Romance Scholarship DB

(2024) French Interwar Popular Romance and Ideals of Femininity: A Literary and Historical Study of Magali Master of Arts, University of Nebraska

Topic

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

Magali, pen name of Jeanne Philbert

fairytales/folktales

Kamrath, Kelly

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(2024) A Hero in Tears: How the Female Gaze Elicits Male Emotional Vulnerability in Romance Novels Honors Thesis, Abilene Christian University

Topic

Charlotte Brontë

J.T. Geissinger

Stewart, Eowyn

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Moussaoui, Abdelghani

(2024) The Discursive Formation of Ethnic Subjectivities and Identities in Popular Romance International Journal of Language and Literary Studies 6.3:106-119 DOI: 10.36892/ijlls.v6i3.1769

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Rebecca Stratton

Speese, Erin K. Johns

(2024) Came for the Smut, Stayed by Consent: Desire and Consent in Sarah J. Maas’s Fictional Worlds Journal of Popular Romance Studies 13: DOI: 10.70138/UJXK7901

Topic

paranormal/fantasy/time-travel romance

rape and/or intimate partner violence/abuse

Speese, Erin K. Johns

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Moussaoui, Abdelghani

(2024) Gender as a ‘Discursive Practice’ in Romance Discourse International Journal of Language and Literary Studies 6.2:654–665 DOI: 10.36892/ijlls.v6i2.1745

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Rebecca Stratton

Moussaoui, Abdelghani

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Montebello, Sophie

(2024) The Representation and Self-Representation of Anglo-Indians in Literature from 1885 to the Present Day PhD, The Open University

Topic

Flora Annie Steel

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