Christian romance

family

Barrett-Fox, Rebecca

(2015) Review: When Mercy Rains Mennonite Life 69:

Topic

Kim Vogel Sawyer

Barrett-Fox, Rebecca

(2016) "Christian Romance Novels: Inspiring Convention and Challenge " Romance Fiction and American Culture: Love as the Practice of Freedom? 347-368

Topic

(2021) "Inspirational Romance " The Routledge Research Companion to Popular Romance Fiction 191-211 DOI:10.4324/9781315613468-8

Topic

Janette Oke

African American romance

(2005) Patriarchy, the Christian Romance Novel, and the 'Ecosystem of Sex' Popular Culture Review 16.1:147-155

Topic

feminism

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

Topic

African American romance

trash/literary and or intellectual quality

happy ending

Bianchi, Diana

D'Arcangelo, Adele

(2015) Translating History or Romance? Historical Romantic Fiction and Its Translation in a Globalised Market Linguistics and Literature Studies 3.5:248-253 DOI: 10.13189/lls.2015.030508

Topic

translation

historical romance

Diana Gabaldon

(1997) Protestant Evangelical Literary Culture and Contemporary Society Westport: Greenwood Press

Topic

(2012) Contemporary American Christian Fiction: Young and Rivers Diploma, Masaryk University

Topic

paranormal/fantasy/time-travel romance

Carpan, Carolyn

(2004) Rocked by Romance: A Guide to Teen Romance Fiction Westport, Connecticut: Libraries Unlimited

Topic

romantic suspense

Christopherson, Neal

(1999) Accommodation and Resistance in Religious Fiction: Family Structures and Gender Roles Sociology of Religion 60.4:439–455 DOI: 10.2307/3712025

Topic

(2005) Cowboys and Schoolteachers: Gender in Romance Novels, Secular and Christian Sociological Perspectives 48.4:461-479 DOI: 10.1525/sop.2005.48.4.461

Topic

family

work

sociology

Constans, Ellen

(1990) "Cri du coeur, cri du corps dans les romans de Delly " Le roman sentimental: actes du colloque des 14-15-16 mars 1989 à la Faculté des lettres de Limoges, volume 1 263-276

Topic

Delly

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

Constans, Ellen

(2009) Images de la femme dans le roman sentimental Belphégor 8.2:

Topic

love

marriage

Delly

Georges Ohnet

trash/literary and or intellectual quality

Constans, Ellen

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

Topic

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

France

(2013) Loving in Plain Sight: Amish Romance Novels as Evangelical Gothic Journal of Amish and Plain Anabaptist Studies 1.2:1-16 DOI: 10.18061/1811/57706

Topic

Beverly Lewis

fascism/right-wing authoritarianism

gothic romance

Corderot, Didier

(2015) Biblioteca Rocío" (1937-1939) o las virtudes de la novela rosa durante la Guerra Civil española Tropelias: Revista de teoría de la literatura y literatura comparada 23:26-48 DOI: 10.26754/ojs_tropelias/tropelias.201523993

Topic

Spain

Magali, pen name of Jeanne Philbert

Coste, Didier

(1981) Installments of the Heart: Text Delimitation in Periodical Narrative and Its Consequences Sub-Stance 10/11:56-65 DOI: 10.2307/3684531

Topic

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

Hedwig Courths-Mahler

Florence Barclay

Rafael Pérez y Pérez

trash/literary and or intellectual quality

marriage

social/economic class

Bianchi, Diana

D'Arcangelo, Adele

(2015) Translating History or Romance? Historical Romantic Fiction and Its Translation in a Globalised Market Linguistics and Literature Studies 3.5:248-253 DOI: 10.13189/lls.2015.030508

Topic

translation

historical romance

Diana Gabaldon

(2002) The Politics of Love: Harlequin Romances and the Christian Right Journal of Popular Culture 35.4:75-87 DOI: 10.1111/j.0022-3840.2002.3504_75.x

Topic

rape and/or intimate partner violence/abuse

capitalism/business

Deosun, Ceri

(2025) "The Bible in Inspirational Fiction: The Case of Bathsheba " The Hebrew Bible in Contemporary Fiction and Poetry 348-363 DOI:10.4324/9781003280347-22

Topic

Donalson, Tara A.

(2005) The Parody of Romance MA thesis, University of Texas at Arlington

Topic

Barrett-Fox, Rebecca

Donnelly, Kristen

(2021) "Inspirational Romance " The Routledge Research Companion to Popular Romance Fiction 191-211 DOI:10.4324/9781315613468-8

Topic

Janette Oke

African American romance

(2022) Romancing the New Evangelical Woman Master of Arts, Baylor University

Topic

Fernández Rodríguez, Carolina

(2021) American Quaker Romances: Building the Myth of the White Christian Nation Valencia: Universitat de València

Topic

race/ethnicity

Fernández Rodríguez, Carolina

(2024) "The US Civil War and its Aftermath in Historical Quaker Romances Hailing White Heroines as Builders and Healers of the Nation " Conflict and Colonialism in 21st Century Romantic Historical Fiction: Repairing the Past, Repurposing History DOI:10.4324/9781003493792-7

Topic

Gandolfo, Anita

(2007) Faith and Fiction: Christian Literature in America Today Westport, Connecticut: Praeger Publishers

Topic

Gordis, Lisa M.

(2016) ""Jesus loves your girl more than you do": Marriage as Triangle in Evangelical Romance and Puritan Narratives " Romance Fiction and American Culture: Love as the Practice of Freedom? 323-346

Topic

(2010) Chasing the Bonnet: The Premise and Popularity of Writing Amish Women The Journal of Mennonite Writing (CMW) 2.4:

Topic

rural romance

Haynes, Roslynn

(2010) Marie Bjelke Petersen’s Romances: Fulfilling the Contract, Subverting the Spirit Southerly 70.2:41-63

Topic

Marie Bjelke Petersen

Australia

rural romance

settings

cross-dressing

Holmes, Diana

(2006) Romance and Readership in Twentieth-Century France: Love Stories Oxford: Oxford University Press

Kamitsuka, Margaret D.

(2020) Prolife Christian Romance Novels: A Sign that the Abortion-as-Murder Center Is Not Holding? Christianity & Literature 69.1:36-52

Topic

rape and/or intimate partner violence/abuse

health/medical

family

Kapell, Matthew

Becker, Suzanne

(2005) Patriarchy, the Christian Romance Novel, and the 'Ecosystem of Sex' Popular Culture Review 16.1:147-155

Topic

feminism

(2010) There Are Six Bodies in This Relationship: An Anthropological Approach to the Romance Genre Journal of Popular Romance Studies 1.1:

Topic

Luneau, Marie-Pier

Warren, Jean-Philippe

(2019) Ce que le roman catholique fait au roman sentimental : le cas de la collection « Amour et aventure » COnTEXTES 23: DOI: 10.4000/contextes.7903

Topic

(2017) God is Love: The Christian Romance Market Publishing Research Quarterly 33.3:268–28

Topic

(1990) The Reverend Idol and Other Parsonage Secrets: Women Write Romances about Ministers, 1880-1950 Journal of Feminist Studies in Religion 6.1:87-103

Topic

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

Morey, Ann-Janine

(1992) Religion and Sexuality in American Literature Cambridge: Cambridge University Press

Topic

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

Moss, Madi Markle

(2020) Review: When Was the Last Time You Read a Romance Novel? Dialogue: A Journal of Mormon Thought 53.1:189-193 DOI: 10.5406/dialjmormthou.53.1.0189

Topic

(2000) Romancing God: Reading Evangelical Romance Novels PhD, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill

Topic

authors

(2006) Romancing God: Evangelical Women and Inspirational Fiction Chapel Hill: University of North Carolina Press

Topic

Publishing

(2013) "Evangelical Love Stories: The Triumphs and Temptations of Romantic Fiction " Evangelical Christians and Popular Culture: Pop Goes the Gospel. Volume 2: Literature, Music, Popular Art, and Merchandise 1–20

Topic

Publishing

authors

Nickel, Eleanor Hersey

(2020) Christian Popular Culture from The Chronicles of Narnia to Duck Dynasty Eugene, Oregon: Wipf and Stock Publishers

Topic

(2020) Types and Tropes: History and Moral Agency in Evangelical Inspirational Fiction Christianity & Literature 69.1:73-90

Topic

history

paranormal/fantasy/time-travel romance

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

Topic

paranormal/fantasy/time-travel romance

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

Topic

Publishing

science fiction/futuristic romance

Elinor Glyn

Margaret Mitchell

Victoria Holt/Jean Plaidy/Eleanor Burford Hibbert

Georgette Heyer

historical romance

E. M. Hull

romance scholarship

rape and/or intimate partner violence/abuse

libraries/librarians

romantic suspense

Samuel Richardson

Nora Roberts/J. D. Robb

(2003) “The soft white strong hand of God”: Gender and the expression of evangelical piety in the religious fiction of Grace Livingston Hill, 1897–1948 PhD, Vanderbilt University

Topic

(2009) “Love in the Clouds”: Barbara Cartland’s Religious Romances The Journal of Religion and Popular Culture 21.2: DOI: 10.3138/jrpc.21.2.002

Topic

Barbara Cartland