rape and/or intimate partner violence/abuse

Ali, Kecia (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

Topic

death

police officers/police forces

Andrade, Roberta Manuela Barros de Feitosa, Ricardo Augusto de Sabóia Silva, Erotilde Honório (2019) Emoção e moralidade em tempos de ruptura: o estupro nas relações conjugais nos romances sentimentais e suas comunidades de leitura O público e o privado 34:137-161

Topic

Brazil

Anzaldúa, Saraliza (2015) Teratophilia: An Inquiry into Monster Erotica and the Feminine Psyche , National Taiwan University

Topic

Béres, Laura (2001) Romance, suffering and hope, reflective practice with abused women PhD, University of Toronto

Topic

fairytales/folktales

Michele Hauf

V. C. Andrews

Béres, Laura (2002) Negotiating Images: Popular Culture, Imagination, and Hope in Clinical Social Work Practice Affilia 17.4:429–447

Topic

Michele Hauf

Clark, Beverly Lyon Bernier, Karen Gennari Henneberry-Nassau, Michelle Jenks, Lauren Beth Moorman, Angie J. Rhoades, Marah Bianca (1996) Reading Romance, Reading Ourselves The Centennial Review 40.2:359-384

Topic

Bigey, Magali Olivier, Séverine (2010) Ils aiment le roman sentimental et alors? Lecteurs d'un 'mauvais genre', des lecteurs en danger? Belphégor 9.1:

Topic

linguistics

Blake, Susan L. (2003) " What "Race" is the Sheik?: Rereading a Desert Romance " Doubled Plots: Romance and History 67-85

Topic

Booth, Sandra (1997) Paradox in Popular Romances of the 1990s: The Paranormal versus Feminist Humor Para.doxa: Studies in World Literary Genres 3.1-2:94-106

Topic

rom-com romance

Borgia, Danielle N. (2014) Twilight: The Glamorization of Abuse, Codependency, and White Privilege The Journal of Popular Culture 47.1:153-173

Topic

Twilight

Browder, Laura (2006) Dystopian Romance: True Crime and the Female Reader The Journal of Popular Culture 39.6:928-953

Topic

Bryce, Jane (1994) 'A World of Caribbean Romance': Reformulating the Legend of Love (or: 'Can a Caress Be Culturally Specific?') Caribbean Studies 27.3/4:346–366

Topic

Caribbean

Burg, Jacob (2020) Houses of Genre Fiction: The Shared Estrangement of Postwar American Culture PhD, Brandeis University

Topic

Kathleen Woodiwiss

Helen Hoang

Burge, Amy (2012) " Do Knights Still Rescue Damsels in Distress?: Reimagining the Medieval in the Mills & Boon Historical Romance " The Female Figure in Contemporary Historical Fiction 95-114

Topic

paratext

food, drink

fashion/clothing

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

Burge, Amy (2016) Representing Difference in the Medieval and Modern Orientalist Romance Houndmills, Basingstoke: Palgrave Macmillan

Topic

Calhoun-French, Diane M. (1999) " Time-Travel and Related Phenomena in Contemporary Popular Romance Fiction " Romantic Conventions 100-112

Topic

Constance O'Day Flannery

Jo Ann Simon

Heather Graham

Alisa Klever/Tatiana Vedenska

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

Topic

Russia

Castagna, JoAnn Radespiel, Robin L. (1990) " Making Rape Romantic: A Study of Rosemary Rogers' "Steve and Ginny" Novels " Women and Violence in Literature: An Essay Collection 299-325

Topic

Caton, Steven C. (2000) " The Sheik: Instabilities of Race and Gender in Transatlantic Popular Culture of the Early 1920s " Noble Dreams, Wicked Pleasures: Orientalism in America, 1870-1930 99-117

Topic

Chaplin, Sue (2019) ‘Daddy, I’m falling for a monster’: Women, Sex, and Sacrifice in Contemporary Paranormal Romance Gothic Studies 21.1:10-27

Topic

Patthey-Chavez, G. Genevieve Clare, Lindsay Youmans, Madeleine (1996) Watery Passion: The Struggle between Hegemony and Sexual Liberation in Erotic Fiction for Women Discourse and Society 7.1:77-106

Topic

Crusie Smith, Jennifer (1999) " This Is Not Your Mother's Cinderella: The Romance Novel as Feminist Fairy Tale " Romantic Conventions 51-61

Topic

Dandridge, Rita B. (2016) " Love Prevailed Despite What American History Said: Agape and Eros in Beverly Jenkins's Night Song and Through the Storm " Romance Fiction and American Culture: Love as the Practice of Freedom? 151-166

Topic

wealth/prosperity

Davisson, Amber Hunting, Kyra (2023) From private pleasure to erotic spectacle: Adapting Bridgerton to female audience desires Journal of Popular Television 11.1:7-25

Topic

Julia Quinn

film/movies

de Geest, Dirk Goris, An (2010) Constrained Writing, Creative Writing: The Case of Handbooks for Writing Romances Poetics Today 31.1:81-106

Topic

Deal, Clare H. (2015) Throbb[ing] with a consciousness of a knowledge that appalled her’: Embodiment and Female Subjectivity in the Desert Romance Women: A Cultural Review 26.1-2:75-95

Topic

Deffenbacher, Kristina (2014) Rape Myths' Twilight and Women's Paranormal Revenge in Romantic and Urban Fantasy Fiction Journal of Popular Culture 47.5:923-936

Topic

Delamoir, Jeanette (2003) Marie Bjelke Petersen's 'virile story': Jewelled Nights, gender instability, and the bush Hecate 29.1:115-131

Topic

cross-dressing

Marie Bjelke Petersen

Australia

Reyes, Daisy Verduzco Speer, Annika C. Denes, Amanda (2021) White Women and Latina Readers’ Ambivalence Toward Fifty Shades of Grey Sexuality & Culture ONLINE FIRST:ONLINE FIRST

Topic

Dennis, Lesley Erin (2012) Pornography and Rape Myths in Paranormal Romance Novels Master of Arts, Morehead State University

Topic

Derbyshire, Val (2016) Why Read Mills & Boon Romances? : WroCAH

Topic

Penny Jordan/Caroline Courtney

romance and, or as, activism

Dixon, jay (1999) The Romance Fiction of Mills & Boon 1909-1990s London: UCL Press

Topic

Ebert, Teresa L. (2006) Romance Novels, Class and Abu Ghraib Against the Current 121:

Topic

Egilsdatter Sleire, Maria (2021) “Only I shall taste your body’s joys:” The Erotic Function of Female Corporeality in The Flame and the Flower and Fifty Shades of Grey Master's Thesis, University of Bergen

Topic

Ellis, Kate (1987) " Gimme Shelter: Feminism, Fantasy, and Women's Popular Fiction " American Media and Mass Culture: Left Perspectives 216-230

Topic

gothic romance

Victoria Holt/Jean Plaidy/Eleanor Burford Hibbert

Faust, Beatrice (1980) Women, Sex and Pornography London: Melbourne House

Topic

Topic

Brazil

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

Topic

China

m/m romance

Foster, Guy Mark (2007) " How Dare a Black Woman Make Love to a White Man! Black Women Romance Novelists and the Taboo of Interracial Desire " Empowerment versus Oppression: Twenty-First Century Views of Popular Romance Novels 103-128

Topic

African American romance

Fox, Pamela (1994) The "Revolt of the Gentle": Romance and the Politics of Resistance in Working-Class Women's Writing NOVEL: A Forum on Fiction 27.2:140-160

Topic

socialism and/or communism

Ethel Carnie Holdsworth

Ellen Wilkinson

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

Frantz, Sarah S. G. (2002) " "Expressing" Herself: The Romance Novel and the Feminine Will to Power " Scorned Literature: Essays on the History and Criticism of Popular Mass-Produced Fiction in America 17-36

Topic

Frantz, Sarah S. G. (2008) "Suzanne Brockmann" Teaching American Literature: A Journal of Theory and Practice 2.2/3:1-19

Topic

Suzanne Brockmann

Islam

Frantz Lyons, Sarah Selinger, Eric Murphy (2016) " Strange Stirrings, Strange Yearnings: The Flame and the Flower, Sweet Savage Love, and the Lost Diversities of Blockbuster Historical Romance " Romance Fiction and American Culture: Love as the Practice of Freedom? 89-110

Topic

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

Topic

García Fernández, Aurora Fresno-Calleja, Paloma (2020) Competence, Complicity and Complexity: Hsu-Ming Teo on the Pitfalls and Nuances of Reading and Researching Popular Romance Raudem, Revista de Estudios de las Mujeres 8:261-280

Topic

Topic

love

Australia

Gardner, Dora Abigail (2019) Defending the Bodice Ripper MA thesis, Eastern Kentucky University

Topic

Garland, Sarah (2012) " Ornamentalism: Desire, Disavowal, and Displacement in E. M. Hull's The Sheik " Must Read: Rediscovering American Bestsellers from Charlotte Temple to The Da Vinci Code 197-216

Topic

Glennemeier, Jaelyn (2018) “And he was an Arab!:” Imperial Femininity and Pleasure in E. M. Hull's 1919 Desert Romance, The Sheik Honors thesis, University of Kansas

Topic

Goade, Sally (2007) " Understanding the Pleasure: An Undergraduate Romance Reading Community " Empowerment versus Oppression: Twenty-First Century Views of Popular Romance Novels 206-230

Topic

Samuel Richardson

Catherine Anderson

Gómez Gray, Alana (2010) " La dominación rosa: Corín Tellado y la construcción de la identidad de la pareja mexicana " Caleidoscopio hispánico: estudios lingüísticos y literarios 27-50

Topic

Corín Tellado

Mexico

de Geest, Dirk Goris, An (2010) Constrained Writing, Creative Writing: The Case of Handbooks for Writing Romances Poetics Today 31.1:81-106

Topic

Goris, An (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

Topic

paratext

Griffin, Susan E. (1997) " Resistance and Reinvention in Sandra Cisneros' Woman Hollering Creek " Ethnicity and the American Short Story 85-96

Topic

Corín Tellado

Grinnell, Natalie (2022) The Challenge to Dominance Theory in Patricia Brigg's and Carrie Vaughn's Paranormal Romance Novels Femspec 22.2:40-65

Topic

Patricia Briggs

Carrie Vaughn

Guiley, Rosemary (1983) Love Lines: The Romance Reader's Guide to Printed Pleasures New York: Facts on File

Topic

Güvendi Yalçın, Elif (2018) The Transformation of Romance Novels Based on the Theories of Sociologist Anthony Giddens PhD, Istanbul Aydin University Institute of Social Sciences

Topic

Hanson, Donna Maree (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

Harris, Racheal (2018) " Really Romantic? Pirates in Romantic Fiction " Pirates in History and Popular Culture 109–119

Topic

pirates and outlaws

Hazen, Helen (1983) Endless Rapture: Rape, Romance, and the Female Imagination New York: Charles Scribner's Sons

Topic

Topic

Herb, Annika (2021) (Para)normalizing Rape Culture: Possession as Rape in Young Adult Paranormal Romance Girlhood Studies 14.1:68–84

Topic

Hermes, Joke (1992) Sexuality in Lesbian Romance Fiction Feminist Review 42.1:49-66

Topic

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

Sarah Aldridge

Katherine V. Forrest

Valerie Taylor

Michelle Martin

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

Hernandez, Carmen E. (2022) Romance and Revolution Master of Arts, Texas State University

Topic

Sylvain Reynard

Erika Wilde

Carly Phillips

Eliza Haywood

Hinnant, Charles H. (2003) " Desire and the Marketplace: A Reading of Kathleen Woodiwiss's The Flame and the Flower " Doubled Plots: Romance and History 147-164

Topic

Kathleen Woodiwiss

Victoria Holt/Jean Plaidy/Eleanor Burford Hibbert

fashion/clothing

Hirst, Holly (2020) " The Gothic Romance " The Palgrave Handbook of Contemporary Gothic 357-372 DOI:10.1007/978-3-030-33136-8_22

Topic

gothic romance

Phyllis A. Whitney

Catherine Cookson

Christine Marion Fraser

Georgette Heyer

Horgheim, Celina (2023) From Rape to Romance: Sexual Consent Negotiation in Romantic Retellings of the Myth of Persephone MA Degree Secondary Teacher Programme, University of Oslo

Topic

myth

Rachel Alexander

Ophelia Silk

Davisson, Amber Hunting, Kyra (2023) From private pleasure to erotic spectacle: Adapting Bridgerton to female audience desires Journal of Popular Television 11.1:7-25

Topic

Julia Quinn

film/movies

Izharuddin, Alicia (2021) “Redha tu Ikhlas”: The Social–Textual Significance of Islamic Virtue in Malay Forced Marriage Narratives Religions 12.5 (310):

Topic

Muslim romance

Jagodzinski, Mallory (2015) Love is (Color) Blind: Historical Romance Fiction and Interracial Relationships in the Twenty-First Century PhD, Bowling Green State University

Topic

Jarmakani, Amira (2015) An Imperialist Love Story: Desert Romances and the War on Terror New York: New York University Press

Topic

Jarmakani, Amira (2021) " Explorations of the "desert passion industry" " The Routledge Research Companion to Popular Romance Fiction 252-266 DOI:10.4324/9781315613468-11

Topic

Jarvis, Christine (1999) Love Changes Everything: The Transformative Potential of Popular Romantic Fiction Studies in the Education of Adults 31.2:109-123

Topic

Topic

Jensen, Margaret Ann (1984) Love's $weet Return: The Harlequin Story Toronto: The Women's Educational Press

Johnson, Emily D. (2020) Exploring His/Her Library: Reading and Books in Russian Romance Journal of Popular Romance Studies 9:

Topic

Russia

metafiction

Galina Kulikova

Natal’ia Mironova

socialism and/or communism

Johnson-Kurek, Rosemary E. (1999) " Leading Us into Temptation: The Language of Sex and the Power of Love " Romantic Conventions 113-148

Topic

Kaler, Anne K. (1999) " Conventions of Captivity in Romance Novels " Romantic Conventions 86-99

Topic

Kamblé, Jayashree (2014) Making Meaning in Popular Romance Fiction: An Epistemology New York: Palgrave Macmillan

Kamitsuka, Margaret D. (2020) Prolife Christian Romance Novels: A Sign that the Abortion-as-Murder Center Is Not Holding? Christianity & Literature 69.1:36-52

Topic

Christian romance

health/medical

Francine Rivers

Kramer, Daniela Moore, Michael (2001) Family Myths in Romantic Fiction Psychological Reports 88.1:29-41

Topic

Kramer, Daniela Moore, Michael (2001) Gender Roles, Romantic Fiction and Family Therapy Psycoloquy 12.24:

Topic

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

Topic

Laura Kinsale

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

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

Topic

Larcombe, Wendy (2005) Compelling Engagements: Feminism, Rape Law and Romance Fiction Sydney: The Federation Press

Topic

Lennard, John (2007) Of Modern Dragons and other essays on Genre Fiction Tirril, Penrith: Humanities-Ebooks

Topic

Lennard, John (2010) Of Sex and Faerie: Further essays on Genre Fiction Tirril, Penrith: Humanities-Ebooks

Topic

Malloy, Audrey Miles (2017) Remnants of the Bodice Ripper: How Consent is Characterized in Heterosexual and Lesbian Erotic Romance Novels Undergraduate, Bard College

Topic

lesbian romance

Margolies, David (1982) Mills & Boon: guilt without sex Red Letters 14:5-13

Topic

emotions

Martin, Darcy (2003) " 'Womanhood Reinvented: Eve Dallas, Protagonist in J. D. Robb's "In Death" Series " The 2000-2003 Proceedings of the SW/Texas PCA/ACA Conference 1989-2019

Topic

community

Martin, Michèle (1991) Communication et médias de masse : culture, domination et opposition Québec: Presses de l'Université du Québec

Topic

Mason, Gillian (2008) Rosemary Rogers Teaching American Literature: A Journal of Theory and Practice 2.2/3:1-8

Topic

Rosemary Rogers

erotic romance

Maynard, Lee Anna (2008) LaVyrle Spencer Teaching American Literature: A Journal of Theory and Practice 2.2/3:1-17

Topic

death

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

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

Melman, Billie (1988) Women and the Popular Imagination in the Twenties: Flappers and Nymphs Houndmills, Basingstoke: Macmillan

Topic

romances in magazines and newspapers

community

Miller, Jessica (2015) Passionate Virtue: Conceptions of Medical Professionalism in Popular Romance Fiction Literature and Medicine 33.1:70-90

Topic

medical romance

health/medical

rural romance

Mitchell, Karen S. (1996) Ever After: Reading the Women Who Read (and Re-Write) Romances Theatre Topics 6.1:51-69

Topic

Lisa Gregory

Modleski, Tania (1982) Loving with a Vengeance: Mass‐Produced Fantasies for Women Hamden, Connecticut: Archon

Topic

Modleski, Tania (1997) My Life as a Romance Reader Para.doxa: Studies in World Literary Genres 3.1-2:15-28

Topic

Brenda Joyce

African American romance

Montague, Holly W. (1994) " From Interlude in Arcady to Daphnis and Chloe: Two Thousand Years of Erotic Fantasy " The Search for the Ancient Novel 391-401

Topic

Heliodorus

Moore, Laura M. (2019) Sexual Agency, Safe Sex, and Consent Negotiations in Erotic Romance Novels European Journal of Social Sciences 2.2:92-96

Topic

Kramer, Daniela Moore, Michael (2001) Family Myths in Romantic Fiction Psychological Reports 88.1:29-41

Topic

Kramer, Daniela Moore, Michael (2001) Gender Roles, Romantic Fiction and Family Therapy Psycoloquy 12.24:

Topic

Topic

Mulhern, Chieko Irie (1989) Japanese Harlequin Romances as Transcultural Woman's Fiction The Journal of Asian Studies 48.1:50-70

Topic

food, drink

Naber, Christine Marie (1995) Rape myths are the theory--romance novels are the practice: The impact of exposure to images of women in popular culture PhD, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign

Topic

paratext

Nikbakht, H. (2019) Female Agency in the Harlequin Romance Formula: developments within the timeframe of second wave feminism Bachelor’s thesis, Utrecht University

Topic

Roberta Leigh/Rachel Lindsay

health/medical

Nilson, Maria (2013) From The Flame and the Flower to Fifty Shades of Grey: Sex, Power and Desire in the Romance Novel Akademisk Kvarter/Academic Quarter 7:119-131

Topic

Nyquist, Mary (1993) " Romance in the Forbidden Zone " ReImagining Women: Representations of Women in Culture 160-181

Topic

Native American romance

Arlene James

O'Brien, Lee (2022) Telling Gaps and Domestic Tyranny: Georgette Heyer’s Regency Romances Journal of Popular Romance Studies 11:

Topic

Bigey, Magali Olivier, Séverine (2010) Ils aiment le roman sentimental et alors? Lecteurs d'un 'mauvais genre', des lecteurs en danger? Belphégor 9.1:

Topic

linguistics

Pecora, Norma (1999) " Identity by Design: The Corporate Construction of Teen Romance Novels " Growing Up Girls: Popular Culture and the Construction of Identity 49-86

Topic

fashion/clothing

food, drink

Philadelphoff-Puren, Nina (2004) The Mark of Refusal: Sexual Violence and the Politics of Recontextualization Feminist Theory 5.3:243–256

Topic

Philadelphoff-Puren, Nina (2005) Contextualising Consent: The Problem of Rape and Romance Australian Feminist Studies 20.46:31-42

Topic

Pierre-Robertson, Petronetta (2021) " Literature as an Agent of Change " Gender and Domestic Violence in the Caribbean 87-103 DOI:10.1007/978-3-030-73472-5_6

Topic

Caribbean

Petra Pierre-Robertson

Popova, Milena (2019) Sexual Consent : MIT Press

Topic

Priyatna, Aquarini Wardiani, Sri Rijati (2022) Naturalization and Romanticization of Violence in Indonesian Teen Lit Jingga Series by Esti Kinasih Journal of International Women's Studies 24.5:

Topic

Esti Kinasih

Indonesia

Puren, Nina (1995) Hymeneal Acts: Interrogating the Hegemony of Rape and Romance Australian Feminist Law Journal 5:15-26

Topic

fascism/right-wing authoritarianism

Rabanal, Hayley (2018) Courting convivencia: Hispano-Arab identity and Spanish women’s Orientalism in the Franco regime’s years of “unbearable solitude” (1946–1950) Journal of Spanish Cultural Studies 19.3:339-364

Topic

Spain

María Adela Durango

Ana Marcela García

María del Pilar Carré

Castagna, JoAnn Radespiel, Robin L. (1990) " Making Rape Romantic: A Study of Rosemary Rogers' "Steve and Ginny" Novels " Women and Violence in Literature: An Essay Collection 299-325

Topic

Ramsdell, Kristin (2018) Encyclopedia of Romance Fiction Santa Barbara, California: Greenwood

Topic

Elinor Glyn

Margaret Mitchell

Victoria Holt/Jean Plaidy/Eleanor Burford Hibbert

Georgette Heyer

libraries/librarians

Samuel Richardson

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

Topic

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

Samuel Richardson

Jane Austen

Janet Dailey

Reyes, Daisy Verduzco Speer, Annika C. Denes, Amanda (2021) White Women and Latina Readers’ Ambivalence Toward Fifty Shades of Grey Sexuality & Culture ONLINE FIRST:ONLINE FIRST

Topic

Topic

Rholetter, Wylene (2008) Nora Roberts Teaching American Literature: A Journal of Theory and Practice 2.2/3:1-35

Topic

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

Topic

Roach, Catherine M. (2018) " Erotica " The Routledge Companion to Media, Sex and Sexuality 107-116

Topic

Alexis Hall

Roche, Emma (2023) Women, Violence and Postmillennial Romance Fiction Abingdon, Oxon: Routledge

Topic

Twilight

Fifty Shades

Russ, Joanna (1985) " Pornography By Women For Women, With Love " Magic Mommas, Trembling Sisters, Puritans & Perverts: Femininst Essays 79–99 DOI:10.2307/j.ctt20p58d6.10

Topic

Russell, Shannon (2014) Dangerous Young Men: Themes of Female Sexuality and Masculinity in Paranormal Romance Novels for Young Adults Masters, University of Ottawa

Topic

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

Topic

Susan Elizabeth Phillips

Topic

Serisier, Tanya (2015) " On Not Reading Fifty Shades: Feminism and the Fantasy of Romantic Immunity " Women and Erotic Fiction: Critical Essays on Genres, Markets & Readers 117-132

Topic

Fifty Shades

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

Topic

Topic

Brazil

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

Topic

romance and, or as, activism

Reyes, Daisy Verduzco Speer, Annika C. Denes, Amanda (2021) White Women and Latina Readers’ Ambivalence Toward Fifty Shades of Grey Sexuality & Culture ONLINE FIRST:ONLINE FIRST

Topic

Sullivan, Ashleigh Taylor (2022) " From Darcy to Dickheads: Why Do Women Love the Bad Boy? " New Frontiers in Popular Romance: Essays on the Genre in the 21st Century 31-44

Topic

Taylor, Jessica (2014) Romance and the Female Gaze Obscuring Gendered Violence in The Twilight Saga Feminist Media Studies 14.3:388-402

Topic

Twilight

Teague, Anna Sophia Wester (2015) “If my hubby ever did half the stuff my book boyfriends did… I’d put him six ft in the ground” : narratives of interpersonal and gendered violence as discussed in romance novel review websites Honors thesis, Whitman College

Topic

Teo, Hsu-Ming (2010) Historicizing The Sheik: Comparisons of the British Novel and the American Film Journal of Popular Romance Studies 1.1:

Topic

film/movies

Teo, Hsu-Ming (2012) Desert Passions: Orientalism and Romance Novels Austin, Texas: University of Texas Press

Topic

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

Teo, Hsu-Ming (2016) " The Romance Novel " Gender: Love 255-270

Topic

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

love

Jane Austen

Barbara Cartland

Georgette Heyer

Therrien, Kathleen (2012) " Straight to the Edges: Gay and Lesbian Characters and Cultural Conflict in Popular Romance Fiction " New Approaches to Popular Romance Fiction: Critical Essays 164-177

Topic

Diana Gabaldon

Julie Garwood

Susan Wiggs

Emma Holly

Therrien, Kathleen M. (2015) " "One Would Die Rather Than Speak ... about Such Subjects": Exploring Class, Gender, and Hegemony in Anya Seton's Dragonwyck " Teaching Tainted Lit: Popular American Fiction in Today's Classroom 51-76

Topic

Anya Seton

gothic romance

Thierauf, Doreen (2016) Forever After: Desire in the 21st-Century Romance Blockbuster Journal of Popular Culture 49.3:604-26

Topic

Thomas, Audrey (1986) A Fine Romance, My Dear, This Is Canadian Literature 108:5-12

Topic

Thomas, Glen (2012) " Happy Readers or Sad Ones? Romance Fiction and the Problems of the Media Effects Model " New Approaches to Popular Romance Fiction: Critical Essays 206-217

Topic

Anna Campbell

Thurston, Carol (1987) The Romance Revolution: Erotic Novels for Women and the Quest for a New Sexual Identity Urbana and Chicago: University of Illinois Press

Topic

erotic romance

Tidwell, Christy (2016) " “A Little Wildness”: Negotiating Relationships between Human and Nonhuman in Historical Romance " Creatural Fictions: Human-Animal Relationships in Twentieth- and Twenty-First-Century Literature 151-171 DOI:10.1007/978-1-137-51811-8_8

Topic

happy ending

Toscano, Angela (2012) A Parody of Love: the Narrative Uses of Rape in Popular Romance Journal of Popular Romance Studies 2.2:

Topic

Toth, Emily (1984) Who'll Take Romance? The Women's Review of Books 1.5:12-13

Topic

Emily Toth

Turner, Ellen (2014) " The Sheik Returns: Imitations and Parodies of the Desert Romance " Hype: Bestsellers and Literary Cultures 185-202

Topic

Villar-Argáiz, Pilar (2018) Ireland and the Popular Genre of Historical Romance: The Novels of Karen Robards ABEI: Brazilian Journal of Irish Studies 20.2:97-109

Topic

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

Topic

romance and, or as, activism

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

Justine Davis/Justine Dare

Suleikha Snyder

community

happy ending

Priyatna, Aquarini Wardiani, Sri Rijati (2022) Naturalization and Romanticization of Violence in Indonesian Teen Lit Jingga Series by Esti Kinasih Journal of International Women's Studies 24.5:

Topic

Esti Kinasih

Indonesia

Wardrop, Stephanie (1995) The Heroine is Being Beaten: Freud, Sadomasochism, and Reading the Romance Style: A Quarterly Journal of Aesthetics, Poetics, Stylistics, and Literary Criticism 29.3:459-473

Topic

Kathleen Woodiwiss