gender

Ali, Kecia

(2017) Human in Death: Morality and Mortality in J. D. Robb's Novels Waco, Texas: Baylor University Press

Topic

police officers/police forces

Ali, Kecia

(2017) Troubleshooting Post-9/11 America: Religion, Racism, and Stereotypes in Suzanne Brockmann’s Into the Night and Gone Too Far Journal of Popular Romance Studies 6:

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Suzanne Brockmann

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

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Allan, Jonathan A.

(2011) Theorising Male Virginity in Popular Romance Novels Journal of Popular Romance Studies 2.1:

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(2016) The Purity of His Maleness: Masculinity in Popular Romance Novels The Journal of Men's Studies 24.1:24-41 DOI: 10.1177/1060826515624382

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Allan, Jonathan A.

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

Topic

(2020) Mourning and Sentimental Heroism in Maureen Child's Lost in Sensation The Journal of Popular Culture 53.5:1160-1178 DOI: 10.1111/jpcu.12956

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(2020) “And he absolutely fascinated me”: Masculinity and Virginity in Sherilee Gray’s Breaking Him Journal of Popular Romance Studies 9: DOI: 10.70138/EGUW2220

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

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Allan, Jonathan A.

(2022) "Healing Toxic Masculinity in Sweatpants Season by Danielle Allen " New Frontiers in Popular Romance: Essays on the Genre in the 21st Century 17-30

Topic

(2022) Men, Masculinities, and Infertilities Abingdon, Oxon: Routledge

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(2022) "One Sexy Daddy: Desirable Dad "Bods" and the Popular Romance Novel " Fashionable Masculinities: Queers, Pimp Daddies, and Lumbersexuals 83-95

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(2022) "Self-improvement as proof of love in The Bromance Book Club " The Routledge Companion to Romantic Love DOI:10.4324/9781003022343-13

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(2022) ‘Impossibly erotic things’: On men’s underwear in Brief Encounters by Suzanne Forster Critical Studies in Men's Fashion 9.2:207-222 DOI: 10.1386/csmf_00060_1

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(2022) "“A Most Unlikely Hero”: Disability, Masculinity, and Sexuality in Harlequin Superromance Novels " The Male Body in Representation: Returning to Matter 215-235 DOI:https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-88604-2_10

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Fay Robinson/Carmel Parsons Thomaston

(2024) “Condoms Break. Birth Control Fails.” Heroes in the Procreative Realm and Jessica Scott’s “Anything for You” Journal of Popular Romance Studies 13: DOI: 10.70138/AQLE2548

Topic

Allen, Amanda K.

(2012) Charm the Boys, Win the Girls: Power Struggles in Mary Stolz’s Cold War Adolescent Girl Romance Novels Journal of Popular Romance Studies 3.1:

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Mary Stolz

Allen, Amanda K.

(2016) “Dear Miss Daly”: 1940s Fan Letters to Maureen Daly and the Age-Grading and Gendering of Seventeenth Summer Children's Literature Association Quarterly 41.1:24-40 DOI: 10.1353/chq.2016.0001

Topic

Alonso Valero, Encarna

(2012) Corín Tellado y la novela rosa Ogigia: Revista electrónica de estudios hispánicos 12:33-44

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Amaya García, Marcela

(2011) Análisis discursivo de la construcción identitaria femenina y masculina en fotonovelas de Corín Tellado Sociedad & Equidad 2:103-122 DOI: 10.5354/rse.v0i2.15284

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fotonovela

(2010) A vida em cor de rosa: o romance sentimental e a ditadura militar no Brasil Famecos 17.2:41-48 DOI: 10.15448/1980-3729.2010.2.7541

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(2013) A pedagogia social dos romances de amor dos “tempos da vovó” Tensões Mundias 9.21:251-274

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Nascimento, Antonio Marcos Fonseca do

Freitas, Tatiane Lima de

(2015) As representações de masculinidades e feminilidades nos romances de banca de Diana Palmer nos anos de 1990 Linguagem em Foco 7.2:119-131

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Peinado Rodríguez, Matilde

Anta Félez, José Luis

(2013) Educar para el matrimonio en femenino: modelos y prácticas en la literatura de posguerra Athenea Digita 13.2:35-46 DOI: 10.5565/rev/athenead/v13n2.892

Topic

Ardis, Ann

(1996) E. M. Hull, Mass Market Romance and the New Woman Novel in the Early Twentieth Century Women's Writing 3.3:287-296 DOI: 10.1080/0969908960030307

Topic

Arimbi, Diah Ariani

(2017) "Women in Indonesian Popular Fiction: Romance, Beauty, and Identity Politics in Metropop Novels " Traditions Redirecting Contemporary Indonesian Cultural Productions 247-271

Topic

Arnold-Forster, Agnes

Moulds, Alison

(2018) Medical women in popular fiction The BMJ Opinion September 26, 2018:

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medical romance

Arnold-Forster, Agnes

(2021) Racing Pulses: Gender, Professionalism and Health Care in Medical Romance Fiction History Workshop Journal 91.1:157–181 DOI: 10.1093/hwj/dbab011

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medical romance

Hilda Pressley, pseudonym of Hilda Nickson

Elizabeth Gilzean

Alex Stuart

(2017) Postmillennial femininities in the popular romance novel Journal of Gender Studies 28.1:18-28 DOI: 10.1080/09589236.2017.1368370

Topic

Arvanitaki, Eirini

(2019) "Gender in Recent Romance Novels: A Third Wave Feminist Mills and Boon Love Affair? " Re/Presenting Gender and Love 159–170 DOI:10.1163/9781848883437_016

Topic

(2022) Masculinities in Post-Millennial Popular Romance New York: Routledge

Topic

Assiter, Alison

(1988) "Romance Fiction: Porn for Women? " Perspectives on Pornography: Sexuality in Film and Literature 101-109

Topic

Alice Ogando writing as Mary Love

(2014) Conflicting Images of Womanhood in the Novels of Alice Ogando Cincinnati Romance Review 38:245-259

Topic

Portugal

(1997) Sheik Fantasies: Orientalism and Feminine Desire in the Desert Romance Hecate 23.1:9-40

Topic

(2000) Looking for Reality in Romance Social Scientist 28.3/4:30-39

Topic

(2011) Rethinking Romanzo Rosa: The first person narrator and changing gender roles in Brunella Gasperini’s Rosso di sera Italian Studies in Southern Africa/Studi d'Italianistica nell'Africa Australe 24.1:103-126 DOI: 10.4314/ISSA.V24I1.66622

Topic

Baldys, Emily M.

(2012) Disabled Sexuality, Incorporated: The Compulsions of Popular Romance Journal of Literary & Cultural Disability Studies 6.2:125-141

Topic

Banzon-Mooney, Isabela

(1997) ‘Cinderella,’ ‘Snow White’ and Romance Fiction Journal of English Studies and Comparative Literature 2.1:4-18

Topic

(2019) What You Read and What You Believe: Genre Exposure and Beliefs About Relationships Psychology of Aesthetics, Creativity, and the Arts 13.4:450–461 DOI: 10.1037/aca0000189

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)

Barrett-Fox, Rebecca

(2007) "Hope, Faith and Toughness: An Analysis of the Christian Hero " Empowerment versus Oppression: Twenty-First Century Views of Popular Romance Novels 93-102

Topic

Barrett-Fox, Rebecca

(2016) "Christian Romance Novels: Inspiring Convention and Challenge " Romance Fiction and American Culture: Love as the Practice of Freedom? 347-368

Topic

(2021) "Inspirational Romance " The Routledge Research Companion to Popular Romance Fiction 191-211 DOI:10.4324/9781315613468-8

Topic

Janette Oke

Francine Rivers

(1987) Continuities and Reconstructions in Cross-cultural Literary Transmission: The Case of the Nigerian Romance Novel Poetics 16.3-4:327-351 DOI: 10.1016/0304-422X(87)90010-6

Topic

(1981) Pulp in the Pink Spare Rib 109:52-55

Topic

(1985) Rewriting English: Cultural Politics of Gender and Class London: Methuen

Topic

(2012) Working the Skies: Changing Representations of Gendered Work in the Airline Industry, 1930-2011 Tourism Management 33.5:1185-1194 DOI: 10.1016/j.tourman.2011.11.012

Topic

(1983) Harlequin: Quand l'amour est une guerre Etudes Littéraires 16.3:399-427 DOI: 10.7202/500623ar

Topic

(1986) La corrida de l'amour: Le Roman Harlequin Montréal: Université du Québec à Montréal

Topic

(2011) Feminism and Sexuality in Ellen Wilkinson's Fiction Parliamentary Affairs 64.2:248–262 DOI: 10.1093/pa/gsq060

Topic

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

Bell, Carole V.

(2022) "I'm Rooting for Everybody Black: Black Solidarity, Black World-Building, and Black Love " Black Love Matters: Real Talk on Romance, Being Seen, and Happily Ever After 29-64

Topic

(2014) A Masculine Romance: The Sentimental Bloke and Australian Culture in the War-and Early Interwar Years Journal of Popular Romance Studies 4.2:

Topic

(1998) Popular Fiction and the Feminine Masquerade European Journal of English Studies 2.3:343-358 DOI: 10.1080/13825579808574422

Topic

Shakespeare

Daphne du Maurier

Benito del Valle Eskauriaza, Amelia

(1996) La reproducción ideológica de la información y el rol social femenino en la novela rosa PhD, Universidad del País Vasco - Euskal Herriko Unibertsitatea

Topic

Moussaoui, Abdelghani

Benlamine, Abdellah

(2024) Gender, Identity, and the Politics of Difference in Popular Romance Arab World English Journal for Translation & Literary Studies 8.3:78-89 DOI: 10.24093/awejtls/vol8no3.7

Topic

(1999) Accounting for Tastes: Australian Everyday Cultures Cambridge: Cambridge University Press

Topic

(1983) Harlequin: Quand l'amour est une guerre Etudes Littéraires 16.3:399-427 DOI: 10.7202/500623ar

Topic

(1986) La corrida de l'amour: Le Roman Harlequin Montréal: Université du Québec à Montréal

Topic

(1996) Medieval romances in today's popular culture: The feminist in the castle The European Legacy 1.3:1146-1152 DOI: 10.1080/10848779608579542

Topic

(1998) Femmes de rêve au travail : les femmes et le travail dans les productions écrites de grande consommation, au Québec, de 1945 à aujourd'hui Québec: Les Éditions Nota bene

Topic

Bezerra, Antônio Ponciano

Sabino, Rosimeri Ferraz

(2020) Romance-folhetim em tela: linguagem, personagens e sentidos sociais DELTA: Documentação de Estudos em Lingüística Teórica e Aplicada 36.4: DOI: 10.1590/1678-460X2020360406

Topic

(2018) Romancing the 'Illegal' Immigrant Journal of Literature and Art Studies 8.10:1459-1474 DOI: 10.17265/2159-5836/2018.10.004

Topic

Serena Bell

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

Topic

(2019) What You Read and What You Believe: Genre Exposure and Beliefs About Relationships Psychology of Aesthetics, Creativity, and the Arts 13.4:450–461 DOI: 10.1037/aca0000189

Topic

(2003) "What "Race" is the Sheik?: Rereading a Desert Romance " Doubled Plots: Romance and History 67-85

Topic

(1998) Femmes de rêve au travail : les femmes et le travail dans les productions écrites de grande consommation, au Québec, de 1945 à aujourd'hui Québec: Les Éditions Nota bene

Topic

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

Suzanne Brockmann

Boisvert, Anik

(2009) Le roman historique sentimental: le cas des « J'ai lu » Maîtrise en études littéraires, L'Université du Québec à Trois-Rivières

Topic

(1997) Paradox in Popular Romances of the 1990s: The Paranormal versus Feminist Humor Para.doxa: Studies in World Literary Genres 3.1-2:94-106

Topic

rom-com romance

(2014) Twilight: The Glamorization of Abuse, Codependency, and White Privilege The Journal of Popular Culture 47.1:153-173 DOI: 10.1111/j.1540-5931.2011.00872.x

Topic

Bornschein, Anne N.

(2016) "When the Hero Puts on a Dress " The Official Essex Sisters Companion Guide

Topic

(1999) "Cavewoman Impulses: The Jungian Shadow Archetype in Popular Romantic Fiction " Romantic Conventions 62-74

Topic

(2007) Neo romance: gender renegotiation in Harlequin romance novels MA thesis, University of Northern Iowa

Topic

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

Topic

(1984) "A Career in Love: The Romantic World of Barbara Cartland " Popular Fiction and Social Change 127-156 DOI:10.1007/978-1-349-15856-0_6

Topic

(1994) 'A World of Caribbean Romance': Reformulating the Legend of Love (or: 'Can a Caress Be Culturally Specific?') Caribbean Studies 27.3/4:346–366

Topic

Caribbean

(1997) "Women & Modern African Popular Fiction " Readings in African Popular Culture 118-125

Topic

(2012) Desiring the east: a comparative study of Middle English romance and modern popular sheikh romance PhD, University of York

Topic

(2012) "Do Knights Still Rescue Damsels in Distress?: Reimagining the Medieval in the Mills & Boon Historical Romance " The Female Figure in Contemporary Historical Fiction 95-114

Topic

food, drink

(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

Topic

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

settings

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

(2016) Representing Difference in the Medieval and Modern Orientalist Romance Houndmills, Basingstoke: Palgrave Macmillan

Topic

(2016) "‘I Will Cut Myself and Smear Blood on the Sheet’: Testing Virginity in Medieval and Modern Orientalist Romance " Virgin Envy: The Cultural Insignificance of the Hymen 17-44

Topic

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

(2021) "Class and wealth in popular romance fiction " The Routledge Research Companion to Popular Romance Fiction 395-410 DOI:10.4324/9781315613468-18

Topic

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

(2024) A decolonised alpha hero? Negotiating masculinities in Nigerian romance novels Journal of Popular Romance Studies :FORTHCOMING

Topic

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

Topic

fairytales/folktales

Sarah Blakley-Cartwright

Maggie Stiefvater

Burley, Stephanie

(2000) Shadows and Silhouettes: The Racial Politics of Category Romance Para.doxa: Studies in World Literary Genres 5.13-14:324-343

Topic

Calhoun-French, Diane M.

(1999) "Time-Travel and Related Phenomena in Contemporary Popular Romance Fiction " Romantic Conventions 100-112

Topic

Constance O'Day Flannery

Jo Ann Simon

Heather Graham

Cameron, Lauren

(2020) The Romance Publishing Industry and Its Reputation Publishing Research Quarterly 36:1–16 DOI: 10.1007/s12109-019-09703-2

Topic

(1987) "Popular culture and the portrayal of women: Content and control " Analyzing Gender: A Handbook of Social Science Research 190-214

Topic

sociology

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

Capps, Stephanie Carol

(2017) What You Read and What You Believe: Genre Exposure and Beliefs about Relationships Master of Science, University of Oklahoma

Topic

(2008) Poverty, Payment, Power: Kathleen Thompson Norris and Popular Romance Studies in American Fiction 36.2:197-220 DOI: 10.1353/saf.2008.0002

Topic

Kathleen Thompson Norris

(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

(1990) "Making Rape Romantic: A Study of Rosemary Rogers' "Steve and Ginny" Novels " Women and Violence in Literature: An Essay Collection 299-325

Topic

(2000) "The Sheik: Instabilities of Race and Gender in Transatlantic Popular Culture of the Early 1920s " Noble Dreams, Wicked Pleasures: Orientalism in America, 1870-1930 99-117

Topic

Cella, Laurie J. C.

(2019) The Personal and the Political in American Working-Class Literature, 1850-1939: Defining the Radical Romance Lanham, Maryland: Lexington

Topic

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

Chakrabarti, Reema

Singh, Rajni

(2016) Gender Stereotypes and Feminist Strokes: Negotiating the Spaces in Mills and Boon The IUP Journal of English Studies 11.4:43-53

Topic

(2025) Silly Little Romance Books: Analyzing the Value and Function of the Popular Romance Genre Honours Dissertation, Seattle Pacific University

Topic

Ana Huang

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

Chandra, Elizabeth

(2015) Blossoming Dahlia: Chinese Women Novelists in Colonial Indonesia Southeast Asian Studies 4.3:533-564

Topic

Indonesia

(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

Chelton, Mary K.

(2015) Readers' Advisory: There Seem to be More SEALs in Romance Fiction than in the US Navy, and if so, Why Does it Matter? Reference & User Services Quarterly 55.1:21-24 DOI: 10.5860/rusq.55n1.21

Topic

(2014) The Warrior Woman in Contemporary Romance Fiction Masters, Federation University Australia

Topic

Justine Davis/Justine Dare

(2014) The warrior woman in Harlequin’s Bombshell Athena Force series Australasian Journal of Popular Culture 3.3:335-349 DOI: 10.1386/ajpc.3.3.335_1

Topic

(1995) "Wanted Men: Imaging the Hero in Popular Romantic Fiction " Perspectives on Women: Canada and India ??

Topic

Christian, Linda Kathryn

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

Topic

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

Topic

(1990) Becoming a Woman Through Romance London: Routledge

Topic

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

Topic

(1993) "Voices of Resistance: Young Women Readers of Romance Fiction " Beyond Silenced Voices: Class, Race, and Gender in United States Schools 169-189

Topic

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

Topic

Patthey-Chavez, G. Genevieve

Clare, Lindsay

Youmans, Madeleine

(1996) Watery Passion: The Struggle between Hegemony and Sexual Liberation in Erotic Fiction for Women Discourse and Society 7.1:77-106 DOI: 10.1177/0957926596007001004

Clasen, Tricia

(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

Topic

Clawson, Laura

(2005) Cowboys and Schoolteachers: Gender in Romance Novels, Secular and Christian Sociological Perspectives 48.4:461-479 DOI: 10.1525/sop.2005.48.4.461

Topic

sociology

Clement, Ella

(2025) What Women Actually Want: Professions, Prestige, and Desire in Bestselling Fiction PREPRINT - DETAILS NOT AVAILABLE PREPRINT - DETAILS NOT AVAILABLE: DOI: 10.31235/osf.io/qaks4_v1

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sociology

Clement, Jennifer

(2021) "Loving and giving: realism, emotional hypocrisy and generosity in A Civil Contract " Georgette Heyer, History, and Historical Fiction 88-104 DOI:10.2307/j.ctv15d818n.11

Topic

Coddington, Lynn

(1997) Wavering Between Worlds: Feminist Influences in the Romance Genre Para.doxa: Studies in World Literary Genres 3.1-2:58-77

Topic

Ruth Wind/Barbara Samuel/Barbara O'Neal

Barbara McMahon

(1988) Romance and the Erotics of Property: Mass-Market Fiction for Women Durham and London: Duke University Press

Topic

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

Colmenero, Laura E.

(1999) The social construction of gender as represented in popular fiction, 1990-1997 PhD, South Dakota State University

Topic

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

Topic

Gail Carriger

(2009) Images de la femme dans le roman sentimental Belphégor 8.2:

Topic

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

Delly

Georges Ohnet

Cook, Jon

(1988) "Fictional Fathers " Sweet Dreams: Sexuality, Gender and Popular Fiction 137-164

Topic

(2015) C’est une femme qui vous parle: à propos de quelques caractéristiques du discours rapporté dans les romans sentimentaux de la collection Harlequin en anglais Le discours et la langue 7.1:141-152

Topic

(1988) Romans d’amour Paris: Éditions Odile Jacob

Topic

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

Topic

Coward, Rosalind

(1984) Female Desire: Women’s Sexuality Today London: Paladin

Topic

(2010) Man Change Thyself: Hero Versus Heroine Development in Harlequin Romance Novels Journal of Social, Evolutionary, and Cultural Psychology 4.4:305-316

Topic

Crane, Lynda L.

(1994) Romance Novel Readers: in Search of Feminist Change? Women's Studies 23.3:257-269 DOI: 10.1080/00497878.1994.9979026

Topic

(2015) Stacy Holden’s ‘Love in the Desert’: An Author’s Response Journal of Popular Romance Studies 5.1:

Topic

Crawford, Mary

(1994) Rethinking the Romance: Teaching the Content and Function of Gender Stereotypes in the Psychology of Women Course Teaching of Psychology 21.3:151-153 DOI: 10.1177/009862839402100305

Topic

Crusie Smith, Jennifer

(1999) "This Is Not Your Mother's Cinderella: The Romance Novel as Feminist Fairy Tale " Romantic Conventions 51-61

Topic

Daly, Brenda O.

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

Topic

food, drink

Damian-Gaillard, Béatrice

(2011) Les romans sentimentaux des collections Harlequin: quelle(s) figure(s) de l’amoureux? Quel(s) modèle(s) de relation(s) amoureuse(s)? Questions de communication 20:317-336 DOI: 10.4000/questionsdecommunication.2130

Topic

Damian-Gaillard, Béatrice

(2012) "Prince charmant. Représentations des ressources et des coûts des masculinités dans les romans sentimentaux des collections Harlequin " Boys Don't Cry! Les coûts de la domination masculine 91-109 DOI:10.4000/books.pur.67095

Topic

Dandridge, Rita B.

(2003) "African American Women's Historical Romances: Race and Gender Revisited " The 2000-2003 Proceedings of the SW/Texas PCA/ACA Conference 42-56

Topic

(2003) "The Race, Gender, Romance Connection: A Black Feminist Reading of African American Women's Historical Romances " Doubled Plots: Romance and History 185-201

Topic

Dandridge, Rita B.

(2004) Black Women's Activism: Reading African American Women's Historical Romances New York: Peter Lang

Topic

Anita Richmond Bunkley

(2016) "Love Prevailed Despite What American History Said: Agape and Eros in Beverly Jenkins's Night Song and Through the Storm " Romance Fiction and American Culture: Love as the Practice of Freedom? 151-166

Topic

Darbyshire, Peter

(2002) The Politics of Love: Harlequin Romances and the Christian Right Journal of Popular Culture 35.4:75-87 DOI: 10.1111/j.0022-3840.2002.3504_75.x

Topic

(1985) Rewriting English: Cultural Politics of Gender and Class London: Methuen

Topic

(1986) Romances and the Modern Ms.: a Study of Contemporary (Line) Romances, 1980-1984 PhD, University of Southern California

Topic

(2015) Throbb[ing] with a consciousness of a knowledge that appalled her’: Embodiment and Female Subjectivity in the Desert Romance Women: A Cultural Review 26.1-2:75-95 DOI: 10.1080/09574042.2015.1035049

Topic

DeBlase, Gina

(2003) Acknowledging agency while accommodating romance: Girls negotiating meaning in literacy transactions Journal of Adolescent & Adult Literacy 46.8:624-635

Topic

Deffenbacher, Kristina

(2014) Rape Myths' Twilight and Women's Paranormal Revenge in Romantic and Urban Fantasy Fiction Journal of Popular Culture 47.5:923-936 DOI: 10.1111/jpcu.12179

Topic

(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

Reyes, Daisy Verduzco

Speer, Annika C.

Denes, Amanda

(2021) White Women and Latina Readers’ Ambivalence Toward Fifty Shades of Grey Sexuality & Culture 25:852–870 DOI: 10.1007/s12119-020-09797-3

Topic

Deosun, Ceri

(2025) "The Bible in Inspirational Fiction: The Case of Bathsheba " The Hebrew Bible in Contemporary Fiction and Poetry 348-363 DOI:10.4324/9781003280347-22

Topic

Saint-Jacques, Denis

(1998) Femmes de rêve au travail : les femmes et le travail dans les productions écrites de grande consommation, au Québec, de 1945 à aujourd'hui Québec: Les Éditions Nota bene

Topic

(1995) Discipline and passion: meaning, masochism and mythology in popular medical romances Nursing Inquiry 2.4:203-210 DOI: 10.1111/j.1440-1800.1995.tb00147.x

Topic

Diamond, Geneva

(2015) "Medievalism and the Courtship Plot in Julie Garwood's Popular Romance Novels " The Middle Ages in Popular Culture: Medievalism and Genre

Topic

Díez Borque, José María

(1972) Literatura y cultura de masas: Estudio de la novela subliteraria Madrid: Al-Borak

Topic

Dixon, jay

(1999) The Romance Fiction of Mills & Boon 1909-1990s London: UCL Press

Topic

Dixon, jay

(2020) The Depiction of Masculinity and Nationality in The Sheik Journal of Popular Romance Studies 9: DOI: 10.70138/SZDL2262

Topic

Soedibio, Sari M. R. D.

Djundjung, Jenny M.

(2013) The Hypermasculine and Ubersexual Men in the Harlequin Novels of the 1980s and 2000s Kata Kita 1.1:86-93

Topic

(2021) "Inspirational Romance " The Routledge Research Companion to Popular Romance Fiction 191-211 DOI:10.4324/9781315613468-8

Topic

Janette Oke

Francine Rivers

(1980) Soft-Porn Culture: Punishing the Liberated Woman The New Republic 183.9:25-29

Topic

(2005) Irony, Ideology, and Resistance: The Amazing Double Life of Harlequin Presents PhD, McMaster University

Topic

Doyle, Marsha Vanderford

(1985) The Rhetoric of Romance: A Fantasy Theme Analysis of Barbara Cartland Novels Southern Speech Communication Journal 51.1:24-48 DOI: 10.1080/10417948509372645

Topic

Driscoll, Catherine

(2006) "One True Pairing: The Romance of Pornography and the Pornography of Romance " Fan Fiction and Fan Communities in the Age of the Internet: New Essays 79–96

Topic

(1993) The Cinderella Complex: Romance Fiction, Patriarchy, and Capitalism Journal of Popular Culture 27.3:103-118 DOI: 10.1111/j.0022-3840.1993.00103.x

Topic

Dubrûle, Marie-Andrée

(1986) Le cas Harlequin : la mise à l’épreuve du sujet femme : une analyse des procédés narratifs et littéraires Québec: Groupe de recherche multidisciplinaire féministe, Université Laval

Topic

(1995) Discipline and passion: meaning, masochism and mythology in popular medical romances Nursing Inquiry 2.4:203-210 DOI: 10.1111/j.1440-1800.1995.tb00147.x

Topic

Duranti, Daniela

(2008) Le soglie del genere: identità femminile e modelli semiotici nel paratesto editoriale ,

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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

(2017) Hearthrobs: A History of Women and Desire Oxford: Oxford University Press

Topic

(1988) The Romance of Patriarchy: Ideology, Subjectivity, and Postmodern Feminist Cultural Theory Cultural Critique 10:19-57

Topic

(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

modernism

Bennett, Tony

Emmison, Michael

Frow, John

(1999) Accounting for Tastes: Australian Everyday Cultures Cambridge: Cambridge University Press

Topic

Engler, Sandra

(2005) "A Career's Wonderful, but Love is More Wonderful Still": Femininity and Masculinity in the Fiction of Mills & Boon Tübingen: Francke

Topic

English Studies Group, 1978–9, The

(1980) "Recent Developments in English Studies at the Centre " Culture, Media, Language: Working Papers in Cultural Studies, 1972-79 227-262 DOI:10.4324/9780203381182

Topic

Erekli, Arzu

(2006) Medeni ya da müslüman: popüler aşk romanlarında Feyza olmak Yayınlanmamış Yüksek Lisans Tezi, Bilkent University, Ankara

Topic

(1993) Beatrice Grimshaw and Australia - White Women in the Pacific Olive Pink Society Bulletin 5.1:34-39

Topic

Oceania

Faktorovich, Anna

(2015) Gender Bias in Mystery and Romance Novel Publishing: Mimicking Masculinity and Femininity Stone Mountain, GA: Anaphora Literary Press

Topic

Faust, Beatrice

(1980) Women, Sex and Pornography London: Melbourne House

Topic

Fekete, Maleah

(2022) Confluent Love and the Evolution of Ideal Intimacy: Romance Reading in 1980 and 2016 Journal of Popular Romance Studies 11: DOI: 10.70138/OCWW4702

Topic

(2009) "Addicted to Beauty": Consuming and Producing Web-based Chinese Danmei Fiction at Jinjiang Modern Chinese Literature and Culture 21.2:1-41

Topic

Feng, Jin

(2011) Men Conquer the World and Women Save Mankind: Rewriting Patriarchal Traditions through Web-based Matriarchal Romances Journal of Popular Romance Studies 1.2:

Topic

Fenske, Emma K.

(2022) Romancing the New Evangelical Woman Master of Arts, Baylor University

Topic

Fernández Rodríguez, Carolina

(2021) American Quaker Romances: Building the Myth of the White Christian Nation Valencia: Universitat de València

Topic

Fisher, Maryanne

Cox, Anthony

(2010) Man Change Thyself: Hero Versus Heroine Development in Harlequin Romance Novels Journal of Social, Evolutionary, and Cultural Psychology 4.4:305-316

Topic

Fletcher, Lisa

(2004) "“Mere Costumery”? Georgette Heyer’s Cross-Dressing Novels " Masquerades: Disguise in Literature in English from the Middle Ages to the Present 196-212

Topic

(2007) Critical Awareness: Romance Novels in English for the Asian Market. A Critical Study of Locally Published "Romance Novels" in English Asian Journal of Literature, Culture and Society 3.2:93-108

Topic

(2015) How Exposure to Literary Genres Relates to Attitudes Toward Gender Roles and Sexual Behavior Psychology of Aesthetics, Creativity, and the Arts 9.3:274–285 DOI: 10.1037/a0038864

Topic

(2007) "How Dare a Black Woman Make Love to a White Man! Black Women Romance Novelists and the Taboo of Interracial Desire " Empowerment versus Oppression: Twenty-First Century Views of Popular Romance Novels 103-128

Topic

(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

Fowler, Bridget

(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

Topic

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

(1991) The Alienated Reader: Women and Romantic Literature in the Twentieth Century Hemel Hempstead: Harvester Wheatsheaf

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 DOI: 10.2307/1345818

Topic

Ethel Carnie Holdsworth

Ellen Wilkinson

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

Fragero Guerra, Carmen

(2020) "Carmen de Icaza: la imagen de identidad femenina durante el primer franquismo (1936-1949) " Aproximaciones a la configuración de la identidad en la cultura y sociedad hispanas e italianas contemporáneas 61-87

Topic

Fralick, Kaitlyn

(2024) “Friend in Need”: Cultivating homosocial communities in Love Story Magazine's fiction and editorial departments The Journal of American Culture 47.3:199-206 DOI: 10.1111/jacc.13576

Topic

Franco, Jean

(1986) "Plotting Women: Popular Narratives for Women in the United States and in Latin America " Reinventing the Americas: Comparative Studies of Literature of the United States and Spanish America 249–268 DOI:10.1215/9780822385462-010

Topic

Anne Mather

Mexico

Franco, Jean

(1986) "The Incorporation of Women: A Comparison of North American and Mexican Popular Narrative " Studies in Entertainment: Critical Approaches to Mass Culture 119-138

Topic

(2002) ""Expressing" Herself: The Romance Novel and the Feminine Will to Power " Scorned Literature: Essays on the History and Criticism of Popular Mass-Produced Fiction in America 17-36

Topic

Frantz, Sarah S. G.

(2009) Darcy’s Vampiric Descendants: Austen’s Perfect Romance Hero and J. R. Ward’s Black Dagger Brotherhood Persuasions 30.1:

Topic

(2009) "I’ve tried my entire life to be a good man': Suzanne Brockmann’s Sam Starrett, Ideal Romance Hero " Women Constructing Men: Female Novelists and their Male Characters, 1750-2000 227-247

Topic

(2019) Les Thug Love : des romans sentimentaux à l'épreuve de la classe et de la race Genre en séries : cinéma, télévision, médias 9:15-37

Topic

France

(2013) Making Jamaican Love: Colin Channer's Waiting in Vain and Romance-ified Diaspora Identities Small Axe: A Caribbean Journal Of Criticism 17.3:63-84 DOI: 10.1215/07990537-2378919

Topic

(1995) "Shakespeare's Step-Sisters: Romance Novels and the Community of Women " Folklore, Literature, and Cultural Theory: Collected Essays 135-168

Topic

Nascimento, Antonio Marcos Fonseca do

Freitas, Tatiane Lima de

(2015) As representações de masculinidades e feminilidades nos romances de banca de Diana Palmer nos anos de 1990 Linguagem em Foco 7.2:119-131

Topic

Frenier, Mariam Darce

(1988) Good-bye Heathcliff: Changing Heroes, Heroines, Roles, and Values in Women’s Category Romances New York: Greenwood Press

Topic

(1999) Accounting for Tastes: Australian Everyday Cultures Cambridge: Cambridge University Press

Topic

(1986) La corrida de l'amour: Le Roman Harlequin Montréal: Université du Québec à Montréal

Topic

(2002) Who Is Afraid of Romance Novels?: Women Readers, Patriarchy and Popular Culture PhD thesis, Mother Teresa Women’s University

Topic

(2019) Les Thug Love : des romans sentimentaux à l'épreuve de la classe et de la race Genre en séries : cinéma, télévision, médias 9:15-37

Topic

France

(2006) "English Sheiks" and Arab Stereotypes: E. M. Hull, T. E. Lawrence, and the Imperial Masquerade Texas Studies in Literature and Language 48.2:171-186 DOI: 10.1353/tsl.2006.0007

Topic

(2012) "Ornamentalism: Desire, Disavowal, and Displacement in E. M. Hull's The Sheik " Must Read: Rediscovering American Bestsellers from Charlotte Temple to The Da Vinci Code 197-216

Topic

Garton, Stephen

(2008) 'Fit Only for the Scrap Heap': Rebuilding Returned Soldier Manhood in Australia After 1945 Gender & History 20.1:48-67 DOI: 10.1111/j.1468-0424.2007.00501.x

Topic

(2023) Return Fantasies: Martial Masculinity, Misogyny and Homosocial Bonding in the Aftermath of Second World War Gender & History ONLINE FIRST:ONLINE FIRST DOI: 10.1111/1468-0424.12742

Topic

Geib, Aleta Esther

(1986) Changing heroes: depictions of the male sex role in category romance novels, 1976-1983 MA thesis, Ohio State University

Topic

George, Laura J.

(2021) "Judith Taverner as dandy-in-training in Georgette Heyer’s Regency Buck " Georgette Heyer, History, and Historical Fiction 53-72 DOI:10.2307/j.ctv15d818n.9

Topic

(2017) "Mary Stewart’s Greek Novels: Hellenism, Orientalism and the Cultural Politics of Pulp Presentation " Greece in British Women’s Literary Imagination, 1913-2013 99-118

Topic

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

Topic

(1993) "Reading the Romance " Nation, Culture, Text: Australian Cultural and Media Studies 246-256 DOI:10.4324/9780203131992

Topic

Gill, Rosalind

Herdieckerhoff, Elena

(2006) Rewriting The Romance: New Femininities in Chick Lit? Feminist Media Studies 6.4:487-504 DOI: 10.1080/14680770600989947

Topic

(2007) Gender and the Media Cambridge: Polity

Topic

chick lit

Gillespie, Diane F.

(2004) Virginia Woolf and the Curious Case of Berta Ruck Woolf Studies Annual 10:109-138

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

Gillis, Stacy

(2018) "Manners, Money, and Marriage: Austen, Heyer, and the Literary Genealogy of the Regency Romance " After Austen: Reinventions, Rewritings, Revisitings 81-101 DOI:10.1007/978-3-319-95894-1_5

Topic

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

Golubov, Nattie

(2017) El amor en tiempos neoliberales: apuntes críticos sobre la novela rosa contemporánea Ciudad de México: Bonilla Artigas

Topic

(2022) "Women Policing Whiteness: Deviance and Surveillance in Contemporary Police Procedural Romance " New Frontiers in Popular Romance: Essays on the Genre in the 21st Century 167-186

Topic

(2023) Female Warriors, Social Injustice and the Transformational Force of Anger in Jaye Wells' Sabina Kane Series Esferas Literarias 6:21-37 DOI: 10.21071/elrl.vi6.16293

Topic

Gómez Calderón, María José

(2007) Romancing the Dark Ages: The Viking Hero in Sentimental Narrative Boletín Millares Carlo 26:287-297

Topic

(2010) "La dominación rosa: Corín Tellado y la construcción de la identidad de la pareja mexicana " Caleidoscopio hispánico: estudios lingüísticos y literarios 27-50

Topic

Mexico

González Cruz, María Isabel

(2016) "Discourse Types and Functions in Popular Romance Fiction Novels ("Work in Progress") " On the move: Glancing Backwards To Build a Future in English Studies 265-271

Topic

González Cruz, María Isabel

Vera-Cazorla, María Jesús

(2019) " Género e identidad cultural: perfiles femeninos en un corpus de novela rosa " La educación de las mujeres en Iberoamérica: análisis histórico 627-674

Topic

González de la Rosa, María del Pilar

(2022) "Female voices and feminist discourse in some Harlequin/Mills & Boon romances " Discursos e Identidades en la Ficción Romántica: Visiones Anglófonas de Madeira y Canarias / Discourses and Identities in Romance Fiction: Anglophone Visions from Madeira and the Canaries 297-312

Topic

González de la Rosa, María del Pilar

(2022) "Voces femeninas y discurso feminista en algunas novelas de Harlequin/Mills & Boon " Discursos e Identidades en la Ficción Romántica: Visiones Anglófonas de Madeira y Canarias / Discourses and Identities in Romance Fiction: Anglophone Visions from Madeira and the Canaries 109-125

Topic

González-Allende, Iker

(2005) La novela rosa de ambientación vasca e ideología franquista durante la Guerra Civil española Revista Internacional de Estudios Vascos 50.1:79-103

Topic

Goodwin, Sarah Webster

(1997) Romance and Change: Teaching the Romance to Undergraduates Para.doxa: Studies in World Literary Genres 3.1-2:233-241

Topic

(1995) Discipline and passion: meaning, masochism and mythology in popular medical romances Nursing Inquiry 2.4:203-210 DOI: 10.1111/j.1440-1800.1995.tb00147.x

Topic

Gordis, Lisa M.

(2016) ""Jesus loves your girl more than you do": Marriage as Triangle in Evangelical Romance and Puritan Narratives " Romance Fiction and American Culture: Love as the Practice of Freedom? 323-346

Topic

(2006) Fantasy, fiction, and feminism: a study of feminists reading romance Master of Arts, University of Saskatchewan

Topic

Jasmine Cresswell

Lois, Jennifer

Gregson, Joanna

(2015) Sneers and Leers: Romance Writers and Gendered Sexual Stigma Gender & Society 29.4:459-483 DOI: 10.1177/0891243215584603

Topic

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

Topic

Grinnell, Natalie

(2022) The Challenge to Dominance Theory in Patricia Briggs's and Carrie Vaughn's Paranormal Romance Novels Femspec 22.2:40-65

Topic

Patricia Briggs

Carrie Vaughn

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

Topic

Gail Carriger

(1987) Continuities and Reconstructions in Cross-cultural Literary Transmission: The Case of the Nigerian Romance Novel Poetics 16.3-4:327-351 DOI: 10.1016/0304-422X(87)90010-6

Topic

(2020) "Alcohol and Tobacco Consumption in English and French Novels Since the 1950s: A Corpus-Stylistic Analysis " Phraseology and Style in Subgenres of the Novel: A Synthesis of Corpus and Literary Perspectives 115-150 DOI:10.1007/978-3-030-23744-8_5

Topic

Güvendi Yalçın, Elif

(2018) The Transformation of Romance Novels Based on the Theories of Sociologist Anthony Giddens PhD, Istanbul Aydin University Institute of Social Sciences

Topic

Topic

Haefner, Margaret J.

(2009) Challenging the -isms: Gender and Race in Brockmann's Troubleshooters, Inc. Romance Novels Journal of Media Sociology 1.3/4:182-201

Topic

(1996) "Gendering Places: Georgette Heyer's Cultural Topography " Scotland to Slovenia: European Identities and Transcultural Communication. Proceedings of the Fourth International Scottish Studies Symposium 187-199

Topic

(2009) The Creators of Women’s Popular Romance Fiction: The Authors Who Gave Women a Genre of Their Own Lewiston: Edwin Mellen Press

Topic

Hall, Glinda Fountain

(2008) Inverting the Southern Belle: Romance Writers Redefine Gender Myths Journal of Popular Culture 41.1:37-55 DOI: 10.1111/j.1540-5931.2008.00491.x

Topic

(2000) Nursing the Image: Media, Culture and Professional Identity London and New York: Routledge

Topic

Hashim, Ruzy Suliza

Hamdan, Shahizah Ismail

(2010) Facets of Women in Malay Romance Fiction Kunapipi 32.1:67-79

Topic

(2013) Vindicating the Historical Romance Plaza: Dialogues in Language and Literature 3.2:140-156

Topic

(2022) Romance fiction as a bridge to understanding changing gender roles in society PhD in Creative Writing, University of Canberra

Topic

Rachel Lee/Sue Civil-Brown

Rosemary Carter

Darynda Jones

Daphne Clair

(2005) Margins of Desire: The Suburbs in Fiction and Culture, 1880-1925 Manchester: Manchester University Press

Topic

(2005) Romancing the reader: constructing a discursive and social female identity through romance novels Master of Arts, Tarleton State University

Topic

Hashim, Ruzy Suliza

Hamdan, Shahizah Ismail

(2010) Facets of Women in Malay Romance Fiction Kunapipi 32.1:67-79

Topic

(1980) Persecutors, Victims and Rescuers in Harlequin Romances Paper presented at the combined Annual Meeting of the Midwest Popular Culture Association and the Midwest American Culture Association (Kalamazoo, MI, October 23-25, 1980). :

Topic

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

Topic

Marie Bjelke Petersen

rural romance

settings

cross-dressing

Hayton, Christopher J.

Hayton, Sheila

(2012) "The Girls in White: Nurse Images in Early Cold War Era Romance and War Comics " Comic Books and the Cold War, 1946-1962: Essays on Graphic Treatment of Communism, the Code and Social Concerns 129-145

Topic

Hayton, Christopher J.

Topic

(2021) Black Pulp: Genre Fiction in the Shadow of Jim Crow Minneapolis: University of Minnesota Press

Topic

(1999) "Changing Ideologies in Romance Fiction " Romantic Conventions 149-172

Topic

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

settings

Gill, Rosalind

Herdieckerhoff, Elena

(2006) Rewriting The Romance: New Femininities in Chick Lit? Feminist Media Studies 6.4:487-504 DOI: 10.1080/14680770600989947

Topic

(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

(2013) "'Det ska bli en ära att få tillfredsställa dig!' Ideal manlighet i Harlequinromanen " Kvinnorna gör mannen: maskulinitetskonstruktioner i kvinnors text och bild 1500-2000 27-51

Topic

Hirdman, Anja

(2016) Speaking through the flesh: Affective encounters, gazes and desire in Harlequin romances MedieKultur: Journal of media and communication research 32.61:42-57 DOI: 10.7146/mediekultur.v32i61.22382

Topic

Hirst, Holly

(2020) "The Gothic Romance " The Palgrave Handbook of Contemporary Gothic 357-372 DOI:10.1007/978-3-030-33136-8_22

Topic

Phyllis A. Whitney

Catherine Cookson

Christine Marion Fraser

Holmes, Diana

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

Hopkins, Lisa

(2018) "Waltzing with Wellington, Biting with Byron: Heroes in Austen Tribute Texts " Jane Austen and Masculinity 173-189

Topic

(2023) From Rape to Romance: Sexual Consent Negotiation in Romantic Retellings of the Myth of Persephone MA Degree Secondary Teacher Programme, University of Oslo

Topic

myth

(1997) Le roman d’amour et sa lectrice: une si longue passion: l’exemple Harlequin Paris: L’Harmattan

Topic

(1983) "The Changing-Unchanging Heroines and Heroes of Harlequin Romances, 1950-1979 " The Hero in Transition 171-179

Topic

Lilian Warren as Kathryn Blair/Rosalind Brett/Celine Conway

(1985) Relationship Styles in Popular Romance Novels, 1950-1983 Communication Quarterly 33.2:113-125 DOI: 10.1080/01463378509369587

Topic

Lilian Warren as Kathryn Blair/Rosalind Brett/Celine Conway

Hubbard, Rita C.

(1992) "Magic and Transformation: Relationships in Popular Romance Novels, 1950 to the 1980s " Popular Culture: An Introductory Text 476-488

Topic

Hubbard, Rita Cooper

(1981) Relationship Styles In Popular Romance Fiction: A Fantasy Theme Analysis Of Harlequin Romances, 1950-1979 PhD, Temple University

Topic

Hughes, Bill

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

Topic

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

(1993) The Historical Romance London and New York: Routledge

Topic

Sir Arthur Conan Doyle

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

Mira Stables

Rowena Tenet

Huguley, Piper

(2022) "In Search of the Black Historical Hottie: The Sad Situation of the Black Hero in Historical Romance " Black Love Matters: Real Talk on Romance, Being Seen, and Happily Ever After 159-170

Topic

(2022) Do We Judge Fiction by the Author’s Gender? Journal of Media Psychology 34.5:299–312 DOI: 10.1027/1864-1105/a000319

Topic

Willinsky, John

Hunniford, R. Mark

(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

Topic

Canada

Hurley, Frances K.

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

Topic

Hutter, Verena

(2023) " Fire, Savannah, and Passion: The New Africa Novel and the Construction of White Femininity " Gender and German Colonialism: Intimacies, Accountabilities, Intersections DOI:10.4324/9781003378990-12

Topic

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

Topic

Irene Clyde

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

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

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

Topic

(2019) Judging a Book by Its Author's Gender Master of Arts, York University

Topic

Ivanski, Chantelle

Humphries, Stacey

(2022) Do We Judge Fiction by the Author’s Gender? Journal of Media Psychology 34.5:299–312 DOI: 10.1027/1864-1105/a000319

Topic

(2022) "Empirical Approaches to Studying Emotion in Literature: The Case of Gender " The Routledge Companion to Literature and Emotion DOI:10.4324/9780367809843-8

Topic

(2015) Wartime Ideology in 'The Thimble': A Comparative Study of Popular Wartime Romance and the Anti-romance of D. H. Lawrence Études Lawrenciennes 46: DOI: 10.4000/lawrence.236

Topic

(2021) Counterpublics of care: making space for mediated intimacy and romantic self-making in Malaysia Gender, Place & Culture : DOI: 10.1080/0966369X.2021.1994928

Topic

(2021) Reading the Digital Muslim Romance CyberOrient 15.1:146-171

Topic

Muslim romance

Malaysia

Islam

Izharuddin, Alicia

(2021) “Redha tu Ikhlas”: The Social–Textual Significance of Islamic Virtue in Malay Forced Marriage Narratives Religions 12.5 (310): DOI: 10.3390/rel12050310

Topic

Muslim romance

Jagodzinski, Mallory

(2010) Of Bustles and Breeches: Cross-dressing Romance Novel Heroines and the Performance of Gender Ideology Master of Arts, Bowling Green State University

Topic

(2015) Love is (Color) Blind: Historical Romance Fiction and Interracial Relationships in the Twenty-First Century PhD, Bowling Green State University

Topic

Jan, Jariah Mohd

Ujum, Diana Abu

(2022) "Negotiating Conflicts amongst Muslim Female Characters in Malay Romance Novels: A Narratological Perspective " Muslim Women’s Writing from across South and Southeast Asia DOI:10.4324/9781003248064-22

Topic

(2010) “The Sheik Who Loved Me”: Romancing the War on Terror Signs: Journal of Women in Culture and Society 35.4:993-1017 DOI: 10.1086/651044

Topic

(2015) An Imperialist Love Story: Desert Romances and the War on Terror New York: New York University Press

Topic

Jarmakani, Amira

(2021) "Explorations of the "desert passion industry" " The Routledge Research Companion to Popular Romance Fiction 252-266 DOI:10.4324/9781315613468-11

Topic

Jarvis, Christine

(1999) Love Changes Everything: The Transformative Potential of Popular Romantic Fiction Studies in the Education of Adults 31.2:109-123 DOI: 10.1080/02660830.1999.11661406

Topic

(2006) Using Fiction for Transformation New Directions for Adult and Continuing Education 109:69-77 DOI: 10.1002/ace.209

Topic

(2003) Desirable Reading: The Relationship between Women Students' Lives and their Reading Practices Adult Education Quarterly 53.4:261-276 DOI: 10.1177/0741713603254029

Topic

(1984) Love's $weet Return: The Harlequin Story Toronto: The Women's Educational Press

Johnson, Naomi R.

(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

Topic

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

Topic

Johnson-Kurek, Rosemary E.

(1999) "Leading Us into Temptation: The Language of Sex and the Power of Love " Romantic Conventions 113-148

Topic

(2019) Madness, Monks and Mutiny: Neo-Victorianism in the Work of Victoria Holt Neo-Victorian Studies 12.1:1-27 DOI: 10.5281/zenodo.3470919

Topic

Mary Elizabeth Braddon

Jones, Ann Rosalind

(1986) "Mills & Boon meets feminism " The Progress of Romance: The Politics of Popular Fiction 195-218

Topic

Joyal, Amanda

(2012) From Victorian literature to the romance novel: Disability and the courtship plot MA thesis, University of Wyoming

Topic

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

(1988) Texts to Grow On: Reading Women’s Romance Fiction Tulsa Studies in Women’s Literature 7.2:239-259 DOI: 10.2307/463681

Topic

(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

(2000) Dysfunctional Detectives and Romantic P.I.s: Impediments to the Happy Marriage of Mystery and Romance Clues: A Journal of Detection 21.1:61-72

Topic

Kamble, Jayashree

(2007) "Female Enfranchisement and the Popular Romance: Employing an Indian Perspective " Empowerment versus Oppression: Twenty-First Century Views of Popular Romance Novels 148-173

Topic

(2014) Making Meaning in Popular Romance Fiction: An Epistemology New York: Palgrave Macmillan

Kamblé, Jayashree

(2020) When Wuxia Met Romance: The Pleasures and Politics of Transculturalism in Sherry Thomas’s My Beautiful Enemy Journal of Popular Romance Studies 9: DOI: 10.70138/AWFD7941

Topic

(2024) French Interwar Popular Romance and Ideals of Femininity: A Literary and Historical Study of Magali Master of Arts, University of Nebraska

Topic

France

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

Magali, pen name of Jeanne Philbert

fairytales/folktales

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

Kaplan, Deborah

(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

fanfiction

Suzanne Brockmann

Kebadze, Nino

(2007) Fictions of Surrender: Romance and Exemplarity in Post-War Spanish Women's Narratives PhD, University of Kentucky

Topic

Luisa-María Linares

Kebadze, Nino

(2009) Romance and Exemplarity in Post-War Spanish Women's Narratives Woodbridge, Suffolk: Tamesis

Topic

Luisa-María Linares

María Mercedes Ortoll

Keegan, Faye

(2017) ‘Snob Value’: Gender and Literary Value in Mary Stewart Women: A Cultural Review 28.3:240-261 DOI: 10.1080/09574042.2017.1355679

Topic

Mary Stewart

Keran, Molly

(2024) The Genre of Rape: Women’s Popular Literature and Contemporary Representations of Sexual Violence PhD, University of Michigan

Topic

Khuankaew, Sasinee

(2015) Femininity and masculinity in three selected twentieth-century Thai romance fictions PhD, Cardiff University

Topic

Khuankaew, Sasinee

(2017) Femininity and Masculinity in Twenty-First Century Thai Romantic Fictions The Asian Conference on Literature 2017: Official Conference Proceedings :

Topic

(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

King, Laura

(2015) "The Perfect Man: Fatherhood, Masculinity and Romance in Popular Culture in Mid-Twentieth-Century Britain " Love and Romance in Britain, 1918-1970 41–60 DOI:10.1057/9781137328632_3

Topic

(1992) "The Androgynous Reader: Point of View in the Romance " Dangerous Men and Adventurous Women: Romance Writers on the Appeal of the Romance 31-44

Topic

(2018) Veterans and Military Masculinity in Popular Romance Fiction Critical Military Studies 4.1:34-51 DOI: 10.1080/23337486.2016.1235761

Topic

(2012) Multiculturalism, Sex, and Powerful Women: The New Romance Novel as the Voice of Neofeminism? MA thesis, Dartmouth College

Topic

Kluger, Johanna

(2024) ""On Thursdays We Shoot": Guns and Gender Binaries in Regency Romance Novels " Ladies in Arms: Women, Guns, and Feminisms in Contemporary Popular Culture 163-179

Topic

(2024) Post-Trump masculinity in popular romance novels Neohelicon 51:163–184 DOI: 10.1007/s11059-024-00731-2

Topic

Adamenko, Olga

Klymenko, Olga

(2020) Communicative Behavior via Gender Identity (Based on the English language “Love Stories”) Psycholinguistics 27.2:44-70 DOI: 10.31470/2309-1797-2020-27-2-44-70

Topic

Kohlman, Marla H.

Simpson, Samantha N.

(2017) "For the Sake of Hearth and Home: Gender Schematicity in the Romance Novel " Discourses on Gender and Sexual Inequality: The Legacy of Sandra L. Bem 115-128 DOI:10.1108/S1529-212620170000023006

Topic

Kollman, Kathleen W. Taylor

(2018) Contemporary Paranormal Romance: Theories and Development of the Genre’s Feminism (Or Lack Thereof) Researching the Romance, conference held at Bowling Green State University, on 14 April :

Topic

Koolen, Corina

(2020) Literary quality in the eye of the Dutch reader: The National Reader Survey Poetics 79:--- DOI: 10.1016/j.poetic.2020.101439

Topic

(2001) Family Myths in Romantic Fiction Psychological Reports 88.1:29-41 DOI: 10.2466/pr0.2001.88.1.29

Topic

(2001) Gender Roles, Romantic Fiction and Family Therapy Psycoloquy 12.24:

Topic

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

Topic

(2011) Raising Veils and other Bold Acts: The Heroine's Agency in Female Gothic Novels Studies in Gothic Fiction 1.2:23-36

Topic

Elizabeth Lowell

(2012) Getting Laid, Getting Old, and Getting Fed: The Cultural Resistance of Jennifer Crusie’s Romance Heroines Journal of Popular Romance Studies 2.2:

Topic

(1992) Dangerous Men and Adventurous Women: Romance Writers on the Appeal of the Romance Philadelphia: University of Pennsylvania Press

Topic

Laura Kinsale

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

Daphne Clair

Suzanne Simmons Guntrum

Kathleen Gilles Seidel

Kustritz, Anne

(2003) Slashing the Romance Narrative The Journal of American Culture 26.3:371-384 DOI: 10.1111/1542-734X.00098

Topic

(2005) Compelling Engagements: Feminism, Rape Law and Romance Fiction Sydney: The Federation Press

Topic

(2019) How the Story Ends: Gender, Sexuality, and Nation in the Happy Ending Writing from Below 4.2:

Topic

happy ending

Sonali Dev

Radclyffe/Len Barot

Leavenworth, Maria Lindgren

(2009) Lover Revamped: Sexualities and Romance in the Black Dagger Brotherhood and Slash Fan Fiction Extrapolation: A Journal of Science Fiction and Fantasy 50.3:442-462 DOI: 10.3828/extr.2009.50.3.5

Topic

fanfiction

J. R. Ward

Lennard, John

(2007) Of Modern Dragons and other essays on Genre Fiction Tirril, Penrith: Humanities-Ebooks

Topic

Light, Alison

(1994) "Preface (to the third edition) " Twentieth-Century Romance and Historical Writers (3rd edition) xi-xvi

Topic

Litton, Joyce A.

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

Topic

Litton, Joyce A.

(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

Topic

(2015) Sneers and Leers: Romance Writers and Gendered Sexual Stigma Gender & Society 29.4:459-483 DOI: 10.1177/0891243215584603

Topic

(2022) Individuation and the Romance Novel PhD thesis, Pacifica Graduate Institute

Topic

López-Maestre, María D.

(2015) 'Man the hunter': A critical reading of hunt-based conceptual metaphors of love and sexual desire Journal of Literary Semantics 44.2:89-113 DOI: 10.1515/jls-2015-0009

Topic

Lozano Sampedro, Mª Teresa

(2018) Pour une typologie de la marginalité dans les romans de Delly: la fonction de la femme L'Ull crític 21-22:137-152 DOI: 10.21001/luc.21.22.09

Topic

Delly

Lozano Sampedro, Mª Teresa

(2020) " Las clases sociales y el poder económico en la obra de Delly: la mujer y su triunfo sobre la opresión " Voces e identidades exocanónicas (1880-1920): recuperando (auto) narrativas femeninas de los márgenes 137-153

Topic

Delly

Lugan-Dardigna, Anne-Marie

(1984) "Presse du cœur et roman rose: la quête de l'amour vrai ou comment se trouver un maître " Le récit amoureux: Colloque de Cerisy-la-Salle 284-296

Topic

Luther, Amy Victoria

(2010) Men reading fiction: A study of the relationship between reader, (con)text, consumption and gender identity. PhD, Cardiff University

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)

Maddox, Lucy

(2011) Beyond Trembling Manhood and Heaving Bosoms Gender and Sexuality in the Historical Romance Novel Bachelors, New College of Florida

Topic

Mäkelä, Veera

(2020) ""World Turned Upside Down": The Role of Revolutions in Maya Rodale's Regency-Set Romances " Love Across the Atlantic: US-UK Romance in Popular Culture 38-52

Topic

Maya Rodale

(2021) Reading Response in Mary Balogh: A Critical Engagement Journal of Popular Romance Studies 10: DOI: 10.70138/OMMB6082

Topic

(2001) Feminist Popular Fiction Houndmills, Basingstoke: Palgrave

Topic

Malinowska, Anna

(2017) Paternal Structures of the Romance Romanica Silesiana 12:40-52

Topic

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

Topic

Manzano Badía, Benjamín

(2000) "Carmen de Icaza, una apología pequeño-burguesa y conservadora de la familia " Mujeres novelistas en el panorama literario del siglo XX: I Congreso de narrativa española (en lengua castellana). 107-121

Topic

(2015) How Exposure to Literary Genres Relates to Attitudes Toward Gender Roles and Sexual Behavior Psychology of Aesthetics, Creativity, and the Arts 9.3:274–285 DOI: 10.1037/a0038864

Topic

(2022) Do We Judge Fiction by the Author’s Gender? Journal of Media Psychology 34.5:299–312 DOI: 10.1027/1864-1105/a000319

Topic

(2022) "Empirical Approaches to Studying Emotion in Literature: The Case of Gender " The Routledge Companion to Literature and Emotion DOI:10.4324/9780367809843-8

Topic

(1982) Mills & Boon: guilt without sex Red Letters 14:5-13

Topic

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

Topic

Holly Black

Martin, Darcy

(2003) "'Womanhood Reinvented: Eve Dallas, Protagonist in J. D. Robb's "In Death" Series " The 2000-2003 Proceedings of the SW/Texas PCA/ACA Conference 1989-2019

Topic

community

Martin, Michèle

(1991) Communication et médias de masse : culture, domination et opposition Québec: Presses de l'Université du Québec

Topic

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

Martínez Garrido, Elisa

(2000) Bildungsroman y crítica de género: Novela rosa y narrativa de mujeres Cuadernos de filología italiana :529-546

Topic

Italy

(2022) "Empirical Approaches to Studying Emotion in Literature: The Case of Gender " The Routledge Companion to Literature and Emotion DOI:10.4324/9780367809843-8

Topic

(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

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

Claire Morgan/Patricia Highsmith

(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

(1994) The series romance: the changing representation of gender relationships within a popular genre Master of Arts (Hons.), University of Wollongong

Topic

(1999) Passion's Fortune: The Story of Mills & Boon Oxford: Oxford University Press

Topic

Mary Burchell, pen name of Ida Cook

Betty Beaty

Elizabeth Carfrae

Fay Chandos/Jan Tempest

Sophie Cole

Lilian Warren as Kathryn Blair/Rosalind Brett/Celine Conway

Iris Danbury

Joyce Dingwell/Kate Starr

Roberta Leigh/Rachel Lindsay

Jean S. MacLeod/Catherine Airlie

Mary Lutyens/Esther Wyndham

Kate Norway/Olive Norton

Denise Robins

Sara Seale

Juliet Shore/Anne Vinton

Ireland

McAlister, Jodi

(2014) ‘That complete fusion of spirit as well as body’: Heroines, heroes, desire and compulsory demisexuality in the Harlequin Mills & Boon romance novel Australasian Journal of Popular Culture 3.3:299-310 DOI: 10.1386/ajpc.3.3.299_1

Topic

(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

McAlister, Jodi

(2017) "Love in Australian Romance Novels " The Popular Culture of Romantic Love in Australia 194-222

Topic

(2022) "Love and listening: the erotics of talk in the popular romance novel " The Routledge Companion to Romantic Love DOI:10.4324/9781003022343-9

Topic

(2015) Romancing the Virgin: Female Virginity Loss and Love in Popular Literature in the West PhD, Macquarie University

Topic

McCafferty, Kate

(1994) Palimpsest of Desire: The Re-Emergence of the American Captivity Narrative as Pulp Romance Journal of Popular Culture 27.4:43-56 DOI: 10.1111/j.0022-3840.1994.2704_43.x

Topic

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

(2021) "Sex and sexuality " The Routledge Research Companion to Popular Romance Fiction 411-427 DOI:10.4324/9781315613468-19

Topic

(1998) Pulp: Reading Popular Fiction Manchester: Manchester University Press

Topic

McKinley, Tracey Lynn

(2007) The Female Quest: An Analysis of Archetypal Layering in Harlequin Presents Master of Education, Queen's University

Topic

Medrano-González, Claudia

McNamara, Sallie

(2000) "Georgette Heyer: The Historical Romance and the Consumption of the Erotic, 1918-1939 " All the World and Her Husband: Women in Twentieth-Century Consumer Culture 82-96

Topic

(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

Topic

Meirelles, Simone Regina Ferreira

(2002) Das bancas ao coraçao: romances sentimentais e leitura hoje Mestre em Letras, Universidade Federal do Paraná

Topic

(1988) Women and the Popular Imagination in the Twenties: Flappers and Nymphs Houndmills, Basingstoke: Macmillan

Topic

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

community

Mitchell, Diana

(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

Topic

Modleski, Tania

(1980) The Disappearing Act: A Study of Harlequin Romances Signs: Journal of Women in Culture and Society 5.3:435-448 DOI: 10.1086/493729

Topic

(1982) Loving with a Vengeance: Mass‐Produced Fantasies for Women Hamden, Connecticut: Archon

Topic

Modleski, Tania

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

Topic

Brenda Joyce

Modleski, Tania

(1998) My Life as a Romance Writer Para.doxa: Studies in World Literary Genres 4.9:134-144

Topic

Jennifer Crusie

Linda Howard

Montague, Holly W.

(1994) "From Interlude in Arcady to Daphnis and Chloe: Two Thousand Years of Erotic Fantasy " The Search for the Ancient Novel 391-401

Topic

(1998) "Mills & Boon’s Temptations: Sex and the Single Couple in the 1990s " Fatal Attractions: Rescripting Romance in Contemporary Literature and Film 141-156

Topic

(2016) Identification, Affect, and Escape: Theorizing Popular Romance Reading Pedagogy 16.1:105-123 DOI: 10.1215/15314200-3158669

Topic

Moody-Freeman, Julie E.

(2016) "Scripting Black Love in the 1990s: Pleasure, Respectability, and Responsibility in an Era of HIV/AIDS " Romance Fiction and American Culture: Love as the Practice of Freedom? 111-127

Topic

Brenda Jackson

Gwyneth Bolton/Gwendolyn Pough

Moody-Freeman, Julie E.

(2022) Romance, Hip-Hop Feminism, and Black Love: From Theory to Praxis Journal of Popular Romance Studies 11: DOI: 10.70138/MCKL2088

Topic

Moore, Maureen

(1973) Romantic love, ecstasy, and deprivation Master of Arts, The University of British Columbia

Topic

Kramer, Daniela

Moore, Michael

(2001) Family Myths in Romantic Fiction Psychological Reports 88.1:29-41 DOI: 10.2466/pr0.2001.88.1.29

Topic

(2001) Gender Roles, Romantic Fiction and Family Therapy Psycoloquy 12.24:

Topic

Moss, Gemma

(1989) Un/Popular Fictions London: Virago

Topic

(2002) Pas de romance sans finance: la construction du couple moderne dans les romans sentimentaux de l'Afrique de l'Ouest Sites: The Journal of Twentieth-Century/Contemporary French Studies revue d'études français 6.1:67-78 DOI: 10.1080/10260210290021789

Topic

Arnold-Forster, Agnes

Moulds, Alison

(2018) Medical women in popular fiction The BMJ Opinion September 26, 2018:

Topic

medical romance

Moussaoui, Abdelghani

(2024) Gender as a ‘Discursive Practice’ in Romance Discourse International Journal of Language and Literary Studies 6.2:654–665 DOI: 10.36892/ijlls.v6i2.1745

Topic

Moussaoui, Abdelghani

Benlamine, Abdellah

(2024) Gender, Identity, and the Politics of Difference in Popular Romance Arab World English Journal for Translation & Literary Studies 8.3:78-89 DOI: 10.24093/awejtls/vol8no3.7

Topic

(1995) Discipline and passion: meaning, masochism and mythology in popular medical romances Nursing Inquiry 2.4:203-210 DOI: 10.1111/j.1440-1800.1995.tb00147.x

Topic

Muhomah, Catherine

(2002) What do women want?: Versions of masculinity in Kenyan romantic fiction English Studies in Africa 45.2:77-90

Topic

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

Topic

Fong, Katrina

Mullin, Justin B.

(2015) How Exposure to Literary Genres Relates to Attitudes Toward Gender Roles and Sexual Behavior Psychology of Aesthetics, Creativity, and the Arts 9.3:274–285 DOI: 10.1037/a0038864

Topic

(2025) “You’re a total dick sometimes, but it’s a tolerable kind of dickishness”: Hegemonic masculinity and sports romances TEXT 29, Special Issue 75: DOI: 10.52086/001c.142612

Topic

sport

Mulvey, Alexandra Hazel

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

Topic

sport

(2021) "In Grey and Pink: The Image of the Bride through the Spanish Postwar Novela Rosa " The Bride in the Cultural Imagination: Screen, Stage, and Literary Productions 17-34 DOI:10.5771/9781793616142-17

Topic

Carlota O'Neill/Laura de Noves

(2018) From polite society to the Pilbara: The ingénue abroad in Evelina and The Girl in Steel-Capped Boots Outskirts 38:1-23

Topic

Frances Burney

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

(1984) Fantasy and Reconciliation: Contemporary Formulas of Women’s Romance Fiction Westport, Connecticut: Greenwood Press

Mussell, Kay J.

(1975) Beautiful and Damned: The Sexual Woman in Gothic Fiction Journal of Popular Culture 9.1:84-89 DOI: 10.1111/j.0022-3840.1975.0901_84.x

Topic

(2021) Parting the Curtain: The Virgin Heroine and the ‘Westoxified’ Villain in Contemporary Iranian Romance Novels Journal of Popular Romance Studies 10: DOI: 10.70138/CHKD6705

Topic

Iran

Fattaneh Haj Seyyed Javadi

(2020) Literary quality in the eye of the Dutch reader: The National Reader Survey Poetics 79:--- DOI: 10.1016/j.poetic.2020.101439

Topic

Netherlands

Nakagawa, Chiho

(2011) Safe Sex with Defanged Vampires: New Vampire Heroes in Twilight and the Southern Vampire Mysteries Journal of Popular Romance Studies 2.1:

Topic

Charlaine Harris

Nascimento, Antonio Marcos Fonseca do

Freitas, Tatiane Lima de

(2015) As representações de masculinidades e feminilidades nos romances de banca de Diana Palmer nos anos de 1990 Linguagem em Foco 7.2:119-131

Topic

Neal, Lynn S.

(2006) Romancing God: Evangelical Women and Inspirational Fiction Chapel Hill: University of North Carolina Press

Topic

(2020) The politics of the popular: Definitions and uses of African popular fiction Hybrid Journal of Literary and Cultural Studies 2.4:59-75

Topic

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

Topic

Rebecca Yarros

Nikbakht, H.

(2019) Female Agency in the Harlequin Romance Formula: developments within the timeframe of second wave feminism Bachelor’s thesis, Utrecht University

Topic

Roberta Leigh/Rachel Lindsay

Nilson, Maria

(2017) Kärlek i kyligt klimat: Om nordisk romance Tidskrift för Nordisk litteratur 76:22-31

Topic

(1983) Le titre comme séduction dans le roman Harlequin: une lecture sociosémiotique Études littéraires 16.3:379–398 DOI: 10.7202/500622ar

Topic

(1986) La corrida de l'amour: Le Roman Harlequin Montréal: Université du Québec à Montréal

Topic

(1996) L’idée moderne d’amour. Entre sexe et genre: vers une théorie du sexologème Paris: Éditions Kimé

Topic

Samuel Richardson

Ntelia, Renata Elizabetta

(2021) How Damsels Love: The Transgressive Pleasure of Romance New Horizons in English Studies 6:146-159 DOI: 10.17951/nh.2021.6.146-159

Topic

(2007) Novela rosa y cultura popular: Carmen de Icaza y Concha Linares Becerra Sincronia 12:42:

Topic

Núñez Puente, Sonia

(2008) La novela rosa como mascarada de la muerte de lo social: Concha Linares Becerra y María Mercedes Ortoll Asparkía: Investigació feminista 19:105-122

Topic

María Mercedes Ortoll

Núñez Puente, Sonia

(2008) The Romance Novel and Popular Culture during the Early Franco Regime in Spain: Towards the Construction of Other Discourses of Femininity Journal of Gender Studies 17.3:225-236 DOI: 10.1080/09589230802204258

Topic

(1993) "Romance in the Forbidden Zone " ReImagining Women: Representations of Women in Culture 160-181

Topic

Arlene James

O'Brien, Lee

(2022) Telling Gaps and Domestic Tyranny: Georgette Heyer’s Regency Romances Journal of Popular Romance Studies 11: DOI: 10.70138/QSNM1860

Topic

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

O'Mahony, Lauren

(2014) Australian rural romance as feminist romance? Australasian Journal of Popular Culture 3.3:285-298 DOI: 10.1386/ajpc.3.3.285_1

Topic

(2014) Teaching an Old Dog New Tricks?: Romance, Ethics and Human-Dog Relationships in a Rural Australian Novel Journal of Popular Romance Studies 4.2:

Topic

(2018) From polite society to the Pilbara: The ingénue abroad in Evelina and The Girl in Steel-Capped Boots Outskirts 38:1-23

Topic

Frances Burney

(2021) "Australian romance fiction " The Routledge Research Companion to Popular Romance Fiction 72-96 DOI:10.4324/9781315613468-3

Topic

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

Stella Eromonsere-Ajanaku

Rosa Praed

Marie Bjelke Petersen

(2016) Women's rhetoric and the romance novel genre Master of Arts, University of Texas Rio Grande Valley

Topic

(1985) Rewriting English: Cultural Politics of Gender and Class London: Methuen

Topic

(2006) Critiques of the "Novela Rosa": Martín Gaite, Almodóvar, and Etxebarría Letras Femeninas 32.1:189-203

Topic

Oklopčić, Biljana

(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

Topic

Marija Jurić Zagorka

Croatia

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

(1999) "Romancing the Bard " Shakespeare and Appropriation 47-64

Topic

Margaret Evans Porter

(2002) "Harlequin Presents: That '70s Shakespeare and Beyond " Shakespeare after Mass Media 127-149 DOI:10.1007/978-1-137-09277-9_6

Topic

Shakespeare

(1986) 'Reine ou esclave .... ': conflicting images of women in the contemporary 'romantic novel' in France PhD, University of London, Birkbeck

Topic

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

Topic

Parameswaran, Radhika

(1999) Western Romance Fiction as English-Language Media in Postcolonial India Journal of Communication 49.3:84-105 DOI: 10.1111/j.1460-2466.1999.tb02806.x

Topic

Parameswaran, Radhika

(2002) Reading Fictions of Romance: Gender, Sexuality, and Nationalism in Postcolonial India Journal of Communication 52.4:832-851 DOI: 10.1111/j.1460-2466.2002.tb02576.x

Topic

Parameswaran, Radhika E.

(1994) "Romance Reading in the Third World: A Postcolonial Intersection of Gender, Ethnicity, and Sexuality " Proceedings of the Annual Meeting of the Association for Education in Journalism and Mass Communication (77th, Atlanta, Georgia, August 10-13, 1994). Part IV: International Media 71-102

Topic

Parameswaran, Radhika E.

(1997) Public Images, Private Pleasures: Romance Reading at the Intersection of Gender, Class, and National Identities in Urban India PhD, University of Iowa

Topic

Parnell, Claire

(2018) Models of Publishing and Opportunities for Change: Representations in Harlequin, Montlake and Self-Published Romance Novels Australian Literary Studies 33.4: DOI: 10.20314/als.1cd73e2f68

Topic

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

Patthey-Chavez, G. Genevieve

Clare, Lindsay

Youmans, Madeleine

(1996) Watery Passion: The Struggle between Hegemony and Sexual Liberation in Erotic Fiction for Women Discourse and Society 7.1:77-106 DOI: 10.1177/0957926596007001004

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

Peinado Rodríguez, Matilde

Anta Félez, José Luis

(2013) Educar para el matrimonio en femenino: modelos y prácticas en la literatura de posguerra Athenea Digita 13.2:35-46 DOI: 10.5565/rev/athenead/v13n2.892

Topic

Laura de Cominges/Josefina de la Torre

Pelegrina, Alicia

(2024) Los modelos femeninos en Idilio bajo el terror (1938) y María Victoria (1940), de Josefina de la Torre Ogigia. Revista Electrónica De Estudios Hispánicos 35:139–161 DOI: 10.24197/ogigia.35.2024.139-161

Topic

Pérez Casal, Inmaculada

(2018) "The Romance Novel as Bildungsroman in the Works of Rosamunde Pilcher and Lisa Kleypas " Taking Stock to Look Ahead: Celebrating Forty Years of English Studies in Spain 139-144

Topic

(2019) Representations of Nation and Spanish Masculinity in Popular Romance Novels: The Alpha Male as “Other” The Journal of Men’s Studies 27.2:169-182 DOI: 10.1177/1060826518801531

Topic

Lilian Warren as Kathryn Blair/Rosalind Brett/Celine Conway

(2020) "Britannia’s Daughters: Popular Romance Fiction and the Ideology of National Superiority (1950s–1970s) " Love, Language, Place, and Identity in Popular Culture: Romancing the Other 13-24

Topic

Kay Thorpe

Greece

Jean S. MacLeod/Catherine Airlie

(2022) "Imperfect paradise: Madeira in the novels of Margaret Rome, Katrina Britt, and Sally Wentworth " Discursos e Identidades en la Ficción Romántica: Visiones Anglófonas de Madeira y Canarias / Discourses and Identities in Romance Fiction: Anglophone Visions from Madeira and the Canaries 247-256

Topic

Ethel Connell as Katrina Britt

Doreen Hornsblow as Sally Wentworth

Sara Wood

(2022) "Paraísos imperfectos: Madeira en las novelas de Margaret Rome, Katrina Britt y Sally Wentworth " Discursos e Identidades en la Ficción Romántica: Visiones Anglófonas de Madeira y Canarias / Discourses and Identities in Romance Fiction: Anglophone Visions from Madeira and the Canaries 53-64

Topic

Ethel Connell as Katrina Britt

Doreen Hornsblow as Sally Wentworth

Sara Wood

Perriam, Geraldine

(2021) "The not so silly ass: Freddy Standen, his fictional contemporaries and alternative masculinity " Georgette Heyer, History, and Historical Fiction 36-52 DOI:10.2307/j.ctv15d818n.8

Topic

Petrović, Janja

(2023) Breaking the stereotype – romance novel today Masters thesis, University of Zagreb

Topic

(1992) "Homeward Bound: Leisure, popular culture and consumer capitalism " Come on Down?: Popular Media Culture in Post-War Britain 9-45

Topic

(2020) Olive Skin, Chocolate Eyes: The Legacy of The Sheik on Descriptive Patterns of the Italian Romantic Hero in Harlequin Short Contemporaries Journal of Popular Romance Studies 9: DOI: 10.70138/ZQZO7017

Topic

Italy

(2018) Spinsters, war widows, and wounded soldiers: the Great War novels of Berta Ruck Women's History Review 27.7:1085-1102 DOI: 10.1080/09612025.2018.1430003

Topic

(2005) Boys in Khaki, Girls in Print: Women's Literary Responses to the Great War 1914-1918 Oxford: Clarendon Press

Topic

Ruby M. Ayres

Mary Ward/Mrs. Humphry Ward

Florence Barclay

Potter, Jane

(2015) "‘Khaki and Kisses’: Reading the Romance Novel in the Great War " Reading and the First World War: Readers, Texts, Archives 29-44 DOI:10.1057/9781137302717_2

Topic

Préfontaine, Clémence

(1991) Le roman d’amour à l’école Québec: Les Éditions Logiques

Topic

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: DOI: 10.70138/YQAY5668

Topic

Rebekah Weatherspoon

Ann Allen Shockley

Priya, S Vishnu

Saravanan, P

(2025) Exploring Gender Roles in Nora Roberts’ Northern Lights: A Critical Analysis Language in India 25.1:1-16

Topic

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:

Topic

Esti Kinasih

Indonesia

Proctor, Candice

(2007) "The Romance Genre Blues or Why We Don't Get No Respect " Empowerment versus Oppression: Twenty-First Century Views of Popular Romance Novels 12-19

Topic

(1983) Harlequin: Quand l'amour est une guerre Etudes Littéraires 16.3:399-427 DOI: 10.7202/500623ar

Topic

(1986) La corrida de l'amour: Le Roman Harlequin Montréal: Université du Québec à Montréal

Topic

(1997) Reading Romance Novels in Postcolonial India Gender & Society 11.4:434-452 DOI: 10.1177/089124397011004004

Topic

Rabanal, Hayley

(2018) Courting convivencia: Hispano-Arab identity and Spanish women’s Orientalism in the Franco regime’s years of “unbearable solitude” (1946–1950) Journal of Spanish Cultural Studies 19.3:339-364 DOI: 10.1080/14636204.2018.1493891

Topic

María Adela Durango

Ana Marcela García

María del Pilar Carré

Castagna, JoAnn

Radespiel, Robin L.

(1990) "Making Rape Romantic: A Study of Rosemary Rogers' "Steve and Ginny" Novels " Women and Violence in Literature: An Essay Collection 299-325

Topic

(1995) Shopping Around: Feminine Culture and the Pursuit of Pleasure New York and London: Routledge

Topic

(1981) The Utopian Impulse in Popular Literature: Gothic Romances and "Feminist" Protest American Quarterly 33.2:140-162 DOI: 10.2307/2712313

Topic

Annie Vivanti/Annie Vivanti Chartres

(1994) "Romance and the Work of Fantasy: Struggles over Feminine Sexuality and Subjectivity at Century's End " Viewing, Reading, Listening: Audiences and Cultural Reception 213-231

Topic

(1983) Women Read the Romance: The Interaction of Text and Context Feminist Studies 9.1:53-78 DOI: 10.2307/3177683

Topic

(1984) Reading the Romance: Women, Patriarchy, and Popular Literature Chapel Hill: University of North Carolina Press

Topic

(2019) Verde bianco e rosa. Il romanzo 'femminile' e l'educazione sentimentale delle italiane (1911-1946) PhD, Università degli Studi di Palermo

Topic

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

Ramstad, Tessa

(2024) Tall, Dark, and Ideal: #Bookboyfriends in six contemporary romance novels Masters thesis, University of Uppsala

Topic

Elle Kennedy

Colleen Hoover

Krista and Becca Ritchie

(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

Topic

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

Elinor Glyn

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

Raymundo, Sarah Jane S.

(2004) In the Concrete Now: Investigating Feminist Challenges to Popular Romance Production Plaridel: A Philippine Journal of Communication, Media, and Society 1.2:91-118

Topic

(1982) The Rescue And Romance: Popular Novels Before World War I Bowling Green, Ohio: Bowling Green State University Popular Press

Topic

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

Topic

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

Rempel, Valerie Gale

(2003) “The soft white strong hand of God”: Gender and the expression of evangelical piety in the religious fiction of Grace Livingston Hill, 1897–1948 PhD, Vanderbilt University

Topic

(1990) "Le roman sentimental: système de personnages et circulation sociale de la thématique amoureuse " Le roman sentimental: actes du colloque des 14-15-16 mars 1989 à la Faculté des lettres de Limoges, volume 1 209-223

Topic

Reyes, Daisy Verduzco

Speer, Annika C.

Denes, Amanda

(2021) White Women and Latina Readers’ Ambivalence Toward Fifty Shades of Grey Sexuality & Culture 25:852–870 DOI: 10.1007/s12119-020-09797-3

Topic

Richey, Weston

(2023) (Loves) Me, (Loves) Me Not: Unbuilding of Selfhood in the Romance of the Present Journal of Popular Romance Studies 12: DOI: 10.70138/UBMV6841

Topic

(1999) Busting Textual Bodices: Gender, Reading, and the Popular Romance The English Journal 88.3:57-64 DOI: 10.2307/821580

Topic

Rix, Robert W.

(2009) “Love in the Clouds”: Barbara Cartland’s Religious Romances The Journal of Religion and Popular Culture 21.2: DOI: 10.3138/jrpc.21.2.002

Topic

(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

McCann, Hannah

Roach, Catherine M.

(2021) "Sex and sexuality " The Routledge Research Companion to Popular Romance Fiction 411-427 DOI:10.4324/9781315613468-19

Topic

(2019) What You Read and What You Believe: Genre Exposure and Beliefs About Relationships Psychology of Aesthetics, Creativity, and the Arts 13.4:450–461 DOI: 10.1037/aca0000189

Topic

(1978) Sex, Class, and Culture Bloomington, Indiana: Indiana University Press

Topic

Rollins, Shannon Marie

(2019) Crafting women’s narratives: the material impact of twenty-first century romance fiction on contemporary steampunk dress PhD, University of Edinburgh

Topic

(2019) Can She Have It All? Pregnancy Narratives in Contemporary Category Romance Journal of Popular Romance Studies 8:

Topic

Rose, Suzanna

(1985) Is Romance Dysfunctional? International Journal of Women's Studies 8.3:250-265

Topic

(1977) Sex-Role Characterization of Women in "Modern Gothic Novels" The Pacific Sociological Review 20.2:279-300 DOI: 10.2307/1388936

Topic

(1978) Male-Female Relationships in Best-Selling "Modern Gothic" Novels Sex Roles 4.5:647-655 DOI: 10.1007/BF00287330

Topic

(1983) Conflicting Images of Women in Romance Novels International Journal of Women's Studies 6.1:18-25

Topic

(1973) Somebody's Trying to Kill Me and I Think It's My Husband: The Modern Gothic Journal of Popular Culture 6.4:666-691 DOI: 10.1111/j.0022-3840.1973.00666.x

Topic

(1985) "Pornography By Women For Women, With Love " Magic Mommas, Trembling Sisters, Puritans & Perverts: Femininst Essays 79–99 DOI:10.2307/j.ctt20p58d6.10

Topic

Russell, Shannon

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

Topic

Bezerra, Antônio Ponciano

Russo, Stephanie

(2022) "These old shades: Georgette Heyer’s unruly eighteenth century " The Routledge Companion to Romantic Love 48-?? DOI:10.4324/9781003022343-4

Topic

(2011) Amongst women: Male romance authors and Irish chick lit author, Andrew O’Connor Australasian Journal of Popular Culture 1.2:209-225 DOI: 10.1386/ajpc.1.2.209_1

Topic

Sabino, Rosimeri Ferraz

(2020) Romance-folhetim em tela: linguagem, personagens e sentidos sociais DELTA: Documentação de Estudos em Lingüística Teórica e Aplicada 36.4: DOI: 10.1590/1678-460X2020360406

Topic

(1998) Femmes de rêve au travail : les femmes et le travail dans les productions écrites de grande consommation, au Québec, de 1945 à aujourd'hui Québec: Les Éditions Nota bene

Topic

Salmon, Catherine

(2012) The Pop Culture of Sex: An Evolutionary Window on the Worlds of Pornography and Romance Review of General Psychology 16.2:152-160 DOI: 10.1037/a0027910

Topic

Ruth Wind/Barbara Samuel/Barbara O'Neal

(1997) The Art of Romance Novels Para.doxa: Studies in World Literary Genres 3.1-2:78-80

Topic

Sánchez-Palencia Carazo, Carolina

(1994) El discurso femenino de la novela rosa en lengua inglesa la mujer como protagonista, autora y lectora del género PhD, Universidad de Sevilla

Topic

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

Sánchez-Palencia Carazo, Carolina

(1997) El discurso femenino de la novela rosa en lengua inglesa Cádiz, Spain: Servicio de Publicaciones de la Universidad de Cádiz

Topic

Sandbakken, Asta Margrethe

(2016) Feeling Men: Masculinity, Sexuality, and Emotion in the Contemporary Romance MA thesis, University of Oslo

Topic

Sanders, Lise Shapiro

(2006) Consuming Fantasies: Labor, Leisure, and the London Shopgirl, 1880-1920 Columbus: Ohio State University Press

Topic

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

Sanders, Lise Shapiro

(2018) "Making the Modern Girl: Fantasy, Consumption, and Desire in Romance Weeklies of the 1920s " Women's Periodicals and Print Culture in Britain, 1918-1939: The Interwar Period 87-102 DOI:10.3366/edinburgh/9781474412537.003.0008

Topic

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

Sanmartí Roset, Montserrat

Sanmartí i Roset, Carme

(2008) La transmisión de los valores femeninos a través de la lectura (1900-1939) Salina. Revista de Lletres 22:153-160

Topic

Sanmartí Roset, Montserrat

Sanmartí i Roset, Carme

(2008) La transmisión de los valores femeninos a través de la lectura (1900-1939) Salina. Revista de Lletres 22:153-160

Topic

Santaulària, Isabel

(2002) "The Fallacy of Eternal Love: Romance, Vampires and the Deconstruction of Love in Linda Lael Miller's Forever and the Night and For All Eternity " The Aesthetics of Ageing: Critical Approaches to Literary Representations of the Ageing Process 111-126

Topic

Santaulària, M. Isabel

(2023) "The Part of the Iceberg That Doesn’t Show: Romance, Good Husbands, and Mr Julia Child " Detoxing Masculinity in Anglophone Literature and Culture: In Search of Good Men 283-298 DOI:10.1007/978-3-031-22144-6_17

Topic

(2025) Exploring Gender Roles in Nora Roberts’ Northern Lights: A Critical Analysis Language in India 25.1:1-16

Topic

Savinainen, Raija

(2001) Gender-specific features of male/female interaction in a popular romantic novel by Barbara Cartland Pro gradu thesis, University of Jyväskylä

Topic

(1998) Femmes de rêve au travail : les femmes et le travail dans les productions écrites de grande consommation, au Québec, de 1945 à aujourd'hui Québec: Les Éditions Nota bene

Topic

Schalk, Sami

(2016) Happily Ever After for Whom? Blackness and Disability in Romance Narratives Journal of Popular Culture 49.6:1241–1260 DOI: 10.1111/jpcu.12491

Topic

(2007) The Big Bad Wolf: Masculinity and Genetics in Popular Culture Literature and Medicine 26.1:109-125 DOI: 10.1353/lm.2008.0003

Topic

animals

(2011) "The Love Life of a Fact " How Well Do Facts Travel? The Dissemination of Reliable Knowledge 429-453

Topic

(2013) "Bringing the Mid-West to the Middle-East: An Analysis of a Harlequin Romance in English and Turkish " The Silk Road of Adaptation: Transformations across Disciplines and Cultures 160-171

Topic

translation

Larsen, Katherine

(2019) How the Story Ends: Gender, Sexuality, and Nation in the Happy Ending Writing from Below 4.2:

Topic

happy ending

Sonali Dev

Radclyffe/Len Barot

Schulmann-Darsy, Louise

(2025) "Mr. Darcy as the Perfect Book Boyfriend, or the Impact of BookTok on Male Characters in Romance Books " Still Reading Romance: Identity and Engagement with Popular Romance Fiction 247–268 DOI:10.5040/9798881847616.ch-014

Topic

Schwab, Sandra Martina

(2013) Of Dragons, Knights, and Virgin Maidens: Dragonslaying and Gender Roles from Richard Johnson to Modern Popular Fiction Trier: Wissenschaftlicher Verlag Trier

Topic

(2007) ""I find some Hindu practices like burning widows, utterly bizarre": Representations of Sati and Questions of Choice in Veils of Silk " Empowerment versus Oppression: Twenty-First Century Views of Popular Romance Novels 129-147

Topic

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

Topic

fanfiction

Selinger, Eric Murphy

(2016) "When I Paint My Masterpiece: Bob Dylan, Ekphrasis, and the Art of Susan Elizabeth Phillips " Romance Fiction and American Culture: Love as the Practice of Freedom? 297-319

Topic

close reading

music

Selinger, Margaret

(2021) “Midsummer Nights’ Affaires:” Shakespeare in the Work of Eloisa James Honors Thesis, Wellesley College

Topic

Eloisa James

Shakespeare

Serafine, Amelia

(2016) ""He Filled My Heart with Doubt": The Southern Belle's Love and Duty in the Civil War " Romance Fiction and American Culture: Love as the Practice of Freedom? 41-55

Topic

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

Augusta Jane Evans

death

(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

Shibamoto Smith, Janet S.

(2005) "Translating True Love: Japanese Romance Fiction, Harlequin-Style " Gender, Sex and Translation: The Manipulation of Identities 97-116

Topic

Japan

Shibamoto Smith, Janet S.

(2008) Changing Lovestyles: Fictional Representations of Contemporary Japanese Men in Love Positions 16.2:359-387 DOI: 10.1215/10679847-2008-005

Topic

Topic

(2010) A vida em cor de rosa: o romance sentimental e a ditadura militar no Brasil Famecos 17.2:41-48 DOI: 10.15448/1980-3729.2010.2.7541

Topic

(2013) A pedagogia social dos romances de amor dos “tempos da vovó” Tensões Mundias 9.21:251-274

Topic

Topic

(2016) Gender Stereotypes and Feminist Strokes: Negotiating the Spaces in Mills and Boon The IUP Journal of English Studies 11.4:43-53

Topic

(2015) Postfeminism, Post-romantic and New Patterns of Feminity [sic] in Popular Culture European Journal of Science and Theology 11.6:229-238

Topic

Trower, Shelley

Tooth Murphy, Amy

Smith, Graham

(2019) ‘Me mum likes a book, me dad’s a newspaper man’: Reading, gender and domestic life in ‘100 Families’ Participations 16.1:554-581

Topic

Snitow, Ann Barr

(1979) Mass Market Romance: Pornography for Women is Different Radical History Review 20:141-161 DOI: 10.1215/01636545-1979-20-141

Topic

Soedibio, Sari M. R. D.

Djundjung, Jenny M.

(2013) The Hypermasculine and Ubersexual Men in the Harlequin Novels of the 1980s and 2000s Kata Kita 1.1:86-93

Topic

(2014) " El Bien y el Mal: Modelos de conducta femeninos en la novela rosa de los 40 " Variaciones de lo metarreal en la España de los siglos XX y XXI 83-93

Topic

(2015) Vencer a Medusa: el modelo de mujer angelical en la primera novela rosa de Carmen de Icaza. Feminidad y tradicionalismo Verba Hispanica 23.1:247-260 DOI: 10.4312/vh.23.1.247-260

Topic

(2016) "El ideal de la mujer de la Sección Femenina de Falange a través de las ilustraciones de la novela rosa de los años cuarenta " Images of Women in Hispanic Culture 48-73

Topic

(2016) Novela rosa y fantasía amorosa en la España de los años Cuarenta: análisis de La rival de Julieta de Josefina de la Torre Cuadernos de Aleph 8:128-148

Topic

Laura de Cominges/Josefina de la Torre

Sylvia Visconti/Mercedes Ballesteros Gaibrois

(2017) El ideal de masculinidad en la novela romántica falangista: análisis de Una mujer de veinte años de Mercedes Ballesteros Tonos digital: Revista de estudios filológicos 33:

Topic

Elena Puerto/Mercedes Formica

(2017) "El juego amoroso en la novela rosa española femenina de los años cuarenta " O jogo do mundo: ensaios sobre o imaginário lúdico 433-454

Topic

(2018) The Romance Novel Cover MA thesis, City University of New York (CUNY), Hunter College

Topic

(2014) The warrior woman in Harlequin’s Bombshell Athena Force series Australasian Journal of Popular Culture 3.3:335-349 DOI: 10.1386/ajpc.3.3.335_1

Topic

Reyes, Daisy Verduzco

Speer, Annika C.

Denes, Amanda

(2021) White Women and Latina Readers’ Ambivalence Toward Fifty Shades of Grey Sexuality & Culture 25:852–870 DOI: 10.1007/s12119-020-09797-3

Topic

Spillman, K. Elizabeth

(2012) "The "Managing Female" in the Novels of Georgette Heyer " New Approaches to Popular Romance Fiction: Critical Essays 84-98

Topic

(1986) Functioning fictions: the adjustment rhetoric of Silhouette romance novels PhD, University of Iowa

Topic

Stern, Barbara B.

(1991) "Two Pornographies: a Feminist View of Sex in Advertising " NA - Advances in Consumer Research Volume 18 384-391

Topic

(2019) What You Read and What You Believe: Genre Exposure and Beliefs About Relationships Psychology of Aesthetics, Creativity, and the Arts 13.4:450–461 DOI: 10.1037/aca0000189

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)

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

Stewart, Eowyn

(2024) A Hero in Tears: How the Female Gaze Elicits Male Emotional Vulnerability in Romance Novels Honors Thesis, Abilene Christian University

Topic

(1985) Indian Romances: Tracts for the Times Journal of Popular Culture 18.4:2-15 DOI: 10.1111/j.0022-3840.1985.00002.x

Topic

Stollenwerk, Katie Elisabeth

(2020) “I’m a Nurse, Not a Woman”: The Historical Significance of the UWM Nurse Romance Novel Collection Master of Arts, University of Wisconsin Milwaukee

Topic

Marguerite Mooers Marshall

Ethel Hamill/Jean Francis Webb

Rose Dana/William Edward Daniel Ross

Rubie Saunders

Stoneley, Peter

(1999) "'Never Love a Cowboy': Romance Fiction and Fantasy Families " Writing and Fantasy 223-235

Topic

Sullivan, Ashleigh Taylor

(2022) "From Darcy to Dickheads: Why Do Women Love the Bad Boy? " New Frontiers in Popular Romance: Essays on the Genre in the 21st Century 31-44

Topic

(1995) Discipline and passion: meaning, masochism and mythology in popular medical romances Nursing Inquiry 2.4:203-210 DOI: 10.1111/j.1440-1800.1995.tb00147.x

Topic

Suwanban, Pauline

(2018) From Exhalation to Transformation: The Female Body in the Orientalist Romance Dandelion: Postgraduate Arts Journal & Research Network 9.1: DOI: 10.16995/ddl.686

Topic

(2020) The Oriental Beast: The Sheik and Fairy Tales Journal of Popular Romance Studies 9: DOI: 10.70138/KTGJ5542

Topic

(2013) "Corsets of Steel: Steampunk's Reimagining of Victorian Femininity " Steaming Into a Victorian Future: A Steampunk Anthology 43-63

Topic

(1995) Fictions at Work: Language and Social Practice in Fiction London and New York: Longman

Topic

Talbot, Mary M.

(1997) "‘An Explosion Deep inside Her’: Women’s Desire and Popular Romance Fiction " Language and Desire: Encoding Sex, Romance, and Intimacy 106-122

Topic

(2014) The warrior woman in Harlequin’s Bombshell Athena Force series Australasian Journal of Popular Culture 3.3:335-349 DOI: 10.1386/ajpc.3.3.335_1

Topic

(2012) German Writing, American Reading: Women and the Import of Fiction, 1866-1917 Columbus: Ohio State University Press

Topic

Germany

Wilhelmine Heimburg/Bertha Behrens

E. Marlitt/Eugenie John

Fanny Lewald

Wilhelmine von Hillern

Claire von Glümer

Ursula Zöge von Manteuffel

E. Werner/Elisabeth Bürstenbinder

Nataly von Eschstruth

Moritz von Reichenbach/Valeska von Reiswitz, Gräfin von Bethusy-Huc

Charlotte Brontë

E. Juncker

Golo Raimund/Bertha [Heyn] Frederich

(2012) ‘The urge towards love is an urge towards (un)death’: Romance, masochistic desire and postfeminism in the Twilight novels International Journal of Cultural Studies 15.1:31-46 DOI: 10.1177/1367877911399204

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

Taylor, Jessica

(2007) And You Can Be My Sheikh: Gender, Race, and Orientalism in Contemporary Romance Novels Journal of Popular Culture 40.6:1032-1051 DOI: 10.1111/j.1540-5931.2007.00484.x

Topic

(2014) Romance and the Female Gaze Obscuring Gendered Violence in The Twilight Saga Feminist Media Studies 14.3:388-402 DOI: 10.1080/14680777.2012.740493

Topic

Taylor, Jessica

(2020) Garçon Manqué: A Queer Rereading (of) The Sheik Journal of Popular Romance Studies 9: DOI: 10.70138/VBEX3804

Topic

(2013) Write the Book of Your Heart: Career, Passion and Publishing in the Romance Writing Community PhD, University of Toronto

Topic

(1993) "Reading the Romance " Nation, Culture, Text: Australian Cultural and Media Studies 246-256 DOI:10.4324/9780203131992

Topic

Teague, Anna Sophia Wester

(2015) “If my hubby ever did half the stuff my book boyfriends did… I’d put him six ft in the ground” : narratives of interpersonal and gendered violence as discussed in romance novel review websites Honors thesis, Whitman College

Topic

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

Tennenhouse, Tracy Shana

(1996) Female Fantasies in Women's Popular Fiction PhD, University of California, Santa Barbara

Topic

(2003) "The Romance of White Nations: Imperialism, Popular Culture and National Histories " After the Imperial Turn: Thinking with and through the Nation 279-292 DOI:10.1215/9780822384397-018

Topic

Mary Gaunt, with John Ridgwell Essex

(2004) Romancing the Raj: Interracial Relations in Anglo-Indian Romance Novels History of Intellectual Culture 4.1:

Topic

(2007) "Orientalism and Mass Market Romance Novels in the Twentieth Century " Edward Said: The Legacy of a Public Intellectual 241-262

Topic

(2010) Historicizing The Sheik: Comparisons of the British Novel and the American Film Journal of Popular Romance Studies 1.1:

Topic

film/movies

(2012) ""Bertrice teaches you about history, and you don't even mind!": History and Revisionist Historiography in Bertrice Small's The Kadin " New Approaches to Popular Romance Fiction: Critical Essays 21-32

Topic

(2012) Desert Passions: Orientalism and Romance Novels Austin, Texas: University of Texas Press

Topic

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

(2014) “We have to learn to love imperially”: Love in Late Colonial and Federation Australian Romance Novels Journal of Popular Romance Studies 4.2:

(2016) "Imperial Affairs: The British Empire and the Romantic Novel, 1890-1939 " New Directions in Popular Fiction: Genre, Distribution, Reproduction 87-110 DOI:10.1057/978-1-137-52346-4_5

(2016) "The Romance Novel " Gender: Love 255-270

Topic

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

(2017) "Love in Australian Romance Novels " The Popular Culture of Romantic Love in Australia 194-222

Topic

(2018) "The Contemporary Anglophone Romance Genre " Oxford Research Encyclopedia of Literature DOI:10.1093/acrefore/9780190201098.013.415

Topic

(2022) "Transported for life, transported by love: love and the Australian convict romance novel " The Routledge Companion to Romantic Love DOI:10.4324/9781003022343-15

Topic

(2024) "The Australian Convict Prostitute Romance: Narrating Social and Sexual Justice for “Damned Whores” " Conflict and Colonialism in 21st Century Romantic Historical Fiction: Repairing the Past, Repurposing History DOI:10.4324/9781003493792-2

Topic

(2025) “You’re a total dick sometimes, but it’s a tolerable kind of dickishness”: Hegemonic masculinity and sports romances TEXT 29, Special Issue 75: DOI: 10.52086/001c.142612

Topic

sport

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

Susan Wiggs

Emma Holly

Therrien, Kathleen M.

(1997) Trembling at Her Own Response: Resistance and Reconciliation in Mass-Market Romance Novels PhD, University of Delaware

Topic

Julie Garwood

Susan Wiggs

Therrien, Kathleen M.

(2015) ""One Would Die Rather Than Speak ... about Such Subjects": Exploring Class, Gender, and Hegemony in Anya Seton's Dragonwyck " Teaching Tainted Lit: Popular American Fiction in Today's Classroom 51-76

Topic

Anya Seton

Thierauf, Doreen

(2016) Forever After: Desire in the 21st-Century Romance Blockbuster Journal of Popular Culture 49.3:604-26 DOI: 10.1111/jpcu.12423

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Thurlow, Michelle

(2010) “A Whisper of Satin”: The Infant Dress Leitmotif The Journal of Mennonite Writing (CMW) 2.4:

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Beverly Lewis

(1987) The Romance Revolution: Erotic Novels for Women and the Quest for a New Sexual Identity Urbana and Chicago: University of Illinois Press

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erotic romance

(1985) Popular Historical Romances: Agent for Social Change? An Exploration of Methodologies Journal of Popular Culture 19.1:35-45 DOI: 10.1111/j.0022-3840.1985.00035.x

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(2016) "“A Little Wildness”: Negotiating Relationships between Human and Nonhuman in Historical Romance " Creatural Fictions: Human-Animal Relationships in Twentieth- and Twenty-First-Century Literature 151-171 DOI:10.1007/978-1-137-51811-8_8

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(1983) The Drug Store Novel: Popular Romantic Fiction and the Mainstream Tradition Studies in Popular Culture 6:88-96

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Martha Finley

Tobin-McClain, Lee

(2000) Paranormal Romance: Secrets of the Female Fantastic Journal of the Fantastic in the Arts 11.3 (43):294-306

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(2008) Where is my Happy Ending and Why am I Looking for it? The Romance Myth in Contemporary Popular Australian Women’s Fiction PhD, Griffith University

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(1992) "Homeward Bound: Leisure, popular culture and consumer capitalism " Come on Down?: Popular Media Culture in Post-War Britain 9-45

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(2019) ‘Me mum likes a book, me dad’s a newspaper man’: Reading, gender and domestic life in ‘100 Families’ Participations 16.1:554-581

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Trachsel, Mary

(1997) Horse Stories and Romance Fiction: Variants or Alternative Texts of Female Identity? Reader: Essays in Reader-Oriented Theory, Criticism, and Pedagogy 38-39:20-41

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animals

Trevenen, Claire

(2014) Fifty Shades of “Mommy Porn”: A Post-GFC Renegotiation of Paternal Law Journal of Popular Romance Studies 4.1:

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(2019) ‘Me mum likes a book, me dad’s a newspaper man’: Reading, gender and domestic life in ‘100 Families’ Participations 16.1:554-581

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Turner, Ellen

(2011) E.M. Hull and the Valentino cult: gender reversal after The sheik Journal of Gender Studies 20.2:171–182 DOI: 10.1080/09589236.2011.565197

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Ty, Eleanor

(1994) " Desire and Temptation: Dialogism and the Carnivalesque in Category Romances " A Dialogue of Voices: Feminist Literary Theory and Bakhtin 97-113

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(1995) "Amour, sexe et carnaval: le plaisir du texte Harlequin " Armes, larmes, charmes: sérialité et paralittérature 23-48

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Uddin-Khan, Evelyn Angelina

(1995) Gender, Ethnicity and the Romance Novel Ed.D., Teachers College, Columbia University

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

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

Valverde, Mariana

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

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Koolen, Corina

(2020) Literary quality in the eye of the Dutch reader: The National Reader Survey Poetics 79:--- DOI: 10.1016/j.poetic.2020.101439

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Netherlands

Koolen, Corina

(2020) Literary quality in the eye of the Dutch reader: The National Reader Survey Poetics 79:--- DOI: 10.1016/j.poetic.2020.101439

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(2022) Do We Judge Fiction by the Author’s Gender? Journal of Media Psychology 34.5:299–312 DOI: 10.1027/1864-1105/a000319

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van Lent, Peter

(1996) "“Her Beautiful Savage”: The Current Sexual Image of the Native American Male " Dressing in Feathers: The Construction of the Indian in American Popular Culture 211-227

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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

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González Cruz, María Isabel

Vera-Cazorla, María Jesús

(2019) " Género e identidad cultural: perfiles femeninos en un corpus de novela rosa " La educación de las mujeres en Iberoamérica: análisis histórico 627-674

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Vera-Cazorla, María Jesús

(2020) "“And they Drive on the Wrong Side of the Road”: The Anglo-centric Vision of the Canary Islands in Mills & Boon Romance Novels (1955–1987) " Love, Language, Place, and Identity in Popular Culture: Romancing the Other 25-39

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Villar-Argáiz, Pilar

(2018) Ireland and the Popular Genre of Historical Romance: The Novels of Karen Robards ABEI: Brazilian Journal of Irish Studies 20.2:97-109 DOI: 10.37389/abei.v20i2.3204

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

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

(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

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Zoë Archer

(2020) Let’s Not Get Carried Away by The Sheik Journal of Popular Romance Studies 9: DOI: 10.70138/MSZX3922

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

Voaden, Rosalynn

(1995) "The Language of Love: Medieval Erotic Vision and Modern Romance Fiction " Romance Revisited 78-88

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Wagner, Wendy

(2022) "The “Grandly and Inhospitably Strange” World of Autistic Heroines in Romance Fiction " New Frontiers in Popular Romance: Essays on the Genre in the 21st Century 150-164

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(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

Wardrop, Stephanie

(1995) The Heroine is Being Beaten: Freud, Sadomasochism, and Reading the Romance Style: A Quarterly Journal of Aesthetics, Poetics, Stylistics, and Literary Criticism 29.3:459-473

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Kathleen Woodiwiss

(1997) Last of the Red Hot Mohicans: Miscegenation in the Popular American Romance MELUS 22.2:61-74 DOI: 10.2307/468135

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

(2010) Heyer’s heroes: An investigation into Georgette Heyer and her literary ‘mark’ on the Regency hero Master of Arts, University of Waikato, New Zealand

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Warnes, Christopher

(2014) "Desired State: Black Economic Empowerment and the South African Popular Romance " Popular Culture in Africa: The Episteme of the Everyday 154-171

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(1995) Their Own Worst Enemies: Women Writers of Women's Fiction London: Pluto Press

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Daphne du Maurier

Mary Stewart

food, drink

Weaver-Zercher, Valerie

(2013) Thrill of the Chaste: the Allure of Amish Romance Novels Baltimore: The Johns Hopkins University Press

(1985) Rewriting English: Cultural Politics of Gender and Class London: Methuen

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

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

Ann Bannon

Valerie Taylor

Claire Morgan/Patricia Highsmith

Weisser, Susan Ostrov

(1994) "The Wonderful-Terrible Bitch Figure in Harlequin Novels " Feminist Nightmares: Women at Odds: Feminism and the Problem of Sisterhood 269-282

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Weisser, Susan Ostrov

(2013) The Glass Slipper: Women and Love Stories New Brunswick, New Jersey: Rutgers University Press

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Wendell, Sarah

(2012) ""You call me a bitch like that's a bad thing": Romance Criticism and Redefining the Word "Bitch" " New Approaches to Popular Romance Fiction: Critical Essays 178-194

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(1977) Sex-Role Characterization of Women in "Modern Gothic Novels" The Pacific Sociological Review 20.2:279-300 DOI: 10.2307/1388936

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(1978) Male-Female Relationships in Best-Selling "Modern Gothic" Novels Sex Roles 4.5:647-655 DOI: 10.1007/BF00287330

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(1983) Conflicting Images of Women in Romance Novels International Journal of Women's Studies 6.1:18-25

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

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Whissell, Cynthia

(1996) Mate Selection in Popular Women's Fiction Human Nature 7:427-447 DOI: 10.1007/BF02732902

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(2018) Spinsters, war widows, and wounded soldiers: the Great War novels of Berta Ruck Women's History Review 27.7:1085-1102 DOI: 10.1080/09612025.2018.1430003

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(2022) Freedom, Sincerity, and the Modern Woman in the Interwar Romances of Berta Ruck Journal of Popular Romance Studies 11: DOI: 10.70138/JYCA1921

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(2002) Islamic-Hausa Feminism and Kano Market Literature: Qur'anic Reinterpretation in the Novels of Balaraba Yakubu Research in African Literatures 33.2:119-136

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Balaraba Ramat Yakubu

(2003) Hausa Women Writers Confronting the Traditional Status of Women in Modern Islamic Society: Feminist Thought in Nigerian Popular Fiction Tulsa Studies In Women's Literature 22.2:387-408 DOI: 10.2307/20059159

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Nigeria

Islam

Bilkisu Ahmed Funtuwa

Balaraba Ramat Yakubu

Whitsitt, Novian

(2003) Islamic-Hausa Feminism Meets Northern Nigerian Romance: The Cautious Rebellion of Bilkisu Funtuwa African Studies Review 46.1:137-153 DOI: 10.2307/1514984

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Nigeria

Islam

Bilkisu Ahmed Funtuwa

(2021) "Georgette Heyer, Wellington’s Army and the First World War " Georgette Heyer, History, and Historical Fiction 162-186 DOI:10.2307/j.ctv15d818n.15

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(2025) (Wo)Men in Love: An Analysis of Sexual Scripts, Escapism, and Queer Explorations Among Woman Readers and Authors of Male/Male Romance Novels Doctor of Philosophy in Human Sexuality, California Institute of Integral Studies

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(2016) “Ravished by Vikings”: The Pre-modern and the Paranormal in Viking Romance Fiction Journal of Popular Romance Studies 5.2:

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Williams, Clover

Freedman, Jean R.

(1995) "Shakespeare's Step-Sisters: Romance Novels and the Community of Women " Folklore, Literature, and Cultural Theory: Collected Essays 135-168

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Willinsky, John

Hunniford, R. Mark

(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

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

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

Ann Bannon

Valerie Taylor

Claire Morgan/Patricia Highsmith

Wilson, Elizabeth Suzanne

(1986) Women creating men: the history of the hero in contemporary category romance fiction since the 1950s MA thesis, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill

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

Wilt, Judith

(2014) Women Writers and the Hero of Romance Houndmills, Basingstoke: Palgrave Macmillan

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(1996) The Sheik: What Can be Made of a Daydream Women: A Cultural Review 7.3:291-302 DOI: 10.1080/09574049608578285

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(2024) Hearts and Hashtags: How BookTok is Reshaping Romance Literature Honors Program in English and Media Studies, Guilford College

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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 191-207 DOI:10.4324/9781003039365-12

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(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

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

(2006) Gender, Romance Novels and Plastic Sexuality in the United States: A Focus on Female College Students Journal of International Women’s Studies 8.1:125-134

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(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

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