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Moss, Gemma Girls Tell the Teen Romance: Four Reading Histories 1993 YA/teenage romance, readers
Moss, Gemma The Place for Romance in Young People's Writing 1993 YA/teenage romance, readers, race/ethnicity
Mostow, Joshua S. The Columbia Companion to Modern East Asian Literature 2003
Motte, Warren A Walk on the Sheikh Side 2012 sheikh romance, paratext, Harlequin Mills & Boon, Sharon Kendrick, trash/literary and or intellectual quality, animals, metaphor/symbolism
Moudileno, Lydie Pas de romance sans finance: la construction du couple moderne dans les romans sentimentaux de l'Afrique de l'Ouest 2002 Africa, settings, love, sex/sexuality, gender, fashion/clothing, wealth/prosperity
Moudileno, Lydie L’invention du romantique. La littérature rose révolutionne l'édition africaine 2005 Africa, settings
Moudileno, Lydie The Troubling Popularity of West African Romance Novels 2008 Africa, settings, trash/literary and or intellectual quality
Arnold-Forster, Agnes; Moulds, Alison Medical women in popular fiction 2018 health/medical, history, Harlequin Mills & Boon, gender, medical romance
Mouritsen, Maren M. Ye Are Free to Choose: Agency and the Latter-Day Saint Woman 1981
Moussaoui, Abdelghani Gender as a ‘Discursive Practice’ in Romance Discourse 2024 Morocco, Rebecca Stratton, race/ethnicity, gender
Moussaoui, Abdelghani On the Racialization of the Moroccan ‘Other’ in Orientalist Romance 2024 Rebecca Stratton, race/ethnicity, Morocco
Moussaoui, Abdelghani The Discursive Formation of Ethnic Subjectivities and Identities in Popular Romance 2024 race/ethnicity, Rebecca Stratton
Moy, Patricia; Matheson, Donald Voices: Exploring the Shifting Contours of Communication 2019
DeVries, Susan; Dunlop, Margaret; Goopy, Suzanne; Moyle, Wendy; Sutherland‐Lockhart, Diane Discipline and passion: meaning, masochism and mythology in popular medical romances 1995 medical romance, history, work, emotions, sex/sexuality, health/medical, death, family, settings, gender, BDSM, Harlequin Mills & Boon
Lukas, Iwan; Muarifuddin,; Azi, Rahmawati Formula Romance dalam Roman Mes Amis Mes Amours Karya Marc Lévy 2024 Marc Levy
Muhomah, Catherine What do women want?: Versions of masculinity in Kenyan romantic fiction 2002 Kenya, Asenath Odaga, marriage, gender, sex/sexuality, family, wealth/prosperity
Mukherjea, Ananya My Vampire Boyfriend: Postfeminism, “Perfect” Masculinity, and the Contemporary Appeal of Paranormal Romance 2011 paranormal/fantasy/time-travel romance, feminism, gender, YA/teenage romance
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
Mulhern, Chieko Irie Japanese Harlequin Romances as Transcultural Woman's Fiction 1989 Japan, metaphor/symbolism, sex/sexuality, family, work, rape and/or intimate partner violence/abuse, food, drink
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
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
Mulvey, Alexandra Hazel Gender and Sex Stereotypes in Sports Romance Fiction 2023 sport, gender, LGBTQ+ characters, readers and/or authors, Mariana Zapata, Tijan, Hannah Grace, Rachel Spangler, Kelly Quindlen, Katia Rose, food, drink, happy ending, family
Munt, Sally New Lesbian Criticism: Literary and Cultural Readings 1992
Muram, David; Rosenthal, Ted L.; Tolley, Elizabeth A.; Peeler, Molly M.; Pitts, Bridget Teenage Pregnancy: Dating and Sexual Attitudes 1992 readers, sex/sexuality, race/ethnicity
Murias, Rosana In Grey and Pink: The Image of the Bride through the Spanish Postwar Novela Rosa 2021 Spain, fascism/right-wing authoritarianism, marriage, Carlota O'Neill/Laura de Noves, gender, film/movies, history
O'Mahony, Lauren; Murphy, Olivia From polite society to the Pilbara: The ingénue abroad in Evelina and The Girl in Steel-Capped Boots 2018 Frances Burney, Older and/or precursor texts (may not be "romance" as now defined), Australia, Loretta Hill, gender
Murphy, Bernice M.; Matterson, Stephen Twenty-First-Century Popular Fiction 2018
Barker, Clare; Murray, Stuart The Cambridge Companion to Literature and Disability 2017
Muryn, Teresa Rougir / devenir rouge : l’expression linguistique du langage corporel et ce qu’elle laisse inférer dans un genre textuel 2019 linguistics, emotions, Harlequin Mills & Boon
Muryn, Teresa; Niziołek, Małgorzata; Hajok, Alicja Que dit la main dans le roman sentimental et policier? 2020 linguistics
Musila, Grace A. Routledge Handbook of African Popular Culture 2022
Mussell, Kay Johnson The World of Modern Gothic Fiction: American Women and Their Social Myths 1973 gothic romance
Mussell, Kay J. Beautiful and Damned: The Sexual Woman in Gothic Fiction 1975 United States of America, sex/sexuality, gothic romance, gender, family
Mussell, Kay J. "But Why Do They Read Those Things?": The Female Audience and the Gothic Novel 1983 gothic romance, readers
Mussell, Kay Women’s Gothic and Romantic Fiction: A Reference Guide 1981 gothic romance, Older and/or precursor texts (may not be "romance" as now defined), United States of America, Catharine Maria Sedgwick, Augusta Jane Evans, E. D. E. N. Southworth, Margaret Mitchell, Daphne du Maurier, Victoria Holt/Jean Plaidy/Eleanor Burford Hibbert, Mary Stewart, Phyllis A. Whitney, Rosemary Rogers, Harlequin Mills & Boon, Kathleen Thompson Norris, Grace Livingston Hill, film/movies, readers, romance scholarship
Mussell, Kay Preface 1982 gothic romance, United States of America, Publishing
Mussell, Kay Fantasy and Reconciliation: Contemporary Formulas of Women’s Romance Fiction 1984 Mary Stewart, Victoria Holt/Jean Plaidy/Eleanor Burford Hibbert, Phyllis A. Whitney, Roberta Gellis, Anya Seton, Georgette Heyer, Barbara Cartland, feminism, romantic suspense, historical romance, gender, sex/sexuality, marriage, Older and/or precursor texts (may not be "romance" as now defined), erotic romance, readers, romance scholarship, Harlequin Mills & Boon, gothic romance, Jane Austen, history, settings, social/economic class, UK, United States of America, fairytales/folktales, family, Charlotte Brontë, psychology
Mussell, Kay Preface 1990 historical romance
Mussell, Kay Preface (revised from the second edition) 1994
Mussell, Kay On-Line Romance 1997 readers, libraries/librarians, authors
Mussell, Kay Para.doxa 3.1-2: Where's Love Gone? Transformations in the Romance Genre 1997
Mussell, Kay Paradoxa Interview with Barbara G. Mertz 1997 Barbara Michaels a.k.a. Elizabeth Peters a.k.a. Barbara Mertz, genre definitions, Mary Stewart
Mussell, Kay Paradoxa Interview with Janet Dailey 1997 Janet Dailey, United States of America, disability
Mussell, Kay Paradoxa Interview with Jayne Ann Krentz 1997 Jayne Ann Krentz/Amanda Quick/Jayne Castle, Publishing, romance scholarship
Mussell, Kay Paradoxa Interview with Nora Roberts 1997 Nora Roberts/J. D. Robb, Harlequin Mills & Boon, Publishing, settings
Mussell, Kay Where's Love Gone? Transformations in Romance Fiction and Scholarship 1997 paranormal/fantasy/time-travel romance, race/ethnicity, romance scholarship, readers, authors, family, LGBTQ+ characters, readers and/or authors
Mussell, Kay Kay Mussell Replies to Tania Modleski 1998 romance scholarship
Mussell, Kay; Tuñón, Johanna North American Romance Writers 1999 authors, United States of America, Judith Arnold, Mary Balogh, Jo Beverley, Loretta Chase, Rachel Lee/Sue Civil-Brown, Judith Ivory/Judy Cuevas, Sharon and Tom Curtis, Justine Davis/Justine Dare, Eileen Dreyer/Kathleen Korbel, Kathleen Eagle, Patricia Gaffney, Jennifer Greene/Jeanne Grant/Jessica Massey/Alison Hart, Lorraine Heath, Tami Hoag, Susan Johnson, Dara Joy, Lynn Kerstan, Sandra Kitt, Susan Krinard, Jill Marie Landis, Pamela Morsi, Maggie Osborne/Margaret St. George, Mary Jo Putney, Alicia Rasley, Emilie Richards, Paula Detmer Riggs, Nora Roberts/J. D. Robb, Ruth Wind/Barbara Samuel/Barbara O'Neal, Kathleen Gilles Seidel, Jennifer Crusie, romance scholarship
Mussell, Kay Are Feminism and Romance Novels Mutually Exclusive? 2002 feminism
Mussell, Kay Romance Fiction 2002 genre definitions, Older and/or precursor texts (may not be "romance" as now defined), romance scholarship
Bharathi, L. Divya; Muthuraman, K. Nicholas Charles Sparks’s The Notebook: A Novel Of Love Or Romance? 2023 Nicholas Sparks, genre definitions, happy ending
Mwangi, Serah Wanjiru An analysis of romance fiction and its probable impact among young girls 1992 readers, YA/teenage romance, Harlequin Mills & Boon, Kenya
Anita,; Nababan, Mangatur Rudolf; Santosa, Riyadi; Wibowo, Agus Hari Shift on Functions of Sexual Euphemisms in English-Indonesian Translation of Duke of Her Own by Eloisa James 2020 translation, sex/sexuality, Indonesia, Eloisa James
Naber, Christine Marie Rape myths are the theory--romance novels are the practice: The impact of exposure to images of women in popular culture 1995 rape and/or intimate partner violence/abuse, paratext, psychology
Nachbar, Jack; Lause, Kevin Popular Culture: An Introductory Text 1992
Nachumi, Nora; Oppenheim, Stephanie Jane Austen, Sex, and Romance: Engaging with Desire in the Novels and Beyond 2022
Naeej, Elham Parting the Curtain: The Virgin Heroine and the ‘Westoxified’ Villain in Contemporary Iranian Romance Novels 2021 Iran, virginity, national identity, Fattaneh Haj Seyyed Javadi, Nazi Safavi, Roya Khosronajdi, Parinush Saniee, Simin Shirdel, Maryam Riahi, Homa Puresfahani, gender, Islam, marriage
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
Nahrebecky, George Forme, fureur, fonction: le roman Harlequin à l'oeuvre 1990 Harlequin Mills & Boon, trash/literary and or intellectual quality, translation
Nakagawa, Chiho Safe Sex with Defanged Vampires: New Vampire Heroes in Twilight and the Southern Vampire Mysteries 2011 paranormal/fantasy/time-travel romance, Charlaine Harris, Twilight, gender, United States of America, sex/sexuality, virginity, metafiction
Namysłowska, Karolina Romance novels in translation: Focus on defining features of selected texts translated from English into Polish. 2022 Poland, translation, Penny Jordan/Caroline Courtney, Diana Palmer, Sandra Brown, Jude Deveraux
Balkan, Stacey; Nandi, Swaralipi Oil Fictions: World Literature and Our Contemporary Petrosphere 2021
Nankervis, Madison Diversity in Romance Novels: Race, Sexuality, Neurodivergence, Disability, and Fat Representation 2022 Publishing, race/ethnicity, sex/sexuality, LGBTQ+ characters, readers and/or authors, disability, fat, fatness
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
Nash, Walter Language in Popular Fiction 1990 Barbara Cartland, Anne Weale, Claudia Jameson, Barbara Perkins, linguistics
Nash, Jennifer C. Gender: Love 2016
Nayrou, Félicie; Rudy, Alain La Rencontre: figures du destin 1993
Ndalianis, Angela The Horror Sensorium: Media and the Senses 2012 paranormal/fantasy/time-travel romance, Laurell K. Hamilton, Charlaine Harris, Christine Feehan
Ndiaye, Christiane L’imaginaire du poisson amoureux chez les romancières francophones de la Caraïbe 2009 Caribbean, fairytales/folktales
Neal, Lynn S. Romancing God: Reading Evangelical Romance Novels 2000 Christian romance, readers, authors, religion/spirituality, United States of America, Robin Lee Hatcher, Terry Blackstock, Peggy Stoks, Irene Brand, Shari MacDonald, Janette Oke, family, Francine Rivers
Neal, Lynn S. Romancing God: Evangelical Women and Inspirational Fiction 2006 Christian romance, religion/spirituality, readers, Grace Livingston Hill, Publishing, United States of America, authors, gender, Robin Lee Hatcher, Beverly Lewis, marriage, Catherine Marshall, Janette Oke, race/ethnicity, Francine Rivers, sex/sexuality, Peggy Stoks, Lori Wick, Brenda Wilbee
Neal, Lynn S. Evangelical Love Stories: The Triumphs and Temptations of Romantic Fiction 2013 Christian romance, Publishing, religion/spirituality, readers, authors, sex/sexuality
Neale, Gillian Annie S. Swan, Publishing Phenomenon: A Book Historical Perspective 2020 Annie S. Swan
Neely, Diana Who Says Women Can’t Love and Empower?: How Representations of Women Have Progressed in Medical Romance Fiction 2023 medical romance, Elizabeth Stuart Phelps, work, Marjorie Norrell, Alyssa Cole, Ali Hazelwood
Harrod, Mary; Leonard, Suzanne; Negra, Diane Imagining "We" in the Age of "I": Romance and Social Bonding in Contemporary Culture 2022
Nelson, Elizabeth The Romance of Self-Publishing 2015 Publishing, 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
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
Neuman, Susan B. The Uses of Reading Mass-Produced Romance Fiction 1985 readers, Sue Byfield, Harlequin Mills & Boon
Neuman, Shirley; Stephenson, Glennis ReImagining Women: Representations of Women in Culture 1993
Ferrández San Miguel, María; Neumann, Claus-Peter Taking Stock to Look Ahead: Celebrating Forty Years of English Studies in Spain 2018
Guise, René; Neuschäfer, Hans-Jörg Richesses du roman populaire: actes du colloque international de Pont-à-Mousson, octobre 1983 1986
Neves, Mariana Brasileiro ROMANCES DE BOLSO: A novela romântica da Harlequin Books no mercado editorial brasileiro 2014 Harlequin Mills & Boon, Brazil
Dulong, Delphine; Neveu, Erik; Guionnet, Christine Boys Don't Cry! Les coûts de la domination masculine 2012
Neville, Lucy Girls Who Like Boys Who Like Boys: Women and Gay Male Pornography and Erotica 2018 pornography, m/m romance, sex/sexuality, LGBTQ+ characters, readers and/or authors
Newell, Stephanie; Okome, Onookome Popular Culture in Africa: The Episteme of the Everyday 2014
Newell, Stephanie Newsprint Literature and Local Literary Creativity in West Africa, 1900s-1960s 2023 Nigeria, Older and/or precursor texts (may not be "romance" as now defined), trash/literary and or intellectual quality
Newns, Lucinda Renegotiating romantic genres: Textual resistance and Muslim chick lit 2018 chick lit, Islam, feminism, religion/spirituality
Newton, Marlo Leigh Romancing the tome: the novels of Georgette Heyer 1991 Georgette Heyer
Neylon, Virginia Lyn Reading and Writing the Romance Novel: An Analysis of Romance Fiction and Its Place in the Community College Classroom 2003 genre definitions, Older and/or precursor texts (may not be "romance" as now defined), teaching romance
Ngoshi, Hazel Tafadzwa Repression, Literary Dissent and the Paradox of Censorship in Zimbabwe 2021 Zimbabwe, romance and, or as, activism, Africa
Nibafasha, Spes The politics of the popular: Definitions and uses of African popular fiction 2020 Africa, genre definitions, trash/literary and or intellectual quality, readers, gender
Nichols, Sue Love matters: the case for an inclusive, contemporary approach to romance themes and texts in subject English 2023 YA/teenage romance, teaching romance, LGBTQ+ characters, readers and/or authors
Nickel, Eleanor Hersey Christian Popular Culture from The Chronicles of Narnia to Duck Dynasty 2020 Christian romance, Francine Rivers, sex/sexuality, feminism, fairytales/folktales
Nielsen, Inge Caught in the Web of Love: Intercepting the Young Adult Reception of Qiongyao's Romances On-Line 2000 Taiwan, YA/teenage romance, readers, Qiongyao/Qiong Yao, film/movies, translation, fanfiction
Nikbakht, H. Female Agency in the Harlequin Romance Formula: developments within the timeframe of second wave feminism 2019 Harlequin Mills & Boon, feminism, family, work, sex/sexuality, gender, Carole Mortimer, Roberta Leigh/Rachel Lindsay, virginity, rape and/or intimate partner violence/abuse, health/medical, marriage
Nilson, Maria From The Flame and the Flower to Fifty Shades of Grey: Sex, Power and Desire in the Romance Novel 2013 Fifty Shades, sex/sexuality, Kathleen Woodiwiss, chick lit, rape and/or intimate partner violence/abuse
Nilson, Maria Kärlek, passion och begär – om romance 2016 genre definitions, historical romance, gothic romance, erotic romance
Nilson, Maria Kärlek i kyligt klimat: Om nordisk romance 2017 Sweden, Norway, Simona Ahrnstedt, Natalie Normann, national identity, gender, sex/sexuality
Nilson, Maria Nådens tuttar : Om skönheter, odjur och den frälsande kvinnokroppen i modern romance 2017 fairytales/folktales, paranormal/fantasy/time-travel romance, Fifty Shades, Twilight, sex/sexuality
Nilson, Maria; Ehriander, Helene Love in a Cold Climate? Teaching Popular Romance at a Swedish University 2020 teaching romance, Sweden, Simona Ahrnstedt, Harlequin Mills & Boon, chick lit
Nilson, Maria; Posti, Piia K Speglingar av feelgood: Genre, etikett eller känsla? 2022
Muryn, Teresa; Niziołek, Małgorzata; Hajok, Alicja Que dit la main dans le roman sentimental et policier? 2020 linguistics
Nobert, Margo Le titre comme séduction dans le roman Harlequin: une lecture sociosémiotique 1983 Harlequin Mills & Boon, paratext, linguistics, metaphor/symbolism, animals, settings, gender
Noizet, Pascale La coopération interprétative dans le roman d'amour populaire de la langue française de 1880 à nos jours 1986
Bettinotti, Julia; Bédard-Cazabon, Hélène; Gagnon, Jocelyn; Noizet, Pascale; Provost, Christiane La corrida de l'amour: Le Roman Harlequin 1986 Harlequin Mills & Boon, Publishing, gender, settings, marriage, trash/literary and or intellectual quality, paratext, family, Janet Dailey, Charlotte Lamb, sex/sexuality, work
Bettinotti, Julia; Noizet, Pascale Le récit en littérature populaire: répétition et invention dans le roman d’amour 1989 Harlequin Mills & Boon, Delly, sheikh romance
Noizet, Pascale Naissance du roman d'amour de grande consommation: Harlequin à la recherche de ses aïeux 1990 Older and/or precursor texts (may not be "romance" as now defined)
Bettinotti, Julia; Noizet, Pascale Ægritudo amoris : le topos d’un piège somato-physiologique 1990 love
Noizet, Pascale Delly, l’équation d’une illustre inconnue 1995 Delly
Bettinotti, Julia; Noizet, Pascale Guimauve et fleurs d’oranger: Delly 1995 Delly
Noizet, Pascale L’idée moderne d’amour. Entre sexe et genre: vers une théorie du sexologème 1996 love, Harlequin Mills & Boon, Samuel Richardson, gender
Nolan, Michelle Love on the Racks: a History of American Romance Comics 2008 comics/manga
Noone, Kristin Succulent Texts: Desire, Outlaws, and Consumption in Popular Romance 2019 food, drink, Suzanne Enoch, pirates and outlaws, Diane Carey, Alexis Hall, historical romance, steampunk, LGBTQ+ characters, readers and/or authors, community, religion/spirituality, rural romance
Griffiths, Clare V. J.; Nott, James J.; Whyte, William Classes, Cultures, & Politics: Essays on British History for Ross McKibbin 2011
Novak, Julia Nell Gwyn in Contemporary Romance Novels: Biography and the Dictates of 'Genre Literature' 2014 history, historical romance
Jacquot, Clémence; Goossens, Vannina; Novakova, Iva Étude contrastive des motifs spécifiques aux romans sentimentaux et aux romans Harlequin 2020 linguistics, Harlequin Mills & Boon
Fesenmeier, Ludwig; Novakova, Iva Phraséologie et stylistique de la langue littéraire/Phraseology and Stylistics of Literary Language; Approches interdisciplinaires/Interdisciplinary Approaches 2020
Novakova, Iva; Siepmann, Dirk Phraseology and Style in Subgenres of the Novel: A Synthesis of Corpus and Literary Perspectives 2020 linguistics, languages, translation
Novakova, Iva Les motifs phraséologiques pour distinguer les genres littéraires. Sur l’exemple des motifs de la communication verbale et non verbale 2021 linguistics
Nowacki, Dariusz Access Paths: On Popular Women’s Literature and Criticism 2020 romance scholarship
Nowicka, Katarzyna How to Romance the Masses – Problems of Translating Light Romantic Fiction in Poland 2013 translation, Poland, Harlequin Mills & Boon
Ntelia, Renata Elizabetta How Damsels Love: The Transgressive Pleasure of Romance 2021 feminism, love, psychology, gender
Núñez Cubero, Luis; Romero Pérez, Clara Emociones, cultura y educación: Un enfoque interdisciplinar 2009
Núñez Puente, Sonia Novela rosa y cultura popular: Carmen de Icaza y Concha Linares Becerra 2007 Carmen de Icaza, Concha Linares-Becerra, Spain, fascism/right-wing authoritarianism, gender
Núñez Puente, Sonia La novela rosa como mascarada de la muerte de lo social: Concha Linares Becerra y María Mercedes Ortoll 2008 Concha Linares-Becerra, María Mercedes Ortoll, gender, fashion/clothing, Spain, fascism/right-wing authoritarianism
Núñez Puente, Sonia The Romance Novel and Popular Culture during the Early Franco Regime in Spain: Towards the Construction of Other Discourses of Femininity 2008 Spain, fascism/right-wing authoritarianism, Carmen de Icaza, gender, work, metafiction
Nyquist, Mary Romance in the Forbidden Zone 1993 Samuel Richardson, gender, marriage, Linda Shaw, sex/sexuality, race/ethnicity, Sonya Pelton, Native American romance, Arlene James, rape and/or intimate partner violence/abuse, work
Benge, Alie; O'Brien, Lil; Van Beek, Kathryn Otherhood: Essays on being childless, childfree and child-adjacent 2024
O'Brien, Lee Telling Gaps and Domestic Tyranny: Georgette Heyer’s Regency Romances 2022 Georgette Heyer, happy ending, family, history, health/medical, sex/sexuality, gender, social/economic class, rape and/or intimate partner violence/abuse, marriage
O'Byrne, Patricia Popular fiction in postwar Spain: the soothing, subversive novela rosa 2008 Spain, fascism/right-wing authoritarianism, work, religion/spirituality, María Mercedes Ortoll, war/armed forces, Ángeles Villarta Tuñón, María Morgan/Rosa María Cajal
O'Byrne, Patricia Post-War Spanish Women Novelists and the Recuperation of Historical Memory 2014 Spain
O'Connor, Karen Gender and Women's Leadership: A Reference Handbook 2010
O'Mahony, Lauren Kate In search of feminist romance in Australian 'Chick Lit' 2015 chick lit, Australia, feminism
O'Mahony, Lauren Australian rural romance as feminist romance? 2014 rural romance, gender, feminism, Australia, work, Rachael Treasure, Nicole Alexander, Karly Lane
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
O'Mahony, Lauren Death and the Australian Rural Romance Novel 2017 rural romance, Australia, death
O'Mahony, Lauren; Murphy, Olivia From polite society to the Pilbara: The ingénue abroad in Evelina and The Girl in Steel-Capped Boots 2018 Frances Burney, Older and/or precursor texts (may not be "romance" as now defined), Australia, Loretta Hill, gender
O'Mahony, Lauren Australian romance fiction 2021 Australia, national identity, gender, Older and/or precursor texts (may not be "romance" as now defined), Harlequin Mills & Boon, Rosa Praed, Marie Bjelke Petersen, settings, Emma Darcy, readers, libraries/librarians, chick lit, Anita Heiss, race/ethnicity
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
Batsleer, Janet; Davies, Tony; O'Rourke, Rebecca; Weedon, Chris Rewriting English: Cultural Politics of Gender and Class 1985 genre definitions, gender, capitalism/business, feminism, Florence Barclay, E. M. Hull, history, Barbara Cartland, Catherine Cookson, social/economic class, race/ethnicity, UK, sex/sexuality, fashion/clothing
O'Toole, Patricia Paperback Virgins 1979 Barbara Cartland, Janet Dailey, virginity, feminism
Palmer, Gary B.; Occhi, Debra J. Languages of Sentiment: Cultural constructions of emotional substrates 1999
Ochoa, Debra J. Critiques of the "Novela Rosa": Martín Gaite, Almodóvar, and Etxebarría 2006 Spain, fascism/right-wing authoritarianism, gender
Ohmann, Richard Reading the Romance: Women, Patriarchy, and Popular Literature 1990 teaching romance
Buttrick, Nicholas; Westgate, Erin C.; Oishi, Shigehiro Reading Literary Fiction Is Associated With a More Complex Worldview 2022 psychology, readers, trash/literary and or intellectual quality
Okamoto, Shigeko; Shibamoto Smith, Janet S. Japanese Language, Gender, and Ideology: Cultural Models and Real People 2004
OKell, Eleanor Regina Hercules as Romantic Hero in Twenty-first-century Historical Fiction 2020 Stephanie Laurens, historical romance, myth
Oklopčić, Biljana Medieval heresy in Croatian historical romances: a case study of Marija Jurić Zagorka’s Plameni inkvizitori 2016 Marija Jurić Zagorka, historical romance, Croatia, religion/spirituality, history, Older and/or precursor texts (may not be "romance" as now defined), trash/literary and or intellectual quality, gender, readers, national identity
Okome, Onookome Reading the Popular: Onitsha Market Romance and the Practice of Everyday Life 2009 Africa
Newell, Stephanie; Okome, Onookome Popular Culture in Africa: The Episteme of the Everyday 2014
Olivarez, Omar; Hardie, Ryan; Blackburn, Kate G. The Language of Romance: An Open Vocabulary Analysis of the Highest Rated Words Used in Romance Novels 2018 languages, psychology, sex/sexuality
Escandell Montiel, Daniel; Oliveira Dias, Sofia Raquel Voces e identidades exocanónicas (1880-1920): recuperando (auto) narrativas femeninas de los márgenes 2020
Olivier, Séverine Passionnément, à la folie...: Lecteurs et modes de lecture du roman d'amour contemporain 2005 readers, translation, Publishing
Olivier, Séverine Lecture d'un «mauvais genre»: le «roman sentimental» 2007 genre definitions
Olivier, Séverine «Femme, je vous aime...»? Nora Roberts, une inconnue sortie de l'ombre dans l'univers sentimental" 2008 Nora Roberts/J. D. Robb
Olivier, Séverine Les prémices d'une histoire d'amour ou comment écrire un roman sentimental 2009 Publishing, translation, France, trash/literary and or intellectual quality, emotions
Olivier, Séverine Le roman sentimental. Productions contemporaines et pratiques de lecture 2009 readers, psychology
Bigey, Magali; Olivier, Séverine Ils aiment le roman sentimental et alors? Lecteurs d'un 'mauvais genre', des lecteurs en danger? 2010 feminism, trash/literary and or intellectual quality, readers, rape and/or intimate partner violence/abuse, linguistics
Olivier, Séverine Francophone Perspectives on Romantic Fiction: From the Academic Field to Reader’s Experience 2012 romance scholarship, readers, France, Canada, Harlequin Mills & Boon, Publishing, sex/sexuality, translation
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
Olkusz, Ksenia Stripping The Vampire. Erotic Imaginations and Sexual Fantasies In Paranormal Romances (A Study Of Selected Examples) 2021 paranormal/fantasy/time-travel romance, Kerrelyn Sparks, Alexandra Ivy, Lara Adrian, sex/sexuality
Wyatt, Neal; Olsen, Georgine; Ramsdell, Kristin; Saricks, Joyce; Welch, Lynne Core Collections in Genre Studies: Romance Fiction 101 2007 libraries/librarians, historical romance, romantic suspense, paranormal/fantasy/time-travel romance, genre definitions
Omissi, Dominic The Mills and Boon memsahibs: women's romantic Indian fiction 1877-1947 1995 India, settings
Jussawalla, Feroza; Omran, Doaa Muslim Women’s Writing from across South and Southeast Asia 2022
Onega, Susana; Gutleben, Christian Refracting the Canon in Contemporary British Literature and Film 2004
Opas, Lisa Lena; Tweedie, Fiona The Magic Carpet Ride: Reader Involvement in Romantic Fiction 1999 linguistics, Harlequin Mills & Boon, Danielle Steel, historical romance, readers
Nachumi, Nora; Oppenheim, Stephanie Jane Austen, Sex, and Romance: Engaging with Desire in the Novels and Beyond 2022
Ibarrola-Armendariz, Aitor; Ortiz de Urbina Arruabarrena, Jon On the move: Glancing Backwards To Build a Future in English Studies 2016
Osborne, Laurie E. Romancing the Bard 1999 Shakespeare, historical romance, Georgette Heyer, Joan Wolf, cross-dressing, Edith Layton, Kasey Michaels, Susan Carroll, Loretta Chase, Margaret Evans Porter, Christina Dodd, Deanna James, Mary Balogh, Michelle Martin, gender
Osborne, Laurie E. Harlequin Presents: That '70s Shakespeare and Beyond 2002 Shakespeare, Harlequin Mills & Boon, Janet Dailey, Elizabeth Ashton, Valerie Thian, gender, Jane Donnelly, Kay Thorpe, historical romance, Kasey Michaels, Carole Buck, Judith Arnold, Lynn Kerstan, Publishing
Osborne, Laurie Sweet, Savage Shakespeare 2000 Shakespeare
Osborne, Gwendolyn E. In Search of Women Who Look Like Me: A Brief History of the African-American Romance 2003 African American romance, race/ethnicity, Older and/or precursor texts (may not be "romance" as now defined), Publishing, Eva Rutland, paratext, readers
Osborne, Gwendolyn E. "Women Who Look Like Me": Cultural Identity and Reader Responses to African American Romance Novels 2004 African American romance, race/ethnicity, readers, United States of America, love, sex/sexuality, social/economic class, paratext
Fasick, Adele M.; Johnston, Margaret; Osler, Ruth Lands of Pleasure: Essays on Lillian H. Smith and the Development of Children's Libraries 1990
Wilson, Bernard; Osman, Sharifah Aishah The Asian Family in Literature and Film: Challenges and Contestations-South Asia, Southeast Asia and Asian Diaspora, Volume II 2024
Ouyang, Huining Behind the Mask of Coquetry: The Trickster Narrative in Miss Numè of Japan: A Japanese-American Romance 2003 Onoto Watanna/Winnifred Eaton, Older and/or precursor texts (may not be "romance" as now defined), Japan, race/ethnicity
Owen, Mairead Women's Reading of Popular Romantic Fiction: A Case Study in the Mass Media: A Key to the Ideology of Women 1990 readers, Publishing, authors, libraries/librarians, UK
Owen, Mairead Re-inventing romance: Reading popular romantic fiction 1997 readers, paratext, genre definitions, feminism, fairytales/folktales, psychology, sex/sexuality
Bowring, Joanna; O’Brien, Margaret The Art of Romance: Mills & Boon and Harlequin Cover Designs 2008 Harlequin Mills & Boon, paratext
O’Neill, Maria; Zamorano Llena, Carmen The Aesthetics of Ageing: Critical Approaches to Literary Representations of the Ageing Process 2002
Birch, David; O’Toole, Michael Functions of Style 1988
Greco, Barbara; Pache Carballo, Laura Variaciones de lo metarreal en la España de los siglos XX y XXI 2014
Gómez Morón, Reyes; Padilla Cruz, Manuel; Fernández Amaya, Lucía; Hernández López, María de la O Pragmatics Applied to Language Teaching and Learning 2009
Pagliassotti, Dru Better than Romance? Japanese BL Manga and the Subgenre of Male/Male Romantic Fiction 2010 m/m romance, fanfiction, comics/manga, readers, LGBTQ+ characters, readers and/or authors
Levi, Antonia; McHarry, Mark; Pagliassotti, Dru Boys’ Love Manga: Essays on the Sexual Ambiguity and Cross-Cultural Fandom of the Genre 2010
Pagliassotti, Dru Love and the Machine: Technology and Human Relationships in Steampunk Romance and Erotica 2013 steampunk, science/technology, health/medical, sex/sexuality
Paige, Lori A. The Gothic Romance Wave: A Critical History of the Mass Market Novels, 1960-1993 2018 gothic romance, Older and/or precursor texts (may not be "romance" as now defined), historical romance
Paizis, George 'Reine ou esclave .... ': conflicting images of women in the contemporary 'romantic novel' in France 1986 gender, feminism, readers, France, Publishing
Paizis, George "Putting People First" or the contemporary romantic novel, critical discourse and ideology 1987
Paizis, George That's Romance 1987
Paizis, George Love, Ideology and Reality: the popular romantic novel and the reader 1994
Paizis, George Category Romances: Translation, Realism and Myth 1998 translation, Harlequin Mills & Boon
Paizis, George Love and the Novel: The Poetics and Politics of Romantic Fiction 1998 Publishing, Harlequin Mills & Boon, genre definitions, paratext, settings, happy ending, readers, love
Paizis, George Category Romance in the Era of Globalization: The Story of Harlequin 2006 Harlequin Mills & Boon, Publishing, comics/manga
Guttman, Anna; Hockx, Michel; Paizis, George The Global Literary Field 2006
Palewska, Marie Féeries orientales : l’Inde chez Delly 2011 Delly, India
Palmer, Susan Romance Fiction and the Avon Ladies 1996 libraries/librarians
Palmer, Paulina Girl Meets Girl: Changing Approaches to the Lesbian Romance 1998 lesbian romance, Isabel Miller, Michelle Martin, Deborah Powell, LGBTQ+ characters, readers and/or authors, marriage, gender, fairytales/folktales, Jane Austen, romantic suspense, fashion/clothing
Palmer, Gary B.; Occhi, Debra J. Languages of Sentiment: Cultural constructions of emotional substrates 1999
Panizza, Letizia; Wood, Sharon A History of Women’s Writing in Italy 2000
Papargyriou, Eleni; Assinder, Semele; Holton, David Greece in British Women’s Literary Imagination, 1913-2013 2017
Paradis, Kenneth Types and Tropes: History and Moral Agency in Evangelical Inspirational Fiction 2020 Christian romance, Francine Rivers, religion/spirituality, history, United States of America, settings, metafiction, historical romance
Parameswaran, Radhika E. Romance Reading in the Third World: A Postcolonial Intersection of Gender, Ethnicity, and Sexuality 1994 feminism, India, readers, romance scholarship, social/economic class, national identity, gender, sex/sexuality
Parameswaran, Radhika E. Public Images, Private Pleasures: Romance Reading at the Intersection of Gender, Class, and National Identities in Urban India 1997 Harlequin Mills & Boon, India, readers, gender, social/economic class, national identity
Parameswaran, Radhika Western Romance Fiction as English-Language Media in Postcolonial India 1999 Harlequin Mills & Boon, India, readers, social/economic class, libraries/librarians, sex/sexuality, gender, trash/literary and or intellectual quality
Parameswaran, Radhika Reading Fictions of Romance: Gender, Sexuality, and Nationalism in Postcolonial India 2002 India, gender, social/economic class, national identity, sex/sexuality, readers, Publishing, paratext, historical romance, race/ethnicity, marriage, virginity, family
Pardo Fernández, Rodrigo Caleidoscopio hispánico: estudios lingüísticos y literarios 2010
Parisot, Eric Jane Austen and Vampires: Love, Sex and Immortality in the New Millennium 2024 paranormal/fantasy/time-travel romance, Jane Austen, Colleen Gleason, Twilight, Regina Jeffers, Amanda Grange, fanfiction
Parke, Maggie; Wilson, Natalie Theorizing Twilight: Critical Essays on What's at Stake in a Post-Vampire World 2011
Parks, Amy Noelle The Feminist Possibilities of Heteroglossic Spaces in Contemporary Young Adult Romance Novels 2023 feminism, YA/teenage romance, love, sex/sexuality, Jenny Han, Katie Cotugno, Nicola Yoon, Laura Steven
Parnell, Jo The Bride in the Cultural Imagination: Screen, Stage, and Literary Productions 2021
Parnell, Claire Models of Publishing and Opportunities for Change: Representations in Harlequin, Montlake and Self-Published Romance Novels 2018 Publishing, Harlequin Mills & Boon, gender, sex/sexuality, social/economic class
McAlister, Jodi; Parnell, Claire; Trinidad, Andrea Anne #RomanceClass: Genre World, Intimate Public, Found Family 2020 Philippines, genre definitions, Publishing, readers, authors, Mina V. Esguerra, LGBTQ+ characters, readers and/or authors, sex/sexuality
Parnell, Claire; Trinidad, Andrea Anne; McAlister, Jodi Hello, Ever After: #RomanceClass and Online-Only Live Literature in the Philippines in 2020 2021 Philippines
Parnell, Claire Independent Authors’ Dependence on Big Tech: Categorization and Governance of Authors Of Color on Amazon 2021 Publishing, authors, race/ethnicity, African American romance
Parnell, Claire Reading and writing Muslim romance on Wattpad 2022 Muslim romance, Publishing
Parnell, Claire Algospeak and algo-design in platformed book publishing: Revolutionary creative tactics in digital paratext to circumvent content moderation 2023 Publishing, paratext, LGBTQ+ characters, readers and/or authors, race/ethnicity, pornography
Parnell, Claire; Trinidad, Andrea Anne; McAlister, Jodi Live literature in the Philippines: an ethnographic study of #RomanceClass and reading as performance 2023 Philippines, readers, authors, Publishing, Mina V. Esguerra
McAlister, Jodi; Parnell, Claire; Trinidad, Andrea Anne Publishing Romance Fiction in the Philippines 2023 Philippines, Publishing, social/economic class, Mina V. Esguerra, wealth/prosperity, Keene Alicante, sex/sexuality, work, LGBTQ+ characters, readers and/or authors, settings, authors, paratext
Parra Membrives, Eva Trivialidades literarias: Reflexiones en torno a la literatura de entretenimiento 2013
Parrish, Berta; Atwood, Karen Enticing Readers: The Teen Romance Craze 1984 YA/teenage romance
McKay, Jade; Parsons, Elizabeth Out of Wedlock: The Consummation and Consumption of Marriage in Contemporary Romance Fiction 2009 marriage, Harlequin Mills & Boon, sex/sexuality, virginity, wealth/prosperity, work, feminism, family
Parv, Valerie Healing Writes: Restorying the Authorial Self through Creative Practice: and Birthright, a speculative fiction novel 2007 authors, psychology, Valerie Parv
Pastureau, Jean Le bel ailleurs, le bon hier 1998 France, Publishing
Patai, Daphne; Ingram, Angela Fantasy and Identity: The Double Life of a Victorian Sexual Radical 1993 gender, paranormal/fantasy/time-travel romance, Irene Clyde, Older and/or precursor texts (may not be "romance" as now defined), LGBTQ+ characters, readers and/or authors
Ingram, Angela; Patai, Daphne Rediscovering Forgotten Radicals: British Women Writers 1889-1939 1993
Patell, Cyrus R. K.; Williams, Deborah Lindsay The Oxford History of the Novel in English: Volume 8: American Fiction since 1940 2024
Pates, Giuliana Reading Practices and Gender Politicization: How do Young Argentinean Women Read Romantic Novels 2023 Argentina, YA/teenage romance
Pattee, Amy S. Reading the Adolescent Romance: Sweet Valley High and the Popular Young Adult Romance Novel 2011 YA/teenage romance
Patterson, Janet Consuming Passion 1981 Harlequin Mills & Boon, readers
Patthey-Chavez, G. Genevieve; Clare, Lindsay; Youmans, Madeleine Watery Passion: The Struggle between Hegemony and Sexual Liberation in Erotic Fiction for Women 1996 metaphor/symbolism, erotic romance, gender, sex/sexuality, linguistics, Shirlee Busbee, Julie Garwood, Roberta Gellis, Johanna Lindsey, Jayne Ann Krentz/Amanda Quick/Jayne Castle, Bertrice Small, Rachel Lee/Sue Civil-Brown, Elizabeth Lowell, Emma Merritt, Fayrene Preston, Kasey Stuart, Linda Turner, virginity, food, drink, war/armed forces, rape and/or intimate partner violence/abuse, work
Zhou, Yanyan; Paul, Bryant; Sherman, Ryland Still a Hetero-Gendered World: A Content Analysis of Gender Stereotypes and Romantic Ideals in Chinese Boy Love Stories 2018 m/m romance, gender, China, LGBTQ+ characters, readers and/or authors
Paulvé, Dominique; Guérin, Marie Le roman du roman rose 1994 Delly, Max du Veuzit, Berthe Bernage, Magali, pen name of Jeanne Philbert
Pawling, Christopher Popular Fiction and Social Change 1984
Peabody, Rebecca Kara Walker: American Romance in Black and White 2016 historical romance, race/ethnicity, sex/sexuality, Barbara Ferry Johnson
Pearce, Susan C.; Sojka, Eugenia Cultural Change in East-Central European and Eurasian Spaces: Post-1989 Revisions and Re-imaginings 2021
Pearce, Lynne; Stacey, Jackie Romance Revisited 1995
Stacey, Jackie; Pearce, Lynne The Heart of the Matter: Feminists Revisit the Romance 1995 feminism
Pearce, Lynne; Wisker, Gina Fatal Attractions: Rescripting Romance in Contemporary Literature and Film 1998
Pearce, Lynne Popular Romance and Its Readers 2004 Jeanette Winterson, food, drink, settings, psychology, Violet Winspear, readers, sex/sexuality
Pearce, Lynne Romance Writing 2007 love, Jane Rule, LGBTQ+ characters, readers and/or authors, Ann Bannon, Margaret Mitchell, Daphne du Maurier, Jeanette Winterson
Pearce, Lynne Romance and Repetition: Testing the Limits of Love 2011 love, psychology, philosophy
Pearce, Elizabeth Florence Reading the Lesbian Romance: Re-imagining Love, Sex, Relationships, and Community 2004 lesbian romance
Haddon, Jenny; Pearson, Diane Fabulous at Fifty: Recollections of the Romantic Novelists' Association 1960-2010 2010 authors, Lucilla Andrews, Mary Burchell, pen name of Ida Cook, Barbara Cartland, Netta Muskett, Denise Robins, Mary Stewart, Alex Stuart, Sylvia Thorpe, Joanna Trollope, Sheila Walsh, Anne Weale
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
Mazzarella, Sharon R.; Pecora, Norma Odom Growing Up Girls: Popular Culture and the Construction of Identity 1999
Pecora, Norma Identity by Design: The Corporate Construction of Teen Romance Novels 1999 YA/teenage romance, fashion/clothing, sex/sexuality, rape and/or intimate partner violence/abuse, food, drink, LGBTQ+ characters, readers and/or authors, race/ethnicity
Muram, David; Rosenthal, Ted L.; Tolley, Elizabeth A.; Peeler, Molly M.; Pitts, Bridget Teenage Pregnancy: Dating and Sexual Attitudes 1992 readers, sex/sexuality, race/ethnicity