metafiction

readers

Jayne Ann Krentz/Amanda Quick/Jayne Castle

Mary Balogh

Frantz, Sarah S. G. (2012) " "How we love is our soul": Joey W. Hill's BDSM Romance Holding the Cards " New Approaches to Popular Romance Fiction: Critical Essays 47-59

Topic

Fresno-Calleja, Paloma (2019) Chick-Lit Pasifika-Style or How to B(l)end the Formula: Lani Young’s Scarlet Series Contemporary Women's Writing 13.2:203–221

Topic

Fresno-Calleja, Paloma (2022) Repurposing Fantasy Island: Lani Wendt Young’s Telesā Series and the Politics of Postcolonial Romance Interventions: International Journal of Postcolonial Studies ONLINE FIRST:ONLINE FIRST

Topic

Lani Wendt Young

YA/teenage romance

settings

romance and, or as, activism

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Gelder, Ken Weaver, Rachael (2010) Louise Mack and Colonial Pseudo Literature Southerly 70.2:82-95

Topic

Australia

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

Louise Mack

national identity

Gómez Calderón, María José (2007) Romancing the Dark Ages: The Viking Hero in Sentimental Narrative Boletín Millares Carlo 26:287-297

Topic

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

Topic

feminism

readers

social/economic class

Nora Roberts/J. D. Robb

Jasmine Cresswell

Hammill, Faye (2003) " The Republic of Love and Popular Romance " Carol Shields, Narrative Hunger, and the Possibilities of Fiction 61-83

Topic

Henderson, Alex (2023) Genre-savvy Protagonists in Queer YA Rom-coms Journal of Popular Romance Studies 12:

Topic

Herendeen, Ann (2016) " Having it Both Ways; or, Writing from the Third Perspective: The Revolutionary M/M/F Ménage Romance Novel " Romance Fiction and American Culture: Love as the Practice of Freedom? 405-419

Topic

Jensen, Margaret Ann (1984) Love's $weet Return: The Harlequin Story Toronto: The Women's Educational Press

Johnson, Emily D. (2020) Exploring His/Her Library: Reading and Books in Russian Romance Journal of Popular Romance Studies 9:

Topic

Russia

socialism and/or communism

authors

Harlequin Mills & Boon

Galina Kulikova

Natal’ia Mironova

Publishing

race/ethnicity

ecocriticism/environmentalism/climate change

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

Topic

Balaraba Ramat Yakubu

work

capitalism/business

Keegan, Faye Jessica (2016) Soft metafiction(s) : Mary Stewart and the self-reflective middlebrow PhD, University of Newcastle, UK

Topic

Mary Stewart

romantic suspense

fascism/right-wing authoritarianism

Topic

Labanyi, Jo (2004) Romancing the Early Franco Regime: the Novelas Románticas of Concha Linares-Becerra and Luisa-María Linares UC Berkeley: Institute of European Studies: Occasional Papers Working Paper OP-13:

Topic

Concha Linares-Becerra

Luisa-María Linares

Lindfors, Bernth (1993) " Romances for the Office Worker: Aubrey Kalitera and Malawi's White-Collar Reading Public " Major Minorities: English Literatures in Transit 77-88

Topic

Masteller, Jean Carwile (1996) " Romancing the Reader: From Laura Jean Libbey to Harlequin Romance and Beyond " Pioneers, Passionate Ladies, and Private Eyes: Dime Novels, Series Books, and Paperbacks 263-284

Topic

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

Laura Jean Libbey

romances in magazines and newspapers

Publishing

work

social/economic class

Harlequin Mills & Boon

Jayne Ann Krentz/Amanda Quick/Jayne Castle

Matelski, Elizabeth (2016) " "I'm Not the Only Lesbian Who Wears a Skirt": Lesbian Romance Fiction and Identity in Post-World War II America " Romance Fiction and American Culture: Love as the Practice of Freedom? 71-88

Topic

fashion/clothing

United States of America

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

history

Claire Morgan/Patricia Highsmith

Maynard, Lee Anna (2008) LaVyrle Spencer Teaching American Literature: A Journal of Theory and Practice 2.2/3:1-17

Topic

family

death

settings

Miller, Kathleen (2010) A Little Extra Bite: Dis/Ability and Romance in Tanya Huff and Charlaine Harris’s Vampire Fiction Journal of Popular Romance Studies 1.1:

Topic

disability

Moore, Kate Selinger, Eric Murphy (2012) The Heroine as Reader, the Reader as Heroine: Jennifer Crusie’s Welcome to Temptation Journal of Popular Romance Studies 2.2:

Topic

Nakagawa, Chiho (2011) Safe Sex with Defanged Vampires: New Vampire Heroes in Twilight and the Southern Vampire Mysteries Journal of Popular Romance Studies 2.1:

Topic

Charlaine Harris

Twilight

United States of America

virginity

fascism/right-wing authoritarianism

Núñez Puente, Sonia (2008) The Romance Novel and Popular Culture during the Early Franco Regime in Spain: Towards the Construction of Other Discourses of Femininity Journal of Gender Studies 17.3:225-236

Topic

Spain

Paradis, Kenneth (2020) Types and Tropes: History and Moral Agency in Evangelical Inspirational Fiction Christianity & Literature 69.1:73-90

Topic

Christian romance

Francine Rivers

religion/spirituality

history

United States of America

settings

historical romance

Radner, Hilary (1995) Shopping Around: Feminine Culture and the Pursuit of Pleasure New York and London: Routledge

Topic

Roger, Isabel M. (1986) Recreación crítica de la novela rosa en El cuarto de atrás Romance Notes 27.2:121-126

Topic

Moore, Kate Selinger, Eric Murphy (2012) The Heroine as Reader, the Reader as Heroine: Jennifer Crusie’s Welcome to Temptation Journal of Popular Romance Studies 2.2:

Topic

Selinger, Eric Murphy (2014) My Metatextual Romance: Thinking With (and About) Jaane Tu Ya Janne Na Mosaic 47.2:51-66

Topic

film/movies

Selinger, Eric Murphy (2016) " When I Paint My Masterpiece: Bob Dylan, Ekphrasis, and the Art of Susan Elizabeth Phillips " Romance Fiction and American Culture: Love as the Practice of Freedom? 297-319

Topic

Susan Elizabeth Phillips

close reading

music

Selinger, Eric Murphy (2022) " Disaggregating attraction: asexuality and genre critique in Alex Beecroft's Blue Steel Chain " The Routledge Companion to Romantic Love DOI:10.4324/9781003022343-29

Topic

Alex Beecroft

religion/spirituality

Christian romance

food, drink

metaphor/symbolism

Selinger, Eric Murphy (2022) " Disenchantment and its discontents: “modern love” and irony in popular romance fiction " The Routledge Companion to Romantic Love DOI:10.4324/9781003022343-30

Topic

love

Jennifer Crusie

science/technology

religion/spirituality

Sherwood, Kim (2021) " Pride and prejudice: metafiction and the value of historical romance in Georgette Heyer " Georgette Heyer, History, and Historical Fiction 75-87 DOI:10.2307/j.ctv15d818n.10

Topic

Georgette Heyer

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

Sparks, Tabitha (2023) Reading the Women’s Sentimental Novel: A Romance Victorian Popular Fictions Journal 5.1:3-20

Topic

Spillman, K. Elizabeth (2012) " The "Managing Female" in the Novels of Georgette Heyer " New Approaches to Popular Romance Fiction: Critical Essays 84-98

Topic

Talbot, Mary M. (1995) Fictions at Work: Language and Social Practice in Fiction London and New York: Longman

Topic

readers

Harlequin Mills & Boon