Romance Scholarship DB

Whissell, Cynthia

(1998) The Formula Behind Women's Romantic Formula Fiction (Statistical survey of 50 Harlequin-Presents novels) Arachne 5.1:89-119

Topic

Harlequin Mills & Boon

genre definitions

Whissell, Cynthia

(1996) Mate Selection in Popular Women's Fiction Human Nature 7:427-447 DOI: 10.1007/BF02732902

Topic

evolutionary psychology

Whissell, Cynthia

(1994) Objective Analysis of Text: I. A Comparison of Adventure and Romance Novels Perceptual and Motor Skills 79:1567-1570 DOI: 10.2466/pms.1994.79.3f.1567

Topic

Whissell, Cynthia

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(2015) "More than a Love Story: The Complexities Of the Popular Romance " The Bloomsbury Introduction to Popular Fiction 53-69

Topic

genre definitions

Older and/or precursor texts (may not be "romance" as now defined)

fairytales/folktales

Jennifer Crusie

Berberich, Christine

(2014) The Bloomsbury Introduction to Popular Fiction London: Bloomsbury

Berberich, Christine

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Wherry, Maryan

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Weston, Louise C.

Ruggiero, Josephine A.

(1978) Male-Female Relationships in Best-Selling "Modern Gothic" Novels Sex Roles 4.5:647-655 DOI: 10.1007/BF00287330

Topic

romantic suspense

Victoria Holt/Jean Plaidy/Eleanor Burford Hibbert

Phyllis A. Whitney

Spraggs, Gillian

(1992) "Hell and the Mirror: A Reading of Desert of the Heart " New Lesbian Criticism: Literary and Cultural Readings 115-131

Topic

religion/spirituality

LGBTQ+ characters, readers and/or authors