Romance Scholarship DB

(2003) Acknowledging agency while accommodating romance: Girls negotiating meaning in literacy transactions Journal of Adolescent & Adult Literacy 46.8:624-635

Topic

social/economic class

DeBlase, Gina

Read more about DeBlase, Gina

Fialkoff, Francine

(1992) Romancing the Patron: Romance novels don't get equal review treatment Library Journal 117.21:118

Topic

libraries/librarians

Fialkoff, Francine

Read more about Fialkoff, Francine

Moretto, Shirley

Weidenburner, Kathleen

(1984) We’ll Take Romance! Library Journal 109.15:1727-1728

Topic

libraries/librarians

Weidenburner, Kathleen

Read more about Weidenburner, Kathleen

Moretto, Shirley

Read more about Moretto, Shirley

(1985) Librarians and the Paperback Romance: Trying to Do the Right Thing School Library Journal 32.3:25-29

Topic

libraries/librarians

YA/young adult/teenage/new adult/NA romance

trash/literary and or intellectual quality

Sutton, Roger

Read more about Sutton, Roger

Juhasz, Suzanne

(1994) Reading from the Heart: Women, Literature, and the Search for True Love New York: Viking

Topic

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

Charlotte Brontë

Louisa May Alcott

lesbian romance