Hess, Jonathan M. (2010) Middlebrow Literature and the Making of German-Jewish Identity Stanford, California: Stanford University Press Topic Judaism Germany Older and/or precursor texts (may not be "romance" as now defined) romances in magazines and newspapers Ludwig Philippson Salomon Formstecher religion/spirituality Rahel Meyer family Marcus Lehmann George Eliot
Scupham, Hannah Elizabeth (2022) “Reader, I Married Him”: Readership, Imagination, and Politics of the Marriage Plot in the Nineteenth-Century Novel PhD, University of Kansas Topic historical romance Older and/or precursor texts (may not be "romance" as now defined) readers Jane Austen Elizabeth Gaskell George Eliot