metafiction

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 DOI: 10.1093/cww/vpaa003

Topic

paranormal/fantasy/time-travel romance

Fresno-Calleja, Paloma

(2023) Repurposing Fantasy Island: Lani Wendt Young’s Telesā Series and the Politics of Postcolonial Romance Interventions: International Journal of Postcolonial Studies 25.1:100-117 DOI: 10.1080/1369801X.2022.2054011

Topic

Lani Wendt Young

YA/teenage romance

settings

romance and, or as, activism

Fletcher, Lisa

Gaby, Rosemary

Kloester, Jennifer

(2011) Pedagogy Report: Embedding Popular Romance Studies in Undergraduate English Units: Teaching Georgette Heyer’s Sylvester Journal of Popular Romance Studies 1.2:

Topic

(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

paranormal/fantasy/time-travel romance

(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

(2023) Genre-savvy Protagonists in Queer YA Rom-coms Journal of Popular Romance Studies 12: DOI: 10.70138/DEEX8262

Topic

(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

(2024) “It really got to me [...] The movies where the main characters freaked out about being virgins at the age of sixteen”: Narrative Subversion as a Queer Strategy in Loveless Master of Arts, Ghent University

Topic

Alice Oseman

(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: DOI: 10.70138/EVAV6668

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

(2011) Pedagogy Report: Embedding Popular Romance Studies in Undergraduate English Units: Teaching Georgette Heyer’s Sylvester Journal of Popular Romance Studies 1.2:

Topic

(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

(2024) “I’ll Call it Platonic Magic”: Queer Joy, Metafiction, and Aro-Ace Autofictional Selves in Alice Oseman’s Loveless In Progress: A Graduate Journal of North American Studies 2.1:59-72 DOI: 10.15488/17355

Topic

Alice Oseman

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

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

Topic

Warren, Jean-Philippe

(2024) Love Stories Now and Then: A History of Les romans d'amour : Baraka

Topic

Canada

Philippe Aubert de Gaspé Jr.

Joseph Doutre

Pierre-Joseph-Olivier Chauveau

social/economic class

religion/spirituality

Albertine Laperle-Bernier

dime novels

Harlequin Mills & Boon

YA/teenage romance

chick lit

Marie-Claude Bussières-Tremblay

Micheline Perron

Raymond Plante

Bertrand Gauthier

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

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

Laura Jean Libbey

romances in magazines and newspapers

Publishing

work

social/economic class

Harlequin Mills & Boon

sex/sexuality

Jayne Ann Krentz/Amanda Quick/Jayne Castle