| 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 |
| McKee, Alan |
Beautiful Things in Popular Culture |
2007 |
|
| McKinley, Tracey Lynn |
The Female Quest: An Analysis of Archetypal Layering in Harlequin Presents |
2007 |
teaching romance, Lynne Graham, Diana Hamilton, gender, Harlequin Mills & Boon |
| McKnight-Trontz, Jennifer |
The Look of Love: The Art of the Romance Novel |
2002 |
paratext |
| 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 |
| McLennon, Leigh |
Contemporary vampire genre fiction: ethical feeding and the posthuman vampire in urban fantasy and paranormal romance |
2017 |
paranormal/fantasy/time-travel 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 |
| Smith, Clarissa; Attwood, Feona; McNair, Brian |
The Routledge Companion to Media, Sex and Sexuality |
2018 |
|
| McNamara, Sallie |
Georgette Heyer: The Historical Romance and the Consumption of the Erotic, 1918-1939 |
2000 |
Georgette Heyer, gender, sex/sexuality, historical romance, fashion/clothing, cross-dressing, settings |
| McNamara, Emma K |
Young Adult Contemporary Realistic Romance: Rhetorical and Intersectional Narratologies |
2024 |
YA/young adult/teenage/new adult/NA romance, readers, Rachael Allen, Gayle Forman, Jas Hammonds, Jenny Han, Emiko Jean, Kekla Magoon, Crystal Maldonado, Morgan Matson, Sandhya Menon, Julie Murphy, Sally Rooney, Ismée Williams |
| Lam, Adam; McNaughton, Howard D. |
The Reinvention of Everyday Life: Culture in the twenty-first century |
2006 |
|
| McNeil, Helen |
She trembled at his touch |
1981 |
Harlequin Mills & Boon, social/economic class |
| McWilliam, Kelly |
Romance in foreign accents: Harlequin-Mills & Boon in Australia |
2009 |
Publishing, Harlequin Mills & Boon, Australia |
| Medrano-González, Claudia |
On the Convergence Between Femme Theory and Popular Feminine Fiction: Adolescent Girls’ (Re)territorialisation Of Fem(me)ininity Through Young Adult Erotic Romance |
2024 |
YA/young adult/teenage/new adult/NA romance, Spain, gender, readers, sex/sexuality, feminism |
| Pupipat, Apisak; Rungkaew, Titirut; Meeparp, Lampoon |
Judging a Book by its Back Cover: Spoken/Informal Register as Found in Happily-Ever-After Women’s Novel Blurbs |
2022 |
linguistics, paratext |
| Meirelles, Simone Regina Ferreira |
Das bancas ao coraçao: romances sentimentais e leitura hoje |
2002 |
Brazil, gender, readers |
| Meirelles, Simone |
Romances com coração: leitura e edição de romances sentimentais no Brasil |
2008 |
readers, Publishing, Brazil, Harlequin Mills & Boon |
| Melman, Billie |
Women and the Popular Imagination in the Twenties: Flappers and Nymphs |
1988 |
Older and/or precursor texts (may not be "romance" as now defined), Ethel M. Dell, E. M. Hull, sex/sexuality, gender, race/ethnicity, settings, metaphor/symbolism, animals, rape and/or intimate partner violence/abuse, pornography, romances in magazines and newspapers, social/economic class, work, community |
| Fischer, Heinz-Dietrich; Melnik, Stefan Reinhard |
Entertainment: A Cross-Cultural Examination |
1979 |
|
| Cabrera, Christine; Ménard, Amy Dana |
'She Exploded into a Million Pieces': A Qualitative and Quantitative Analysis of Orgasms in Contemporary Romance Novels |
2013 |
sex/sexuality, psychology |
| Ménard, A. Dana; Cabrera, Christine |
‘Whatever the Approach, Tab B Still Fits into Slot A’: Twenty Years of Sex Scripts in Romance Novels |
2011 |
sex/sexuality, psychology |
| Ménard, A. Dana |
Note from the Field: Reflecting on Romance Novel Research: Past, Present and Future |
2013 |
sex/sexuality, psychology, romance scholarship |
| Méndez, José Luis |
The Novels of Corín Tellado |
1986 |
Corín Tellado |
| James, Edward; Mendlesohn, Farah |
The Cambridge Companion to Fantasy Literature |
2012 |
|
| 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 |
| Lovell, Stephen; Menzel, Birgit |
Reading for Entertainment in Contemporary Russia: Post-Soviet Popular Literature in Historical Perspective |
2005 |
|
| Fisher, Maryanne L.; Meredith, Tami M. |
The Success behind the Candy-Colored Covers: An Evolutionary Perspective on Romance Novels |
2012 |
evolutionary psychology, paratext |
| Fisher, Maryanne L.; Meredith, Tami M. |
Evolutionary and sociocultural themes in cover art on Harlequin romance novels: A temporal analysis |
2022 |
evolutionary psychology, paratext |
| Armstrong, Jane; Byrski, Liz; Merrick, Helen |
Love works: Reading and writing romance in the twenty-first century |
2014 |
readers, authors |
| Meyer, Michaela D. E. |
Living the Romance through Castle: Exploring Autoethnography, Popular Culture and Romantic Television Narratives |
2015 |
readers |
| Meyer, Michael |
The Bedford Introduction to Literature: Reading, Thinking, Writing (Sixth Edition) |
2002 |
Karen van der Zee, teaching romance |
| Michel, Anita |
Re-reading the (series) romance: toward a typology of recent series romance novels |
1997 |
|
| Micheletti, Ellen |
Wandering the Web - Reviews of Romance Novels: Online Sources for Evaluating Popular Fiction |
2010 |
readers |
| Michelson, Anna |
The politics of happily-ever-after: romance genre fiction as aesthetic public sphere |
2021 |
sociology, romance and, or as, activism, emotions, feminism, readers, authors, fascism/right-wing authoritarianism, United States of America, Casey McQuiston, happy ending, Roni Loren, Sarah MacLean, sex/sexuality, Alyssa Cole, race/ethnicity, Publishing, Courtney Milan, Suzanne Brockmann, health/medical |
| Michelson, Anna |
Pushing the boundaries: Erotic romance and the symbolic boundary nexus |
2022 |
genre definitions, erotic romance, authors, sex/sexuality, Fifty Shades, Publishing, fanfiction, sociology |
| Michelson, Anna |
Redefining the Romance: Classification and Community in a Popular Fiction Genre |
2022 |
genre definitions, sociology, authors, romance and, or as, activism, sex/sexuality, LGBTQ+ characters, readers and/or authors, race/ethnicity, erotic romance, happy ending, readers, Publishing, fanfiction, Fifty Shades, Suzanne Brockmann, m/m romance, African American romance, Native American romance |
| Michelson, Anna |
Romance Reading as a Social Activity |
2025 |
readers |
| Gerson, Carole; Michon, Jacques |
Histoire du livre et de l'imprimé au Canada, Vol. III: De 1918 à 1980 |
2007 |
|
| Miclea, Adelina-Cerasela |
The Scientification of Love: A Cognitive Literary Approach to Romance Novels |
2024 |
linguistics, psychology, Elena Armas, Ali Hazelwood, Emily Henry, Helen Hoang, Colleen Hoover, Casey McQuiston, Lynn Painter, Kate Robb |
| Miclea, Adelina |
Colleen Hoover’s Formulas for Best-Sellers as Seen in Reminders of Him and it Ends with Us |
2023 |
Colleen Hoover, United States of America |
| Migozzi, Jacques |
Le Roman Populaire en Question(s): Actes du colloque international de mai 1995 à Limoges |
1997 |
|
| Mikals-Adachi, Eileen B. |
Romantic Adventures in Prose: Ren'ai Shõsetsu (Romance Novels) by Yuikawa Kei |
2012 |
Yuikawa Kei, Japan, genre definitions, friendship, chick lit |
| Miles, Angela |
Confessions of a Harlequin Reader: Romance and the Myth of Male Mothers |
1988 |
readers, psychology, Harlequin Mills & Boon, feminism, love, family, sex/sexuality, emotions |
| Miller, Kathleen |
A Little Extra Bite: Dis/Ability and Romance in Tanya Huff and Charlaine Harris’s Vampire Fiction |
2010 |
disability, paranormal/fantasy/time-travel romance, Tanya Huff, Charlaine Harris, feminism, metaphor/symbolism, metafiction |
| 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 |
| Taddeo, Julie Anne; Miller, Cynthia J. |
Steaming Into a Victorian Future: A Steampunk Anthology |
2013 |
|
| Glass, E. R.; Mineo, A. |
Georgette Heyer and the Uses of Regency |
1986 |
Georgette Heyer, historical romance, linguistics |
| 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 |
| Mitchell, Karen S. |
Ever After: Reading the Women Who Read (and Re-Write) Romances |
1996 |
readers, Lisa Gregory, trash/literary and or intellectual quality, rape and/or intimate partner violence/abuse |
| Mitchell, Diana |
If You Can't Beat'em, Join 'em: Using the Romance Series to Confront Gender Stereotypes |
1995 |
YA/young adult/teenage/new adult/NA romance, gender, teaching romance |
| Chawla, Gitanjali; Mittal, Sangeeta |
Indian Popular Fiction: Redefining the Canon |
2022 |
|
| Mizzau, Marina |
Strategie narrative: il non detto e il troppo detto |
1987 |
genre definitions |
| Mocná, Dagmar |
Červená knihovna: studie kulturně a literárně historická : pohled do dějin pokleslého žánru |
1996 |
Czech Republic |
| Modleski, Tania |
Popular Feminine Narratives: A Study of Romances, Gothics, and Soap Operas |
1980 |
Harlequin Mills & Boon, gothic romance, psychology |
| Modleski, Tania |
The Disappearing Act: A Study of Harlequin Romances |
1980 |
Harlequin Mills & Boon, readers, psychology, gender |
| Modleski, Tania |
Loving with a Vengeance: Mass‐Produced Fantasies for Women |
1982 |
Harlequin Mills & Boon, gothic romance, gender, psychology, readers, rape and/or intimate partner violence/abuse |
| Modleski, Tania |
Studies in Entertainment: Critical Approaches to Mass Culture |
1986 |
|
| Modleski, Tania |
My Life as a Romance Reader |
1997 |
readers, rape and/or intimate partner violence/abuse, sex/sexuality, feminism, Brenda Joyce, African American romance, Eboni Snoe, Beverly Jenkins, historical romance, gender, Nancy Martin, Suzanne Robinson, LGBTQ+ characters, readers and/or authors |
| Modleski, Tania |
My Life as a Romance Writer |
1998 |
BDSM, romance scholarship, Jennifer Crusie, Jayne Ann Krentz/Amanda Quick/Jayne Castle, Susan Elizabeth Phillips, gender, Linda Howard, evolutionary psychology, sex/sexuality, feminism |
| Moffitt, Mary Anne Smeltzer |
Understanding Middle-Class Adolescent Leisure: A Cultural Studies Approach to Romance Novel Reading |
1990 |
readers, emotions |
| Moffitt, Mary Anne |
Articulating Meaning: Reconceptions of the Meaning Process, Fantasy/Reality, and Identity in Leisure Activities |
1993 |
readers |
| Moffitt, Mary Anne |
Leisure Fiction and the Audience: Meaning and Communication Strategies |
1993 |
readers |
| Mogin-Martin, Roselyne |
Corín Tellado : ¿de la novela rosa a la novela comprometida? |
2010 |
Corín Tellado, work, marriage, sex/sexuality, race/ethnicity |
| Mogin-Martin, Roselyne |
La revolución sexual de Corín Tellado |
2016 |
Corín Tellado, Spain, fascism/right-wing authoritarianism, sex/sexuality |
| Mazloomian, Maryam; Mohammadi, Nahid |
Discursive Vulnerability and Identity Development: A Triangular Model of Bio-Forces in Cultural Ecological Analysis of American Romance Fiction |
2018 |
Debbie Macomber, psychology |
| Monnet, Georges |
Delly et la Maison de la Bonne Presse |
2011 |
Delly |
| Montague, Holly W. |
From Interlude in Arcady to Daphnis and Chloe: Two Thousand Years of Erotic Fantasy |
1994 |
Longus, Achilles Tatius, Margery Hilton, rural romance, social/economic class, paratext, disability, metaphor/symbolism, sex/sexuality, rape and/or intimate partner violence/abuse, feminism, gender, Heliodorus |
| Montague, Holly |
Sweet and Pleasant Passion: Female and Male Fantasy in Ancient Romance Novels |
1992 |
Longus, Older and/or precursor texts (may not be "romance" as now defined) |
| Montebello, Sophie |
The Representation and Self-Representation of Anglo-Indians in Literature from 1885 to the Present Day |
2024 |
Flora Annie Steel, Maud Diver, India, Older and/or precursor texts (may not be "romance" as now defined) |
| Montejo Gurruchaga, Lucía |
El discurso de la novela rosa de autora en la narrativa española de mediados del siglo XX. La transgresión del canon oficial |
2005 |
Spain |
| Montejo Gurruchaga, Lucía |
Discurso de autora: género y censura en la narrativa española de posguerra |
2010 |
Spain, fascism/right-wing authoritarianism, Carmen de Icaza |
| Hernández, María Beatriz; Brito, Manuel; Monterrey, Tomás |
Broadening Horizons: A Peak Panorama of English Studies in Spain |
2018 |
|
| Moody, Stephanie Lee |
Affecting Genre: Women's Participation with Popular Romance Fiction |
2013 |
readers, teaching romance |
| Moody, Stephanie |
Women's Leadership in Romance Fiction Scholarship |
2010 |
Samuel Richardson, Jane Austen, Harlequin Mills & Boon, Georgette Heyer, Susan Elizabeth Phillips, Linda Howard, Janet Evanovich, Jennifer Crusie, Anna Campbell, Deidre Knight, Lora Leigh, Ann Herendeen, romance scholarship |
| Moody, Stephanie |
Building Social Worlds: Examining Women’s Uses of Romance Novels |
2016 |
readers |
| 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 |
| Moody, Nickianne; Hallam, Julia |
Medical Fictions |
1997 |
|
| Moody, Nickianne |
Mills & Boon’s Temptations: Sex and the Single Couple in the 1990s |
1998 |
Harlequin Mills & Boon, work, family, marriage, Jo Morrison, LaVyrle Spencer, Mary Tate Engels, Alicia Fox, Cathy Gillen Thacker, Rita Clay Estrada, Cara McLean, Candace Schuler, Carla Neggers, gender, feminism |
| Hallam, Julia; Moody, Nickianne |
Consuming for Pleasure: Selected Essays on Popular Fiction |
2000 |
|
| Godsland, Shelley; Moody, Nickianne |
Reading the Popular in Contemporary Spanish Texts |
2004 |
|
| Faura, Salvador; Godsland, Shelley; Moody, Nickianne |
The Romance Novel, or, the Generalisimo's Control of the Popular Imagination |
2004 |
Corín Tellado, Spain, fascism/right-wing authoritarianism |
| 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 |
| Moody-Freeman, Julie E. |
African American romance |
2021 |
African American romance, Older and/or precursor texts (may not be "romance" as now defined), race/ethnicity, Publishing, Rosalind Welles - pen name of Elsie B. Washington, Lia Sanders - pen name of Angela Jackson and Sandra Jackson-Opoku, Alyssa Cole |
| Moody-Freeman, Julie E. |
Black Cultural Studies and Black Love: Why Black Love Matters |
2022 |
love, race/ethnicity, teaching romance |
| Hendricks, Margo; Moody-Freeman, Julie E. |
Introduction to the Special Issue on Black Romance |
2022 |
romance scholarship, Sandra Kitt, Brenda Jackson, Beverly Jenkins, Vivian Stephens (also wrote as Angela Vivian with co-author Angela Dew), Alyssa Cole, Rebekah Weatherspoon, Gwyneth Bolton/Gwendolyn Pough, Rochelle Alers, Margo Hendricks/Elysabeth Grace |
| Hendricks, Margo; Moody-Freeman, Julie E. |
Journal of Popular Romance Studies: Special Issue: Black Romance |
2022 |
African American romance, Sandra Kitt, Brenda Jackson, Beverly Jenkins, Vivian Stephens (also wrote as Angela Vivian with co-author Angela Dew), Alyssa Cole, Rebekah Weatherspoon, Gwyneth Bolton/Gwendolyn Pough, Rochelle Alers, Margo Hendricks/Elysabeth Grace |
| Moody-Freeman, Julie E. |
Response to Eric Selinger’s “Cant and Canonicity” |
2022 |
romance scholarship, Publishing, race/ethnicity, Brenda Jackson, Rochelle Alers, teaching romance |
| Moody-Freeman, Julie E. |
Romance, Hip-Hop Feminism, and Black Love: From Theory to Praxis |
2022 |
Gwyneth Bolton/Gwendolyn Pough, feminism, African American romance, gender, teaching romance, sex/sexuality, music, romance and, or as, activism, race/ethnicity |
| Moolla, F. Fiona |
Her Heart Lies at the Feet of the Mother: Transformations of the Romance Plot in Leila Aboulela’s Minaret |
2021 |
Leila Aboulela, Islam, family, Muslim romance |
| 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 |
| Moore, Maureen |
Romantic love, ecstasy, and deprivation |
1973 |
love, gender, Harlequin Mills & Boon, Violet Winspear, Isobel Chace, pornography, BDSM, religion/spirituality |
| Moore, Laura M. |
Sexual Agency, Safe Sex, and Consent Negotiations in Erotic Romance Novels |
2019 |
sex/sexuality, rape and/or intimate partner violence/abuse, erotic romance |
| Moore, Kate; Selinger, Eric Murphy |
The Heroine as Reader, the Reader as Heroine: Jennifer Crusie’s Welcome to Temptation |
2012 |
Jennifer Crusie, readers, metafiction, romance scholarship, sex/sexuality, marriage |
| Moore, Jeania Ree V. |
The Religious Work of Beverly Jenkins’s Black Historical Romance |
2025 |
Beverly Jenkins, religion/spirituality, African American romance, feminism, romance and, or as, activism, historical romance, history, community, readers, race/ethnicity, sex/sexuality |
| Clark, Beverly Lyon; Bernier, Karen Gennari; Henneberry-Nassau, Michelle; Jenks, Lauren Beth; Moorman, Angie J.; Rhoades, Marah Bianca |
Reading Romance, Reading Ourselves |
1996 |
readers, feminism, sex/sexuality, trash/literary and or intellectual quality, teaching romance, Harlequin Mills & Boon, rape and/or intimate partner violence/abuse, race/ethnicity, capitalism/business |
| Moran, Albert |
"No More Virgins": Writing Romance ‐ an Interview with Emma Darcy |
1990 |
Emma Darcy, Harlequin Mills & Boon, emotions, readers, authors |
| Fernández Ulloa, Teresa; Morazzani, Joanne Schmidt |
Images of Women in Hispanic Culture |
2016 |
|
| Morden, Christina |
Innovations in Romance Novel Distribution at Harlequin, Sourcebooks, and Raincoast Books |
2023 |
Publishing, Canada, Harlequin Mills & Boon |
| Moreau, Charles |
Influence de l’histoire et de l’exotisme dans l’œuvre de Delly ou la conversion contrariée |
2011 |
Delly |
| Moreno-Álvarez, Alejandra |
India, Heat, Dust, and Tea? Alienness and Marketability in Ruth Prawer Jhabvala and Nicole C. Vosseler |
2020 |
India, trash/literary and or intellectual quality, Nicole C. Vosseler, Ruth Prawer Jhabvala, happy ending, race/ethnicity |
| Moreno-Álvarez, Alejandra |
Romance Novels in Postcolonial India: From Mills & Boon to Pageturn’s Red Romance Series |
2021 |
India, Harlequin Mills & Boon, readers |
| 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 |
| Moretto, Shirley; Weidenburner, Kathleen |
We’ll Take Romance! |
1984 |
libraries/librarians |
| Morey, Ann-Janine |
The Reverend Idol and Other Parsonage Secrets: Women Write Romances about Ministers, 1880-1950 |
1990 |
religion/spirituality, Christian romance, Older and/or precursor texts (may not be "romance" as now defined) |
| Morey, Ann-Janine |
Religion and Sexuality in American Literature |
1992 |
religion/spirituality, Christian romance, Older and/or precursor texts (may not be "romance" as now defined) |
| Morgan, Paula |
“Like Bush Fire in My Arms”: Interrogating the World of Caribbean Romance |
2003 |
Caribbean, race/ethnicity, Valerie Belgrave, Dorothy Jolly, Deidre D'Allan, Lynn-Ann Ali, Lucille Colleton, Annette Charles, settings, social/economic class, sex/sexuality, work, Islam |
| Howlett, Peter; Morgan, Mary S. |
How Well Do Facts Travel? The Dissemination of Reliable Knowledge |
2011 |
|
| Morrison, Kevin A.; Rantala, Pälvi |
Historical Research, Creative Writing, and the Past: Methods of Knowing |
2023 |
|
| Morrissey, Katherine |
Fanning the Flames of Romance: An Exploration of Fan Fiction and the Romance Novel |
2008 |
fanfiction |
| Morrissey, Katherine |
Fifty Shades of Remix: The Intersecting Pleasures of Commercial and Fan Romances |
2014 |
Fifty Shades, fanfiction |
| Morrissey, Katherine |
Steamy, Spicy, Sensual: Tracing the Cycles of Erotic Romance |
2015 |
erotic romance, Publishing, genre definitions, Kathleen Woodiwiss, Avon, historical romance, BDSM, LGBTQ+ characters, readers and/or authors |
| 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 |
| 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) |
| Smith, Michelle J.; Moruzi, Kristine |
Vampires and Witches Go to School: Contemporary Young Adult Fiction, Gender, and the Gothic |
2018 |
YA/young adult/teenage/new adult/NA romance, gothic romance, paranormal/fantasy/time-travel romance |
| Smith, Michelle J.; Moruzi, Kristine |
Young Adult Gothic Fiction: Monstrous Selves/Monstrous Others |
2021 |
|
| Moruzi, Kristine; Rodgers, Beth; Smith, Michelle J. |
The Edinburgh History of Children's Periodicals |
2024 |
|
| Mosley, Shelley; Charles, John; Havir, Julie |
The Librarian as Effete Snob: Why Romance? |
1995 |
libraries/librarians, Ginger Chambers |
| Charles, John; Mosley, Shelley; Bouricius, Ann |
Romancing the YA Reader |
1999 |
libraries/librarians |
| Charles, John; Mosley, Shelley |
Getting Serious about Romance: Adult Series Romances for Teens |
2002 |
libraries/librarians, Harlequin Mills & Boon |
| Charles, John; Mosley, Shelley |
Romance Today: An A-to-Z Guide to Contemporary American Romance Writers |
2007 |
Shana Abé, Cherry Adair, Catherine Anderson, Judith Arnold, Adele Ashworth, Patti Berg, Elizabeth Bevarly, Rosanne Bittner, Stephanie Bond, Elizabeth Boyle, Pamela Britton, Suzanne Brockmann, Connie Brockway, Lisa Cach, Laurie Schnebly Campbell, Susannah Carleton, Liz Carlyle, Emily Carmichael, Maureen Child, Jennifer Crusie, Claudia Dain, Geralyn Dawson, Eileen Dreyer/Kathleen Korbel, Alice Duncan, Elisabeth Fairchild, Diane Farr, Colleen Faulkner, Jo Ann Ferguson, Christine Flynn, Gaelen Foley, Gwynne Forster, Lori Foster, Roz Denny Fox, Barbara Freethy, Judith E. French, Patricia Gaffney, Lisa Gardner, Roberta Gellis, Tess Gerritsen, Rachel Gibson, Elizabeth Grayson, Jennifer Greene/Jeanne Grant/Jessica Massey/Alison Hart, Leigh Greenwood, Shirley Hailstock, Robin Lee Hatcher, Lorraine Heath, Candice Hern, Sandra Hill, Vicki Hinze, Kate Huntington, Eloisa James, Susan Johnson, Nicole Jordan, Julie Kenner, Lynn Kerstan, April Kihlstrom, Sandra Kitt, Patricia Knoll, Betina Krahn, Jayne Ann Krentz/Amanda Quick/Jayne Castle, Susan Krinard, Leslie LaFoy, Jill Marie Landis, Cathie Linz, Merline Lovelace, Katie MacAlister, Debbie Macomber, Annette Mahon, Sandra Marton, Amanda McCabe, Judi McCoy, May McGoldrick, Teresa Medeiros, Linda Lael Miller, Mary Alice Monroe, Brenda Novak, Janeen O'Kerry, Kayla Perrin, Carly Phillips, Susan Elizabeth Phillips, Lisa Plumley, Mary Jo Putney, Tara Taylor Quinn, Francis Ray, Jaclyn Reding, Emilie Richards, Evelyn Richardson, Nora Roberts/J. D. Robb, Lauren Royal, Ruth Wind/Barbara Samuel/Barbara O'Neal, Regina Scott, Kathryn Shay, Christina Skye, Bertrice Small, Tina St. John, Deb Stover, Sharon Swann, Vicki Lewis Thompson, Jane Toombs, Pat Warren, Sherri WhiteFeather, Susan Wiggs, Rebecca York |
| Moss, Madi Markle |
Review: When Was the Last Time You Read a Romance Novel? |
2020 |
Christian romance, race/ethnicity, Ilima Todd |
| Moss, Gemma |
Un/Popular Fictions |
1989 |
readers, authors, YA/young adult/teenage/new adult/NA romance, race/ethnicity, feminism, gender, teaching romance |
| Moss, Gemma |
Girls Tell the Teen Romance: Four Reading Histories |
1993 |
YA/young adult/teenage/new adult/NA romance, readers |
| Moss, Gemma |
The Place for Romance in Young People's Writing |
1993 |
YA/young adult/teenage/new adult/NA 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 |
| Motyl, Katya |
Embodied Histories: New Womanhood in Vienna, 1894–1934 |
2025 |
Austria, history, sex/sexuality, Older and/or precursor texts (may not be "romance" as now defined), E. Marlitt/Eugenie John, Hedwig Courths-Mahler, love, marriage |
| 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; Benlamine, Abdellah |
Gender, Identity, and the Politics of Difference in Popular Romance |
2024 |
race/ethnicity, Rebecca Stratton, Morocco, gender |
| Moussaoui, Abdelghani |
On the Racialization of the Moroccan ‘Other’ in Orientalist Romance |
2024 |
Rebecca Stratton, race/ethnicity, Morocco |
| Moussaoui, Abdelghani; Benlamine, Abdellah |
Race as a 'Sign of Difference' in Romance Discourse |
2024 |
race/ethnicity, Rebecca Stratton |
| 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/young adult/teenage/new adult/NA 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 |
| Mulvey, Alexandra; Teo, Hsu-Ming |
“You’re a total dick sometimes, but it’s a tolerable kind of dickishness”: Hegemonic masculinity and sports romances |
2025 |
sport, gender |
| 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/young adult/teenage/new adult/NA 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 |
| Nagasaki, Hiroko; Yamane, So; Kawasaki, Yutaka |
Currents of Metamorphosis across the Indian Ocean |
2025 |
|
| 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 |
|
| Karamat, Yashfa; Nawaz, Rukhma; Firdos, Zainab |
Negotiating Reality and Fantasy through Magical Realism in Suleikha Snyder’s Big Bad Wolf |
2025 |
Suleikha Snyder, paranormal/fantasy/time-travel romance, United States of America |
| Nayrou, Félicie; Rudy, Alain |
La Rencontre: figures du destin |
1993 |
|
| Ahmed, Iman; Brose, Michael-Zane; Dengs, Lara; Elfering, Lucie; John, Elena; Kalcker, Mira; Kronenberg, Alice; Küllenberg, Charmaine; Le Donne, Laura; Nazik, Alican; Neisen, Lena; Özdal, Öznur Zeynep; Schneemann, Hanna; Steven, Antonia; Bøglund Strand, Julie |
A “Messy Complexity”? On Coming-Out, Identity Formation, and Community in Queer YA Romance Novels |
2025 |
YA/young adult/teenage/new adult/NA romance, LGBTQ+ characters, readers and/or authors, community, Becky Albertalli, Kacen Callender, Casey McQuiston |
| 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 |
|
| Ahmed, Iman; Brose, Michael-Zane; Dengs, Lara; Elfering, Lucie; John, Elena; Kalcker, Mira; Kronenberg, Alice; Küllenberg, Charmaine; Le Donne, Laura; Nazik, Alican; Neisen, Lena; Özdal, Öznur Zeynep; Schneemann, Hanna; Steven, Antonia; Bøglund Strand, Julie |
A “Messy Complexity”? On Coming-Out, Identity Formation, and Community in Queer YA Romance Novels |
2025 |
YA/young adult/teenage/new adult/NA romance, LGBTQ+ characters, readers and/or authors, community, Becky Albertalli, Kacen Callender, Casey McQuiston |
| 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/young adult/teenage/new adult/NA 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 |
| Niebling, Laura |
Consent capital: From Romantasy’s “Alpha male archetypes” toward a new cultural theory in post-digital storytelling |
2025 |
paranormal/fantasy/time-travel romance, Rebecca Yarros, YA/young adult/teenage/new adult/NA romance, readers, gender, sex/sexuality, United States of America, war/armed forces |
| Nielsen, Inge |
Caught in the Web of Love: Intercepting the Young Adult Reception of Qiongyao's Romances On-Line |
2000 |
Taiwan, YA/young adult/teenage/new adult/NA romance, readers, Qiongyao/Qiong Yao, film/movies, translation, fanfiction |
| Nielson, Annika |
The Summer of YA Love: Young Adult Romance, Tiktok, and the ClassroomClassroom |
2025 |
YA/young adult/teenage/new adult/NA romance, teaching romance |
| 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 |
|