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Lee, Zi-Ying; Liao, Min-Hsiu The “Second” Bride: The Retranslation of Romance Novels 2018 translation, Publishing, Taiwan
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, LGBT+ characters, readers and/or authors
Gillingham, Erica Representations of same-sex relationships between female characters in all-ages comics: Princess Princess Ever After and Lumberjanes 2018 comics/manga, LGBT+ characters, readers and/or authors
Sanders, Lise Shapiro Making the Modern Girl: Fantasy, Consumption, and Desire in Romance Weeklies of the 1920s 2018 romances in magazines and newspapers, gender, social/economic class, fashion/clothing, work, Older and/or precursor texts (may not be "romance" as now defined)
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
Fletcher, Lisa; Driscoll, Beth; Wilkins, Kim Genre Worlds and Popular Fiction: The Case of Twenty-First-Century Australian Romance 2018 Publishing, Australia
Riba, Caterina; Sanmartí, Carme The Reception of Elinor Glyn's Work in Spain (1926–57) 2018 Elinor Glyn, Spain, Rafael Pérez y Pérez, religion/spirituality, sex/sexuality
Leonzini, Alexandra “All the Better to Eat You With”: The Eroticization of the Werewolf and the Rise of Monster Porn in the Digital Age 2018 paranormal/fantasy/time-travel romance, sex/sexuality, pornography
Peukert, Christian; Reimers, Imke Digital Disintermediation and Efficiency in the Market for Ideas 2018 Publishing
Fletcher, Lisa; Driscoll, Beth; Wilkins, Kim What is Australian Popular Fiction? 2018 Australia, national identity, settings
Savchuk, O. H.; Marchenko, N. M. The concept of LOVE and its conceptualization in modern English romance novels 2018 love, metaphor/symbolism, linguistics
Smith, Clarissa; Attwood, Feona; McNair, Brian The Routledge Companion to Media, Sex and Sexuality 2018
Mazloomian, Maryam; Mohammadi, Nahid Discursive Vulnerability and Identity Development: A Triangular Model of Bio-Forces in Cultural Ecological Analysis of American Romance Fiction 2018 Debbie Macomber, psychology
McAlister, Jodi “Feelings Like the Women in Books”: Declarations of Love in Australian Romance Novels, 1859–1891 2018 Older and/or precursor texts (may not be "romance" as now defined), Australia, love, history, national identity, marriage
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, LGBT+ characters, readers and/or authors
Kingston, Elizabeth History's Been Hijacked: How To Combat White Supremacy Through Popular Literature 2018 historical romance, race/ethnicity, history, Elizabeth Kingston, Publishing, UK, social/economic class
Kramp, Michael Jane Austen and Masculinity 2018
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
Abdullah-Poulos, Layla The Stable Muslim Love Triangle - Triangular Desire in African American Muslim Romance Fiction 2018 Islam, African American romance, United States of America, religion/spirituality, race/ethnicity, marriage, Muslim romance
Fletcher, Lisa; Driscoll, Beth; Wilkins, Kim Genre Worlds and Popular Fiction: The Case of Twenty-First-Century Australian Romance 2018 Publishing, Australia
Sequeiros, Paula “Holding the Dream”: Women’s Favorite Reading Matter in a Portuguese Prison 2018 readers, Portugal
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
Riba, Caterina; Sanmartí, Carme The Reception of Elinor Glyn's Work in Spain (1926–57) 2018 Elinor Glyn, Spain, Rafael Pérez y Pérez, religion/spirituality, sex/sexuality
Sanna, Antonio Pirates in History and Popular Culture 2018 pirates and outlaws, historical romance
Chaves, Duarte Nuno Memoria e Identidade Insular: Religiosidade, Festividades e Turismo nos Arquipélagos da Madeira e Açores 2019
Moore, Laura M. Sexual Agency, Safe Sex, and Consent Negotiations in Erotic Romance Novels 2019 sex/sexuality, rape and/or intimate partner violence/abuse, erotic romance
Kraxenberger, Maria Erotic Romances: An Emerging Subgenre Succeeding Fifty Shades 2019 erotic romance, Fifty Shades
Fletcher, Lisa; McAlister, Jodi; Temple, Kurt; Williams, Kathleen #loveyourshelfie: Mills & Boon books and how to find them 2019 Harlequin Mills & Boon, paratext, trash/literary and or intellectual quality, readers, Publishing, Australia
Williams, Elizabeth W. Queering Settler Romance: The Reparative Eugenic Landscape in Nora Strange's Kenyan Novels 2019 Nora K. Strange, sex/sexuality, race/ethnicity, Kenya, Africa, family, science/technology, history, settings, rural romance, rape and/or intimate partner violence/abuse
Ali, Kecia Sacrifices, Sidekicks, and Scapegoats: Black Characters and White Stories in Nora Roberts’s Romances 2019 Nora Roberts/J. D. Robb, race/ethnicity, death, romantic suspense, paranormal/fantasy/time-travel romance, rape and/or intimate partner violence/abuse, police officers/police forces, authors
Fraysse, Mélie; Garcia, Marie-Carmen Les Thug Love : des romans sentimentaux à l'épreuve de la classe et de la race 2019 France, race/ethnicity, social/economic class, Islam, gender, virginity, sex/sexuality
Basu, Soumi Sinha Ray The Allure and the Shame of Popular Fiction: An Analysis of Mills & Boon Romances 2019 Harlequin Mills & Boon
Lin, Pei-yin; Kim, Su Yun East Asian Transwar Popular Culture: Literature and Film from Taiwan and Korea 2019 Taiwan, Korea, Older and/or precursor texts (may not be "romance" as now defined)
Gardner, Dora Abigail Defending the Bodice Ripper 2019 feminism, readers, sex/sexuality, history, rape and/or intimate partner violence/abuse
Gerlitz, Laura Michelle Judging a Book By Its Cover: Bringing the Digital Humanities into Reader’s Advisory 2019 Harlequin Mills & Boon, paratext, libraries/librarians
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
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
Cella, Laurie J. C. The Personal and the Political in American Working-Class Literature, 1850-1939: Defining the Radical Romance 2019 gender, history, United States of America, Older and/or precursor texts (may not be "romance" as now defined), Laura Jean Libbey, sex/sexuality, work, fashion/clothing, social/economic class, socialism and/or communism
Trower, Shelley; Tooth Murphy, Amy; Smith, Graham ‘Me mum likes a book, me dad’s a newspaper man’: Reading, gender and domestic life in ‘100 Families’ 2019 gender, readers
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, LGBT+ characters, readers and/or authors, community, religion/spirituality, rural romance
González Cruz, María Isabel; Vera-Cazorla, María Jesús Género e identidad cultural: perfiles femeninos en un corpus de novela rosa 2019 Spain, gender, linguistics
Escolar, Marisa Allied Encounters: The Gendered Redemption of World War II Italy 2019 Luciana Peverelli, Italy
Al Thobaiti, Fatmah Afterlife of the Romance Hero: Readers’ Reproduction of Romance 2019 readers, gender, fanfiction, Twilight
Fraysse, Mélie; Garcia, Marie-Carmen Les Thug Love : des romans sentimentaux à l'épreuve de la classe et de la race 2019 France, race/ethnicity, social/economic class, Islam, gender, virginity, sex/sexuality
Rollins, Shannon Marie Crafting women’s narratives: the material impact of twenty-first century romance fiction on contemporary steampunk dress 2019 steampunk, fashion/clothing, gender, Gail Carriger, feminism, race/ethnicity, Adrienne Kress
Dryden, Therese The Valentine Wars 2019 feminism, family, Susan Elizabeth Phillips, Nora Roberts/J. D. Robb, Rachel Gibson, Robyn Carr, Marie Force, Kristan Higgins, Ruthie Knox, Bella Andre, Grace Burrowes, Sharon Sala, Michelle Douglas
Romera Pintor, Angela Magdalena L’enfance dans l’œuvre de Delly 2019 Delly, family
Andrade, Roberta Manuela Barros de; Feitosa, Ricardo Augusto de Sabóia; Silva, Erotilde Honório Emoção e moralidade em tempos de ruptura: o estupro nas relações conjugais nos romances sentimentais e suas comunidades de leitura 2019 rape and/or intimate partner violence/abuse, marriage, readers, Brazil
Huang, Yu-ting; Weaver-Hightower, Rebecca Archiving Settler Colonialism: Culture, Space and Race 2019
Stapleton, Rachel F.; Viselli, Antonio Iconoclasm: The Breaking and Making of Images 2019
Ujma, Alicja One Author, Two Pen Names. A Stylometric Analysis of Novels by Nora Roberts/J.D. Robb 2019 linguistics, Nora Roberts/J. D. Robb, translation
Trower, Shelley; Tooth Murphy, Amy; Smith, Graham ‘Me mum likes a book, me dad’s a newspaper man’: Reading, gender and domestic life in ‘100 Families’ 2019 gender, readers
González Cruz, María Isabel; Vera-Cazorla, María Jesús Género e identidad cultural: perfiles femeninos en un corpus de novela rosa 2019 Spain, gender, linguistics
Çamoğlu, Dikmen Yakalı Re/Presenting Gender and Love 2019
Jones, Amanda Madness, Monks and Mutiny: Neo-Victorianism in the Work of Victoria Holt 2019 Victoria Holt/Jean Plaidy/Eleanor Burford Hibbert, gothic romance, romantic suspense, feminism, Charlotte Brontë, gender, marriage, family, Wilkie Collins, health/medical, Mary Elizabeth Braddon, India
Haruna, Alkasim; Abd Aziz, Noor Hashima Towards an Understanding of the Efferent Reading Stance of Hausa Popular Romance Novels 2019 Nigeria, Africa, readers
González Cruz, María Isabel Viaje y romance en Canarias: el discurso del paraíso en dos novelas publicadas en los Estados Unidos 2019 Spain, Nancy Kennedy, settings
Billekens, Franciska Never Mind Me When There’s You: The Submission Of The Heroine In Young Adult Supernatural Romance Fiction 2019 YA/teenage romance, gender, paranormal/fantasy/time-travel romance
Bazenga, Aline Turismo e Romance na Literatura Popular Cor-de-rosa Tendo por Cenário a Ilha da Madeira 2019 Portugal, languages, Harlequin Mills & Boon, settings
Delpech, Jeanine Le cas Delly 2019 Delly
Andrade, Roberta Manuela Barros de; Feitosa, Ricardo Augusto de Sabóia; Silva, Erotilde Honório Emoção e moralidade em tempos de ruptura: o estupro nas relações conjugais nos romances sentimentais e suas comunidades de leitura 2019 rape and/or intimate partner violence/abuse, marriage, readers, Brazil
Moy, Patricia; Matheson, Donald Voices: Exploring the Shifting Contours of Communication 2019
Huang, Yu-ting; Weaver-Hightower, Rebecca Archiving Settler Colonialism: Culture, Space and Race 2019
Stapleton, Rachel F.; Viselli, Antonio Iconoclasm: The Breaking and Making of Images 2019
Popova, Milena Sexual Consent 2019 sex/sexuality, rape and/or intimate partner violence/abuse
Trower, Shelley; Tooth Murphy, Amy; Smith, Graham ‘Me mum likes a book, me dad’s a newspaper man’: Reading, gender and domestic life in ‘100 Families’ 2019 gender, readers
Schell, Heather; Larsen, Katherine How the Story Ends: Gender, Sexuality, and Nation in the Happy Ending 2019 happy ending, Sonali Dev, Radclyffe/Len Barot, United States of America, gender, trash/literary and or intellectual quality
Golubov, Nattie La promesa utópica del final feliz 2019 genre definitions, happy ending
Gruner, Elisabeth Rose Constructing the Adolescent Reader in Contemporary Young Adult Fiction 2019 YA/teenage romance
Arvanitaki, Eirini Gender in Recent Romance Novels: A Third Wave Feminist Mills and Boon Love Affair? 2019 gender, feminism, love, Jane Porter, Leah Ashton, Kate Hewitt, Natalie Anderson, work, sex/sexuality
Veros, Vassiliki Metatextual Conversations: The Exclusion/Inclusion of Genre Fiction in Public Libraries and Social Media Book Groups 2019 libraries/librarians, trash/literary and or intellectual quality, readers
Haruna, Alkasim; Abd Aziz, Noor Hashima Towards an Understanding of the Efferent Reading Stance of Hausa Popular Romance Novels 2019 Nigeria, Africa, readers
Sagun, Karryl Kim Abella Book Mavens of Manila: an interpretative phenomenological analysis of contemporary niche publishers in the Philippines 2019 Philippines, Publishing, Mina V. Esguerra
Toscano, Angela The Idolatry of the Real: Form, Formula, and Happy Endings in Romance Literature 2019 trash/literary and or intellectual quality, genre definitions, readers, Jennifer Crusie, happy ending
Andrade, Roberta Manuela Barros de; Feitosa, Ricardo Augusto de Sabóia; Silva, Erotilde Honório Emoção e moralidade em tempos de ruptura: o estupro nas relações conjugais nos romances sentimentais e suas comunidades de leitura 2019 rape and/or intimate partner violence/abuse, marriage, readers, Brazil
Moy, Patricia; Matheson, Donald Voices: Exploring the Shifting Contours of Communication 2019
Kuortti, Joel; Ilmonen, Kaisa; Valovirta, Elina; Korkka, Janne Thinking with the Familiar in Contemporary Literature and Culture 'Out of the Ordinary' 2019
Larson, Christine Open networks, open books: gender, precarity and solidarity in digital publishing 2019 authors, Publishing
Reitemeier, Rebecca Romance Novels and Higher Education 2019 Older and/or precursor texts (may not be "romance" as now defined), feminism, readers, psychology, teaching romance
Schell, Heather; Larsen, Katherine How the Story Ends: Gender, Sexuality, and Nation in the Happy Ending 2019 happy ending, Sonali Dev, Radclyffe/Len Barot, United States of America, gender, trash/literary and or intellectual quality
Cheyne, Ria Disability, Literature, Genre: Representation and Affect in Contemporary Fiction 2019 disability, emotions, Julia Quinn, family, Barbara McMahon, Christina Dodd, Barbara Delinsky, Mary Balogh
Choyke, Kelly L. The Power of Popular Romance Culture: Community, Fandom, and Sexual Politics 2019 feminism, community, readers
Valovirta, Elina No Ordinary Love: The Romantic Formula of Stepsibling Erotica 2019 NA romance, erotic romance, family
Driscoll, Beth Book Blogs as Tastemakers 2019 readers
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
Kuortti, Joel; Ilmonen, Kaisa; Valovirta, Elina; Korkka, Janne Thinking with the Familiar in Contemporary Literature and Culture 'Out of the Ordinary' 2019
Brock, Alexander; Pflaeging, Jana; Schildhauer, Peter Genre Emergence: Developments in Print, TV and Digital Media 2019
Brouillette, Sarah Romance Work 2019 Publishing, readers, capitalism/business
Stern, Stephanie C.; Robbins, Brianne; Black, Jessica E.; Barnes, Jennifer L. What You Read and What You Believe: Genre Exposure and Beliefs About Relationships 2019 psychology, readers, love, gender
Fresno-Calleja, Paloma Chick-Lit Pasifika-Style or How to B(l)end the Formula: Lani Young’s Scarlet Series 2019 Lani Wendt Young, chick lit, Samoa, metafiction, YA/teenage romance, race/ethnicity, feminism, food, drink, metaphor/symbolism, family, wealth/prosperity, national identity, sex/sexuality, rape and/or intimate partner violence/abuse
Fernández Rodríguez, Carolina Chamorro WWII Romances: Combating Erasure with Tales of Survival and Vitality 2019 Guam, United States of America, race/ethnicity, Paula Quinene, Cathy Sablan Gault, islands, history, romance and, or as, activism, languages, religion/spirituality, war/armed forces, historical romance
Farooqui, Javaria; Ashraf, Rabia Reconnaissance of ‘Difference’ in Cognitive Maps: Authenticating Happily Ever After in Julia Quinn’s To Sir Philip with Love 2019 psychology, Julia Quinn, historical romance
Kuortti, Joel; Ilmonen, Kaisa; Valovirta, Elina; Korkka, Janne Thinking with the Familiar in Contemporary Literature and Culture 'Out of the Ordinary' 2019
Kaufman, Alexander L.; Vlagopoulos, Penny Food and Feast in Modern Outlaw Tales 2019
Brock, Alexander; Pflaeging, Jana; Schildhauer, Peter Genre Emergence: Developments in Print, TV and Digital Media 2019
Stern, Stephanie C.; Robbins, Brianne; Black, Jessica E.; Barnes, Jennifer L. What You Read and What You Believe: Genre Exposure and Beliefs About Relationships 2019 psychology, readers, love, gender
Luneau, Marie-Pier; Warren, Jean-Philippe Ce que le roman catholique fait au roman sentimental : le cas de la collection « Amour et aventure » 2019 religion/spirituality, Christian romance, race/ethnicity, Canada, Publishing
Ivanski, Chantelle Judging a Book by Its Author's Gender 2019 trash/literary and or intellectual quality, gender
Sule, Sani Exploring the Benefit and Significance of Reading Hausa Popular Romance Genre: A Thematic Analysis 2019 Nigeria, readers
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
Larson, Christine The Color of Romance: Gatekeeping in the Age of Digital Media 2019 Publishing, race/ethnicity
Farooqui, Javaria; Ashraf, Rabia Reconnaissance of ‘Difference’ in Cognitive Maps: Authenticating Happily Ever After in Julia Quinn’s To Sir Philip with Love 2019 psychology, Julia Quinn, historical romance
Kuortti, Joel; Ilmonen, Kaisa; Valovirta, Elina; Korkka, Janne Thinking with the Familiar in Contemporary Literature and Culture 'Out of the Ordinary' 2019
Kaufman, Alexander L.; Vlagopoulos, Penny Food and Feast in Modern Outlaw Tales 2019
Brock, Alexander; Pflaeging, Jana; Schildhauer, Peter Genre Emergence: Developments in Print, TV and Digital Media 2019
Jarc, Klara Ljubezenski roman v Sloveniji: knjižnična izposoja, bralci in produkcija 2019 libraries/librarians, Slovenia, Publishing, readers
Stern, Stephanie C.; Robbins, Brianne; Black, Jessica E.; Barnes, Jennifer L. What You Read and What You Believe: Genre Exposure and Beliefs About Relationships 2019 psychology, readers, love, gender
Lois, Jennifer; Gregson, Joanna Aspirational Emotion Work: Calling, Emotional Capital, and Becoming a 'Real' Writer 2019 authors, work, emotions, sociology
Luneau, Marie-Pier; Warren, Jean-Philippe Ce que le roman catholique fait au roman sentimental : le cas de la collection « Amour et aventure » 2019 religion/spirituality, Christian romance, race/ethnicity, Canada, Publishing
Γραφανάκη, Ρωξάνη Γυναίκες και ροζ λογοτεχνία: η περίπτωση των εκδόσεων Άρλεκιν 2019 Harlequin Mills & Boon, feminism, capitalism/business, gender, sex/sexuality
Kerr, Ashley Elizabeth Indigenous Lovers and Villainous Scientists: Rewriting Nineteenth-Century Ideas of Race in Argentine Romance Novels 2019 history, race/ethnicity, Argentina, science/technology, national identity, historical romance
Fletcher, Lisa; McAlister, Jodi; Temple, Kurt; Williams, Kathleen #loveyourshelfie: Mills & Boon books and how to find them 2019 Harlequin Mills & Boon, paratext, trash/literary and or intellectual quality, readers, Publishing, Australia
Haruna, Alkasim; Abd Aziz, Noor Hashima Understanding How Novels Shape Identities of Female Readers: A Transactional Reader-Response Approach 2019 readers, Nigeria
Taylor, Helen Why Women Read Fiction: The Stories of Our Lives 2019 readers, Harlequin Mills & Boon, Fifty Shades
González Pérez, Teresa La educación de las mujeres en Iberoamérica: análisis histórico 2019
Carlos, Giovana Santana Fandom e mercado literário: um mapa das mediações das fãs de romance no contexto brasileiro 2019 readers, Brazil, Publishing
Stern, Stephanie C.; Robbins, Brianne; Black, Jessica E.; Barnes, Jennifer L. What You Read and What You Believe: Genre Exposure and Beliefs About Relationships 2019 psychology, readers, love, gender
Lois, Jennifer; Gregson, Joanna Aspirational Emotion Work: Calling, Emotional Capital, and Becoming a 'Real' Writer 2019 authors, work, emotions, sociology
Chen, Eva “The Hate that Changed”: Cycling Romance and the Aestheticization of Women Cyclists 2019 Older and/or precursor texts (may not be "romance" as now defined), romances in magazines and newspapers
Chaplin, Sue ‘Daddy, I’m falling for a monster’: Women, Sex, and Sacrifice in Contemporary Paranormal Romance 2019 paranormal/fantasy/time-travel romance, Twilight, J. R. Ward, Lara Adrian, family, gender, sex/sexuality, rape and/or intimate partner violence/abuse, LGBT+ characters, readers and/or authors
Fletcher, Lisa; McAlister, Jodi; Temple, Kurt; Williams, Kathleen #loveyourshelfie: Mills & Boon books and how to find them 2019 Harlequin Mills & Boon, paratext, trash/literary and or intellectual quality, readers, Publishing, Australia
Haruna, Alkasim; Abd Aziz, Noor Hashima Understanding How Novels Shape Identities of Female Readers: A Transactional Reader-Response Approach 2019 readers, Nigeria
Rosanowski, Annika Can She Have It All? Pregnancy Narratives in Contemporary Category Romance 2019 family, gender, Harlequin Mills & Boon, marriage
Kendal, Evie The use of free indirect discourse in J. R. Ward's Black Dagger Brotherhood series 2019 J. R. Ward, close reading, linguistics, genre definitions, paranormal/fantasy/time-travel romance, readers
Béja, Alice La new romance et ses nuances. Marché littéraire, sexualité imaginaire et condition féminine 2019 France, erotic romance, sex/sexuality, Fifty Shades, Publishing, m/m romance, fanfiction, readers
Shields, Juliet Preaching without Practicing: Middle-Class Domesticity in Annie S. Swan's Serial Fiction 2019 Annie S. Swan
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
Fletcher, Lisa; McAlister, Jodi; Temple, Kurt; Williams, Kathleen #loveyourshelfie: Mills & Boon books and how to find them 2019 Harlequin Mills & Boon, paratext, trash/literary and or intellectual quality, readers, Publishing, Australia
Lin, Pei-yin; Kim, Su Yun East Asian Transwar Popular Culture: Literature and Film from Taiwan and Korea 2019 Taiwan, Korea, Older and/or precursor texts (may not be "romance" as now defined)
Muryn, Teresa; Niziołek, Małgorzata; Hajok, Alicja Que dit la main dans le roman sentimental et policier? 2020 linguistics
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
Duvezin-Caubet, Caroline Gaily Ever After: Neo-Victorian M/M Genre Romance for the Twenty-First Century 2020 m/m romance, K. J. Charles, Cat Sebastian, Georgette Heyer, happy ending, LGBT+ characters, readers and/or authors, historical romance, gender, race/ethnicity, Publishing, family
Fernández Ulloa, Teresa; Soler Gallo, Miguel Aproximaciones a la configuración de la identidad en la cultura y sociedad hispanas e italianas contemporáneas 2020
Burg, Jacob Houses of Genre Fiction: The Shared Estrangement of Postwar American Culture 2020 settings, Kathleen Woodiwiss, Helen Hoang, rape and/or intimate partner violence/abuse, social/economic class, Danielle Steel, work, family, sex/sexuality, disability
Grossmann, Francis; Gymnich, Marion; Siepmann, Dirk Alcohol and Tobacco Consumption in English and French Novels Since the 1950s: A Corpus-Stylistic Analysis 2020 food, drink, linguistics, history, gender, emotions, social/economic class
Hirst, Holly Georgette Heyer 2020 Georgette Heyer, gothic romance, Daphne du Maurier, Charlotte Brontë, romantic suspense
Adamenko, Olga; Klymenko, Olga Communicative Behavior via Gender Identity (Based on the English language “Love Stories”) 2020 gender, linguistics, Victoria Gordon, Leigh Greenwood, Madeleine Ker, Gil Sanderson, Harlequin Mills & Boon
Andrade, Roberta Manuela Barros de; Viana, Thiago Mena Barreto; Feitosa, Ricardo Augusto de Sabóia Prazer, Emoção e Cotidiano na Leitura de Romances Sentimentais 2020 Brazil, readers
Lin, Chi-Shiou; Liang, Yu-Tzu A model of romance fiction search behavior 2020 readers
González-Cruz, María Isabel Othering and Language: Bilingual Romances in the Canary Islands 2020 Spain, linguistics, languages
Johnson, Emily D. Exploring His/Her Library: Reading and Books in Russian Romance 2020 Russia, metafiction, authors, Harlequin Mills & Boon, Galina Kulikova, Natal’ia Mironova, Publishing, socialism and/or communism, trash/literary and or intellectual quality, race/ethnicity, rape and/or intimate partner violence/abuse
González Cruz, María Isabel Hacia un glosario de hispanismos en un corpus de novela rosa inglesa contemporánea 2020 linguistics, Harlequin Mills & Boon
OKell, Eleanor Regina Hercules as Romantic Hero in Twenty-first-century Historical Fiction 2020 Stephanie Laurens, historical romance, myth
Muryn, Teresa; Niziołek, Małgorzata; Hajok, Alicja Que dit la main dans le roman sentimental et policier? 2020 linguistics
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
Di Leo, Jeffrey The Speed of Publishing 2020 Publishing, Alexa Riley, I. T. Lucas
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
Hyejin, O 원본 없는 판타지 : 페미니스트 시각으로 읽는 한국 현대문화사 2020 Harlequin Mills & Boon, readers, Korea
Roper, Holly N. Representing the Romance: Diversity and Inclusion in the Romance Collections of Public Libraries​ 2020 libraries/librarians, disability, race/ethnicity, LGBT+ characters, readers and/or authors
Grossmann, Francis; Gymnich, Marion; Siepmann, Dirk Alcohol and Tobacco Consumption in English and French Novels Since the 1950s: A Corpus-Stylistic Analysis 2020 food, drink, linguistics, history, gender, emotions, social/economic class
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
Lin, Chi-Shiou; Liang, Yu-Tzu A model of romance fiction search behavior 2020 readers
Kratzer, Jessica M. W. Communication in Kink: Understanding the Influence of the Fifty Shades of Grey Phenomenon 2020
Brickman, Barbara Jane; Jermyn, Deborah; Trost, Theodore Louis Love Across the Atlantic: US-UK Romance in Popular Culture 2020
Hoorenman, Johanna Public Conflicts and Private Treaties in Kathleen Eagle’s Fire and Rain 2020 Kathleen Eagle, Native American romance, race/ethnicity, United States of America, history
Schell, Heather After “I Do”: Turkish Harlequin Readers Re-Imagine the Happy Ending 2020 Turkey, Harlequin Mills & Boon, happy ending, Shirley Jump, family, readers, love, work
Reed, Eleanor Romance in Woman’s Weekly and Woman’s Weekly as Romance, 1918–39 2020 romances in magazines and newspapers, social/economic class, UK, readers, work
Selinger, Eric Murphy On Teaching, Not Teaching, and Teaching The Sheik 2020 teaching romance, E. M. Hull, music, race/ethnicity
Bachleitner, Norbert Literary Translation, Reception, and Transfer: The Many Languages of Comparative Literature 2020
Adair, Joshua G. “A Battlefield All Their Own”: Selling Women’s Fictions as Fact at Plantation Museums 2020 race/ethnicity, Christian romance, historical romance, history, Tamera Alexander, social/economic class, readers, gender
Muryn, Teresa; Niziołek, Małgorzata; Hajok, Alicja Que dit la main dans le roman sentimental et policier? 2020 linguistics
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
Lawrence, E. E. The trouble with diverse books, part I: on the limits of conceptual analysis for political negotiation in Library & Information Science 2020 libraries/librarians, Publishing, race/ethnicity, sheikh romance, philosophy, LGBT+ characters, readers and/or authors
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
Lancaster, Rosemary Women Writing on the French Riviera: Travellers and Trendsetters, 1870-1970 2020
Andrade, Roberta Manuela Barros de; Silva, Erotilde Honório; Feitosa, Ricardo Augusto de Sabóia; Viana, Thiago Mena Barreto Um século de romances de amor: A trajetória da literatura sentimental no Brasil (1920 - 2020) 2020 Brazil
Henderson, Aneeka Ayanna Veil and Vow: Marriage Matters in Contemporary African American Culture 2020 African American romance, Sandra Kitt, race/ethnicity, marriage
Grossmann, Francis; Gymnich, Marion; Siepmann, Dirk Alcohol and Tobacco Consumption in English and French Novels Since the 1950s: A Corpus-Stylistic Analysis 2020 food, drink, linguistics, history, gender, emotions, social/economic class
Teo, Hsu-Ming Cultural Authenticity, the Family, and East Asian American Romance Novels 2020 race/ethnicity, Asia, China, authors, Publishing, United States of America, family, Jade Lee, Jeannie Lin, Onoto Watanna/Winnifred Eaton, Older and/or precursor texts (may not be "romance" as now defined), historical romance, history, love, Elizabeth Lowell, Marie Donovan, Dorien Kelly, Vicki Essex, Camy Tang, Christian romance, Ruby Lang, Jennifer Lewis, Helen Hoang, Courtney Milan
Allan, Jonathan A. Mourning and Sentimental Heroism in Maureen Child's Lost in Sensation 2020 Maureen Child, gender, happy ending, death, metaphor/symbolism, emotions
Allan, Jonathan A. Men, Masculinities, and Popular Romance 2020 gender, sex/sexuality, m/m romance, pornography, LGBT+ characters, readers and/or authors, virginity, Marie Sexton, health/medical
Brickman, Barbara Jane; Jermyn, Deborah; Trost, Theodore Louis Love Across the Atlantic: US-UK Romance in Popular Culture 2020
Vivanco, Laura Changing Attitudes to Others: Meljean Brook’s Riveted (2012) and its Context 2020 Meljean Brook, Publishing, authors, readers, race/ethnicity, disability, gender, steampunk, LGBT+ characters, readers and/or authors, Zoë Archer, war/armed forces
Salter, Anastasia Plundered Hearts: Infocom, Romance, and the History of Feminist Game Design 2020 computer/video/digital games, pirates and outlaws, fashion/clothing, feminism
Cole, Elizabeth Authors on The Sheik: A conversation with Liz Fielding 2020 Liz Fielding, sheikh romance, E. M. Hull
Habermann, Ina; Krug, Christian And Thereby Hangs a Tale: A Critical Anatomy of (Popular) Tales 2020
Gymnich, Marion; Dyka, Susanne Falling in love with vs. sich verlieben in: a corpus-based analysis of English and German romance novels 2020 linguistics, love
Magenya, Sheena Gimase Reading between the lines: A review of Dark Juices and Afrodisiacs: Erotic Diaries Vol 1 2020 Africa, LGBT+ characters, readers and/or authors, sex/sexuality, feminism, race/ethnicity
Maier, Sarah E.; Ayres, Brenda Neo-Victorian Madness: Rediagnosing Nineteenth-Century Mental Illness in Literature and Other Media 2020
Andrade, Roberta Manuela Barros de; Silva, Erotilde Honório; Feitosa, Ricardo Augusto de Sabóia; Viana, Thiago Mena Barreto Um século de romances de amor: A trajetória da literatura sentimental no Brasil (1920 - 2020) 2020 Brazil
Fragero Guerra, Carmen Carmen de Icaza: la imagen de identidad femenina durante el primer franquismo (1936-1949) 2020 Carmen de Icaza, fascism/right-wing authoritarianism, Spain, gender
Taylor, Jessica Garçon Manqué: A Queer Rereading (of) The Sheik 2020 E. M. Hull, Radclyffe Hall, gender, LGBT+ characters, readers and/or authors, sex/sexuality, readers, fashion/clothing, race/ethnicity
Brickman, Barbara Jane; Jermyn, Deborah; Trost, Theodore Louis Love Across the Atlantic: US-UK Romance in Popular Culture 2020
Wheeler, Duncan Following Franco: Spanish culture and politics in transition, 1962–92 2020 Spain, fascism/right-wing authoritarianism, Corín Tellado
Violi, Patrizia Breve storia della letteratura rosa 2020 Older and/or precursor texts (may not be "romance" as now defined), Carolina Invernizio, Liala, pen name of Amalia Liana Cambiasi Negretti Odescalchi, Publishing, Harlequin Mills & Boon, romances in magazines and newspapers, Fifty Shades, fanfiction
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.; Vivanco, Laura Love, Language, Place, and Identity in Popular Culture: Romancing the Other 2020
Habermann, Ina; Krug, Christian And Thereby Hangs a Tale: A Critical Anatomy of (Popular) Tales 2020
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
Gymnich, Marion; Dyka, Susanne Falling in love with vs. sich verlieben in: a corpus-based analysis of English and German romance novels 2020 linguistics, love
Burge, Amy Introduction to the special issue on The Sheik 2020 sheikh romance, E. M. Hull
Maier, Sarah E.; Ayres, Brenda Neo-Victorian Madness: Rediagnosing Nineteenth-Century Mental Illness in Literature and Other Media 2020
Barkman, Adam; Sanna, Antonio A Critical Companion to Robert Zemeckis 2020
Andrade, Roberta Manuela Barros de; Silva, Erotilde Honório; Feitosa, Ricardo Augusto de Sabóia; Viana, Thiago Mena Barreto Um século de romances de amor: A trajetória da literatura sentimental no Brasil (1920 - 2020) 2020 Brazil
Borham-Puyal, Miriam; Sánchez, Jorge Diego; García-Pérez, María-Isabel Documentando la memoria cultural: las mujeres en las (auto)narraciones exocanónicas 2020
Day, Sara K. Reimagining Forever...: The Marriage Plot in Recent Young Adult Literature 2020 YA/teenage romance, marriage
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
Jansen, Annie Rethinking romance: An argument for adding the genre to the popular shelf 2020 libraries/librarians, Helen Hoang, Jasmine Guillory, Sonali Dev, race/ethnicity, Uzma Jalaluddin
Fitzsimmons, Rebekah; Wilson, Casey Alane Beyond the Blockbusters: Themes and Trends in Contemporary Young Adult Fiction 2020
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
Veros, Vassiliki The selective tradition, the role of romance fiction donations, and public library practices in New South Wales, Australia 2020 Australia, libraries/librarians
Sabino, Rosimeri Ferraz; Bezerra, Antônio Ponciano Romance-folhetim em tela: linguagem, personagens e sentidos sociais 2020 Brazil, Faith Baldwin, gender, film/movies
Ramos-García, María T.; Vivanco, Laura Love, Language, Place, and Identity in Popular Culture: Romancing the Other 2020
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
Suwanban, Pauline The Oriental Beast: The Sheik and Fairy Tales 2020 E. M. Hull, race/ethnicity, fairytales/folktales, animals, gender
Bloom, Clive The Palgrave Handbook of Contemporary Gothic 2020
Barkman, Adam; Sanna, Antonio A Critical Companion to Robert Zemeckis 2020
Andrade, Roberta Manuela Barros de; Silva, Erotilde Honório; Feitosa, Ricardo Augusto de Sabóia; Viana, Thiago Mena Barreto Um século de romances de amor: A trajetória da literatura sentimental no Brasil (1920 - 2020) 2020 Brazil
Borham-Puyal, Miriam; Sánchez, Jorge Diego; García-Pérez, María-Isabel Documentando la memoria cultural: las mujeres en las (auto)narraciones exocanónicas 2020
Moss, Madi Markle Review: When Was the Last Time You Read a Romance Novel? 2020 Christian romance, race/ethnicity, Ilima Todd
Vivanco, Laura Let’s Not Get Carried Away by The Sheik 2020 E. M. Hull, Older and/or precursor texts (may not be "romance" as now defined), Berta Ruck, gender, LGBT+ characters, readers and/or authors, marriage
Fitzsimmons, Rebekah; Wilson, Casey Alane Beyond the Blockbusters: Themes and Trends in Contemporary Young Adult Fiction 2020
George, Sam; Hughes, Bill Introduction: from preternatural pastoral to paranormal romance 2020 paranormal/fantasy/time-travel romance, animals
Cameron, Lauren The Romance Publishing Industry and Its Reputation 2020 trash/literary and or intellectual quality, gender, feminism, readers, authors
Vidotto, Ilaria; Goossens, Vannina D’une fenêtre à l’autre. Étude d’un motif spécifique à la littérature blanche et au roman sentimental 2020 linguistics
Farooqui, Javaria The Kitchen and Beyond: The Romantic Chronotope in Pakistani Popular Fiction 2020 romances in magazines and newspapers, Pakistan, settings, food, drink, metaphor/symbolism
Sabino, Rosimeri Ferraz; Bezerra, Antônio Ponciano Romance-folhetim em tela: linguagem, personagens e sentidos sociais 2020 Brazil, Faith Baldwin, gender, film/movies
Diwersy, Sascha; Gonon, Laetitia; Goossens, Vannina; Gymnich, Marion; Tutin, Agnès Speech Verbs in French and English Novels 2020 linguistics, emotions, languages
Franck, Kaja Growing Pains of the Teenage Werewolf: Young Adult Literature and the Metaphorical Wolf 2020 paranormal/fantasy/time-travel romance, YA/teenage romance, Maggie Stiefvater, animals, fairytales/folktales, Twilight
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
García Fernández, Aurora; Fresno-Calleja, Paloma Competence, Complicity and Complexity: Hsu-Ming Teo on the Pitfalls and Nuances of Reading and Researching Popular Romance 2020 romance scholarship, feminism, historical romance, rape and/or intimate partner violence/abuse, love, Australia
Bhat, Shilpa Daithota Diasporic Inquiries into South Asian Women’s Narratives: Alien Domiciles 2020
Escandell Montiel, Daniel; Oliveira Dias, Sofia Raquel Voces e identidades exocanónicas (1880-1920): recuperando (auto) narrativas femeninas de los márgenes 2020
Borham-Puyal, Miriam; Sánchez, Jorge Diego; García-Pérez, María-Isabel Documentando la memoria cultural: las mujeres en las (auto)narraciones exocanónicas 2020
Ramos-García, María T.; Vivanco, Laura Introduction 2020 race/ethnicity
McAlister, Jodi; Parnell, Claire; Trinidad, Andrea Anne #RomanceClass: Genre World, Intimate Public, Found Family 2020 Philippines, genre definitions, Publishing, readers, authors, Mina V. Esguerra, LGBT+ characters, readers and/or authors, sex/sexuality
Philips, Deborah In defence of reading (and watching) trash: Feminists reading the romance 2020 romance scholarship, feminism
Turner, Ellen The Sheik and Modernism 2020 E. M. Hull, trash/literary and or intellectual quality
Nickel, Eleanor Hersey Christian Popular Culture from The Chronicles of Narnia to Duck Dynasty 2020 Christian romance, Francine Rivers, sex/sexuality, feminism, fairytales/folktales
George, Sam; Hughes, Bill Introduction: from preternatural pastoral to paranormal romance 2020 paranormal/fantasy/time-travel romance, animals
Vidotto, Ilaria; Goossens, Vannina D’une fenêtre à l’autre. Étude d’un motif spécifique à la littérature blanche et au roman sentimental 2020 linguistics
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
Carter, Ellen Asexual Romance in an Allosexual World: How Ace-Spectrum Characters (and Authors) Create Space for Romantic Love 2020 LGBT+ characters, readers and/or authors, sex/sexuality, love
Diwersy, Sascha; Gonon, Laetitia; Goossens, Vannina; Gymnich, Marion; Tutin, Agnès Speech Verbs in French and English Novels 2020 linguistics, emotions, languages
Kamitsuka, Margaret D. Prolife Christian Romance Novels: A Sign that the Abortion-as-Murder Center Is Not Holding? 2020 Christian romance, religion/spirituality, health/medical, rape and/or intimate partner violence/abuse, Francine Rivers, family, United States of America
García Fernández, Aurora; Fresno-Calleja, Paloma Competence, Complicity and Complexity: Hsu-Ming Teo on the Pitfalls and Nuances of Reading and Researching Popular Romance 2020 romance scholarship, feminism, historical romance, rape and/or intimate partner violence/abuse, love, Australia
Escandell Montiel, Daniel; Oliveira Dias, Sofia Raquel Voces e identidades exocanónicas (1880-1920): recuperando (auto) narrativas femeninas de los márgenes 2020
Birthisel, Jessica The Good, the Bad, and the Kinky: Erotic Romance Writing in a Post-Fifty Shades of Grey Landscape 2020 erotic romance, Fifty Shades, authors, sex/sexuality, Publishing, BDSM
Ramos-García, María T.; Vivanco, Laura Introduction 2020 race/ethnicity
Servén, Carmen Mujer y persona narrativa en tres novelas de siglo XX: Carmen de Icaza, Carmen Martín Gaite y Rosa Montero 2020 Carmen de Icaza
McAlister, Jodi; Parnell, Claire; Trinidad, Andrea Anne #RomanceClass: Genre World, Intimate Public, Found Family 2020 Philippines, genre definitions, Publishing, readers, authors, Mina V. Esguerra, LGBT+ characters, readers and/or authors, sex/sexuality
Dixon, jay The Depiction of Masculinity and Nationality in The Sheik 2020 E. M. Hull, gender, race/ethnicity, UK, Scotland
Mäkelä, Veera "World Turned Upside Down": The Role of Revolutions in Maya Rodale's Regency-Set Romances 2020 Maya Rodale, United States of America, UK, historical romance, social/economic class, gender, race/ethnicity, emotions, feminism
Jacquot, Clémence; Goossens, Vannina; Novakova, Iva Étude contrastive des motifs spécifiques aux romans sentimentaux et aux romans Harlequin 2020 linguistics, Harlequin Mills & Boon
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
Allan, Jonathan A. “And he absolutely fascinated me”: Masculinity and Virginity in Sherilee Gray’s Breaking Him 2020 Sherilee Gray, gender, virginity, sex/sexuality
Neale, Gillian Annie S. Swan, Publishing Phenomenon: A Book Historical Perspective 2020 Annie S. Swan
Burke, Nicola Mills and Fur: Feminism and Femininity in the Supernatural Romance 2020 Older and/or precursor texts (may not be "romance" as now defined), fairytales/folktales, YA/teenage romance, paranormal/fantasy/time-travel romance, sex/sexuality, animals, food, drink, gender, Jackson Pearce, Ivy Devlin, Sarah Blakley-Cartwright, Maggie Stiefvater
Diwersy, Sascha; Gonon, Laetitia; Goossens, Vannina; Gymnich, Marion; Tutin, Agnès Speech Verbs in French and English Novels 2020 linguistics, emotions, languages
Lancaster, Rosemary Fact and Fiction: Alice Williamson’s Monte Carlo 2020 Alice Williamson/A. M. Williamson/Mrs. C. N. Williamson, Older and/or precursor texts (may not be "romance" as now defined)