Gleason, William A. (2016) "Postbellum, Pre-Harlequin: American Romance Publishing in the Late Nineteenth and Early Twentieth Century " Romance Fiction and American Culture: Love as the Practice of Freedom? 57-70 Topic Older and/or precursor texts (may not be "romance" as now defined) romances in magazines and newspapers Publishing United States of America Lucille Hollis Charlotte M. Brame paratext
Serafine, Amelia (2016) ""He Filled My Heart with Doubt": The Southern Belle's Love and Duty in the Civil War " Romance Fiction and American Culture: Love as the Practice of Freedom? 41-55 Topic history United States of America Older and/or precursor texts (may not be "romance" as now defined) Augusta Jane Evans death war/armed forces religion/spirituality gender Edward Bulwer-Lytton readers
Selinger, Eric Murphy Gleason, William A. (2016) "Introduction: Love as the Practice of Freedom? " Romance Fiction and American Culture: Love as the Practice of Freedom? 1-21 Topic genre definitions Nell Stark romance scholarship
Dixon, Peter Bortolussi, Marisa (2009) Readers' Knowledge of Popular Genre Discourse Processes 46.6:541-571 DOI: 10.1080/01638530902959570 Topic psychology genre definitions readers emotions
Dixon, jay (1999) The Romance Fiction of Mills & Boon 1909-1990s London: UCL Press Topic Harlequin Mills & Boon rural romance settings marriage gender feminism war/armed forces work love Publishing sex/sexuality rape and/or intimate partner violence/abuse