Crane, Ralph Fletcher, Lisa (2016) The Genre of Islands: Popular Fiction and Performative Geographies Island Studies Journal 11.2:637-650 Topic islands settings rural romance
Schalk, Sami (2016) Happily Ever After for Whom? Blackness and Disability in Romance Narratives Journal of Popular Culture 49.6:1241–1260 DOI: 10.1111/jpcu.12491 Topic disability race/ethnicity sex/sexuality African American romance Gwynne Forster gender war/armed forces N. K. Jemisin paranormal/fantasy/time-travel romance
McAlister, Jodi (2016) "Between Pleasure and Pain: The Textual Politics of the Hymen " Virgin Envy: The Cultural Insignificance of the Hymen 45-64 Topic history sex/sexuality virginity
Hirdman, Anja (2016) Speaking through the flesh: Affective encounters, gazes and desire in Harlequin romances MedieKultur: Journal of media and communication research 32.61:42-57 DOI: 10.7146/mediekultur.v32i61.22382 Topic emotions gender sex/sexuality Harlequin Mills & Boon
Burge, Amy (2016) "‘I Will Cut Myself and Smear Blood on the Sheet’: Testing Virginity in Medieval and Modern Orientalist Romance " Virgin Envy: The Cultural Insignificance of the Hymen 17-44 Topic sex/sexuality history Older and/or precursor texts (may not be "romance" as now defined) sheikh romance gender Harlequin Mills & Boon virginity
Allan, Jonathan A. Santos, Cristina Spahr, Adriana (2016) Virgin Envy: The Cultural Insignificance of the Hymen London: Zed