YA/young adult/teenage/new adult/NA romance

(1992) Adolescent Romance Novels: Changes Over Time Master of Arts, University of Alberta

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Bereska, Tami M.

(1994) Adolescent Sexuality and the Changing Romance Novel Market The Canadian Journal of Human Sexuality 3.1:35-44

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Billekens, Franciska

(2019) Never Mind Me When There’s You: The Submission Of The Heroine In Young Adult Supernatural Romance Fiction BA, Utrecht University

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Bradford, Clare

(2013) "Monsters: Monstrous Identities in Young Adult Romance " (Re)Imagining the World: Children’s Literature’s Response to Changing Times 115-125

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family

Broad, Katherine R.

(2013) "“The Dandelion in the Spring”: Utopia as Romance in Suzanne Collins’s The Hunger Games Trilogy " Contemporary Dystopian Fiction for Young Adults: Brave New Teenagers 117–130 DOI:10.4324/9780203084939

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(2025) A “Messy Complexity”? On Coming-Out, Identity Formation, and Community in Queer YA Romance Novels :

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

(2020) Mills and Fur: Feminism and Femininity in the Supernatural Romance PhD, Western Sydney University

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fairytales/folktales

Sarah Blakley-Cartwright

(2025) A “Messy Complexity”? On Coming-Out, Identity Formation, and Community in Queer YA Romance Novels :

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(2025) "Social Media, Critical Analysis, and Feminist Action: Popular YA's Role in Disseminating Theory Online " Still Reading Romance: Identity and Engagement with Popular Romance Fiction 71-88 DOI:10.5040/9798881847616.ch-005

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Carpan, Carolyn

(2004) Rocked by Romance: A Guide to Teen Romance Fiction Westport, Connecticut: Libraries Unlimited

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libraries/librarians

genre definitions

contemporary romance

romantic suspense

Christian romance

Carpan, Carolyn

(2009) Sisters, Schoolgirls, and Sleuths: Girls' Series Books in America Lanham, Maryland: Scarecrow Press

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Cart, Michael

(1996) From Romance to Realism: 50 Years of Growth and Change in Young Adult Literature New York: HarperCollins

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Betty Cavanna

Rosamond du Jardin

Mary Stolz

Christian, Linda Kathryn

(1984) Becoming a Woman through Romance: Adolescent Novels and the Ideology of Femininity PhD, University of Wisconsin - Madison

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(1987) Gender, Popular Culture, and Curriculum - Adolescent Romance Novels as Gender Text Curriculum Inquiry 17.4:365-406 DOI: 10.1080/03626784.1987.11075300

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(1988) "Romancing the girl: adolescent romance novels and the construction of femininity " Becoming Feminine: The Politics of Popular Culture 76–101

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(1990) Becoming a Woman Through Romance London: Routledge

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(1993) "Sweet Dreams: Gender and Desire in Teen Romance Novels " Texts of Desire: Essays on Fiction, Femininity and Schooling 45-68

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(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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(1994) "Young Women and Their Dream Lovers: Sexuality in Adolescent Fiction " Sexual Cultures and the Construction of Adolescent Identities 206-227

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Christopherson, Neal

(1999) Accommodation and Resistance in Religious Fiction: Family Structures and Gender Roles Sociology of Religion 60.4:439–455 DOI: 10.2307/3712025

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Christian romance

(2017) "Masculinity and Romantic Myth in Contemporary YA Romance " Gender(ed) Identities: Critical Rereadings of Gender in Children’s and Young Adult Literature 228–241

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love

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

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lesbian romance

Corbin, Joanie

(2009) La représentation de l’adolescente dans une collection de romans à grande diffusion Mémoires du livre / Studies in Book Culture 1.1:

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Crisp, Thomas

(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

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Daly, Brenda O.

(1989) Laughing WITH, or Laughing AT the Young-Adult Romance The English Journal 78.6:50-60 DOI: 10.2307/817924

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food, drink

health/medical

Day, Sara K.

(2020) "Reimagining Forever...: The Marriage Plot in Recent Young Adult Literature " Beyond the Blockbusters: Themes and Trends in Contemporary Young Adult Fiction 156-170

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marriage

de Jesús, Melinda L.

(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

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(2025) A “Messy Complexity”? On Coming-Out, Identity Formation, and Community in Queer YA Romance Novels :

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(1990) A study of character development of main characters in young adult category romance literature Master of Science, University of Wyoming

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(2025) A “Messy Complexity”? On Coming-Out, Identity Formation, and Community in Queer YA Romance Novels :

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(1990) "Innocence and Experience in the Young Adult Romance " Lands of Pleasure: Essays on Lillian H. Smith and the Development of Children's Libraries 117-129

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Fenty, Linda D.

(1987) A Comparative Analysis of Female Role Models in Selected Contemporary Teen Romances Educat.D., Auburn University

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Foss, Kimberly Kay

(1997) An Analysis to Determine if Popular Romance Novels, Read by Today’s High School Students, Reflect the Characteristics and Roles of Women in Current Society M.S. in Education with Emphasis in Library Science, University of Wyoming

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Franck, Kaja

(2020) "Growing Pains of the Teenage Werewolf: Young Adult Literature and the Metaphorical Wolf " In the company of wolves: Werewolves, wolves and wild children 163-177 DOI:10.7765/9781526129048.00020

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Fresno-Calleja, Paloma

(2019) Chick-Lit Pasifika-Style or How to B(l)end the Formula: Lani Young’s Scarlet Series Contemporary Women's Writing 13.2:203–221 DOI: 10.1093/cww/vpaa003

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Fresno-Calleja, Paloma

(2023) Repurposing Fantasy Island: Lani Wendt Young’s Telesā Series and the Politics of Postcolonial Romance Interventions: International Journal of Postcolonial Studies 25.1:100-117 DOI: 10.1080/1369801X.2022.2054011

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Lani Wendt Young

settings

romance and, or as, activism

Gardner, Jeanne

(2011) 'True-To-Life': Romance Comics and Teen-Age Desire, 1947-1954 Forum for World Literature Studies 3.1:118-128

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comics/manga

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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comics/manga

Gardner, Jeanne Emerson

(2013) She Got Her Man, but Could She Keep Him? Love and Marriage in American Romance Comics, 1947–1954 The Journal of American Culture 36.1:16-24 DOI: 10.1111/jacc.12009

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comics/manga

history

marriage

Gilbert, Pam

Taylor, Sandra

(1991) Fashioning the Feminine: Girls, Popular Culture, and Schooling North Sydney, Australia: Allen & Unwin

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Gilbert, Pam

(1993) "Dolly Fictions: Teen Romance Down Under " Texts of Desire: Essays on Fiction, Femininity and Schooling 69-86 DOI:10.4324/9781315810119

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(2015) Sexual Content in Young Adult Literature: Reading between the Sheets Lanham, Maryland: Rowman & Littlefield

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Griffiths, David

(2023) Hearing Ghosts: Writing a Low Fantasy YA Gothic Fiction for young adult males PhD in Creative Writing, Manchester Metropolitan University

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Twilight

Gruner, Elisabeth Rose

(2019) Constructing the Adolescent Reader in Contemporary Young Adult Fiction London: Palgrave Macmillan

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Henderson, Alex

(2023) Genre-savvy Protagonists in Queer YA Rom-coms Journal of Popular Romance Studies 12: DOI: 10.70138/DEEX8262

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rom-com romance

(2021) (Para)normalizing Rape Culture: Possession as Rape in Young Adult Paranormal Romance Girlhood Studies 14.1:68–84 DOI: 10.3167/ghs.2021.140107

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Herrera, Carolina M.

(2022) Examining the relation between media engagement and developmental outcomes in adolescents and emerging adults: an exploration of engagement with and impact of young adult literature media among youth PhD thesis, Rutgers, the State University of New Jersey

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psychology

Twilight

Heynderickx, Jasmine

(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

Topic

Alice Oseman

love

metafiction

Hughes, Bill

(2013) ‘Two kinds of romance': Generic Hybridity and Epistemological Uncertainty in Contemporary Paranormal Romance :

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(2014) Demon Lovers: Embracing the Monster in Paranormal Romance :1-23

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

(2021) "Genre Mutation in Young Adult Gothic: The Dialectics of Dystopia and Romance in Holly Black's The Coldest Girl in Coldtown " Young Adult Gothic Fiction: Monstrous Selves/Monstrous Others

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(1993) "Reading the Romance Younger: The Mirrors and Fears of a Preparatory Literature " Texts of Desire: Essays on Fiction, Femininity and Schooling 87–105 DOI:10.4324/9781315810119

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Canada

Huntwork, Mary M.

(1990) Why Girls Flock to Sweet Valley High School Library Journal 36.3:137-140

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Hurley, Frances K.

(1999) In the Words of Girls: The Reading of Adolescent Romance Fiction Doctor of Education, Harvard University

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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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disability

libraries/librarians

(2025) A “Messy Complexity”? On Coming-Out, Identity Formation, and Community in Queer YA Romance Novels :

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(2010) Consuming Desires: Consumption, Romance, and Sexuality in Best-Selling Teen Romance Novels Women's Studies in Communication 33.1:54-73 DOI: 10.1080/07491401003669984

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

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(2025) A “Messy Complexity”? On Coming-Out, Identity Formation, and Community in Queer YA Romance Novels :

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(1983) The nature of didacticism as related to romance and sexuality in young adult novels 1965-1978 PhD, University of Chicago

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Keeler, Janet K.

(2025) Romance In The Round: A Content Analysis Of YA Novels About Fat Girls Looking For Love International Journal of Arts, Humanities and Social Sciences 6.10:9-16 DOI: 10.56734/ijahss.v6n10a2

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fat, fatness

Adiba Jaigirdar

Rebekah Weatherspoon

Kelly, Patricia P.

(1991) Transitional Novels for Readers of Teen Romances ALAN Review 19.1:19-21

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Kokkola, Lydia

(2011) Virtuous Vampires and Voluptuous Vamps: Romance Conventions Reconsidered in Stephenie Meyer’s ‘‘Twilight’’ Series Children's Literature in Education 42.2:165-179 DOI: 10.1007/s10583-010-9125-9

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Twilight

religion/spirituality

(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

(2025) A “Messy Complexity”? On Coming-Out, Identity Formation, and Community in Queer YA Romance Novels :

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Kuchta, Estella Carolye

(2021) "Imagining Love: Teen Romance Novels and American Teen Relational Capacity " International Handbook of Love: Transcultural and Transdisciplinary Perspectives 827-842 DOI:10.1007/978-3-030-45996-3_44

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psychology

love

Kuchta, Estella Carolye

(2024) The Epistemological Possibilities of Love: Towards Relational and Ecological Healing PhD, Simon Fraser University

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(2025) A “Messy Complexity”? On Coming-Out, Identity Formation, and Community in Queer YA Romance Novels :

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(1985) Romance versus Reality: A Look at YA Romantic Fiction Top of the News 41.4:361-368

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Kutzer, M. Daphne

(1986) "I Won't Grow up"—Yet: Teen Formula Romance Children's Literature Association Quarterly 11.2:90-95 DOI: 10.1353/chq.0.0557

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(1982) Sweet Dreams for Sleeping Beauties: Pre-Teen Romances Children's Literature Association Quarterly 7.1:28-32 DOI: 10.1353/chq.0.0230

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(2025) A “Messy Complexity”? On Coming-Out, Identity Formation, and Community in Queer YA Romance Novels :

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(2024) “I’ll Call it Platonic Magic”: Queer Joy, Metafiction, and Aro-Ace Autofictional Selves in Alice Oseman’s Loveless In Progress: A Graduate Journal of North American Studies 2.1:59-72 DOI: 10.15488/17355

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Alice Oseman

metafiction

(1987) Double Date to Double Love: Female Sex Roles in Teen Romances ALAN Review 14.3:45-46, 55

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(1991) Sunfire Historical Romances ALAN Review 19.1:22

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historical romance

(1991) The Wild West, Floods, Wars and Boys: Sunfire Historical Romances for Young Adults ALAN Review 19.1:22-25

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historical romance

(1994) "From Seventeenth Summer to Miss Teen Sweet Valley: Female and Male Sex Roles in Teen Romances, 1942-91 " Images of the Child 19-34

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(1995) Dreams, Guys, Lies, and Occasionally Books: The Young Women of the Freshman Dorm Series ALAN Review 22.2:10 DOI: 10.21061/alan.v22i2.a.4

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

Luneau, Marie-Pier

Warren, Jean-Philippe

(2024) Love Stories Now and Then: A History of Les romans d'amour : Baraka

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Canada

Philippe Aubert de Gaspé Jr.

Joseph Doutre

metafiction

Pierre-Joseph-Olivier Chauveau

Albertine Laperle-Bernier

religion/spirituality

dime novels

Marie-Claude Bussières-Tremblay

chick lit

Micheline Perron

Raymond Plante

Bertrand Gauthier

Markasović, Valentina

(2023) Challenging Gender Stereotypes in Holly Black’s The Folk of the Air Trilogy Breaking Stereotypes in American Popular Culture: Proceedings of the 10th Annual Conference of the Croatian Association for American Studies :41-56 DOI: 10.17234/9789533791258.03

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Holly Black

McAlister, Jodi

(2018) Defining and Redefining Popular Genres: The Evolution of ‘New Adult’ Fiction Australian Literary Studies 33.4: DOI: 10.20314/als.0fd566d109

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genre definitions

McNamara, Emma K

(2024) Young Adult Contemporary Realistic Romance: Rhetorical and Intersectional Narratologies PhD, Ohio State University

Topic

Medrano-González, Claudia

(2024) On the Convergence Between Femme Theory and Popular Feminine Fiction: Adolescent Girls’ (Re)territorialisation Of Fem(me)ininity Through Young Adult Erotic Romance Journal of Femininities ONLINE FIRST:ONLINE FIRST DOI: 10.1163/29501229-bja10005

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(1995) If You Can't Beat'em, Join 'em: Using the Romance Series to Confront Gender Stereotypes The ALAN Review 22.2: DOI: 10.21061/alan.v22i2.a.3

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(2018) Vampires and Witches Go to School: Contemporary Young Adult Fiction, Gender, and the Gothic Children's Literature in Education 49:6–18 DOI: 10.1007/s10583-018-9343-0

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Moss, Gemma

(1989) Un/Popular Fictions London: Virago

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authors

(1993) "Girls Tell the Teen Romance: Four Reading Histories " Reading Audiences: Young People and the Media 116-134

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Moss, Gemma

(1993) "The Place for Romance in Young People's Writing " Texts of Desire: Essays on Fiction, Femininity and Schooling 106–125 DOI:10.4324/9781315810119

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Mukherjea, Ananya

(2011) My Vampire Boyfriend: Postfeminism, “Perfect” Masculinity, and the Contemporary Appeal of Paranormal Romance Studies in Popular Culture 33.2:1-20

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Mwangi, Serah Wanjiru

(1992) An analysis of romance fiction and its probable impact among young girls Master of Arts, University of Nairobi

Topic

(2025) A “Messy Complexity”? On Coming-Out, Identity Formation, and Community in Queer YA Romance Novels :

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(2025) A “Messy Complexity”? On Coming-Out, Identity Formation, and Community in Queer YA Romance Novels :

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(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

Niebling, Laura

(2025) Consent capital: From Romantasy’s “Alpha male archetypes” toward a new cultural theory in post-digital storytelling New Media & Society ONLINE FIRST:ONLINE FIRST DOI: 10.1177/14614448251375107

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Rebecca Yarros

war/armed forces

Nielsen, Inge

(2000) Caught in the Web of Love: Intercepting the Young Adult Reception of Qiongyao's Romances On-Line Acta Orientalia Academiae Scientiarum Hungaricae 53.3-4:235-253

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Taiwan

(2025) The Summer of YA Love: Young Adult Romance, Tiktok, and the ClassroomClassroom The Utah English Journal 53:

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teaching romance

Nygren, Sandra

(2025) Perfect imperfections: – en intersektionell fat studies-analys av tjocka flickprotagonister i young adult-romance Masters, Linnéuniversitetet

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fat, fatness

(2025) A “Messy Complexity”? On Coming-Out, Identity Formation, and Community in Queer YA Romance Novels :

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(2023) The Feminist Possibilities of Heteroglossic Spaces in Contemporary Young Adult Romance Novels Journal of Popular Romance Studies 12: DOI: 10.70138/PVPQ4885

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(1984) Enticing Readers: The Teen Romance Craze :

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Pates, Giuliana

(2023) Reading Practices and Gender Politicization: How do Young Argentinean Women Read Romantic Novels Revista Interdisciplinaria de Estudios de Género de El Colegio de México 9.1:1–26 DOI: 10.24201/reg.v9i1.1056

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Argentina

Pattee, Amy S.

(2011) Reading the Adolescent Romance: Sweet Valley High and the Popular Young Adult Romance Novel New York: Routledge

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Pecora, Norma

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

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fashion/clothing

food, drink

Priyatna, Aquarini

Wardiani, Sri Rijati

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

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Esti Kinasih

Indonesia

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

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happy ending

genre definitions

Rampoldi Hnilo, Lynn A.

(1996) The effects of romance in young adult fiction on pre-adolescent African-American females MA thesis, Michigan State University

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psychology

Reid-Walsh, Jacqueline

(1993) "Adolescent Girls' Romance Fiction: Contemporary Conduct Books? " Weaving Alliances: Selected Papers Presented For The Canadian Women's Studies Association at the 1991 and 1992 Learned Societies Conferences 303-318

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

(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

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Roberts, Sherron Killingsworth

lesbian romance

(2002) Meet Jessica and Elizabeth from Sweet Valley: Who Are the Female Role Models in Popular Romance Novels for Children? Paper presented at the Annual Meeting of the American Educational Research Association (New Orleans, LA, April 1-5,2002) ERIC document ED470819:

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Roberts, Sherron Killingsworth

(2010) Twenty-five years and counting of Sweet Valley: Jessica and Elizabeth in romance novels for young children? Journal of Research in Childhood Education 24.2:123-139 DOI: 10.1080/02568541003635201

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Romney, Rebecca

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

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

African American romance

Onoto Watanna/Winnifred Eaton

religion/spirituality

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

science fiction/futuristic romance

Nora Roberts/J. D. Robb

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

(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

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lesbian romance

Russell, Shannon

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

Topic

(2025) A “Messy Complexity”? On Coming-Out, Identity Formation, and Community in Queer YA Romance Novels :

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(2015) Virginity in Young Adult Literature after Twilight Lanham, Maryland: Rowman & Littlefield

Topic

(2015) Sexual Content in Young Adult Literature: Reading between the Sheets Lanham, Maryland: Rowman & Littlefield

Topic

Smith, Michelle J.

Moruzi, Kristine

(2018) Vampires and Witches Go to School: Contemporary Young Adult Fiction, Gender, and the Gothic Children's Literature in Education 49:6–18 DOI: 10.1007/s10583-018-9343-0

Topic

(2025) A “Messy Complexity”? On Coming-Out, Identity Formation, and Community in Queer YA Romance Novels :

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Stille Luse, Marcia L.

(1991) Secondary educators' attitudes and professional assessment of the place for contemporary young adult series romance novels in the low-end and reluctant readers' curriculum Masters, Pacific University

Topic

teaching romance

Sutton, Roger

(1985) Librarians and the Paperback Romance: Trying to Do the Right Thing School Library Journal 32.3:25-29

Topic

libraries/librarians