happy ending

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

Seidel, Kathleen Gilles

(1992) "Judge Me by the Joy I Bring " Dangerous Men and Adventurous Women: Romance Writers on the Appeal of the Romance 159-179

Topic

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

Topic

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

Topic

Publishing

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

Topic

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

Santaulària, Isabel

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

Topic

paranormal/fantasy/time-travel romance

Kamble, Jayashree

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

Topic

Stephanie Laurens

Roach, Catherine M.

(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

(2012) Crusie and the Con Journal of Popular Romance Studies 2.2:

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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

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

Topic

Schwab, Sandra Martina

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

Topic

Weaver-Zercher, Valerie

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

Fletcher, Lisa

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

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Anne Gracie

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

Topic

paranormal/fantasy/time-travel romance

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

Topic

authors

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

Topic

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

Topic

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

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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

Schell, Heather

Larsen, Katherine

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

Topic

Sonali Dev

Radclyffe/Len Barot

gender

Toscano, Angela

(2019) "The Idolatry of the Real: Form, Formula, and Happy Endings in Romance Literature " Iconoclasm: The Breaking and Making of Images 173-192 DOI:10.2307/j.ctvnb7s6p.13

Topic

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

Topic

Duvezin-Caubet, Caroline

(2020) Gaily Ever After: Neo-Victorian M/M Genre Romance for the Twenty-First Century Neo-Victorian Studies 13.1:242-269 DOI: 10.5281/zenodo.4320839

Topic

Moreno-Álvarez, Alejandra

(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

Topic

India

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

Topic

Turkey

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

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romance and, or as, activism

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

sex/sexuality

Justine Davis/Justine Dare

Suleikha Snyder

Nora Roberts/J. D. Robb

community

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

McAlister, Jodi

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

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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

Topic

sociology

fascism/right-wing authoritarianism

paranormal/fantasy/time-travel romance

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

Topic

genre definitions

YA/teenage romance

Selinger, Eric Murphy

Vivanco, Laura

(2021) "Romance and/as religion " The Routledge Research Companion to Popular Romance Fiction 485-510 DOI:10.4324/9781315613468-22

Topic

Selinger, Eric Murphy

Vivanco, Laura

(2021) "Romance and/as religion " The Routledge Research Companion to Popular Romance Fiction 485-510 DOI:10.4324/9781315613468-22

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(2022) Save Our Love Creative Writing Masters Thesis, Liberty University

Topic

African American romance

Christian romance

Cruz-Bibb, Rosanna

(2022) Patriarchy, Feminism, and The Space Between: The Production and Consumption of Feminism in Romance Novels PhD thesis, University of Georgia

Topic

(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

Topic

(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

Topic

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

Topic

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

Topic

African American romance

romance and, or as, activism

Michelson, Anna

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

Topic

genre definitions

sociology

authors

sex/sexuality

African American romance

Native American romance

O'Brien, Lee

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

Topic

social/economic class

marriage

Pierini, Francesca

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

Topic

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

Topic

Nicholas Sparks

genre definitions

Mulvey, Alexandra Hazel

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

Topic

sport

gender

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

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

Topic

(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

Topic

E. M. Forster

Steffanie Holmes, pen name of Steff Green

Green, Steff

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

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family

Johnson, Jacqueline E.

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

Topic

(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