authors

emotions

Jayne Ann Krentz/Amanda Quick/Jayne Castle

Owen, Mairead

(1990) Women's Reading of Popular Romantic Fiction: A Case Study in the Mass Media: A Key to the Ideology of Women PhD, University of Liverpool

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(1992) Dangerous Men and Adventurous Women: Romance Writers on the Appeal of the Romance Philadelphia: University of Pennsylvania Press

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Laura Kinsale

psychology

Susan Elizabeth Phillips

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

Daphne Clair

Suzanne Simmons Guntrum

Diana Palmer

Kathleen Gilles Seidel

Pollak, Richard

(1992) What's in a Pseudonym? Romance Slaves of Harlequin The Nation 254.10:

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Sánchez-Palencia Carazo, Carolina

Kolko, Beth E.

(1994) Writing the Romance: Cultural Studies, Community, and the Teaching of Writing PhD, University of Texas at Austin

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(1994) "Romance and the Work of Fantasy: Struggles over Feminine Sexuality and Subjectivity at Century's End " Viewing, Reading, Listening: Audiences and Cultural Reception 213-231

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

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

(1996) A Labour of Love? Compiling a Bibliography of Twentieth Century Australian Romance Novels Australasian Public Libraries and Information Services 9.3-4:170-178

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(1996) A Labour of Love? The Story Behind the Compilation of Love Brought to Book: A Bio-bibliography of 20th Century Australian Romance Novels Australian Academic & Research Libraries 27.3:182-190 DOI: 10.1080/00048623.1996.10754974

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(1997) On-Line Romance Para.doxa: Studies in World Literary Genres 3.1-2:246-249

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

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Ruth Wind/Barbara Samuel/Barbara O'Neal

Samuel, Barbara

(1997) The Art of Romance Novels Para.doxa: Studies in World Literary Genres 3.1-2:78-80

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(1997) Accidental Authors, Random Readers, and the Art of Popular Romance Para.doxa: Studies in World Literary Genres 3.1-2:29-45

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(1998) Whose Face Do I See?: Anonymity and Authorship in Popular Romances Indian Journal of Gender Studies 5.2:185-200 DOI: 10.1177/097152159800500202

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Mussell, Kay

Tuñón, Johanna

(1999) North American Romance Writers Lanham, Maryland: Scarecrow Press

Topic

Rachel Lee/Sue Civil-Brown

Judith Ivory/Judy Cuevas

Sharon and Tom Curtis

Justine Davis/Justine Dare

Eileen Dreyer/Kathleen Korbel

Kathleen Eagle

Patricia Gaffney

Jennifer Greene/Jeanne Grant/Jessica Massey/Alison Hart

Maggie Osborne/Margaret St. George

Ruth Wind/Barbara Samuel/Barbara O'Neal

Kathleen Gilles Seidel

(1999) North American Romance Writers Lanham, Maryland: Scarecrow Press

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Rachel Lee/Sue Civil-Brown

Judith Ivory/Judy Cuevas

Sharon and Tom Curtis

Justine Davis/Justine Dare

Eileen Dreyer/Kathleen Korbel

Kathleen Eagle

Patricia Gaffney

Jennifer Greene/Jeanne Grant/Jessica Massey/Alison Hart

Maggie Osborne/Margaret St. George

Ruth Wind/Barbara Samuel/Barbara O'Neal

Kathleen Gilles Seidel

Jennifer Crusie

Bagchi, Jayeeta

(2000) Looking for Reality in Romance Social Scientist 28.3/4:30-39

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(2000) Romancing God: Reading Evangelical Romance Novels PhD, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill

Topic

(2000) Paranormal Romance: Secrets of the Female Fantastic Journal of the Fantastic in the Arts 11.3 (43):294-306

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

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social/economic class

Jasmine Cresswell

Thomas, Glen

James, Bridie

(2006) "The Romance Industry: A Study of Reading and Writing Romance " The Reinvention of Everyday Life: Culture in the twenty-first century 164-174

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Neal, Lynn S.

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

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Grace Livingston Hill

(2006) "The Romance Industry: A Study of Reading and Writing Romance " The Reinvention of Everyday Life: Culture in the twenty-first century 164-174

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

Waller, Philip

(2006) Writers, Readers, and Reputations: Literary Life in Britain 1870-1918 Oxford: Oxford University Press

Topic

Charles Garvice

Florence Barclay

Parv, Valerie

(2007) Healing Writes: Restorying the Authorial Self through Creative Practice: and Birthright, a speculative fiction novel Masters by Research, University of Queensland

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(2007) "Romance: The Perfect Creative Industry? A Case Study of Harlequin-Mills and Boon Australia " Empowerment versus Oppression: Twenty-First Century Views of Popular Romance Novels 20-29

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(2008) « Tant d’amour à donner »: Le biographique, l’œuvre, et la figure de l’auteur Harlequin COnTEXTES 3: DOI: 10.4000/contextes.2413

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(2008) "And I Deliver": An Interview with Emma Darcy Continuum: Journal of Media and Cultural Studies 22.1:113-126 DOI: 10.1080/10304310701732757

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Emma Darcy

(2009) "Addicted to Beauty": Consuming and Producing Web-based Chinese Danmei Fiction at Jinjiang Modern Chinese Literature and Culture 21.2:1-41

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China

m/m romance

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

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de Geest, Dirk

Goris, An

(2010) Constrained Writing, Creative Writing: The Case of Handbooks for Writing Romances Poetics Today 31.1:81-106 DOI: 10.1215/03335372-2009-015

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de Geest, Dirk

Goris, An

(2010) Constrained Writing, Creative Writing: The Case of Handbooks for Writing Romances Poetics Today 31.1:81-106 DOI: 10.1215/03335372-2009-015

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Haddon, Jenny

Pearson, Diane

(2010) Fabulous at Fifty: Recollections of the Romantic Novelists' Association 1960-2010 : The Romantic Novelists' Association

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Mary Burchell, pen name of Ida Cook

Lucilla Andrews

(2010) Fabulous at Fifty: Recollections of the Romantic Novelists' Association 1960-2010 : The Romantic Novelists' Association

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Mary Burchell, pen name of Ida Cook

Lucilla Andrews

Dryden, Therese Michelle

(2011) Bachelor Dad on Her Doorstep Masters, University of Newcastle, Australia

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(2011) From Romance to Roberts and Back Again: genre, authorship and the construction of textual identity in contemporary popular romance novels PhD, University of Leuven

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paratext

romantic suspense

Ryan, Mary

(2011) Amongst women: Male romance authors and Irish chick lit author, Andrew O’Connor Australasian Journal of Popular Culture 1.2:209-225 DOI: 10.1386/ajpc.1.2.209_1

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(2011) "The Love Life of a Fact " How Well Do Facts Travel? The Dissemination of Reliable Knowledge 429-453

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evolutionary psychology

Goris, An

(2012) "Loving by the Book: Voice and Romance Authorship " New Approaches to Popular Romance Fiction: Critical Essays 73-83

Topic

Wendell, Sarah

(2012) ""You call me a bitch like that's a bad thing": Romance Criticism and Redefining the Word "Bitch" " New Approaches to Popular Romance Fiction: Critical Essays 178-194

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(2013) A new breed of romance: romance authors who find themselves publishing via both traditional contracts and the new world of the self-published are living a hybrid life Library Journal 138.17:49-52

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(2013) "Evangelical Love Stories: The Triumphs and Temptations of Romantic Fiction " Evangelical Christians and Popular Culture: Pop Goes the Gospel. Volume 2: Literature, Music, Popular Art, and Merchandise 1–20

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

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social/economic class

(2014) Love works: Reading and writing romance in the twenty-first century Australasian Journal of Popular Culture 3.3:257-261 DOI: 10.1386/ajpc.3.3.257_7

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(2014) Love works: Reading and writing romance in the twenty-first century Australasian Journal of Popular Culture 3.3:257-261 DOI: 10.1386/ajpc.3.3.257_7

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Elliott, Jack

(2014) "Patterns and Trends in Harlequin Category Romance " Advancing Digital Humanities: Research, Methods, Theories 54-67 DOI:10.1057/9781137337016_4

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(2014) Love works: Reading and writing romance in the twenty-first century Australasian Journal of Popular Culture 3.3:257-261 DOI: 10.1386/ajpc.3.3.257_7

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Roach, Catherine M.

(2014) 'Going Native': Aca-Fandom and Deep Participant Observation in Popular Romance Studies Mosaic 47.2:33-49 DOI: 10.1353/mos.2014.0011

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Walker, Lisa

(2014) Polar bears and evil scientists: Romance, comedy and climate change Australasian Journal of Popular Culture 3.3:363-374 DOI: 10.1386/ajpc.3.3.363_1

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science/technology

ecocriticism/environmentalism/climate change

settings

Faktorovich, Anna

(2015) Gender Bias in Mystery and Romance Novel Publishing: Mimicking Masculinity and Femininity Stone Mountain, GA: Anaphora Literary Press

Topic

Faktorovich, Anna

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

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(2015) Sneers and Leers: Romance Writers and Gendered Sexual Stigma Gender & Society 29.4:459-483 DOI: 10.1177/0891243215584603

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(2015) Love in the Desert: Images of Arab-American Reconciliation in Contemporary Sheikh Romance Novels Journal of Popular Romance Studies 5.1:

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sheikh romance

(2015) Love Between the Covers : Blueberry Hill Productions

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(2015) Sneers and Leers: Romance Writers and Gendered Sexual Stigma Gender & Society 29.4:459-483 DOI: 10.1177/0891243215584603

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(2015) "The Romance of Self-Publishing " Self-Publishing and Collection Development: Opportunities and Challenges for Libraries 149-157

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Selinger, Eric Murphy

(2015) An Interview with Susan Elizabeth Phillips Journal of Popular Romance Studies 5.1:

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Susan Elizabeth Phillips

romances in magazines and newspapers

Washington, AlTonya

(2015) "An Indie Author in a Library World " Self-Publishing and Collection Development: Opportunities and Challenges for Libraries 139-147

Topic

(2016) Attachment, Articulation and Agency: A Glimpse into the World of Women Digest Writers in Pakistan PhD, University of Texas at Austin

Topic

Elliott, Jack

(2016) Vocabulary decay in category romance Digital Scholarship in the Humanities 31.2:321–332 DOI: 10.1093/llc/fqu069

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linguistics

Jane Austen

Gates, Sarah

(2016) Feminism, NASCAR and the Italian billionaire's secret baby: Defending the romance genre Voiceworks 103 (Autumn):95-101

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(2016) Entangled: the exegetical process of a romance writer Arts and Humanities as Higher Education :

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Matthews, Amy T.

(2016) The hopeful romantic Kill Your Darlings 27:44-56

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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

Radick, Caryn

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

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libraries/librarians

historical romance

Roach, Catherine M.

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

Topic

(2016) "Love the Market: Discourses of Passion and Professionalism in Romance Writing Communities " Romance Fiction and American Culture: Love as the Practice of Freedom? 273-295

Topic

(2017) Whole genre sequencing Digital Scholarship in the Humanities 32.1:65–79 DOI: 10.1093/llc/fqv034

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linguistics

Golubov, Nattie

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

Topic

(2017) ‘Snob Value’: Gender and Literary Value in Mary Stewart Women: A Cultural Review 28.3:240-261 DOI: 10.1080/09574042.2017.1355679

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Mary Stewart

romantic suspense

Larson, Christine

(2017) An Economy of Words: Precarity, Solidarity and Innovation in Digital Book Publishing PhD, Stanford University

Topic

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

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Schell, Heather

Brown, Ann K. G.

(2018) Romancelandia on Twitter: Designing a Digital Humanities Research Assignment for First-Year Writing Students Researching the Romance, conference held at Bowling Green State University, on 13 April :

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Topic

(2018) Consuming Agency and Desire in Romance: Stories of Love, Laughter, and Empowerment Lanham, Maryland: Lexington

Topic

Taylor, Jessica

(2018) Animating Creative Selves: Pen Names as Property in the Careers of Canadian and American Romance Writers American Ethnologist 45.1:112-123 DOI: 10.1111/amet.12603

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

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(2018) Gendered Migrations and Literary Narratives: Writing Communities in South Asian Diaspora Millennial Asia 9.1:93-108 DOI: 10.1177/0976399617753755

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(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

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death

romantic suspense

police officers/police forces

Lois, Jennifer

Gregson, Joanna

(2019) Aspirational Emotion Work: Calling, Emotional Capital, and Becoming a 'Real' Writer Journal of Contemporary Ethnography 48.1:51-79 DOI: 10.1177/0891241617749011

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(2019) Open networks, open books: gender, precarity and solidarity in digital publishing Information, Communication & Society : DOI: 10.1080/1369118X.2019.1621922

Topic

(2019) Aspirational Emotion Work: Calling, Emotional Capital, and Becoming a 'Real' Writer Journal of Contemporary Ethnography 48.1:51-79 DOI: 10.1177/0891241617749011

Topic

(2020) "The Good, the Bad, and the Kinky: Erotic Romance Writing in a Post-Fifty Shades of Grey Landscape " Communication in Kink: Understanding the Influence of the Fifty Shades of Grey Phenomenon 53-76

Topic

(2020) The Romance Publishing Industry and Its Reputation Publishing Research Quarterly 36:1–16 DOI: 10.1007/s12109-019-09703-2

Topic

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

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Russia

metafiction

Galina Kulikova

Natal’ia Mironova

socialism and/or communism

Lawrence, Kelsey

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

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Trinidad, Andrea Anne

(2020) #RomanceClass: Genre World, Intimate Public, Found Family Publishing Research Quarterly 36:403–417 DOI: 10.1007/s12109-020-09733-1

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McAlister, Jodi

Parnell, Claire

Trinidad, Andrea Anne

(2020) #RomanceClass: Genre World, Intimate Public, Found Family Publishing Research Quarterly 36:403–417 DOI: 10.1007/s12109-020-09733-1

Topic

Teo, Hsu-Ming

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

McAlister, Jodi

Parnell, Claire

Trinidad, Andrea Anne

(2020) #RomanceClass: Genre World, Intimate Public, Found Family Publishing Research Quarterly 36:403–417 DOI: 10.1007/s12109-020-09733-1

Topic

Vivanco, Laura

(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

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Zoë Archer

war/armed forces

Vivanco, Laura

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

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

Justine Davis/Justine Dare

Suleikha Snyder

community

happy ending

Ali, Kecia

(2021) "Author studies and popular romance fiction " The Routledge Research Companion to Popular Romance Fiction 320-334 DOI:10.4324/9781315613468-14

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Georgette Heyer

Marie Bjelke Petersen

Suzanne Brockmann

Jennifer Crusie

Ammidown, Steve

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

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Native American romance

Arnold-Forster, Agnes

(2021) Racing Pulses: Gender, Professionalism and Health Care in Medical Romance Fiction History Workshop Journal 91.1:157–181 DOI: 10.1093/hwj/dbab011

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medical romance

work

social/economic class

romances in magazines and newspapers

Elizabeth Gilzean

Alex Stuart

Hilda Pressley, pseudonym of Hilda Nickson

(2021) Qu’ont en commun Mimi Estival, Roxanne d’Avril et Georgette Mars? Auctorialité et roman sentimental québécois de l’après guerre (1944-1965) Authorship 10.1: DOI: 10.21825/aj.v10i1.20633

Topic

(2021) "Social science reads romance " The Routledge Research Companion to Popular Romance Fiction 335-351 DOI:10.4324/9781315613468-15

Topic

(2021) "Social science reads romance " The Routledge Research Companion to Popular Romance Fiction 335-351 DOI:10.4324/9781315613468-15

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(2021) Modern Love: Reading, Writing, and Publishing the Romance Novel Master's Thesis, Purdue University

Topic

Topic

(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

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sociology

fascism/right-wing authoritarianism

(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

(2022) Romancing the Algorithm: Navigating Constantly, Frequently, and Silently Changing Algorithms for Digital Work Proceedings of the Association for Computing Machinery on Human-Computer Interaction Volume 6 Issue CSCW:1–29 DOI: 10.1145/3555651

Topic

Cruz-Bibb, Rosanna

(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

Jayne Ann Krentz/Amanda Quick/Jayne Castle

disability

science fiction/futuristic romance

Topic

(2022) Romance fiction as a bridge to understanding changing gender roles in society PhD in Creative Writing, University of Canberra

Topic

Rachel Lee/Sue Civil-Brown

Rosemary Carter

Darynda Jones

Penny Jordan/Caroline Courtney

Daphne Clair

(2022) "Empirical Approaches to Studying Emotion in Literature: The Case of Gender " The Routledge Companion to Literature and Emotion DOI:10.4324/9780367809843-8

Topic

Topic

(2022) Networking down: Networks, innovation, and relational labor in digital book publishing New Media & Society ONLINE FIRST:ONLINE FIRST DOI: 10.1177/14614448221090195

Topic

Larson, Christine

(2022) Streaming books: confluencers, Kindle Unlimited and the platform imaginary Communication, Culture and Critique 15.4:520–530 DOI: 10.1093/ccc/tcac032

Topic

(2022) "Empirical Approaches to Studying Emotion in Literature: The Case of Gender " The Routledge Companion to Literature and Emotion DOI:10.4324/9780367809843-8

Topic

(2022) "Empirical Approaches to Studying Emotion in Literature: The Case of Gender " The Routledge Companion to Literature and Emotion DOI:10.4324/9780367809843-8

Topic

(2022) Pushing the boundaries: Erotic romance and the symbolic boundary nexus Poetics 94:--- DOI: 10.1016/j.poetic.2022.101729

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

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sociology

Native American romance

Larson, Christine

Ready, Elspeth

(2022) Networking down: Networks, innovation, and relational labor in digital book publishing New Media & Society ONLINE FIRST:ONLINE FIRST DOI: 10.1177/14614448221090195

Topic

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

Vivanco, Laura

(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

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