happy ending

(2014) Writing the Happy Ever After: An Interview with Anne Gracie Journal of Popular Romance Studies 4.2:

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Anne Gracie

(2019) La promesa utópica del final feliz Encuentros2050 32:8-11

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Steffanie Holmes, pen name of Steff Green

Golubov, Nattie

(2022) "La promesa de felicidad: la novela rosa y el placer de la lectura afectiva " El placer de la lectura: cuerpos, afectos, textos 65-94

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(2013) Happily Ever After ... And After: Serialization and the Popular Romance Novel Americana: The Journal of American Popular Culture (1900-present) 12.1:

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Nora Roberts/J. D. Robb

(2024) "More schlongs, more cats " Otherhood: Essays on being childless, childfree and child-adjacent

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family

Hamilton, Cristen

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

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

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

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(2022) Freedom’s Epilogue: Love as Freedom in Alyssa Cole’s Historical Novellas Journal of Popular Romance Studies 11: DOI: 10.70138/ZYOB2141

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African American romance

Jensen, Margaret Ann

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

Johnson, Jacqueline E.

(2024) Lusting out loud: racialized aurality, podcast intimacy, and the uses of thirst Communication, Culture and Critique 17.1:1-8 DOI: 10.1093/ccc/tcae001

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(2008) Uncovering and Recovering the Popular Romance Novel PhD, University of Minnesota

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Stephanie Laurens

Kies, Bridget

(2024) Saying “I Don’t”: Queer Romance in the Post–Marriage Equality World Journal of Popular Romance Studies 13: DOI: 10.70138/YKLZ4173

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marriage

Jayne Ann Krentz/Amanda Quick/Jayne Castle

film/movies

Alexis Hall

Kinsale, Laura

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

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

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

Laura Kinsale

psychology

Susan Elizabeth Phillips

feminism

Daphne Clair

Suzanne Simmons Guntrum

Diana Palmer

Kathleen Gilles Seidel

Kvistad, Erika

(2026) Happily Ever After?/Happily Ever After! Negotiating the Gothic in Contemporary Dark Romance Journal of Popular Romance Studies 15.1: DOI: 10.70138/SMVY7579

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

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Sonali Dev

Radclyffe/Len Barot

gender

Mayfield, Kerrita K.

(2014) Liminal eRoticism: Emerging Forms of Gender Identity and Performance in e-Romances and Their Feminist Electronic Communities Taboo: The Journal of Culture and Education 14.1:53-70 DOI: 10.31390/taboo.14.1.07

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paranormal/fantasy/time-travel romance

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

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Mary Burchell, pen name of Ida Cook

Publishing

Betty Beaty

Elizabeth Carfrae

Fay Chandos/Jan Tempest

Sophie Cole

Lilian Warren as Kathryn Blair/Rosalind Brett/Celine Conway

Iris Danbury

Joyce Dingwell/Kate Starr

romances in magazines and newspapers

Roberta Leigh/Rachel Lindsay

libraries/librarians

Jean S. MacLeod/Catherine Airlie

Mary Lutyens/Esther Wyndham

Kate Norway/Olive Norton

Denise Robins

Sara Seale

Juliet Shore/Anne Vinton

Ireland

McAlister, Jodi

(2021) "Erotic romance " The Routledge Research Companion to Popular Romance Fiction 212-228 DOI:10.4324/9781315613468-9

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

romance and, or as, activism

Michelson, Anna

(2021) The politics of happily-ever-after: romance genre fiction as aesthetic public sphere American Journal of Cultural Sociology 9:177–210 DOI: 10.1057/s41290-020-00126-7

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sociology

fascism/right-wing authoritarianism

(2022) Redefining the Romance: Classification and Community in a Popular Fiction Genre PhD thesis, Northwestern University

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romance and, or as, activism

sociology

authors

sex/sexuality

African American romance

Native American romance

Miller, Jessica

(2026) ""I Shall Be Very Happy, Indeed": The Meanings of Happiness in Bridgerton " Bridgerton and Philosophy: Dukes, Debutantes, and Deep Questions 51-61 DOI:10.1002/9781394304455.ch5

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Moreno-Álvarez, Alejandra

philosophy

Julia Quinn

(2020) "India, Heat, Dust, and Tea? Alienness and Marketability in Ruth Prawer Jhabvala and Nicole C. Vosseler " Diasporic Inquiries into South Asian Women’s Narratives: Alien Domiciles 39-51

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India

Mulvey, Alexandra Hazel

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

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sport

gender

(2023) Nicholas Charles Sparks’s The Notebook: A Novel Of Love Or Romance? Journal of Namibian Studies 35, special issue 1:3749-3755

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

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social/economic class

marriage

Paizis, George

(1998) Love and the Novel: The Poetics and Politics of Romantic Fiction Houndmills, Basingstoke: Macmillan

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Publishing

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

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

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(2023) Towards a Regime of Authenticity. Reading A Room with a View through the Lens of Contemporary Romance Scholarship LEA - Lingue E Letterature D'Oriente E D'Occidente 12:217-228 DOI: 10.36253/lea-1824-484x-14273

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E. M. Forster

paranormal/fantasy/time-travel romance

Pyrhönen, Heta

(2017) "Love under Threat: The Emotional Valences of the Twilight Saga " Writing Emotions: Theoretical Concepts and Selected Case Studies in Literature 347-362

Topic

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

(2010) Getting a Good Man to Love: Popular Romance Fiction and the Problem of Patriarchy Journal of Popular Romance Studies 1.1:

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love

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

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authors

(2025) A real bad boy: How Colleen Hoover’s It Ends with Us exploits romance tropes TEXT 29, Special Issue 75: DOI: 10.52086/001c.142609

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paranormal/fantasy/time-travel romance

Santaulària, Isabel

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

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Schell, Heather

Larsen, Katherine

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

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Sonali Dev

Radclyffe/Len Barot

gender

Schell, Heather

(2020) After “I Do”: Turkish Harlequin Readers Re-Imagine the Happy Ending Journal of Popular Romance Studies 9: DOI: 10.70138/KCOO7755

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Turkey

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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