Ryder, Mary Ellen (1999) Smoke and mirrors: Event patterns in the discourse structure of a romance novel Journal of Pragmatics 31.8:1067-1080 DOI: 10.1016/S0378-2166(99)80001-0 Topic linguistics Barbara Cartland
Ryan, Mary (2011) Amongst women: Male romance authors and Irish chick lit author, Andrew O’Connor Australasian Journal of Popular Culture 1.2:209-225 DOI: 10.1386/ajpc.1.2.209_1 Topic authors gender chick lit Andrew O’Connor
Russ, Joanna (1973) Somebody's Trying to Kill Me and I Think It's My Husband: The Modern Gothic Journal of Popular Culture 6.4:666-691 DOI: 10.1111/j.0022-3840.1973.00666.x Topic gothic romance genre definitions settings Phyllis A. Whitney Margaret Summerton Helen Arvonen Susan Howatch Anne Maybury Dorothy Eden food, drink fashion/clothing sex/sexuality gender
Ruggiero, Josephine A. Weston, Louise C. (1983) Conflicting Images of Women in Romance Novels International Journal of Women's Studies 6.1:18-25 Topic gothic romance historical romance gender readers
Ruggiero, Josephine A. Weston, Louise C. (1977) Sex-Role Characterization of Women in "Modern Gothic Novels" The Pacific Sociological Review 20.2:279-300 DOI: 10.2307/1388936 Topic gender gothic romance feminism Mary Stewart Victoria Holt/Jean Plaidy/Eleanor Burford Hibbert Phyllis A. Whitney Jane Blackmore Dorothy Eden Susan Howatch Anne Maybury social/economic class work readers