romance and, or as, activism

ecocriticism/environmentalism/climate change

settings

Holden, Stacy E.

Tabol, Charity

(2015) In Sickness and In Health: Representations of PTSD in Post-9/11 Romance Novels albeit 2.1:

Topic

war/armed forces

health/medical

(2015) In Sickness and In Health: Representations of PTSD in Post-9/11 Romance Novels albeit 2.1:

Topic

war/armed forces

health/medical

(2016) Why Read Mills & Boon Romances? : WroCAH

Topic

trash/literary and or intellectual quality

settings

Penny Jordan/Caroline Courtney

Egan, Jesi

(2016) Cultural Futurity and the Politics of Recovery: Mary Renault's Ambivalent Romances MFS Modern Fiction Studies 62.3:462-80 DOI: 10.1353/mfs.2016.0038

Topic

Mary Renault

trash/literary and or intellectual quality

LGBTQ+ characters, readers and/or authors

emotions

modernism

Francis, Conseula

(2016) "Flipping the Script: Romancing Zane's Urban Erotica " Romance Fiction and American Culture: Love as the Practice of Freedom? 167-180

Topic

Zane

Moody-Freeman, Julie E.

(2016) "Scripting Black Love in the 1990s: Pleasure, Respectability, and Responsibility in an Era of HIV/AIDS " Romance Fiction and American Culture: Love as the Practice of Freedom? 111-127

Topic

health/medical

Brenda Jackson

history

Fernández Rodríguez, Carolina

(2018) "Del cuento de hadas a la novela romántica: Una visión de la sub/literatura como gimnasio mental y laboratorio de sub/versión cultural " Repercusión de la lectura y otras formas de arte en nuestra vida y nuestra obra: Memorias del VII coloquio de LART, Centro Español de Manhattan, Nueva York, 26-28 de octubre de 2016 69-95

Topic

trash/literary and or intellectual quality

Nora Roberts/J. D. Robb

fairytales/folktales

Simon, Jenni M.

(2018) Consuming Agency and Desire in Romance: Stories of Love, Laughter, and Empowerment Lanham, Maryland: Lexington

Topic

Fernández Rodríguez, Carolina

(2019) Chamorro WWII Romances: Combating Erasure with Tales of Survival and Vitality Journal of Popular Romance Studies 8:

Topic

Guam

languages

religion/spirituality

war/armed forces

historical romance

Vivanco, Laura

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

Topic

religion/spirituality

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

LGBTQ+ characters, readers and/or authors

Justine Davis/Justine Dare

Suleikha Snyder

Nora Roberts/J. D. Robb

community

happy ending

Arnold-Forster, Agnes

(2021) Racing Pulses: Gender, Professionalism and Health Care in Medical Romance Fiction History Workshop Journal 91.1:157–181 DOI: 10.1093/hwj/dbab011

Topic

medical romance

work

social/economic class

readers

romances in magazines and newspapers

Elizabeth Gilzean

Alex Stuart

Hilda Pressley, pseudonym of Hilda Nickson

(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

Ngoshi, Hazel Tafadzwa

(2021) Repression, Literary Dissent and the Paradox of Censorship in Zimbabwe Journal of Southern African Studies 47.5:799-815 DOI: https://doi.org/10.1080/03057070.2021.1959780

Topic

Zimbabwe

Pierre-Robertson, Petronetta

Africa

(2021) "Literature as an Agent of Change " Gender and Domestic Violence in the Caribbean 87-103 DOI:10.1007/978-3-030-73472-5_6

Topic

Caribbean

Petra Pierre-Robertson

Bell, Carole V.

(2022) "I'm Rooting for Everybody Black: Black Solidarity, Black World-Building, and Black Love " Black Love Matters: Real Talk on Romance, Being Seen, and Happily Ever After 29-64

Topic

social/economic class

fat, fatness

González-Cruz, María Isabel

(2022) "Interdisciplinarity in Romance Fiction " 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 345-366

Topic

González-Cruz, María Isabel

(2022) "La interdisciplinariedad en la ficción romántica " 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 161-184

Topic

Michelson, Anna

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

Topic

genre definitions

sociology

LGBTQ+ characters, readers and/or authors

Gwyneth Bolton/Gwendolyn Pough

Native American romance

Moody-Freeman, Julie E.

(2022) Romance, Hip-Hop Feminism, and Black Love: From Theory to Praxis Journal of Popular Romance Studies 11: DOI: 10.70138/MCKL2088

Topic

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

Pérez-Casal, Inmaculada

(2022) "La novela rosa o romántica: pasado, presente y futuro " 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 37-52

Topic

genre definitions

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

Pérez-Casal, Inmaculada

(2022) "Popular romance novels: past, present and future " 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 233-246

Topic

genre definitions

paranormal/fantasy/time-travel romance

Fresno-Calleja, Paloma

(2023) Repurposing Fantasy Island: Lani Wendt Young’s Telesā Series and the Politics of Postcolonial Romance Interventions: International Journal of Postcolonial Studies 25.1:100-117 DOI: 10.1080/1369801X.2022.2054011

Topic

Lani Wendt Young

YA/teenage romance

settings

Garcia, Christina

(2023) The Race of Publishing: The Troubling Whiteness in Publishing and the Forces Pushing Back Master of Arts in English, Texas Christian University

Topic

Publishing

readers

Giovanni, Chiara

(2023) Hetero Ever After? Romance Novels, Race, and the Limits of Social Dreaming Post45 :

Topic

Jasmine Guillory

Alisha Rai