E. M. Forster | Romance Scholarship DB

Regis, Pamela (2003) A Natural History of the Romance Novel Philadelphia: University of Pennsylvania Press

Topic

genre definitions

trash/literary quality

Samuel Richardson

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

Charlotte Brontë

Anthony Trollope

Georgette Heyer

Harlequin Mills & Boon

Jayne Ann Krentz/Amanda Quick/Jayne Castle

Nora Roberts/J. D. Robb

rape and/or intimate partner violence/abuse