romance scholarship

Martin, Michèle

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

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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

Gautier-Villon, Claire-Elizabeth

psychology

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

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Jayne Ann Krentz/Amanda Quick/Jayne Castle

Jayne Ann Krentz/Amanda Quick/Jayne Castle

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

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

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

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Mussell, Kay

(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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Regis, Pamela

(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

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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

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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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(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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(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

Mussell, Kay

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

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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)

(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

Ramsdell, Kristin

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

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(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

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

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Maher, Jennifer

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

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(2001) Feminist Popular Fiction Houndmills, Basingstoke: Palgrave

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love

family

Mussell, Kay

(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)

Scott, Alison M.

(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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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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(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

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

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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

(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

Susan Elizabeth Phillips

(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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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:

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(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

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

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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(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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(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

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

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

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(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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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

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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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African American romance

race/ethnicity

pornography

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

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Susan Elizabeth Phillips

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

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

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Gómez Gray, Alana

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

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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

romantic suspense

Samuel Richardson

(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

Burge, Amy

Robinson, Rachel

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

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sheikh romance

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

García Fernández, Aurora

Fresno-Calleja, Paloma

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Victoria Holt/Jean Plaidy/Eleanor Burford Hibbert

love

Australia

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

Phyllis A. Whitney

social/economic class

Catherine Cookson

Christine Marion Fraser

McAlister, Jodi

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

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

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sheikh romance

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

Vivanco, Laura

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

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

Justine Davis/Justine Dare

Suleikha Snyder

community

happy ending

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

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

Allen, Amanda K.

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

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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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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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(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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Mäkelä, Veera

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

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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 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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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

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

(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

(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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(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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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

(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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González-Cruz, María Isabel

(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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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

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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(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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(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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(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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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

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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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

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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

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

Pierini, Francesca

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

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E. M. Forster

happy ending

(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

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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

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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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Horst, Lauren

(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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