Erhart, Virginia (1974) Corín Tellado: la Cenicienta en la sociedad de consumo Crisis 1.9:71-80 Topic Corín Tellado work ageism marriage
Cohn, Jan (1977) The Romances of Mary Roberts Rinehart: Some Problems in the Study of Popular Culture Journal of Popular Culture 11.3:581-590 DOI: 10.1111/j.0022-3840.1977.00581.x Topic Mary Roberts Rinehart work marriage Older and/or precursor texts (may not be "romance" as now defined)
Ruggiero, Josephine A. Weston, Louise C. (1977) Sex-Role Characterization of Women in "Modern Gothic Novels" The Pacific Sociological Review 20.2:279-300 DOI: 10.2307/1388936 Topic gender gothic romance feminism Mary Stewart Victoria Holt/Jean Plaidy/Eleanor Burford Hibbert Phyllis A. Whitney Jane Blackmore Dorothy Eden Susan Howatch Anne Maybury social/economic class work readers
Ruggiero, Josephine A. Weston, Louise C. (1977) Sex-Role Characterization of Women in "Modern Gothic Novels" The Pacific Sociological Review 20.2:279-300 DOI: 10.2307/1388936 Topic gender gothic romance feminism Mary Stewart Victoria Holt/Jean Plaidy/Eleanor Burford Hibbert Phyllis A. Whitney Jane Blackmore Dorothy Eden Susan Howatch Anne Maybury social/economic class work readers
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 romances in magazines and newspapers social/economic class readers Older and/or precursor texts (may not be "romance" as now defined) marriage work wealth/prosperity gender medical romance settings rural romance
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 Harlequin Mills & Boon readers gender virginity fashion/clothing food, drink sex/sexuality religion/spirituality settings work pornography Anne Mather
Hassencahl, Fran (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 Harlequin Mills & Boon gender psychology work fashion/clothing sex/sexuality family
Jensen, Margaret Ann (1980) Women and Romantic Fiction: A Case Study of Harlequin Enterprises, Romances, and Readers PhD, McMaster University Topic Harlequin Mills & Boon readers capitalism/business social/economic class work
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 YA/teenage romance trash/literary and or intellectual quality gender race/ethnicity feminism social/economic class disability work readers LGBTQ+ characters, readers and/or authors libraries/librarians United States of America Harlequin Mills & Boon Publishing family fashion/clothing teaching romance
Margolies, David (1982) Mills & Boon: guilt without sex Red Letters 14:5-13 Topic Harlequin Mills & Boon work gender emotions rape and/or intimate partner violence/abuse
Jensen, Margaret Ann (1984) Love's $weet Return: The Harlequin Story Toronto: The Women's Educational Press Topic Harlequin Mills & Boon metafiction readers Publishing virginity sex/sexuality paratext work authors gender happy ending settings race/ethnicity social/economic class rape and/or intimate partner violence/abuse food, drink fashion/clothing love marriage feminism
Kirkland, Catherine Elisabeth (1984) For The Love Of It: Women Writers And The Popular Romance PhD, University of Pennsylvania Topic authors work Publishing feminism trash/literary and or intellectual quality
Rabine, Leslie W. (1985) Reading the Romantic Heroine: Text, History, Ideology Ann Arbor: University of Michigan Press Topic Harlequin Mills & Boon work Charlotte Brontë emotions Publishing authors
Rabine, Leslie W. (1985) Romance in the Age of Electronics: Harlequin Enterprises Feminist Studies 11.1:39-60 DOI: 10.2307/3180131 Topic Harlequin Mills & Boon work Charlotte Brontë emotions Publishing authors
Bettinotti, Julia Bédard-Cazabon, Hélène Gagnon, Jocelyn Noizet, Pascale Provost, Christiane (1986) La corrida de l'amour: Le Roman Harlequin Montréal: Université du Québec à Montréal Topic Harlequin Mills & Boon Publishing gender settings marriage trash/literary and or intellectual quality paratext family Janet Dailey Charlotte Lamb sex/sexuality work
Bettinotti, Julia Bédard-Cazabon, Hélène Gagnon, Jocelyn Noizet, Pascale Provost, Christiane (1986) La corrida de l'amour: Le Roman Harlequin Montréal: Université du Québec à Montréal Topic Harlequin Mills & Boon Publishing gender settings marriage trash/literary and or intellectual quality paratext family Janet Dailey Charlotte Lamb sex/sexuality work
Davis, Mary Louise (1986) Romances and the Modern Ms.: a Study of Contemporary (Line) Romances, 1980-1984 PhD, University of Southern California Topic paratext gender readers work sex/sexuality
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 social/economic class Corín Tellado Harlequin Mills & Boon Anne Mather gender work wealth/prosperity Mexico
Bettinotti, Julia Bédard-Cazabon, Hélène Gagnon, Jocelyn Noizet, Pascale Provost, Christiane (1986) La corrida de l'amour: Le Roman Harlequin Montréal: Université du Québec à Montréal Topic Harlequin Mills & Boon Publishing gender settings marriage trash/literary and or intellectual quality paratext family Janet Dailey Charlotte Lamb sex/sexuality work
Jones, Ann Rosalind (1986) "Mills & Boon meets feminism " The Progress of Romance: The Politics of Popular Fiction 195-218 Topic feminism Harlequin Mills & Boon work social/economic class gender sex/sexuality
Bettinotti, Julia Bédard-Cazabon, Hélène Gagnon, Jocelyn Noizet, Pascale Provost, Christiane (1986) La corrida de l'amour: Le Roman Harlequin Montréal: Université du Québec à Montréal Topic Harlequin Mills & Boon Publishing gender settings marriage trash/literary and or intellectual quality paratext family Janet Dailey Charlotte Lamb sex/sexuality work
Bettinotti, Julia Bédard-Cazabon, Hélène Gagnon, Jocelyn Noizet, Pascale Provost, Christiane (1986) La corrida de l'amour: Le Roman Harlequin Montréal: Université du Québec à Montréal Topic Harlequin Mills & Boon Publishing gender settings marriage trash/literary and or intellectual quality paratext family Janet Dailey Charlotte Lamb sex/sexuality work
Thomas, Audrey (1986) A Fine Romance, My Dear, This Is Canadian Literature 108:5-12 Topic Harlequin Mills & Boon readers pornography rape and/or intimate partner violence/abuse Charlotte Lamb work
Calhoun-French, Diane M. (1987) ""New" Women in Old Stories: Silhouette "Intimate Moments" " Heroines of Popular Culture 114-119 Topic work
Ellis, Kate (1987) "Gimme Shelter: Feminism, Fantasy, and Women's Popular Fiction " American Media and Mass Culture: Left Perspectives 216-230 Topic feminism gothic romance virginity rape and/or intimate partner violence/abuse Victoria Holt/Jean Plaidy/Eleanor Burford Hibbert Charlotte Brontë settings family work Kathleen Woodiwiss readers
Helgorsky, Françoise (1987) Harlequin : l'unité dans la diversité et vice-versa Pratiques: linguistique, littérature, didactique 54:5-19 DOI: 10.3406/prati.1987.1434 Topic Harlequin Mills & Boon paratext settings work
Kalisch, Philip A. Kalisch, Beatrice J. (1987) The Changing Image of the Nurse Menlo Park, California: Addison-Wesley Publishing Company Topic medical romance Mary Roberts Rinehart work
Kalisch, Philip A. Kalisch, Beatrice J. (1987) The Changing Image of the Nurse Menlo Park, California: Addison-Wesley Publishing Company Topic medical romance Mary Roberts Rinehart work
Thurston, Carol (1987) The Romance Revolution: Erotic Novels for Women and the Quest for a New Sexual Identity Urbana and Chicago: University of Illinois Press Topic erotic romance United States of America readers historical romance sex/sexuality Publishing feminism work Harlequin Mills & Boon gender pornography rape and/or intimate partner violence/abuse Rosemary Rogers virginity gothic romance Bertrice Small LaVyrle Spencer Kathleen Woodiwiss
Ebert, Teresa L. (1988) The Romance of Patriarchy: Ideology, Subjectivity, and Postmodern Feminist Cultural Theory Cultural Critique 10:19-57 Topic gender capitalism/business work Harlequin Mills & Boon feminism readers Sarah James Janet Dailey
Frenier, Mariam Darce (1988) Good-bye Heathcliff: Changing Heroes, Heroines, Roles, and Values in Women’s Category Romances New York: Greenwood Press Topic gender United States of America UK Harlequin Mills & Boon feminism sex/sexuality work
Melman, Billie (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) Ethel M. Dell E. M. Hull sex/sexuality gender race/ethnicity settings metaphor/symbolism animals rape and/or intimate partner violence/abuse pornography romances in magazines and newspapers social/economic class work community
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 YA/teenage romance food, drink health/medical gender social/economic class work
Mulhern, Chieko Irie (1989) Japanese Harlequin Romances as Transcultural Woman's Fiction The Journal of Asian Studies 48.1:50-70 DOI: 10.2307/2057664 Topic Japan metaphor/symbolism sex/sexuality family work rape and/or intimate partner violence/abuse food, drink
Fowler, Bridget (1991) The Alienated Reader: Women and Romantic Literature in the Twentieth Century Hemel Hempstead: Harvester Wheatsheaf Topic social/economic class gender Samuel Richardson capitalism/business religion/spirituality Older and/or precursor texts (may not be "romance" as now defined) readers trash/literary and or intellectual quality Catherine Cookson Publishing romances in magazines and newspapers Harlequin Mills & Boon work Barbara Taylor Bradford Barbara Cartland fairytales/folktales family feminism Victoria Holt/Jean Plaidy/Eleanor Burford Hibbert marriage Scotland sex/sexuality
Péquignot, Bruno (1991) Les femmes dans le roman sentimental moderne L'Homme et la société 99-100:115-125 DOI: 10.3406/homso.1991.2542 Topic France Delly Harlequin Mills & Boon religion/spirituality Barbara Cartland work sex/sexuality marriage family
Krentz, Jayne Ann (1992) Dangerous Men and Adventurous Women: Romance Writers on the Appeal of the Romance Philadelphia: University of Pennsylvania Press Topic Jayne Ann Krentz/Amanda Quick/Jayne Castle readers gender authors emotions myth Cathie Linz Linda Barlow metaphor/symbolism linguistics happy ending rape and/or intimate partner violence/abuse Laura Kinsale psychology Susan Elizabeth Phillips feminism Daphne Clair Older and/or precursor texts (may not be "romance" as now defined) Robyn Donald Anne Stuart love Elizabeth Lowell war/armed forces Mary Jo Putney virginity Doreen Owens Malek Brittany Young sex/sexuality Penelope Williamson trash/literary and or intellectual quality Judith Arnold work Stella Cameron Sandra Brown Suzanne Simmons Guntrum Diana Palmer Kathleen Gilles Seidel
Philips, Deborah Tomlinson, Alan (1992) "Homeward Bound: Leisure, popular culture and consumer capitalism " Come on Down?: Popular Media Culture in Post-War Britain 9-45 Topic capitalism/business Harlequin Mills & Boon war/armed forces work gender
Philips, Deborah Tomlinson, Alan (1992) "Homeward Bound: Leisure, popular culture and consumer capitalism " Come on Down?: Popular Media Culture in Post-War Britain 9-45 Topic capitalism/business Harlequin Mills & Boon war/armed forces work gender
Christian-Smith, Linda K. (1993) "Voices of Resistance: Young Women Readers of Romance Fiction " Beyond Silenced Voices: Class, Race, and Gender in United States Schools 169-189 Topic YA/teenage romance social/economic class race/ethnicity gender United States of America readers work Publishing
Dubino, Jeanne (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 capitalism/business readers work gender
Nyquist, Mary (1993) "Romance in the Forbidden Zone " ReImagining Women: Representations of Women in Culture 160-181 Topic Samuel Richardson gender marriage Linda Shaw sex/sexuality race/ethnicity Sonya Pelton Native American romance Arlene James rape and/or intimate partner violence/abuse work
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 social/economic class socialism and/or communism UK Ethel Carnie Holdsworth Ellen Wilkinson rape and/or intimate partner violence/abuse capitalism/business work gender Older and/or precursor texts (may not be "romance" as now defined)
Kolko, Beth E. (1994) Writing the Romance: Cultural Studies, Community, and the Teaching of Writing PhD, University of Texas at Austin Topic authors feminism work community capitalism/business Publishing
Mayhew, Lilybeth M. (1994) The series romance: the changing representation of gender relationships within a popular genre Master of Arts (Hons.), University of Wollongong Topic Harlequin Mills & Boon gender readers feminism trash/literary and or intellectual quality genre definitions psychology pornography sex/sexuality work Connie Rinehold Elda Minger JoAnn Ross
Radway, Janice (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 authors feminism gender sex/sexuality romance scholarship Publishing work Jude Deveraux
Raub, Patricia (1994) Yesterday's Stories: Popular Women's Novels of the Twenties and Thirties Westport, Connecticut: Greenwood Press Topic Older and/or precursor texts (may not be "romance" as now defined) Temple Bailey Kathleen Thompson Norris E. M. Hull Gene Stratton-Porter Viña Delmar sex/sexuality marriage family work Dorothy Canfield United States of America history Faith Baldwin fashion/clothing Daphne du Maurier Margaret Mitchell gender
DeVries, Susan Dunlop, Margaret Goopy, Suzanne Moyle, Wendy Sutherland‐Lockhart, Diane (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 medical romance history work emotions sex/sexuality health/medical death family settings gender BDSM Harlequin Mills & Boon
DeVries, Susan Dunlop, Margaret Goopy, Suzanne Moyle, Wendy Sutherland‐Lockhart, Diane (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 medical romance history work emotions sex/sexuality health/medical death family settings gender BDSM Harlequin Mills & Boon
DeVries, Susan Dunlop, Margaret Goopy, Suzanne Moyle, Wendy Sutherland‐Lockhart, Diane (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 medical romance history work emotions sex/sexuality health/medical death family settings gender BDSM Harlequin Mills & Boon
DeVries, Susan Dunlop, Margaret Goopy, Suzanne Moyle, Wendy Sutherland‐Lockhart, Diane (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 medical romance history work emotions sex/sexuality health/medical death family settings gender BDSM Harlequin Mills & Boon
DeVries, Susan Dunlop, Margaret Goopy, Suzanne Moyle, Wendy Sutherland‐Lockhart, Diane (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 medical romance history work emotions sex/sexuality health/medical death family settings gender BDSM Harlequin Mills & Boon
Watson, Daphne (1995) Their Own Worst Enemies: Women Writers of Women's Fiction London: Pluto Press Topic Daphne du Maurier Mary Stewart Harlequin Mills & Boon fairytales/folktales gender Charlotte Brontë BDSM social/economic class food, drink fashion/clothing work
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 Topic metaphor/symbolism erotic romance gender sex/sexuality linguistics Shirlee Busbee Julie Garwood Roberta Gellis Johanna Lindsey Jayne Ann Krentz/Amanda Quick/Jayne Castle Bertrice Small Rachel Lee/Sue Civil-Brown Elizabeth Lowell Emma Merritt Fayrene Preston Kasey Stuart Linda Turner virginity food, drink war/armed forces rape and/or intimate partner violence/abuse work
Elliott, Margaret A. (1996) The Librarian's Stereotyped Image in Romance Novels, 1980-1995: Has the Image Changed? Masters, Kent State University Topic libraries/librarians work
Masteller, Jean Carwile (1996) "Romancing the Reader: From Laura Jean Libbey to Harlequin Romance and Beyond " Pioneers, Passionate Ladies, and Private Eyes: Dime Novels, Series Books, and Paperbacks 263-284 Topic Older and/or precursor texts (may not be "romance" as now defined) Laura Jean Libbey romances in magazines and newspapers Publishing work social/economic class Harlequin Mills & Boon sex/sexuality Jayne Ann Krentz/Amanda Quick/Jayne Castle metafiction
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 Topic metaphor/symbolism erotic romance gender sex/sexuality linguistics Shirlee Busbee Julie Garwood Roberta Gellis Johanna Lindsey Jayne Ann Krentz/Amanda Quick/Jayne Castle Bertrice Small Rachel Lee/Sue Civil-Brown Elizabeth Lowell Emma Merritt Fayrene Preston Kasey Stuart Linda Turner virginity food, drink war/armed forces rape and/or intimate partner violence/abuse work
Servén Díez, Carmen (1996) Novela rosa, novela blanca y escritura femenina en los años cuarenta: la evolución de Carmen de Icaza Asparkía: Investigació feminista 7:91-102 Topic Carmen de Icaza Spain work Rafael Pérez y Pérez marriage
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 Topic metaphor/symbolism erotic romance gender sex/sexuality linguistics Shirlee Busbee Julie Garwood Roberta Gellis Johanna Lindsey Jayne Ann Krentz/Amanda Quick/Jayne Castle Bertrice Small Rachel Lee/Sue Civil-Brown Elizabeth Lowell Emma Merritt Fayrene Preston Kasey Stuart Linda Turner virginity food, drink war/armed forces rape and/or intimate partner violence/abuse work
Foss, Kimberly Kay (1997) An Analysis to Determine if Popular Romance Novels, Read by Today’s High School Students, Reflect the Characteristics and Roles of Women in Current Society M.S. in Education with Emphasis in Library Science, University of Wyoming Topic YA/teenage romance work feminism United States of America race/ethnicity social/economic class
Margolis, Harriet (1997) A Childe in Love, Or Is It Just Fantasy? The Values of Women's Genres Para.doxa: Studies in World Literary Genres 3.1-2:121-144 Topic Emma Darcy emotions work family love
Saint-Jacques, Denis Bettinotti, Julia des Rivières, Marie-José Bleton, Paul Savoie, Chantal (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 Canada work gender Delly Barbara Cartland Harlequin Mills & Boon Charlotte Lamb Janet Dailey
Saint-Jacques, Denis Bettinotti, Julia des Rivières, Marie-José Bleton, Paul Savoie, Chantal (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 Canada work gender Delly Barbara Cartland Harlequin Mills & Boon Charlotte Lamb Janet Dailey
Saint-Jacques, Denis Bettinotti, Julia des Rivières, Marie-José Bleton, Paul Savoie, Chantal (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 Canada work gender Delly Barbara Cartland Harlequin Mills & Boon Charlotte Lamb Janet Dailey
Philips, Deborah Haywood, Ian (1998) Brave New Causes: Women in British Postwar Fictions London: Leicester University Press Topic social/economic class settings national identity work marriage medical romance history UK Harlequin Mills & Boon
Juhasz, Suzanne (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 lesbian romance LGBTQ+ characters, readers and/or authors Sarah Aldridge readers gender psychology work love sex/sexuality family
Moody, Nickianne (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 Harlequin Mills & Boon work family marriage Jo Morrison LaVyrle Spencer Mary Tate Engels Alicia Fox Cathy Gillen Thacker Rita Clay Estrada Cara McLean Candace Schuler Carla Neggers gender feminism
Philips, Deborah Haywood, Ian (1998) Brave New Causes: Women in British Postwar Fictions London: Leicester University Press Topic social/economic class settings national identity work marriage medical romance history UK Harlequin Mills & Boon
Saint-Jacques, Denis Bettinotti, Julia des Rivières, Marie-José Bleton, Paul Savoie, Chantal (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 Canada work gender Delly Barbara Cartland Harlequin Mills & Boon Charlotte Lamb Janet Dailey
Saint-Jacques, Denis Bettinotti, Julia des Rivières, Marie-José Bleton, Paul Savoie, Chantal (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 Canada work gender Delly Barbara Cartland Harlequin Mills & Boon Charlotte Lamb Janet Dailey
Williamson, Val (1998) "Labour of Love: Gender and the Delivery of the Nineties Mills & Boon "Medical" " Medical Fictions 103-116 Topic medical romance Harlequin Mills & Boon work paratext health/medical Gil Sanderson Margaret Holt
Christopherson, Neal (1999) Accommodation and Resistance in Religious Fiction: Family Structures and Gender Roles Sociology of Religion 60.4:439–455 DOI: 10.2307/3712025 Topic Christian romance YA/teenage romance gender sociology family work
Dixon, jay (1999) The Romance Fiction of Mills & Boon 1909-1990s London: UCL Press Topic Harlequin Mills & Boon rural romance settings marriage gender feminism war/armed forces work love Publishing sex/sexuality rape and/or intimate partner violence/abuse
Marks, Pamela (1999) "The Good Provider in Romance Novels " Romantic Conventions 10-22 Topic marriage wealth/prosperity emotions history United States of America Older and/or precursor texts (may not be "romance" as now defined) Susan Warner disability sex/sexuality work
McAleer, Joseph (1999) Passion's Fortune: The Story of Mills & Boon Oxford: Oxford University Press Topic Harlequin Mills & Boon Publishing UK Betty Beaty Mary Burchell, pen name of Ida Cook Elizabeth Carfrae Fay Chandos/Jan Tempest Sophie Cole Lilian Warren as Kathryn Blair/Rosalind Brett/Celine Conway Iris Danbury Joyce Dingwell/Kate Starr Constance M. Evans Eleanor Farnes Louise Gerard Elizabeth Gilzean romances in magazines and newspapers Roberta Leigh/Rachel Lindsay libraries/librarians Jean S. MacLeod/Catherine Airlie Phyllis Matthewman medical romance sex/sexuality work marriage race/ethnicity happy ending family religion/spirituality readers Marjorie Moore Betty Neels Valerie K. Nelson Kate Norway/Olive Norton Denise Robins Sara Seale Juliet Shore/Anne Vinton gender Alex Stuart Essie Summers Joan Sutherland Anne Weale Hilary Wilde Violet Winspear Mary Lutyens/Esther Wyndham Ireland
Ricker-Wilson, Carol (1999) Busting Textual Bodices: Gender, Reading, and the Popular Romance The English Journal 88.3:57-64 DOI: 10.2307/821580 Topic gender Danielle Steel readers feminism work social/economic class trash/literary and or intellectual quality
Darbyshire, Peter (2000) Romancing the World: Harlequin Romances, the Capitalist Dream, and the Conquest of Europe and Asia Studies in Popular Culture 23.1:1-10 Topic Harlequin Mills & Boon capitalism/business Publishing Poland Germany United States of America socialism and/or communism wealth/prosperity work Japan France
Hallam, Julia (2000) Nursing the Image: Media, Culture and Professional Identity London and New York: Routledge Topic medical romance work gender health/medical race/ethnicity social/economic class
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 Carmen de Icaza family Spain fascism/right-wing authoritarianism work gender marriage feminism religion/spirituality wealth/prosperity social/economic class capitalism/business
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 psychology love family marriage myth Harlequin Mills & Boon gender rape and/or intimate partner violence/abuse virginity sex/sexuality work
Makinen, Merja (2001) Feminist Popular Fiction Houndmills, Basingstoke: Palgrave Topic feminism romance scholarship Susan Napier work sex/sexuality gender Lisa Shapiro LGBTQ+ characters, readers and/or authors love family
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 psychology love family marriage myth Harlequin Mills & Boon gender rape and/or intimate partner violence/abuse virginity sex/sexuality work
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 sex/sexuality Christian romance Harlequin Mills & Boon gender United States of America feminism work family readers religion/spirituality capitalism/business
Hammill, Faye (2003) "The Republic of Love and Popular Romance " Carol Shields, Narrative Hunger, and the Possibilities of Fiction 61-83 Topic love Jane Austen metafiction work
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 Nora Roberts/J. D. Robb feminism science fiction/futuristic romance gender work rape and/or intimate partner violence/abuse marriage community
Morgan, Paula (2003) “Like Bush Fire in My Arms”: Interrogating the World of Caribbean Romance Journal of Popular Culture 36.4:804-827 DOI: 10.1111/1540-5931.00046 Topic Caribbean race/ethnicity Valerie Belgrave Dorothy Jolly Deidre D'Allan Lynn-Ann Ali Lucille Colleton Annette Charles settings social/economic class sex/sexuality work Islam
Whitsitt, Novian (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 Topic Nigeria Africa Islam religion/spirituality gender Bilkisu Ahmed Funtuwa marriage love work 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 Topic Nigeria Africa Islam Bilkisu Ahmed Funtuwa marriage gender religion/spirituality feminism work love family
Labanyi, Jo (2004) Romancing the Early Franco Regime: the Novelas Románticas of Concha Linares-Becerra and Luisa-María Linares UC Berkeley: Institute of European Studies: Occasional Papers Working Paper OP-13: Topic Concha Linares-Becerra Luisa-María Linares fascism/right-wing authoritarianism Spain film/movies war/armed forces work metafiction wealth/prosperity
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 Christian romance family gender United States of America work sex/sexuality religion/spirituality sociology
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 Spain national identity war/armed forces gender history work religion/spirituality marriage romance and, or as, activism fascism/right-wing authoritarianism
Rampure, Archana (2005) Doctors in the Darkness: Reading Race, Gender, and History in the Popular Medical Romance PhD, University of Toronto Topic medical romance race/ethnicity UK Olivia Gates war/armed forces national identity Harlequin Mills & Boon United States of America feminism work Juliet Shore/Anne Vinton Debbie Macomber health/medical history Lucy Agnes Hancock Louise Gerard Helen Dore Boylston Lilian Warren as Kathryn Blair/Rosalind Brett/Celine Conway Charlotte Lamb Africa war/armed forces
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 chick lit gender feminism Helen Fielding sex/sexuality work
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 chick lit gender feminism Helen Fielding sex/sexuality work
Ross, Catherine Bourland (2006) Carmen de Icaza: Novela Rosa as Feminist Discourse? Brown Working Papers : Topic Carmen de Icaza feminism Spain fascism/right-wing authoritarianism work
Sanders, Lise Shapiro (2006) Consuming Fantasies: Labor, Leisure, and the London Shopgirl, 1880-1920 Columbus: Ohio State University Press Topic social/economic class history gender readers Older and/or precursor texts (may not be "romance" as now defined) Publishing romances in magazines and newspapers work
Teo, Hsu-Ming (2007) "Orientalism and Mass Market Romance Novels in the Twentieth Century " Edward Said: The Legacy of a Public Intellectual 241-262 Topic sheikh romance gender race/ethnicity sex/sexuality history E. M. Hull UK United States of America work feminism family
Carter, Catherine (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 Older and/or precursor texts (may not be "romance" as now defined) marriage work social/economic class capitalism/business virginity gender
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 war/armed forces Australia history gender marriage national identity psychology health/medical sex/sexuality romances in magazines and newspapers disability work family
Liffen, Jane (2008) "A very Glamorized Picture, that": Images of Scottish Female Herring Workers on Romance Novel Covers Social Semiotics 18.3:349-361 DOI: 10.1080/10350330802217121 Topic paratext psychology work
Luneau, Marie-Pier (2008) « Tant d’amour à donner »: Le biographique, l’œuvre, et la figure de l’auteur Harlequin COnTEXTES 3: DOI: 10.4000/contextes.2413 Topic authors Harlequin Mills & Boon paratext family work
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 Spain fascism/right-wing authoritarianism Carmen de Icaza gender work metafiction
O'Byrne, Patricia (2008) Popular fiction in postwar Spain: the soothing, subversive novela rosa Journal of Romance Studies 8.2:37-57 DOI: 10.3828/jrs.8.2.37 Topic Spain fascism/right-wing authoritarianism work religion/spirituality María Mercedes Ortoll war/armed forces Ángeles Villarta Tuñón María Morgan/Rosa María Cajal
Rholetter, Wylene (2008) Nora Roberts Teaching American Literature: A Journal of Theory and Practice 2.2/3:1-35 Topic Nora Roberts/J. D. Robb rape and/or intimate partner violence/abuse family romantic suspense feminism work Janet Dailey fairytales/folktales paranormal/fantasy/time-travel romance Harlequin Mills & Boon
Sanmartí i Roset, Carme Sanmartí Roset, Montserrat (2008) La transmisión de los valores femeninos a través de la lectura (1900-1939) Salina. Revista de Lletres 22:153-160 Topic Spain readers gender religion/spirituality social/economic class work marriage
Sanmartí i Roset, Carme Sanmartí Roset, Montserrat (2008) La transmisión de los valores femeninos a través de la lectura (1900-1939) Salina. Revista de Lletres 22:153-160 Topic Spain readers gender religion/spirituality social/economic class work marriage
Cook, Nancy (2009) "Home on the Range: Montana Romances and Geographies of Hope " All Our Stories Are Here: Critical Perspectives on Montana Literature 55-77 Topic settings United States of America rural romance Tami Hoag LGBTQ+ characters, readers and/or authors work community animals
Cox, Anthony Fisher, Maryanne (2009) The Texas Billionaire's Pregnant Bride: An Evolutionary Interpretation of Romance Fiction Titles Journal of Social, Evolutionary, and Cultural Psychology 3.4:386-401 DOI: 10.1037/h0099308 Topic evolutionary psychology Harlequin Mills & Boon work family social/economic class
Cox, Anthony Fisher, Maryanne (2009) The Texas Billionaire's Pregnant Bride: An Evolutionary Interpretation of Romance Fiction Titles Journal of Social, Evolutionary, and Cultural Psychology 3.4:386-401 DOI: 10.1037/h0099308 Topic evolutionary psychology Harlequin Mills & Boon work family social/economic class
McKay, Jade Parsons, Elizabeth (2009) Out of Wedlock: The Consummation and Consumption of Marriage in Contemporary Romance Fiction Genders 50: Topic marriage Harlequin Mills & Boon sex/sexuality virginity wealth/prosperity work feminism family
McKay, Jade Parsons, Elizabeth (2009) Out of Wedlock: The Consummation and Consumption of Marriage in Contemporary Romance Fiction Genders 50: Topic marriage Harlequin Mills & Boon sex/sexuality virginity wealth/prosperity work feminism family
Mogin-Martin, Roselyne (2010) Corín Tellado : ¿de la novela rosa a la novela comprometida? Revista Arbor 186, Anexo 3:327-347 Topic Corín Tellado work marriage sex/sexuality race/ethnicity
Young, Erin S. (2010) Corporate Heroines and Utopian Individualism: A Study of the Romance Novel in Global Capitalism PhD, University of Oregon Topic work paranormal/fantasy/time-travel romance capitalism/business Jayne Ann Krentz/Amanda Quick/Jayne Castle Nora Roberts/J. D. Robb Elizabeth Lowell Katherine Stone Laurell K. Hamilton Charlaine Harris Kelley Armstrong Carrie Vaughn race/ethnicity national identity
Young, Erin S. (2010) Escaping the “Time Bind”: Negotiations of Love and Work in Jayne Ann Krentz's “Corporate Romances” The Journal of American Culture 33.2:92–106 DOI: 10.1111/j.1542-734X.2010.00736.x Topic Jayne Ann Krentz/Amanda Quick/Jayne Castle work capitalism/business family gender marriage race/ethnicity food, drink romantic suspense
Beers, Laura (2011) Feminism and Sexuality in Ellen Wilkinson's Fiction Parliamentary Affairs 64.2:248–262 DOI: 10.1093/pa/gsq060 Topic socialism and/or communism work gender marriage sex/sexuality Ellen Wilkinson Older and/or precursor texts (may not be "romance" as now defined) history
Saint-Jacques, Denis des Rivières, Marie-José (2011) Le féminisme problématique d’un roman d’amour, Anne Mérival Recherches féministes 24.1:61–76 DOI: 10.7202/1006077ar Topic Older and/or precursor texts (may not be "romance" as now defined) feminism work marriage war/armed forces Canada trash/literary and or intellectual quality Delly religion/spirituality romances in magazines and newspapers
McAleer, Joseph (2011) "Love, Romance, and the National Health Service " Classes, Cultures, & Politics: Essays on British History for Ross McKibbin 173-191 DOI:10.1093/acprof:osobl/9780199579884.003.0011 Topic Harlequin Mills & Boon UK medical romance health/medical work Elizabeth Gilzean Marjorie Moore Fay Chandos/Jan Tempest Kate Norway/Olive Norton Jean S. MacLeod/Catherine Airlie Juliet Shore/Anne Vinton Valerie K. Nelson Alex Stuart Joan Blair Betty Beaty Ireland Marguerite Lees Norrey Ford Anne Lorraine Mary Burchell, pen name of Ida Cook
Philips, Deborah (2011) "The Empire of Romance: Love in a Postcolonial Climate " End of Empire and the English Novel since 1945 114-133 Topic Harlequin Mills & Boon UK race/ethnicity Pamela Kent Juliet Shore/Anne Vinton Jean Herbert settings work Lilian Warren as Kathryn Blair/Rosalind Brett/Celine Conway Africa medical romance
Saint-Jacques, Denis des Rivières, Marie-José (2011) Le féminisme problématique d’un roman d’amour, Anne Mérival Recherches féministes 24.1:61–76 DOI: 10.7202/1006077ar Topic Older and/or precursor texts (may not be "romance" as now defined) feminism work marriage war/armed forces Canada trash/literary and or intellectual quality Delly religion/spirituality romances in magazines and newspapers
Baum, Thomas (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 work history gender Betty Beaty
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 comics/manga medical romance work gender war/armed forces
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 comics/manga medical romance work gender war/armed forces
Tatlock, Lynne (2012) German Writing, American Reading: Women and the Import of Fiction, 1866-1917 Columbus: Ohio State University Press Topic Germany United States of America translation gender work marriage fairytales/folktales family Publishing E. Marlitt/Eugenie John Wilhelmine Heimburg/Bertha Behrens Fanny Lewald Wilhelmine von Hillern Claire von Glümer Ursula Zöge von Manteuffel E. Werner/Elisabeth Bürstenbinder religion/spirituality Nataly von Eschstruth metafiction social/economic class Charlotte Brontë E. Juncker Moritz von Reichenbach/Valeska von Reiswitz, Gräfin von Bethusy-Huc Golo Raimund/Bertha [Heyn] Frederich history national identity war/armed forces race/ethnicity Louisa May Alcott
Goris, An (2013) Happily Ever After ... And After: Serialization and the Popular Romance Novel Americana: The Journal of American Popular Culture (1900-present) 12.1: Topic genre definitions Publishing community readers happy ending Nora Roberts/J. D. Robb J. R. Ward work family love
Hamilton, Cristen (2013) Vindicating the Historical Romance Plaza: Dialogues in Language and Literature 3.2:140-156 Topic historical romance Sabrina Jeffries work Jude Deveraux Christina Dodd marriage Lisa Kleypas gender Elizabeth Boyle happy ending Laura Lee Guhrke Cathy Maxwell
Taylor, Jessica Anne (2013) Write the Book of Your Heart: Career, Passion and Publishing in the Romance Writing Community PhD, University of Toronto Topic authors Publishing race/ethnicity social/economic class gender love work
Chivers, Marian (2014) The Warrior Woman in Contemporary Romance Fiction Masters, Federation University Australia Topic war/armed forces Harlequin Mills & Boon gender feminism paratext work romantic suspense Justine Davis/Justine Dare Amy J. Fetzer Katherine Garbera Meredith Fletcher Catherine Mann Debra Webb community
Lozano Sampedro, Mª Teresa (2014) La culture et le travail de la femme. Une approche comparative entre Delly et Corín Tellado L'Ull crític 17-18:235-248 Topic Delly Corín Tellado work marriage fairytales/folktales 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 rural romance gender feminism Australia work Rachael Treasure Nicole Alexander Karly Lane
O'Mahony, Lauren (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 animals rural romance Rachael Treasure Australia gender work death
Teo, Hsu-Ming (2014) “We have to learn to love imperially”: Love in Late Colonial and Federation Australian Romance Novels Journal of Popular Romance Studies 4.2: Topic Australia Older and/or precursor texts (may not be "romance" as now defined) love gender marriage national identity Mary Bradford Whiting UK race/ethnicity family sex/sexuality rape and/or intimate partner violence/abuse Broda Reynolds Mabel Forrest Marie Bjelke Petersen Alice Grant Rosman Rosa Praed rural romance settings work Ada Cambridge
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 Topic Africa work race/ethnicity South Africa gender
Miller, Jessica (2015) Passionate Virtue: Conceptions of Medical Professionalism in Popular Romance Fiction Literature and Medicine 33.1:70-90 DOI: 10.1353/lm.2015.0010 Topic medical romance health/medical work Harlequin Mills & Boon rape and/or intimate partner violence/abuse race/ethnicity rural romance
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 Christian romance readers gender religion/spirituality marriage work
Taylor, Jessica (2016) "Love the Market: Discourses of Passion and Professionalism in Romance Writing Communities " Romance Fiction and American Culture: Love as the Practice of Freedom? 273-295 Topic authors work emotions Publishing
Teo, Hsu-Ming (2016) "Orientalism, Freedom, and Feminism in Popular Culture " Romance Fiction and American Culture: Love as the Practice of Freedom? 181-203 Topic United States of America Islam history E. M. Hull historical romance sheikh romance sex/sexuality gender feminism work race/ethnicity Barbara Faith Elizabeth Mayne Dana Marton romantic suspense war/armed forces national identity
Vivanco, Laura (2016) Pursuing Happiness: Reading American Romance as Political Fiction Tirril, Penrith: Humanities-Ebooks Topic United States of America gender disability race/ethnicity history national identity Linnea Sinclair Pamela Morsi Nora Roberts/J. D. Robb Sharon Shinn LaVyrle Spencer Beverly Jenkins Karin Kallmaker work community historical romance Sharon Brondos Mary Burton Ruth Jean Dale Joan Johnston Ruth Wind/Barbara Samuel/Barbara O'Neal Joan Wolf LGBTQ+ characters, readers and/or authors
Young, Erin S. (2016) "Saving China: The Transformative Power of Whiteness in Elizabeth Lowell's Jade Island and Katherine Stone's Pearl Moon " Romance Fiction and American Culture: Love as the Practice of Freedom? 205-221 Topic race/ethnicity China Elizabeth Lowell Katherine Stone capitalism/business national identity work family love United States of America wealth/prosperity settings romantic suspense
Ali, Kecia (2017) Human in Death: Morality and Mortality in J. D. Robb's Novels Waco, Texas: Baylor University Press Topic Nora Roberts/J. D. Robb science fiction/futuristic romance family community race/ethnicity work gender romantic suspense police officers/police forces
Golubov, Nattie (2017) Reading the Romance Writer as an Author-Entrepreneur Interférences littéraires/Literaire interferenties 21:131-160 Topic authors work race/ethnicity readers
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 gender Harlequin Mills & Boon race/ethnicity work marriage family
Larson, Christine (2017) An Economy of Words: Precarity, Solidarity and Innovation in Digital Book Publishing PhD, Stanford University Topic Publishing authors work
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 gender Harlequin Mills & Boon race/ethnicity work marriage family
Blouin, Michael J. (2018) Mass-Market Fiction and the Crisis of American Liberalism, 1972–2017 Cham, Switzerland: Palgrave Macmillan Topic family social/economic class work capitalism/business
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 romances in magazines and newspapers gender social/economic class fashion/clothing work Older and/or precursor texts (may not be "romance" as now defined)
Taylor, Jessica (2018) Animating Creative Selves: Pen Names as Property in the Careers of Canadian and American Romance Writers American Ethnologist 45.1:112-123 DOI: 10.1111/amet.12603 Topic authors Publishing work
[Sigroha], Suman (2018) Gendered Migrations and Literary Narratives: Writing Communities in South Asian Diaspora Millennial Asia 9.1:93-108 DOI: 10.1177/0976399617753755 Topic authors work family gender Publishing
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 gender feminism love Jane Porter Leah Ashton Kate Hewitt Natalie Anderson work sex/sexuality
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 gender history United States of America Older and/or precursor texts (may not be "romance" as now defined) Laura Jean Libbey sex/sexuality work fashion/clothing social/economic class socialism and/or communism
Lois, Jennifer Gregson, Joanna (2019) Aspirational Emotion Work: Calling, Emotional Capital, and Becoming a 'Real' Writer Journal of Contemporary Ethnography 48.1:51-79 DOI: 10.1177/0891241617749011 Topic authors work emotions sociology
Lois, Jennifer Gregson, Joanna (2019) Aspirational Emotion Work: Calling, Emotional Capital, and Becoming a 'Real' Writer Journal of Contemporary Ethnography 48.1:51-79 DOI: 10.1177/0891241617749011 Topic authors work emotions sociology
Nikbakht, H. (2019) Female Agency in the Harlequin Romance Formula: developments within the timeframe of second wave feminism Bachelor’s thesis, Utrecht University Topic Harlequin Mills & Boon feminism family work sex/sexuality gender Carole Mortimer Roberta Leigh/Rachel Lindsay virginity rape and/or intimate partner violence/abuse health/medical marriage
Burg, Jacob (2020) Houses of Genre Fiction: The Shared Estrangement of Postwar American Culture PhD, Brandeis University Topic settings Kathleen Woodiwiss Helen Hoang rape and/or intimate partner violence/abuse social/economic class Danielle Steel work family sex/sexuality disability
Pierini, Francesca (2020) “He Looks like He’s Stepped out of a Painting:” The Idealization and Appropriation of Italian Timelessness through the Experience of Romantic Love Journal of Popular Romance Studies 9: DOI: 10.70138/ICPI2621 Topic Italy history Shakespeare Marina Fiorato Anne Fortier work race/ethnicity
Reed, Eleanor (2020) Romance in Woman’s Weekly and Woman’s Weekly as Romance, 1918–39 Journal of European Periodical Studies 5.2:80–94 DOI: 10.21825/jeps.v5i2.17039 Topic romances in magazines and newspapers social/economic class UK readers work
Schell, Heather (2020) After “I Do”: Turkish Harlequin Readers Re-Imagine the Happy Ending Journal of Popular Romance Studies 9: DOI: 10.70138/KCOO7755 Topic Turkey Harlequin Mills & Boon happy ending Shirley Jump family readers love work
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 libraries/librarians history health/medical United States of America work gender Publishing romance scholarship teaching romance paratext Marguerite Mooers Marshall Ethel Hamill/Jean Francis Webb war/armed forces Mary Stolz Dorothy Dowdell race/ethnicity Rose Dana/William Edward Daniel Ross Rubie Saunders
Abrahamsson, Elin (2021) Superwomen, Latte Dads and Feminist Alphas: Negotiations on Feminism in Contemporary Swedish Popular Romance Novels Journal of Popular Romance Studies 10: DOI: 10.70138/XOQE8663 Topic Sweden feminism gender family work national identity Simona Ahrnstedt Sofia Fritzson Christina Schiller Harlequin Mills & Boon LGBTQ+ characters, readers and/or authors social/economic class
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 Topic Harlequin Mills & Boon medical romance work gender UK romance and, or as, activism social/economic class readers authors romances in magazines and newspapers Elizabeth Gilzean Alex Stuart Hilda Pressley, pseudonym of Hilda Nickson Marguerite Lees family marriage Betty Neels
Burge, Amy (2021) "Class and wealth in popular romance fiction " The Routledge Research Companion to Popular Romance Fiction 395-410 DOI:10.4324/9781315613468-18 Topic social/economic class wealth/prosperity gender work race/ethnicity capitalism/business
Fernández Rodríguez, Carolina (2021) "Nora Roberts’s Boonsboro Empire: Boosting Business through Romance, Invigorating Romance with Affective Capitalism " Romantic Escapes: Post-Millennial Trends in Contemporary Popular Romance Fiction 97-119 Topic Nora Roberts/J. D. Robb capitalism/business work metaphor/symbolism
Kapstein, Helen (2021) "Petrofeminism: Love in the Age of Oil " Oil Fictions: World Literature and Our Contemporary Petrosphere 59-79 DOI:10.5325/jj.5233138.9 Topic ecocriticism/environmentalism/climate change Nigeria feminism Chimamanda Adichie Myne Whitman metafiction Balaraba Ramat Yakubu work capitalism/business
Romney, Rebecca (2021) The Romance Novel in English: A Survey in Rare Books, 1769-1999 : Type Punch Matrix Topic Publishing Older and/or precursor texts (may not be "romance" as now defined) work Harlequin Mills & Boon historical romance Christian romance gothic romance romantic suspense paranormal/fantasy/time-travel romance YA/teenage romance African American romance LGBTQ+ characters, readers and/or authors Frances Brooke Canada Elizabeth Inchbald Frances Burney Sydney Owenson national identity Ireland Ouida May Agnes Fleming Laura Jean Libbey Emma Wolf religion/spirituality Judaism Pauline Hopkins Onoto Watanna/Winnifred Eaton Japan Elinor Glyn Louise Gerard Barbara Cartland Laura Lou Brookman Kathleen Thompson Norris romances in magazines and newspapers Elizabeth Carfrae Frances Shelley Wees Lilian Warren as Kathryn Blair/Rosalind Brett/Celine Conway Jean S. MacLeod/Catherine Airlie Alice Lent Covert Joyce Dingwell/Kate Starr Australia Faith Baldwin Mary Renault medical romance Mary Burchell, pen name of Ida Cook Juliet Shore/Anne Vinton Della Field, pseudonym of Fanny Howe Janet Dailey Lydia Maria Child Charlotte M. Yonge Mary Johnston Susa Young Gates Kathleen Woodiwiss Rosemary Rogers June Lund Shiplett paratext Jayne Ann Krentz/Amanda Quick/Jayne Castle science fiction/futuristic romance Valerie Belgrave Caribbean Beverly Jenkins Jane Austen Susan Ferrier Georgette Heyer Amii Lorin Nora Roberts/J. D. Robb Marisa de Zavala/Ana Lisa de Leon/Rachel Scott/Celina Rios Mullan Sandra Kitt Maureen Wartski Augusta Jane Evans Florence Barclay Ethel M. Dell Janette Oke Beverly Lewis Charlotte Brontë Harriet Lewis Virginia Coffman Victoria Holt/Jean Plaidy/Eleanor Burford Hibbert Phyllis A. Whitney Mary Stewart Daoma Winston Chelsea Quinn Yarbro Rita Clay Estrada Lori Herter Jean Webster Robin McKinley Tracy West/Joyce McGill/Chassie West Marie G. Lee race/ethnicity Paula Christian Isabel Miller Gordon Merrick Ann Allen Shockley Vincent Virga Nancy Garden Katherine V. Forrest Loretta Chase Brenda Jackson
Boivin, Karol'Ann (2022) Jeune fille moderne, jeune fille instruite. L’instruction des héroïnes sentimentales chez Police Journal (1944-1965) Études françaises 58.1:55–75 DOI: 10.7202/1089741ar Topic Canada dime novels Older and/or precursor texts (may not be "romance" as now defined) work
Ficke, Sarah (2022) "House, home and husband in historical romance fiction " The Routledge Companion to Romantic Love DOI:10.4324/9781003022343-11 Topic historical romance Jane Austen Cecilia Grant Anna Cowan Anna Harrington Courtney Milan history work family marriage settings
Golubov, Nattie (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 race/ethnicity romantic suspense gender social/economic class Catherine Coulter Marie Force Kendra Elliot family work community
Turner, Ellen Wadsö Lecaros, Cecilia (2022) The desert-governess romance: Regency England meets exotic Arabia Lund Journal of English Studies 4:1-24 DOI: 10.48148/ljes.v4i.24863 Topic sheikh romance historical romance settings Marguerite Kaye Laura Martin Lynne Graham Kate Hewitt E. M. Hull work genre definitions Harlequin Mills & Boon paratext
Turner, Ellen Wadsö Lecaros, Cecilia (2022) The desert-governess romance: Regency England meets exotic Arabia Lund Journal of English Studies 4:1-24 DOI: 10.48148/ljes.v4i.24863 Topic sheikh romance historical romance settings Marguerite Kaye Laura Martin Lynne Graham Kate Hewitt E. M. Hull work genre definitions Harlequin Mills & Boon paratext
Kamblé, Jayashree (2023) Creating Identity: The Popular Romance Heroine's Journey to Selfhood and Self-Presentation : Indiana University Press Topic gender sex/sexuality work national identity race/ethnicity Susan Napier Nora Roberts/J. D. Robb Karen Marie Moning Lisa Kleypas Beverly Jenkins Linda Howard Kresley Cole Joanna Bourne Sherry Thomas Alyssa Cole metafiction social/economic class community emotions
Kamblé, Jayashree (2023) Romancing the University: BIPOC Scholars in Romance Novels in the 1980s and Now Esferas Literarias 6:39-55 DOI: 10.21071/elrl.vi6.16287 Topic race/ethnicity Sandra Kitt Barbara Stephens Adriana Herrera Nicole M. Jackson/Katrina Jackson/Brandy Bush Talia Hibbert African American romance work romance and, or as, activism
Kamblé, Jayashree (2023) The origins of U.S. mass-market category romance novels: Black editors and writers in the early 1980s The Journal of American Culture 46.3:252-265 DOI: https://doi.org/10.1111/jacc.13488 Topic race/ethnicity Publishing Vivian Stephens United States of America social/economic class work Rosalind Welles - pen name of Elsie B. Washington Lia Sanders - pen name of Angela Jackson and Sandra Jackson-Opoku Sandra Kitt Barbara Stephens Valerie Flournoy history sex/sexuality Rochelle Alers Donna Hill
McAlister, Jodi Parnell, Claire Trinidad, Andrea Anne (2023) Publishing Romance Fiction in the Philippines Cambridge: Cambridge University Press Topic Philippines Publishing social/economic class Mina V. Esguerra wealth/prosperity Keene Alicante sex/sexuality work LGBTQ+ characters, readers and/or authors settings authors paratext
Neely, Diana (2023) Who Says Women Can’t Love and Empower?: How Representations of Women Have Progressed in Medical Romance Fiction Honors Thesis, Eastern Kentucky University Topic medical romance Elizabeth Stuart Phelps work Marjorie Norrell Alyssa Cole Ali Hazelwood
McAlister, Jodi Parnell, Claire Trinidad, Andrea Anne (2023) Publishing Romance Fiction in the Philippines Cambridge: Cambridge University Press Topic Philippines Publishing social/economic class Mina V. Esguerra wealth/prosperity Keene Alicante sex/sexuality work LGBTQ+ characters, readers and/or authors settings authors paratext
Teo, Hsu-Ming (2023) "Love Is Not Enough: Australian Romantic Fiction from the Mid-Nineteenth to the Early Twentieth Century " The Cambridge History of the Australian Novel 97-113 DOI:10.1017/9781009090049.007 Topic Australia Older and/or precursor texts (may not be "romance" as now defined) Rosa Praed Marie Bjelke Petersen marriage love work
McAlister, Jodi Parnell, Claire Trinidad, Andrea Anne (2023) Publishing Romance Fiction in the Philippines Cambridge: Cambridge University Press Topic Philippines Publishing social/economic class Mina V. Esguerra wealth/prosperity Keene Alicante sex/sexuality work LGBTQ+ characters, readers and/or authors settings authors paratext
Johnson, Jacqueline Elizabeth (2024) Labors of Love: Black Women, Cultural Production, and the Romance Genre PhD, University of Southern California Topic Rebekah Weatherspoon Nicole M. Jackson/Katrina Jackson/Brandy Bush African American romance race/ethnicity capitalism/business wealth/prosperity work
Wiseman, Sarah Rose (2024) Hearts and Hashtags: How BookTok is Reshaping Romance Literature Honors Program in English and Media Studies, Guilford College Topic feminism gender work readers