capitalism/business

Jensen, Margaret Ann

(1980) Women and Romantic Fiction: A Case Study of Harlequin Enterprises, Romances, and Readers PhD, McMaster University

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Batsleer, Janet

(1981) Pulp in the Pink Spare Rib 109:52-55

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(1985) Rewriting English: Cultural Politics of Gender and Class London: Methuen

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(1985) Rewriting English: Cultural Politics of Gender and Class London: Methuen

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(1985) Rewriting English: Cultural Politics of Gender and Class London: Methuen

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(1985) Rewriting English: Cultural Politics of Gender and Class London: Methuen

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

(1988) Romance and the Erotics of Property: Mass-Market Fiction for Women Durham and London: Duke University Press

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Ebert, Teresa L.

(1988) The Romance of Patriarchy: Ideology, Subjectivity, and Postmodern Feminist Cultural Theory Cultural Critique 10:19-57

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(1989) Beauty and the Beast: 20th Century Romance? Merveilles & contes 3.1:75–83

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fairytales/folktales

Robin McKinley

Jayne Ann Krentz/Amanda Quick/Jayne Castle

(1990) Feminist Fiction: Feminist Uses of Generic Fiction Cambridge: Polity

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(1991) The Alienated Reader: Women and Romantic Literature in the Twentieth Century Hemel Hempstead: Harvester Wheatsheaf

Ganguly, Keya

(1991) Alien(ated) Readers: Harlequin Romances and the Politics of Popular Culture Communication 12.2:129-150

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(1992) "Homeward Bound: Leisure, popular culture and consumer capitalism " Come on Down?: Popular Media Culture in Post-War Britain 9-45

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(1992) "Homeward Bound: Leisure, popular culture and consumer capitalism " Come on Down?: Popular Media Culture in Post-War Britain 9-45

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(1993) The Cinderella Complex: Romance Fiction, Patriarchy, and Capitalism Journal of Popular Culture 27.3:103-118 DOI: 10.1111/j.0022-3840.1993.00103.x

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(1994) The "Revolt of the Gentle": Romance and the Politics of Resistance in Working-Class Women's Writing NOVEL: A Forum on Fiction 27.2:140-160 DOI: 10.2307/1345818

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socialism and/or communism

Ethel Carnie Holdsworth

Ellen Wilkinson

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

Kolko, Beth E.

(1994) Writing the Romance: Cultural Studies, Community, and the Teaching of Writing PhD, University of Texas at Austin

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(1996) Reading Romance, Reading Ourselves The Centennial Review 40.2:359-384

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(1996) Reading Romance, Reading Ourselves The Centennial Review 40.2:359-384

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(1996) Reading Romance, Reading Ourselves The Centennial Review 40.2:359-384

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(1996) Reading Romance, Reading Ourselves The Centennial Review 40.2:359-384

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(1996) Reading Romance, Reading Ourselves The Centennial Review 40.2:359-384

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(1996) Reading Romance, Reading Ourselves The Centennial Review 40.2:359-384

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Kinard, Amanda Marette

(1999) Forbidden Pleasures: The Romance and Its Readers PhD, Vanderbilt University

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(2000) Romancing the World: Harlequin Romances, the Capitalist Dream, and the Conquest of Europe and Asia Studies in Popular Culture 23.1:1-10

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socialism and/or communism

Manzano Badía, Benjamín

(2000) "Carmen de Icaza, una apología pequeño-burguesa y conservadora de la familia " Mujeres novelistas en el panorama literario del siglo XX: I Congreso de narrativa española (en lengua castellana). 107-121

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Carmen de Icaza

family

Spain

fascism/right-wing authoritarianism

religion/spirituality

wealth/prosperity

Darbyshire, Peter

(2002) The Politics of Love: Harlequin Romances and the Christian Right Journal of Popular Culture 35.4:75-87 DOI: 10.1111/j.0022-3840.2002.3504_75.x

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Christian romance

religion/spirituality

Hinnant, Charles H.

(2003) "Desire and the Marketplace: A Reading of Kathleen Woodiwiss's The Flame and the Flower " Doubled Plots: Romance and History 147-164

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Kathleen Woodiwiss

fashion/clothing

Ebert, Teresa L.

(2006) Romance Novels, Class and Abu Ghraib Against the Current 121:

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war/armed forces

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

(2007) Consuming Desires: A Feminist Analysis of Bestselling Teen Romance Novels PhD, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill

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(2008) Poverty, Payment, Power: Kathleen Thompson Norris and Popular Romance Studies in American Fiction 36.2:197-220 DOI: 10.1353/saf.2008.0002

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Kathleen Thompson Norris

marriage

(2008) Uncovering and Recovering the Popular Romance Novel PhD, University of Minnesota

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happy ending

Stephanie Laurens

Allen, Amanda K.

(2009) The Cinderella-Makers: Postwar Adolescent Girl Fiction as Commodity Tales Lion and the Unicorn 33.3:282-299 DOI: 10.1353/uni.0.0479

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Anta Félez, José Luis

(2009) "Para una antropología del amor. La novela rosa y los productos de la cultura de masas " Poder, poderes y empoderamiento… ¿Y el amor? ¡Ah, el amor!: Actas 5º Congreso Estatal Isonomía sobre Igualdad entre mujeres y hombres 100-108

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love

Ebert, Teresa L.

(2009) The Task of Cultural Critique Urbana: University of Illinois Press

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Andrade, Roberta Manuela Barros de

chick lit

Elizabeth Lowell

Silva, Erotilde Honório

(2010) A vida em cor de rosa: o romance sentimental e a ditadura militar no Brasil Famecos 17.2:41-48 DOI: 10.15448/1980-3729.2010.2.7541

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fascism/right-wing authoritarianism

Jarmakani, Amira

(2010) “The Sheik Who Loved Me”: Romancing the War on Terror Signs: Journal of Women in Culture and Society 35.4:993-1017 DOI: 10.1086/651044

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sheikh romance

Andrade, Roberta Manuela Barros de

(2010) Consuming Desires: Consumption, Romance, and Sexuality in Best-Selling Teen Romance Novels Women's Studies in Communication 33.1:54-73 DOI: 10.1080/07491401003669984

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Silva, Erotilde Honório

(2010) A vida em cor de rosa: o romance sentimental e a ditadura militar no Brasil Famecos 17.2:41-48 DOI: 10.15448/1980-3729.2010.2.7541

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fascism/right-wing authoritarianism

Young, Erin S.

(2010) Corporate Heroines and Utopian Individualism: A Study of the Romance Novel in Global Capitalism PhD, University of Oregon

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Jayne Ann Krentz/Amanda Quick/Jayne Castle

Nora Roberts/J. D. Robb

(2010) Escaping the “Time Bind”: Negotiations of Love and Work in Jayne Ann Krentz's “Corporate Romances” The Journal of American Culture 33.2:92–106 DOI: 10.1111/j.1542-734X.2010.00736.x

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Jayne Ann Krentz/Amanda Quick/Jayne Castle

(2011) Flexible Heroines, Flexible Narratives: The Werewolf Romances of Kelley Armstrong and Carrie Vaughn Extrapolation: A Journal of Science Fiction and Fantasy 52.2:204-226 DOI: 10.3828/extr.2011.52.2.5

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Kelley Armstrong

Carrie Vaughn

Dymock, Alex

(2013) Flogging sexual transgression: Interrogating the costs of the ‘Fifty Shades effect’ Sexualities 16.8:880-895 DOI: 10.1177/1363460713508884

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(2014) Hegel's “picture-thinking” as the interpretive logic of the popular Textual Practice 28.1:9-33 DOI: 10.1080/0950236X.2012.719712

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

religion/spirituality

(2014) Making Meaning in Popular Romance Fiction: An Epistemology New York: Palgrave Macmillan

Trevenen, Claire

(2014) Fifty Shades of “Mommy Porn”: A Post-GFC Renegotiation of Paternal Law Journal of Popular Romance Studies 4.1:

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(2015) 'Sometimes It Feels More Like a Commune Than a Town': Envisioning Utopian Possibilities in Robyn Carr's Virgin River Romance Novels Studies in Popular Culture 37.2:25-42

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(2015) 'Sometimes It Feels More Like a Commune Than a Town': Envisioning Utopian Possibilities in Robyn Carr's Virgin River Romance Novels Studies in Popular Culture 37.2:25-42

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(2016) "The Romance Novel " Gender: Love 255-270

Topic

genre definitions

love

Jane Austen

E. M. Hull

Barbara Cartland

Georgette Heyer

historical romance

(2016) "Saving China: The Transformative Power of Whiteness in Elizabeth Lowell's Jade Island and Katherine Stone's Pearl Moon " Romance Fiction and American Culture: Love as the Practice of Freedom? 205-221

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science fiction/futuristic romance

(2017) From Barbarized to Disneyfied: Viewing 1990s New York City Through Eve Dallas, J.D. Robb’s Futuristic Homicide Detective Forum for Interamerican Research 10.1:72-86

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Nora Roberts/J. D. Robb

romantic suspense

Blouin, Michael J.

(2018) Mass-Market Fiction and the Crisis of American Liberalism, 1972–2017 Cham, Switzerland: Palgrave Macmillan

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family

Brouillette, Sarah

(2019) Romance Work Theory & Event 22.2:451-464

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(2019) Γυναίκες και ροζ λογοτεχνία: η περίπτωση των εκδόσεων Άρλεκιν Masters, Πανεπιστημίου Αιγαίου

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(2020) No Happy Ending: Leadership Falls Apart at the Romance Writers of America SAGE Business Cases : DOI: 10.4135/9781529741117

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authors

Pérez-Casal, Inmaculada

(2020) "Business-like Lords and Gentlemanly Businessmen: The Romance Hero in Lisa Kleypas's Wallflowers Series " Love Across the Atlantic: US-UK Romance in Popular Culture 194-208

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Lisa Kleypas

historical romance

national identity

Ramos-García, María T.

(2020) "Representations of Otherness in Paranormal Romance: Race and Wealth in Nalini Singh and J. R. Ward " Love, Language, Place, and Identity in Popular Culture: Romancing the Other 127-144

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Nalini Singh

J. R. Ward

Burge, Amy

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

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Fernández Rodríguez, Carolina

(2021) "Nora Roberts’s Boonsboro Empire: Boosting Business through Romance, Invigorating Romance with Affective Capitalism " Romantic Escapes: Post-Millennial Trends in Contemporary Popular Romance Fiction 97-119

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Nora Roberts/J. D. Robb

(2021) "Genre Mutation in Young Adult Gothic: The Dialectics of Dystopia and Romance in Holly Black's The Coldest Girl in Coldtown " Young Adult Gothic Fiction: Monstrous Selves/Monstrous Others

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YA/teenage romance

gothic romance

ecocriticism/environmentalism/climate change

Holly Black

Kapstein, Helen

(2021) "Petrofeminism: Love in the Age of Oil " Oil Fictions: World Literature and Our Contemporary Petrosphere 59-79 DOI:10.5325/jj.5233138.9

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Balaraba Ramat Yakubu

McGurl, Mark

(2021) Everything and Less: The Novel in the Age of Amazon London: Verso

Topic

Publishing

Fifty Shades

McGurl, Mark

(2021) Unspeakable Conventionality: The Perversity of the Kindle American Literary History 33.2:394–415 DOI: 10.1093/alh/ajab004

Topic

Publishing

LGBTQ+ characters, readers and/or authors

genre definitions

fanfiction

Sutton, Denise Hardesty

(2022) Marketing Love: Romance Publishers Mills & Boon and Harlequin Enterprises, 1930–1990 Enterprise & Society 23.3:680-710 DOI: 10.1017/eso.2020.76

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Publishing

Rattanamathuwong, Bancha

(2023) Time Is on Our Side?: Homo Economicus in Time-Travel Romance Critique: Studies in Contemporary Fiction ONLINE FIRST:ONLINE FIRST DOI: 10.1080/00111619.2023.2186212

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