E. M. Forster

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

Topic

genre definitions

trash/literary and or intellectual 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

Pierini, Francesca

(2022) Critical Approaches to the Modern and Contemporary Anglophone Romance Novel (From A Room with a View to Fifty Shades of Grey) Journal of Popular Romance Studies 11:

Topic

teaching romance

Jennifer Crusie

Beverly Jenkins

Pierini, Francesca

(2022) Romance and Metagenre: A Response to Burkhard Niederhoff Connotations: A Journal for Critical Debate 31:100-111

Topic

romance scholarship

Pierini, Francesca

(2023) Towards a Regime of Authenticity. Reading A Room with a View through the Lens of Contemporary Romance Scholarship LEA - Lingue E Letterature D'Oriente E D'Occidente 12:217-228 DOI: 10.36253/lea-1824-484x-14273

Topic

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

trash/literary and or intellectual quality