| 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 |
|
| Kinder, John M.; Murray, Jennifer M. |
They Are Dead and Yet They Live: Civil War Memories in a Polarized America |
2026 |
|
| 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 |
| Musiał-Pudełko, Aleksandra; Augustynowicz, Nina; Podruczna, Agnieszka |
Erotic Discourses in History, Culture and the Arts |
2026 |
|
| Musiał-Pudełko, Aleksandra |
“You and Me and History”: Queer Romance and Liberal Fantasy in Casey McQuiston's Red, White & Royal Blue |
2026 |
Casey McQuiston, LGBTQ+ characters, readers and/or authors, United States of America, race/ethnicity |
| 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 |
| Myisha, Nabila; Marsih, Linusia |
Loving Under Power: Politics and Tradition Shaping Gay Love in Red, White & Royal Blue |
2026 |
Casey McQuiston, LGBTQ+ characters, readers and/or authors, family |
| 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 |
| Aulia, Aura Ratu; Callista, Griselda; Supriatna, Hasya Ashila; Fadhilah, Muhammad Ihsan; Nabila, Syifa Hana; Faizal, Zaira Yasmina |
A Comparison Study of the Effects of Romantic Films and Fictional Stories on Romantic Beliefs among Young Adults |
2025 |
readers, psychology, film/movies |
| 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 |
| Nafalitha, Denitha; Syamsi, Kastam; Claresta, Talitha Djulia; Saputri, Mita |
Representing Queer in Popular Literature: Reader Analysis on Casey McQuiston’s Red, White & Royal Blue |
2023 |
Casey McQuiston, readers, LGBTQ+ characters, readers and/or authors |
| 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 |
| Nally, Claire |
Steampunk: Gender, Subculture and the Neo-Victorian |
2019 |
steampunk, Kate McAlister, Gail Carriger, fashion/clothing |
| 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 |
2021 |
race/ethnicity, sex/sexuality, disability, fat, fatness |
| 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 |
| Partzsch, Henriette; Lappalainen, Päivi; Mihurko, Katja; Parente-Čapková, Viola; Nedregotten Sørbø, Marie; van Dijk, Suzan |
One Woman Writer Everywhere: The Ubiquitous E. Marlitt |
2026 |
E. Marlitt/Eugenie John, translation, trash/literary and or intellectual quality, Older and/or precursor texts (may not be "romance" as now defined), Netherlands, Norway, Finland, Spain, Germany, France, Slovenia |
| 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 |
| Schell, Heather; Clayburn, Justina; Duong, Amy; Farooqui, Javaria; Ficke, Sarah; Hammonds, Krista; Hebert, Shelby; Jacobs, Jenni; Kamblé, Jayashree; Lucken, Melissa Ford; Manganelli, Kim; McStotts, Jennie; Newns, Lucinda; Noone, Kristin; Ramos-García, María T.; Ridge, Kelsey; Schifman, Cassie; Schroyer, Precie; Smith, Jennifer; Smith, Josefine; Tillman, Kacy Dowd; Walden, Sarah; Wen, Huike; Wilson, Casey Alane |
Defining the Trope in Romance Fiction |
2026 |
genre definitions |
| 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 |
| Nicholls, Georgia |
Between the sheets: physiological sex acts in the contemporary romance novel |
2025 |
pornography, sex/sexuality, Emily Henry, Ali Hazelwood, Elle Kennedy, Christina Lauren, 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 |
| Niebergall, Chelsee M. |
Constructing Hybrid Identities: Cultural Negotiation and Belonging in Uzma Jalaluddin's Ayesha at Last |
2025 |
Uzma Jalaluddin, Islam, race/ethnicity, Canada |
| Niebergall, Chelsee M. |
Resistance and Innovation: The Cultural Work of Popular Romance Novels |
2026 |
Sarah J. Maas, Lisa Kleypas, Casey McQuiston, Uzma Jalaluddin, Talia Hibbert, feminism, LGBTQ+ characters, readers and/or authors, race/ethnicity, disability, gender |
| 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 |
| Ocampos Palomar, Emilio José; Nieto Caballero, Guadalupe |
Literatura popular: lecturas y público en la Edad de Plata |
2026 |
|
| 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 |
| Schell, Heather; Clayburn, Justina; Duong, Amy; Farooqui, Javaria; Ficke, Sarah; Hammonds, Krista; Hebert, Shelby; Jacobs, Jenni; Kamblé, Jayashree; Lucken, Melissa Ford; Manganelli, Kim; McStotts, Jennie; Newns, Lucinda; Noone, Kristin; Ramos-García, María T.; Ridge, Kelsey; Schifman, Cassie; Schroyer, Precie; Smith, Jennifer; Smith, Josefine; Tillman, Kacy Dowd; Walden, Sarah; Wen, Huike; Wilson, Casey Alane |
Defining the Trope in Romance Fiction |
2026 |
genre definitions |
| Noriega Palmero, Jessica Alejandra |
¿Del quiosco a la revolución amorosa? Un análisis genológico y estructural de tres novelas rosas anarquistas de Federica Montseny |
2026 |
Federica Montseny, Older and/or precursor texts (may not be "romance" as now defined), Spain, love, romance and, or as, activism |
| 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 |
| Novakova, Iva; Kraif, Olivier; Gymnich, Marion |
Exploring the ‘language of intimacy’ in English and French romance novels by means of a corpus-driven approach |
2025 |
linguistics, sex/sexuality, emotions |
| 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 |
| Fahmy, Zulfa; Supriyanto, Teguh; Nuryatin, Agus; Nugroho, Yusro Edy |
Islamic romance novels in the Indonesian digital sphere: Between religious ornamentation and genre standardization |
2026 |
Muslim romance, Indonesia |
| 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 |
| Nurminen, Noora |
“Do you ever stop talking?” A comparative analysis of idiolects in Casey McQuiston’s Red, White & Royal Blue and its Finnish translation Punaista, valkoista ja kuninkaansinistä |
2024 |
translation, Casey McQuiston, Finland |
| Rizkyane Machmuri, Alya; Nurulaen, Yuyun; Priyawan, Pepen |
Romance Formula in Zoulfa Katouh’s Novel As Long As The Lemon Trees Grow |
2025 |
Zoulfa Katouh |
| Fahmy, Zulfa; Supriyanto, Teguh; Nuryatin, Agus; Nugroho, Yusro Edy |
Islamic romance novels in the Indonesian digital sphere: Between religious ornamentation and genre standardization |
2026 |
Muslim romance, Indonesia |
| Nygren, Sandra |
Perfect imperfections: – en intersektionell fat studies-analys av tjocka flickprotagonister i young adult-romance |
2025 |
fat, fatness, YA/young adult/teenage/new adult/NA romance, Lyla Lee, Renée Watson, Sandhya Menon, Talia Hibbert |
| 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'Mahony, Lauren; Botha, Yolandi |
Reading the Romance in Australia: The Preferences and Practices of Romance Readers from ARRA Survey Data |
2025 |
readers, Australia |
| 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 |
| Ocampos Palomar, Emilio José; Nieto Caballero, Guadalupe |
Literatura popular: lecturas y público en la Edad de Plata |
2026 |
|
| 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, linguistics |
| 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 |
| 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 |
| Bowring, Joanna; O’Brien, Margaret |
The Art of Romance: Mills & Boon and Harlequin Cover Designs |
2008 |
Harlequin Mills & Boon, paratext |
| O’Connell, Mark Joseph |
No more martyrs: Heated Rivalry, queer romance and the end of tragic legitimacy |
2026 |
LGBTQ+ characters, readers and/or authors, Rachel Reid, film/movies |
| 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, Margaret M. |
“Stop Acting Like a Diva”: Responses to Sexual Violence in Young Adult Romance Novels |
2025 |
YA/young adult/teenage/new adult/NA romance, rape and/or intimate partner violence/abuse |
| Palmer, Gary B.; Occhi, Debra J. |
Languages of Sentiment: Cultural constructions of emotional substrates |
1999 |
|
| Panek, Helena |
Getting Her Off: Looking at Women Authors in Romance Compared to Other Fiction Genres |
2026 |
Publishing, authors |