LGBTQ+ characters, readers and/or authors

feminism

disability

work

libraries/librarians

(1985) Sex, Power and Pleasure Toronto: The Women's Press

Topic

Taylor, Helen

(1989) "Romantic Readers " From My Guy to Sci-Fi: Genre and Women's Writing in the Postmodern World 58-77

Topic

Barbara Taylor Bradford

Margaret Mitchell

Esquibel, Catrióna Rueda

(1991) Loving the other woman: contemporary lesbian romance novels Masters, University of Colorado

Topic

Esquibel, Catrióna Rueda

(1992) "A Duel of Wits and the Lesbian Romance Novel or Verbal Intercourse in Fictional Regency England " New Perspectives on Women and Comedy 123-133

Topic

Michelle Martin

Hermes, Joke

(1992) Sexuality in Lesbian Romance Fiction Feminist Review 42.1:49-66 DOI: 10.1057/fr.1992.48

Topic

Sarah Aldridge

Katherine V. Forrest

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

Michelle Martin

Hermes, Joke

(1992) Vergnügen oder Aufklärung? Sexualität in lesbischen Liebesromanen? Das Argument - Zeitschrift für Philosophie und Sozialwissenschaften 193:389-402

Topic

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

Katherine V. Forrest

Spraggs, Gillian

(1992) "Hell and the Mirror: A Reading of Desert of the Heart " New Lesbian Criticism: Literary and Cultural Readings 115-131

Topic

Jane Rule

(1992) "The Greyhound Bus Station in the Evolution of Lesbian Popular Culture " New Lesbian Criticism: Literary and Cultural Readings 95-113

Topic

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

Ann Bannon

(1992) "The Greyhound Bus Station in the Evolution of Lesbian Popular Culture " New Lesbian Criticism: Literary and Cultural Readings 95-113

Topic

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

Ann Bannon

(1993) "Fantasy and Identity: The Double Life of a Victorian Sexual Radical " Rediscovering Forgotten Radicals: British Women Writers 1889-1939 265-302

Topic

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

Irene Clyde

Patai, Daphne

Ingram, Angela

(1993) "Fantasy and Identity: The Double Life of a Victorian Sexual Radical " Rediscovering Forgotten Radicals: British Women Writers 1889-1939 265-302

Topic

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

Irene Clyde

Uszkurat, Carol Ann

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

Topic

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

socialism and/or communism

Waters, Chris

(1993) "New Women and Socialist-Feminist Fiction: The Novels of Isabella Ford and Katharine Bruce Glasier " Rediscovering Forgotten Radicals: British Women Writers 1889-1939 25-42

Topic

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

Katharine Bruce Glasier

(charles), Helen

(1995) "(Not) Compromising: Inter-Skin Colour Relations " Romance Revisited 197-209

Topic

Ann Allen Shockley

Chappel, Deborah K.

(1997) LaVyrle Spencer and the Anti-Essentialist Argument Para.doxa: Studies in World Literary Genres 3.1-2:107-120

Topic

Modleski, Tania

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

Topic

feminism

Brenda Joyce

Mussell, Kay

(1997) Where's Love Gone? Transformations in Romance Fiction and Scholarship Para.doxa: Studies in World Literary Genres 3.1-2:3-14

Topic

Ehnenn, Jill

(1998) Desperately Seeking Susan Among the Trash: Reinscription, Subversion and Visibility in the Lesbian Romance Novel Atlantis 23.1:120-127

Topic

Juhasz, Suzanne

(1998) Lesbian Romance Fiction and the Plotting of Desire: Narrative Theory, Lesbian Identity, and Reading Practice Tulsa Studies In Women's Literature 17.1:65-82 DOI: 10.2307/464325

Topic

(1998) "Girl Meets Girl: Changing Approaches to the Lesbian Romance " Fatal Attractions: Rescripting Romance in Contemporary Literature and Film 189-204

Topic

(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

Ramsdell, Kristin

(1999) Romance Fiction: A Guide to the Genre Englewood, Colorado: Libraries Unlimited

Topic

Christian romance

Secrease, Cassandra L

(2000) A comparative analysis of lesbian romance novels and heterosexual romance novel themes Master of Arts, Central Missouri State University

Topic

(2001) Romance Novel of One's Own: The Nature and "Failure" of the Lesbian Romance Sub-Genre Master of Arts, West Chester University

Topic

(2001) "Two’s Company, Three’s a Crowd?": Reading Interracial Romance in Contemporary Asian American Young Adult Fiction LIT: Literature Interpretation Theory 12.3:313–334 DOI: 10.1080/10436920108580294

Topic

(2001) Feminist Popular Fiction Houndmills, Basingstoke: Palgrave

Topic

love

Burley, Stephanie

(2003) "What's a Nice Girl like You Doing in a Book like This?: Homoerotic Reading and Popular Romance " Doubled Plots: Romance and History 127-146

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

Holmes, Diana

(2006) Romance and Readership in Twentieth-Century France: Love Stories Oxford: Oxford University Press

Henderson, Courtney R.

(2007) Ladies and Loners: A Comparative Gender Study of the Romance and Popular Western Master of Arts, University of Texas at Arlington

Topic

Johanna Lindsey

Joan Johnston

Pearce, Lynne

(2007) Romance Writing Cambridge: Polity Press

Topic

love

Jane Rule

(2007) Reading Romance Novels and Female Sexuality among American Heterosexual and Lesbian College Students The International Journal of Diversity in Organisations, Communities and Nations 6.6:31-38 DOI: 10.18848/1447-9532/CGP/v06i06/39300

Topic

(2008) "Suzanne Brockmann" Teaching American Literature: A Journal of Theory and Practice 2.2/3:1-19

Topic

Suzanne Brockmann

war/armed forces

Islam

romantic suspense

Wagner, Wendy

(2008) Jennifer Crusie Teaching American Literature: A Journal of Theory and Practice 2.2/3:1-16

Topic

Wood, Andrea

(2008) Radicalizing Romance: Subculture, Sex, and Media at the Margins PhD, University of Florida

Topic

(2009) Lesbian Romance Novels: A History and Critical Analysis Jefferson, North Carolina: McFarland & Co

Topic

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

Cook, Nancy

(2009) "Home on the Range: Montana Romances and Geographies of Hope " All Our Stories Are Here: Critical Perspectives on Montana Literature 55-77

Topic

rural romance

Tami Hoag

(2009) From Romance to Magical Realism: Limits and Possibilities in Gay Adolescent Fiction Children’s Literature in Education 40.4:333–348 DOI: 10.1007/s10583-009-9089-9

Topic

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

Faust, Meredith S.

(2010) "Love of the purest kind": Heteronormative rigidity in the homoerotic fiction of Ann Herendeen Master of Arts, DePaul University

Topic

Ann Herendeen

Flegel, Monica

Roth, Jenny

(2010) Annihilating love and heterosexuality without women: Romance, generic difference, and queer politics in "Supernatural" fan fiction Transformative Works and Cultures 4: DOI: 10.3983/twc.2010.0133

Topic

Haynes, Roslynn

(2010) Marie Bjelke Petersen’s Romances: Fulfilling the Contract, Subverting the Spirit Southerly 70.2:41-63

Topic

Marie Bjelke Petersen

Australia

rural romance

Christian romance

cross-dressing

Johnson-Woods, Toni

(2010) 'Adventures of a Squatter': A Colonial Male Romance Southerly 70.2:130-141

Topic

romances in magazines and newspapers

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

Australia

Kanerick, Caroline

(2010) ‘A Jazzed and Patchwork Modern’: ‘future’ girls and modern masculinities in the early popular romances of Berta Ruck Women's History Review 19.5:685-702 DOI: 10.1080/09612025.2010.509147

Topic

Berta Ruck

Kramer, Kyra

(2010) There Are Six Bodies in This Relationship: An Anthropological Approach to the Romance Genre Journal of Popular Romance Studies 1.1:

Topic

Pagliassotti, Dru

(2010) "Better than Romance? Japanese BL Manga and the Subgenre of Male/Male Romantic Fiction " Boys’ Love Manga: Essays on the Sexual Ambiguity and Cross-Cultural Fandom of the Genre 59-83

Topic

Flegel, Monica

Roth, Jenny

Topic

Kramer, Kyra

(2010) There Are Six Bodies in This Relationship: An Anthropological Approach to the Romance Genre Journal of Popular Romance Studies 1.1:

Topic

Regis, Pamela

(2011) "Female genre fiction in the twentieth century " The Cambridge History of the American Novel 847-860 DOI:10.1017/CHOL9780521899079.056

Topic

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

Samuel Richardson

E. D. E. N. Southworth

Kathleen Thompson Norris

Faith Baldwin

(2012) Queering the Romantic Heroine: Where Her Power Lies Journal of Popular Romance Studies 3.1:

Topic

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

Bly, Mary

(2012) "On Popular Romance, J. R. Ward, and the Limits of Genre Study " New Approaches to Popular Romance Fiction: Critical Essays 60-72

Topic

J. R. Ward

fashion/clothing

war/armed forces

Suzanne Brockmann

Herendeen, Ann

(2012) The Upper-Class Bisexual Top as Romantic Hero: (Pre)dominant in the Social Structure and in the Bedroom Journal of Popular Romance Studies 3.1:

Topic

Ann Herendeen

wealth/prosperity

(2012) ""Why would any woman want to read such stories?": The Distinctions Between Genre Romances and Slash Fictions " New Approaches to Popular Romance Fiction: Critical Essays 121-132

Topic

(2012) Queering the Romantic Heroine: Where Her Power Lies Journal of Popular Romance Studies 3.1:

Topic

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

Şerban, Andreea

(2012) "Romancing the Paranormal: A Case Study of J.R. Ward’s The Black Dagger Brotherhood " Romance: The History of a Genre 89-110

Topic

J. R. Ward

(2012) Queering the Romantic Heroine: Where Her Power Lies Journal of Popular Romance Studies 3.1:

Topic

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

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

Jayne Ann Krentz/Amanda Quick/Jayne Castle

Susan Wiggs

Emma Holly

Veldman-Genz, Carole

(2012) "The More the Merrier? Transformations of the Love Triangle Across the Romance " New Approaches to Popular Romance Fiction: Critical Essays 108-120

Cook, Jennifer R.

Rostosky, Sharon S.

Riggle, Ellen D. B.

(2013) Gender Role Models in Fictional Novels for Emerging Adult Lesbians Journal of Lesbian Studies 17.2:150-166 DOI: 10.1080/10894160.2012.691416

Topic

Cook, Jennifer R.

Rostosky, Sharon S.

Riggle, Ellen D. B.

(2013) Gender Role Models in Fictional Novels for Emerging Adult Lesbians Journal of Lesbian Studies 17.2:150-166 DOI: 10.1080/10894160.2012.691416

Topic

Ross, Marlon B.

(2013) “What’s Love But a Second Hand Emotion?”: Man-on-Man Passion in the Contemporary Black Gay Romance Novel Callaloo 36.3:669-687 DOI: 10.1353/cal.2013.0159

Topic

(2013) Gender Role Models in Fictional Novels for Emerging Adult Lesbians Journal of Lesbian Studies 17.2:150-166 DOI: 10.1080/10894160.2012.691416

Topic

Bronstein, Carolyn

(2014) The Political Uses of Lesbian Romance Fiction: Reading Patrick Califia’s Macho Sluts as a Response to 1980s Anti-Pornography Feminism Journal of Popular Romance Studies 4.1:

Topic

Patrick Califia

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 DOI: 10.31390/taboo.14.1.07

Topic

(2014) Tender Heroes and Twilight Lovers: Re-Reading the Romance in Mass-Market Pulp Novels, 1950–1965 Journal of Lesbian Studies 18.4:372-392 DOI: 10.1080/10894160.2014.901846

Topic

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

(2015) What To Do If Your Inner Tomboy Is a Homo: Straight Women, Bisexuality, and Pleasure in M/M Gay Romance Fictions Journal of Bisexuality 15.4:509-531 DOI: 10.1080/15299716.2015.1092910

Topic

Gillis, Stacy

(2015) The Cross-Dresser, the Thief, His Daughter and Her Lover: Queer Desire and Romance in Georgette Heyer’s These Old Shades Women: A Cultural Review 26.1-2:57-74 DOI: 10.1080/09574042.2015.1035024

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

Veldman-Genz, Carole

(2015) "Selling Gay Sex to Women: The Romance of M/M and M/M/F Romantica " Women and Erotic Fiction: Critical Essays on Genres, Markets & Readers 133-149

Topic

Wood, Andrea

(2015) Making the Invisible Visible: Lesbian Romance Comics for Women Feminist Studies 41.2:293-334 DOI: 10.15767/feministstudies.41.2.293

Topic

(2016) Reading from Behind: A Cultural Analysis of the Anus Regina: University of Regina Press

Topic

Anne Tenino

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

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

romance and, or as, activism

Marion Zimmer Bradley

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

Topic

Mary Renault

emotions

modernism

Herendeen, Ann

(2016) "Having it Both Ways; or, Writing from the Third Perspective: The Revolutionary M/M/F Ménage Romance Novel " Romance Fiction and American Culture: Love as the Practice of Freedom? 405-419

Topic

(2016) Le roman sentimental gay francophone Revue critique de fixxion française contemporaine 12:18-26

Topic

Anne Singe et Marine Ange

Markert, John

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

Topic

Avon

Ellora's Cave

Matelski, Elizabeth

(2016) ""I'm Not the Only Lesbian Who Wears a Skirt": Lesbian Romance Fiction and Identity in Post-World War II America " Romance Fiction and American Culture: Love as the Practice of Freedom? 71-88

Topic

fashion/clothing

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

metafiction

(2016) “You and I are humans, and there is something complicated between us”: Untamed and queering the heterosexual historical romance Journal of Popular Romance Studies 5.2:

Topic

Roach, Catherine M.

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

Topic

(2016) "Love as the Practice of Bondage: Popular Romance Narratives and the Conundrum of Erotic Love " Romance Fiction and American Culture: Love as the Practice of Freedom? 369-387

Topic

(2016) Pursuing Happiness: Reading American Romance as Political Fiction Tirril, Penrith: Humanities-Ebooks

Betz, Phyllis M.

(2017) Katherine V. Forrest: A Critical Appreciation Jefferson, North Carolina: McFarland & Co

Topic

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

Katherine V. Forrest

Malloy, Audrey Miles

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

Topic

Whalen, Kacey

(2017) A Consumption of Gay Men: Navigating the Shifting Boundaries of M/M Romantic Readership MA thesis, DePaul University

Topic

Abrahamsson, Elin

(2018) Enahanda läsning: En queer tolkning av romancegenren PhD, Stockholm University

Topic

Ali, Kecia

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

Topic

Gillingham, Erica

(2018) Representations of same-sex relationships between female characters in all-ages comics: Princess Princess Ever After and Lumberjanes Journal of Lesbian Studies 22.4:390-401 DOI: https://doi.org/10.1080/10894160.2018.1450600

Topic

Neville, Lucy

(2018) Girls Who Like Boys Who Like Boys: Women and Gay Male Pornography and Erotica Cham, Switzerland: Palgrave Macmillan

Topic

pornography

Zhou, Yanyan

Paul, Bryant

Sherman, Ryland

(2018) Still a Hetero-Gendered World: A Content Analysis of Gender Stereotypes and Romantic Ideals in Chinese Boy Love Stories Sex Roles 78.1-2:107–118 DOI: 10.1007/s11199-017-0762-y

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

E. M. Hull

libraries/librarians

romantic suspense

Samuel Richardson

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

Topic

feminism

(2018) Still a Hetero-Gendered World: A Content Analysis of Gender Stereotypes and Romantic Ideals in Chinese Boy Love Stories Sex Roles 78.1-2:107–118 DOI: 10.1007/s11199-017-0762-y

Topic

Zhou, Yanyan

Paul, Bryant

Sherman, Ryland

(2018) Still a Hetero-Gendered World: A Content Analysis of Gender Stereotypes and Romantic Ideals in Chinese Boy Love Stories Sex Roles 78.1-2:107–118 DOI: 10.1007/s11199-017-0762-y

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 DOI: 10.3366/gothic.2019.0004

Topic

Noone, Kristin

(2019) "Succulent Texts: Desire, Outlaws, and Consumption in Popular Romance " Food and Feast in Modern Outlaw Tales 167-187 DOI:10.4324/9780429061301-9

Topic

community

rural romance

(2020) Men, Masculinities, and Popular Romance Abingdon, Oxon: Routledge

Topic

(2020) Asexual Romance in an Allosexual World: How Ace-Spectrum Characters (and Authors) Create Space for Romantic Love Journal of Popular Romance Studies 9:

Topic

love

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 DOI: 10.5281/zenodo.4320839

Topic

(2020) The trouble with diverse books, part I: on the limits of conceptual analysis for political negotiation in Library & Information Science Journal of Documentation 76.6:1473-1491 DOI: 10.1108/JD-04-2020-0057

Topic

Magenya, Sheena Gimase

(2020) Reading between the lines: A review of Dark Juices and Afrodisiacs: Erotic Diaries Vol 1 Agenda 34.3:137-144 DOI: 10.1080/10130950.2020.1782756

Topic

Africa

(2020) #RomanceClass: Genre World, Intimate Public, Found Family Publishing Research Quarterly 36:403–417 DOI: 10.1007/s12109-020-09733-1

Topic

McAlister, Jodi

Parnell, Claire

(2020) #RomanceClass: Genre World, Intimate Public, Found Family Publishing Research Quarterly 36:403–417 DOI: 10.1007/s12109-020-09733-1

Topic

Riseman, Noah

(2020) Intimatopias and the queering of Australian war fiction Continuum: Journal of Media & Cultural Studies 34.6:940-954 DOI: 10.1080/10304312.2020.1827371

Topic

Roper, Holly N.

(2020) Representing the Romance: Diversity and Inclusion in the Romance Collections of Public Libraries M.S. in Library Science, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill

Topic

libraries/librarians

disability

Taylor, Jessica

(2020) Garçon Manqué: A Queer Rereading (of) The Sheik Journal of Popular Romance Studies 9:

Topic

E. M. Hull

(2020) #RomanceClass: Genre World, Intimate Public, Found Family Publishing Research Quarterly 36:403–417 DOI: 10.1007/s12109-020-09733-1

Topic

(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

(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

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

(2020) Let’s Not Get Carried Away by The Sheik Journal of Popular Romance Studies 9:

Topic

E. M. Hull

Berta Ruck

marriage

Abrahamsson, Elin

(2021) Superwomen, Latte Dads and Feminist Alphas: Negotiations on Feminism in Contemporary Swedish Popular Romance Novels Journal of Popular Romance Studies 10:

Topic

(2021) "Gender and sexuality " The Routledge Research Companion to Popular Romance Fiction 428-453 DOI:10.4324/9781315613468-20

Topic

pornography

Allen, Amanda K.

(2021) "Young adult romance " The Routledge Research Companion to Popular Romance Fiction 168-190 DOI:10.4324/9781315613468-7

Topic

fascism/right-wing authoritarianism

Ficke, Sarah H.

(2021) "The historical romance " The Routledge Research Companion to Popular Romance Fiction 118-140 DOI:10.4324/9781315613468-5

Topic

Beverly Jenkins

Garber, Linda

(2021) Novel Approaches to Lesbian History Cham, Switzerland: Palgrave Macmillan

Topic

pirates and outlaws

Khumwongdee, Yanisa

(2021) Reading and Rewriting Fat Romance: A Study of Twenty-First Century Thai and US Fat Romance Novels PhD thesis, University of York

Topic

fat, fatness

McGurl, Mark

(2021) Unspeakable Conventionality: The Perversity of the Kindle American Literary History 33.2:394–415 DOI: 10.1093/alh/ajab004

Topic

capitalism/business

Pradhan, Anil

(2021) The literary field of queer cultural production in contemporary India: considering popular queer texts via Bourdieu Runas: Journal of Education & Culture 2.4: DOI: 10.46652/runas.v2i4.48

Topic

India

Ramos-García, María T.

(2021) "Paranormal romance and urban fantasy " The Routledge Research Companion to Popular Romance Fiction 141-167 DOI:10.4324/9781315613468-6

Topic

(2021) "The evolution of the American romance novel " The Routledge Research Companion to Popular Romance Fiction 51-71 DOI:10.4324/9781315613468-2

Topic

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

Charles Brockden Brown

Sukey Vickery

Catharine Maria Sedgwick

Lydia Maria Child

E. D. E. N. Southworth

Louisa May Alcott

Frances Watkins Harper

Onoto Watanna/Winnifred Eaton

Jean Webster

Kathleen Thompson Norris

Viña Delmar

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)

work

Onoto Watanna/Winnifred Eaton

Judaism

Pauline Hopkins

Kathleen Thompson Norris

romances in magazines and newspapers

Elizabeth Carfrae

Frances Shelley Wees

Lilian Warren as Kathryn Blair/Rosalind Brett/Celine Conway

Jean S. MacLeod/Catherine Airlie

Alice Lent Covert

Joyce Dingwell/Kate Starr

Mary Burchell, pen name of Ida Cook

Juliet Shore/Anne Vinton

Della Field, pseudonym of Fanny Howe

Jayne Ann Krentz/Amanda Quick/Jayne Castle

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

(2021) Come Out, Come Out, Wherever You Are: Sexuality and Gender Exploration in Contemporary Slash Fanfiction M.A. English, Kutztown University

Topic

Šmídová, Monika Markéta

(2021) Five Thousand for Justice: The Use of English Folklore in the Novels of KJ Charles Masters, Masaryk University

Topic

K. J. Charles

fairytales/folktales

community

Weimer, Christopher

(2021) Romancing Weird Fiction: Lovecraftian Reinscriptions in Jordan L. Hawk's Whyborne and Griffin Aeternum: The Journal of Contemporary Gothic Studies 8.1:61-76

Topic

Jordan L. Hawk

Alberto, Maria

(2022) "Original Slash, Romance, and C.S. Pacat’s Captive Prince " New Frontiers in Popular Romance: Essays on the Genre in the 21st Century 216-232

Topic

C. S. Pacat

Befeler, Paige

(2022) LGBTQ(NA), Queer New Adult Fiction: The Emergence of a New Genre and Its Impact on the LGBTQIA+ Community Honors in Comparative Literary Studies, Wellesley College

Topic

(2022) Comic Book Women: Characters, Creators, and Culture in the Golden Age Austin: University of Texas Press

Topic

Carter, Ellen

(2022) "What's in a name? A corpus study of phonological differences between gay and straight romance heroes' names " The Routledge Companion to Romantic Love DOI:10.4324/9781003022343-10

Topic

(2022) Comic Book Women: Characters, Creators, and Culture in the Golden Age Austin: University of Texas Press

Topic

Fanetti, Susan

(2022) New Frontiers in Popular Romance: Essays on the Genre in the 21st Century Jefferson, North Carolina: McFarland & Company

Topic

Diana Gabaldon

India

Nicole M. Jackson/Katrina Jackson/Brandy Bush

Jackson, Nicole M.

(2022) "Finding Queer Black Women in Romance. Finding Bits and Pieces of Me. " Black Love Matters: Real Talk on Romance, Being Seen, and Happily Ever After 65-77

Topic

(2022) Freedom’s Epilogue: Love as Freedom in Alyssa Cole’s Historical Novellas Journal of Popular Romance Studies 11:

Topic

Johnson, Brian

(2022) "Weird Bedfellows: H. P. Lovecraft, m/m Romance, and the New Queer Families of Jordan L. Hawk's Whyborne & Griffin Series " Lovecraft in the 21st Century: Dead, But Still Dreaming DOI:10.4324/9780367713065-20

Topic

Jordan L. Hawk

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

Nankervis, Madison

(2022) Diversity in Romance Novels: Race, Sexuality, Neurodivergence, Disability, and Fat Representation Publishing Research Quarterly 38:349–363 DOI: 10.1007/s12109-022-09881-6

Topic

disability

fat, fatness

Pritchard, Jamee N.

(2022) Reading the Black Romance: Exploring Black Sexual Politics in the Romance Fiction of Rebekah Weatherspoon Journal of Popular Romance Studies 11:

Topic

Rebekah Weatherspoon

Ann Allen Shockley

Pryde, Jessica P.

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

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Selinger, Eric Murphy

(2022) "Disaggregating attraction: asexuality and genre critique in Alex Beecroft's Blue Steel Chain " The Routledge Companion to Romantic Love DOI:10.4324/9781003022343-29

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Alex Beecroft

(2022) Freedom, Sincerity, and the Modern Woman in the Interwar Romances of Berta Ruck Journal of Popular Romance Studies 11:

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(2022) "His Baby Daddy is an Alien?!: Mpreg Fantasies and Queer Reproductive Intimacies in Contemporary M/M Science Fiction Romance " Imagining "We" in the Age of "I": Romance and Social Bonding in Contemporary Culture

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health/medical

Lyn Gala

Lexi Ander

(2023) Softcore romance: on naked heroes and beefcakes in popular romance novels Porn Studies 10:3: 283-298 DOI: 10.1080/23268743.2023.2189899

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(2023) Love is love: Reverse isomorphism and the rise of LGBTQ+ romance publishing New Media & Society ONLINE FIRST:ONLINE FIRST DOI: 10.1177/14614448231218991

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Conley, Willow M.

Grinnell, Natalie

(2023) The Queer Temporality of Gail Carriger’s Parasol Protectorate Journal of the Fantastic in the Arts 34.3:171-199

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Gail Carriger

(2023) The Queer Temporality of Gail Carriger’s Parasol Protectorate Journal of the Fantastic in the Arts 34.3:171-199

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Gail Carriger

(2023) Genre-savvy Protagonists in Queer YA Rom-coms Journal of Popular Romance Studies 12:

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(2023) "Sealed With a Kiss on Your Artery": An Archive of Southern Lesbian Desire PhD, University of Mississippi

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(2023) Love is love: Reverse isomorphism and the rise of LGBTQ+ romance publishing New Media & Society ONLINE FIRST:ONLINE FIRST DOI: 10.1177/14614448231218991

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McAlister, Jodi

Parnell, Claire

(2023) Publishing Romance Fiction in the Philippines Cambridge: Cambridge University Press

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Philippines

McDavis-Conway, Shana

(2023) Self-conscious, unapologetic, and straight: fat protagonists in romantic fiction Fat Studies 12.2:233-242 DOI: 10.1080/21604851.2022.2047337

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fat, fatness

Mulvey, Alexandra Hazel

(2023) Gender and Sex Stereotypes in Sports Romance Fiction Masters thesis, Macquarie University

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sport

(2023) Love matters: the case for an inclusive, contemporary approach to romance themes and texts in subject English The Australian Journal of Language and Literacy : DOI: 10.1007/s44020-023-00041-7

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teaching romance

Parnell, Claire

(2023) Algospeak and algo-design in platformed book publishing: Revolutionary creative tactics in digital paratext to circumvent content moderation AoIR Selected Papers of Internet Research Paper presented at AoIR2023: The 24th Annual Conference of the Association of Internet Researchers. Philadelphia, PA, USA: DOI: 10.5210/spir.v2023i0.13477

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(2023) Publishing Romance Fiction in the Philippines Cambridge: Cambridge University Press

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Philippines

(2023) (Loves) Me, (Loves) Me Not: Unbuilding of Selfhood in the Romance of the Present Journal of Popular Romance Studies 12:

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(2023) Halfway-Sexual: Exploring Demisexuality in American Literature PhD, Louisiana State University

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(2023) Publishing Romance Fiction in the Philippines Cambridge: Cambridge University Press

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Philippines

(2023) The Affective Power of Intimacy: A Case Study of a Men’s Hockey Real Person Fan Fiction’s Literary and Social Contexts Master of Arts, Trent University

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(2024) Marriage migration, intimacy and genre in Helen Hoang’s The Bride Test (2019) and Brigitte Bautista’s You, Me, U.S. (2019) Literature, Critique, and Empire Today ONLINE FIRST:ONLINE FIRST DOI: 10.1177/30333962241267810

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Greening, Alo

(2024) History, Huh: A Post-Modern Study of the Consumption of Queer Romance Master of Arts in Women and Gender Studies, Saint Mary’s University, Halifax, Nova Scotia

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(2024) “It really got to me [...] The movies where the main characters freaked out about being virgins at the age of sixteen”: Narrative Subversion as a Queer Strategy in Loveless Master of Arts, Ghent University

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Alice Oseman

(2024) The Forgotten Queer Utopia Master’s thesis, The Arctic University of Norway

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Irene Clyde

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

Kies, Bridget

(2024) Saying “I Don’t”: Queer Romance in the Post–Marriage Equality World Journal of Popular Romance Studies 13: DOI: 10.70138/YKLZ4173

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marriage

film/movies

Alexis Hall

Kousholt, Moa

(2024) A Time, A Place, and A Person: A comparative literary analysis of Red, White & Royal Blue and One Last Stop by Casey McQuiston and how queer representation can be problematized in a classroom context Teacher Education Programme for Upper Secondary School, Linnaeus University

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Casey McQuiston

teaching romance

Larson, Christine

(2024) Love in the Time of Self-Publishing: How Romance Writers Changed the Rules of Writing and Success : Princeton University Press

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