romantic fiction of Eloisa James |
2014 |
trash/literary and or intellectual quality, readers, Eloisa James, Shakespeare |
| Burge, Amy |
‘For you are a man and she is a maid’: Performing masculinity in Orientalist medieval and modern popular romance fiction |
2014 |
sheikh romance, Older and/or precursor texts (may not be "romance" as now defined), gender, Harlequin Mills & Boon, settings, fashion/clothing |
| Rani, Mohd. Zariat Abdul |
The Conflict of Love and Islam: The Main Ingredients in the Popular Islamic Novels of Malaysia |
2014 |
Malaysia, Islam, religion/spirituality, Zaid Akhtar, Ilham Hamdani, paratext, Publishing, Muslim romance |
| Hartmann, Britta Ulrike |
Island fictions: Castaways and imperialism |
2014 |
settings, islands, Violet Winspear, Margery Hilton, Ginna Gray, Julie Tetel Andresen, Penelope Neri, Donna Simpson, Darlene Marshall, Jill Shalvis, Kandy Shepherd, Tracey Garvis Graves |
| Chivers, Marian |
The Warrior Woman in Contemporary Romance Fiction |
2014 |
war/armed forces, Harlequin Mills & Boon, gender, feminism, paratext, work, romantic suspense, Justine Davis/Justine Dare, Amy J. Fetzer, Katherine Garbera, Meredith Fletcher, Catherine Mann, Debra Webb, community |
| Morrissey, Katherine |
Fifty Shades of Remix: The Intersecting Pleasures of Commercial and Fan Romances |
2014 |
Fifty Shades, fanfiction |
| Teo, Hsu-Ming |
“We have to learn to love imperially”: Love in Late Colonial and Federation Australian Romance Novels |
2014 |
Australia, Older and/or precursor texts (may not be "romance" as now defined), love, gender, marriage, national identity, Mary Bradford Whiting, UK, race/ethnicity, family, sex/sexuality, rape and/or intimate partner violence/abuse, Broda Reynolds, Mabel Forrest, Marie Bjelke Petersen, Alice Grant Rosman, Rosa Praed, rural romance, settings, work, Ada Cambridge |
| O'Mahony, Lauren |
Australian rural romance as feminist romance? |
2014 |
rural romance, gender, feminism, Australia, work, Rachael Treasure, Nicole Alexander, Karly Lane |
| Ebert, Teresa L. |
Hegel's “picture-thinking” as the interpretive logic of the popular |
2014 |
capitalism/business, social/economic class, religion/spirituality, Linda Howard, philosophy, emotions |
| Mayfield, Kerrita K. |
Liminal eRoticism: Emerging Forms of Gender Identity and Performance in e-Romances and Their Feminist Electronic Communities |
2014 |
feminism, Publishing, gender, erotic romance, LGBT+ characters, readers and/or authors, Jeanne Laws, chick lit, Shelly Laurenston, race/ethnicity, paranormal/fantasy/time-travel romance, happy ending, BDSM, m/m romance |
| Soler Gallo, Miguel |
El Bien y el Mal: Modelos de conducta femeninos en la novela rosa de los 40 |
2014 |
fascism/right-wing authoritarianism, Spain, gender |
| Faktorovich, Anna |
The Formulas of Popular Fiction: Elements of Fantasy, Science Fiction, Romance, Religious and Mystery Novels |
2014 |
|
| Fragero Guerra, Carmen |
"Soñar la vida": La narrativa de Carmen de Icaza (1936-1960) |
2014 |
Carmen de Icaza, Luisa-María Linares, history, Spain, fascism/right-wing authoritarianism, social/economic class, fashion/clothing, film/movies |
| Hague, Euan |
Mass Market Romance Fiction and the Representation of Scotland in the United States |
2014 |
Scotland, United States of America, settings, Terri Brisbin, Blythe Gifford, Susan Fraser King, Margaret Mallory, historical romance, Diana Gabaldon, paranormal/fantasy/time-travel romance, linguistics, history, readers |
| Elliott, Jack |
Patterns and Trends in Harlequin Category Romance |
2014 |
Harlequin Mills & Boon, linguistics, authors |
| Novak, Julia |
Nell Gwyn in Contemporary Romance Novels: Biography and the Dictates of 'Genre Literature' |
2014 |
history, historical romance |
| McAlister, Jodi |
‘That complete fusion of spirit as well as body’: Heroines, heroes, desire and compulsory demisexuality in the Harlequin Mills & Boon romance novel |
2014 |
Harlequin Mills & Boon, sex/sexuality, love, gender, Denise Robins, Lynne Graham |
| Στάμου, Εύα |
Η επέλαση της ροζ λογοτεχνίας. Δοκίμιο για την Ευδοκίμηση μιας Μορφής Αφηγηματικού Λόγου |
2014 |
|
| O'Mahony, Lauren |
Teaching an Old Dog New Tricks?: Romance, Ethics and Human-Dog Relationships in a Rural Australian Novel |
2014 |
animals, rural romance, Rachael Treasure, Australia, gender, work, death |
| Warnes, Christopher |
Desired State: Black Economic Empowerment and the South African Popular Romance |
2014 |
Africa, work, race/ethnicity, South Africa, gender |
| Iqbal, Kundan |
The impact of romance novels on women's sexual and reproductive health |
2014 |
readers, sex/sexuality |
| Wood, Christine V. |
Tender Heroes and Twilight Lovers: Re-Reading the Romance in Mass-Market Pulp Novels, 1950–1965 |
2014 |
LGBT+ characters, readers and/or authors, gender, United States of America, Older and/or precursor texts (may not be "romance" as now defined), Paula Christian, Ann Bannon, Randy Salem, sex/sexuality |
| Radhika, P. |
Inaugurating a (Feminine) Public: Women’s Romances in Kannada, 1950s–1960s |
2014 |
India, psychology |
| Robertson, Rachel |
‘Driven by Tens’: Obsession and cognitive difference in Toni Jordan’s romantic comedy Addition |
2014 |
disability, Toni Jordan |
| Chess, Shira |
Strange Bedfellows: Subjectivity, Romance, and Hidden Object Video Games |
2014 |
computer/video/digital games, Harlequin Mills & Boon, metafiction, Christen Anne Kelley |
| Newell, Stephanie; Okome, Onookome |
Popular Culture in Africa: The Episteme of the Everyday |
2014 |
|
| Neves, Mariana Brasileiro |
ROMANCES DE BOLSO: A novela romântica da Harlequin Books no mercado editorial brasileiro |
2014 |
Harlequin Mills & Boon, Brazil |
| Pöppel, Hubert |
Las reinas de la novela rosa en España y Alemania: Corín Tellado y Hedwig Courths-Mahler |
2014 |
Germany, Spain, Corín Tellado, Hedwig Courths-Mahler, trash/literary and or intellectual quality |
| Tang, Yang |
Between Fantasy and Reality: Time-Travel Romance and Media Fandom in Chinese Cyberspace |
2014 |
China, paranormal/fantasy/time-travel romance |
| Trevenen, Claire |
Fifty Shades of “Mommy Porn”: A Post-GFC Renegotiation of Paternal Law |
2014 |
Fifty Shades, gender, family, sex/sexuality, BDSM, capitalism/business, race/ethnicity |
| Faktorovich, Anna |
Gender Bias in Mystery and Romance Novel Publishing: Mimicking Masculinity and Femininity |
2015 |
authors, gender |
| Holley, Robert P. |
Self-Publishing and Collection Development: Opportunities and Challenges for Libraries |
2015 |
|
| Harris, Alana; Jones, Timothy Willem |
Love and Romance in Britain, 1918-1970 |
2015 |
|
| Caland, Fabienne Claire; Rouby, Bertrand; Bleton, Paul |
L'amour au temps du roman |
2015 |
Older and/or precursor texts (may not be "romance" as now defined), Harlequin Mills & Boon, Delly, Max du Veuzit, Magali, pen name of Jeanne Philbert, Barbara Cartland |
| McAlister, Jodi Ann |
Romancing the Virgin: Female Virginity Loss and Love in Popular Literature in the West |
2015 |
love, sex/sexuality, gender, Twilight, Fifty Shades, Harlequin Mills & Boon, virginity |
| Powley, Tammy |
Romance Fiction in Florida: The Crisscross of Jane Austen and Angela Hunt |
2015 |
Angela Hunt, Jane Austen |
| Wood, Andrea |
Making the Invisible Visible: Lesbian Romance Comics for Women |
2015 |
sex/sexuality, comics/manga, lesbian romance, LGBT+ characters, readers and/or authors |
| Goris, An |
Hidden Codes of Love: The Materiality of the Category Romance Novel |
2015 |
paratext, Harlequin Mills & Boon |
| Seifert, Christine |
Virginity in Young Adult Literature after Twilight |
2015 |
YA/teenage romance, paranormal/fantasy/time-travel romance, sex/sexuality, virginity, Twilight, contemporary romance |
| Kahn, Laurie |
Love Between the Covers |
2015 |
authors, Jennifer Crusie, Eloisa James, Beverly Jenkins, Radclyffe/Len Barot |
| Slušná, Zuzana |
Postfeminism, Post-romantic and New Patterns of Feminity [sic] in Popular Culture |
2015 |
readers, gender, sex/sexuality, pornography, trash/literary and or intellectual quality |
| Pokrywka, Rafał |
Temperaturen des Begehrens als konventionelle Metaphern im Hard-Core-Liebesroman |
2015 |
metaphor/symbolism, Sylvia Day, Fifty Shades, sex/sexuality |
| Towheed, Shafquat; King, Edmund G. C. |
Reading and the First World War: Readers, Texts, Archives |
2015 |
|
| Teague, Anna Sophia Wester |
“If my hubby ever did half the stuff my book boyfriends did… I’d put him six ft in the ground” : narratives of interpersonal and gendered violence as discussed in romance novel review websites |
2015 |
readers, rape and/or intimate partner violence/abuse, psychology, pornography, gender, sex/sexuality |
| Washington, AlTonya |
An Indie Author in a Library World |
2015 |
Publishing, authors, readers, libraries/librarians |
| Deal, Clare H. |
Throbb[ing] with a consciousness of a knowledge that appalled her’: Embodiment and Female Subjectivity in the Desert Romance |
2015 |
E. M. Hull, sheikh romance, feminism, sex/sexuality, gender, rape and/or intimate partner violence/abuse |
| 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 |
| Gillis, Bryan; Simpson, Joanna |
Sexual Content in Young Adult Literature: Reading between the Sheets |
2015 |
YA/teenage romance, sex/sexuality |
| Morton, Leith |
The reinvention of romance: The rewriting, reception and censorship of 'ninjobon' in modern Japan |
2015 |
genre definitions, readers, Japan, love, Older and/or precursor texts (may not be "romance" as now defined) |
| Escolar, Marisa |
Marry the Allies? Luciana Peverelli’s ‘True’ Romanzo Rosa in ‘Liberated’ Rome |
2015 |
Luciana Peverelli, Italy, national identity, fascism/right-wing authoritarianism, race/ethnicity, war/armed forces, sex/sexuality, UK |
| Sheehan, Sarah E.; Stevens, Jen |
Creating a Popular Romance Collection in an Academic Library |
2015 |
libraries/librarians |
| Veros, Vassiliki |
A Matter of Meta: Category Romance Fiction and the Interplay of Paratext and Library Metadata |
2015 |
libraries/librarians, Harlequin Mills & Boon, paratext |
| Chelton, Mary K. |
Readers' Advisory: There Seem to be More SEALs in Romance Fiction than in the US Navy, and if so, Why Does it Matter? |
2015 |
war/armed forces, libraries/librarians, gender, romantic suspense |
| Goldman, Crystal |
Special Issue: Romancing the Library (Editor’s Introduction) |
2015 |
libraries/librarians |
| Towheed, Shafquat; King, Edmund G. C. |
Reading and the First World War: Readers, Texts, Archives |
2015 |
|
| Morrissey, Katherine |
Steamy, Spicy, Sensual: Tracing the Cycles of Erotic Romance |
2015 |
erotic romance, Publishing, genre definitions, Kathleen Woodiwiss, Avon, historical romance, BDSM, LGBT+ characters, readers and/or authors |
| Gillis, Stacy |
The Cross-Dresser, the Thief, His Daughter and Her Lover: Queer Desire and Romance in Georgette Heyer’s These Old Shades |
2015 |
Georgette Heyer, gender, sex/sexuality, historical romance, LGBT+ characters, readers and/or authors |
| Wherry, Maryan |
More than a Love Story: The Complexities Of the Popular Romance |
2015 |
genre definitions, Older and/or precursor texts (may not be "romance" as now defined), fairytales/folktales, Jennifer Crusie, sex/sexuality |
| Crane, Megan |
Stacy Holden’s ‘Love in the Desert’: An Author’s Response |
2015 |
sheikh romance, race/ethnicity, Scotland, Greece, gender, Harlequin Mills & Boon |
| 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 |
| 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 |
| Gillis, Bryan; Simpson, Joanna |
Sexual Content in Young Adult Literature: Reading between the Sheets |
2015 |
YA/teenage romance, sex/sexuality |
| Sheehan, Sarah E.; Stevens, Jen |
Creating a Popular Romance Collection in an Academic Library |
2015 |
libraries/librarians |
| Hedrick, Tace |
Chica Lit: Popular Latina Fiction and Americanization in the Twenty-First Century |
2015 |
race/ethnicity, United States of America |
| 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 |
| Anyiwo, U. Melissa |
Race in the Vampire Narrative |
2015 |
|
| Veldman-Genz, Carole |
Selling Gay Sex to Women: The Romance of M/M and M/M/F Romantica |
2015 |
sex/sexuality, erotic romance, m/m romance, Ellora's Cave, gender, BDSM, LGBT+ characters, readers and/or authors |
| Neuhaus, Jessamyn; Neuhaus, John |
'Sometimes It Feels More Like a Commune Than a Town': Envisioning Utopian Possibilities in Robyn Carr's Virgin River Romance Novels |
2015 |
small towns, Robyn Carr, community, capitalism/business |
| Holden, Stacy E. |
Love in the Desert: Images of Arab-American Reconciliation in Contemporary Sheikh Romance Novels |
2015 |
Harlequin Mills & Boon, sheikh romance, United States of America, authors, Islam, Susan Mallery, Sandra Marton, fashion/clothing, Maisey Yates, settings, Lynne Raye Harris, Violet Winspear, Jane Porter |
| 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 |
| Serisier, Tanya |
On Not Reading Fifty Shades: Feminism and the Fantasy of Romantic Immunity |
2015 |
Fifty Shades, readers, feminism, rape and/or intimate partner violence/abuse |
| Jagodzinski, Mallory |
Love is (Color) Blind: Historical Romance Fiction and Interracial Relationships in the Twenty-First Century |
2015 |
Theresa Romain, Meredith Duran, Courtney Milan, race/ethnicity, historical romance, gender, disability, United States of America, history, rape and/or intimate partner violence/abuse |
| Therrien, Kathleen M. |
"One Would Die Rather Than Speak ... about Such Subjects": Exploring Class, Gender, and Hegemony in Anya Seton's Dragonwyck |
2015 |
teaching romance, Anya Seton, gothic romance, social/economic class, gender, sex/sexuality, rape and/or intimate partner violence/abuse |
| González-Cruz, María-Isabel |
Love in Paradise: Visions of the Canaries in a Corpus of Popular Romance Fiction Novels |
2015 |
settings, Spain, Harlequin Mills & Boon, genre definitions, languages |
| Selinger, Eric Murphy |
Erotica: romance novels |
2015 |
genre definitions |
| Copy, Christine |
C’est une femme qui vous parle: à propos de quelques caractéristiques du discours rapporté dans les romans sentimentaux de la collection Harlequin en anglais |
2015 |
Harlequin Mills & Boon, linguistics, paratext, gender |
| King, Laura |
The Perfect Man: Fatherhood, Masculinity and Romance in Popular Culture in Mid-Twentieth-Century Britain |
2015 |
family, gender, marriage, history, UK |
| Neuhaus, Jessamyn; Neuhaus, John |
'Sometimes It Feels More Like a Commune Than a Town': Envisioning Utopian Possibilities in Robyn Carr's Virgin River Romance Novels |
2015 |
small towns, Robyn Carr, community, capitalism/business |
| Anzaldúa, Saraliza |
Teratophilia: An Inquiry into Monster Erotica and the Feminine Psyche |
2015 |
paranormal/fantasy/time-travel romance, Mac Flynn, psychology, readers, sex/sexuality, rape and/or intimate partner violence/abuse |
| Chandra, Elizabeth |
Blossoming Dahlia: Chinese Women Novelists in Colonial Indonesia |
2015 |
Indonesia, Older and/or precursor texts (may not be "romance" as now defined), marriage, gender, history, family, race/ethnicity |
| Heiss, Karin |
14 Weeks of Love and Labour: Teaching Regency and Desert Romance to Undergraduate Students |
2015 |
teaching romance, historical romance, sheikh romance, Georgette Heyer, E. M. Hull, Marguerite Kaye, race/ethnicity, film/movies, Publishing |
| Corderot, Didier |
Biblioteca Rocío" (1937-1939) o las virtudes de la novela rosa durante la Guerra Civil española |
2015 |
Spain, fascism/right-wing authoritarianism, Christian romance, France, translation, history, Publishing, Delly, Magali, pen name of Jeanne Philbert |
| Jarmakani, Amira |
An Imperialist Love Story: Desert Romances and the War on Terror |
2015 |
sheikh romance, war/armed forces, United States of America, race/ethnicity, Islam, E. M. Hull, gender, marriage, rape and/or intimate partner violence/abuse |
| Peaty, Gwyneth |
Rock Hard: Gargoyles in Contemporary Gothic Romance |
2015 |
paranormal/fantasy/time-travel romance, war/armed forces, United States of America, Christine Warren, Lisa Blackwood, Sally Painter, Marjorie M. Liu, Danielle Monsch |
| Hobson, Amanda |
Brothers under Covers: Race and the Paranormal Romance Novel |
2015 |
paranormal/fantasy/time-travel romance, race/ethnicity, Kerrelyn Sparks, J. R. Ward |
| Bianchi, Diana; D'Arcangelo, Adele |
Translating History or Romance? Historical Romantic Fiction and Its Translation in a Globalised Market |
2015 |
translation, historical romance, Diana Gabaldon, trash/literary and or intellectual quality, genre definitions, Christian romance, Italy, Scotland |
| Lois, Jennifer; Gregson, Joanna |
Sneers and Leers: Romance Writers and Gendered Sexual Stigma |
2015 |
authors, sex/sexuality, gender, sociology |
| Andrade, Roberta Manuela Barros de; Nascimento, Antonio Marcos Fonseca do; Freitas, Tatiane Lima de |
As representações de masculinidades e feminilidades nos romances de banca de Diana Palmer nos anos de 1990 |
2015 |
Diana Palmer, gender |
| Piatti-Farnell, Lorna; Brien, Donna Lee |
New Directions in 21st Century Gothic: The Gothic Compass |
2015 |
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| Potter, Jane |
‘Khaki and Kisses’: Reading the Romance Novel in the Great War |
2015 |
war/armed forces, readers, national identity, gender |
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The International Encyclopedia of Human Sexuality |
2015 |
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| Dreimane, Jana |
Authors, Publishers and Readers of Popular Literature in Latvia in the Late 1980s and Early 1990s |
2015 |
Latvia, Publishing, readers, translation, Hedwig Courths-Mahler, Ethel M. Dell, trash/literary and or intellectual quality, socialism and/or communism |
| Bianchi, Diana; D'Arcangelo, Adele |
Translating History or Romance? Historical Romantic Fiction and Its Translation in a Globalised Market |
2015 |
translation, historical romance, Diana Gabaldon, trash/literary and or intellectual quality, genre definitions, Christian romance, Italy, Scotland |
| Lois, Jennifer; Gregson, Joanna |
Sneers and Leers: Romance Writers and Gendered Sexual Stigma |
2015 |
authors, sex/sexuality, gender, sociology |
| Andrade, Roberta Manuela Barros de; Nascimento, Antonio Marcos Fonseca do; Freitas, Tatiane Lima de |
As representações de masculinidades e feminilidades nos romances de banca de Diana Palmer nos anos de 1990 |
2015 |
Diana Palmer, gender |
| Piatti-Farnell, Lorna; Brien, Donna Lee |
New Directions in 21st Century Gothic: The Gothic Compass |
2015 |
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| 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 |
| Foster, Guy Mark |
What To Do If Your Inner Tomboy Is a Homo: Straight Women, Bisexuality, and Pleasure in M/M Gay Romance Fictions |
2015 |
gender, m/m romance, sex/sexuality, psychology, LGBT+ characters, readers and/or authors |
| Miller, Jessica |
Passionate Virtue: Conceptions of Medical Professionalism in Popular Romance Fiction |
2015 |
medical romance, health/medical, work, Harlequin Mills & Boon, rape and/or intimate partner violence/abuse, race/ethnicity, rural romance |
| Andrade, Roberta Manuela Barros de; Nascimento, Antonio Marcos Fonseca do; Freitas, Tatiane Lima de |
As representações de masculinidades e feminilidades nos romances de banca de Diana Palmer nos anos de 1990 |
2015 |
Diana Palmer, gender |
| Powley, Tammy; Van Camp, April |
Women of Florida Fiction: Essays on 12 Sunshine State Writers |
2015 |
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| Wiegand, Wayne A. |
A Part of Our Lives: A People’s History of the American Public Library |
2015 |
libraries/librarians |
| Iwai, Gaku |
Wartime Ideology in 'The Thimble': A Comparative Study of Popular Wartime Romance and the Anti-romance of D. H. Lawrence |
2015 |
war/armed forces, Berta Ruck, gender, UK, national identity |
| Mirmohamadi, Kylie |
Love on the Land: Australian Rural Romance in Place |
2015 |
Australia, rural romance, genre definitions, paratext, settings, race/ethnicity, Kerry McGinnis, Fiona Palmer |
| Soler Gallo, Miguel |
Vencer a Medusa: el modelo de mujer angelical en la primera novela rosa de Carmen de Icaza. Feminidad y tradicionalismo |
2015 |
Carmen de Icaza, fascism/right-wing authoritarianism, gender, family |
| Holden, Stacy E.; Tabol, Charity |
In Sickness and In Health: Representations of PTSD in Post-9/11 Romance Novels |
2015 |
war/armed forces, health/medical, Harlequin Mills & Boon, United States of America, romance and, or as, activism, Susan Mallery, Karen Templeton, Janice Kay Johnson, disability, psychology |
| Bennett-Kapusniak, Renee; McCleer, Adriana |
Love in the Digital Library: A Search for Racial Heterogeneity in E-Books |
2015 |
libraries/librarians, race/ethnicity, African American romance |
| Silva, Erotilde Honório; Andrade, Roberta Manuela Barros de |
Os romances sentimentais e a revolução digital: os processos de criação dos projetos de democratização da leitura nos livros do coração |
2015 |
Publishing, Brazil |
| O'Mahony, Lauren Kate |
In search of feminist romance in Australian 'Chick Lit' |
2015 |
chick lit, Australia, feminism |
| Booth, Naomi |
Good Vibrations: Shaken Subjects and the Disintegrative Romance Heroine |
2015 |
Samuel Richardson, Thomas Hardy, Bram Stoker, Fifty Shades, food, drink, BDSM |
| Olkusz, Ksenia |
Rozbieranie wampira. Erotyczne imaginacje i seksualne fantazje w romansach paranormalnych / metafizycznych (na wybranych przykładach) |
2015 |
paranormal/fantasy/time-travel romance, Kerrelyn Sparks, Alexandra Ivy, Lara Adrian, sex/sexuality |
| Young, Helen |
The Middle Ages in Popular Culture: Medievalism and Genre |
2015 |
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| Powley, Tammy; Van Camp, April |
Women of Florida Fiction: Essays on 12 Sunshine State Writers |
2015 |
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| Khuankaew, Sasinee |
Femininity and masculinity in three selected twentieth-century Thai romance fictions |
2015 |
gender, Thailand, Buddhism, marriage, sex/sexuality, feminism, religion/spirituality |
| Phillips, Kristen |
Women and Erotic Fiction: Critical Essays on Genres, Markets & Readers |
2015 |
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| Caland, Fabienne Claire; Rouby, Bertrand; Bleton, Paul |
L'amour au temps du roman |
2015 |
Older and/or precursor texts (may not be "romance" as now defined), Harlequin Mills & Boon, Delly, Max du Veuzit, Magali, pen name of Jeanne Philbert, Barbara Cartland |
| Diamond, Geneva |
Medievalism and the Courtship Plot in Julie Garwood's Popular Romance Novels |
2015 |
Julie Garwood, historical romance, gender, romantic suspense |
| Holden, Stacy E.; Tabol, Charity |
In Sickness and In Health: Representations of PTSD in Post-9/11 Romance Novels |
2015 |
war/armed forces, health/medical, Harlequin Mills & Boon, United States of America, romance and, or as, activism, Susan Mallery, Karen Templeton, Janice Kay Johnson, disability, psychology |
| Bennett-Kapusniak, Renee; McCleer, Adriana |
Love in the Digital Library: A Search for Racial Heterogeneity in E-Books |
2015 |
libraries/librarians, race/ethnicity, African American romance |
| Silva, Erotilde Honório; Andrade, Roberta Manuela Barros de |
Os romances sentimentais e a revolução digital: os processos de criação dos projetos de democratização da leitura nos livros do coração |
2015 |
Publishing, Brazil |
| McAlister, Jodi |
Breaking the Hard Limits: Romance, Pornography, and the Question of Genre in the Fifty Shades Trilogy |
2015 |
Fifty Shades, pornography, E. M. Hull, sex/sexuality |
| Selinger, Eric Murphy |
An Interview with Susan Elizabeth Phillips |
2015 |
Susan Elizabeth Phillips, rape and/or intimate partner violence/abuse, romance scholarship, United States of America, religion/spirituality, authors |
| Turner, Ellen |
E. M. Hull's Camping in the Sahara: desert romance meets desert reality |
2015 |
E. M. Hull |
| Meyer, Michaela D. E. |
Living the Romance through Castle: Exploring Autoethnography, Popular Culture and Romantic Television Narratives |
2015 |
readers |
| Barrett-Fox, Rebecca |
Review: When Mercy Rains |
2015 |
Kim Vogel Sawyer, Christian romance, sex/sexuality, religion/spirituality |
| Harris, Alana; Jones, Timothy Willem |
Love and Romance in Britain, 1918-1970 |
2015 |
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| Casey, Janet G. |
Teaching Tainted Lit: Popular American Fiction in Today's Classroom |
2015 |
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| Caland, Fabienne Claire; Rouby, Bertrand; Bleton, Paul |
L'amour au temps du roman |
2015 |
Older and/or precursor texts (may not be "romance" as now defined), Harlequin Mills & Boon, Delly, Max du Veuzit, Magali, pen name of Jeanne Philbert, Barbara Cartland |
| Nelson, Elizabeth |
The Romance of Self-Publishing |
2015 |
Publishing, authors |
| Faktorovich, Anna |
Interview with Mary Jo Putney, Best-Selling Romance Author |
2015 |
Mary Jo Putney, authors, historical romance |
| Allan, Jonathan A.; Santos, Cristina; Spahr, Adriana |
Virgin Envy: The Cultural Insignificance of the Hymen |
2016 |
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| Soubeyroux, Marie-Hélène; Zapata, Mónica |
Miradas sobre una obra polifacética: Homenaje a Jean Louis Guereña |
2016 |
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| Gleason, William |
The Inside Story: Jennifer Crusie and the Architecture of Love |
2016 |
Jennifer Crusie, settings, emotions, sex/sexuality |
| McAlister, Jodi |
“You and I are humans, and there is something complicated between us”: Untamed and queering the heterosexual historical romance |
2016 |
Anna Cowan, gender, historical romance, Georgette Heyer, readers, cross-dressing, fashion/clothing, LGBT+ characters, readers and/or authors |
| Swaminathan, Srividhya |
J. D. Robb’s Police Procedurals and the Critique of Modernity |
2016 |
Nora Roberts/J. D. Robb, romantic suspense, science fiction/futuristic romance |
| Moody-Freeman, Julie E. |
Scripting Black Love in the 1990s: Pleasure, Respectability, and Responsibility in an Era of HIV/AIDS |
2016 |
health/medical, Brenda Jackson, African American romance, sex/sexuality, gender, race/ethnicity, United States of America, history, romance and, or as, activism |
| Matthews, Amy T. |
Entangled: the exegetical process of a romance writer |
2016 |
authors, feminism, genre definitions, trash/literary and or intellectual quality |
| Moody, Stephanie |
Identification, Affect, and Escape: Theorizing Popular Romance Reading |
2016 |
readers, emotions, Jennifer Crusie, J. R. Ward, Judith McNaught, Susan Elizabeth Phillips, Teresa Medeiros, sex/sexuality, race/ethnicity, gender |
| 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 |
| Silliman, Daniel |
Fictions of Belief: Reading Evangelical Novels in A Secular Age |
2016 |
Christian romance, religion/spirituality, United States of America, Janette Oke, Beverly Lewis, Publishing |
| Moody, Stephanie |
Building Social Worlds: Examining Women’s Uses of Romance Novels |
2016 |
readers |
| Roach, Catherine M. |
Love as the Practice of Bondage: Popular Romance Narratives and the Conundrum of Erotic Love |
2016 |
love, BDSM, Beverly Jenkins, James Buchanan, J. R. Ward, gender, LGBT+ characters, readers and/or authors, m/m romance |
| Gates, Sarah |
Feminism, NASCAR and the Italian billionaire's secret baby: Defending the romance genre |
2016 |
authors, trash/literary and or intellectual quality, readers, feminism, sex/sexuality |
| 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 |
| Allan, Jonathan A.; Santos, Cristina; Spahr, Adriana |
Virgin Envy: The Cultural Insignificance of the Hymen |
2016 |
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| Carroll, Joseph; McAdams, Dan P.; Wilson, Edward O. |
Darwin's Bridge: Uniting the Humanities and Sciences |
2016 |
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| Soubeyroux, Marie-Hélène; Zapata, Mónica |
Miradas sobre una obra polifacética: Homenaje a Jean Louis Guereña |
2016 |
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| Wilkins, Kim |
“Ravished by Vikings”: The Pre-modern and the Paranormal in Viking Romance Fiction |
2016 |
historical romance, paranormal/fantasy/time-travel romance, sex/sexuality, history, feminism, gender, war/armed forces, rape and/or intimate partner violence/abuse |
| González Cruz, María Isabel |
Discourse Types and Functions in Popular Romance Fiction Novels ("Work in Progress") |
2016 |
languages, islands, gender, national identity, linguistics |
| Peabody, Rebecca |
Kara Walker: American Romance in Black and White |
2016 |
historical romance, race/ethnicity, sex/sexuality, Barbara Ferry Johnson |
| Matthews, Amy T. |
The hopeful romantic |
2016 |
feminism, authors |
| Wilson, Nicola |
The Book World: Selling and Distributing British Literature, 1900-1940 |
2016 |
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| Abdullah-Poulos, Layla |
Muslim Love American Style: Islamic-American Hybrid Culture and Native-Born American Black Muslim Romance |
2016 |
religion/spirituality, African American romance, Islam, Muslim romance |
| Maunder, Andrew |
Berta Ruck |
2016 |
Berta Ruck, war/armed forces |
| Barot, Len |
Queer Romance in Twentieth- and Twenty-First-Century America: Snapshots of a Revolution |
2016 |
Older and/or precursor texts (may not be "romance" as now defined), LGBT+ characters, readers and/or authors, lesbian romance, history, Publishing, Sarah Aldridge, Katherine V. Forrest, Isabel Miller, m/m romance, Wallace Hamilton, Marion Zimmer Bradley, Gordon Merrick, Radclyffe/Len Barot, erotic romance |
| 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 |
| Carroll, Joseph; McAdams, Dan P.; Wilson, Edward O. |
Darwin's Bridge: Uniting the Humanities and Sciences |
2016 |
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| 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 |
| Gleason, William A.; Selinger, Eric Murphy |
Romance Fiction and American Culture: Love as the Practice of Freedom? |
2016 |
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| O'Neil, Kathryn M. |
Women's rhetoric and the romance novel genre |
2016 |
readers, authors, Eloisa James, Mary Jo Putney, Jude Ouvrard, Jackie Williams, gender, race/ethnicity, disability, Stella Eromonsere-Ajanaku |
| Sherman, Jen |
Reading Infrastructures in the Contemporary City: A Study of Three Public Libraries in Sydney |
2016 |
libraries/librarians, Australia |
| Dandridge, Rita B. |
Love Prevailed Despite What American History Said: Agape and Eros in Beverly Jenkins's Night Song and Through the Storm |
2016 |
Beverly Jenkins, love, sex/sexuality, history, gender, race/ethnicity, United States of America, rape and/or intimate partner violence/abuse, family, wealth/prosperity |
| Cothran, Casey A.; Cannon, Mercy |
New Perspectives on Detective Fiction: Mystery Magnified |
2016 |
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| Herendeen, Ann |
Having it Both Ways; or, Writing from the Third Perspective: The Revolutionary M/M/F Ménage Romance Novel |
2016 |
LGBT+ characters, readers and/or authors, Ann Herendeen, marriage, metafiction, Georgette Heyer |
| 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 |
| Carroll, Joseph; McAdams, Dan P.; Wilson, Edward O. |
Darwin's Bridge: Uniting the Humanities and Sciences |
2016 |
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| Selinger, Eric Murphy; Gleason, William A. |
Introduction: Love as the Practice of Freedom? |
2016 |
genre definitions, Nell Stark, romance scholarship |
| Radick, Caryn |
Romance Writers’ Use of Archives |
2016 |
libraries/librarians, authors, historical romance, trash/literary and or intellectual quality |
| Frankel, Valerie Estelle |
Adoring Outlander: Essays on Fandom, Genre and the Female Audience |
2016 |
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| Gleason, William A.; Selinger, Eric Murphy |
Romance Fiction and American Culture: Love as the Practice of Freedom? |
2016 |
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| Morrissey, Katherine |
Romance Networks: Aspiration & Desire in Today’s Digital Culture |
2016 |
fanfiction, Publishing, readers, genre definitions, Fifty Shades, Twilight, sex/sexuality, love, pornography, Harlequin Mills & Boon, erotic romance |
| Burge, Amy |
‘I Will Cut Myself and Smear Blood on the Sheet’: Testing Virginity in Medieval and Modern Orientalist Romance |
2016 |
sex/sexuality, history, Older and/or precursor texts (may not be "romance" as now defined), sheikh romance, gender, Harlequin Mills & Boon, virginity |
| Francis, Conseula |
Flipping the Script: Romancing Zane's Urban Erotica |
2016 |
Zane, sex/sexuality, romance and, or as, activism, race/ethnicity, emotions, marriage, love |
| Hirdman, Anja |
Speaking through the flesh: Affective encounters, gazes and desire in Harlequin romances |
2016 |
emotions, gender, sex/sexuality, Harlequin Mills & Boon |
| Edlins, Mariglynn |
Superhero, Sleeping Beauty, or Devil? The Making of Orphan Myths and Public Administration |
2016 |
family, emotions |
| Cothran, Casey A.; Cannon, Mercy |
New Perspectives on Detective Fiction: Mystery Magnified |
2016 |
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| Gelder, Ken |
New Directions in Popular Fiction: Genre, Distribution, Reproduction |
2016 |
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| Selinger, Eric Murphy; Gleason, William A. |
Introduction: Love as the Practice of Freedom? |
2016 |
genre definitions, Nell Stark, romance scholarship |
| Pérez Casal, Inmaculada |
Love in Times of Crisis: An Approach to Contemporary Romance Novels in Spain |
2016 |
Spain, Publishing, Older and/or precursor texts (may not be "romance" as now defined) |
| Thierauf, Doreen |
Forever After: Desire in the 21st-Century Romance Blockbuster |
2016 |
Jane Austen, sex/sexuality, marriage, gender, feminism, readers, psychology, Twilight, Fifty Shades, rape and/or intimate partner violence/abuse, BDSM |
| Mogin-Martin, Roselyne |
La revolución sexual de Corín Tellado |
2016 |
Corín Tellado, Spain, fascism/right-wing authoritarianism, sex/sexuality |
| Roach, Catherine M. |
Happily Ever After: The Romance Story in Popular Culture |
2016 |
authors, religion/spirituality, love, sex/sexuality, Beverly Jenkins, gender, rape and/or intimate partner violence/abuse, genre definitions, BDSM, J. R. Ward, readers, LGBT+ characters, readers and/or authors, happy ending, romance scholarship, marriage, pornography, Publishing, feminism |
| McAlister, Jodi |
Between Pleasure and Pain: The Textual Politics of the Hymen |
2016 |
history, sex/sexuality, virginity |
| Teo, Hsu-Ming |
Orientalism, Freedom, and Feminism in Popular Culture |
2016 |
United States of America, Islam, history, E. M. Hull, historical romance, sheikh romance, sex/sexuality, gender, feminism, work, race/ethnicity, Barbara Faith, Elizabeth Mayne, Dana Marton, romantic suspense, war/armed forces, national identity |
| Schalk, Sami |
Happily Ever After for Whom? Blackness and Disability in Romance Narratives |
2016 |
disability, race/ethnicity, sex/sexuality, African American romance, Gwynne Forster, gender, war/armed forces, N. K. Jemisin, paranormal/fantasy/time-travel romance |
| Lambert, Jérémy |
Le roman sentimental gay francophone |
2016 |
LGBT+ characters, readers and/or authors, Anne Singe et Marine Ange |
| Derbyshire, Val |
Why Read Mills & Boon Romances? |
2016 |
Harlequin Mills & Boon, trash/literary and or intellectual quality, settings, Penny Jordan/Caroline Courtney, romance and, or as, activism, rape and/or intimate partner violence/abuse, feminism |
| Sandbakken, Asta Margrethe |
Feeling Men: Masculinity, Sexuality, and Emotion in the Contemporary Romance |
2016 |
sex/sexuality, gender, Nora Roberts/J. D. Robb, Susan Elizabeth Phillips, emotions |
| Serafine, Amelia |
"He Filled My Heart with Doubt": The Southern Belle's Love and Duty in the Civil War |
2016 |
history, United States of America, Older and/or precursor texts (may not be "romance" as now defined), Augusta Jane Evans, death, war/armed forces, religion/spirituality, gender, Edward Bulwer-Lytton, readers |