Romance Scholarship DB

(2024) Reading dark romance: The ambiguities of a fascinating genre The Conversation :

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Fortune, Teagan Bailey

(2024) Rape Beyond Fantasy: Exploring the Influence of BookTok's Erotica and Dark Romance Literature on Young Adult Perceptions of Consent and Boundaries Master’s thesis, University of Northern Colorado

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rape and/or intimate partner violence/abuse

Fortune, Teagan Bailey

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McNamara, Emma K

(2024) Young Adult Contemporary Realistic Romance: Rhetorical and Intersectional Narratologies PhD, Ohio State University

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YA/teenage romance

Crystal Maldonado

Ismée Williams

McNamara, Emma K

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Allan, Jonathan A.

(2024) Forever Amber, Censorship, and Popular Romance Studies Journal of Popular Romance Studies 13: DOI: 10.70138/GJPP2402

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teaching romance

Kathleen Winsor

(2024) Reader, I Included It: Reading Lists and Romance Journal of Popular Romance Studies 13: DOI: 10.70138/BQRY8070

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teaching romance

Casey McQuiston

Schwegler-Castañer, Astrid

(2025) "Post/Colonial Nostalgia and Melancholia in Dinah Jefferies' The Tea Planter's Wife and Before the Rains * " Travel and Colonialism in 21st Century Romantic Historical Fiction: Exotic Journeys, Reparative Histories? DOI:10.4324/9781003495840-8

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historical romance

Dinah Jefferies

Schwegler-Castañer, Astrid

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Ficke, Sarah H.

(2025) "Falling in Love Outside of the Law: Piracy, Race, and Freedom in Caribbean Historical Romance " Travel and Colonialism in 21st Century Romantic Historical Fiction: Exotic Journeys, Reparative Histories? DOI:10.4324/9781003495840-2

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historical romance

Beverly Jenkins

Darlene Marshall

Johanna Lindsey