Romance Scholarship DB

Pearce, Lynne

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(charles), Helen

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Chappel, Deborah K.

(1991) American romances: narratives of culture and identity PhD, Duke University

Topic

LaVyrle Spencer

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

Kathleen Winsor

Margaret Mitchell

E. D. E. N. Southworth

Chappel, Deborah K.

(1997) LaVyrle Spencer and the Anti-Essentialist Argument Para.doxa: Studies in World Literary Genres 3.1-2:107-120

Topic

LaVyrle Spencer

LGBTQ+ characters, readers and/or authors

Chappel, Deborah K.

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Cawelti, John G.

(1976) Adventure, Mystery, and Romance: Formula Stories as Art and Popular Culture Chicago: University of Chicago Press

Topic

genre definitions

trash/literary and or intellectual quality

Cawelti, John G.

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Salter, Anastasia

(2020) Plundered Hearts: Infocom, Romance, and the History of Feminist Game Design Feminist Media Histories 6.1:66-92 DOI: 10.1525/fmh.2020.6.1.66

Topic

computer/video/digital games

pirates and outlaws

fashion/clothing

Salter, Anastasia

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Caton, Steven C.

(2000) "The Sheik: Instabilities of Race and Gender in Transatlantic Popular Culture of the Early 1920s " Noble Dreams, Wicked Pleasures: Orientalism in America, 1870-1930 99-117

Topic

United States of America

rape and/or intimate partner violence/abuse