Swaffield, Audrey-Claire (1981) Paperbacks Promoting Passion! What Is Harlequin Really Presenting? Canadian Woman Studies/Les Cahiers de la Femme 3.2:4-6 Topic Harlequin Mills & Boon
Struve, Laura (2011) Sisters of Sorts: Reading Romantic Fiction and the Bonds Among Female Readers Journal of Popular Culture 44.6:1289-1306 DOI: 10.1111/j.1540-5931.2011.00901.x Topic readers paratext Publishing Older and/or precursor texts (may not be "romance" as now defined)
Stotesbury, John A. (2004) "Genre and Islam in Recent Anglophone Romantic Fiction " Refracting the Canon in Contemporary British Literature and Film 69-82 DOI:10.1163/9789401208307_005 Topic Islam Leila Aboulela Rayda Jacobs religion/spirituality
Onega, Susana Gutleben, Christian (2004) Refracting the Canon in Contemporary British Literature and Film Amsterdam: Rodopi
Stotesbury, John A. (1994) Language and Mindstyle in Anglophone Popular Romantic Fiction under Apartheid Logos 14:18-32 Topic Africa