national identity

LGBTQ+ characters, readers and/or authors

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

Alexi, Sarah

(2020) Girl, woman, spinster—‘desire, fear, ridicule’: the feminine and the failed in twentieth-century Australian women’s writing PhD, University of New South Wales

Topic

(1998) La obra de Carmen de Icaza en la difusión de un "nuevo" concepto de nación española Revista Hispánica Moderna 51.1:64-71

Topic

Carmen de Icaza

Alisa Klever/Tatiana Vedenska

Belgrave, Valerie

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

Topic

(2020) A World Without Safe Words: Fifty Shades of Russian Grey Journal of Popular Romance Studies 9:

Topic

Russia

rape and/or intimate partner violence/abuse

sex/sexuality

Dalziell, Tanya

(2021) "Australia's Long Relationship with Romance " The Routledge Companion to Australian Literature 365-373

Topic

Joyce Dingwell/Kate Starr

Downey, Kristin

(2005) Irony, Ideology, and Resistance: The Amazing Double Life of Harlequin Presents PhD, McMaster University

Topic

(2018) What is Australian Popular Fiction? Australian Literary Studies 33.4:1-11 DOI: 10.20314/als.4e3df0ec9c

Topic

(1991) Love and the Lions: The Image of White Settlement in Kenya in Popular Fiction, 1919-1939 African Affairs 90.360:427-438 DOI: 10.1093/oxfordjournals.afraf.a098441

Topic

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

Edmondson, Belinda

(2007) The Black Romance Women's Studies Quarterly 35.1/2:191-211

Topic

African American romance

sex/sexuality

Frances Watkins Harper

Caribbean

film/movies

romance and, or as, activism

Egan, Jesi

(2016) Cultural Futurity and the Politics of Recovery: Mary Renault's Ambivalent Romances MFS Modern Fiction Studies 62.3:462-80 DOI: 10.1353/mfs.2016.0038

Topic

Mary Renault

LGBTQ+ characters, readers and/or authors

emotions

modernism

Escolar, Marisa

(2015) Marry the Allies? Luciana Peverelli’s ‘True’ Romanzo Rosa in ‘Liberated’ Rome Italian Studies 70.2:228-248 DOI: 10.1179/0075163415Z.00000000097

Topic

Luciana Peverelli

Italy

(1993) Beatrice Grimshaw and Australia - White Women in the Pacific Olive Pink Society Bulletin 5.1:34-39

Topic

(2018) What is Australian Popular Fiction? Australian Literary Studies 33.4:1-11 DOI: 10.20314/als.4e3df0ec9c

Topic

(2013) Making Jamaican Love: Colin Channer's Waiting in Vain and Romance-ified Diaspora Identities Small Axe: A Caribbean Journal Of Criticism 17.3:63-84 DOI: 10.1215/07990537-2378919

Topic

rape and/or intimate partner violence/abuse

erotic romance

Fresno-Calleja, Paloma

(2019) Chick-Lit Pasifika-Style or How to B(l)end the Formula: Lani Young’s Scarlet Series Contemporary Women's Writing 13.2:203–221 DOI: 10.1093/cww/vpaa003

Topic

Fresno-Calleja, Paloma

(2021) "Rugby Romances and the Branding of New Zealand " Romantic Escapes: Post-Millennial Trends in Contemporary Popular Romance Fiction 177-201

Topic

(2008) 'Fit Only for the Scrap Heap': Rebuilding Returned Soldier Manhood in Australia After 1945 Gender & History 20.1:48-67 DOI: 10.1111/j.1468-0424.2007.00501.x

Topic

romances in magazines and newspapers

(2010) Louise Mack and Colonial Pseudo Literature Southerly 70.2:82-95

Topic

Australia

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

Louise Mack

metafiction

Gifford, James

(2017) "Mary Stewart’s Greek Novels: Hellenism, Orientalism and the Cultural Politics of Pulp Presentation " Greece in British Women’s Literary Imagination, 1913-2013 99-118

Topic

(2022) "The geopolitics of love: patriotism, homeland and the domestication of violent masculinities in US paramilitary romance fiction " The Routledge Companion to Romantic Love DOI:10.4324/9781003022343-27

Topic

González Cruz, María Isabel

(2016) "Discourse Types and Functions in Popular Romance Fiction Novels ("Work in Progress") " On the move: Glancing Backwards To Build a Future in English Studies 265-271

Topic

González-Allende, Iker

(2005) La novela rosa de ambientación vasca e ideología franquista durante la Guerra Civil española Revista Internacional de Estudios Vascos 50.1:79-103

Topic

romance and, or as, activism

marriage

González-Cruz, María-Isabel

(2021) "On the Discoursive Construction of the Spanish Hero in Intercultural Romances " International Handbook of Love: Transcultural and Transdisciplinary Perspectives 749-767 DOI:10.1007/978-3-030-45996-3_40

Topic

(1998) Brave New Causes: Women in British Postwar Fictions London: Leicester University Press

Topic

Hemmungs Wirtén, Eva

(1998) "They Seek It Here, They Seek It There, They Seek It Everywhere": Looking for the "Global" Book Canadian Journal of Communication 23.2:

Topic

Doreen Hornsblow as Sally Wentworth

translation

Sweden

Sandra Canfield

(2010) The Comfortable Reader: Romantic Bestsellers and Critical Disdain French Cultural Studies 21.4:287-296 DOI: 10.1177/0957155810378576

Topic

France

(1993) The Historical Romance London and New York: Routledge

Topic

historical romance

history

Georgette Heyer

Sir Arthur Conan Doyle

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

Mira Stables

Rowena Tenet

Iwai, Gaku

(2015) Wartime Ideology in 'The Thimble': A Comparative Study of Popular Wartime Romance and the Anti-romance of D. H. Lawrence Études Lawrenciennes 46: DOI: 10.4000/lawrence.236

Topic

(2012) "Patriotism, Passion, and PTSD: The Critique of War in Popular Romance Fiction " New Approaches to Popular Romance Fiction: Critical Essays 153-163

Topic

(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

(2016) Soft metafiction(s) : Mary Stewart and the self-reflective middlebrow PhD, University of Newcastle, UK

Topic

Mary Stewart

romantic suspense

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

(1997) Contemporary Mass Market Romances as National and International Culture: A Comparative Study of Mills & Boon and Harlequin Romances Para.doxa: Studies in World Literary Genres 3.1-2:195-213

Topic

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

(2017) "Love in Australian Romance Novels " The Popular Culture of Romantic Love in Australia 194-222

Topic

(2018) The literary text as historical artifact: The colonial couple in Australian romantic fiction by women, 1838-1860 Lilith: A Feminist History Journal 24:38-51

Topic

Australia

love

history

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

McAlister, Jodi

(2018) “Feelings Like the Women in Books”: Declarations of Love in Australian Romance Novels, 1859–1891 Emotions: History, Culture, Society 2.1:91-112 DOI: 10.1163/2208522X-02010005

Topic

(2020) The Consummate Virgin: Female Virginity Loss and Love in Anglophone Popular Literatures Cham, Switzerland: Palgrave Macmillan

Naeej, Elham

(2021) Parting the Curtain: The Virgin Heroine and the ‘Westoxified’ Villain in Contemporary Iranian Romance Novels Journal of Popular Romance Studies 10:

Topic

Iran

virginity

Fattaneh Haj Seyyed Javadi

(2017) Kärlek i kyligt klimat: Om nordisk romance Tidskrift för Nordisk litteratur 76:22-31

Topic

(2021) "Australian romance fiction " The Routledge Research Companion to Popular Romance Fiction 72-96 DOI:10.4324/9781315613468-3

Topic

Australia

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

Rosa Praed

Marie Bjelke Petersen

(2016) Medieval heresy in Croatian historical romances: a case study of Marija Jurić Zagorka’s Plameni inkvizitori Neohelicon 43.2:559–576 DOI: 10.1007/s11059-016-0346-9

Topic

Marija Jurić Zagorka

historical romance

Croatia

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

history

readers

Parameswaran, Radhika

(2002) Reading Fictions of Romance: Gender, Sexuality, and Nationalism in Postcolonial India Journal of Communication 52.4:832-851 DOI: 10.1111/j.1460-2466.2002.tb02576.x

Topic

India

Parameswaran, Radhika E.

(1994) "Romance Reading in the Third World: A Postcolonial Intersection of Gender, Ethnicity, and Sexuality " Proceedings of the Annual Meeting of the Association for Education in Journalism and Mass Communication (77th, Atlanta, Georgia, August 10-13, 1994). Part IV: International Media 71-102

Topic

sex/sexuality

Parameswaran, Radhika E.

(1997) Public Images, Private Pleasures: Romance Reading at the Intersection of Gender, Class, and National Identities in Urban India PhD, University of Iowa

Topic

India

readers

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

historical romance

(2018) Exoticism, Ethnocentrism, and Englishness in Popular Romance Fiction: Constructing the European Other Journal of Popular Culture 51.4:940-955 DOI: 10.1111/jpcu.12710

Topic

(2019) Representations of Nation and Spanish Masculinity in Popular Romance Novels: The Alpha Male as “Other” The Journal of Men’s Studies 27.2:169-182 DOI: 10.1177/1060826518801531

Topic

Lilian Warren as Kathryn Blair/Rosalind Brett/Celine Conway

(2020) "Britannia’s Daughters: Popular Romance Fiction and the Ideology of National Superiority (1950s–1970s) " Love, Language, Place, and Identity in Popular Culture: Romancing the Other 13-24

Topic

Kay Thorpe

Greece

Jean S. MacLeod/Catherine Airlie

feminism

(2022) "Imperfect paradise: Madeira in the novels of Margaret Rome, Katrina Britt, and Sally Wentworth " Discursos e Identidades en la Ficción Romántica: Visiones Anglófonas de Madeira y Canarias / Discourses and Identities in Romance Fiction: Anglophone Visions from Madeira and the Canaries 247-256

Topic

Ethel Connell as Katrina Britt

Doreen Hornsblow as Sally Wentworth

Sara Wood

(2022) "Paraísos imperfectos: Madeira en las novelas de Margaret Rome, Katrina Britt y Sally Wentworth " Discursos e Identidades en la Ficción Romántica: Visiones Anglófonas de Madeira y Canarias / Discourses and Identities in Romance Fiction: Anglophone Visions from Madeira and the Canaries 53-64

Topic

Ethel Connell as Katrina Britt

Doreen Hornsblow as Sally Wentworth

(1998) Brave New Causes: Women in British Postwar Fictions London: Leicester University Press

Topic

Pierini, Francesca

(2020) Olive Skin, Chocolate Eyes: The Legacy of The Sheik on Descriptive Patterns of the Italian Romantic Hero in Harlequin Short Contemporaries Journal of Popular Romance Studies 9:

Topic

Italy

(1999) American Women Readers Encounter Turkey in the Shadow of Popular Romance Journal of American Studies of Turkey 9:71-82

Topic

Greece

Turkey

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

Demetra Vaka

Potter, Jane

(2005) Boys in Khaki, Girls in Print: Women's Literary Responses to the Great War 1914-1918 Oxford: Clarendon Press

Topic

Mary Ward/Mrs. Humphry Ward

Ruby M. Ayres

Berta Ruck

Florence Barclay

disability

Potter, Jane

(2015) "‘Khaki and Kisses’: Reading the Romance Novel in the Great War " Reading and the First World War: Readers, Texts, Archives 29-44 DOI:10.1057/9781137302717_2

Topic

Potter, Jane Elizabeth

(1998) Boys in khaki, girls in print: women's literary responses to the great war, 1914-1918 D.Phil, University of Oxford

Topic

Annie Vivanti/Annie Vivanti Chartres

Raineri, Rosalia

(2019) Verde bianco e rosa. Il romanzo 'femminile' e l'educazione sentimentale delle italiane (1911-1946) PhD, Università degli Studi di Palermo

Topic

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

linguistics

family

Regan, Lisa

(2017) Women and the 'War Machine' in the Desert Romances of E. M. Hull and Rosita Forbes Women's Writing 24.1:109-122 DOI: 10.1080/09699082.2016.1233773

Topic

(2021) The Romance Novel in English: A Survey in Rare Books, 1769-1999 : Type Punch Matrix

Topic

Publishing

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

work

paranormal/fantasy/time-travel romance

YA/teenage romance

African American romance

LGBTQ+ characters, readers and/or authors

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

Jayne Ann Krentz/Amanda Quick/Jayne Castle

science fiction/futuristic romance

Nora Roberts/J. D. Robb

Marisa de Zavala/Ana Lisa de Leon/Rachel Scott/Celina Rios Mullan

Victoria Holt/Jean Plaidy/Eleanor Burford Hibbert

Tracy West/Joyce McGill/Chassie West

(2018) Full-Blooded Desi Romance: Contemporary English-Language Romance Novels in India Journal of Popular Culture 51.3:754-775 DOI: 10.1111/jpcu.12652

Topic

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

family

Saxena, Vandana

(2023) Afterlives of Colonialism: Nostalgia, Reader’s Response and the Case of Noel Barber’s Tanamera The Journal of Commonwealth Literature 58.2:340-358 DOI: 10.1177/0021989420971331

Topic

(1999) Romance in the Romance: Love and Marriage in Turn-of-the-Century Best Sellers Journal of Narrative Theory 29.1:110-134

Topic

(1999) "Beautiful Indians, Troublesome Negroes, and Nice White Men: Caribbean Romances and the Invention of Trinidad " Caribbean Romances: The Politics of Regional Representation 163-182

Topic

(2012) German Writing, American Reading: Women and the Import of Fiction, 1866-1917 Columbus: Ohio State University Press

Topic

Germany

Wilhelmine Heimburg/Bertha Behrens

E. Marlitt/Eugenie John

Fanny Lewald

Wilhelmine von Hillern

Claire von Glümer

Ursula Zöge von Manteuffel

E. Werner/Elisabeth Bürstenbinder

Nataly von Eschstruth

metafiction

Moritz von Reichenbach/Valeska von Reiswitz, Gräfin von Bethusy-Huc

Charlotte Brontë

E. Juncker

Golo Raimund/Bertha [Heyn] Frederich

(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

Topic

Mary Gaunt, with John Ridgwell Essex

(2003) "The Romance of White Nations: Imperialism, Popular Culture and National Histories " After the Imperial Turn: Thinking with and through the Nation 279-292 DOI:10.1215/9780822384397-018

Topic

E. M. Hull

sheikh romance

Native American romance

(2004) Romancing the Raj: Interracial Relations in Anglo-Indian Romance Novels History of Intellectual Culture 4.1:

Topic

India

(2014) “We have to learn to love imperially”: Love in Late Colonial and Federation Australian Romance Novels Journal of Popular Romance Studies 4.2:

(2016) "Imperial Affairs: The British Empire and the Romantic Novel, 1890-1939 " New Directions in Popular Fiction: Genre, Distribution, Reproduction 87-110 DOI:10.1057/978-1-137-52346-4_5

McAlister, Jodi

Jayne Ann Krentz/Amanda Quick/Jayne Castle

(2017) "Love in Australian Romance Novels " The Popular Culture of Romantic Love in Australia 194-222

Topic

Therrien, Kathleen M.

(1997) Trembling at Her Own Response: Resistance and Reconciliation in Mass-Market Romance Novels PhD, University of Delaware

Topic

Julie Garwood

(2008) Where is my Happy Ending and Why am I Looking for it? The Romance Myth in Contemporary Popular Australian Women’s Fiction PhD, Griffith University

Topic

romances in magazines and newspapers

Vera-Cazorla, María Jesús

chick lit

Marion Lennox

(2020) "“And they Drive on the Wrong Side of the Road”: The Anglo-centric Vision of the Canary Islands in Mills & Boon Romance Novels (1955–1987) " Love, Language, Place, and Identity in Popular Culture: Romancing the Other 25-39

Topic

family

marriage

Vera-Cazorla, María Jesús

(2022) "Canarian culture and identity and their representation in the novels of the FFI2014-53962-P corpus " Discursos e Identidades en la Ficción Romántica: Visiones Anglófonas de Madeira y Canarias / Discourses and Identities in Romance Fiction: Anglophone Visions from Madeira and the Canaries 275-296

Topic