Abartis, Caesarea
(1979)
The Ugly-Pretty, Dull-Bright, Weak-Strong Girl in the Gothic Mansion
Journal of Popular Culture
13.2:257-263
Older and/or precursor texts (may not be "romance" as now defined)
Anderson, Rachel
(1974)
The Purple Heart Throbs: The Sub-Literature of Love
London:
Hodder and Stoughton
Topic
Lynch, Katherine E.
Sternglantz, Ruth E.
Barot, Len
(2012)
Queering the Romantic Heroine: Where Her Power Lies
Journal of Popular Romance Studies
3.1:
Beers, Laura
(2011)
Feminism and Sexuality in Ellen Wilkinson's Fiction
Parliamentary Affairs
64.2:248–262
Betz, Phyllis M.
(2009)
Lesbian Romance Novels: A History and Critical Analysis
Jefferson, North Carolina:
McFarland & Co
Betz, Phyllis M.
(2017)
Katherine V. Forrest: A Critical Appreciation
Jefferson, North Carolina:
McFarland & Co
Caland, Fabienne Claire
Rouby, Bertrand
Bleton, Paul
(2015)
L'amour au temps du roman
Québec:
Télé-université Université du Québec
Bloom, Clive
(2002)
Bestsellers: Popular Fiction Since 1900
Houndmills, Basingstoke:
Palgrave Macmillan
Topic
Burge, Amy
(2014)
‘For you are a man and she is a maid’: Performing masculinity in Orientalist medieval and modern popular romance fiction
Journal of European Popular Culture
5.2:89-103
Burge, Amy
(2016)
Representing Difference in the Medieval and Modern Orientalist Romance
Houndmills, Basingstoke:
Palgrave Macmillan
Burge, Amy
(2022)
Beyond Outlander: Annie S. Swan and the Scottish popular romance novel
Scottish Literary Review
14.2:1-19
Burke, Nicola
(2020)
Mills and Fur: Feminism and Femininity in the Supernatural Romance
PhD,
Western Sydney University
Cadogan, Mary
(1994)
And Then Their Hearts Stood Still: An Exuberant Look at Romantic Fiction Past and Present
London:
Macmillan
Topic
Caland, Fabienne Claire
Rouby, Bertrand
Bleton, Paul
(2015)
L'amour au temps du roman
Québec:
Télé-université Université du Québec
Carter, Catherine
(2008)
Poverty, Payment, Power: Kathleen Thompson Norris and Popular Romance
Studies in American Fiction
36.2:197-220
Cawelti, John
(1978)
Romance: The Once and Future Queen
The Wilson Quarterly
2.3:102-109
Cecil, Mirabel
(1974)
Heroines in Love 1750-1974
London:
Michael Joseph Ltd
Cella, Laurie J. C.
(2019)
The Personal and the Political in American Working-Class Literature, 1850-1939: Defining the Radical Romance
Lanham, Maryland:
Lexington
Chandra, Elizabeth
(2015)
Blossoming Dahlia: Chinese Women Novelists in Colonial Indonesia
Southeast Asian Studies
4.3:533-564
Chen, Eva
(2019)
“The Hate that Changed”: Cycling Romance and the Aestheticization of Women Cyclists
Victorian Periodicals Review
52.3:489-517
Cohn, Jan
(1977)
The Romances of Mary Roberts Rinehart: Some Problems in the Study of Popular Culture
Journal of Popular Culture
11.3:581-590
Cohn, Jan
(1988)
Romance and the Erotics of Property: Mass-Market Fiction for Women
Durham and London:
Duke University Press
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)
Coste, Didier
(1981)
Installments of the Heart: Text Delimitation in Periodical Narrative and Its Consequences
Sub-Stance
10/11:56-65
Cunha, Maria Teresa Santos
(1999)
Armadilhas da sedução: os romances de M. Delly
Belo Horizonte:
Autêntica
Saint-Jacques, Denis
des Rivières, Marie-José
(2011)
Le féminisme problématique d’un roman d’amour, Anne Mérival
Recherches féministes
24.1:61–76
Edmondson, Belinda
(2007)
The Black Romance
Women's Studies Quarterly
35.1/2:191-211
Fallon, Eileen
(1984)
Words of Love: A Complete Guide to Romance Fiction
New York and London:
Garland Publishing
Fera-VanGent, Tania
(2005)
Popular Romance Novels: Seeking out the 'Sisterhood'
MA thesis,
Brock University
Fowler, Bridget
(1979)
"True to Me Always": An Analysis of Women's Magazine Fiction
The British Journal of Sociology
30.1:91-119
Fowler, Bridget
(1991)
The Alienated Reader: Women and Romantic Literature in the Twentieth Century
Hemel Hempstead:
Harvester Wheatsheaf
Topic
Fox, Pamela
(1994)
The "Revolt of the Gentle": Romance and the Politics of Resistance in Working-Class Women's Writing
NOVEL: A Forum on Fiction
27.2:140-160
Fuchs, Barbara
(2004)
Romance
New York:
Routledge
Gleason, William
(2011)
Belles, Beaux, and Paratexts: American Story Papers and the Project of Romance
Journal of Popular Romance Studies
2.1:
González Lejárraga, Antonio
(2011)
La novela rosa
Madrid:
Consejo Superior de Investigaciones Científicas
Hallett, Hilary A.
(2022)
Inventing the It Girl: How Elinor Glyn Created the Modern Romance and Conquered Early Hollywood
:
Liveright Publishing Corporation
Henderson, Lesley
Kirkpatrick, D. L.
(1990)
Twentieth-Century Romance and Historical Writers (2nd edition)
Chicago:
St. James Press
Topic
Hermes, Joke
(1992)
Sexuality in Lesbian Romance Fiction
Feminist Review
42.1:49-66
Hermes, Joke
(1992)
Vergnügen oder Aufklärung? Sexualität in lesbischen Liebesromanen?
Das Argument - Zeitschrift für Philosophie und Sozialwissenschaften
193:389-402
Hernandez, Carmen E.
(2022)
Romance and Revolution
Master of Arts,
Texas State University
Hess, Jonathan M.
(2010)
Middlebrow Literature and the Making of German-Jewish Identity
Stanford, California:
Stanford University Press
Hipsky, Martin
(2011)
Modernism and the Women’s Popular Romance in Britain, 1885–1925
Athens, Ohio:
Ohio University Press
Hofstadter, Beatrice K.
(1960)
Popular Culture and the Romantic Heroine
The American Scholar
30.1:98, 100, 102, 104, 106, 108, 110, 112, 114, 116 (10 pages)
Holmes, Diana
(2006)
Romance and Readership in Twentieth-Century France: Love Stories
Oxford:
Oxford University Press
Topic
Joannou, Maroula
(2012)
Women's Writing, Englishness and National and Cultural Identity: The Mobile Woman and the Migrant Voice, 1938-1962
Houndmills, Basingstoke:
Palgrave Macmillan
Jocks, Yvonne Annette
(1988)
Adventure and Virtue: Alternating Emphasis in the Popular Romance Tradition
Master of Arts,
University of Texas at Arlington
Joyal, Amanda
(2012)
From Victorian literature to the romance novel: Disability and the courtship plot
MA thesis,
University of Wyoming
Juhasz, Suzanne
(1994)
Reading from the Heart: Women, Literature, and the Search for True Love
New York:
Viking
Jurilla, Patricia May Bantug
(2006)
Tagalog bestsellers and the history of the book in the Philippines
PhD thesis,
School of Oriental and African Studies
Kapila, Shuchi
(2010)
Educating Seeta: The Anglo-Indian Family Romance and the Poetics of Indirect Rule
Columbus:
Ohio State University Press
Kendra, April
(2007)
Silver Forks, Stereotypes, and Regency Romance
Studies in the Humanities (Indiana)
34.2:142-163
Lin, Pei-yin
Kim, Su Yun
(2019)
East Asian Transwar Popular Culture: Literature and Film from Taiwan and Korea
Singapore:
Palgrave Macmillan
Henderson, Lesley
Kirkpatrick, D. L.
(1990)
Twentieth-Century Romance and Historical Writers (2nd edition)
Chicago:
St. James Press
Topic
Kramer, Devon J.
(2010)
Truth through the medium of cheerfulness: Romance novels as points of resistance
Master of Arts,
Kutztown University of Pennsylvania
Krentz, Jayne Ann
(1992)
Dangerous Men and Adventurous Women: Romance Writers on the Appeal of the Romance
Philadelphia:
University of Pennsylvania Press
Topic
Lin, Pei-yin
Kim, Su Yun
(2019)
East Asian Transwar Popular Culture: Literature and Film from Taiwan and Korea
Singapore:
Palgrave Macmillan
Lutz, Deborah
(2006)
The Dangerous Lover: Gothic Villains, Byronism, and the Nineteenth-Century Seduction Narrative
Columbus:
Ohio State University Press
Lynch, Katherine E.
Sternglantz, Ruth E.
Barot, Len
(2012)
Queering the Romantic Heroine: Where Her Power Lies
Journal of Popular Romance Studies
3.1:
Martínez Garrido, Elisa
(2000)
Bildungsroman y crítica de género: Novela rosa y narrativa de mujeres
Cuadernos de filología italiana
:529-546
Matter, Laura Sewell
(2007)
Pursuing the Great Bad Novelist
The Georgia Review
61.3:444-459
McAlister, Jodi
(2018)
The literary text as historical artifact: The colonial couple in Australian romantic fiction by women, 1838-1860
Lilith: A Feminist History Journal
24:38-51
McAlister, Jodi
(2018)
“Feelings Like the Women in Books”: Declarations of Love in Australian Romance Novels, 1859–1891
Emotions: History, Culture, Society
2.1:91-112
McCracken, Scott
(1998)
Pulp: Reading Popular Fiction
Manchester:
Manchester University Press
Melman, Billie
(1988)
Women and the Popular Imagination in the Twenties: Flappers and Nymphs
Houndmills, Basingstoke:
Macmillan
Morey, Ann-Janine
(1990)
The Reverend Idol and Other Parsonage Secrets: Women Write Romances about Ministers, 1880-1950
Journal of Feminist Studies in Religion
6.1:87-103
Morey, Ann-Janine
(1992)
Religion and Sexuality in American Literature
Cambridge:
Cambridge University Press
Morton, Leith
(2015)
The reinvention of romance: The rewriting, reception and censorship of 'ninjobon' in modern Japan
Journal of the Oriental Society of Australia
47:85-115
Mussell, Kay
(1981)
Women’s Gothic and Romantic Fiction: A Reference Guide
Westport, Connecticut:
Greenwood Press
Topic
Mussell, Kay
(1984)
Fantasy and Reconciliation: Contemporary Formulas of Women’s Romance Fiction
Westport, Connecticut:
Greenwood Press
Topic
Neylon, Virginia Lyn
(2003)
Reading and Writing the Romance Novel: An Analysis of Romance Fiction and Its Place in the Community College Classroom
Paper presented at the Annual Meeting of the Conference on College Composition and Communication (54th, New York, NY, March 19-22, 2003):
ERIC Document ED477339
Oklopčić, Biljana
(2016)
Medieval heresy in Croatian historical romances: a case study of Marija Jurić Zagorka’s Plameni inkvizitori
Neohelicon
43.2:559–576
Paige, Lori A.
(2018)
The Gothic Romance Wave: A Critical History of the Mass Market Novels, 1960-1993
Jefferson, North Carolina:
McFarland & Company
Percec, Dana
(2011)
“The Pink Ghetto”. The Avatars of Romantic Fiction
Brukenthalia. Romanian Cultural History Review. Supplement of Brukenthal. Acta Musei
1.1:92-102
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
Postma, Kathlene
(1999)
American Women Readers Encounter Turkey in the Shadow of Popular Romance
Journal of American Studies of Turkey
9:71-82
Raineri, Rosalia
(2019)
Verde bianco e rosa. Il romanzo 'femminile' e l'educazione sentimentale delle italiane (1911-1946)
PhD,
Università degli Studi di Palermo
Raub, Patricia
(1994)
Yesterday's Stories: Popular Women's Novels of the Twenties and Thirties
Westport, Connecticut:
Greenwood Press
Topic
Reed, Eleanor
(2018)
Domestic Culture in Woman's Weekly, 1918-1958
PhD,
University of Roehampton
Reep, Diana
(1982)
The Rescue And Romance: Popular Novels Before World War I
Bowling Green, Ohio:
Bowling Green State University Popular Press
Regis, Pamela
(2003)
A Natural History of the Romance Novel
Philadelphia:
University of Pennsylvania Press
Topic
Reitemeier, Rebecca
(2019)
Romance Novels and Higher Education
Inter-Text: An Undergraduate Journal for Social Sciences and Humanities
2.2:
Romney, Rebecca
(2021)
The Romance Novel in English: A Survey in Rare Books, 1769-1999
:
Type Punch Matrix
Topic
Caland, Fabienne Claire
Rouby, Bertrand
Bleton, Paul
(2015)
L'amour au temps du roman
Québec:
Télé-université Université du Québec
Saint-Jacques, Denis
des Rivières, Marie-José
(2011)
Le féminisme problématique d’un roman d’amour, Anne Mérival
Recherches féministes
24.1:61–76
Sanders, Lise Shapiro
(2006)
Consuming Fantasies: Labor, Leisure, and the London Shopgirl, 1880-1920
Columbus:
Ohio State University Press
Shields, Juliet
(2021)
Scottish Women's Writing in the Long Nineteenth Century: The Romance of Everyday Life
Cambridge:
Cambridge University Press
Shumway, David R.
(1999)
Romance in the Romance: Love and Marriage in Turn-of-the-Century Best Sellers
Journal of Narrative Theory
29.1:110-134
Lynch, Katherine E.
Sternglantz, Ruth E.
Barot, Len
(2012)
Queering the Romantic Heroine: Where Her Power Lies
Journal of Popular Romance Studies
3.1:
Stieg, Margaret F.
(1985)
Indian Romances: Tracts for the Times
Journal of Popular Culture
18.4:2-15
Struve, Laura
(2011)
Sisters of Sorts: Reading Romantic Fiction and the Bonds Among Female Readers
Journal of Popular Culture
44.6:1289-1306
Tennenhouse, Tracy Shana
(1996)
Female Fantasies in Women's Popular Fiction
PhD,
University of California, Santa Barbara
Teo, Hsu-Ming
(2012)
Desert Passions: Orientalism and Romance Novels
Austin, Texas:
University of Texas Press
Teo, Hsu-Ming
(2014)
“We have to learn to love imperially”: Love in Late Colonial and Federation Australian Romance Novels
Journal of Popular Romance Studies
4.2:
Topic
Teo, Hsu-Ming
(2020)
Cultural Authenticity, the Family, and East Asian American Romance Novels
Journal of Popular Romance Studies
9:
Topic
Violi, Patrizia
(2020)
Breve storia della letteratura rosa
Perugia:
Graphe.it Edizioni
Vivanco, Laura
(2020)
Let’s Not Get Carried Away by The Sheik
Journal of Popular Romance Studies
9:
Waller, Philip
(2006)
Writers, Readers, and Reputations: Literary Life in Britain 1870-1918
Oxford:
Oxford University Press
Wardrop, Stephanie
(1997)
Last of the Red Hot Mohicans: Miscegenation in the Popular American Romance
MELUS
22.2:61-74
Weaver-Zercher, Valerie
(2012)
Tracing the Backstory of Amish Romance Novels
Mennonite Quarterly Review
86.4:409-435
Weaver-Zercher, Valerie
(2013)
Thrill of the Chaste: the Allure of Amish Romance Novels
Baltimore:
The Johns Hopkins University Press
Topic
White, Ann Yvonne
(2008)
Genesis Press: Cultural Representation and the Production of African American Romance Novels
PhD,
University of Iowa
Wilt, Judith
(2014)
Women Writers and the Hero of Romance
Houndmills, Basingstoke:
Palgrave Macmillan
Wood, Christine V.
(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
Zibrak, Arielle
(2021)
Avidly Reads Guilty Pleasures
New York:
New York University Press