metaphor/symbolism

settings

linguistics

Bazenga, Aline (2022) " The sociocultural and linguistic landscape of Madeira: Anglocentric visions in a sample of six romance novels " 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 257-274

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Portugal

settings

romances in magazines and newspapers

linguistics

Burge, Amy (2023) " Romantic Love across Borders: Marriage Migration in Popular Romance Fiction " Contemporary Love Studies in the Arts and Humanities: What's Love Got To Do With It? 39-49 DOI:10.1007/978-3-031-26055-1_4

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Helen Hoang

Brigitte Bautista

United States of America

Patthey-Chavez, G. Genevieve Clare, Lindsay Youmans, Madeleine (1996) Watery Passion: The Struggle between Hegemony and Sexual Liberation in Erotic Fiction for Women Discourse and Society 7.1:77-106

Farooqui, Javaria (2020) The Kitchen and Beyond: The Romantic Chronotope in Pakistani Popular Fiction Journal of Popular Romance Studies 9:

Topic

Fernández Rodríguez, Carolina (2021) " Nora Roberts’s Boonsboro Empire: Boosting Business through Romance, Invigorating Romance with Affective Capitalism " Romantic Escapes: Post-Millennial Trends in Contemporary Popular Romance Fiction 97-119

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Nora Roberts/J. D. Robb

capitalism/business

work

Fresno-Calleja, Paloma (2019) Chick-Lit Pasifika-Style or How to B(l)end the Formula: Lani Young’s Scarlet Series Contemporary Women's Writing 13.2:203–221

Topic

Hijazo-Gascón, Alberto (2009) " Cross-Cultural Differences in Conceptualization and their Application in L2 Instruction " Pragmatics Applied to Language Teaching and Learning 42-59

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linguistics

Corín Tellado

Jayne Ann Krentz/Amanda Quick/Jayne Castle

Jarmakani, Amira (2010) “The Sheik Who Loved Me”: Romancing the War on Terror Signs: Journal of Women in Culture and Society 35.4:993-1017

Topic

sheikh romance

United States of America

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

Topic

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

Lamy, Odile (1997) La représentation du couple à travers les pages couvertures des romans Harlequin Cahiers de la recherche en éducation 4.2:269–297

Topic

paratext

López-Maestre, María D. (2015) 'Man the hunter': A critical reading of hunt-based conceptual metaphors of love and sexual desire Journal of Literary Semantics 44.2:89-113

Topic

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

McCracken, Scott (1998) Pulp: Reading Popular Fiction Manchester: Manchester University Press

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Penny Jordan/Caroline Courtney

Melman, Billie (1988) Women and the Popular Imagination in the Twenties: Flappers and Nymphs Houndmills, Basingstoke: Macmillan

Topic

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

romances in magazines and newspapers

pornography

social/economic class

work

community

Miller, Kathleen (2010) A Little Extra Bite: Dis/Ability and Romance in Tanya Huff and Charlaine Harris’s Vampire Fiction Journal of Popular Romance Studies 1.1:

Topic

disability

paranormal/fantasy/time-travel romance

Montague, Holly W. (1994) " From Interlude in Arcady to Daphnis and Chloe: Two Thousand Years of Erotic Fantasy " The Search for the Ancient Novel 391-401

Topic

social/economic class

feminism

gender

Heliodorus

Motte, Warren (2012) A Walk on the Sheikh Side Formes Poétiques Contemporaines 9:119-134

Topic

sheikh romance

paratext

Sharon Kendrick

animals

Mulhern, Chieko Irie (1989) Japanese Harlequin Romances as Transcultural Woman's Fiction The Journal of Asian Studies 48.1:50-70

Topic

food, drink

Nobert, Margo (1983) Le titre comme séduction dans le roman Harlequin: une lecture sociosémiotique Études littéraires 16.3:379–398

Topic

Pierini, Francesca (2020) Olive Skin, Chocolate Eyes: The Legacy of The Sheik on Descriptive Patterns of the Italian Romantic Hero in Harlequin Short Contemporaries Journal of Popular Romance Studies 9:

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Italy

national identity

Pokrywka, Rafał (2015) Temperaturen des Begehrens als konventionelle Metaphern im Hard-Core-Liebesroman 36:159-174

Topic

Richaudeau, François (1986) La galaxie Harlequin, des auteurs et des romans Communication et langages 67:9-24

Topic

Schwab, Sandra (2012) “It Is Only with One’s Heart That One Can See Clearly”: The Loss of Sight in Teresa Medeiros’s The Bride and the Beast and Yours until Dawn Journal of Literary and Cultural Disability Studies 6.3:275-289

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

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LGBT+ characters, readers and/or authors

Selinger, Eric Murphy (2022) " Disaggregating attraction: asexuality and genre critique in Alex Beecroft's Blue Steel Chain " The Routledge Companion to Romantic Love DOI:10.4324/9781003022343-29

Topic

Alex Beecroft

sex/sexuality

religion/spirituality

Christian romance

food, drink

Smith, Janet S. (Shibamoto) (1999) " From Hiren to Happî-endo: Romantic Expression in the Japanese Love Story " Languages of Sentiment: Cultural constructions of emotional substrates 131-150 DOI:10.1075/aicr.18.08shi

Topic

Tidwell, Christy (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

family

sex/sexuality

happy ending

Ty, Eleanor (1994) " Desire and Temptation: Dialogism and the Carnivalesque in Category Romances " A Dialogue of Voices: Feminist Literary Theory and Bakhtin 97-113

Topic

readers

metafiction

Vera-Cazorla, María Jesús (2022) " Canarian culture and identity and their representation in the novels of the FFI2014-53962-P corpus " 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 275-296

Topic

national identity

Spain

Vera-Cazorla, María Jesús (2022) " La cultura y la identidad canarias y su representación en las novelas del corpus FFI2014-53962-P " 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 85-107

Topic

national identity

Spain

Vivanco, Laura (2011) For Love and Money: The Literary Art of the Harlequin Mills & Boon Romance Tirril, Penrith: Humanities-Ebooks

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