romance scholarship

Ali, Kecia

(2021) "Author studies and popular romance fiction " The Routledge Research Companion to Popular Romance Fiction 320-334 DOI:10.4324/9781315613468-14

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Marie Bjelke Petersen

Suzanne Brockmann

Allan, Jonathan A.

(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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disability

Fay Robinson/Carmel Parsons Thomaston

(2021) "Young adult romance " The Routledge Research Companion to Popular Romance Fiction 168-190 DOI:10.4324/9781315613468-7

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YA/young adult/teenage/new adult/NA romance

(2025) Editorial: Degrees of Love and Trope Actually TEXT 29, Special Issue 75: DOI: 10.52086/001c.142608

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Bartlett, Lexey A.

(2016) Review of Love Between the Covers by Laurie Kahn (Blueberry Hill Productions, 2015) Dialogue: The Interdisciplinary Journal of Popular Culture and Pedagogy 3.2:

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des Rivières, Marie-José

(2000) "Un élargissement du canon littéraire : le cas du roman d'amour " Que vaut la littérature? 357-372

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(2020) Review essay on The Sheik Journal of Popular Romance Studies 9: DOI: 10.70138/FSSL7483

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(1988) Romantic fiction: a neglected area of research Australasian public libraries and information services (APLIS) 1.2:123-129

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Chan, McKenzie

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

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Ana Huang

Constans, Ellen

(1999) Parlez-moi d’amour: Le roman sentimental. Des romans grecs aux collections de l’an 2000 Limoges: PULIM (Presses universitaires de Limoges)

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

France

Constans, Ellen

(2009) La censure du roman sentimental en France ou le refoulement des mauvais genres Belphégor 8.2:

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

France

(2025) Editorial: Degrees of Love and Trope Actually TEXT 29, Special Issue 75: DOI: 10.52086/001c.142608

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Joyce Dingwell/Kate Starr

Dalziell, Tanya

(2021) "Australia's Long Relationship with Romance " The Routledge Companion to Australian Literature 365-373

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Bettinotti, Julia

des Rivières, Marie-José

(2000) "Un élargissement du canon littéraire : le cas du roman d'amour " Que vaut la littérature? 357-372

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(2025) Editorial: Degrees of Love and Trope Actually TEXT 29, Special Issue 75: DOI: 10.52086/001c.142608

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Fanetti, Susan

(2022) "Introduction—Popular Romance in the 21st Century: Time to Claim Its Due " New Frontiers in Popular Romance: Essays on the Genre in the 21st Century 1-13

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(2025) Broken Slippers and Glass Ceilings: Exploring the Romance of Reading Romance Journal of Popular Romance Studies 14: DOI: 10.70138/LNNE4394

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Pakistan

teaching romance

Frantz, Sarah S. G.

(2012) "Introduction: New Approaches to Popular Romance Fiction " New Approaches to Popular Romance Fiction: Critical Essays 1-19

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Loretta Chase

García Fernández, Aurora

Fresno-Calleja, Paloma

(2020) Competence, Complicity and Complexity: Hsu-Ming Teo on the Pitfalls and Nuances of Reading and Researching Popular Romance Raudem, Revista de Estudios de las Mujeres 8:261-280 DOI: http://dx.doi.org/10.25115/raudem.v8i0.4297

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love

Australia

Fresno-Calleja, Paloma

(2023) New Romantic Narratives for the Twenty-First Century Esferas Literarias 6:1-5 DOI: 10.21071/elrl.vi6.15636

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Frost, Laura

(2006) "The Romance of Cliché: E. M. Hull, D. H. Lawrence, and Interwar Erotic Fiction " Bad Modernisms 94-118 DOI:10.2307/j.ctv125jq8v.8

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E. M. Hull

(2013) The Problem with Pleasure: Modernism and Its Discontents New York: Columbia University Press

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E. M. Hull

García Fernández, Aurora

Fresno-Calleja, Paloma

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Gautier-Villon, Claire-Elizabeth

love

Australia

(1994) The Appeal of the Mass-Market Romance M.A., University of Alberta

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Jayne Ann Krentz/Amanda Quick/Jayne Castle

González-Cruz, María Isabel

Gleason, William A.

(2016) "Introduction: Love as the Practice of Freedom? " Romance Fiction and American Culture: Love as the Practice of Freedom? 1-21

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(2018) Lectura, paraliteratura y mujeres en España: de la novela rosa a cincuenta sombras Arenal 25.1:215-236

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(2022) "Interdisciplinarity in Romance Fiction " 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 345-366

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González-Cruz, María Isabel

(2022) "La interdisciplinariedad en la ficción romántica " 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 161-184

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Goris, An

(2011) Matricide in Romance Scholarship? Response to Pamela Regis’ Keynote Address at the Second Annual Conference of the International Association for the Study of Popular Romance Journal of Popular Romance Studies 2.1:

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Goris, An

(2012) Mind, Body, Love: Nora Roberts and the Evolution of Popular Romance Studies Journal of Popular Romance Studies 3.1:

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(2025) Editorial: Degrees of Love and Trope Actually TEXT 29, Special Issue 75: DOI: 10.52086/001c.142608

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(2025) Editorial: Degrees of Love and Trope Actually TEXT 29, Special Issue 75: DOI: 10.52086/001c.142608

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Vivian Stephens (also wrote as Angela Vivian with co-author Angela Dew)

Hendricks, Margo

Moody-Freeman, Julie E.

(2022) Introduction to the Special Issue on Black Romance Journal of Popular Romance Studies 11: DOI: 10.70138/UEEC8118

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Alyssa Cole

Rebekah Weatherspoon

Gwyneth Bolton/Gwendolyn Pough

Rochelle Alers

Margo Hendricks/Elysabeth Grace

Hirst, Holly

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

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gothic romance

Victoria Holt/Jean Plaidy/Eleanor Burford Hibbert

Phyllis A. Whitney

social/economic class

Catherine Cookson

Christine Marion Fraser

Hirst, Holly

(2021) "Georgette Heyer and redefining the Gothic romance " Georgette Heyer, History, and Historical Fiction 105-118 DOI:10.2307/j.ctv15d818n.12

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(2025) Editorial: Degrees of Love and Trope Actually TEXT 29, Special Issue 75: DOI: 10.52086/001c.142608

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Hollows, Joanne

(2000) Feminism, Femininity and Popular Culture Manchester: Manchester University Press

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(1997) Romance and agency: An argument revisited Sociological Spectrum 17.4:437-451 DOI: 10.1080/02732173.1997.9982177

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(2024) "The Romance Novel " The Oxford History of the Novel in English: Volume 8: American Fiction since 1940 468–483 DOI:10.1093/oso/9780192844729.003.0041

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

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(2021) "Introduction " The Routledge Research Companion to Popular Romance Fiction 1-23 DOI:10.4324/9781315613468-25

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(2021) The Routledge Research Companion to Popular Romance Fiction Abingdon, Oxon: Routledge

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(1997) Romance and agency: An argument revisited Sociological Spectrum 17.4:437-451 DOI: 10.1080/02732173.1997.9982177

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(1987) Up From Under, or On Not Marrying the Racist Aussie Boss: Strategies for Reading Romantic Fiction Hecate 13.1:7-20

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social/economic class

Australia

race/ethnicity

Margaret Way

Maher, Jennifer

(2001) Ripping the Bodice: Eating, Reading, and Revolt College Literature 28.1:64-83

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

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(2001) Feminist Popular Fiction Houndmills, Basingstoke: Palgrave

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

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

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Ivanski, Chantelle

Maslej, Marta M.

Mar, Raymond A.

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

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(2025) Editorial: Degrees of Love and Trope Actually TEXT 29, Special Issue 75: DOI: 10.52086/001c.142608

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McAlister, Jodi

(2020) The Consummate Virgin: Female Virginity Loss and Love in Anglophone Popular Literatures Cham, Switzerland: Palgrave Macmillan

McAlister, Jodi

(2022) Isn’t It Iconic: Canonical Logics and the Romance Genre Journal of Popular Romance Studies 11: DOI: 10.70138/PSGT6480

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Ménard, A. Dana

(2013) Note from the Field: Reflecting on Romance Novel Research: Past, Present and Future Journal of Popular Romance Studies 3.2:

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

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BDSM

Jayne Ann Krentz/Amanda Quick/Jayne Castle

Susan Elizabeth Phillips

Linda Howard

evolutionary psychology

Moody, Stephanie

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

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Samuel Richardson

Jane Austen

Vivian Stephens (also wrote as Angela Vivian with co-author Angela Dew)

Susan Elizabeth Phillips

Moody-Freeman, Julie E.

(2022) Introduction to the Special Issue on Black Romance Journal of Popular Romance Studies 11: DOI: 10.70138/UEEC8118

Topic

Alyssa Cole

Rebekah Weatherspoon

Gwyneth Bolton/Gwendolyn Pough

Rochelle Alers

Margo Hendricks/Elysabeth Grace

Moody-Freeman, Julie E.

(2022) Response to Eric Selinger’s “Cant and Canonicity” Journal of Popular Romance Studies 11: DOI: 10.70138/KUMM2566

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

(2012) The Heroine as Reader, the Reader as Heroine: Jennifer Crusie’s Welcome to Temptation Journal of Popular Romance Studies 2.2:

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(1981) Women’s Gothic and Romantic Fiction: A Reference Guide Westport, Connecticut: Greenwood Press

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gothic romance

Victoria Holt/Jean Plaidy/Eleanor Burford Hibbert

Catharine Maria Sedgwick

Augusta Jane Evans

E. D. E. N. Southworth

Margaret Mitchell

Daphne du Maurier

Mary Stewart

Phyllis A. Whitney

Rosemary Rogers

Kathleen Thompson Norris

Grace Livingston Hill

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

Jayne Ann Krentz/Amanda Quick/Jayne Castle

(1997) Paradoxa Interview with Jayne Ann Krentz Para.doxa: Studies in World Literary Genres 3.1-2:46-57

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(1997) Where's Love Gone? Transformations in Romance Fiction and Scholarship Para.doxa: Studies in World Literary Genres 3.1-2:3-14

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(1998) Kay Mussell Replies to Tania Modleski Para.doxa: Studies in World Literary Genres 4.9:145-147

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Tuñón, Johanna

(1999) North American Romance Writers Lanham, Maryland: Scarecrow Press

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Rachel Lee/Sue Civil-Brown

Judith Ivory/Judy Cuevas

Sharon and Tom Curtis

Justine Davis/Justine Dare

Eileen Dreyer/Kathleen Korbel

Kathleen Eagle

Patricia Gaffney

Jennifer Greene/Jeanne Grant/Jessica Massey/Alison Hart

Maggie Osborne/Margaret St. George

Ruth Wind/Barbara Samuel/Barbara O'Neal

Kathleen Gilles Seidel

(2002) "Romance Fiction " The Greenwood Guide to American Popular Culture: Volume Four (Pulps and Dime Novels through Young Adult Fiction) 1559-1600

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

Nowacki, Dariusz

(2020) Access Paths: On Popular Women’s Literature and Criticism Tematy i Konteksty Special Issue in English, No. 1: A Selection of the Decade: DOI: 10.15584/tik.spec.eng.2020.20

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Olivier, Séverine

(2012) Francophone Perspectives on Romantic Fiction: From the Academic Field to Reader’s Experience Journal of Popular Romance Studies 2.2:

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translation

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

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social/economic class

national identity

Pérez Fernández, Irene

Pérez Ríu, Carmen

(2021) "Romantic Escapes in Contemporary Popular Romance Fiction " Romantic Escapes: Post-Millennial Trends in Contemporary Popular Romance Fiction 11-25

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Pérez Fernández, Irene

Pérez Ríu, Carmen

(2021) "Romantic Escapes in Contemporary Popular Romance Fiction " Romantic Escapes: Post-Millennial Trends in Contemporary Popular Romance Fiction 11-25

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Pérez-Casal, Inmaculada

(2022) "La novela rosa o romántica: pasado, presente y futuro " 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 37-52

Topic

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

Pérez-Casal, Inmaculada

(2022) "Popular romance novels: past, present and future " 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 233-246

Topic

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

Philips, Deborah

(2020) In defence of reading (and watching) trash: Feminists reading the romance European Journal of Cultural Studies 23.6:900–914 DOI: 10.1177/1367549420957334

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Pierini, Francesca

(2021) “Sharing the Same Soil:” Sally Rooney’s Normal People and the Coming-of-Age Romance Prospero. Rivista di letterature e culture straniere :141-166 DOI: 10.13137/2283-6438/33293

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Sally Rooney

Pierini, Francesca

(2022) Romance and Metagenre: A Response to Burkhard Niederhoff Connotations: A Journal for Critical Debate 31:100-111

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(1986) New Views on the Mass Production of Women's Culture Communication Research 13.1:139-149 DOI: 10.1177/009365028601300108

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Radford, Jean

(1986) "Introduction " The Progress of Romance: The Politics of Popular Fiction 1-20

Topic

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

socialism and/or communism

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

Radford, Jean

(1992) "A Certain Latitude: Romance as Genre " Gender, Language, and Myth: Essays on Popular Narrative 3-19

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socialism and/or communism

(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

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Ramos-García, María T.

(2021) "Paranormal romance and urban fantasy " The Routledge Research Companion to Popular Romance Fiction 141-167 DOI:10.4324/9781315613468-6

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happy ending

YA/young adult/teenage/new adult/NA romance

(1999) Romance Fiction: A Guide to the Genre Englewood, Colorado: Libraries Unlimited

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(2018) Encyclopedia of Romance Fiction Santa Barbara, California: Greenwood

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science fiction/futuristic romance

Elinor Glyn

Margaret Mitchell

Victoria Holt/Jean Plaidy/Eleanor Burford Hibbert

E. M. Hull

romantic suspense

Samuel Richardson

(1997) Complicating Romances and their Readers: Barrier and Point of Ritual Death in Nora Roberts's Category Fiction Para.doxa: Studies in World Literary Genres 3.1-2:145-154

Topic

Regis, Pamela

(2011) What Do Critics Owe the Romance? Keynote Address at the Second Annual Conference of the International Association for the Study of Popular Romance Journal of Popular Romance Studies 2.1:

Topic

(2021) "The evolution of the American romance novel " The Routledge Research Companion to Popular Romance Fiction 51-71 DOI:10.4324/9781315613468-2

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

Onoto Watanna/Winnifred Eaton

Charles Brockden Brown

Sukey Vickery

Catharine Maria Sedgwick

Lydia Maria Child

E. D. E. N. Southworth

Louisa May Alcott

Frances Watkins Harper

race/ethnicity

Jean Webster

Kathleen Thompson Norris

Viña Delmar

family

Claire Morgan/Patricia Highsmith

Roach, Catherine M.

(2014) 'Going Native': Aca-Fandom and Deep Participant Observation in Popular Romance Studies Mosaic 47.2:33-49 DOI: 10.1353/mos.2014.0011

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Roach, Catherine M.

(2016) Happily Ever After: The Romance Story in Popular Culture Bloomington, Indiana: Indiana University Press

Topic

(2024) Fantasy and Desire: From my Mother’s Stack of Trashy Novels to an Experiment in Writing at Field’s Edge Journal of Popular Romance Studies 13: DOI: 10.70138/VAWK7743

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Burge, Amy

Robinson, Rachel

(2020) Review essay on The Sheik Journal of Popular Romance Studies 9: DOI: 10.70138/FSSL7483

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(1990) "La recherche sur le roman sentimental au CRELIQ de l'Université de Laval " Le roman sentimental: actes du colloque des 14-15-16 mars 1989 à la Faculté des lettres de Limoges, volume 1 175-183

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Schell, Heather

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

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evolutionary psychology

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

(2002) "Romance in the Stacks; or, Popular Romance Fiction Imperiled " Scorned Literature: Essays on the History and Criticism of Popular Mass-Produced Fiction in America 213-224

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(2007) Rereading the Romance Contemporary Literature 48.2:307-324 DOI: 10.1353/cli.2007.0033

Topic

Frantz, Sarah S. G.

(2012) "Introduction: New Approaches to Popular Romance Fiction " New Approaches to Popular Romance Fiction: Critical Essays 1-19

Topic

Loretta Chase

(2012) Nothing But Good Times Ahead: A Special Forum on Jennifer Crusie (Editor’s Introduction) Journal of Popular Romance Studies 2.2:

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(2012) The Heroine as Reader, the Reader as Heroine: Jennifer Crusie’s Welcome to Temptation Journal of Popular Romance Studies 2.2:

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(2015) An Interview with Susan Elizabeth Phillips Journal of Popular Romance Studies 5.1:

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Susan Elizabeth Phillips

Gleason, William A.

(2016) "Introduction: Love as the Practice of Freedom? " Romance Fiction and American Culture: Love as the Practice of Freedom? 1-21

Topic

Nell Stark

(2018) Use Heart in Your (Re)Search: The Invitations of Popular Romance Researching the Romance, conference held at Bowling Green State University, on 13 April :

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teaching romance

Sherry Thomas

(2021) "Introduction " The Routledge Research Companion to Popular Romance Fiction 1-23 DOI:10.4324/9781315613468-25

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(2021) "Literary approaches " The Routledge Research Companion to Popular Romance Fiction 294-319 DOI:10.4324/9781315613468-13

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(2021) The Routledge Research Companion to Popular Romance Fiction Abingdon, Oxon: Routledge

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(2022) Cant and Canonicity Journal of Popular Romance Studies 11: DOI: 10.70138/BLEJ1448

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teaching romance

Sheehan, Sarah E.

(2022) The “Popular Romance Canon”: An Academic Librarian’s Response Journal of Popular Romance Studies 11: DOI: 10.70138/BHSR3256

Topic

Spehner, Norbert

(1997) L'Amour, toujours l'amour ...: The Popular Love Story and Romance: A Basic Checklist of Secondary Sources Para.doxa: Studies in World Literary Genres 3.1-2:253-268

Topic

(2025) Editorial: Degrees of Love and Trope Actually TEXT 29, Special Issue 75: DOI: 10.52086/001c.142608

Topic

(2025) Editorial: Degrees of Love and Trope Actually TEXT 29, Special Issue 75: DOI: 10.52086/001c.142608

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

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history

health/medical

Marguerite Mooers Marshall

Ethel Hamill/Jean Francis Webb

Rose Dana/William Edward Daniel Ross

Rubie Saunders

(2021) "Introduction " The Routledge Research Companion to Popular Romance Fiction 1-23 DOI:10.4324/9781315613468-25

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(2021) The Routledge Research Companion to Popular Romance Fiction Abingdon, Oxon: Routledge

Topic

(1997) Romance and agency: An argument revisited Sociological Spectrum 17.4:437-451 DOI: 10.1080/02732173.1997.9982177

Topic

(1999) North American Romance Writers Lanham, Maryland: Scarecrow Press

Topic

Rachel Lee/Sue Civil-Brown

Judith Ivory/Judy Cuevas

Sharon and Tom Curtis

Justine Davis/Justine Dare

Eileen Dreyer/Kathleen Korbel

Kathleen Eagle

Patricia Gaffney

Jennifer Greene/Jeanne Grant/Jessica Massey/Alison Hart

Maggie Osborne/Margaret St. George

Ruth Wind/Barbara Samuel/Barbara O'Neal

Kathleen Gilles Seidel

Vivanco, Laura

(2020) Faith, Love, Hope and Popular Romance Fiction Online:

Topic

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

Justine Davis/Justine Dare

Suleikha Snyder

community

happy ending

Watson, Courtney

(2022) "I Thought You’d Never Ask: Consent in Contemporary Romance " New Frontiers in Popular Romance: Essays on the Genre in the 21st Century 62-75

Topic

Weisser, Susan Ostrov

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

Topic

African American romance

race/ethnicity

pornography

Williams, Jeffrey J.

(2006) The Culture of Books: An Interview with Janice Radway Minnesota Review: A Journal of Committed Writing ns 65-66:133-148 DOI: 10.1215/00265667-2006-65-66-133

Topic

Young, Beth Rapp

(1997) Accidental Authors, Random Readers, and the Art of Popular Romance Para.doxa: Studies in World Literary Genres 3.1-2:29-45

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