historical romance

Tamera Alexander

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

India

Farooqui, Javaria Ashraf, Rabia (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

psychology

Julia Quinn

Beidler, Peter G. (1991) The Contemporary Indian Romance: A Review Essay American Indian Culture and Research Journal 15.4:97-101

Topic

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

Topic

Belgrave, Valerie (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

Bell, Kathleen (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

Topic

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

Topic

Canada

Ana Seymour

Kristin Hannah

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

Topic

translation

Diana Gabaldon

Bianchi, Diana (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

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

Topic

Boussahba-Bravard, Myriam (2021) Le roman sentimental Regency, entre continuités et ruptures (2000-2020) Le Temps des médias 2021/2 (n° 37):164-182

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

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

Topic

Cheyne, Ria (2013) Disability Studies Reads the Romance Journal of Literary & Cultural Disability Studies 7.1:37–52

Topic

Cheyne, Ria (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

Hackett, Lisa J. Coghlan, Jo (2021) The History Bubble: Negotiating Authenticity in Historical Romance Novels M/C Journal 24.1:

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

Topic

translation

Diana Gabaldon

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

Dandridge, Rita B. (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

Dandridge, Rita B. (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

Dixon, jay (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

Topic

Emrys, A. B. (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

Mary Jo Putney

authors

Fallon, Eileen (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)

Topic

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

Topic

Pakistan

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

Topic

Fenske, Emma K. (2022) Romancing the New Evangelical Woman Master of Arts, Baylor University

Topic

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

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

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

Topic

Fletcher, Lisa (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

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

Topic

Frantz Lyons, Sarah 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 Fresno-Calleja, Paloma (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

Topic

Australia

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

Topic

Topic

Australia

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

Topic

Gelder, Ken (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

Gillis, Stacy (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

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

Topic

Jane Austen

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

marriage

Glass, E. R. Mineo, A. (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

linguistics

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

Topic

Güvendi Yalçın, Elif (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:

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

linguistics

Hall, Glinda F. (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

Topic

Hallock, Jennifer (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

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

Topic

virginity

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

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

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

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

Hendricks, Margo (2022) Against Odds: Beverly Jenkins’ Indigo and Black Historical Romance Journal of Popular Romance Studies 11:

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

Herendeen, Ann (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:

Topic

Hopkins, Lisa (2018) " Georgette Heyer: What Austen Left Out " After Austen: Reinventions, Rewritings, Revisitings 61-79

Topic

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

Topic

Hughes, Helen (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

Jackson, Nicole M. (2022) Freedom’s Epilogue: Love as Freedom in Alyssa Cole’s Historical Novellas Journal of Popular Romance Studies 11:

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

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

Topic

languages

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

Johnson, Valerie B. (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

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

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:

Topic

Kania, Richard R. E. (2014) Pirates and Piracy in American Popular Culture Romanian Journal of English Studies 11.1:183–194

Topic

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

Daphne du Maurier

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

Topic

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

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

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

Kroeg, Susan M. (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

Litton, Joyce A. (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

Lutz, Deborah (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

Mäkelä, Veera (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

Markert, John (1985) Romance Publishing and the Production of Culture Poetics 14.1-2:69-93

Topic

Kathleen Woodiwiss

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

Topic

Avon

Ellora's Cave

BDSM

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

Topic

Kathleen Woodiwiss

contemporary romance

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

Topic

Rosemary Rogers

erotic romance

BDSM

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

Topic

family

death

McAlister, Jodi (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

Topic

McNamara, Sallie (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

Topic

Modleski, Tania (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

Noone, Kristin (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

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

Stephanie Laurens

myth

Oklopčić, Biljana (2016) Medieval heresy in Croatian historical romances: a case study of Marija Jurić Zagorka’s Plameni inkvizitori Neohelicon 43.2:559–576

Topic

Marija Jurić Zagorka

Croatia

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

national identity

Wyatt, Neal Olsen, Georgine Ramsdell, Kristin Saricks, Joyce Welch, Lynne (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

Topic

linguistics

Danielle Steel

Osborne, Laurie E. (1999) " Romancing the Bard " Shakespeare and Appropriation 47-64

Topic

Margaret Evans Porter

Osborne, Laurie E. (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)

Paige, Lori A. (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

Francine Rivers

metafiction

Parameswaran, Radhika (2002) Reading Fictions of Romance: Gender, Sexuality, and Nationalism in Postcolonial India Journal of Communication 52.4:832-851

Topic

India

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

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-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

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

Topic

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

Topic

authors

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

Topic

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

Topic

Wyatt, Neal Olsen, Georgine Ramsdell, Kristin Saricks, Joyce Welch, Lynne (2007) Core Collections in Genre Studies: Romance Fiction 101 Reference & User Services Quarterly 47.2:120-126

Topic

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

Topic

science fiction/futuristic romance

Elinor Glyn

Margaret Mitchell

E. M. Hull

Samuel Richardson

Robinson, Lillian S. (1978) Sex, Class, and Culture Bloomington, Indiana: Indiana University Press

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)

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

Topic

Sales, Roger (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

Topic

Barbara Cartland

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

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

Sanconie, Maïca (2010) « Tout un monde d’évasion » : adapter les romans sentimentaux pour un lectorat français Meta 55.4:732–751

Topic

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

Topic

Wyatt, Neal Olsen, Georgine Ramsdell, Kristin Saricks, Joyce Welch, Lynne (2007) Core Collections in Genre Studies: Romance Fiction 101 Reference & User Services Quarterly 47.2:120-126

Topic

Saxena, Vandana (2021) Afterlives of Colonialism: Nostalgia, Reader’s Response and the Case of Noel Barber’s Tanamera The Journal of Commonwealth Literature ONLINE FIRST:ONLINE FIRST

Topic

Schiffman, Leon G. Schnaars, Steven P. (1981) " The Consumption of Historical Romance Novels: Consumer Aesthetics in Popular Literature " SV - Symbolic Consumer Behavior 46-51

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Schiffman, Leon G. Schnaars, Steven P. (1981) " The Consumption of Historical Romance Novels: Consumer Aesthetics in Popular Literature " SV - Symbolic Consumer Behavior 46-51

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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

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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

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

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

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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

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

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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

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K. J. Charles

fairytales/folktales

community

family

Smith, William Clay Kinchen (2002) Revising Captivity Narratives PhD, University of Florida

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

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

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Taylor, Jessica (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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Teo, Hsu-Ming (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

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

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

sheikh romance

E. M. Hull

Teo, Hsu-Ming (2016) " The Romance Novel " Gender: Love 255-270

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

Jane Austen

E. M. Hull

Barbara Cartland

Teo, Hsu-Ming (2020) Cultural Authenticity, the Family, and East Asian American Romance Novels Journal of Popular Romance Studies 9:

Teo, Hsu-Ming (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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Thurston, Carol (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