| Gómez Morón, Reyes; Padilla Cruz, Manuel; Fernández Amaya, Lucía; Hernández López, María de la O |
Pragmatics Applied to Language Teaching and Learning |
2009 |
|
| Pagliassotti, Dru |
Better than Romance? Japanese BL Manga and the Subgenre of Male/Male Romantic Fiction |
2010 |
m/m romance, fanfiction, comics/manga, readers, LGBTQ+ characters, readers and/or authors |
| Levi, Antonia; McHarry, Mark; Pagliassotti, Dru |
Boys’ Love Manga: Essays on the Sexual Ambiguity and Cross-Cultural Fandom of the Genre |
2010 |
|
| Pagliassotti, Dru |
Love and the Machine: Technology and Human Relationships in Steampunk Romance and Erotica |
2013 |
steampunk, science/technology, health/medical, sex/sexuality |
| Paige, Lori A. |
The Gothic Romance Wave: A Critical History of the Mass Market Novels, 1960-1993 |
2018 |
gothic romance, Older and/or precursor texts (may not be "romance" as now defined), historical romance |
| Paizis, George |
'Reine ou esclave .... ': conflicting images of women in the contemporary 'romantic novel' in France |
1986 |
gender, feminism, readers, France, Publishing |
| Paizis, George |
"Putting People First" or the contemporary romantic novel, critical discourse and ideology |
1987 |
|
| Paizis, George |
That's Romance |
1987 |
|
| Paizis, George |
Love, Ideology and Reality: the popular romantic novel and the reader |
1994 |
|
| Paizis, George |
Category Romances: Translation, Realism and Myth |
1998 |
translation, Harlequin Mills & Boon |
| Paizis, George |
Love and the Novel: The Poetics and Politics of Romantic Fiction |
1998 |
Publishing, Harlequin Mills & Boon, genre definitions, paratext, settings, happy ending, readers, love |
| Paizis, George |
Category Romance in the Era of Globalization: The Story of Harlequin |
2006 |
Harlequin Mills & Boon, Publishing, comics/manga |
| Guttman, Anna; Hockx, Michel; Paizis, George |
The Global Literary Field |
2006 |
|
| Palewska, Marie |
Féeries orientales : l’Inde chez Delly |
2011 |
Delly, India |
| Palmer, Susan |
Romance Fiction and the Avon Ladies |
1996 |
libraries/librarians |
| Palmer, Paulina |
Girl Meets Girl: Changing Approaches to the Lesbian Romance |
1998 |
lesbian romance, Isabel Miller, Michelle Martin, Deborah Powell, LGBTQ+ characters, readers and/or authors, marriage, gender, fairytales/folktales, Jane Austen, romantic suspense, fashion/clothing |
| Palmer, Gary B.; Occhi, Debra J. |
Languages of Sentiment: Cultural constructions of emotional substrates |
1999 |
|
| Panizza, Letizia; Wood, Sharon |
A History of Women’s Writing in Italy |
2000 |
|
| Papargyriou, Eleni; Assinder, Semele; Holton, David |
Greece in British Women’s Literary Imagination, 1913-2013 |
2017 |
|
| Paradis, Kenneth |
Types and Tropes: History and Moral Agency in Evangelical Inspirational Fiction |
2020 |
Christian romance, Francine Rivers, religion/spirituality, history, United States of America, settings, metafiction, historical romance |
| Parameswaran, Radhika E. |
Romance Reading in the Third World: A Postcolonial Intersection of Gender, Ethnicity, and Sexuality |
1994 |
feminism, India, readers, romance scholarship, social/economic class, national identity, gender, sex/sexuality |
| Parameswaran, Radhika E. |
Public Images, Private Pleasures: Romance Reading at the Intersection of Gender, Class, and National Identities in Urban India |
1997 |
Harlequin Mills & Boon, India, readers, gender, social/economic class, national identity |
| Parameswaran, Radhika |
Western Romance Fiction as English-Language Media in Postcolonial India |
1999 |
Harlequin Mills & Boon, India, readers, social/economic class, libraries/librarians, sex/sexuality, gender, trash/literary and or intellectual quality |
| Parameswaran, Radhika |
Reading Fictions of Romance: Gender, Sexuality, and Nationalism in Postcolonial India |
2002 |
India, gender, social/economic class, national identity, sex/sexuality, readers, Publishing, paratext, historical romance, race/ethnicity, marriage, virginity, family |
| Pardo Fernández, Rodrigo |
Caleidoscopio hispánico: estudios lingüísticos y literarios |
2010 |
|
| Parisot, Eric |
Jane Austen and Vampires: Love, Sex and Immortality in the New Millennium |
2024 |
paranormal/fantasy/time-travel romance, Jane Austen, Colleen Gleason, Twilight, Regina Jeffers, Amanda Grange, fanfiction |
| Parke, Maggie; Wilson, Natalie |
Theorizing Twilight: Critical Essays on What's at Stake in a Post-Vampire World |
2011 |
|
| Parks, Amy Noelle |
The Feminist Possibilities of Heteroglossic Spaces in Contemporary Young Adult Romance Novels |
2023 |
feminism, YA/teenage romance, love, sex/sexuality, Jenny Han, Katie Cotugno, Nicola Yoon, Laura Steven |
| Parnell, Jo |
The Bride in the Cultural Imagination: Screen, Stage, and Literary Productions |
2021 |
|
| Parnell, Claire |
Models of Publishing and Opportunities for Change: Representations in Harlequin, Montlake and Self-Published Romance Novels |
2018 |
Publishing, Harlequin Mills & Boon, gender, sex/sexuality, social/economic class |
| McAlister, Jodi; Parnell, Claire; Trinidad, Andrea Anne |
#RomanceClass: Genre World, Intimate Public, Found Family |
2020 |
Philippines, genre definitions, Publishing, readers, authors, Mina V. Esguerra, LGBTQ+ characters, readers and/or authors, sex/sexuality |
| Parnell, Claire; Trinidad, Andrea Anne; McAlister, Jodi |
Hello, Ever After: #RomanceClass and Online-Only Live Literature in the Philippines in 2020 |
2021 |
Philippines |
| Parnell, Claire |
Independent Authors’ Dependence on Big Tech: Categorization and Governance of Authors Of Color on Amazon |
2021 |
Publishing, authors, race/ethnicity, African American romance |
| Parnell, Claire |
Reading and writing Muslim romance on Wattpad |
2022 |
Muslim romance, Publishing |
| Parnell, Claire |
Algospeak and algo-design in platformed book publishing: Revolutionary creative tactics in digital paratext to circumvent content moderation |
2023 |
Publishing, paratext, LGBTQ+ characters, readers and/or authors, race/ethnicity, pornography |
| Parnell, Claire; Trinidad, Andrea Anne; McAlister, Jodi |
Live literature in the Philippines: an ethnographic study of #RomanceClass and reading as performance |
2023 |
Philippines, readers, authors, Publishing, Mina V. Esguerra |
| McAlister, Jodi; Parnell, Claire; Trinidad, Andrea Anne |
Publishing Romance Fiction in the Philippines |
2023 |
Philippines, Publishing, social/economic class, Mina V. Esguerra, wealth/prosperity, Keene Alicante, sex/sexuality, work, LGBTQ+ characters, readers and/or authors, settings, authors, paratext |
| Parra Membrives, Eva |
Trivialidades literarias: Reflexiones en torno a la literatura de entretenimiento |
2013 |
|
| Parrish, Berta; Atwood, Karen |
Enticing Readers: The Teen Romance Craze |
1984 |
YA/teenage romance |
| McKay, Jade; Parsons, Elizabeth |
Out of Wedlock: The Consummation and Consumption of Marriage in Contemporary Romance Fiction |
2009 |
marriage, Harlequin Mills & Boon, sex/sexuality, virginity, wealth/prosperity, work, feminism, family |
| Partin, Sara; Smith, Josefine |
Reading Romance and Erotic Literacy |
2025 |
sex/sexuality |
| Parv, Valerie |
Healing Writes: Restorying the Authorial Self through Creative Practice: and Birthright, a speculative fiction novel |
2007 |
authors, psychology, Valerie Parv |
| Pastureau, Jean |
Le bel ailleurs, le bon hier |
1998 |
France, Publishing |
| Patai, Daphne; Ingram, Angela |
Fantasy and Identity: The Double Life of a Victorian Sexual Radical |
1993 |
gender, paranormal/fantasy/time-travel romance, Irene Clyde, Older and/or precursor texts (may not be "romance" as now defined), LGBTQ+ characters, readers and/or authors |
| Ingram, Angela; Patai, Daphne |
Rediscovering Forgotten Radicals: British Women Writers 1889-1939 |
1993 |
|
| Patell, Cyrus R. K.; Williams, Deborah Lindsay |
The Oxford History of the Novel in English: Volume 8: American Fiction since 1940 |
2024 |
|
| Pates, Giuliana |
Reading Practices and Gender Politicization: How do Young Argentinean Women Read Romantic Novels |
2023 |
Argentina, YA/teenage romance |
| Pattee, Amy S. |
Reading the Adolescent Romance: Sweet Valley High and the Popular Young Adult Romance Novel |
2011 |
YA/teenage romance |
| Mahony, Jane; Patten, Eve |
‘Breaking away’: Beatrice Grimshaw and the commercial woman writer |
2016 |
Beatrice Grimshaw, Older and/or precursor texts (may not be "romance" as now defined), Harlequin Mills & Boon |
| Patterson, Janet |
Consuming Passion |
1981 |
Harlequin Mills & Boon, readers |
| Patthey-Chavez, G. Genevieve; Clare, Lindsay; Youmans, Madeleine |
Watery Passion: The Struggle between Hegemony and Sexual Liberation in Erotic Fiction for Women |
1996 |
metaphor/symbolism, erotic romance, gender, sex/sexuality, linguistics, Shirlee Busbee, Julie Garwood, Roberta Gellis, Johanna Lindsey, Jayne Ann Krentz/Amanda Quick/Jayne Castle, Bertrice Small, Rachel Lee/Sue Civil-Brown, Elizabeth Lowell, Emma Merritt, Fayrene Preston, Kasey Stuart, Linda Turner, virginity, food, drink, war/armed forces, rape and/or intimate partner violence/abuse, work |
| Zhou, Yanyan; Paul, Bryant; Sherman, Ryland |
Still a Hetero-Gendered World: A Content Analysis of Gender Stereotypes and Romantic Ideals in Chinese Boy Love Stories |
2018 |
m/m romance, gender, China, LGBTQ+ characters, readers and/or authors |
| Paulvé, Dominique; Guérin, Marie |
Le roman du roman rose |
1994 |
Delly, Max du Veuzit, Berthe Bernage, Magali, pen name of Jeanne Philbert |
| Pawling, Christopher |
Popular Fiction and Social Change |
1984 |
|
| Peabody, Rebecca |
Kara Walker: American Romance in Black and White |
2016 |
historical romance, race/ethnicity, sex/sexuality, Barbara Ferry Johnson |
| Pearce, Susan C.; Sojka, Eugenia |
Cultural Change in East-Central European and Eurasian Spaces: Post-1989 Revisions and Re-imaginings |
2021 |
|
| Pearce, Lynne; Stacey, Jackie |
Romance Revisited |
1995 |
|
| Stacey, Jackie; Pearce, Lynne |
The Heart of the Matter: Feminists Revisit the Romance |
1995 |
feminism |
| Pearce, Lynne; Wisker, Gina |
Fatal Attractions: Rescripting Romance in Contemporary Literature and Film |
1998 |
|
| Pearce, Lynne |
Popular Romance and Its Readers |
2004 |
Jeanette Winterson, food, drink, settings, psychology, Violet Winspear, readers, sex/sexuality |
| Pearce, Lynne |
Romance Writing |
2007 |
love, Jane Rule, LGBTQ+ characters, readers and/or authors, Ann Bannon, Margaret Mitchell, Daphne du Maurier, Jeanette Winterson |
| Pearce, Lynne |
Romance and Repetition: Testing the Limits of Love |
2011 |
love, psychology, philosophy |
| Pearce, Elizabeth Florence |
Reading the Lesbian Romance: Re-imagining Love, Sex, Relationships, and Community |
2004 |
lesbian romance |
| Haddon, Jenny; Pearson, Diane |
Fabulous at Fifty: Recollections of the Romantic Novelists' Association 1960-2010 |
2010 |
authors, Lucilla Andrews, Mary Burchell, pen name of Ida Cook, Barbara Cartland, Netta Muskett, Denise Robins, Mary Stewart, Alex Stuart, Sylvia Thorpe, Joanna Trollope, Sheila Walsh, Anne Weale |
| Peaty, Gwyneth |
Rock Hard: Gargoyles in Contemporary Gothic Romance |
2015 |
paranormal/fantasy/time-travel romance, war/armed forces, United States of America, Christine Warren, Lisa Blackwood, Sally Painter, Marjorie M. Liu, Danielle Monsch |
| Mazzarella, Sharon R.; Pecora, Norma Odom |
Growing Up Girls: Popular Culture and the Construction of Identity |
1999 |
|
| Pecora, Norma |
Identity by Design: The Corporate Construction of Teen Romance Novels |
1999 |
YA/teenage romance, fashion/clothing, sex/sexuality, rape and/or intimate partner violence/abuse, food, drink, LGBTQ+ characters, readers and/or authors, race/ethnicity |
| Muram, David; Rosenthal, Ted L.; Tolley, Elizabeth A.; Peeler, Molly M.; Pitts, Bridget |
Teenage Pregnancy: Dating and Sexual Attitudes |
1992 |
readers, sex/sexuality, race/ethnicity |
| Peinado Rodríguez, Matilde; Anta Félez, José Luis |
Educar para el matrimonio en femenino: modelos y prácticas en la literatura de posguerra |
2013 |
Spain, fascism/right-wing authoritarianism, gender, marriage |
| Roy, Pierre; Pellegrin-Boucher, Estelle |
Business Model Innovation in Creative and Cultural Industries |
2024 |
|
| Penttinen, Sara |
Mind-Reading the Romance Novel: Effects of Single Perspective and Dual Perspective in Christina Lauren’s The Unhoneymooners and Julie Olivia’s The Fiction Between Us |
2025 |
Christina Lauren, Julie Olivia, psychology, emotions |
| Snyman, Maritha; Penzhorn, Cecilia |
Leser en Konteks: ’n resepsiestudie oor Afrikaanse romanselesers |
2011 |
readers, South Africa |
| Péquignot, Bruno |
Le rêve ou l'ordure. Du Roman sentimental et de ce qu'en disent certains. |
1988 |
trash/literary and or intellectual quality |
| Péquignot, Bruno |
Le roman sentimental, un objet pour quelle sociologie? |
1990 |
sociology |
| Péquignot, Bruno |
La relation amoureuse: analyse sociologique du roman sentimental moderne |
1991 |
sociology, France, Publishing, love, sex/sexuality, readers |
| Péquignot, Bruno |
Les femmes dans le roman sentimental moderne |
1991 |
France, Delly, Harlequin Mills & Boon, religion/spirituality, Barbara Cartland, work, sex/sexuality, marriage, family |
| Péquignot, Bruno |
Eau de rose et air du temps |
1993 |
|
| Péquignot, Bruno |
Le sentimental e(s)t le populaire |
1997 |
|
| Percec, Dana |
“The Pink Ghetto”. The Avatars of Romantic Fiction |
2011 |
Older and/or precursor texts (may not be "romance" as now defined), historical romance, Jane Austen |
| Percec, Dana |
Romance: The History of a Genre |
2012 |
|
| Percec, Dana |
Reading the Fantastic Imagination: The Avatars of a Literary Genre |
2014 |
|
| Pereira, Simone Luci; das Neves, Thiago Tavares; Budag, Fernanda Elouise |
Comunicação e Culturas Urbanas: temas, debates e perspectivas |
2021 |
|
| Pérez, María Mercedes |
Es la historia de un amor: la edición de novelas románticas en el mercado de habla hispana |
2009 |
Publishing |
| Pérez Casal, Inmaculada |
Love in Times of Crisis: An Approach to Contemporary Romance Novels in Spain |
2016 |
Spain, Publishing, Older and/or precursor texts (may not be "romance" as now defined) |
| Pérez Casal, Inmaculada |
Mass-market romance and the question of genre: N. Sparks, E. L. James and D. Gabaldon |
2018 |
Diana Gabaldon, Fifty Shades, Nicholas Sparks, genre definitions, film/movies |
| Pérez Casal, Inmaculada |
The Romance Novel as Bildungsroman in the Works of Rosamunde Pilcher and Lisa Kleypas |
2018 |
gender, Rosamunde Pilcher, Lisa Kleypas, historical romance |
| Pérez Casal, Inmaculada |
Antecedents and Development of the Contemporary Romance Novel in English: A Study of the Contribution to the Genre by Rosamunde Pilcher and Lisa Kleypas |
2019 |
feminism, Lisa Kleypas, Rosamunde Pilcher |
| Pérez Casal, Inmaculada |
“There’s Something Charming about a Man with an Accent, Isn’t There?”: The Representation of Otherness in Three Novels by Lisa Kleypas |
2020 |
Lisa Kleypas, race/ethnicity, historical romance, languages, social/economic class, UK |
| Pérez Fernández, Irene; Pérez Ríu, Carmen |
Romantic Escapes: Post-Millennial Trends in Contemporary Popular Romance Fiction |
2021 |
|
| Pérez Fernández, Irene; Pérez Ríu, Carmen |
Romantic Escapes in Contemporary Popular Romance Fiction |
2021 |
romance scholarship |
| Pérez Fernández, Irene; Pérez Ríu, Carmen |
Romantic Escapes: Post-Millennial Trends in Contemporary Popular Romance Fiction |
2021 |
|
| Pérez Ríu, Carmen |
Romance Reading as Fandom in the Context of Convergence Culture |
2021 |
readers |
| Pérez Fernández, Irene; Pérez Ríu, Carmen |
Romantic Escapes in Contemporary Popular Romance Fiction |
2021 |
romance scholarship |
| Pérez Ríu, Carmen |
Language, Sexuality and “Necessary” Anachronism in Lorraine Heath’s Neo-Victorian Popular Romance Series Scandalous Gentlemen of St. James |
2024 |
Lorraine Heath, historical romance |
| Pérez-Casal, Inmaculada |
Business-like Lords and Gentlemanly Businessmen: The Romance Hero in Lisa Kleypas's Wallflowers Series |
2020 |
Lisa Kleypas, capitalism/business, historical romance, United States of America, UK, national identity, social/economic class |
| Pérez-Casal, Inmaculada |
Marketplace Feminism? The Writing and Selling of Lisa Kleypas’s Ravenels Series |
2021 |
Lisa Kleypas, feminism |
| Pérez-Casal, Inmaculada |
La novela rosa o romántica: pasado, presente y futuro |
2022 |
genre definitions, Older and/or precursor texts (may not be "romance" as now defined), romance and, or as, activism, romance scholarship |
| Pérez-Casal, Inmaculada |
Popular romance novels: past, present and future |
2022 |
genre definitions, Older and/or precursor texts (may not be "romance" as now defined), romance and, or as, activism, romance scholarship |
| Pérez-Fernández, Irene |
Black British love matters: Asserting the transformative power of love in Bolu Babalola’s Love in Colour: Mythical Tales Around the World Retold |
2024 |
Bolu Babalola, race/ethnicity, UK, myth |
| Pérez-Gil, María del Mar |
Exoticism, Ethnocentrism, and Englishness in Popular Romance Fiction: Constructing the European Other |
2018 |
Spain, national identity, UK, race/ethnicity, islands, Harlequin Mills & Boon |
| Pérez-Gil, María del Mar |
Representations of Nation and Spanish Masculinity in Popular Romance Novels: The Alpha Male as “Other” |
2019 |
Spain, gender, national identity, Harlequin Mills & Boon, UK |
| Pérez-Gil, María del Mar |
Britannia’s Daughters: Popular Romance Fiction and the Ideology of National Superiority (1950s–1970s) |
2020 |
national identity, race/ethnicity, UK, history, Violet Winspear, Lilian Warren as Kathryn Blair/Rosalind Brett/Celine Conway, Kay Thorpe, Greece, Spain, Jean S. MacLeod/Catherine Airlie, gender, feminism |
| Pérez-Gil, María del Mar |
Imperfect paradise: Madeira in the novels of Margaret Rome, Katrina Britt, and Sally Wentworth |
2022 |
Harlequin Mills & Boon, settings, national identity, race/ethnicity, Portugal, UK, Margaret Rome, Ethel Connell as Katrina Britt, Doreen Hornsblow as Sally Wentworth, Sara Wood, gender |
| Pérez-Gil, María del Mar |
Mass Tourism, Ecocriticism, and Mills & Boon Romances (1970s-1980s) |
2022 |
Harlequin Mills & Boon, settings, history, Doreen Hornsblow as Sally Wentworth, Spain, Greece, Margaret Rome, Elizabeth Hunter, Violet Winspear, rural romance, Ethel Connell as Katrina Britt, Kay Thorpe, Iris Danbury, ecocriticism/environmentalism/climate change |
| Pérez-Gil, María del Mar |
Paraísos imperfectos: Madeira en las novelas de Margaret Rome, Katrina Britt y Sally Wentworth |
2022 |
Harlequin Mills & Boon, settings, national identity, race/ethnicity, Portugal, UK, Margaret Rome, Ethel Connell as Katrina Britt, Doreen Hornsblow as Sally Wentworth, Sara Wood, gender |
| Pérez-Gil, María del Mar |
Tourists not welcome: perceptions of tourism in popular romance novels |
2025 |
settings, ecocriticism/environmentalism/climate change, social/economic class, Harlequin Mills & Boon |
| Yáñez-Bouza, Nuria; Rodríguez-Gil, María E.; Pérez-Guerra, Javier |
New Horizons in Prescriptivism Research |
2024 |
linguistics |
| Perkins, Lori |
Fifty Writers on Fifty Shades of Grey |
2012 |
|
| Perriam, Geraldine |
The not so silly ass: Freddy Standen, his fictional contemporaries and alternative masculinity |
2021 |
Georgette Heyer, gender |
| Barba, Shelley E.; Perrin, Joy M. |
The Ascendance of Harley Quinn: Essays on DC's Enigmatic Villain |
2017 |
|
| Perrin-Naffakh, Anne-Marie |
Amours - toujours : l'écriture clichée dans le roman sentimental |
1998 |
Harlequin Mills & Boon |
| Perrot, Jean |
Les métamorphoses du conte |
2004 |
|
| Pesonen, Sini |
Romance Novels and Possibilities in Life : Analyzing Ethical Aspects in Happiness and Happy Place |
2024 |
philosophy, Emily Henry, Danielle Steel, feminism |
| Rashid, Hussein; Petersen, Kristian |
The Bloomsbury Handbook of Muslims and Popular Culture |
2023 |
|
| Petersson, Sara; Söderberg, Daniel |
En berättelse tar form - en studie i hur geometrisk form på bokomslag indikerar populärlitterär genre |
2014 |
paratext |
| Petrović, Janja |
Breaking the stereotype – romance novel today |
2023 |
genre definitions, gender, Mariana Zapata, Abby Jimenez, Christina Lauren, Emily Henry, Colleen Hoover |
| Peukert, Christian; Reimers, Imke |
Digital Disintermediation and Efficiency in the Market for Ideas |
2018 |
Publishing |
| Eco, Umberto; Federzoni, Marina; Pezzini, Isabella; Pozzato, Maria Pia |
Carolina Invernizio, Matilde Serao, Liala |
1979 |
Liala, pen name of Amalia Liana Cambiasi Negretti Odescalchi |
| Brock, Alexander; Pflaeging, Jana; Schildhauer, Peter |
Genre Emergence: Developments in Print, TV and Digital Media |
2019 |
|
| Philadelphoff-Puren, Nina |
The Mark of Refusal: Sexual Violence and the Politics of Recontextualization |
2004 |
rape and/or intimate partner violence/abuse, Charlotte Lamb |
| Philadelphoff-Puren, Nina |
Contextualising Consent: The Problem of Rape and Romance |
2005 |
rape and/or intimate partner violence/abuse, Charlotte Lamb |
| Philips, Deborah |
Marketing Moonshine |
1985 |
|
| Philips, Deborah |
Mills and Boon: The Marketing of Moonshine |
1990 |
Harlequin Mills & Boon, Publishing, paratext |
| Philips, Deborah; Tomlinson, Alan |
Homeward Bound: Leisure, popular culture and consumer capitalism |
1992 |
capitalism/business, Harlequin Mills & Boon, war/armed forces, work, gender |
| Philips, Deborah; Haywood, Ian |
Brave New Causes: Women in British Postwar Fictions |
1998 |
social/economic class, settings, national identity, work, marriage, medical romance, history, UK, Harlequin Mills & Boon |
| Philips, Deborah |
The Empire of Romance: Love in a Postcolonial Climate |
2011 |
Harlequin Mills & Boon, UK, race/ethnicity, Pamela Kent, Juliet Shore/Anne Vinton, Jean Herbert, settings, work, Lilian Warren as Kathryn Blair/Rosalind Brett/Celine Conway, Africa, medical romance |
| Philips, Deborah |
In defence of reading (and watching) trash: Feminists reading the romance |
2020 |
romance scholarship, feminism |
| Philips, Deborah |
Fifty Shades of Romance: The intertextualities of Fifty Shades of Grey |
2021 |
Fifty Shades, Harlequin Mills & Boon, Twilight |
| Phillips, Kristen |
Women and Erotic Fiction: Critical Essays on Genres, Markets & Readers |
2015 |
|
| Phipps, Catherine |
Sex, race and power: colonial and interracial sexuality in the French Empire in Morocco, 1912-1956 |
2023 |
history, Morocco, sheikh romance, sex/sexuality, race/ethnicity |
| Phipps, Catherine |
‘The Machine for Showing Desire’: Desert Romance Fiction and Knowing Sexual Desire |
2023 |
sheikh romance, history, race/ethnicity, sex/sexuality, E. M. Hull, Leonard Noel Barker writing as L. Noel |
| Phumithammarat, Nanphatchaon |
The Cultural Politics of Chinese-Thai Identities in Ethnic Romance Novels by Female Authors |
2023 |
Thailand, race/ethnicity, China |
| Piatti-Farnell, Lorna; Brien, Donna Lee |
New Directions in 21st Century Gothic: The Gothic Compass |
2015 |
|
| Piatti-Farnell, Lorna; Johnson-Hunt, Nancy |
Vampires and Desire: Blood, Sex, and Ritual in Paranormal Romance and Urban Fantasy Fiction |
2023 |
paranormal/fantasy/time-travel romance |
| Pierini, Francesca |
Olive Skin, Chocolate Eyes: The Legacy of The Sheik on Descriptive Patterns of the Italian Romantic Hero in Harlequin Short Contemporaries |
2020 |
Italy, national identity, Harlequin Mills & Boon, race/ethnicity, gender, E. M. Hull, metaphor/symbolism, animals |
| Pierini, Francesca |
“He Looks like He’s Stepped out of a Painting:” The Idealization and Appropriation of Italian Timelessness through the Experience of Romantic Love |
2020 |
Italy, history, Shakespeare, Marina Fiorato, Anne Fortier, work, race/ethnicity |
| Pierini, Francesca |
“Sharing the Same Soil:” Sally Rooney’s Normal People and the Coming-of-Age Romance |
2021 |
Sally Rooney, romance scholarship |
| Pierini, Francesca |
Critical Approaches to the Modern and Contemporary Anglophone Romance Novel (From A Room with a View to Fifty Shades of Grey) |
2022 |
teaching romance, E. M. Forster, Jennifer Crusie, E. M. Hull, Beverly Jenkins, Alyssa Cole, Fifty Shades, K. J. Charles |
| Pierini, Francesca |
Romance and Metagenre: A Response to Burkhard Niederhoff |
2022 |
romance scholarship, E. M. Forster, happy ending |
| Pierini, Francesca |
“Roma” spelled backwards: love and heterotopic space in contemporary romance novels set in Italy |
2022 |
Italy, settings |
| Pierini, Francesca |
Literary Fiction from the Perspective of Romance: Normal People |
2023 |
Sally Rooney |
| Pierini, Francesca |
Towards a Regime of Authenticity. Reading A Room with a View through the Lens of Contemporary Romance Scholarship |
2023 |
E. M. Forster, Older and/or precursor texts (may not be "romance" as now defined), Italy, marriage, emotions, happy ending, trash/literary and or intellectual quality |
| Pierre, Zakiya |
Browsing in nuances: Using ethnographic research to design for the experience of browsing. |
2021 |
readers |
| Pierre-Robertson, Petronetta |
Literature as an Agent of Change |
2021 |
Caribbean, rape and/or intimate partner violence/abuse, Petra Pierre-Robertson, romance and, or as, activism |
| Pierre-Robertson, Petronetta |
Librarian as Creator |
2023 |
romance and, or as, activism, libraries/librarians, rape and/or intimate partner violence/abuse, Petra Pierre-Robertson, Caribbean |
| Pifarré, Alexandra-Flora; Rutigliano-Daspet, Sandrine |
Re- Répéter - Répétitions |
2010 |
|
| Pilz, Anna; Standlee, Whitney |
Irish women's writing, 1878-1922: Advancing the cause of liberty |
2016 |
|
| Garciano, Shylyn G.; Cuevas, Gloria Con-ui; Geraldizo-Pabriga, Maria Gemma; Macabodbod, Saira Jay J.; Yu, Jaciah Mae B.; Pinote, Ma. Jezan A. |
Romance-Themed Novels: Influenced on Relationship Satisfaction |
2023 |
readers, psychology |
| Piper, Andrew; Portelance, Eva |
How Cultural Capital Works: Prizewinning Novels, Bestsellers, and the Time of Reading |
2016 |
linguistics, trash/literary and or intellectual quality |
| 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 |
| Po-Yu, Rick Wei |
“She is a Jade”: A Georgian Gaming Woman Re-imagined in Georgette Heyer’s Faro’s Daughter |
2018 |
Georgette Heyer, history, feminism, historical romance |
| Pöhls, R. L. Victoria; Utudji, Mariane |
Powerful Prose: How Textual Features Impact Readers |
2021 |
|
| Legallois, Dominique; Charnois, Thierry; Poibeau, Thierry |
Repérer les clichés dans les romans sentimentaux grâce à la méthode des ‘motifs’ |
2016 |
trash/literary and or intellectual quality, Harlequin Mills & Boon, linguistics |
| Poirel, Carole |
The long tail business model in publishing: The case of Hachette's romance division in France |
2024 |
Publishing, France |
| Pokrywka, Rafał |
Temperaturen des Begehrens als konventionelle Metaphern im Hard-Core-Liebesroman |
2015 |
metaphor/symbolism, Sylvia Day, Fifty Shades, sex/sexuality |
| Pollak, Richard |
What's in a Pseudonym? Romance Slaves of Harlequin |
1992 |
Harlequin Mills & Boon, Publishing, authors |
| Rosier, Laurence; Pollet, Marie-Christine |
Les mauvais genres en classe de français?: Retour sur la question. |
2007 |
|
| White, Bonnie; Pope, Johnathan H. |
Spinsters, war widows, and wounded soldiers: the Great War novels of Berta Ruck |
2018 |
Berta Ruck, war/armed forces, gender, disability, marriage |
| Popova, Milena |
Rewriting the Romance: Emotion Work and Consent in Arranged Marriage Fanfiction |
2018 |
fanfiction, sex/sexuality, marriage, emotions |
| Popova, Milena |
Sexual Consent |
2019 |
sex/sexuality, rape and/or intimate partner violence/abuse |
| Pöppel, Hubert |
Las reinas de la novela rosa en España y Alemania: Corín Tellado y Hedwig Courths-Mahler |
2014 |
Germany, Spain, Corín Tellado, Hedwig Courths-Mahler, trash/literary and or intellectual quality |
| Piper, Andrew; Portelance, Eva |
How Cultural Capital Works: Prizewinning Novels, Bestsellers, and the Time of Reading |
2016 |
linguistics, trash/literary and or intellectual quality |
| Porter, J. D.; Eimannsberger, Angelina; English, James; Hathaway, May; Yakoob, Ashna |
Genre Juggernaut: Measuring “Romance” |
2023 |
genre definitions, readers |
| Porter, David |
Internet Culture |
1997 |
|
| Portut, Vanessa |
Évolution du roman sentimental contemporain en France: diversité et spécificité des collections chez Harlequin |
2001 |
Harlequin Mills & Boon, France |
| Nilson, Maria; Posti, Piia K |
Speglingar av feelgood: Genre, etikett eller känsla? |
2022 |
|
| Posti, Piia K |
‘I Get to Exist as a Black Person in the World’: Bridgerton as Speculative Romance and Alternate History on Screen |
2024 |
race/ethnicity, history, historical romance, Julia Quinn |
| Postma, Kathlene |
American Women Readers Encounter Turkey in the Shadow of Popular Romance |
1999 |
United States of America, Greece, Turkey, national identity, Older and/or precursor texts (may not be "romance" as now defined), Demetra Vaka, race/ethnicity |
| Potter, Jane Elizabeth |
Boys in khaki, girls in print: women's literary responses to the great war, 1914-1918 |
1998 |
war/armed forces, national identity |
| Potter, Jane |
"A great purifier": The Great War in Women's Romances and Memoirs 1914-1918 |
1997 |
war/armed forces, Berta Ruck, Ruby M. Ayres |
| Potter, Jane |
Boys in Khaki, Girls in Print: Women's Literary Responses to the Great War 1914-1918 |
2005 |
war/armed forces, Ruby M. Ayres, Berta Ruck, Mary Ward/Mrs. Humphry Ward, Florence Barclay, disability, gender, social/economic class, paratext, Bessie Marchant, Janet Laing, Marie Belloc Lowndes, religion/spirituality, national identity |
| Potter, Jane |
‘Khaki and Kisses’: Reading the Romance Novel in the Great War |
2015 |
war/armed forces, readers, national identity, gender |
| Powley, Tammy |
Romance Fiction in Florida: The Crisscross of Jane Austen and Angela Hunt |
2015 |
Angela Hunt, Jane Austen |
| Powley, Tammy; Van Camp, April |
Women of Florida Fiction: Essays on 12 Sunshine State Writers |
2015 |
|
| Eco, Umberto; Federzoni, Marina; Pezzini, Isabella; Pozzato, Maria Pia |
Carolina Invernizio, Matilde Serao, Liala |
1979 |
Liala, pen name of Amalia Liana Cambiasi Negretti Odescalchi |
| Pozzato, Maria Pia |
Il romanzo rosa |
1982 |
|
| Pozzato, Maria Pia |
Letteratura popolare e livelli di qualità. Un confronto fra Georgette Heyer e Barbara Cartland |
1986 |
Georgette Heyer, Barbara Cartland, trash/literary and or intellectual quality |
| Alberti, Paola; Fortunati, Vita; Franci, Giovanna; Galateria, Daria; Mangaroni, Rosella; Pozzato, Maria Pia; Sabbadini, Tiziana; Tempera, Mariangela |
Maestre d'amore: eroine e scrittrici nell'impero del rosa inglese |
1986 |
UK, Elinor Glyn, E. M. Hull |
| Pozzato, Maria Pia |
Il rosa e la regola |
1987 |
|
| Arslan, Antonia; Pozzato, Maria Pia |
Il rosa |
1989 |
Italy |
| Pradhan, Anil |
The literary field of queer cultural production in contemporary India: considering popular queer texts via Bourdieu |
2021 |
India, LGBTQ+ characters, readers and/or authors |
| Prayuana, Ratu; De Ferras, Rayhan Romombe; Ramadhan, Fitra Wahyu |
The Rules of Romance Manifested in the Textual Structure of the Novel Fireside |
2023 |
Susan Wiggs |
| Préfontaine, Clémence |
Le roman d’amour à l’école |
1991 |
teaching romance, Harlequin Mills & Boon, love, gender |
| Press, Andrea L. |
New Views on the Mass Production of Women's Culture |
1986 |
romance scholarship |
| Preston, Cathy Lynn |
Folklore, Literature, and Cultural Theory: Collected Essays |
1995 |
|
| Pritchard, Jamee Nicole |
That 90's Kind of Love: the Rise of African American Romance Novels in Traditional Romance Publishing |
2021 |
African American romance, readers |
| Pritchard, Jamee N. |
Reading the Black Romance: Exploring Black Sexual Politics in the Romance Fiction of Rebekah Weatherspoon |
2022 |
Rebekah Weatherspoon, sex/sexuality, African American romance, gender, race/ethnicity, BDSM, erotic romance, feminism, LGBTQ+ characters, readers and/or authors, Ann Allen Shockley |
| Priya, S Vishnu; Saravanan, P |
Exploring Gender Roles in Nora Roberts’ Northern Lights: A Critical Analysis |
2025 |
gender, Nora Roberts/J. D. Robb |
| Priyatna, Aquarini; Wardiani, Sri Rijati |
Naturalization and Romanticization of Violence in Indonesian Teen Lit Jingga Series by Esti Kinasih |
2022 |
Esti Kinasih, Indonesia, YA/teenage romance, rape and/or intimate partner violence/abuse, gender |
| Rizkyane Machmuri, Alya; Nurulaen, Yuyun; Priyawan, Pepen |
Romance Formula in Zoulfa Katouh’s Novel As Long As The Lemon Trees Grow |
2025 |
Zoulfa Katouh |
| Proctor, Candice |
The Romance Genre Blues or Why We Don't Get No Respect |
2007 |
trash/literary and or intellectual quality, emotions, gender, pornography |
| Provost, Sylvie |
Avez-vous déjà lu IXE-13, Albert Brien, Guy Verchères…? |
1982 |
dime novels, Canada, readers, social/economic class |
| Bédard-Cazabon, Hélène; Bettinotti, Julia; Provost, Christiane |
Harlequin: Quand l'amour est une guerre |
1983 |
Harlequin Mills & Boon, Janet Dailey, Anne Hampson, Charlotte Lamb, Anne Mather, Violet Winspear, gender, love |
| Bédard-Cazabon, Hélène; Provost, Christiane |
"Un subtil parfum de mensonge": essai d'analyse d'un corpus de romans harlequin |
1984 |
Harlequin Mills & Boon |
| 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 |
| Pryde, Jessica P. |
Black Love Matters: Real Talk on Romance, Being Seen, and Happily Ever After |
2022 |
African American romance, race/ethnicity, readers, LGBTQ+ characters, readers and/or authors, Adriana Herrera, Jasmine Guillory, food, drink, Kosoko Jackson, Christina C. Jones, Publishing |
| 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 |
| Pupipat, Apisak |
Should a Book Be Judged by its Back Cover? Some Written/Formal Features as Observed in Happily- Ever-After Women’s Novel Blurbs |
2023 |
paratext, linguistics |
| Puren, Nina |
Hymeneal Acts: Interrogating the Hegemony of Rape and Romance |
1995 |
rape and/or intimate partner violence/abuse, Charlotte Lamb, race/ethnicity, virginity |
| Puri, Jyoti |
Reading Romance Novels in Postcolonial India |
1997 |
India, readers, marriage, sex/sexuality, gender, social/economic class, family |
| Pustz, Matthew |
Comic Books and American Cultural History: An Anthology |
2012 |
|
| Pylkkänen, Merita |
Didactic Fulfillment and the Popular Romance: Jude Deveraux’s The Mulberry Tree |
2013 |
Jude Deveraux |
| Pyrhönen, Heta |
Love under Threat: The Emotional Valences of the Twilight Saga |
2017 |
Twilight, emotions, love, happy ending |
| Quale, Amy E. |
Pursuit of Empowerment: The Evolution of the Romance Novel and Its Readership in Fifty Shades of Grey |
2014 |
Fifty Shades |
| Quilliam, Susan |
“He seized her in his manly arms and bent his lips to hers…”. The surprising impact that romantic novels have on our work |
2011 |
sex/sexuality, readers |
| Quiroga Fernández de Soto, Alejandro; del Arco Blanco, Miguel Ángel |
Soldados de Dios y apóstoles de la patria: Las derechas españolas en la Europa de entreguerras |
2010 |
|
| Rabanal, Hayley |
Courting convivencia: Hispano-Arab identity and Spanish women’s Orientalism in the Franco regime’s years of “unbearable solitude” (1946–1950) |
2018 |
Spain, fascism/right-wing authoritarianism, race/ethnicity, religion/spirituality, sheikh romance, María Adela Durango, Ana Marcela García, María del Pilar Carré, Lía Ramos, E. M. Hull, history, Morocco, Carmen de Icaza, Egypt, rape and/or intimate partner violence/abuse, gender |
| Rabine, Leslie W. |
Reading the Romantic Heroine: Text, History, Ideology |
1985 |
Harlequin Mills & Boon, work, Charlotte Brontë, emotions, Publishing, authors |
| Rabine, Leslie W. |
Romance in the Age of Electronics: Harlequin Enterprises |
1985 |
Harlequin Mills & Boon, work, Charlotte Brontë, emotions, Publishing, authors |
| Rabinowitz, Paula |
Oxford Research Encyclopedia of Literature |
|
|
| Slusser, George E.; Rabkin, Eric S. |
Intersections: Fantasy and Science Fiction |
1987 |
|
| Radcliffe, Polly |
Accounting for romance: Women's explanations for reading romance fiction |
1991 |
readers, sociology |
| Rader, Kara; Hovick, Shelly R.; Bigsby, Elisabeth |
“Are You Clean?” Encouraging STI Communication in Casual Encounters through Narrative Messages in Romance Novels |
2021 |
sex/sexuality, health/medical, psychology, readers |
| Castagna, JoAnn; Radespiel, Robin L. |
Making Rape Romantic: A Study of Rosemary Rogers' "Steve and Ginny" Novels |
1990 |
rape and/or intimate partner violence/abuse, Rosemary Rogers, paratext, historical romance, feminism, sex/sexuality, gender |
| Radford, Jean |
Introduction |
1986 |
trash/literary and or intellectual quality, romance scholarship, genre definitions, Older and/or precursor texts (may not be "romance" as now defined), socialism and/or communism, feminism, readers |
| Radford, Jean |
The Progress of Romance: The Politics of Popular Fiction |
1986 |
|
| Radford, Jean |
A Certain Latitude: Romance as Genre |
1992 |
Older and/or precursor texts (may not be "romance" as now defined), genre definitions, trash/literary and or intellectual quality, romance scholarship, socialism and/or communism, feminism, readers, psychology |
| Radhika, P. |
Narratives of Fractured Conjugality: Women’s Romance Novels in Kannada, 1950s-1960s |
2004 |
India |
| Radhika, P. |
Inaugurating a (Feminine) Public: Women’s Romances in Kannada, 1950s–1960s |
2014 |
India, psychology |
| Radick, Caryn |
Romance Writers’ Use of Archives |
2016 |
libraries/librarians, authors, historical romance, trash/literary and or intellectual quality |
| Radner, Hilary |
Shopping Around: Feminine Culture and the Pursuit of Pleasure |
1995 |
gender, feminism, readers, sex/sexuality, Barbara Delinsky, metafiction, Roumelia Lane, psychology, pornography, BDSM, Kathleen Woodiwiss, historical romance, race/ethnicity, LaVyrle Spencer, settings |
| Radstone, Susannah |
Sweet Dreams: Sexuality, Gender and Popular Fiction |
1988 |
|
| Radway, Janice A. |
The Aesthetic in Mass Culture: Reading the "Popular" Literary Text |
1982 |
gothic romance, Victoria Holt/Jean Plaidy/Eleanor Burford Hibbert, fashion/clothing |
| Radway, Janice A. |
Women Read the Romance: The Interaction of Text and Context |
1983 |
readers, psychology, gender |
| Radway, Janice A. |
Interpretive Communities And Variable Literacies: The Functions Of Romance Reading |
1984 |
readers, linguistics |
| Radway, Janice A. |
Reading the Romance: Women, Patriarchy, and Popular Literature |
1984 |
Publishing, feminism, readers, genre definitions, marriage, psychology, gender |
| Radway, Janice |
The Utopian Impulse in Popular Literature: Gothic Romances and "Feminist" Protest |
1981 |
gothic romance, readers, genre definitions, Victoria Holt/Jean Plaidy/Eleanor Burford Hibbert, United States of America, gender, feminism, Kathleen Woodiwiss, sex/sexuality |
| Radway, Janice |
Romance and the Work of Fantasy: Struggles over Feminine Sexuality and Subjectivity at Century's End |
1994 |
authors, feminism, gender, sex/sexuality, romance scholarship, Publishing, work, Jude Deveraux |
| Raffloer, Gavin; Green, Melanie |
Of Love & Lasers: Perceptions of Narratives by AI Versus Human Authors |
2025 |
trash/literary and or intellectual quality, readers, authors |
| Raineri, Rosalia |
Verde bianco e rosa. Il romanzo 'femminile' e l'educazione sentimentale delle italiane (1911-1946) |
2019 |
Annie Vivanti/Annie Vivanti Chartres, Mura, Luciana Peverelli, Italy, national identity, gender, Older and/or precursor texts (may not be "romance" as now defined), linguistics, family |
| Raitt, Suzanne; Tate, Trudi |
Women's Fiction and The Great War |
1997 |
|
| Rak, Michele |
Rosa: La letteratura del divertimento amoroso |
1999 |
|
| Prayuana, Ratu; De Ferras, Rayhan Romombe; Ramadhan, Fitra Wahyu |
The Rules of Romance Manifested in the Textual Structure of the Novel Fireside |
2023 |
Susan Wiggs |
| Ramos-García, María Teresa |
Definiciones transatlánticas de la raza blanca en las novelas góticas de Louise Bergstrom en Canarias (1971-1972) |
2022 |
Louise Bergstrom, gothic romance, race/ethnicity |
| Ramos-García, María Teresa |
Transatlantic definitions of Whiteness in Louise Bergstrom’s Gothic romances in the Canary Islands (1971-1972) |
2022 |
Louise Bergstrom, gothic romance, race/ethnicity |
| Ramos-García, María T.; Vivanco, Laura |
Introduction |
2020 |
race/ethnicity |
| Ramos-García, María T.; Vivanco, Laura |
Love, Language, Place, and Identity in Popular Culture: Romancing the Other |
2020 |
|
| Ramos-García, María T. |
Representations of Otherness in Paranormal Romance: Race and Wealth in Nalini Singh and J. R. Ward |
2020 |
Nalini Singh, J. R. Ward, paranormal/fantasy/time-travel romance, race/ethnicity, United States of America, capitalism/business |
| Ramos-García, María T. |
Paranormal romance and urban fantasy |
2021 |
paranormal/fantasy/time-travel romance, happy ending, genre definitions, YA/teenage romance, LGBTQ+ characters, readers and/or authors, steampunk, erotic romance, romance scholarship, Laurell K. Hamilton, Twilight, J. R. Ward, war/armed forces, race/ethnicity, Nalini Singh |
| Rampoldi Hnilo, Lynn A. |
The effects of romance in young adult fiction on pre-adolescent African-American females |
1996 |
readers, YA/teenage romance, psychology |
| Rampure, Archana |
Doctors in the Darkness: Reading Race, Gender, and History in the Popular Medical Romance |
2005 |
medical romance, race/ethnicity, UK, Olivia Gates, war/armed forces, national identity, Harlequin Mills & Boon, United States of America, feminism, work, Juliet Shore/Anne Vinton, Debbie Macomber, health/medical, history, Lucy Agnes Hancock, Louise Gerard, Helen Dore Boylston, Lilian Warren as Kathryn Blair/Rosalind Brett/Celine Conway, Charlotte Lamb, Africa, war/armed forces |
| Rampure, Archana |
Étude de cas : «Harlequin a bâti un empire» |
2007 |
Harlequin Mills & Boon |
| Ramsdell, Kristin |
Romance Fiction: A Guide to the Genre |
1999 |
libraries/librarians, genre definitions, contemporary romance, romantic suspense, gothic romance, historical romance, paranormal/fantasy/time-travel romance, LGBTQ+ characters, readers and/or authors, Christian romance, race/ethnicity, romance scholarship |
| 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 |
| Ramsdell, Kristin |
Encyclopedia of Romance Fiction |
2018 |
Publishing, paranormal/fantasy/time-travel romance, comics/manga, Christian romance, marriage, Jane Austen, Charlotte Brontë, Emily Brontë, Barbara Cartland, Janet Dailey, Daphne du Maurier, Ethel M. Dell, erotic romance, feminism, science fiction/futuristic romance, Elinor Glyn, Margaret Mitchell, Harlequin Mills & Boon, Georgette Heyer, Victoria Holt/Jean Plaidy/Eleanor Burford Hibbert, historical romance, E. M. Hull, romance scholarship, LGBTQ+ characters, readers and/or authors, libraries/librarians, romantic suspense, Samuel Richardson, rape and/or intimate partner violence/abuse, Nora Roberts/J. D. Robb, Bertrice Small, Mary Stewart, translation, Patricia Veryan, Phyllis A. Whitney, Kathleen Winsor, Kathleen Woodiwiss, race/ethnicity |
| Ramsdell, Kristin |
Libraries and popular romance fiction |
2021 |
libraries/librarians |
| Ramstad, Tessa |
Tall, Dark, and Ideal: #Bookboyfriends in six contemporary romance novels |
2024 |
Elle Kennedy, Colleen Hoover, Krista and Becca Ritchie, Ali Hazelwood, Ana Huang, readers, gender, sex/sexuality |
| Randell, Karen; Weedon, Alexis |
Atlantic Liners, It Girls and Old Europe in Elinor Glyn’s Romantic Adventures |
2020 |
Elinor Glyn, social/economic class, wealth/prosperity, Older and/or precursor texts (may not be "romance" as now defined), marriage, United States of America, history |
| Rani, Mohd. Zariat Abdul |
Islam, Romance and Popular Taste in Indonesia: A textual analysis of Ayat ayat cinta by Habiburrahman El-Shirazy and Syahadat cinta by Taufiqurrahman Al-Azizy |
2012 |
Indonesia, Habiburrahman El-Shirazy, Taufiqurrahman Al-Azizy, Islam, religion/spirituality, paratext, film/movies, Publishing, marriage, Muslim romance |
| Rani, Mohd. Zariat Abdul |
The Conflict of Love and Islam: The Main Ingredients in the Popular Islamic Novels of Malaysia |
2014 |
Malaysia, Islam, religion/spirituality, Zaid Akhtar, Ilham Hamdani, paratext, Publishing, Muslim romance |