(1979)
The Ugly-Pretty, Dull-Bright, Weak-Strong Girl in the Gothic Mansion
Journal of Popular Culture
13.2:257-263
DOI: 10.1111/j.0022-3840.1979.1302_257.x
Older and/or precursor texts (may not be "romance" as now defined)
(1974)
The Purple Heart Throbs: The Sub-Literature of Love
London:
Hodder and Stoughton
Topic
(2012)
Queering the Romantic Heroine: Where Her Power Lies
Journal of Popular Romance Studies
3.1:
(2011)
Feminism and Sexuality in Ellen Wilkinson's Fiction
Parliamentary Affairs
64.2:248–262
DOI: 10.1093/pa/gsq060
(2009)
Lesbian Romance Novels: A History and Critical Analysis
Jefferson, North Carolina:
McFarland & Co
(2017)
Katherine V. Forrest: A Critical Appreciation
Jefferson, North Carolina:
McFarland & Co
(2015)
L'amour au temps du roman
Québec:
Télé-université Université du Québec
(2002)
Bestsellers: Popular Fiction Since 1900
Houndmills, Basingstoke:
Palgrave Macmillan
Topic
(2022)
Jeune fille moderne, jeune fille instruite. L’instruction des héroïnes sentimentales chez Police Journal (1944-1965)
Études françaises
58.1:55–75
DOI: 10.7202/1089741ar
(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
DOI: 10.1386/jepc.5.2.89_1
(2016)
Representing Difference in the Medieval and Modern Orientalist Romance
Houndmills, Basingstoke:
Palgrave Macmillan
(2022)
Beyond Outlander: Annie S. Swan and the Scottish popular romance novel
Scottish Literary Review
14.2:1-19
(2020)
Mills and Fur: Feminism and Femininity in the Supernatural Romance
PhD,
Western Sydney University
(1994)
And Then Their Hearts Stood Still: An Exuberant Look at Romantic Fiction Past and Present
London:
Macmillan
Topic
(2015)
L'amour au temps du roman
Québec:
Télé-université Université du Québec
(2008)
Poverty, Payment, Power: Kathleen Thompson Norris and Popular Romance
Studies in American Fiction
36.2:197-220
DOI: 10.1353/saf.2008.0002
(1978)
Romance: The Once and Future Queen
The Wilson Quarterly
2.3:102-109
(1974)
Heroines in Love 1750-1974
London:
Michael Joseph Ltd
(2019)
The Personal and the Political in American Working-Class Literature, 1850-1939: Defining the Radical Romance
Lanham, Maryland:
Lexington
(2015)
Blossoming Dahlia: Chinese Women Novelists in Colonial Indonesia
Southeast Asian Studies
4.3:533-564
(2019)
“The Hate that Changed”: Cycling Romance and the Aestheticization of Women Cyclists
Victorian Periodicals Review
52.3:489-517
DOI: 10.1353/vpr.2019.0032
(1977)
The Romances of Mary Roberts Rinehart: Some Problems in the Study of Popular Culture
Journal of Popular Culture
11.3:581-590
DOI: 10.1111/j.0022-3840.1977.00581.x
(1988)
Romance and the Erotics of Property: Mass-Market Fiction for Women
Durham and London:
Duke University Press
(1999)
Parlez-moi d’amour: Le roman sentimental. Des romans grecs aux collections de l’an 2000
Limoges:
PULIM (Presses universitaires de Limoges)
(2009)
La censure du roman sentimental en France ou le refoulement des mauvais genres
Belphégor
8.2:
(1981)
Installments of the Heart: Text Delimitation in Periodical Narrative and Its Consequences
Sub-Stance
10/11:56-65
DOI: 10.2307/3684531
(1999)
Armadilhas da sedução: os romances de M. Delly
Belo Horizonte:
Autêntica
(2011)
Le féminisme problématique d’un roman d’amour, Anne Mérival
Recherches féministes
24.1:61–76
DOI: 10.7202/1006077ar
(2007)
The Black Romance
Women's Studies Quarterly
35.1/2:191-211
(1984)
Words of Love: A Complete Guide to Romance Fiction
New York and London:
Garland Publishing
(2005)
Popular Romance Novels: Seeking out the 'Sisterhood'
MA thesis,
Brock University
(1979)
"True to Me Always": An Analysis of Women's Magazine Fiction
The British Journal of Sociology
30.1:91-119
DOI: 10.2307/589503
(1991)
The Alienated Reader: Women and Romantic Literature in the Twentieth Century
Hemel Hempstead:
Harvester Wheatsheaf
Topic
(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
DOI: 10.2307/1345818
(2004)
Romance
New York:
Routledge
(2011)
Belles, Beaux, and Paratexts: American Story Papers and the Project of Romance
Journal of Popular Romance Studies
2.1:
(2011)
La novela rosa
Madrid:
Consejo Superior de Investigaciones Científicas
(2022)
Inventing the It Girl: How Elinor Glyn Created the Modern Romance and Conquered Early Hollywood
:
Liveright Publishing Corporation
(1990)
Twentieth-Century Romance and Historical Writers (2nd edition)
Chicago:
St. James Press
Topic
(1992)
Sexuality in Lesbian Romance Fiction
Feminist Review
42.1:49-66
DOI: 10.1057/fr.1992.48
(1992)
Vergnügen oder Aufklärung? Sexualität in lesbischen Liebesromanen?
Das Argument - Zeitschrift für Philosophie und Sozialwissenschaften
193:389-402
(2022)
Romance and Revolution
Master of Arts,
Texas State University
(2010)
Middlebrow Literature and the Making of German-Jewish Identity
Stanford, California:
Stanford University Press
(1960)
Popular Culture and the Romantic Heroine
The American Scholar
30.1:98, 100, 102, 104, 106, 108, 110, 112, 114, 116 (10 pages)
(2006)
Romance and Readership in Twentieth-Century France: Love Stories
Oxford:
Oxford University Press
Topic
(2014)
Demon Lovers: Embracing the Monster in Paranormal Romance
:1-23
Topic
(1993)
The Historical Romance
London and New York:
Routledge
Topic
(2024)
The Forgotten Queer Utopia
Master’s thesis,
The Arctic University of Norway
(2012)
Women's Writing, Englishness and National and Cultural Identity: The Mobile Woman and the Migrant Voice, 1938-1962
Houndmills, Basingstoke:
Palgrave Macmillan
(1988)
Adventure and Virtue: Alternating Emphasis in the Popular Romance Tradition
Master of Arts,
University of Texas at Arlington
(2012)
From Victorian literature to the romance novel: Disability and the courtship plot
MA thesis,
University of Wyoming
(1994)
Reading from the Heart: Women, Literature, and the Search for True Love
New York:
Viking
(2006)
Tagalog bestsellers and the history of the book in the Philippines
PhD thesis,
School of Oriental and African Studies
(2010)
Educating Seeta: The Anglo-Indian Family Romance and the Poetics of Indirect Rule
Columbus:
Ohio State University Press
(2007)
Silver Forks, Stereotypes, and Regency Romance
Studies in the Humanities (Indiana)
34.2:142-163
(2019)
East Asian Transwar Popular Culture: Literature and Film from Taiwan and Korea
Singapore:
Palgrave Macmillan
(1990)
Twentieth-Century Romance and Historical Writers (2nd edition)
Chicago:
St. James Press
Topic
(2010)
Truth through the medium of cheerfulness: Romance novels as points of resistance
Master of Arts,
Kutztown University of Pennsylvania
(1992)
Dangerous Men and Adventurous Women: Romance Writers on the Appeal of the Romance
Philadelphia:
University of Pennsylvania Press
Topic
(2023)
Impossible Love in the Hiccup and the Lily of the Valley Novels and the Social Role of the Women
Cumhuriyet Üniversitesi Fen-Edebiyat Fakültesi Sosyal Bilimler Dergisi
47.1:109-120
(2019)
East Asian Transwar Popular Culture: Literature and Film from Taiwan and Korea
Singapore:
Palgrave Macmillan
(2022)
Parcours amoureux et économiques dans le roman sentimental publié par les éditions Édouard Garand
Études françaises
58.1:15–31
DOI: 10.7202/1089739ar
(2022)
L’amour comme un roman. Le roman sentimental au Québec d’hier à aujourd’hui
Montréal:
Presses de l’Université de Montréal
(2024)
Love Stories Now and Then: A History of Les romans d'amour
:
Baraka
Topic
(2006)
The Dangerous Lover: Gothic Villains, Byronism, and the Nineteenth-Century Seduction Narrative
Columbus:
Ohio State University Press
(2012)
Queering the Romantic Heroine: Where Her Power Lies
Journal of Popular Romance Studies
3.1:
(2000)
Bildungsroman y crítica de género: Novela rosa y narrativa de mujeres
Cuadernos de filología italiana
:529-546
(2007)
Pursuing the Great Bad Novelist
The Georgia Review
61.3:444-459
(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
(2018)
“Feelings Like the Women in Books”: Declarations of Love in Australian Romance Novels, 1859–1891
Emotions: History, Culture, Society
2.1:91-112
DOI: 10.1163/2208522X-02010005
(1998)
Pulp: Reading Popular Fiction
Manchester:
Manchester University Press
(1988)
Women and the Popular Imagination in the Twenties: Flappers and Nymphs
Houndmills, Basingstoke:
Macmillan
(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
(1992)
Religion and Sexuality in American Literature
Cambridge:
Cambridge University Press
(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
(1981)
Women’s Gothic and Romantic Fiction: A Reference Guide
Westport, Connecticut:
Greenwood Press
Topic
(1984)
Fantasy and Reconciliation: Contemporary Formulas of Women’s Romance Fiction
Westport, Connecticut:
Greenwood Press
Topic
(2023)
Newsprint Literature and Local Literary Creativity in West Africa, 1900s-1960s
Woodbridge, Suffolk:
James Currey (imprint of Boydell & Brewer)
(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
(2016)
Medieval heresy in Croatian historical romances: a case study of Marija Jurić Zagorka’s Plameni inkvizitori
Neohelicon
43.2:559–576
DOI: 10.1007/s11059-016-0346-9
(2018)
The Gothic Romance Wave: A Critical History of the Mass Market Novels, 1960-1993
Jefferson, North Carolina:
McFarland & Company
(2011)
“The Pink Ghetto”. The Avatars of Romantic Fiction
Brukenthalia. Romanian Cultural History Review. Supplement of Brukenthal. Acta Musei
1.1:92-102
(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
(2023)
Towards a Regime of Authenticity. Reading A Room with a View through the Lens of Contemporary Romance Scholarship
LEA - Lingue E Letterature D'Oriente E D'Occidente
12:217-228
DOI: 10.36253/lea-1824-484x-14273
(1999)
American Women Readers Encounter Turkey in the Shadow of Popular Romance
Journal of American Studies of Turkey
9:71-82
(2019)
Verde bianco e rosa. Il romanzo 'femminile' e l'educazione sentimentale delle italiane (1911-1946)
PhD,
Università degli Studi di Palermo
(1992)
Issues of Passion and Power in E. M. Hull's The Sheik
Women's Studies
21:119-128
DOI: 10.1080/00497878.1992.9978930
(1994)
Yesterday's Stories: Popular Women's Novels of the Twenties and Thirties
Westport, Connecticut:
Greenwood Press
Topic
(2018)
Domestic Culture in Woman's Weekly, 1918-1958
PhD,
University of Roehampton
(1982)
The Rescue And Romance: Popular Novels Before World War I
Bowling Green, Ohio:
Bowling Green State University Popular Press
(2003)
A Natural History of the Romance Novel
Philadelphia:
University of Pennsylvania Press
Topic
(2019)
Romance Novels and Higher Education
Inter-Text: An Undergraduate Journal for Social Sciences and Humanities
2.2:
(2021)
Semblanza de La Novela Rosa (Barcelona, 1924-1937, Madrid, 1939-1948)
Biblioteca Virtual Miguel de Cervantes - Portal Editores y Editoriales Iberoamericanos (siglos XIX-XXI) - EDI-RED
:
(2021)
The Romance Novel in English: A Survey in Rare Books, 1769-1999
:
Type Punch Matrix
Topic
(2015)
L'amour au temps du roman
Québec:
Télé-université Université du Québec
(2011)
Le féminisme problématique d’un roman d’amour, Anne Mérival
Recherches féministes
24.1:61–76
DOI: 10.7202/1006077ar
(1994)
El discurso femenino de la novela rosa en lengua inglesa la mujer como protagonista, autora y lectora del género
PhD,
Universidad de Sevilla
(2006)
Consuming Fantasies: Labor, Leisure, and the London Shopgirl, 1880-1920
Columbus:
Ohio State University Press
(2021)
Semblanza de La Novela Rosa (Barcelona, 1924-1937, Madrid, 1939-1948)
Biblioteca Virtual Miguel de Cervantes - Portal Editores y Editoriales Iberoamericanos (siglos XIX-XXI) - EDI-RED
:
(2021)
Scottish Women's Writing in the Long Nineteenth Century: The Romance of Everyday Life
Cambridge:
Cambridge University Press
(1999)
Romance in the Romance: Love and Marriage in Turn-of-the-Century Best Sellers
Journal of Narrative Theory
29.1:110-134
(2023)
Reading the Women’s Sentimental Novel: A Romance
Victorian Popular Fictions Journal
5.1:3-20
DOI: 10.46911/FLWG9098
(2012)
Queering the Romantic Heroine: Where Her Power Lies
Journal of Popular Romance Studies
3.1:
(1985)
Indian Romances: Tracts for the Times
Journal of Popular Culture
18.4:2-15
DOI: 10.1111/j.0022-3840.1985.00002.x
(2011)
Sisters of Sorts: Reading Romantic Fiction and the Bonds Among Female Readers
Journal of Popular Culture
44.6:1289-1306
DOI: 10.1111/j.1540-5931.2011.00901.x
(2024)
Riding The Tosh Horse: Ethel M. Dell, A Written Life
:
Brown Dog Books
(1996)
Female Fantasies in Women's Popular Fiction
PhD,
University of California, Santa Barbara
(2012)
Desert Passions: Orientalism and Romance Novels
Austin, Texas:
University of Texas Press
(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
(2016)
"The Romance Novel
"
Gender: Love
255-270
(2020)
Cultural Authenticity, the Family, and East Asian American Romance Novels
Journal of Popular Romance Studies
9:
DOI: 10.70138/RVXO4126
Topic
(2020)
Breve storia della letteratura rosa
Perugia:
Graphe.it Edizioni
(2020)
Faith, Love, Hope and Popular Romance Fiction
Online:
Topic
(2020)
Let’s Not Get Carried Away by The Sheik
Journal of Popular Romance Studies
9:
DOI: 10.70138/MSZX3922
(2013)
Bringing the Laboratory Dog Home: Elizabeth Stuart Phelps and the Antivivisection Narrative
Humanimalia
4.2:
DOI: 10.52537/humanimalia.9995
(2006)
Writers, Readers, and Reputations: Literary Life in Britain 1870-1918
Oxford:
Oxford University Press
(1997)
Last of the Red Hot Mohicans: Miscegenation in the Popular American Romance
MELUS
22.2:61-74
DOI: 10.2307/468135
(2022)
L’amour comme un roman. Le roman sentimental au Québec d’hier à aujourd’hui
Montréal:
Presses de l’Université de Montréal
(2024)
Love Stories Now and Then: A History of Les romans d'amour
:
Baraka
Topic
(2012)
Tracing the Backstory of Amish Romance Novels
Mennonite Quarterly Review
86.4:409-435
(2013)
Thrill of the Chaste: the Allure of Amish Romance Novels
Baltimore:
The Johns Hopkins University Press
Topic
(1992)
Love Makes the World Go Round (?): The Romantic Novel as a Publishing Phenomenon
Logos
3.2:62-68
DOI: 10.2959/logo.1992.3.2.62
(2014)
Women Writers and the Hero of Romance
Houndmills, Basingstoke:
Palgrave Macmillan
(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
(2023)
Hong Kong Literature and the Taiwanese Encounter: Literary Magazines, Popular Literature and Shih Shu-Ching’s Hong Kong Stories
Cultural History
12.2:224–250
DOI: 10.3366/cult.2023.0288
(2021)
Avidly Reads Guilty Pleasures
New York:
New York University Press