Heather Graham/Shannon Drake/Heather Graham Pozzessere

(1996) The Merchants of Venus: Inside Harlequin and the Empire of Romance Vancouver: Raincoast

Topic

Harlequin Mills & Boon

Barbara Cartland

Nora Roberts/J. D. Robb

Heather Graham/Shannon Drake/Heather Graham Pozzessere

Judith McNaught

Violet Winspear

Laframboise, Donna

(1996) The Princess at the Window: A New Gender Morality Toronto: Penguin

Topic

rape and/or intimate partner violence/abuse

Johanna Lindsey

Kathleen Morgan

Heather Graham/Shannon Drake/Heather Graham Pozzessere

Katharine Kincaid

Service, Alexandra

(1998) Popular Vikings: Constructions of Viking Identity in Twentieth Century Britain PhD, University of York

Topic

historical romance

Heather Graham/Shannon Drake/Heather Graham Pozzessere

Johanna Lindsey

Catherine Coulter

rape and/or intimate partner violence/abuse

war/armed forces

Calhoun-French, Diane M.

(1999) "Time-Travel and Related Phenomena in Contemporary Popular Romance Fiction " Romantic Conventions 100-112

Topic

paranormal/fantasy/time-travel romance

historical romance

Constance O'Day Flannery

Heather Graham/Shannon Drake/Heather Graham Pozzessere

religion/spirituality

Jayne Ann Krentz/Amanda Quick/Jayne Castle

rape and/or intimate partner violence/abuse

Gómez Calderón, María José

(2007) Romancing the Dark Ages: The Viking Hero in Sentimental Narrative Boletín Millares Carlo 26:287-297

Topic

historical romance

Johanna Lindsey

paranormal/fantasy/time-travel romance

Heather Graham/Shannon Drake/Heather Graham Pozzessere

war/armed forces

Handley-Cousins, Sarah

(2026) "Love Is a Battlefield: Civil War Memory in Modern Romance Novels " They Are Dead and Yet They Live: Civil War Memories in a Polarized America 152-169

Topic

war/armed forces

United States of America

Michelle Shocklee

Christian romance

African American romance

historical romance

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

Kathleen Woodiwiss

Patricia Gallagher

Heather Graham/Shannon Drake/Heather Graham Pozzessere

Tamera Alexander

Beverly Jenkins