Ann Herendeen

Faust, Meredith S.

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

Topic

LGBTQ+ characters, readers and/or authors

(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

LGBTQ+ characters, readers and/or authors

wealth/prosperity

social/economic class

historical romance

Georgette Heyer

(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

LGBTQ+ characters, readers and/or authors

Georgette Heyer

Moody, Stephanie

(2010) "Women's Leadership in Romance Fiction Scholarship " Gender and Women's Leadership: A Reference Handbook 941-947 DOI:10.4135/9781412979344.n98

Topic

Samuel Richardson

Harlequin Mills & Boon

Georgette Heyer

Susan Elizabeth Phillips

Janet Evanovich

Jennifer Crusie

romance scholarship

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

Topic

genre definitions

Samuel Richardson

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

E. D. E. N. Southworth

religion/spirituality

Kathleen Thompson Norris

Claire Morgan/Patricia Highsmith

LGBTQ+ characters, readers and/or authors

Kathleen Woodiwiss

Jennifer Crusie

Beverly Jenkins

Nora Roberts/J. D. Robb

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

Topic

LGBTQ+ characters, readers and/or authors

religion/spirituality

trash/literary and or intellectual quality

Christian romance

metaphor/symbolism