Burge, Amy

First name

Amy

Last names

Burge

Works

(2012) Desiring the east: a comparative study of Middle English romance and modern popular sheikh romance PhD, University of York

Topic

war/armed forces

religion/spirituality

fashion/clothing

(2012) "Do Knights Still Rescue Damsels in Distress?: Reimagining the Medieval in the Mills & Boon Historical Romance " The Female Figure in Contemporary Historical Fiction 95-114

Topic

Harlequin Mills & Boon

social/economic class

religion/spirituality

fashion/clothing

rape and/or intimate partner violence/abuse

war/armed forces

(2014) ‘For you are a man and she is a maid’: Performing masculinity in Orientalist medieval and modern popular romance fiction Journal of European Popular Culture 5.2:89-103 DOI: 10.1386/jepc.5.2.89_1

Topic

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

Harlequin Mills & Boon

fashion/clothing

(2016) Representing Difference in the Medieval and Modern Orientalist Romance Houndmills, Basingstoke: Palgrave Macmillan

Topic

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

fashion/clothing

Harlequin Mills & Boon

rape and/or intimate partner violence/abuse

(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

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

Harlequin Mills & Boon

(2020) Introduction to the special issue on The Sheik Journal of Popular Romance Studies 9:

Topic

Robinson, Rachel

(2020) Review essay on The Sheik Journal of Popular Romance Studies 9:

Topic

romance scholarship

(2021) "Class and wealth in popular romance fiction " The Routledge Research Companion to Popular Romance Fiction 395-410 DOI:10.4324/9781315613468-18

Topic

social/economic class

wealth/prosperity

capitalism/business

(2022) Beyond Outlander: Annie S. Swan and the Scottish popular romance novel Scottish Literary Review 14.2:1-19

Topic

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

Karen Marie Moning

(2022) "Girls of Riyadh and Desperate in Dubai: reading and writing romance in the Middle East " The Routledge Companion to Romantic Love DOI:10.4324/9781003022343-25

Topic

Ameera Al Hakawati

United Arab Emirates

(2023) "Romantic Love across Borders: Marriage Migration in Popular Romance Fiction " Contemporary Love Studies in the Arts and Humanities: What's Love Got To Do With It? 39-49 DOI:10.1007/978-3-031-26055-1_4

Topic

Brigitte Bautista

United States of America

metaphor/symbolism

(2024) A decolonised alpha hero? Negotiating masculinities in Nigerian romance novels Journal of Popular Romance Studies :FORTHCOMING

Topic

(2024) Marriage migration, intimacy and genre in Helen Hoang’s The Bride Test (2019) and Brigitte Bautista’s You, Me, U.S. (2019) Literature, Critique, and Empire Today ONLINE FIRST:ONLINE FIRST DOI: 10.1177/30333962241267810

Topic

Brigitte Bautista

United States of America

LGBTQ+ characters, readers and/or authors

rape and/or intimate partner violence/abuse

McAlister, Jodi

Ireland, Charlotte

(2024) “Prince Charming with an Erection”: The Sensational Pleasures of the Bonkbuster Contemporary Women's Writing ONLINE FIRST:ONLINE FIRST DOI: 10.1093/cww/vpae002

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