historical romance

(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

(1995) "Cross-dressing in Wartime: Georgette Heyer's The Corinthian in its 1940 Context " War Culture: Social Change and Changing Experience in World War Two Britain 151-159

Topic

Bettinotti, Julia

(1996) Medieval romances in today's popular culture: The feminist in the castle The European Legacy 1.3:1146-1152 DOI: 10.1080/10848779608579542

Topic

(1998) Re-imagining the Gold Rush; Prospectors, Log Cabins and Mail-Order Brides in Contemporary Western Romances Northern Review 19:170-180

Topic

Canada

(2024) Royal Biography Between the Lines: Georgette Heyer’s Regency Romances and the Life of Princess Charlotte of Wales (1796-1817) Royal Studies Journal 11.2:239-284

Topic

(2015) Translating History or Romance? Historical Romantic Fiction and Its Translation in a Globalised Market Linguistics and Literature Studies 3.5:248-253 DOI: 10.13189/lls.2015.030508

Topic

translation

Diana Gabaldon

(2017) I gentiluomini si prendono per la gola: cibo e identità nei romanzi di Georgette Heyer Lingua, Traduzione, Letteratura 1:75-89

Topic

Blodgett, Jan

(1997) Protestant Evangelical Literary Culture and Contemporary Society Westport: Greenwood Press

Topic

Christian romance

Boussahba-Bravard, Myriam

(2009) Le roman historique sentimental: le cas des « J'ai lu » Maîtrise en études littéraires, L'Université du Québec à Trois-Rivières

Topic

(2021) Le roman sentimental Regency, entre continuités et ruptures (2000-2020) Le Temps des médias 2021/2 (n° 37):164-182 DOI: 10.3917/tdm.037.0164

Topic

Breslin, Carol Ann

(1999) "Medieval Magic and Witchcraft in the Popular Romance Novel " Romantic Conventions 75-85

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

Calhoun-French, Diane M.

(1999) "Time-Travel and Related Phenomena in Contemporary Popular Romance Fiction " Romantic Conventions 100-112

Topic

Constance O'Day Flannery

Jo Ann Simon

Heather Graham

Carmichael, Lynne Patricia

(1985) A romantic past : a study of historical romance as a form of recreational fiction in public libraries M.A. Library Studies, South Australian Institute of Technology

Topic

(1990) "Making Rape Romantic: A Study of Rosemary Rogers' "Steve and Ginny" Novels " Women and Violence in Literature: An Essay Collection 299-325

Topic

(2013) Disability Studies Reads the Romance Journal of Literary & Cultural Disability Studies 7.1:37–52 DOI: 10.3828/jlcds.2013.3

Topic

(2017) "Disability Studies Reads the Romance: Sexuality, Prejudice, and the Happily-Ever-After in the Work of Mary Balogh " Culture - Theory – Disability: Encounters between Disability Studies and Cultural Studies 201-230 DOI:10.14361/9783839425336-012

Topic

(2021) The History Bubble: Negotiating Authenticity in Historical Romance Novels M/C Journal 24.1: DOI: 10.5204/mcj.2752

Topic

Bianchi, Diana

D'Arcangelo, Adele

(2015) Translating History or Romance? Historical Romantic Fiction and Its Translation in a Globalised Market Linguistics and Literature Studies 3.5:248-253 DOI: 10.13189/lls.2015.030508

Topic

translation

Diana Gabaldon

(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

Dandridge, Rita B.

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

Topic

romance and, or as, activism

Anita Richmond Bunkley

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

Topic

romance and, or as, activism

De Groot, Jerome

(2010) The Historical Novel Abingdon, Oxon: Routledge

Topic

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

Diamond, Geneva

(2015) "Medievalism and the Courtship Plot in Julie Garwood's Popular Romance Novels " The Middle Ages in Popular Culture: Medievalism and Genre

Topic

(2021) "History of English romance novels, 1621-1975 " The Routledge Research Companion to Popular Romance Fiction 27-50 DOI:10.4324/9781315613468-1

Topic

Dudovitz, Resa L.

(1990) The Myth of Superwoman: Women's Bestsellers in France and the United States New York: Routledge

Topic

France

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

(1994) Magic Regencies: How Fantasy Forms a Hybrid Popular Culture Review 5.1:85-93

Topic

Esquibel, Catrióna Rueda

(1992) "A Duel of Wits and the Lesbian Romance Novel or Verbal Intercourse in Fictional Regency England " New Perspectives on Women and Comedy 123-133

Topic

lesbian romance

Michelle Martin

Faktorovich, Anna

(2015) Interview with Mary Jo Putney, Best-Selling Romance Author Pennsylvania Literary Journal 7.2:

Topic

(1984) Words of Love: A Complete Guide to Romance Fiction New York and London: Garland Publishing

Topic

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

(2019) Reconnaissance of ‘Difference’ in Cognitive Maps: Authenticating Happily Ever After in Julia Quinn’s To Sir Philip with Love Khazar Journal of Humanities and Social Sciences 22.2:71-82

Topic

(2022) Reading historical popular romance in 21st-century Pakistan PhD thesis, University of Tasmania

Topic

Pakistan

(2022) "Romance, Austen, and English-Medium Schooling in Pakistan " Language, Education, and Identity: Medium in South Asia

Topic

Farooqui, Javaria

(2024) Buildings, books, and memories: Analysing the culture of reading anglophone romance in Pakistan Journal of Postcolonial Writing ONLINE FIRST:ONLINE FIRST DOI: 10.1080/17449855.2024.2433024

Topic

Farooqui, Javaria

(2025) Romance Fandom in 21st-Century Pakistan: Reading the Regency London: Bloomsbury

Topic

(2022) Romancing the New Evangelical Woman Master of Arts, Baylor University

Topic

Christian romance

Fernández Rodríguez, Carolina

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

Topic

Guam

romance and, or as, activism

languages

war/armed forces

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

Topic

fascism/right-wing authoritarianism

Ficke, Sarah

(2022) "House, home and husband in historical romance fiction " The Routledge Companion to Romantic Love DOI:10.4324/9781003022343-11

Topic

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

Topic

Ficke, Sarah H.

(2025) "Falling in Love Outside of the Law: Piracy, Race, and Freedom in Caribbean Historical Romance " Travel and Colonialism in 21st Century Romantic Historical Fiction: Exotic Journeys, Reparative Histories? DOI:10.4324/9781003495840-2

Topic

(2002) I love you: historical romance fiction and heterosexuality PhD, University of Melbourne

Topic

Fletcher, Lisa

(2004) "“Mere Costumery”? Georgette Heyer’s Cross-Dressing Novels " Masquerades: Disguise in Literature in English from the Middle Ages to the Present 196-212

Topic

(2008) Historical Romance Fiction: Heterosexuality and Performativity Burlington: Ashgate

Topic

Selinger, Eric Murphy

(2016) "Strange Stirrings, Strange Yearnings: The Flame and the Flower, Sweet Savage Love, and the Lost Diversities of Blockbuster Historical Romance " Romance Fiction and American Culture: Love as the Practice of Freedom? 89-110

Topic

García Fernández, Aurora

(2020) Competence, Complicity and Complexity: Hsu-Ming Teo on the Pitfalls and Nuances of Reading and Researching Popular Romance Raudem, Revista de Estudios de las Mujeres 8:261-280 DOI: http://dx.doi.org/10.25115/raudem.v8i0.4297

Topic

romance scholarship

Australia

(2024) "Introduction: Conflict and Colonialism in 21st Century Romantic Historical Fiction: Repairing the Past, Repurposing History " Conflict and Colonialism in 21st Century Romantic Historical Fiction: Repairing the Past, Repurposing History 1-25 DOI:10.4324/9781003493792-1

Topic

(2025) " Introduction. Travel and Colonialism in Twenty-First Century Romantic Historical Fiction: Exotic Journeys, Reparative Histories? * " Travel and Colonialism in 21st Century Romantic Historical Fiction: Exotic Journeys, Reparative Histories? 1-25 DOI:10.4324/9781003495840-1

Topic

(2021) Novel Approaches to Lesbian History Cham, Switzerland: Palgrave Macmillan

Topic

pirates and outlaws

García Fernández, Aurora

Topic

romance scholarship

Gautier-Villon, Claire-Elizabeth

Australia

(1994) The Appeal of the Mass-Market Romance M.A., University of Alberta

Topic

(2004) Popular Fiction: The Logics and Practices of a Literary Field Abingdon, Oxon: Routledge

Topic

Barbara Taylor Bradford

George, Laura J.

(2021) "Judith Taverner as dandy-in-training in Georgette Heyer’s Regency Buck " Georgette Heyer, History, and Historical Fiction 53-72 DOI:10.2307/j.ctv15d818n.9

Topic

(2015) The Cross-Dresser, the Thief, His Daughter and Her Lover: Queer Desire and Romance in Georgette Heyer’s These Old Shades Women: A Cultural Review 26.1-2:57-74 DOI: 10.1080/09574042.2015.1035024

Topic

Gillis, Stacy

(2018) "Manners, Money, and Marriage: Austen, Heyer, and the Literary Genealogy of the Regency Romance " After Austen: Reinventions, Rewritings, Revisitings 81-101 DOI:10.1007/978-3-319-95894-1_5

Topic

Jane Austen

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

(1986) "Georgette Heyer and the Uses of Regency " La performance del testo: atti del VII Congresso Nazionale dell'Associazione Italiana di Anglistica (A.I.A.), Siena, 2-4 Novembre 1984 283-292

Topic

Gómez Calderón, María José

linguistics

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

Topic

(2018) The Transformation of Romance Novels Based on the Theories of Sociologist Anthony Giddens PhD, Istanbul Aydin University Institute of Social Sciences

Topic

Hackett, Lisa J.

Coghlan, Jo

(2021) The History Bubble: Negotiating Authenticity in Historical Romance Novels M/C Journal 24.1: DOI: 10.5204/mcj.2752

Topic

Hague, Euan

Stenhouse, David

(2007) "A Very Interesting Place: Representing Scotland in American Romance Novels " The Edinburgh Companion to Contemporary Scottish Literature 354-361

Topic

Hague, Euan

(2014) "Mass Market Romance Fiction and the Representation of Scotland in the United States " The Modern Scottish Diaspora: Contemporary Debates and Perspectives 171-190

Topic

Scotland

(2009) The Creators of Women’s Popular Romance Fiction: The Authors Who Gave Women a Genre of Their Own Lewiston: Edwin Mellen Press

Topic

authors

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

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

Topic

Hamilton, Cristen

(2013) Vindicating the Historical Romance Plaza: Dialogues in Language and Literature 3.2:140-156

Topic

(2018) "Really Romantic? Pirates in Romantic Fiction " Pirates in History and Popular Culture 109–119

Topic

pirates and outlaws

virginity

Heinecken, Dawn

(1999) "Changing Ideologies in Romance Fiction " Romantic Conventions 149-172

Topic

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

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

(1990) Twentieth-Century Romance and Historical Writers (2nd edition) Chicago: St. James Press

Topic

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

Effie Adelaide Rowlands, also known as Madame Albanesi

Lilian Warren as Kathryn Blair/Rosalind Brett/Celine Conway

Barbara Taylor Bradford

Sandra Brown

Mary Burchell, pen name of Ida Cook

Joyce Dingwell/Kate Starr

Grace Livingston Hill

Margery Hilton

Jane Aiken Hodge

Roberta Leigh/Rachel Lindsay

Charlotte Lamb

Roumelia Lane

Laura Jean Libbey

Johanna Lindsey

Elizabeth Lowell

Jean S. MacLeod/Catherine Airlie

Barbara Michaels a.k.a. Elizabeth Peters a.k.a. Barbara Mertz

Kathleen Thompson Norris

Kate Norway/Olive Norton

Mary Roberts Rinehart

Francine Rivers

Mary Lutyens/Esther Wyndham

Kathleen Gilles Seidel

Hendricks, Margo

(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)

teaching romance

(2012) The Upper-Class Bisexual Top as Romantic Hero: (Pre)dominant in the Social Structure and in the Bedroom Journal of Popular Romance Studies 3.1:

Topic

Ann Herendeen

wealth/prosperity

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

Hopkins, Lisa

(2018) "Georgette Heyer: What Austen Left Out " After Austen: Reinventions, Rewritings, Revisitings 61-79 DOI:10.1007/978-3-319-95894-1_4

Topic

(2018) "Waltzing with Wellington, Biting with Byron: Heroes in Austen Tribute Texts " Jane Austen and Masculinity 173-189

Topic

(1993) The Historical Romance London and New York: Routledge

Topic

Sir Arthur Conan Doyle

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

Mira Stables

Rowena Tenet

Hughes, Helen Muriel

(1988) Changes in Historical Romance, 1890s to the 1980s: The Development of the Genre from Stanley Weyman to Georgette Heyer and her Successors PhD, University of Bradford

Topic

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

(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

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

happy ending

Jagodzinski, Mallory

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

Topic

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

Johnson, Heather

(2017) Yorkshire English in Georgette Heyer's The Unknown Ajax Schwa: Language and Linguistics 14:57-70

Topic

(2018) "What a Canon Wants: Robin Hood, Romance Novels, and Carrie Lofty’s What a Scoundrel Wants " Robin Hood and the Outlaw/ed Literary Canon 184-204

Topic

Carrie Lofty

pirates and outlaws

Kamble, Jayashree

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

Topic

happy ending

Stephanie Laurens

Kamblé, Jayashree

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

Kamblé, Jayashree

(2016) "Branding a Genre: A Brief Transatlantic History of Romance Novel Cover Art " Romance Fiction and American Culture: Love as the Practice of Freedom? 241-272

Topic

paratext

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

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

(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

Topic

(2014) Pirates and Piracy in American Popular Culture Romanian Journal of English Studies 11.1:183–194 DOI: 10.2478/rjes-2014-0022

Topic

(2007) Silver Forks, Stereotypes, and Regency Romance Studies in the Humanities (Indiana) 34.2:142-163

Topic

Keran, Molly

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

Topic

health/medical

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

(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

Henderson, Lesley

Kirkpatrick, D. L.

(1990) Twentieth-Century Romance and Historical Writers (2nd edition) Chicago: St. James Press

Topic

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

Effie Adelaide Rowlands, also known as Madame Albanesi

Lilian Warren as Kathryn Blair/Rosalind Brett/Celine Conway

Barbara Taylor Bradford

Sandra Brown

Mary Burchell, pen name of Ida Cook

Joyce Dingwell/Kate Starr

Grace Livingston Hill

Margery Hilton

Jane Aiken Hodge

Roberta Leigh/Rachel Lindsay

Charlotte Lamb

Roumelia Lane

Laura Jean Libbey

Johanna Lindsey

Elizabeth Lowell

Jean S. MacLeod/Catherine Airlie

Barbara Michaels a.k.a. Elizabeth Peters a.k.a. Barbara Mertz

Kathleen Thompson Norris

Kate Norway/Olive Norton

Mary Roberts Rinehart

Francine Rivers

Mary Lutyens/Esther Wyndham

Kathleen Gilles Seidel

Kloester, Jennifer V.

(2004) Georgette Heyer: writing the Regency. History in fiction from Regency Buck to Lady of Quality 1935-1972 PhD, University of Melbourne

Topic

(2024) ""On Thursdays We Shoot": Guns and Gender Binaries in Regency Romance Novels " Ladies in Arms: Women, Guns, and Feminisms in Contemporary Popular Culture 163-179

Topic

(2012) 'Truly Our Contemporary Jane Austen': Thinking Like an Austen Fan about Regency Romances Kentucky Philological Review 27:50-58

Topic

Lessard, Victoria

(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

(1991) Sunfire Historical Romances ALAN Review 19.1:22

Topic

YA/teenage romance

Litton, Joyce A.

(1991) The Wild West, Floods, Wars and Boys: Sunfire Historical Romances for Young Adults ALAN Review 19.1:22-25

Topic

YA/teenage romance

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

Lutz, Deborah

(2004) The Dangerous Lover and the Erotics of Failure: Nineteenth-century Byronism and the Contemporary Romance PhD, City University of New York

Topic

(2006) The Dangerous Lover: Gothic Villains, Byronism, and the Nineteenth-Century Seduction Narrative Columbus: Ohio State University Press

Topic

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

death

philosophy

(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

(1985) Romance Publishing and the Production of Culture Poetics 14.1-2:69-93 DOI: 10.1016/0304-422X(85)90005-1

Topic

(2016) Publishing Romance: The History of an Industry, 1940s to the Present Jefferson, North Carolina: McFarland & Company

Topic

Avon

Ellora's Cave

BDSM

paratext

Markert, John

(2021) "Publishing the romance novel " The Routledge Research Companion to Popular Romance Fiction 352-370 DOI:10.4324/9781315613468-16

Topic

(2024) Georgette Heyer, history, and historical fiction. Voprosy literatury 1:198-203 DOI: 10.31425/0042-8795-2024-1-198-203

Topic

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

Topic

Evangeline Parsons Yazzie

Mason, Gillian

(2008) Rosemary Rogers Teaching American Literature: A Journal of Theory and Practice 2.2/3:1-8

Topic

Rosemary Rogers

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

Topic

(2016) “You and I are humans, and there is something complicated between us”: Untamed and queering the heterosexual historical romance Journal of Popular Romance Studies 5.2:

Topic

McAlister, Jodi

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

McCafferty, Kate

(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

(2000) "Georgette Heyer: The Historical Romance and the Consumption of the Erotic, 1918-1939 " All the World and Her Husband: Women in Twentieth-Century Consumer Culture 82-96

Topic

(1986) "Georgette Heyer and the Uses of Regency " La performance del testo: atti del VII Congresso Nazionale dell'Associazione Italiana di Anglistica (A.I.A.), Siena, 2-4 Novembre 1984 283-292

Topic

(1997) My Life as a Romance Reader Para.doxa: Studies in World Literary Genres 3.1-2:15-28

Topic

Brenda Joyce

Morrissey, Katherine

(2015) "Steamy, Spicy, Sensual: Tracing the Cycles of Erotic Romance " Women and Erotic Fiction: Critical Essays on Genres, Markets & Readers 42-58

Topic

Mussell, Kay

(1984) Fantasy and Reconciliation: Contemporary Formulas of Women’s Romance Fiction Westport, Connecticut: Greenwood Press

Mussell, Kay

(1990) "Preface " Twentieth-Century Romance and Historical Writers (2nd edition) vii-xii

Topic

Nilson, Maria

(2016) Kärlek, passion och begär – om romance Lund: BTJ förlag

Topic

(2019) "Succulent Texts: Desire, Outlaws, and Consumption in Popular Romance " Food and Feast in Modern Outlaw Tales 167-187 DOI:10.4324/9780429061301-9

Topic

community

rural romance

Novak, Julia

(2014) Nell Gwyn in Contemporary Romance Novels: Biography and the Dictates of 'Genre Literature' Contemporary Women's Writing 8.3:373–390 DOI: 10.1093/cww/vpu007

Topic

OKell, Eleanor Regina

(2020) "Hercules as Romantic Hero in Twenty-first-century Historical Fiction " The Modern Hercules: Images of the Hero from the Nineteenth to the Early Twenty-First Century 121–145 DOI:10.1163/9789004440067_008

Topic

(2016) Medieval heresy in Croatian historical romances: a case study of Marija Jurić Zagorka’s Plameni inkvizitori Neohelicon 43.2:559–576 DOI: 10.1007/s11059-016-0346-9

Topic

Marija Jurić Zagorka

Croatia

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

(2007) Core Collections in Genre Studies: Romance Fiction 101 Reference & User Services Quarterly 47.2:120-126

Topic

Opas, Lisa Lena

Tweedie, Fiona

(1999) The Magic Carpet Ride: Reader Involvement in Romantic Fiction Literary and Linguistic Computing 14.1:89-101 DOI: 10.1093/llc/14.1.89

Topic

linguistics

(1999) "Romancing the Bard " Shakespeare and Appropriation 47-64

Topic

Margaret Evans Porter

(2002) "Harlequin Presents: That '70s Shakespeare and Beyond " Shakespeare after Mass Media 127-149 DOI:10.1007/978-1-137-09277-9_6

Topic

Shakespeare

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

(2018) The Gothic Romance Wave: A Critical History of the Mass Market Novels, 1960-1993 Jefferson, North Carolina: McFarland & Company

Topic

gothic romance

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

metafiction

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

India

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

Topic

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

Barbara Ferry Johnson

Percec, Dana

(2011) “The Pink Ghetto”. The Avatars of Romantic Fiction Brukenthalia. Romanian Cultural History Review. Supplement of Brukenthal. Acta Musei 1.1:92-102

Topic

Jane Austen

Pérez Casal, Inmaculada

(2018) "The Romance Novel as Bildungsroman in the Works of Rosamunde Pilcher and Lisa Kleypas " Taking Stock to Look Ahead: Celebrating Forty Years of English Studies in Spain 139-144

Topic

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

Pérez Ríu, Carmen

(2024) "Language, Sexuality and “Necessary” Anachronism in Lorraine Heath’s Neo-Victorian Popular Romance Series Scandalous Gentlemen of St. James " Conflict and Colonialism in 21st Century Romantic Historical Fiction: Repairing the Past, Repurposing History DOI:10.4324/9781003493792-5

Topic

Lorraine Heath

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

Topic

Lisa Kleypas

capitalism/business

national identity

Po-Yu, Rick Wei

(2018) “She is a Jade”: A Georgian Gaming Woman Re-imagined in Georgette Heyer’s Faro’s Daughter Crossings 9:122-131

Topic

(2024) "‘I Get to Exist as a Black Person in the World’: Bridgerton as Speculative Romance and Alternate History on Screen " History and Speculative Fiction 123-149 DOI:10.1007/978-3-031-42235-5_7

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(1990) "Making Rape Romantic: A Study of Rosemary Rogers' "Steve and Ginny" Novels " Women and Violence in Literature: An Essay Collection 299-325

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(2016) Romance Writers’ Use of Archives Archivaria, the Journal of the Association of Canadian Archivists 81:45-73

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authors

Radner, Hilary

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

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

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(2007) Core Collections in Genre Studies: Romance Fiction 101 Reference & User Services Quarterly 47.2:120-126

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Ramsdell, Kristin

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

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science fiction/futuristic romance

Elinor Glyn

Margaret Mitchell

E. M. Hull

romance scholarship

Samuel Richardson

Ripoll Fonollar, Mariana

(2023) Wording deeds: the figure of the suffragette in contemporary british fiction , Universitat de les Illes Balears

Topic

Ripoll Fonollar, Mariana

(2024) "Suffragette Historical Romances: Re-Purposing Women’s Suffrage in a Postfeminist Context " Conflict and Colonialism in 21st Century Romantic Historical Fiction: Repairing the Past, Repurposing History DOI:10.4324/9781003493792-6

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Robinson, Lillian S.

(1978) Sex, Class, and Culture Bloomington, Indiana: Indiana University Press

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Romney, Rebecca

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

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

work

YA/teenage romance

Onoto Watanna/Winnifred Eaton

Judaism

Pauline Hopkins

Kathleen Thompson Norris

romances in magazines and newspapers

Elizabeth Carfrae

Frances Shelley Wees

Lilian Warren as Kathryn Blair/Rosalind Brett/Celine Conway

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

science fiction/futuristic romance

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

Tracy West/Joyce McGill/Chassie West

Ruggiero, Josephine A.

Weston, Louise C.

(1983) Conflicting Images of Women in Romance Novels International Journal of Women's Studies 6.1:18-25

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(1999) "The Loathsome Lord and the Disdainful Dame: Byron, Cartland and the Regency Romance " Byromania: Portraits of the Artist in Nineteenth- and Twentieth-Century Culture 166-183 DOI:10.1007/978-1-349-27107-8_10

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Barbara Cartland

Sánchez-Palencia Carazo, Carolina

(1994) El discurso femenino de la novela rosa en lengua inglesa la mujer como protagonista, autora y lectora del género PhD, Universidad de Sevilla

Topic

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

(2010) « Tout un monde d’évasion » : adapter les romans sentimentaux pour un lectorat français Meta 55.4:732–751 DOI: 10.7202/045688ar

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Sanna, Antonio

(2018) Pirates in History and Popular Culture Jefferson, North Carolina: McFarland & Company

Topic

(2007) Core Collections in Genre Studies: Romance Fiction 101 Reference & User Services Quarterly 47.2:120-126

Topic

Saxena, Vandana

(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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(1981) "The Consumption of Historical Romance Novels: Consumer Aesthetics in Popular Literature " SV - Symbolic Consumer Behavior 46-51

Topic

(1981) "The Consumption of Historical Romance Novels: Consumer Aesthetics in Popular Literature " SV - Symbolic Consumer Behavior 46-51

Topic

Schwab, Sandra Martina

(2013) Of Dragons, Knights, and Virgin Maidens: Dragonslaying and Gender Roles from Richard Johnson to Modern Popular Fiction Trier: Wissenschaftlicher Verlag Trier

Topic

Schwegler-Castañer, Astrid

(2025) "Post/Colonial Nostalgia and Melancholia in Dinah Jefferies' The Tea Planter's Wife and Before the Rains * " Travel and Colonialism in 21st Century Romantic Historical Fiction: Exotic Journeys, Reparative Histories? DOI:10.4324/9781003495840-8

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Scupham, Hannah Elizabeth

(2022) “Reader, I Married Him”: Readership, Imagination, and Politics of the Marriage Plot in the Nineteenth-Century Novel PhD, University of Kansas

Topic

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

(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

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Selinger, Eric Murphy

Topic

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

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Sherry Thomas

Buddhism

(1998) Popular Vikings: Constructions of Viking Identity in Twentieth Century Britain PhD, University of York

Topic

war/armed forces

Šmídová, Monika Markéta

(2021) Five Thousand for Justice: The Use of English Folklore in the Novels of KJ Charles Masters, Masaryk University

Topic

K. J. Charles

fairytales/folktales

Smith, William Clay Kinchen

community

family

(2002) Revising Captivity Narratives PhD, University of Florida

Topic

(2007) "A Very Interesting Place: Representing Scotland in American Romance Novels " The Edinburgh Companion to Contemporary Scottish Literature 354-361

Topic

Sterling, Alexandra

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

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(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

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(2012) ""Bertrice teaches you about history, and you don't even mind!": History and Revisionist Historiography in Bertrice Small's The Kadin " New Approaches to Popular Romance Fiction: Critical Essays 21-32

Topic

(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)

sheikh romance

E. M. Hull

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

Topic

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

Jane Austen

E. M. Hull

Barbara Cartland

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

(2022) "Transported for life, transported by love: love and the Australian convict romance novel " The Routledge Companion to Romantic Love DOI:10.4324/9781003022343-15

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Topic

(2024) "The Australian Convict Prostitute Romance: Narrating Social and Sexual Justice for “Damned Whores” " Conflict and Colonialism in 21st Century Romantic Historical Fiction: Repairing the Past, Repurposing History DOI:10.4324/9781003493792-2

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Schwegler-Castañer, Astrid

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Topic

(1987) The Romance Revolution: Erotic Novels for Women and the Quest for a New Sexual Identity Urbana and Chicago: University of Illinois Press

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erotic romance

pornography

(1985) Popular Historical Romances: Agent for Social Change? An Exploration of Methodologies Journal of Popular Culture 19.1:35-45 DOI: 10.1111/j.0022-3840.1985.00035.x

Topic

(2016) "“A Little Wildness”: Negotiating Relationships between Human and Nonhuman in Historical Romance " Creatural Fictions: Human-Animal Relationships in Twentieth- and Twenty-First-Century Literature 151-171 DOI:10.1007/978-1-137-51811-8_8

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Wadsö Lecaros, Cecilia

(2022) The desert-governess romance: Regency England meets exotic Arabia Lund Journal of English Studies 4:1-24 DOI: 10.48148/ljes.v4i.24863

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paratext

Opas, Lisa Lena

Tweedie, Fiona

(1999) The Magic Carpet Ride: Reader Involvement in Romantic Fiction Literary and Linguistic Computing 14.1:89-101 DOI: 10.1093/llc/14.1.89

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linguistics

(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

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