Romance Scholarship DB

Søndberg Spaabæk, Anne Sofie

(2022) The “Infernal” Value of the Gothic: A Reading of Gothicness and Romanceness in Cassandra Clare’s The Infernal Devices Masters, Aalborg University

Topic

paranormal/fantasy/time-travel romance

Cassandra Clare

genre definitions

Søndberg Spaabæk, Anne Sofie

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(2006) Fantasy, fiction, and feminism: a study of feminists reading romance Master of Arts, University of Saskatchewan

Topic

trash/literary and or intellectual quality

Meagan McKinney

Charlotte Vale-Allen

Suzanne Brockmann

social/economic class

Nora Roberts/J. D. Robb

Jasmine Cresswell

Green, Marie

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Farooqui, Javaria

(2022) Reading historical popular romance in 21st-century Pakistan PhD thesis, University of Tasmania

Topic

historical romance

social/economic class

Stephanie Laurens

Judith McNaught

Ganapathy, Subha

(2002) Who Is Afraid of Romance Novels?: Women Readers, Patriarchy and Popular Culture PhD thesis, Mother Teresa Women’s University

Topic

trash/literary and or intellectual quality

Ganapathy, Subha

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Brown, Eleanor M.

(2001) Romance Novel of One's Own: The Nature and "Failure" of the Lesbian Romance Sub-Genre Master of Arts, West Chester University

Topic

LGBTQ+ characters, readers and/or authors

Katherine V. Forrest

Marianne K. Martin

Karin Kallmaker

Brown, Eleanor M.

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Secrease, Cassandra L

(2000) A comparative analysis of lesbian romance novels and heterosexual romance novel themes Master of Arts, Central Missouri State University

Topic

LGBTQ+ characters, readers and/or authors

Karin Kallmaker

Katherine V. Forrest