Romance Scholarship DB

Castagna, JoAnn

Radespiel, Robin L.

(1990) "Making Rape Romantic: A Study of Rosemary Rogers' "Steve and Ginny" Novels " Women and Violence in Literature: An Essay Collection 299-325

Topic

rape and/or intimate partner violence/abuse

Rosemary Rogers

historical romance

Radespiel, Robin L.

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Castagna, JoAnn

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Ackley, Katherine Anne

(1990) Women and Violence in Literature: An Essay Collection New York: Garland

Ackley, Katherine Anne

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Carter, Catherine

(2008) Poverty, Payment, Power: Kathleen Thompson Norris and Popular Romance Studies in American Fiction 36.2:197-220 DOI: 10.1353/saf.2008.0002

Topic

Kathleen Thompson Norris

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

social/economic class

capitalism/business

Carter, Catherine

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(1994) The Paradox of Junk Fiction Philosophy and Literature 18.2:225-241 DOI: 10.1353/phl.1994.0054

Topic

trash/literary and or intellectual quality

Carroll, Noël

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Capelle, Annick

(1996) "Harlequin Romances in Western Europe: The Cultural Interactions of Romantic Literature " European Readings of American Popular Culture 91-100

Topic

Harlequin Mills & Boon