race/ethnicity

Interracial Books for Children Bulletin,

(1981) Romance Series for Young Readers: A Report to Educators and Parents in Concert with the National Education Association New York: The Council on Interracial Books for Children

Topic

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

(1982) The Rescue And Romance: Popular Novels Before World War I Bowling Green, Ohio: Bowling Green State University Popular Press

Topic

Jensen, Margaret Ann

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

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

Topic

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

Topic

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

Topic

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

(1985) Indian Romances: Tracts for the Times Journal of Popular Culture 18.4:2-15 DOI: 10.1111/j.0022-3840.1985.00002.x

Topic

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

Topic

(1987) Up From Under, or On Not Marrying the Racist Aussie Boss: Strategies for Reading Romantic Fiction Hecate 13.1:7-20

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Australia

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

Margaret Way

Melman, Billie

(1988) Women and the Popular Imagination in the Twenties: Flappers and Nymphs Houndmills, Basingstoke: Macmillan

Topic

community

Moss, Gemma

(1989) Un/Popular Fictions London: Virago

Topic

(1989) "Romantic Readers " From My Guy to Sci-Fi: Genre and Women's Writing in the Postmodern World 58-77

Topic

Barbara Taylor Bradford

lesbian romance

Margaret Mitchell

Christian-Smith, Linda K.

Belgrave, Valerie

(1990) "On Combining Batik Art and Novel Writing " Caribbean Women Writers: Essays from the First International Conference 317-324

Topic

(1990) "Thoughts on the Choice of Theme and Approach in Writing Ti Marie " Caribbean Women Writers: Essays from the First International Conference 325-327

Topic

(1990) Becoming a Woman Through Romance London: Routledge

Topic

Cranny-Francis, Anne

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

Topic

(1991) The Contemporary Indian Romance: A Review Essay American Indian Culture and Research Journal 15.4:97-101 DOI: 10.17953/aicr.15.4.3364826673xm74t7

Topic

(1991) Love and the Lions: The Image of White Settlement in Kenya in Popular Fiction, 1919-1939 African Affairs 90.360:427-438 DOI: 10.1093/oxfordjournals.afraf.a098441

Topic

(1992) Teenage Pregnancy: Dating and Sexual Attitudes Journal of Sex Education and Therapy 18.4:264-276 DOI: 10.1080/01614576.1992.11074059

Topic

(1992) Teenage Pregnancy: Dating and Sexual Attitudes Journal of Sex Education and Therapy 18.4:264-276 DOI: 10.1080/01614576.1992.11074059

Topic

(1992) Teenage Pregnancy: Dating and Sexual Attitudes Journal of Sex Education and Therapy 18.4:264-276 DOI: 10.1080/01614576.1992.11074059

Topic

(1992) Teenage Pregnancy: Dating and Sexual Attitudes Journal of Sex Education and Therapy 18.4:264-276 DOI: 10.1080/01614576.1992.11074059

Topic

(1992) Teenage Pregnancy: Dating and Sexual Attitudes Journal of Sex Education and Therapy 18.4:264-276 DOI: 10.1080/01614576.1992.11074059

Topic

(1993) Textual Deviancy and Cultural Syncretism: Romantic Fiction as a Subversive Strain in Black Women's Writing Wasafiri 17:10-14 DOI: 10.1080/02690059308574297

Topic

Valerie Belgrave

Christian-Smith, Linda K.

(1993) "Voices of Resistance: Young Women Readers of Romance Fiction " Beyond Silenced Voices: Class, Race, and Gender in United States Schools 169-189

Topic

(1993) Textual Deviancy and Cultural Syncretism: Romantic Fiction as a Subversive Strain in Black Women's Writing Wasafiri 17:10-14 DOI: 10.1080/02690059308574297

Topic

Valerie Belgrave

Evans, Julie

(1993) Beatrice Grimshaw and Australia - White Women in the Pacific Olive Pink Society Bulletin 5.1:34-39

Topic

Oceania

Moss, Gemma

(1993) "The Place for Romance in Young People's Writing " Texts of Desire: Essays on Fiction, Femininity and Schooling 106–125 DOI:10.4324/9781315810119

Topic

(1993) "Romance in the Forbidden Zone " ReImagining Women: Representations of Women in Culture 160-181

Topic

Arlene James

Bryce, Jane

(1994) 'A World of Caribbean Romance': Reformulating the Legend of Love (or: 'Can a Caress Be Culturally Specific?') Caribbean Studies 27.3/4:346–366

Topic

Caribbean

(1994) Palimpsest of Desire: The Re-Emergence of the American Captivity Narrative as Pulp Romance Journal of Popular Culture 27.4:43-56 DOI: 10.1111/j.0022-3840.1994.2704_43.x

Topic

(1995) "(Not) Compromising: Inter-Skin Colour Relations " Romance Revisited 197-209

Topic

Ann Allen Shockley

(1995) Exploring the World of Romance Novels Public Libraries 34.3:144–151

Topic

Linz, Cathie

Bouricius, Ann

Byrnes, Carole

(1995) Exploring the World of Romance Novels Public Libraries 34.3:144–151

Topic

Linz, Cathie

Bouricius, Ann

Byrnes, Carole

(1995) Exploring the World of Romance Novels Public Libraries 34.3:144–151

Topic

Puren, Nina

(1995) Hymeneal Acts: Interrogating the Hegemony of Rape and Romance Australian Feminist Law Journal 5:15-26 DOI: 10.1080/13200968.1995.11077171

Topic

Uddin-Khan, Evelyn Angelina

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

Topic

(1995) Gender, Ethnicity and the Romance Novel Ed.D., Teachers College, Columbia University

Topic

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

Topic

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

Topic

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

Topic

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

Topic

Laframboise, Donna

(1996) The Princess at the Window: A New Gender Morality Toronto: Penguin

Topic

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

Topic

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

Topic

van Lent, Peter

(1996) "“Her Beautiful Savage”: The Current Sexual Image of the Native American Male " Dressing in Feathers: The Construction of the Indian in American Popular Culture 211-227

Topic

Wintle, Sarah

(1996) The Sheik: What Can be Made of a Daydream Women: A Cultural Review 7.3:291-302 DOI: 10.1080/09574049608578285

Topic

(1997) Sheik Fantasies: Orientalism and Feminine Desire in the Desert Romance Hecate 23.1:9-40

Topic

(1997) An Analysis to Determine if Popular Romance Novels, Read by Today’s High School Students, Reflect the Characteristics and Roles of Women in Current Society M.S. in Education with Emphasis in Library Science, University of Wyoming

Topic

Linke, Gabriele

(1997) Contemporary Mass Market Romances as National and International Culture: A Comparative Study of Mills & Boon and Harlequin Romances Para.doxa: Studies in World Literary Genres 3.1-2:195-213

Topic

Mussell, Kay

(1997) Where's Love Gone? Transformations in Romance Fiction and Scholarship Para.doxa: Studies in World Literary Genres 3.1-2:3-14

Topic

Wardrop, Stephanie

(1997) Last of the Red Hot Mohicans: Miscegenation in the Popular American Romance MELUS 22.2:61-74 DOI: 10.2307/468135

Topic

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

(1998) La obra de Carmen de Icaza en la difusión de un "nuevo" concepto de nación española Revista Hispánica Moderna 51.1:64-71

Topic

Carmen de Icaza

Backman, Nelina Esther

(1999) Evangelism Embarrassed: Christian Literature in a post-Christian Culture PhD, Brown University

Topic

Jarvis, Christine

(1999) Love Changes Everything: The Transformative Potential of Popular Romantic Fiction Studies in the Education of Adults 31.2:109-123 DOI: 10.1080/02660830.1999.11661406

Topic

marriage

(1999) Passion's Fortune: The Story of Mills & Boon Oxford: Oxford University Press

Topic

Mary Burchell, pen name of Ida Cook

Betty Beaty

Elizabeth Carfrae

Fay Chandos/Jan Tempest

Sophie Cole

Lilian Warren as Kathryn Blair/Rosalind Brett/Celine Conway

Iris Danbury

Joyce Dingwell/Kate Starr

Roberta Leigh/Rachel Lindsay

Jean S. MacLeod/Catherine Airlie

Mary Lutyens/Esther Wyndham

Kate Norway/Olive Norton

Denise Robins

Sara Seale

Juliet Shore/Anne Vinton

Ireland

Pecora, Norma

(1999) "Identity by Design: The Corporate Construction of Teen Romance Novels " Growing Up Girls: Popular Culture and the Construction of Identity 49-86

Topic

fashion/clothing

food, drink

Postma, Kathlene

(1999) American Women Readers Encounter Turkey in the Shadow of Popular Romance Journal of American Studies of Turkey 9:71-82

Topic

Greece

Turkey

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

Demetra Vaka

Ramsdell, Kristin

(1999) Romance Fiction: A Guide to the Genre Englewood, Colorado: Libraries Unlimited

Topic

(1999) "Beautiful Indians, Troublesome Negroes, and Nice White Men: Caribbean Romances and the Invention of Trinidad " Caribbean Romances: The Politics of Regional Representation 163-182

Topic

(1999) Shanghaied By Sheiks: Orientalism and hybridity in women's romance writing Olive Pink Society Bulletin 11.1:12–21

Topic

Burley, Stephanie

(2000) Shadows and Silhouettes: The Racial Politics of Category Romance Para.doxa: Studies in World Literary Genres 5.13-14:324-343

Topic

Caton, Steven C.

(2000) "The Sheik: Instabilities of Race and Gender in Transatlantic Popular Culture of the Early 1920s " Noble Dreams, Wicked Pleasures: Orientalism in America, 1870-1930 99-117

Topic

Hallam, Julia

(2000) Nursing the Image: Media, Culture and Professional Identity London and New York: Routledge

Topic

Macdonald, Andrew

Macdonald, Gina

Sheridan, Mary Ann

(2000) Shape-shifting: Images of Native Americans in Recent Popular Fiction Westport, Connecticut: Greenwood Press

Topic

(2000) Shape-shifting: Images of Native Americans in Recent Popular Fiction Westport, Connecticut: Greenwood Press

Topic

(2000) Shape-shifting: Images of Native Americans in Recent Popular Fiction Westport, Connecticut: Greenwood Press

Topic

de Jesús, Melinda L.

(2001) "Two’s Company, Three’s a Crowd?": Reading Interracial Romance in Contemporary Asian American Young Adult Fiction LIT: Literature Interpretation Theory 12.3:313–334 DOI: 10.1080/10436920108580294

Topic

Haemi Balgassi

Kate Emberg

Lois-Ann Yamanaka

Parameswaran, Radhika

(2002) Reading Fictions of Romance: Gender, Sexuality, and Nationalism in Postcolonial India Journal of Communication 52.4:832-851 DOI: 10.1111/j.1460-2466.2002.tb02576.x

Topic

Smith, William Clay Kinchen

(2002) Revising Captivity Narratives PhD, University of Florida

Topic

(2003) "What "Race" is the Sheik?: Rereading a Desert Romance " Doubled Plots: Romance and History 67-85

Topic

Burley, Stephanie Carol

(2003) Hearts of Darkness: The Racial Politics of Popular Romance PhD, University of Maryland, College Park

Topic

B. J. James

Dara Joy

Sandra Kitt

Dandridge, Rita B.

(2003) "African American Women's Historical Romances: Race and Gender Revisited " The 2000-2003 Proceedings of the SW/Texas PCA/ACA Conference 42-56

Topic

(2003) "The Race, Gender, Romance Connection: A Black Feminist Reading of African American Women's Historical Romances " Doubled Plots: Romance and History 185-201

Topic

Morgan, Paula

(2003) “Like Bush Fire in My Arms”: Interrogating the World of Caribbean Romance Journal of Popular Culture 36.4:804-827 DOI: 10.1111/1540-5931.00046

Topic

Osborne, Gwendolyn E.

(2003) "In Search of Women Who Look Like Me: A Brief History of the African-American Romance " The 2000-2003 Proceedings of the SW/Texas PCA/ACA Conference 2020-2044

Topic

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

(2003) "Behind the Mask of Coquetry: The Trickster Narrative in Miss Numè of Japan: A Japanese-American Romance " Doubled Plots: Romance and History 86-106

Topic

Onoto Watanna/Winnifred Eaton

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

Japan

Mary Gaunt, with John Ridgwell Essex

Teo, Hsu-Ming

(2003) "The Romance of White Nations: Imperialism, Popular Culture and National Histories " After the Imperial Turn: Thinking with and through the Nation 279-292 DOI:10.1215/9780822384397-018

Topic

Dandridge, Rita B.

(2004) Black Women's Activism: Reading African American Women's Historical Romances New York: Peter Lang

Topic

Anita Richmond Bunkley

Osborne, Gwendolyn E.

(2004) ""Women Who Look Like Me": Cultural Identity and Reader Responses to African American Romance Novels " Race/Gender/Media: Considering Diversity Across Audiences, Content, and Producers 61-68

Topic

love

Teo, Hsu-Ming

(2004) Romancing the Raj: Interracial Relations in Anglo-Indian Romance Novels History of Intellectual Culture 4.1:

Topic

Blanding, Cristen

(2005) Interracial romance novels and the resolution of racial difference MA thesis, Bowling Green State University

Topic

Downey, Kristin

(2005) Irony, Ideology, and Resistance: The Amazing Double Life of Harlequin Presents PhD, McMaster University

Topic

(2005) Margins of Desire: The Suburbs in Fiction and Culture, 1880-1925 Manchester: Manchester University Press

Topic

emotions

(2006) X Press Publications: Pop Culture, “Pop Lit” and Caribbean Literary Criticism: An Essay of Provocation Anthurium: A Caribbean Studies Journal 4.1: DOI: 10.33596/anth.61

Topic

(2006) "English Sheiks" and Arab Stereotypes: E. M. Hull, T. E. Lawrence, and the Imperial Masquerade Texas Studies in Literature and Language 48.2:171-186 DOI: 10.1353/tsl.2006.0007

Topic

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

Topic

Jasmine Cresswell

Neal, Lynn S.

(2006) Romancing God: Evangelical Women and Inspirational Fiction Chapel Hill: University of North Carolina Press

Topic

Grace Livingston Hill

(2007) The Black Romance Women's Studies Quarterly 35.1/2:191-211

Topic

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

Frances Watkins Harper

Caribbean

Foster, Guy Mark

(2007) "How Dare a Black Woman Make Love to a White Man! Black Women Romance Novelists and the Taboo of Interracial Desire " Empowerment versus Oppression: Twenty-First Century Views of Popular Romance Novels 103-128

Topic

(2007) "Bound to Love: Captivity in Harlequin Sheikh Novels " Empowerment versus Oppression: Twenty-First Century Views of Popular Romance Novels 42-64

Topic

Henderson, Courtney R.

(2007) Ladies and Loners: A Comparative Gender Study of the Romance and Popular Western Master of Arts, University of Texas at Arlington

Topic

Johanna Lindsey

Joan Johnston

Seale, Maura

(2007) ""I find some Hindu practices like burning widows, utterly bizarre": Representations of Sati and Questions of Choice in Veils of Silk " Empowerment versus Oppression: Twenty-First Century Views of Popular Romance Novels 129-147

Topic

(2007) And You Can Be My Sheikh: Gender, Race, and Orientalism in Contemporary Romance Novels Journal of Popular Culture 40.6:1032-1051 DOI: 10.1111/j.1540-5931.2007.00484.x

Topic

(2007) "Orientalism and Mass Market Romance Novels in the Twentieth Century " Edward Said: The Legacy of a Public Intellectual 241-262

Topic

Brown, Fahamisha Patricia

(2008) Anita Richmond Bunkley Teaching American Literature: A Journal of Theory and Practice 2.2/3:1-5

Topic

Anita Richmond Bunkley

Brown, Fahamisha Patricia

(2008) Beverly Jenkins Teaching American Literature: A Journal of Theory and Practice 2.2/3:1-6

Topic

(2008) "Suzanne Brockmann" Teaching American Literature: A Journal of Theory and Practice 2.2/3:1-19

Topic

Suzanne Brockmann

Hall, Glinda Fountain

(2008) Inverting the Southern Belle: Romance Writers Redefine Gender Myths Journal of Popular Culture 41.1:37-55 DOI: 10.1111/j.1540-5931.2008.00491.x

Topic

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

Topic

(2008) Re-imagining the late-colonial Anglo-Indian woman's romance: Reading Maud Diver PhD, Drew University

Topic

Maud Diver

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

White, Ann Yvonne

(2008) Genesis Press: Cultural Representation and the Production of African American Romance Novels PhD, University of Iowa

Topic

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

Dyanne Davis

Wood, Andrea

(2008) Radicalizing Romance: Subculture, Sex, and Media at the Margins PhD, University of Florida

Topic

(2009) "I’ve tried my entire life to be a good man': Suzanne Brockmann’s Sam Starrett, Ideal Romance Hero " Women Constructing Men: Female Novelists and their Male Characters, 1750-2000 227-247

Topic

(2009) Challenging the -isms: Gender and Race in Brockmann's Troubleshooters, Inc. Romance Novels Journal of Media Sociology 1.3/4:182-201

Topic

(2010) The African American Historical Romance: An Interview with Beverly Jenkins Journal of Popular Romance Studies 1.1:

Topic

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

Topic

Mogin-Martin, Roselyne

(2010) Corín Tellado : ¿de la novela rosa a la novela comprometida? Revista Arbor 186, Anexo 3:327-347

Topic

(2010) Historicizing The Sheik: Comparisons of the British Novel and the American Film Journal of Popular Romance Studies 1.1:

Topic

Young, Erin S.

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

Topic

(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

Topic

(2011) Desiring the Big Bad Blade: Racing the Sheikh in Desert Romances American Quarterly 63.4:895-928 DOI: 10.1353/aq.2011.0061

Topic

Philips, Deborah

(2011) "The Empire of Romance: Love in a Postcolonial Climate " End of Empire and the English Novel since 1945 114-133

Topic

Pamela Kent

Juliet Shore/Anne Vinton

Jean Herbert

Lilian Warren as Kathryn Blair/Rosalind Brett/Celine Conway

Africa

medical romance

Arargüç, M. Fikret

(2012) Empire and Romance: John Masters's Nightrunners of Bengal Interactions: Ege Journal of British and American Studies 21.1-2:1-14

Topic

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

Topic

(2012) "Ornamentalism: Desire, Disavowal, and Displacement in E. M. Hull's The Sheik " Must Read: Rediscovering American Bestsellers from Charlotte Temple to The Da Vinci Code 197-216

Topic

Harders, Robin

(2012) "Borderlands of Desire: Captivity, Romance, and the Revolutionary Power of Love " New Approaches to Popular Romance Fiction: Critical Essays 133-152

Topic

(2012) Multiculturalism, Sex, and Powerful Women: The New Romance Novel as the Voice of Neofeminism? MA thesis, Dartmouth College

Topic

Tatlock, Lynne

(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

metafiction

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

Charlotte Brontë

E. Juncker

Golo Raimund/Bertha [Heyn] Frederich

(2012) Desert Passions: Orientalism and Romance Novels Austin, Texas: University of Texas Press

Topic

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

Weaver-Zercher, Valerie

(2012) Tracing the Backstory of Amish Romance Novels Mennonite Quarterly Review 86.4:409-435

Topic

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

rural romance

Helen Reimensnyder Martin

Beverly Lewis

Cora Gottschalk Welty

(2013) "Monsters: Monstrous Identities in Young Adult Romance " (Re)Imagining the World: Children’s Literature’s Response to Changing Times 115-125

Topic

Frederick, Rhonda

(2013) Making Jamaican Love: Colin Channer's Waiting in Vain and Romance-ified Diaspora Identities Small Axe: A Caribbean Journal Of Criticism 17.3:63-84 DOI: 10.1215/07990537-2378919

Topic

(2013) “How Much Can You Read about Interracial Love and Sex without Getting Sore?”: Readers’ Debate over Interracial Relationships in the Baltimore Afro-American Journalism History 39.2:104-114 DOI: 10.1080/00947679.2013.12062906

Topic

Ross, Marlon B.

(2013) “What’s Love But a Second Hand Emotion?”: Man-on-Man Passion in the Contemporary Black Gay Romance Novel Callaloo 36.3:669-687 DOI: 10.1353/cal.2013.0159

Topic

(2013) Write the Book of Your Heart: Career, Passion and Publishing in the Romance Writing Community PhD, University of Toronto

Topic

(2013) Georgette Heyer: The Nonesuch of Regency Romance Journal of Popular Romance Studies 3.2: DOI: 10.17613/4nan-1375

Topic

Weaver-Zercher, Valerie

(2013) Thrill of the Chaste: the Allure of Amish Romance Novels Baltimore: The Johns Hopkins University Press

Weisser, Susan Ostrov

(2013) The Glass Slipper: Women and Love Stories New Brunswick, New Jersey: Rutgers University Press

Topic

Borgia, Danielle N.

(2014) Twilight: The Glamorization of Abuse, Codependency, and White Privilege The Journal of Popular Culture 47.1:153-173 DOI: 10.1111/j.1540-5931.2011.00872.x

Topic

Twilight

Kamblé, Jayashree

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

Mayfield, Kerrita K.

(2014) Liminal eRoticism: Emerging Forms of Gender Identity and Performance in e-Romances and Their Feminist Electronic Communities Taboo: The Journal of Culture and Education 14.1:53-70 DOI: 10.31390/taboo.14.1.07

Topic

(2014) “We have to learn to love imperially”: Love in Late Colonial and Federation Australian Romance Novels Journal of Popular Romance Studies 4.2:

Trevenen, Claire

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

Topic

(2014) "Desired State: Black Economic Empowerment and the South African Popular Romance " Popular Culture in Africa: The Episteme of the Everyday 154-171

Topic

Bennett-Kapusniak, Renee

McCleer, Adriana

(2015) Love in the Digital Library: A Search for Racial Heterogeneity in E-Books Journal of Popular Romance Studies 5.1:

Topic

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

Chandra, Elizabeth

(2015) Blossoming Dahlia: Chinese Women Novelists in Colonial Indonesia Southeast Asian Studies 4.3:533-564

Topic

Indonesia

(2015) Stacy Holden’s ‘Love in the Desert’: An Author’s Response Journal of Popular Romance Studies 5.1:

Topic

Escolar, Marisa

(2015) Marry the Allies? Luciana Peverelli’s ‘True’ Romanzo Rosa in ‘Liberated’ Rome Italian Studies 70.2:228-248 DOI: 10.1179/0075163415Z.00000000097

Topic

Luciana Peverelli

Italy

(2015) Chica Lit: Popular Latina Fiction and Americanization in the Twenty-First Century Pittsburgh: University of Pittsburgh Press

Topic

Heiss, Karin

(2015) 14 Weeks of Love and Labour: Teaching Regency and Desert Romance to Undergraduate Students Journal of Popular Romance Studies 5.1:

Topic

(2015) "Brothers under Covers: Race and the Paranormal Romance Novel " Race in the Vampire Narrative 23–43 DOI:10.1163/9789463002929_004

Topic

(2015) Love is (Color) Blind: Historical Romance Fiction and Interracial Relationships in the Twenty-First Century PhD, Bowling Green State University

Topic

Jarmakani, Amira

(2015) An Imperialist Love Story: Desert Romances and the War on Terror New York: New York University Press

Topic

Bennett-Kapusniak, Renee

McCleer, Adriana

(2015) Love in the Digital Library: A Search for Racial Heterogeneity in E-Books Journal of Popular Romance Studies 5.1:

Topic

Miller, Jessica

(2015) Passionate Virtue: Conceptions of Medical Professionalism in Popular Romance Fiction Literature and Medicine 33.1:70-90 DOI: 10.1353/lm.2015.0010

Topic

medical romance

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

rural romance

Mirmohamadi, Kylie

(2015) Love on the Land: Australian Rural Romance in Place English Studies 96.2:204-224 DOI: 10.1080/0013838X.2014.983786

Topic

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

Topic

virginity

Dandridge, Rita B.

(2016) "Love Prevailed Despite What American History Said: Agape and Eros in Beverly Jenkins's Night Song and Through the Storm " Romance Fiction and American Culture: Love as the Practice of Freedom? 151-166

Topic

wealth/prosperity

Francis, Conseula

(2016) "Flipping the Script: Romancing Zane's Urban Erotica " Romance Fiction and American Culture: Love as the Practice of Freedom? 167-180

Topic

Zane

(2016) Identification, Affect, and Escape: Theorizing Popular Romance Reading Pedagogy 16.1:105-123 DOI: 10.1215/15314200-3158669

Topic

Susan Elizabeth Phillips

(2016) "Scripting Black Love in the 1990s: Pleasure, Respectability, and Responsibility in an Era of HIV/AIDS " Romance Fiction and American Culture: Love as the Practice of Freedom? 111-127

Topic

Brenda Jackson

Stella Eromonsere-Ajanaku

O'Neil, Kathryn M.

(2016) Women's rhetoric and the romance novel genre Master of Arts, University of Texas Rio Grande Valley

Topic

Peabody, Rebecca

(2016) "Kara Walker: American Romance in Black and White " Romance Fiction and American Culture: Love as the Practice of Freedom? 131-150

Topic

Barbara Ferry Johnson

Schalk, Sami

(2016) Happily Ever After for Whom? Blackness and Disability in Romance Narratives Journal of Popular Culture 49.6:1241–1260 DOI: 10.1111/jpcu.12491

Topic

Teo, Hsu-Ming

(2016) "Imperial Affairs: The British Empire and the Romantic Novel, 1890-1939 " New Directions in Popular Fiction: Genre, Distribution, Reproduction 87-110 DOI:10.1057/978-1-137-52346-4_5

(2016) Pursuing Happiness: Reading American Romance as Political Fiction Tirril, Penrith: Humanities-Ebooks

Young, Erin S.

(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

Topic

wealth/prosperity

Achieng’, Okang’a Nancy

(2017) A Cosmopolitan National Romance: A Study of In Dependence by Sarah Ladipo Manyika MA thesis, University of the Witwatersrand, Johannesburg

Topic

Sarah Ladipo Manyika

Nigeria

(2017) Human in Death: Morality and Mortality in J. D. Robb's Novels Waco, Texas: Baylor University Press

Topic

police officers/police forces

Ali, Kecia

(2017) Troubleshooting Post-9/11 America: Religion, Racism, and Stereotypes in Suzanne Brockmann’s Into the Night and Gone Too Far Journal of Popular Romance Studies 6:

Topic

Suzanne Brockmann

(2017) Hearthrobs: A History of Women and Desire Oxford: Oxford University Press

Topic

(2017) Reading the Romance Writer as an Author-Entrepreneur Interférences littéraires/Literaire interferenties 21:131-160

Topic

(2017) "For the Sake of Hearth and Home: Gender Schematicity in the Romance Novel " Discourses on Gender and Sexual Inequality: The Legacy of Sandra L. Bem 115-128 DOI:10.1108/S1529-212620170000023006

Topic

(2017) Marketing Desire: The "Normative/Other" Male Body and the "Pure" White Female Body on the Cover Art of Cassie Edwards' Savage Dream (1990), Savage Persuasion (1991), and Savage Mists (1992) MA thesis, McGill University

Topic

Cassie Edwards

(2017) "Love in Australian Romance Novels " The Popular Culture of Romantic Love in Australia 194-222

Topic

Topic

(2017) "Love in Australian Romance Novels " The Popular Culture of Romantic Love in Australia 194-222

Topic

(2017) "A Place “We All Dream About”: Greece in Mills & Boon Romances " Greece in British Women’s Literary Imagination, 1913-2013 81-98

Topic

Greece

science/technology

myth

Abdullah-Poulos, Layla

(2018) The Stable Muslim Love Triangle - Triangular Desire in African American Muslim Romance Fiction Journal of Popular Romance Studies 7:

Topic

(2018) Romance Fiction in the Archives Journal of Popular Romance Studies 7:

Topic

Bhasin, Neeta

(2018) Romancing the 'Illegal' Immigrant Journal of Literature and Art Studies 8.10:1459-1474 DOI: 10.17265/2159-5836/2018.10.004

Topic

Serena Bell

(2018) “And he was an Arab!:” Imperial Femininity and Pleasure in E. M. Hull's 1919 Desert Romance, The Sheik Honors thesis, University of Kansas

Topic

Hallock, Jennifer

(2018) History Ever After: Fabricated Historical Chronotopes in Romance Genre Fiction 2018 IASPR conference :

Topic

Kingston, Elizabeth

(2018) History's Been Hijacked: How To Combat White Supremacy Through Popular Literature Researching the Romance, conference held at Bowling Green State University, on 13 April :

Topic

(2018) Exoticism, Ethnocentrism, and Englishness in Popular Romance Fiction: Constructing the European Other Journal of Popular Culture 51.4:940-955 DOI: 10.1111/jpcu.12710

Topic

Rabanal, Hayley

(2018) Courting convivencia: Hispano-Arab identity and Spanish women’s Orientalism in the Franco regime’s years of “unbearable solitude” (1946–1950) Journal of Spanish Cultural Studies 19.3:339-364 DOI: 10.1080/14636204.2018.1493891

Topic

María Adela Durango

Ana Marcela García

María del Pilar Carré

Ramsdell, Kristin

(2018) Encyclopedia of Romance Fiction Santa Barbara, California: Greenwood

Topic

Elinor Glyn

Margaret Mitchell

Victoria Holt/Jean Plaidy/Eleanor Burford Hibbert

Georgette Heyer

Samuel Richardson

(2018) From Exhalation to Transformation: The Female Body in the Orientalist Romance Dandelion: Postgraduate Arts Journal & Research Network 9.1: DOI: 10.16995/ddl.686

Topic

(2018) "Flexible Nations: Canadian Romance Writers, American Romance, and the Romance of Canada " Reading between the Borderlines: Cultural Production and Consumption across the 49th Parallel 199-221 DOI:10.2307/j.ctv941x2b.12

Topic

(2018) "The Contemporary Anglophone Romance Genre " Oxford Research Encyclopedia of Literature DOI:10.1093/acrefore/9780190201098.013.415

Topic

(2018) Ireland and the Popular Genre of Historical Romance: The Novels of Karen Robards ABEI: Brazilian Journal of Irish Studies 20.2:97-109 DOI: 10.37389/abei.v20i2.3204

Topic

Vitackova, Martina

(2018) Representation of racial and sexual ‘others’ in Afrikaans popular romantic fiction by Sophia Kapp Tydskrif vir letterkunde 55.1:122-133 DOI: 10.17159/2309-9070/tvl.v.55i1.3480

Topic

(2019) Sacrifices, Sidekicks, and Scapegoats: Black Characters and White Stories in Nora Roberts’s Romances Journal of Asia-Pacific Pop Culture 4.2:149-168 DOI: 10.5325/jasiapacipopcult.4.2.0149

Topic

death

police officers/police forces

Fernández Rodríguez, Carolina

(2019) Chamorro WWII Romances: Combating Erasure with Tales of Survival and Vitality Journal of Popular Romance Studies 8:

Topic

Guam

languages

(2019) Les Thug Love : des romans sentimentaux à l'épreuve de la classe et de la race Genre en séries : cinéma, télévision, médias 9:15-37

Topic

France

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

Fraysse, Mélie

Garcia, Marie-Carmen

(2019) Les Thug Love : des romans sentimentaux à l'épreuve de la classe et de la race Genre en séries : cinéma, télévision, médias 9:15-37

Topic

France

Kerr, Ashley Elizabeth

(2019) Indigenous Lovers and Villainous Scientists: Rewriting Nineteenth-Century Ideas of Race in Argentine Romance Novels Chasqui 48.1:293-310

Topic

(2019) "The Color of Romance: Gatekeeping in the Age of Digital Media " Voices: Exploring the Shifting Contours of Communication 99-??? DOI:10.3726/b14771

Topic

Luneau, Marie-Pier

Warren, Jean-Philippe

(2019) Ce que le roman catholique fait au roman sentimental : le cas de la collection « Amour et aventure » COnTEXTES 23: DOI: 10.4000/contextes.7903

Topic

Rollins, Shannon Marie

(2019) Crafting women’s narratives: the material impact of twenty-first century romance fiction on contemporary steampunk dress PhD, University of Edinburgh

Topic

Warren, Jean-Philippe

(2019) Ce que le roman catholique fait au roman sentimental : le cas de la collection « Amour et aventure » COnTEXTES 23: DOI: 10.4000/contextes.7903

Topic

Williams, Elizabeth W.

(2019) "Queering Settler Romance: The Reparative Eugenic Landscape in Nora Strange's Kenyan Novels " Archiving Settler Colonialism: Culture, Space and Race 190-204

Topic

Adair, Joshua G.

(2020) "“A Battlefield All Their Own”: Selling Women’s Fictions as Fact at Plantation Museums " Museums, Sexuality, and Gender Activism 239-251

Topic

Dixon, jay

(2020) The Depiction of Masculinity and Nationality in The Sheik Journal of Popular Romance Studies 9: DOI: 10.70138/SZDL2262

Topic

Duvezin-Caubet, Caroline

(2020) Gaily Ever After: Neo-Victorian M/M Genre Romance for the Twenty-First Century Neo-Victorian Studies 13.1:242-269 DOI: 10.5281/zenodo.4320839

Topic

(2020) "The Ethnic Labelling of a Genre Gone Global: A Distant Comparison of African-American and African Chick Lit " Literary Translation, Reception, and Transfer: The Many Languages of Comparative Literature 313–326 DOI:10.1515/9783110641998-026

Topic

Henderson, Aneeka Ayanna

(2020) Veil and Vow: Marriage Matters in Contemporary African American Culture : University of North Carolina Press

Topic

(2020) "Public Conflicts and Private Treaties in Kathleen Eagle’s Fire and Rain " Love, Language, Place, and Identity in Popular Culture: Romancing the Other 97-111

Topic

Kathleen Eagle

Jansen, Annie

(2020) Rethinking romance: An argument for adding the genre to the popular shelf The Journal of Academic Librarianship 46.2: DOI: 10.1016/j.acalib.2019.102100

Topic

(2020) Exploring His/Her Library: Reading and Books in Russian Romance Journal of Popular Romance Studies 9: DOI: 10.70138/EVAV6668

Topic

Russia

metafiction

Galina Kulikova

Natal’ia Mironova

socialism and/or communism

Kamblé, Jayashree

(2020) When Wuxia Met Romance: The Pleasures and Politics of Transculturalism in Sherry Thomas’s My Beautiful Enemy Journal of Popular Romance Studies 9: DOI: 10.70138/AWFD7941

Topic

(2020) On the problem of oppressive tastes in the public library Journal of Documentation 76.5:1091-1107 DOI: 10.1108/JD-01-2020-0002

Topic

(2020) The trouble with diverse books, part I: on the limits of conceptual analysis for political negotiation in Library & Information Science Journal of Documentation 76.6:1473-1491 DOI: 10.1108/JD-04-2020-0057

Topic

Lawrence, Kelsey

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

Topic

Magenya, Sheena Gimase

(2020) Reading between the lines: A review of Dark Juices and Afrodisiacs: Erotic Diaries Vol 1 Agenda 34.3:137-144 DOI: 10.1080/10130950.2020.1782756

Topic

Africa

(2020) ""World Turned Upside Down": The Role of Revolutions in Maya Rodale's Regency-Set Romances " Love Across the Atlantic: US-UK Romance in Popular Culture 38-52

Topic

Maya Rodale

Moreno-Álvarez, Alejandra

(2020) The Consummate Virgin: Female Virginity Loss and Love in Anglophone Popular Literatures Cham, Switzerland: Palgrave Macmillan

(2020) "India, Heat, Dust, and Tea? Alienness and Marketability in Ruth Prawer Jhabvala and Nicole C. Vosseler " Diasporic Inquiries into South Asian Women’s Narratives: Alien Domiciles 39-51

Topic

(2020) Review: When Was the Last Time You Read a Romance Novel? Dialogue: A Journal of Mormon Thought 53.1:189-193 DOI: 10.5406/dialjmormthou.53.1.0189

Topic

Ilima Todd

Pérez Casal, Inmaculada

(2020) "“There’s Something Charming about a Man with an Accent, Isn’t There?”: The Representation of Otherness in Three Novels by Lisa Kleypas " Love, Language, Place, and Identity in Popular Culture: Romancing the Other 145-156

Topic

Lilian Warren as Kathryn Blair/Rosalind Brett/Celine Conway

(2020) "Britannia’s Daughters: Popular Romance Fiction and the Ideology of National Superiority (1950s–1970s) " Love, Language, Place, and Identity in Popular Culture: Romancing the Other 13-24

Topic

Kay Thorpe

Greece

Jean S. MacLeod/Catherine Airlie

Pierini, Francesca

(2020) Olive Skin, Chocolate Eyes: The Legacy of The Sheik on Descriptive Patterns of the Italian Romantic Hero in Harlequin Short Contemporaries Journal of Popular Romance Studies 9: DOI: 10.70138/ZQZO7017

Topic

Italy

(2020) “He Looks like He’s Stepped out of a Painting:” The Idealization and Appropriation of Italian Timelessness through the Experience of Romantic Love Journal of Popular Romance Studies 9: DOI: 10.70138/ICPI2621

Topic

(2020) "Introduction " Love, Language, Place, and Identity in Popular Culture: Romancing the Other 1-9

Topic

(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

Topic

Nalini Singh

J. R. Ward

Roper, Holly N.

(2020) Representing the Romance: Diversity and Inclusion in the Romance Collections of Public Libraries M.S. in Library Science, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill

Topic

Stollenwerk, Katie Elisabeth

Selinger, Eric Murphy

(2020) On Teaching, Not Teaching, and Teaching The Sheik Journal of Popular Romance Studies 9: DOI: 10.70138/CYUD2149

Topic

(2020) Love in the Ton: Georgette Heyer’s Legacy in Regency Romance World-Building Nursing Clio :

Topic

(2020) “I’m a Nurse, Not a Woman”: The Historical Significance of the UWM Nurse Romance Novel Collection Master of Arts, University of Wisconsin Milwaukee

Topic

Marguerite Mooers Marshall

Ethel Hamill/Jean Francis Webb

Rose Dana/William Edward Daniel Ross

Rubie Saunders

Suwanban, Pauline

(2020) The Oriental Beast: The Sheik and Fairy Tales Journal of Popular Romance Studies 9: DOI: 10.70138/KTGJ5542

Topic

(2020) Garçon Manqué: A Queer Rereading (of) The Sheik Journal of Popular Romance Studies 9: DOI: 10.70138/VBEX3804

Topic

Radclyffe Hall

(2020) Cultural Authenticity, the Family, and East Asian American Romance Novels Journal of Popular Romance Studies 9: DOI: 10.70138/RVXO4126

(2020) "Changing Attitudes to Others: Meljean Brook’s Riveted (2012) and its Context " Love, Language, Place, and Identity in Popular Culture: Romancing the Other 113-126

Topic

Zoë Archer

(2020) Faith, Love, Hope and Popular Romance Fiction Online:

Topic

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

Justine Davis/Justine Dare

Suleikha Snyder

community

(2020) "Introduction " Love, Language, Place, and Identity in Popular Culture: Romancing the Other 1-9

Topic

Ammidown, Steve

(2021) Romance Writers of America Rescind Award for Lakota Genocide Redemption Narrative Library Journal :

Topic

Awad, Amal

(2021) Desert dreamings and sheikh-lit Meanjin 80.3:114-118

Topic

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

Topic

Joyce Dingwell/Kate Starr

(2021) "Australia's Long Relationship with Romance " The Routledge Companion to Australian Literature 365-373

Topic

Reyes, Daisy Verduzco

Speer, Annika C.

Denes, Amanda

(2021) White Women and Latina Readers’ Ambivalence Toward Fifty Shades of Grey Sexuality & Culture 25:852–870 DOI: 10.1007/s12119-020-09797-3

Topic

Eccles, Gennifer

(2021) “Romance Itself is Political”: The Power of the Popular Romance Novel and its Attempts at Feminism Honors Thesis, University of North Carolina-Chapel Hill

Topic

Fernández Rodríguez, Carolina

(2021) American Quaker Romances: Building the Myth of the White Christian Nation Valencia: Universitat de València

Topic

Ficke, Sarah H.

(2021) "The historical romance " The Routledge Research Companion to Popular Romance Fiction 118-140 DOI:10.4324/9781315613468-5

Topic

González-Cruz, María-Isabel

Fresno-Calleja, Paloma

(2021) "Rugby Romances and the Branding of New Zealand " Romantic Escapes: Post-Millennial Trends in Contemporary Popular Romance Fiction 177-201

Topic

(2021) "On the Discoursive Construction of the Spanish Hero in Intercultural Romances " International Handbook of Love: Transcultural and Transdisciplinary Perspectives 749-767 DOI:10.1007/978-3-030-45996-3_40

Topic

(2021) Black Pulp: Genre Fiction in the Shadow of Jim Crow Minneapolis: University of Minnesota Press

Topic

Gertrude Schalk

Hernandez-Knight, Bianca

(2021) Race and Racism in Austen Spaces: Jane Austen and Regency Romance's Racist Legacy ABO: Interactive Journal for Women in the Arts, 1640-1830 11.2: DOI: 10.5038/2157-7129.11.2.1291

Topic

Jarmakani, Amira

(2021) "Explorations of the "desert passion industry" " The Routledge Research Companion to Popular Romance Fiction 252-266 DOI:10.4324/9781315613468-11

Topic

Michelson, Anna

(2021) The politics of happily-ever-after: romance genre fiction as aesthetic public sphere American Journal of Cultural Sociology 9:177–210 DOI: 10.1057/s41290-020-00126-7

Topic

sociology

(2021) "African American romance " The Routledge Research Companion to Popular Romance Fiction 229-251 DOI:10.4324/9781315613468-10

Topic

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

Rosalind Welles - pen name of Elsie B. Washington

Lia Sanders - pen name of Angela Jackson and Sandra Jackson-Opoku

Alyssa Cole

O'Mahony, Lauren

(2021) "Australian romance fiction " The Routledge Research Companion to Popular Romance Fiction 72-96 DOI:10.4324/9781315613468-3

Topic

Australia

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

Rosa Praed

Marie Bjelke Petersen

(2021) Independent Authors’ Dependence on Big Tech: Categorization and Governance of Authors Of Color on Amazon AoIR Selected Papers of Internet Research : DOI: 10.5210/spir.v2021i0.12005

Topic

(2021) "Paranormal romance and urban fantasy " The Routledge Research Companion to Popular Romance Fiction 141-167 DOI:10.4324/9781315613468-6

Topic

genre definitions

(2021) "The evolution of the American romance novel " The Routledge Research Companion to Popular Romance Fiction 51-71 DOI:10.4324/9781315613468-2

Topic

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

Charles Brockden Brown

Sukey Vickery

Catharine Maria Sedgwick

Lydia Maria Child

E. D. E. N. Southworth

Louisa May Alcott

Frances Watkins Harper

Onoto Watanna/Winnifred Eaton

Jean Webster

Kathleen Thompson Norris

Viña Delmar

Claire Morgan/Patricia Highsmith

Reyes, Daisy Verduzco

Speer, Annika C.

Denes, Amanda

(2021) White Women and Latina Readers’ Ambivalence Toward Fifty Shades of Grey Sexuality & Culture 25:852–870 DOI: 10.1007/s12119-020-09797-3

Topic

Romney, Rebecca

(2021) The Romance Novel in English: A Survey in Rare Books, 1769-1999 : Type Punch Matrix

Topic

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

Onoto Watanna/Winnifred Eaton

Judaism

Pauline Hopkins

Kathleen Thompson Norris

Lilian Warren as Kathryn Blair/Rosalind Brett/Celine Conway

Elizabeth Carfrae

Frances Shelley Wees

Jean S. MacLeod/Catherine Airlie

Alice Lent Covert

Joyce Dingwell/Kate Starr

Mary Burchell, pen name of Ida Cook

Juliet Shore/Anne Vinton

Della Field, pseudonym of Fanny Howe

Marisa de Zavala/Ana Lisa de Leon/Rachel Scott/Celina Rios Mullan

Victoria Holt/Jean Plaidy/Eleanor Burford Hibbert

Tracy West/Joyce McGill/Chassie West

Reyes, Daisy Verduzco

Speer, Annika C.

Denes, Amanda

(2021) White Women and Latina Readers’ Ambivalence Toward Fifty Shades of Grey Sexuality & Culture 25:852–870 DOI: 10.1007/s12119-020-09797-3

Topic

Street, Amy

(2021) "Georgette Heyer – guilty pleasures " Georgette Heyer, History, and Historical Fiction 240-249 DOI:10.2307/j.ctv15d818n.18

Topic

Weimer, Christopher

(2021) Romancing Weird Fiction: Lovecraftian Reinscriptions in Jordan L. Hawk's Whyborne and Griffin Aeternum: The Journal of Contemporary Gothic Studies 8.1:61-76

Topic

Jordan L. Hawk

m/m romance

Young, Erin S.

(2021) "Race, ethnicity, and whiteness " The Routledge Research Companion to Popular Romance Fiction 511-528 DOI:10.4324/9781315613468-23

Topic

Mary Balogh

Alberto, Maria

(2022) "Original Slash, Romance, and C.S. Pacat’s Captive Prince " New Frontiers in Popular Romance: Essays on the Genre in the 21st Century 216-232

Topic

C. S. Pacat

fanfiction

Alexander, Camille S.

(2022) "“The Realness” in Jasmine Guillory’s Sista Lit Rom Com Novels " New Frontiers in Popular Romance: Essays on the Genre in the 21st Century 121-135

Topic

Jasmine Guillory

(2022) LGBTQ(NA), Queer New Adult Fiction: The Emergence of a New Genre and Its Impact on the LGBTQIA+ Community Honors in Comparative Literary Studies, Wellesley College

Topic

(2022) "I'm Rooting for Everybody Black: Black Solidarity, Black World-Building, and Black Love " Black Love Matters: Real Talk on Romance, Being Seen, and Happily Ever After 29-64

Topic

(2022) "Centring Women of Colour: Decolonising the Literature Curriculum with Kamila Shamsie’s Home Fire and Bolu Babalola’s Love in Colour " Decolonising the Literature Curriculum 45-63 DOI:10.1007/978-3-030-91289-5_3

Topic

(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

(2022) Patriarchy, Feminism, and The Space Between: The Production and Consumption of Feminism in Romance Novels PhD thesis, University of Georgia

Topic

(2022) Vivian Lorraine Stephens: Romance Pioneer Journal of Popular Romance Studies 11: DOI: 10.70138/ZFKI9916

Topic

Vivian Stephens

Rosalind Welles - pen name of Elsie B. Washington

Amii Lorin

(2022) "Ideologías lingüísticas, paisaje y voz narrativa en The Wind off the Small Isles " Discursos e Identidades en la Ficción Romántica: Visiones Anglófonas de Madeira y Canarias / Discourses and Identities in Romance Fiction: Anglophone Visions from Madeira and the Canaries 149-160

Topic

(2022) "Language ideologies, landscape and narrative voice in The Wind off the Small Isles " Discursos e Identidades en la Ficción Romántica: Visiones Anglófonas de Madeira y Canarias / Discourses and Identities in Romance Fiction: Anglophone Visions from Madeira and the Canaries 333-343

Topic

(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

(2022) Evidence of Things Not Seen: Fantastical Blackness in Genre Fictions : Rutgers University Press

Topic

(2022) "Women Policing Whiteness: Deviance and Surveillance in Contemporary Police Procedural Romance " New Frontiers in Popular Romance: Essays on the Genre in the 21st Century 167-186

Topic

(2022) Against Odds: Beverly Jenkins’ Indigo and Black Historical Romance Journal of Popular Romance Studies 11: DOI: 10.70138/DZPL7751

Topic

Margo Hendricks/Elysabeth Grace

Hendricks, Margo

(2022) "How a Black Author Found Her Romance History " Black Love Matters: Real Talk on Romance, Being Seen, and Happily Ever After 95-120

Topic

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

(2022) Race and Romance: Coloring the Past : Arizona State University

Topic

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

Heliodorus

Margo Hendricks/Elysabeth Grace

Evangeline Parsons Yazzie

genre definitions

Hoorenman, Johanna

(2022) "Remembering love: Parsons-Yazzie's historical romance novel and the (re)writing of Navajo history " The Routledge Companion to Romantic Love DOI:10.4324/9781003022343-21

Topic

Huguley, Piper

(2022) Her Bodyguard: Sandra Kitt’s The Color of Love as a foundational text for BWWM romance Journal of Popular Romance Studies 11: DOI: 10.70138/HNVC8362

Topic

Sandra Kitt

police officers/police forces

Huguley, Piper

(2022) "In Search of the Black Historical Hottie: The Sad Situation of the Black Hero in Historical Romance " Black Love Matters: Real Talk on Romance, Being Seen, and Happily Ever After 159-170

Topic

(2022) Freedom’s Epilogue: Love as Freedom in Alyssa Cole’s Historical Novellas Journal of Popular Romance Studies 11: DOI: 10.70138/ZYOB2141

Topic

Michelson, Anna

(2022) Redefining the Romance: Classification and Community in a Popular Fiction Genre PhD thesis, Northwestern University

Topic

genre definitions

sociology

(2022) "Black Cultural Studies and Black Love: Why Black Love Matters " Black Love Matters: Real Talk on Romance, Being Seen, and Happily Ever After 127-141

Topic

love

(2022) Response to Eric Selinger’s “Cant and Canonicity” Journal of Popular Romance Studies 11: DOI: 10.70138/KUMM2566

Topic

Gwyneth Bolton/Gwendolyn Pough

(2022) Romance, Hip-Hop Feminism, and Black Love: From Theory to Praxis Journal of Popular Romance Studies 11: DOI: 10.70138/MCKL2088

Topic

Nankervis, Madison

(2022) Diversity in Romance Novels: Race, Sexuality, Neurodivergence, Disability, and Fat Representation Publishing Research Quarterly 38:349–363 DOI: 10.1007/s12109-022-09881-6

Topic

fat, fatness

(2022) "Imperfect paradise: Madeira in the novels of Margaret Rome, Katrina Britt, and Sally Wentworth " Discursos e Identidades en la Ficción Romántica: Visiones Anglófonas de Madeira y Canarias / Discourses and Identities in Romance Fiction: Anglophone Visions from Madeira and the Canaries 247-256

Topic

Ethel Connell as Katrina Britt

Doreen Hornsblow as Sally Wentworth

Sara Wood

(2022) "Paraísos imperfectos: Madeira en las novelas de Margaret Rome, Katrina Britt y Sally Wentworth " Discursos e Identidades en la Ficción Romántica: Visiones Anglófonas de Madeira y Canarias / Discourses and Identities in Romance Fiction: Anglophone Visions from Madeira and the Canaries 53-64

Topic

Ethel Connell as Katrina Britt

Doreen Hornsblow as Sally Wentworth

Sara Wood

Pritchard, Jamee N.

(2022) Reading the Black Romance: Exploring Black Sexual Politics in the Romance Fiction of Rebekah Weatherspoon Journal of Popular Romance Studies 11: DOI: 10.70138/YQAY5668

Topic

Rebekah Weatherspoon

Ann Allen Shockley

Pryde, Jessica P.

(2022) Black Love Matters: Real Talk on Romance, Being Seen, and Happily Ever After New York: Berkley

Topic

Ramos-García, María Teresa

(2022) "Definiciones transatlánticas de la raza blanca en las novelas góticas de Louise Bergstrom en Canarias (1971-1972) " Discursos e Identidades en la Ficción Romántica: Visiones Anglófonas de Madeira y Canarias / Discourses and Identities in Romance Fiction: Anglophone Visions from Madeira and the Canaries 127-147

Topic

Louise Bergstrom

gothic romance

Ramos-García, María Teresa

(2022) "Transatlantic definitions of Whiteness in Louise Bergstrom’s Gothic romances in the Canary Islands (1971-1972) " Discursos e Identidades en la Ficción Romántica: Visiones Anglófonas de Madeira y Canarias / Discourses and Identities in Romance Fiction: Anglophone Visions from Madeira and the Canaries 313-331

Topic

Louise Bergstrom

gothic romance

Selinger, Eric Murphy

(2022) "The wild heart of the continent: love and place in the Silk Road novels of Sherry Thomas " The Routledge Companion to Romantic Love DOI:10.4324/9781003022343-20

Topic

Sherry Thomas

love

Buddhism

(2022) "“Place the glass before you, and draw in chalk your own picture”: The Recasting of Jane Eyre " New Frontiers in Popular Romance: Essays on the Genre in the 21st Century 97-117

Topic

Tindall, Natalie T. J.

(2022) Black Romance Authors and Community Cultural Wealth: A Case Study of Brenda Jackson’s Career Journal of Popular Romance Studies 11: DOI: 10.70138/GXOD8265

Topic

(2022) Historical Accuracy, Racism, Courtney Milan, and The Duke Who Didn’t Conform to Genre Norms Journal of Popular Romance Studies 11: DOI: 10.70138/VVGT3522

Topic

humour

Davisson, Amber

Hunting, Kyra

(2023) From private pleasure to erotic spectacle: Adapting Bridgerton to female audience desires Journal of Popular Television 11.1:7-25 DOI: 10.1386/jptv_00090_1

Topic

Julia Quinn

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

Garcia, Christina

(2023) The Race of Publishing: The Troubling Whiteness in Publishing and the Forces Pushing Back Master of Arts in English, Texas Christian University

Topic

Ghosh, Srijani

(2023) Diversity Sells: Uzma Jalaluddin’s Muslim Adaptation of Pride and Prejudice English Studies 104.3:539-558 DOI: 10.1080/0013838X.2023.2180896

Topic

Uzma Jalaluddin

(2023) Hetero Ever After? Romance Novels, Race, and the Limits of Social Dreaming Post45 :

Topic

Jasmine Guillory

Alisha Rai

Heying, Sarah M.

(2023) "Sealed With a Kiss on Your Artery": An Archive of Southern Lesbian Desire PhD, University of Mississippi

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(2023) From private pleasure to erotic spectacle: Adapting Bridgerton to female audience desires Journal of Popular Television 11.1:7-25 DOI: 10.1386/jptv_00090_1

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Julia Quinn

Nicole M. Jackson/Katrina Jackson/Brandy Bush

Hutter, Verena

(2023) " Fire, Savannah, and Passion: The New Africa Novel and the Construction of White Femininity " Gender and German Colonialism: Intimacies, Accountabilities, Intersections DOI:10.4324/9781003378990-12

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(2023) Romancing the University: BIPOC Scholars in Romance Novels in the 1980s and Now Esferas Literarias 6:39-55 DOI: 10.21071/elrl.vi6.16287

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Talia Hibbert

Kamblé, Jayashree

(2023) The origins of U.S. mass-market category romance novels: Black editors and writers in the early 1980s The Journal of American Culture 46.3:252-265 DOI: https://doi.org/10.1111/jacc.13488

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Vivian Stephens

Rosalind Welles - pen name of Elsie B. Washington

Lia Sanders - pen name of Angela Jackson and Sandra Jackson-Opoku

McDavis-Conway, Shana

(2023) Self-conscious, unapologetic, and straight: fat protagonists in romantic fiction Fat Studies 12.2:233-242 DOI: 10.1080/21604851.2022.2047337

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fat, fatness

(2023) Algospeak and algo-design in platformed book publishing: Revolutionary creative tactics in digital paratext to circumvent content moderation AoIR Selected Papers of Internet Research Paper presented at AoIR2023: The 24th Annual Conference of the Association of Internet Researchers. Philadelphia, PA, USA: DOI: 10.5210/spir.v2023i0.13477

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Leonard Noel Barker writing as L. Noel

Phipps, Catherine

(2023) Sex, race and power: colonial and interracial sexuality in the French Empire in Morocco, 1912-1956 DPhil, University of Oxford

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(2023) "‘The Machine for Showing Desire’: Desert Romance Fiction and Knowing Sexual Desire " Historical Research, Creative Writing, and the Past: Methods of Knowing DOI:10.4324/9781003252801-4

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Phumithammarat, Nanphatchaon

(2023) The Cultural Politics of Chinese-Thai Identities in Ethnic Romance Novels by Female Authors PhD, Silpakorn University

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(2023) Afterlives of Colonialism: Nostalgia, Reader’s Response and the Case of Noel Barber’s Tanamera The Journal of Commonwealth Literature 58.2:340-358 DOI: 10.1177/0021989420971331

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van Hattum, Fatima Y.

(2023) Orientalist Public Pedagogy: Visual Representation of Muslims in Pop Culture and Desert Romance Novels PhD, University of New Mexico

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(2024) Courting Tragedy: Romance and the Liberal Redemption of Japanese American Mass Incarceration Journal of Popular Romance Studies 13: DOI: 10.70138/YEVW1299

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Fernández Rodríguez, Carolina

(2024) "The US Civil War and its Aftermath in Historical Quaker Romances Hailing White Heroines as Builders and Healers of the Nation " Conflict and Colonialism in 21st Century Romantic Historical Fiction: Repairing the Past, Repurposing History DOI:10.4324/9781003493792-7

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Henderson, Aneeka Ayanna

(2024) "Popular Romance and Literary Undergrounds " The Cambridge Companion to Contemporary African American Literature 164-178 DOI:10.1017/9781009159708.013

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Johnson, Jacqueline E.

(2024) Lusting out loud: racialized aurality, podcast intimacy, and the uses of thirst Communication, Culture and Critique ONLINE FIRST:ONLINE FIRST DOI: 10.1093/ccc/tcae001

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Johnson, Jacqueline Elizabeth

(2024) Labors of Love: Black Women, Cultural Production, and the Romance Genre PhD, University of Southern California

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Rebekah Weatherspoon

Nicole M. Jackson/Katrina Jackson/Brandy Bush

(2024) "Love in Victorian London: Immigrant Histories and Intersecting Diversities in K. J. Charles’s Sins of the Cities " Conflict and Colonialism in 21st Century Romantic Historical Fiction: Repairing the Past, Repurposing History DOI:10.4324/9781003493792-4

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(2024) The Genre of Rape: Women’s Popular Literature and Contemporary Representations of Sexual Violence PhD, University of Michigan

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Larson, Christine

(2024) Love in the Time of Self-Publishing: How Romance Writers Changed the Rules of Writing and Success : Princeton University Press

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Vivian Stephens

Rita Clay Estrada

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

Warren, Jean-Philippe

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

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Canada

Philippe Aubert de Gaspé Jr.

Joseph Doutre

metafiction

Pierre-Joseph-Olivier Chauveau

Albertine Laperle-Bernier

dime novels

Marie-Claude Bussières-Tremblay

chick lit

Micheline Perron

Raymond Plante

Bertrand Gauthier

Martínez-Falquina, Silvia

(2024) "Historical Reparation, Emotional Justice: The Navajo Long Walk in Evangeline Parsons Yazzie’s Her Land, Her Love " Conflict and Colonialism in 21st Century Romantic Historical Fiction: Repairing the Past, Repurposing History DOI:10.4324/9781003493792-8

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Evangeline Parsons Yazzie

Moussaoui, Abdelghani

(2024) Gender as a ‘Discursive Practice’ in Romance Discourse International Journal of Language and Literary Studies 6.2:654–665 DOI: 10.36892/ijlls.v6i2.1745

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Moussaoui, Abdelghani

(2024) On the Racialization of the Moroccan ‘Other’ in Orientalist Romance International Journal of Language and Literary Studies 6.2:103–116 DOI: https://doi.org/10.36892/ijlls.v6i2.1662

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Rebecca Stratton

Morocco

Moussaoui, Abdelghani

(2024) The Discursive Formation of Ethnic Subjectivities and Identities in Popular Romance International Journal of Language and Literary Studies 6.3:106-119 DOI: 10.36892/ijlls.v6i3.1769

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