Kaler, Anne K. (2000) Dysfunctional Detectives and Romantic P.I.s: Impediments to the Happy Marriage of Mystery and Romance Clues: A Journal of Detection 21.1:61-72 Topic romantic suspense gender
Juhasz, Suzanne (1998) Lesbian Romance Fiction and the Plotting of Desire: Narrative Theory, Lesbian Identity, and Reading Practice Tulsa Studies In Women's Literature 17.1:65-82 DOI: 10.2307/464325 Topic lesbian romance LGBTQ+ characters, readers and/or authors Sarah Aldridge readers gender psychology work love sex/sexuality family
Juhasz, Suzanne (1988) Texts to Grow On: Reading Women’s Romance Fiction Tulsa Studies in Women’s Literature 7.2:239-259 DOI: 10.2307/463681 Topic genre definitions psychology readers gender love
Margolies, David (1982) Mills & Boon: guilt without sex Red Letters 14:5-13 Topic Harlequin Mills & Boon work gender emotions rape and/or intimate partner violence/abuse
Jones, Ann Rosalind (1986) "Mills & Boon meets feminism " The Progress of Romance: The Politics of Popular Fiction 195-218 Topic feminism Harlequin Mills & Boon work social/economic class gender sex/sexuality
Williamson, Margaret (1986) "The Greek romance " The Progress of Romance: The Politics of Popular Fiction 23-45 Topic Older and/or precursor texts (may not be "romance" as now defined) Chariton Xenophon of Ephesus Achilles Tatius Longus Heliodorus love rural romance
Radford, Jean (1986) "Introduction " The Progress of Romance: The Politics of Popular Fiction 1-20 Topic trash/literary and or intellectual quality romance scholarship genre definitions Older and/or precursor texts (may not be "romance" as now defined) socialism and/or communism feminism readers
Radford, Jean (1986) The Progress of Romance: The Politics of Popular Fiction London and New York: Routledge & Kegan Paul