Turner, Ellen (2014) "The Sheik Returns: Imitations and Parodies of the Desert Romance " Hype: Bestsellers and Literary Cultures 185-202 Topic E. M. Hull sheikh romance trash/literary and or intellectual quality sex/sexuality Harlequin Mills & Boon rape and/or intimate partner violence/abuse
Helgason, Jon Kärrholm, Sara Steiner, Ann (2014) Hype: Bestsellers and Literary Cultures Lund, Sweden: Nordic Academic Press
Matter, Laura Sewell (2007) Pursuing the Great Bad Novelist The Georgia Review 61.3:444-459 Topic Charles Garvice trash/literary and or intellectual quality Older and/or precursor texts (may not be "romance" as now defined)
Sanders, Lise Shapiro (2018) "Making the Modern Girl: Fantasy, Consumption, and Desire in Romance Weeklies of the 1920s " Women's Periodicals and Print Culture in Britain, 1918-1939: The Interwar Period 87-102 DOI:10.3366/edinburgh/9781474412537.003.0008 Topic romances in magazines and newspapers gender social/economic class fashion/clothing work Older and/or precursor texts (may not be "romance" as now defined) readers