metafiction

Jayne Ann Krentz/Amanda Quick/Jayne Castle

sex/sexuality

Belsey, Catherine

(1998) Popular Fiction and the Feminine Masquerade European Journal of English Studies 2.3:343-358 DOI: 10.1080/13825579808574422

Topic

Jayne Ann Krentz/Amanda Quick/Jayne Castle

(2002) ""Expressing" Herself: The Romance Novel and the Feminine Will to Power " Scorned Literature: Essays on the History and Criticism of Popular Mass-Produced Fiction in America 17-36

Topic

fascism/right-wing authoritarianism

Hammill, Faye

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

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

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

Topic

feminism

readers

Gómez Calderón, María José

social/economic class

Nora Roberts/J. D. Robb

Jasmine Cresswell

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

Topic

(2007) "The Best Australian Romance Novelist: Emma Darcy " Beautiful Things in Popular Culture 64–78

Topic

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

Topic

fascism/right-wing authoritarianism

(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 DOI: 10.1080/09589230802204258

Topic

Spain

(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

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

(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

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

Topic

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

Topic

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

Topic

(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

gender

(2011) For Love and Money: The Literary Art of the Harlequin Mills & Boon Romance Tirril, Penrith: Humanities-Ebooks

Topic

Mary Burchell, pen name of Ida Cook

Fay Robinson/Carmel Parsons Thomaston

ecocriticism/environmentalism/climate change

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

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

Topic

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

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

(2012) German Writing, American Reading: Women and the Import of Fiction, 1866-1917 Columbus: Ohio State University Press

Topic

Germany

Wilhelmine Heimburg/Bertha Behrens

E. Marlitt/Eugenie John

Fanny Lewald

Wilhelmine von Hillern

Claire von Glümer

Ursula Zöge von Manteuffel

E. Werner/Elisabeth Bürstenbinder

Nataly von Eschstruth

Moritz von Reichenbach/Valeska von Reiswitz, Gräfin von Bethusy-Huc

social/economic class

Charlotte Brontë

E. Juncker

Golo Raimund/Bertha [Heyn] Frederich

(2012) Crusie and the Con Journal of Popular Romance Studies 2.2:

Topic

(2012) Tell Me Lies: Lying, Storytelling, and the Romance Novel as Feminist Fiction Journal of Popular Romance Studies 2.2:

Topic

(2014) Strange Bedfellows: Subjectivity, Romance, and Hidden Object Video Games Games and Culture 9.6:417-428 DOI: 10.1177/1555412014544904

Topic

computer/video/digital games

Christen Anne Kelley

Fletcher, Lisa

(2014) Writing the Happy Ever After: An Interview with Anne Gracie Journal of Popular Romance Studies 4.2:

Topic

Anne Gracie

(2014) My Metatextual Romance: Thinking With (and About) Jaane Tu Ya Janne Na Mosaic 47.2:51-66 DOI: 10.1353/mos.2014.0013

Topic

film/movies

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

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

Topic

Mary Stewart

romantic suspense

(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

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

gender

history

Claire Morgan/Patricia Highsmith

(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

gender

music

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

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

authors

socialism and/or communism

Galina Kulikova

Natal’ia Mironova

Publishing

race/ethnicity

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

history

ecocriticism/environmentalism/climate change

(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

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

(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

sex/sexuality

Christian romance

food, drink

metaphor/symbolism

(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

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

settings

romance and, or as, activism

Henderson, Alex

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

Topic

rom-com romance

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

(2023) Reading the Women’s Sentimental Novel: A Romance Victorian Popular Fictions Journal 5.1:3-20 DOI: 10.46911/FLWG9098

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

love

sex/sexuality

Lienhard, Alissa

(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