Publishing

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

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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

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

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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

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

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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:

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

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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

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

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Italy

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

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capitalism/business

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

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

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teaching romance

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

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

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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

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

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YA/teenage romance

feminism

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

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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)

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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:

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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

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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

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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

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

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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

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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

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

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cross-dressing

Marie Bjelke Petersen

gender

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

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

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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

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

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

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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

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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

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

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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

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

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

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

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

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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

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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

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

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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:

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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

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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

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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

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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

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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:

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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

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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

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

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

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

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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:

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

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

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

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

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

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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

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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:

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

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Sweden

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

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YA/teenage romance

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

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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:

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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

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

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

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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 :

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

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

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

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

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

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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

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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

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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

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Russia

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

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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

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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:

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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:

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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

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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

Jayne Ann Krentz/Amanda Quick/Jayne Castle

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

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

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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

McGurl, Mark (2021) Unspeakable Conventionality: The Perversity of the Kindle American Literary History ONLINE FIRST:ONLINE FIRST

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capitalism/business

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 ONLINE FIRST:ONLINE FIRST

Topic

sociology

fascism/right-wing authoritarianism

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

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

Jayne Ann Krentz/Amanda Quick/Jayne Castle

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

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

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

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gender

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

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

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

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)

YA/teenage romance

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

Jayne Ann Krentz/Amanda Quick/Jayne Castle

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

Philippines

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

Mina V. Esguerra

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

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

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

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

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 (2021) Marketing Love: Romance Publishers Mills & Boon and Harlequin Enterprises, 1930–1990 Enterprise & Society ONLINE FIRST:ONLINE FIRST

Topic

capitalism/business

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

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

Nataly von Eschstruth

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

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

gender

pornography

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

Topic

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

feminism

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

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

feminism

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

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