Publishing

Ali, Kecia (2018) Romance Fiction in the Archives Journal of Popular Romance Studies 7:

Topic

Allen, Amanda Kirstin (2010) The Girls’ Guide to Power: Romancing the Cold War PhD, University of Alberta

Topic

Andrade, Roberta Manuela Barros de Silva, Erotilde Honório (2013) A pedagogia social dos romances de amor dos “tempos da vovó” Tensões Mundias 9.21:251-274

Topic

Silva, Erotilde Honório Andrade, Roberta Manuela Barros de (2015) Os romances sentimentais e a revolução digital: os processos de criação dos projetos de democratização da leitura nos livros do coração Revista de Estudos da Comunicação 16.41:345-361

Topic

Brazil

Andreu, Alicia G. (2009) Difusión y distribución de Corín Tellado en Hispanoamérica Hispania 92.3:624-634

Topic

Corín Tellado

Latin America

Andreu, Alicia G. (2010) La construcción editorial de Corín Tellado Vigo: Editorial Academia del Hispanismo

Topic

Corín Tellado

Liala, pen name of Amalia Liana Cambiasi Negretti Odescalchi

Balducci, Federica (2011) Rethinking Romanzo Rosa: The first person narrator and changing gender roles in Brunella Gasperini’s Rosso di sera Italian Studies in Southern Africa/Studi d'Italianistica nell'Africa Australe 24.1:103-126

Topic

Balducci, Federica (2011) When chick lit meets romanzo rosa: Intertextual narratives in Stefania Bertola’s romantic fiction Journal of Popular Romance Studies 2.1:

Topic

Barot, Len (2016) " Queer Romance in Twentieth- and Twenty-First-Century America: Snapshots of a Revolution " Romance Fiction and American Culture: Love as the Practice of Freedom? 389-404

Topic

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

Marion Zimmer Bradley

Gordon Merrick

Radclyffe/Len Barot

erotic romance

Barra, Andrea Cipriano (2014) Beyond the Bodice Ripper: Innovation and Change in the Romance Novel Industry PhD, Rutgers, The State University of New Jersey

Topic

Bettinotti, Julia Bédard-Cazabon, Hélène Gagnon, Jocelyn Noizet, Pascale Provost, Christiane (1986) La corrida de l'amour: Le Roman Harlequin Montréal: Université du Québec à Montréal

Topic

Béja, Alice (2019) La new romance et ses nuances. Marché littéraire, sexualité imaginaire et condition féminine Revue du Crieur 12.1:106-121

Topic

Bettinotti, Julia Bédard-Cazabon, Hélène Gagnon, Jocelyn Noizet, Pascale Provost, Christiane (1986) La corrida de l'amour: Le Roman Harlequin Montréal: Université du Québec à Montréal

Topic

Bigey, Magali (2012) Romances en séries, amour toujours et marketing Le Temps des Médias 19:87-100

Topic

Birthisel, Jessica (2020) " The Good, the Bad, and the Kinky: Erotic Romance Writing in a Post-Fifty Shades of Grey Landscape " Communication in Kink: Understanding the Influence of the Fifty Shades of Grey Phenomenon 53-76

Topic

Bloom, Clive (2002) Bestsellers: Popular Fiction Since 1900 Houndmills, Basingstoke: Palgrave Macmillan

Topic

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

Effie Adelaide Rowlands, also known as Madame Albanesi

Victoria Holt/Jean Plaidy/Eleanor Burford Hibbert

Barbara Taylor Bradford

Barbara Cartland

Catherine Cookson

Charlotte Lamb

Penny Jordan/Caroline Courtney

Boivin, Karol'Ann Luneau, Marie-Pier (2021) Qu’ont en commun Mimi Estival, Roxanne d’Avril et Georgette Mars? Auctorialité et roman sentimental québécois de l’après guerre (1944-1965) Authorship 10.1:

Topic

Bonciarelli, Sarah (2012) Reading women’s fiction. Liala’s novels between uniqueness and standardization Álabe: Revista de Investigación sobre Lectura y Escritura 5:

Topic

Liala, pen name of Amalia Liana Cambiasi Negretti Odescalchi

Linz, Cathie Bouricius, Ann Byrnes, Carole (1995) Exploring the World of Romance Novels Public Libraries 34.3:144–151

Topic

Sharma, Vishal Bray, Kirsten E. Kumar, Neha Grinter, Rebecca E. (2022) Romancing the Algorithm: Navigating Constantly, Frequently, and Silently Changing Algorithms for Digital Work Proceedings of the Association for Computing Machinery on Human-Computer Interaction Volume 6 Issue CSCW:1–29

Topic

Sharma, Vishal Bray, Kirsten E. Kumar, Neha Grinter, Rebecca E. (2023) It Takes (at least) Two: The Work to Make Romance Work Proceedings of the 2023 CHI Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems (CHI ’23), April 23–28, 2023, Hamburg, Germany :

Topic

Brodesco, Alberto (2009) " Harmony: L’amore in edicola " Una galassia rosa: Ricerche sulla letteratura femminile di consumo 37-83

Topic

Italy

Brouillette, Sarah (2019) Romance Work Theory & Event 22.2:451-464

Topic

Linz, Cathie Bouricius, Ann Byrnes, Carole (1995) Exploring the World of Romance Novels Public Libraries 34.3:144–151

Topic

Cadet, Christiane (1986) Roman sentimental ou histoire de sentiments Pratiques: linguistique, littérature, didactique 50:101-110

Topic

teaching romance

Cantor, Muriel G. (1989) " Writing Fiction as Women's Work " Communications at the Crossroads: The Gender Gap Connection 92-105

Topic

Carlos, Giovana Santana (2019) Fandom e mercado literário: um mapa das mediações das fãs de romance no contexto brasileiro PhD, Unisinos

Topic

Brazil

Driscoll, Beth Fletcher, Lisa Wilkins, Kim Carter, David (2018) The Publishing Ecosystems of Contemporary Australian Genre Fiction Creative Industries Journal 11.2:203-221

Topic

Christian-Smith, Linda K. (1990) Becoming a Woman Through Romance London: Routledge

Topic

Christian-Smith, Linda K. (1993) " Voices of Resistance: Young Women Readers of Romance Fiction " Beyond Silenced Voices: Class, Race, and Gender in United States Schools 169-189

Topic

Constans, Ellen (1999) Parlez-moi d’amour: Le roman sentimental. Des romans grecs aux collections de l’an 2000 Limoges: PULIM (Presses universitaires de Limoges)

Topic

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

Constans, Ellen (2008) Ouvrières des lettres: Les Romancières dans la production de la littérature de masse de la première moitié du XXe siècle Belphégor 7.2:

Topic

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

fascism/right-wing authoritarianism

Corderot, Didier (2015) Biblioteca Rocío" (1937-1939) o las virtudes de la novela rosa durante la Guerra Civil española Tropelias: Revista de teoría de la literatura y literatura comparada 23:26-48

Topic

Spain

Magali, pen name of Jeanne Philbert

Coste, Didier (1981) Installments of the Heart: Text Delimitation in Periodical Narrative and Its Consequences Sub-Stance 10/11:56-65

Topic

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

Hedwig Courths-Mahler

Florence Barclay

Grace Livingston Hill

Rafael Pérez y Pérez

marriage

Cruz-Bibb, Rosanna (2022) Patriarchy, Feminism, and The Space Between: The Production and Consumption of Feminism in Romance Novels PhD thesis, University of Georgia

Topic

Cuthbert, Kate (2021) " The Australian Digital Publishing Bubble, 2012-2016: An Insider Perspective " Post-Digital Book Cultures: Australian Perspectives 115-138

Topic

Dandridge, Rita B. (2022) Vivian Lorraine Stephens: Romance Pioneer Journal of Popular Romance Studies 11:

Topic

Vivian Stephens

Rosalind Welles - pen name of Elsie B. Washington

Amii Lorin

disability

Sandra Kitt

ageism

Darbyshire, Peter (2000) Romancing the World: Harlequin Romances, the Capitalist Dream, and the Conquest of Europe and Asia Studies in Popular Culture 23.1:1-10

Topic

socialism and/or communism

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

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

Delany, Samuel R. (1987) " The Gestation of Genres: Literature, Fiction, Romance, Science Fiction, Fantasy ... " Intersections: Fantasy and Science Fiction 63-73

Topic

Di Leo, Jeffrey (2020) The Speed of Publishing American Book Review 41.4:2, 26-27

Topic

Alexa Riley

I. T. Lucas

DiVisconte, Jessica (2009) The Recession and Its Effect on the Romance Genre Master of Science in Publishing, Dyson College of Arts & Sciences, Pace University

Topic

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

Topic

Dreimane, Jana (2015) Authors, Publishers and Readers of Popular Literature in Latvia in the Late 1980s and Early 1990s Interlitteraria 20.2:56–70

Topic

Hedwig Courths-Mahler

Ethel M. Dell

socialism and/or communism

Driscoll, Beth Fletcher, Lisa Wilkins, Kim (2011) " Women, Akubras and Ereaders: Romance Fiction and Australian Publishing " The Return of Print?: Contemporary Australian Publishing 67-87

Topic

Fletcher, Lisa Driscoll, Beth Wilkins, Kim (2018) Genre Worlds and Popular Fiction: The Case of Twenty-First-Century Australian Romance Journal of Popular Culture 51.4:997-1015

Topic

Driscoll, Beth Fletcher, Lisa Wilkins, Kim Carter, David (2018) The Publishing Ecosystems of Contemporary Australian Genre Fiction Creative Industries Journal 11.2:203-221

Topic

Wilkins, Kim Driscoll, Beth Fletcher, Lisa (2022) Genre Worlds: Popular Fiction and 21st-Century Book Culture Amherst and Boston: University of Massachusetts Press

Topic

Driscoll, Beth Wilkins, Kim (2023) " Australian Fantasy, Crime and Romance Fiction in the Twentieth and Twenty-First Centuries " The Cambridge History of the Australian Novel 540-556 DOI:10.1017/9781009090049.033

Topic

Duvezin-Caubet, Caroline (2020) Gaily Ever After: Neo-Victorian M/M Genre Romance for the Twenty-First Century Neo-Victorian Studies 13.1:242-269

Topic

Eike, Ann M. (1986) An Investigation of the Market for Paperback Romance Novels Journal of Cultural Economics 10.1:25-36

Topic

Fallon, Eileen (1984) Words of Love: A Complete Guide to Romance Fiction New York and London: Garland Publishing

Topic

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

Fanetti, Susan (2022) " Introduction—Popular Romance in the 21st Century: Time to Claim Its Due " New Frontiers in Popular Romance: Essays on the Genre in the 21st Century 1-13

Topic

Farooqui, Javaria (2022) Romance in an Old Bookshop The Bridge Magazine 1:66-69

Topic

Pakistan

Flesch, Juliet (2007) " Love under the Coolabah: Australian Romance Publishing since 1990 " Making Books: Contemporary Australian Publishing 279-285

Topic

Driscoll, Beth Fletcher, Lisa Wilkins, Kim (2011) " Women, Akubras and Ereaders: Romance Fiction and Australian Publishing " The Return of Print?: Contemporary Australian Publishing 67-87

Topic

Fletcher, Lisa Driscoll, Beth Wilkins, Kim (2018) Genre Worlds and Popular Fiction: The Case of Twenty-First-Century Australian Romance Journal of Popular Culture 51.4:997-1015

Topic

Driscoll, Beth Fletcher, Lisa Wilkins, Kim Carter, David (2018) The Publishing Ecosystems of Contemporary Australian Genre Fiction Creative Industries Journal 11.2:203-221

Topic

Fletcher, Lisa McAlister, Jodi Temple, Kurt Williams, Kathleen (2019) #loveyourshelfie: Mills & Boon books and how to find them Mémoires du livre / Studies in Book Culture 11.1:

Topic

Wilkins, Kim Driscoll, Beth Fletcher, Lisa (2022) Genre Worlds: Popular Fiction and 21st-Century Book Culture Amherst and Boston: University of Massachusetts Press

Topic

Fowler, Bridget (1991) The Alienated Reader: Women and Romantic Literature in the Twentieth Century Hemel Hempstead: Harvester Wheatsheaf

Franssen, Thomas Velthuis, Olav (2016) Making materiality matter: a sociological analysis of prices on the Dutch fiction book market, 1980–2009 Socio-Economic Review 14.2:363–381

Topic

Netherlands

Bettinotti, Julia Bédard-Cazabon, Hélène Gagnon, Jocelyn Noizet, Pascale Provost, Christiane (1986) La corrida de l'amour: Le Roman Harlequin Montréal: Université du Québec à Montréal

Topic

Gardner, Jeanne (2012) " Girls Who Sinned in Secret and Paid in Public: Romance Comics, 1949-1954 " Comic Books and the Cold War, 1946-1962: Essays on Graphic Treatment of Communism, the Code and Social Concerns 92-102

Topic

comics/manga

Gehrmann, Susanne (2018) Remediating Romance: Forms and Functions of New Media in Contemporary Love Stories from Togo and South Africa Africa Today 65.1:65-84

Topic

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

Africa

chick lit

Gleason, William (2011) Belles, Beaux, and Paratexts: American Story Papers and the Project of Romance Journal of Popular Romance Studies 2.1:

Topic

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

Gleason, William A. (2016) " Postbellum, Pre-Harlequin: American Romance Publishing in the Late Nineteenth and Early Twentieth Century " Romance Fiction and American Culture: Love as the Practice of Freedom? 57-70

Topic

Lucille Hollis

Charlotte M. Brame

Golubov, Nattie (2017) El amor en tiempos neoliberales: apuntes críticos sobre la novela rosa contemporánea Ciudad de México: Bonilla Artigas

Topic

Gómez Gray, Alana (2018) Lectura, paraliteratura y mujeres en España: de la novela rosa a cincuenta sombras Arenal 25.1:215-236

Topic

Goris, An (2009) " Romance the World Over " Global Cultures 59-72

Topic

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 (2013) Happily Ever After ... And After: Serialization and the Popular Romance Novel Americana: The Journal of American Popular Culture (1900-present) 12.1:

Topic

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

Topic

Topic

Topic

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

Topic

Hallock, Jennifer (2018) History Ever After: Fabricated Historical Chronotopes in Romance Genre Fiction 2018 IASPR conference :

Topic

Hashim, Ruzy Suliza Hamdan, Shahizah Ismail (2010) Facets of Women in Malay Romance Fiction Kunapipi 32.1:67-79

Topic

Hapgood, Lynne (2005) Margins of Desire: The Suburbs in Fiction and Culture, 1880-1925 Manchester: Manchester University Press

Topic

emotions

Harris, Marlene (2013) A new breed of romance: romance authors who find themselves publishing via both traditional contracts and the new world of the self-published are living a hybrid life Library Journal 138.17:49-52

Topic

Hashim, Ruzy Suliza Hamdan, Shahizah Ismail (2010) Facets of Women in Malay Romance Fiction Kunapipi 32.1:67-79

Topic

Heiss, Karin (2015) 14 Weeks of Love and Labour: Teaching Regency and Desert Romance to Undergraduate Students Journal of Popular Romance Studies 5.1:

Topic

Hemmungs Wirtén, Eva (2000) Harlequin romances in Swedish: a case study in globalized publishing Logos 11.4:203-207

Topic

Sweden

Margo Hendricks/Elysabeth Grace

Hendricks, Margo (2022) " How a Black Author Found Her Romance History " Black Love Matters: Real Talk on Romance, Being Seen, and Happily Ever After 95-120

Topic

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

teaching romance

Interracial Books for Children Bulletin, (1981) Romance Series for Young Readers: A Report to Educators and Parents in Concert with the National Education Association New York: The Council on Interracial Books for Children

Topic

disability

Marguerite Jervis/Oliver Sandys

Jackson, Elaine (2008) " Sievier’s Monthly (1909): Pseudonyms and Readership in Early Twentieth Century Popular Fiction " Book Trade Connections from the Seventeenth to the Twentieth Centuries 245-262

Topic

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

Jarc, Klara (2019) Ljubezenski roman v Sloveniji: knjižnična izposoja, bralci in produkcija , Univerza v Ljubljani

Topic

Jenkins, Beverly (2022) " A Short History of African American Romance " Black Love Matters: Real Talk on Romance, Being Seen, and Happily Ever After 1-15

Topic

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

Frances Watkins Harper

Beverly Jenkins

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, Naomi R. (2010) Consuming Desires: Consumption, Romance, and Sexuality in Best-Selling Teen Romance Novels Women's Studies in Communication 33.1:54-73

Topic

Johnson, Naomi Ruth (2007) Consuming Desires: A Feminist Analysis of Bestselling Teen Romance Novels PhD, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill

Topic

Jurilla, Patricia May Bantug (2006) Tagalog bestsellers and the history of the book in the Philippines PhD thesis, School of Oriental and African Studies

Topic

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

Kamblé, Jayashree (2023) The origins of U.S. mass-market category romance novels: Black editors and writers in the early 1980s The Journal of American Culture FORTHCOMING:FORTHCOMING

Topic

Vivian Stephens

Rosalind Welles - pen name of Elsie B. Washington

Lia Sanders - pen name of Angela Jackson and Sandra Jackson-Opoku

Killing, Peter (1978) Harlequin Enterprises Limited: Case Material of the Western School of Business Administration London, Ontario: University of Western Ontario

Topic

Kingston, Elizabeth (2018) History's Been Hijacked: How To Combat White Supremacy Through Popular Literature Researching the Romance, conference held at Bowling Green State University, on 13 April :

Topic

Kirkland, Catherine Elisabeth (1984) For The Love Of It: Women Writers And The Popular Romance PhD, University of Pennsylvania

Topic

Kolko, Beth E. (1994) Writing the Romance: Cultural Studies, Community, and the Teaching of Writing PhD, University of Texas at Austin

Topic

Topic

Topic

Laquintano, Timothy (2013) The Legacy of the Vanity Press and Digital Transitions The Journal of Electronic Publishing 16.1:

Topic

Larson, Christine (2017) An Economy of Words: Precarity, Solidarity and Innovation in Digital Book Publishing PhD, Stanford University

Topic

Larson, Christine (2019) Open networks, open books: gender, precarity and solidarity in digital publishing Information, Communication & Society :

Topic

Larson, Christine (2019) " The Color of Romance: Gatekeeping in the Age of Digital Media " Voices: Exploring the Shifting Contours of Communication 99-??? DOI:10.3726/b14771

Topic

Larson, Christine Ready, Elspeth (2022) Networking down: Networks, innovation, and relational labor in digital book publishing New Media & Society ONLINE FIRST:ONLINE FIRST

Topic

Larson, Christine (2022) Streaming books: confluencers, Kindle Unlimited and the platform imaginary Communication, Culture and Critique ONLINE FIRST:ONLINE FIRST

Topic

Lawrence, E. E. (2020) The trouble with diverse books, part I: on the limits of conceptual analysis for political negotiation in Library & Information Science Journal of Documentation ONLINE FIRST:ONLINE FIRST

Topic

Zwar, Jan Lawson, Airlie (2021) Success Story - International Rights Sales of Australian- Authored Books: Case Studies Australia: Macquarie University

Topic

Kylie Scott

Lee, Zi-Ying Liao, Min-Hsiu (2018) The “Second” Bride: The Retranslation of Romance Novels Babel 64.2:186-204

Topic

Taiwan

Levina, Mariia (2003) Readers of Mass Literature, 1994-200: From Paternalism to Individualism? Russian Studies in Literature 40.1:79-95

Topic

Russia

Lee, Zi-Ying Liao, Min-Hsiu (2018) The “Second” Bride: The Retranslation of Romance Novels Babel 64.2:186-204

Topic

Taiwan

Lin, Fang-mei (1992) Social Change and Romantic Ideology: The Impact of the Publishing Industry, Family Organization, and Gender Roles on the Reception and Interpretation of Romance Fiction in Taiwan, 1960-1990 PhD, University of Pennsylvania

Topic

Lindfors, Bernth (1993) " Romances for the Office Worker: Aubrey Kalitera and Malawi's White-Collar Reading Public " Major Minorities: English Literatures in Transit 77-88

Topic

Linz, Cathie Bouricius, Ann Byrnes, Carole (1995) Exploring the World of Romance Novels Public Libraries 34.3:144–151

Topic

Long, Eileen M. (2021) Modern Love: Reading, Writing, and Publishing the Romance Novel Master's Thesis, Purdue University

Topic

Luneau, Marie-Pier Warren, Jean-Philippe (2019) Ce que le roman catholique fait au roman sentimental : le cas de la collection « Amour et aventure » COnTEXTES 23:

Topic

Topic

Warren, Jean-Philippe Luneau, Marie-Pier (2021) The Best Romance Dime Novels on the (French-Canadian) Market: The Promotional Strategies of Police-Journal, 1944-1963 Journal of Popular Romance Studies 10:

Topic

Marchand, Jacques (1983) Harlequin et Colombine : l’industrie plafonne, l’amour aussi Études littéraires 16.3:351–362

Topic

Margolis, Ann (2009) In Defense of Romantic Fiction Master of Science in Publishing, Pace University

Topic

Markert, John (1984) Beyond Gatekeepers: Romance Publishing and the Production of Culture PhD, Vanderbilt University

Topic

Markert, John (1985) Romance Publishing and the Production of Culture Poetics 14.1-2:69-93

Topic

Kathleen Woodiwiss

Markert, John (1987) The publishing decision: Managerial policy and its effect on editorial decision making—The case of romance publishing Book Research Quarterly 3.2:33-59

Topic

Markert, John (2016) Publishing Romance: The History of an Industry, 1940s to the Present Jefferson, North Carolina: McFarland & Company

Topic

Avon

Ellora's Cave

BDSM

Markert, John (2017) God is Love: The Christian Romance Market Publishing Research Quarterly 33.3:268–28

Topic

Markert, John (2021) " Publishing the romance novel " The Routledge Research Companion to Popular Romance Fiction 352-370 DOI:10.4324/9781315613468-16

Topic

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

Kathleen Woodiwiss

contemporary romance

Masteller, Jean Carwile (1996) " Romancing the Reader: From Laura Jean Libbey to Harlequin Romance and Beyond " Pioneers, Passionate Ladies, and Private Eyes: Dime Novels, Series Books, and Paperbacks 263-284

Topic

Laura Jean Libbey

metafiction

Mayfield, Kerrita K. (2014) Liminal eRoticism: Emerging Forms of Gender Identity and Performance in e-Romances and Their Feminist Electronic Communities Taboo: The Journal of Culture and Education 14.1:53-70

Topic

happy ending

BDSM

m/m romance

McAleer, Joseph (1989) Popular Literature and Reading Habits in Britain, 1914-1950 D.Phil. (also referred to as a PhD thesis), St John's College, University of Oxford

Topic

McAleer, Joseph (1990) Scenes from Love and Marriage: Mills and Boon and the Popular Publishing Industry in Britain, 1908-1950 Twentieth Century British History 1.3:264-288

Topic

McAleer, Joseph (1992) Popular Reading and Publishing in Britain, 1914-1950 Oxford: Clarendon Press

Topic

McAleer, Joseph (1999) Passion's Fortune: The Story of Mills & Boon Oxford: Oxford University Press

Topic

Betty Beaty

Lilian Warren as Kathryn Blair/Rosalind Brett/Celine Conway

Elizabeth Carfrae

Fay Chandos/Jan Tempest

Sophie Cole

Iris Danbury

Joyce Dingwell/Kate Starr

Roberta Leigh/Rachel Lindsay

Mary Lutyens/Esther Wyndham

Kate Norway/Olive Norton

Denise Robins

Sara Seale

Juliet Shore/Anne Vinton

Ireland

McAlister, Jodi Teo, Hsu-Ming (2017) " Love in Australian Romance Novels " The Popular Culture of Romantic Love in Australia 194-222

Topic

Fletcher, Lisa McAlister, Jodi Temple, Kurt Williams, Kathleen (2019) #loveyourshelfie: Mills & Boon books and how to find them Mémoires du livre / Studies in Book Culture 11.1:

Topic

McAlister, Jodi Parnell, Claire Trinidad, Andrea Anne (2020) #RomanceClass: Genre World, Intimate Public, Found Family Publishing Research Quarterly 36:403–417

Topic

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

McAlister, Jodi (2021) " Erotic romance " The Routledge Research Companion to Popular Romance Fiction 212-228 DOI:10.4324/9781315613468-9

Topic

Parnell, Claire Trinidad, Andrea Anne McAlister, Jodi (2021) Live literature in the Philippines: an ethnographic study of #RomanceClass and reading as performance Creative Industries Journal ONLINE FIRST:ONLINE FIRST

Topic

McAlister, Jodi (2021) New Adult Fiction Cambridge: Cambridge University Press

Topic

McAlister, Jodi Parnell, Claire Trinidad, Andrea Anne (2023) Publishing Romance Fiction in the Philippines Cambridge: Cambridge University Press

Topic

McGurl, Mark (2021) Everything and Less: The Novel in the Age of Amazon London: Verso

Topic

Fifty Shades

McGurl, Mark (2021) Unspeakable Conventionality: The Perversity of the Kindle American Literary History 33.2:394–415

Topic

fanfiction

McWilliam, Kelly (2009) Romance in foreign accents: Harlequin-Mills & Boon in Australia Continuum: Journal of Media & Cultural Studies 23.2:137-145

Topic

Meirelles, Simone (2008) Romances com coração: leitura e edição de romances sentimentais no Brasil PhD, Universidade Federal do Paraná

Topic

Brazil

romance and, or as, activism

Michelson, Anna (2021) The politics of happily-ever-after: romance genre fiction as aesthetic public sphere American Journal of Cultural Sociology 9:177–210

Topic

sociology

fascism/right-wing authoritarianism

Michelson, Anna (2022) Pushing the boundaries: Erotic romance and the symbolic boundary nexus Poetics ONLINE FIRST:ONLINE FIRST

Topic

Michelson, Anna (2022) Redefining the Romance: Classification and Community in a Popular Fiction Genre PhD thesis, Northwestern University

Topic

sociology

romance and, or as, activism

Native American romance

Moody-Freeman, Julie E. (2021) " African American romance " The Routledge Research Companion to Popular Romance Fiction 229-251 DOI:10.4324/9781315613468-10

Topic

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

Rosalind Welles - pen name of Elsie B. Washington

Lia Sanders - pen name of Angela Jackson and Sandra Jackson-Opoku

Alyssa Cole

Moody-Freeman, Julie E. (2022) Response to Eric Selinger’s “Cant and Canonicity” Journal of Popular Romance Studies 11:

Topic

Morrissey, Katherine (2015) " Steamy, Spicy, Sensual: Tracing the Cycles of Erotic Romance " Women and Erotic Fiction: Critical Essays on Genres, Markets & Readers 42-58

Topic

Morrissey, Katherine (2016) Romance Networks: Aspiration & Desire in Today’s Digital Culture PhD, University of Wisconsin, Milwaukee

Topic

erotic romance

Mussell, Kay (1982) " Preface " Twentieth Century Romance and Gothic Writers v-ix

Topic

gothic romance

Mussell, Kay (1997) Paradoxa Interview with Jayne Ann Krentz Para.doxa: Studies in World Literary Genres 3.1-2:46-57

Topic

Mussell, Kay (1997) Paradoxa Interview with Nora Roberts Para.doxa: Studies in World Literary Genres 3.1-2:155-163

Topic

Nankervis, Madison (2022) Diversity in Romance Novels: Race, Sexuality, Neurodivergence, Disability, and Fat Representation Publishing Research Quarterly 38:349–363

Topic

disability

fat, fatness

Neal, Lynn S. (2006) Romancing God: Evangelical Women and Inspirational Fiction Chapel Hill: University of North Carolina Press

Topic

Grace Livingston Hill

Neal, Lynn S. (2013) " Evangelical Love Stories: The Triumphs and Temptations of Romantic Fiction " Evangelical Christians and Popular Culture: Pop Goes the Gospel. Volume 2: Literature, Music, Popular Art, and Merchandise 1–20

Topic

Nelson, Elizabeth (2015) " The Romance of Self-Publishing " Self-Publishing and Collection Development: Opportunities and Challenges for Libraries 149-157

Topic

Bettinotti, Julia Bédard-Cazabon, Hélène Gagnon, Jocelyn Noizet, Pascale Provost, Christiane (1986) La corrida de l'amour: Le Roman Harlequin Montréal: Université du Québec à Montréal

Topic

Olivier, Séverine (2005) Passionnément, à la folie...: Lecteurs et modes de lecture du roman d'amour contemporain Belphégor 4.2:

Topic

Olivier, Séverine (2009) Les prémices d'une histoire d'amour ou comment écrire un roman sentimental Recto/Verso 4:

Topic

emotions

Olivier, Séverine (2012) Francophone Perspectives on Romantic Fiction: From the Academic Field to Reader’s Experience Journal of Popular Romance Studies 2.2:

Topic

Osborne, Gwendolyn E. (2003) " In Search of Women Who Look Like Me: A Brief History of the African-American Romance " The 2000-2003 Proceedings of the SW/Texas PCA/ACA Conference 2020-2044

Topic

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

Osborne, Laurie E. (2002) " Harlequin Presents: That '70s Shakespeare and Beyond " Shakespeare after Mass Media 127-149 DOI:10.1007/978-1-137-09277-9_6

Topic

Shakespeare

Owen, Mairead (1990) Women's Reading of Popular Romantic Fiction: A Case Study in the Mass Media: A Key to the Ideology of Women PhD, University of Liverpool

Topic

Paizis, George (1986) 'Reine ou esclave .... ': conflicting images of women in the contemporary 'romantic novel' in France PhD, University of London, Birkbeck

Topic

Paizis, George (1998) Love and the Novel: The Poetics and Politics of Romantic Fiction Houndmills, Basingstoke: Macmillan

Topic

Paizis, George (2006) " Category Romance in the Era of Globalization: The Story of Harlequin " The Global Literary Field 126-151

Topic

comics/manga

Parameswaran, Radhika (2002) Reading Fictions of Romance: Gender, Sexuality, and Nationalism in Postcolonial India Journal of Communication 52.4:832-851

Topic

India

Parnell, Claire (2018) Models of Publishing and Opportunities for Change: Representations in Harlequin, Montlake and Self-Published Romance Novels Australian Literary Studies 33.4:

Topic

McAlister, Jodi Parnell, Claire Trinidad, Andrea Anne (2020) #RomanceClass: Genre World, Intimate Public, Found Family Publishing Research Quarterly 36:403–417

Topic

Parnell, Claire (2021) Independent Authors’ Dependence on Big Tech: Categorization and Governance of Authors Of Color on Amazon AoIR Selected Papers of Internet Research :

Topic

Topic

Parnell, Claire (2022) " Reading and writing Muslim romance on Wattpad " The Routledge Companion to Romantic Love DOI:10.4324/9781003022343-26

Topic

Muslim romance

McAlister, Jodi Parnell, Claire Trinidad, Andrea Anne (2023) Publishing Romance Fiction in the Philippines Cambridge: Cambridge University Press

Topic

Péquignot, Bruno (1991) La relation amoureuse: analyse sociologique du roman sentimental moderne Paris: L’Harmattan

Topic

Pérez, María Mercedes (2009) Es la historia de un amor: la edición de novelas románticas en el mercado de habla hispana Páginas de Guarda: Revista de Lenguaje, Edición y Cultura Escrita 8:

Topic

Pérez Casal, Inmaculada (2016) Love in Times of Crisis: An Approach to Contemporary Romance Novels in Spain Journal of Artistic Creation and Literary Research 4.2:62-70

Topic

Spain

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

Peukert, Christian Reimers, Imke (2018) Digital Disintermediation and Efficiency in the Market for Ideas CESifo Working Papers 6880:

Topic

Philips, Deborah (1990) " Mills and Boon: The Marketing of Moonshine " Consumption, Identity, and Style: Marketing, Meanings, and the Packaging of Pleasure 139-152

Topic

Pollak, Richard (1992) What's in a Pseudonym? Romance Slaves of Harlequin The Nation 254.10:

Topic

Bettinotti, Julia Bédard-Cazabon, Hélène Gagnon, Jocelyn Noizet, Pascale Provost, Christiane (1986) La corrida de l'amour: Le Roman Harlequin Montréal: Université du Québec à Montréal

Topic

Pryde, Jessica P. (2022) Black Love Matters: Real Talk on Romance, Being Seen, and Happily Ever After New York: Berkley

Topic

Rabine, Leslie W. (1985) Reading the Romantic Heroine: Text, History, Ideology Ann Arbor: University of Michigan Press

Topic

Rabine, Leslie W. (1985) Romance in the Age of Electronics: Harlequin Enterprises Feminist Studies 11.1:39-60

Topic

Radway, Janice (1994) " Romance and the Work of Fantasy: Struggles over Feminine Sexuality and Subjectivity at Century's End " Viewing, Reading, Listening: Audiences and Cultural Reception 213-231

Topic

Radway, Janice A. (1984) Reading the Romance: Women, Patriarchy, and Popular Literature Chapel Hill: University of North Carolina Press

Topic

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

Topic

science fiction/futuristic romance

Elinor Glyn

Margaret Mitchell

Victoria Holt/Jean Plaidy/Eleanor Burford Hibbert

Georgette Heyer

E. M. Hull

romantic suspense

Samuel Richardson

Rani, Mohd. Zariat Abdul (2012) Islam, Romance and Popular Taste in Indonesia: A textual analysis of Ayat ayat cinta by Habiburrahman El-Shirazy and Syahadat cinta by Taufiqurrahman Al-Azizy Indonesia and the Malay World 40.116:59-73

Topic

Indonesia

Habiburrahman El-Shirazy

Taufiqurrahman Al-Azizy

Islam

Rani, Mohd. Zariat Abdul (2014) The Conflict of Love and Islam: The Main Ingredients in the Popular Islamic Novels of Malaysia South East Asia Research 22.3:417-433

Topic

Malaysia

Islam

Rao, Sathya (2009) Genres populaires et «érographiques» en Afrique francophone: le cas des romans de la collection Adoras Présence Francophone: Revue internationale de langue et de littérature 72.1:33-47

Topic

Africa

Larson, Christine Ready, Elspeth (2022) Networking down: Networks, innovation, and relational labor in digital book publishing New Media & Society ONLINE FIRST:ONLINE FIRST

Topic

Peukert, Christian Reimers, Imke (2018) Digital Disintermediation and Efficiency in the Market for Ideas CESifo Working Papers 6880:

Topic

Riche, Martha Farnsworth (1986) Why Romance Novels Are Like the Rustbelt American Demographics 8.8:46-48

Topic

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

Topic

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

Topic

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

Onoto Watanna/Winnifred Eaton

Judaism

Pauline Hopkins

Kathleen Thompson Norris

Lilian Warren as Kathryn Blair/Rosalind Brett/Celine Conway

Elizabeth Carfrae

Frances Shelley Wees

Joyce Dingwell/Kate Starr

Alice Lent Covert

Della Field, pseudonym of Fanny Howe

Juliet Shore/Anne Vinton

science fiction/futuristic romance

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

Rudisill, Kristen (2018) Full-Blooded Desi Romance: Contemporary English-Language Romance Novels in India Journal of Popular Culture 51.3:754-775

Topic

family

Sagun, Karryl Kim Abella (2019) Book Mavens of Manila: an interpretative phenomenological analysis of contemporary niche publishers in the Philippines PhD, Nanyang Technological University, Singapore

Topic

Mina V. Esguerra

Sanders, Lise Shapiro (2006) Consuming Fantasies: Labor, Leisure, and the London Shopgirl, 1880-1920 Columbus: Ohio State University Press

Topic

history

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

Schiffman, Leon G. Schnaars, Steven P. (1981) " The Consumption of Historical Romance Novels: Consumer Aesthetics in Popular Literature " SV - Symbolic Consumer Behavior 46-51

Topic

Schiffman, Leon G. Schnaars, Steven P. (1981) " The Consumption of Historical Romance Novels: Consumer Aesthetics in Popular Literature " SV - Symbolic Consumer Behavior 46-51

Topic

Schultz Nybacka, Pamela (2011) Bookonomy: The Consumption Practice and Value of Book Reading PhD, Stockholm University

Topic

Sweden

Topic

Topic

Silliman, Daniel (2016) Fictions of Belief: Reading Evangelical Novels in A Secular Age PhD, Ruprecht-Karls-Universität Heidelberg

Topic

Janette Oke

Beverly Lewis

Silliman, Daniel (2021) Reading Evangelicals: How Christian Fiction Shaped a Culture and a Faith Grand Rapids, Michigan: Wm. B. Eerdmans Publishing Co.

Topic

Janette Oke

Beverly Lewis

Andrade, Roberta Manuela Barros de Silva, Erotilde Honório (2013) A pedagogia social dos romances de amor dos “tempos da vovó” Tensões Mundias 9.21:251-274

Topic

Topic

Spears, Jessica D. (2018) The Romance Novel Cover MA thesis, City University of New York (CUNY), Hunter College

Topic

Stavropoulou, Marina (2016) Romance Fiction: At the Frontline of Digital Publishing Journal of Publishing Culture 6:

Topic

Struve, Laura (2011) Sisters of Sorts: Reading Romantic Fiction and the Bonds Among Female Readers Journal of Popular Culture 44.6:1289-1306

Topic

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

Sutton, Denise Hardesty (2022) Marketing Love: Romance Publishers Mills & Boon and Harlequin Enterprises, 1930–1990 Enterprise & Society 23.3:680-710

Topic

Tanner, David (2016) " Literary Success and Popular Romantic Fiction: Ethel M. Dell, a Case Study " The Book World: Selling and Distributing British Literature, 1900-1940 83-94 DOI:10.1163/9789004315884_006

Topic

Ethel M. Dell

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

India

Tapper, Olivia (2014) Romance and Innovation in Twenty-First Century Publishing Publishing Research Quarterly 30.2:249-59

Topic

Tatlock, Lynne (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

Taylor, Jessica (2016) " Love the Market: Discourses of Passion and Professionalism in Romance Writing Communities " Romance Fiction and American Culture: Love as the Practice of Freedom? 273-295

Topic

Taylor, Jessica (2018) Animating Creative Selves: Pen Names as Property in the Careers of Canadian and American Romance Writers American Ethnologist 45.1:112-123

Topic

Taylor, Jessica (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

history

Taylor, Jessica Anne (2013) Write the Book of Your Heart: Career, Passion and Publishing in the Romance Writing Community PhD, University of Toronto

Topic

love

Fletcher, Lisa McAlister, Jodi Temple, Kurt Williams, Kathleen (2019) #loveyourshelfie: Mills & Boon books and how to find them Mémoires du livre / Studies in Book Culture 11.1:

Topic

McAlister, Jodi Teo, Hsu-Ming (2017) " Love in Australian Romance Novels " The Popular Culture of Romantic Love in Australia 194-222

Topic

Teo, Hsu-Ming (2018) " The Contemporary Anglophone Romance Genre " Oxford Research Encyclopedia of Literature DOI:10.1093/acrefore/9780190201098.013.415

Topic

Teo, Hsu-Ming (2020) Cultural Authenticity, the Family, and East Asian American Romance Novels Journal of Popular Romance Studies 9:

Thomas, Glen (2007) " Romance: The Perfect Creative Industry? A Case Study of Harlequin-Mills and Boon Australia " Empowerment versus Oppression: Twenty-First Century Views of Popular Romance Novels 20-29

Topic

Thomas, Glen (2008) "And I Deliver": An Interview with Emma Darcy Continuum: Journal of Media and Cultural Studies 22.1:113-126

Topic

Emma Darcy

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

pornography

Tindall, Natalie T. J. (2022) Black Romance Authors and Community Cultural Wealth: A Case Study of Brenda Jackson’s Career Journal of Popular Romance Studies 11:

Topic

McAlister, Jodi Parnell, Claire Trinidad, Andrea Anne (2020) #RomanceClass: Genre World, Intimate Public, Found Family Publishing Research Quarterly 36:403–417

Topic

Topic

McAlister, Jodi Parnell, Claire Trinidad, Andrea Anne (2023) Publishing Romance Fiction in the Philippines Cambridge: Cambridge University Press

Topic

Uszkurat, Carol Ann (1993) " Mid Twentieth Century Lesbian Romance: Reception and Redress " Outwrite: Lesbianism and Popular Culture 26-47

Topic

lesbian romance

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

Valovirta, Elina (2021) " The Stuff of Which Fairy Tales Are Made: Royal Romance, Ordinariness, and Affectivity in the Literary Market " Romantic Escapes: Post-Millennial Trends in Contemporary Popular Romance Fiction 75-94

Topic

Franssen, Thomas Velthuis, Olav (2016) Making materiality matter: a sociological analysis of prices on the Dutch fiction book market, 1980–2009 Socio-Economic Review 14.2:363–381

Topic

Netherlands

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

Violi, Patrizia (2020) Breve storia della letteratura rosa Perugia: Graphe.it Edizioni

Topic

Carolina Invernizio

Liala, pen name of Amalia Liana Cambiasi Negretti Odescalchi

Fifty Shades

fanfiction

Vivanco, Laura (2020) " Changing Attitudes to Others: Meljean Brook’s Riveted (2012) and its Context " Love, Language, Place, and Identity in Popular Culture: Romancing the Other 113-126

Topic

Zoë Archer

war/armed forces

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

Luneau, Marie-Pier Warren, Jean-Philippe (2019) Ce que le roman catholique fait au roman sentimental : le cas de la collection « Amour et aventure » COnTEXTES 23:

Topic

Topic

Washington, AlTonya (2015) " An Indie Author in a Library World " Self-Publishing and Collection Development: Opportunities and Challenges for Libraries 139-147

Topic

Weaver-Zercher, Valerie (2012) Tracing the Backstory of Amish Romance Novels Mennonite Quarterly Review 86.4:409-435

Topic

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

Helen Reimensnyder Martin

Beverly Lewis

Cora Gottschalk Welty

Weaver-Zercher, Valerie (2013) Thrill of the Chaste: the Allure of Amish Romance Novels Baltimore: The Johns Hopkins University Press

White, Ann Yvonne (2008) Genesis Press: Cultural Representation and the Production of African American Romance Novels PhD, University of Iowa

Topic

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

Dyanne Davis

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

Whitehead, Frances (1992) Love Makes the World Go Round (?): The Romantic Novel as a Publishing Phenomenon Logos 3.2:62-68

Topic

Wilbur, Shawn P. (1997) " An Archaeology of Cyberspaces: Virtuality, Community, Identity " Internet Culture 5-22

Topic

Driscoll, Beth Fletcher, Lisa Wilkins, Kim (2011) " Women, Akubras and Ereaders: Romance Fiction and Australian Publishing " The Return of Print?: Contemporary Australian Publishing 67-87

Topic

Fletcher, Lisa Driscoll, Beth Wilkins, Kim (2018) Genre Worlds and Popular Fiction: The Case of Twenty-First-Century Australian Romance Journal of Popular Culture 51.4:997-1015

Topic

Driscoll, Beth Fletcher, Lisa Wilkins, Kim Carter, David (2018) The Publishing Ecosystems of Contemporary Australian Genre Fiction Creative Industries Journal 11.2:203-221

Topic

Wilkins, Kim Driscoll, Beth Fletcher, Lisa (2022) Genre Worlds: Popular Fiction and 21st-Century Book Culture Amherst and Boston: University of Massachusetts Press

Topic

Topic

Williams, Jeffrey J. (2006) The Culture of Books: An Interview with Janice Radway Minnesota Review: A Journal of Committed Writing ns 65-66:133-148

Topic

Fletcher, Lisa McAlister, Jodi Temple, Kurt Williams, Kathleen (2019) #loveyourshelfie: Mills & Boon books and how to find them Mémoires du livre / Studies in Book Culture 11.1:

Topic

Worpole, Ken (1984) Reading by Numbers: Contemporary Publishing & Popular Fiction London: Comedia Publishing Group

Topic

Zwar, Jan Lawson, Airlie (2021) Success Story - International Rights Sales of Australian- Authored Books: Case Studies Australia: Macquarie University

Topic