Romance Scholarship DB

Stinson, Emmett

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(2014) Women Writers and the Hero of Romance Houndmills, Basingstoke: Palgrave Macmillan

Topic

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

Wilt, Judith

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(2017) Women and the 'War Machine' in the Desert Romances of E. M. Hull and Rosita Forbes Women's Writing 24.1:109-122 DOI: 10.1080/09699082.2016.1233773

Topic

war/armed forces

national identity

Regan, Lisa

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Malloy, Audrey Miles

(2017) Remnants of the Bodice Ripper: How Consent is Characterized in Heterosexual and Lesbian Erotic Romance Novels Undergraduate, Bard College

Topic

lesbian romance

rape and/or intimate partner violence/abuse

LGBTQ+ characters, readers and/or authors

Malloy, Audrey Miles

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(2017) "Mary Stewart’s Greek Novels: Hellenism, Orientalism and the Cultural Politics of Pulp Presentation " Greece in British Women’s Literary Imagination, 1913-2013 99-118

Topic

romantic suspense

national identity

Gifford, James

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(2017) Hearthrobs: A History of Women and Desire Oxford: Oxford University Press

Topic

Charles Garvice

Georgette Heyer

Barbara Cartland