J. R. Ward | Romance Scholarship DB

Bly, Mary (2012) " On Popular Romance, J. R. Ward, and the Limits of Genre Study " New Approaches to Popular Romance Fiction: Critical Essays 60-72

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fashion/clothing

United States of America

war/armed forces

LGBT+ characters, readers and/or authors

Suzanne Brockmann

Chaplin, Sue (2019) ‘Daddy, I’m falling for a monster’: Women, Sex, and Sacrifice in Contemporary Paranormal Romance Gothic Studies 21.1:10-27

Topic

paranormal/fantasy/time-travel romance

rape and/or intimate partner violence/abuse

LGBT+ characters, readers and/or authors

Deffenbacher, Kristina (2014) Rape Myths' Twilight and Women's Paranormal Revenge in Romantic and Urban Fantasy Fiction Journal of Popular Culture 47.5:923-936

Topic

rape and/or intimate partner violence/abuse

paranormal/fantasy/time-travel romance

Patricia Briggs

Christine Feehan

Karen Marie Moning

Charlaine Harris

Frantz, Sarah S. G. (2009) Darcy’s Vampiric Descendants: Austen’s Perfect Romance Hero and J. R. Ward’s Black Dagger Brotherhood Persuasions 30.1:

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Goris, An (2013) Happily Ever After ... And After: Serialization and the Popular Romance Novel Americana: The Journal of American Popular Culture (1900-present) 12.1:

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genre definitions

Nora Roberts/J. D. Robb

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

Topic

paranormal/fantasy/time-travel romance

Kerrelyn Sparks

Kendal, Evie (2019) The use of free indirect discourse in J. R. Ward's Black Dagger Brotherhood series Colloquy: Text, Theory, Critique 38:20-43

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genre definitions

paranormal/fantasy/time-travel romance

Leavenworth, Maria Lindgren (2009) Lover Revamped: Sexualities and Romance in the Black Dagger Brotherhood and Slash Fan Fiction Extrapolation: A Journal of Science Fiction and Fantasy 50.3:442-462

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paranormal/fantasy/time-travel romance

Moody, Stephanie (2016) Identification, Affect, and Escape: Theorizing Popular Romance Reading Pedagogy 16.1:105-123

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Jennifer Crusie

Judith McNaught

Susan Elizabeth Phillips

Teresa Medeiros

Ramos-García, María T. (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

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paranormal/fantasy/time-travel romance

United States of America

capitalism/business

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

Topic

paranormal/fantasy/time-travel romance

genre definitions

YA/teenage romance

LGBT+ characters, readers and/or authors

romance scholarship

Laurell K. Hamilton

war/armed forces

Roach, Catherine M. (2010) Getting a Good Man to Love: Popular Romance Fiction and the Problem of Patriarchy Journal of Popular Romance Studies 1.1:

Topic

religion/spirituality

Roach, Catherine M. (2016) Happily Ever After: The Romance Story in Popular Culture Bloomington, Indiana: Indiana University Press

Topic

religion/spirituality

Beverly Jenkins

rape and/or intimate partner violence/abuse

genre definitions

LGBT+ characters, readers and/or authors

romance scholarship

Roach, Catherine M. (2016) " Love as the Practice of Bondage: Popular Romance Narratives and the Conundrum of Erotic Love " Romance Fiction and American Culture: Love as the Practice of Freedom? 369-387

Topic

Beverly Jenkins

LGBT+ characters, readers and/or authors

Şerban, Andreea (2012) " Romancing the Paranormal: A Case Study of J.R. Ward’s The Black Dagger Brotherhood " Romance: The History of a Genre 89-110

Topic

paranormal/fantasy/time-travel romance

LGBT+ characters, readers and/or authors