war/armed forces

death

Bell, Kathleen (1995) " Cross-dressing in Wartime: Georgette Heyer's The Corinthian in its 1940 Context " War Culture: Social Change and Changing Experience in World War Two Britain 151-159

Topic

Bly, Mary (2012) " On Popular Romance, J. R. Ward, and the Limits of Genre Study " New Approaches to Popular Romance Fiction: Critical Essays 60-72

Topic

J. R. Ward

fashion/clothing

Suzanne Brockmann

Broad, Katherine R. (2013) " “The Dandelion in the Spring”: Utopia as Romance in Suzanne Collins’s The Hunger Games Trilogy " Contemporary Dystopian Fiction for Young Adults: Brave New Teenagers 117–130 DOI:10.4324/9780203084939

Topic

Burge, Amy (2012) Desiring the east: a comparative study of Middle English romance and modern popular sheikh romance PhD, University of York

Topic

fashion/clothing

Burge, Amy (2012) " Do Knights Still Rescue Damsels in Distress?: Reimagining the Medieval in the Mills & Boon Historical Romance " The Female Figure in Contemporary Historical Fiction 95-114

Topic

paratext

social class

food, drink

fashion/clothing

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

Cadogan, Mary (1994) And Then Their Hearts Stood Still: An Exuberant Look at Romantic Fiction Past and Present London: Macmillan

Topic

Victoria Holt/Jean Plaidy/Eleanor Burford Hibbert

Rita, pen name of Mrs. Eliza Margaret Humphreys

Elinor Glyn

Ethel M. Dell

Mary Lutyens/Esther Wyndham

Roberta Leigh/Rachel Lindsay

Chelton, Mary K. (2015) Readers' Advisory: There Seem to be More SEALs in Romance Fiction than in the US Navy, and if so, Why Does it Matter? Reference & User Services Quarterly 55.1:21-24

Topic

Chivers, Marian (2014) The Warrior Woman in Contemporary Romance Fiction Masters, Federation University Australia

Topic

Justine Davis/Justine Dare

Chivers, Marian Speed, Lesley Tasker, Meg (2014) The warrior woman in Harlequin’s Bombshell Athena Force series Australasian Journal of Popular Culture 3.3:335-349

Topic

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

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

Saint-Jacques, Denis des Rivières, Marie-José (2011) Le féminisme problématique d’un roman d’amour, Anne Mérival Recherches féministes 24.1:61–76

Topic

Delly

Dixon, jay (1999) The Romance Fiction of Mills & Boon 1909-1990s London: UCL Press

Topic

Escolar, Marisa (2015) Marry the Allies? Luciana Peverelli’s ‘True’ Romanzo Rosa in ‘Liberated’ Rome Italian Studies 70.2:228-248

Topic

Luciana Peverelli

Italy

socialism and/or communism

Feng, Jin (2011) Men Conquer the World and Women Save Mankind: Rewriting Patriarchal Traditions through Web-based Matriarchal Romances Journal of Popular Romance Studies 1.2:

Topic

China

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

Topic

Guam

languages

historical romance

Frantz, Sarah S. G. (2008) "Suzanne Brockmann" Teaching American Literature: A Journal of Theory and Practice 2.2/3:1-19

Topic

Suzanne Brockmann

Islam

Frantz, Sarah S. G. (2009) " I’ve tried my entire life to be a good man': Suzanne Brockmann’s Sam Starrett, Ideal Romance Hero " Women Constructing Men: Female Novelists and their Male Characters, 1750-2000 227-247

Topic

Garton, Stephen (2008) 'Fit Only for the Scrap Heap': Rebuilding Returned Soldier Manhood in Australia After 1945 Gender & History 20.1:48-67

Topic

family

Gehrhardt, Marjorie (2018) Losing Face, Finding Love? The Fate of Facially Disfigured Soldiers in Narratives of the First World War Litteraria Copernicana 3.27:75-89

Topic

health/medical

Golubov, Nattie (2022) " The geopolitics of love: patriotism, homeland and the domestication of violent masculinities in US paramilitary romance fiction " The Routledge Companion to Romantic Love DOI:10.4324/9781003022343-27

Topic

Gómez Calderón, María José (2007) Romancing the Dark Ages: The Viking Hero in Sentimental Narrative Boletín Millares Carlo 26:287-297

Topic

González-Allende, Iker (2005) La novela rosa de ambientación vasca e ideología franquista durante la Guerra Civil española Revista Internacional de Estudios Vascos 50.1:79-103

Topic

marriage

Haddad, Emily A. (2007) " Bound to Love: Captivity in Harlequin Sheikh Novels " Empowerment versus Oppression: Twenty-First Century Views of Popular Romance Novels 42-64

Topic

Haefner, Margaret J. (2009) Challenging the -isms: Gender and Race in Brockmann's Troubleshooters, Inc. Romance Novels Journal of Media Sociology 1.3/4:182-201

Topic

Hall, Glinda Fountain (2008) Inverting the Southern Belle: Romance Writers Redefine Gender Myths Journal of Popular Culture 41.1:37-55

Topic

historical romance

Hapgood, Lynne (2005) Margins of Desire: The Suburbs in Fiction and Culture, 1880-1925 Manchester: Manchester University Press

Topic

Hayton, Christopher J. Hayton, Sheila (2012) " The Girls in White: Nurse Images in Early Cold War Era Romance and War Comics " Comic Books and the Cold War, 1946-1962: Essays on Graphic Treatment of Communism, the Code and Social Concerns 129-145

Topic

Topic

Holden, Stacy E. Tabol, Charity (2015) In Sickness and In Health: Representations of PTSD in Post-9/11 Romance Novels albeit 2.1:

Topic

health/medical

Hopkins, Lisa (2018) " Georgette Heyer: What Austen Left Out " After Austen: Reinventions, Rewritings, Revisitings 61-79

Topic

Iwai, Gaku (2015) Wartime Ideology in 'The Thimble': A Comparative Study of Popular Wartime Romance and the Anti-romance of D. H. Lawrence Études Lawrenciennes 46:

Topic

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

Jarmakani, Amira (2015) An Imperialist Love Story: Desert Romances and the War on Terror New York: New York University Press

Topic

Jarmakani, Amira (2021) " Explorations of the "desert passion industry" " The Routledge Research Companion to Popular Romance Fiction 252-266 DOI:10.4324/9781315613468-11

Topic

Jennings, Kathleen (2021) " Heyer … in space! The influence of Georgette Heyer on science fiction " Georgette Heyer, History, and Historical Fiction 119-143 DOI:10.2307/j.ctv15d818n.13

Topic

Joannou, Maroula (2012) Women's Writing, Englishness and National and Cultural Identity: The Mobile Woman and the Migrant Voice, 1938-1962 Houndmills, Basingstoke: Palgrave Macmillan

Topic

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

Daphne du Maurier

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

Topic

Kamble, Jayashree (2012) " Patriotism, Passion, and PTSD: The Critique of War in Popular Romance Fiction " New Approaches to Popular Romance Fiction: Critical Essays 153-163

Topic

Kamblé, Jayashree (2014) Making Meaning in Popular Romance Fiction: An Epistemology New York: Palgrave Macmillan

Kamblé, Jayashree (2020) When Wuxia Met Romance: The Pleasures and Politics of Transculturalism in Sherry Thomas’s My Beautiful Enemy Journal of Popular Romance Studies 9:

Topic

Kanerick, Caroline (2010) ‘A Jazzed and Patchwork Modern’: ‘future’ girls and modern masculinities in the early popular romances of Berta Ruck Women's History Review 19.5:685-702

Topic

Kitchen, Veronica (2018) Veterans and Military Masculinity in Popular Romance Fiction Critical Military Studies 4.1:34-51

Topic

Jayne Ann Krentz/Amanda Quick/Jayne Castle

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

Labanyi, Jo (2004) Romancing the Early Franco Regime: the Novelas Románticas of Concha Linares-Becerra and Luisa-María Linares UC Berkeley: Institute of European Studies: Occasional Papers Working Paper OP-13:

Topic

Concha Linares-Becerra

Luisa-María Linares

Lowery, Karalyne (2018) The Militarized Shapeshifter: Authorized Violence and Military Connections as an Antidote to Monstrosity University of Toronto Quarterly 87.1:196-213

Topic

Maunder, Andrew (2016) " Berta Ruck " British Literature of World War I: The Short Story and the Novella 35-39

Topic

Maynard, Lee Anna (2008) LaVyrle Spencer Teaching American Literature: A Journal of Theory and Practice 2.2/3:1-17

Topic

family

death

settings

O'Byrne, Patricia (2008) Popular fiction in postwar Spain: the soothing, subversive novela rosa Journal of Romance Studies 8.2:37-57

Topic

Spain

María Mercedes Ortoll

María Morgan/Rosa María Cajal

Ángeles Villarta Tuñón

Peaty, Gwyneth (2015) " Rock Hard: Gargoyles in Contemporary Gothic Romance " New Directions in 21st Century Gothic: The Gothic Compass 54-70 DOI:10.4324/9781315749419

Topic

Philips, Deborah Tomlinson, Alan (1992) " Homeward Bound: Leisure, popular culture and consumer capitalism " Come on Down?: Popular Media Culture in Post-War Britain 9-45

Topic

capitalism/business

White, Bonnie Pope, Johnathan H. (2018) Spinsters, war widows, and wounded soldiers: the Great War novels of Berta Ruck Women's History Review 27.7:1085-1102

Topic

Potter, Jane (1997) " "A great purifier": The Great War in Women's Romances and Memoirs 1914-1918 " Women's Fiction and The Great War 85-106

Topic

Ruby M. Ayres

Potter, Jane (2005) Boys in Khaki, Girls in Print: Women's Literary Responses to the Great War 1914-1918 Oxford: Clarendon Press

Topic

Ruby M. Ayres

Mary Ward/Mrs. Humphry Ward

Potter, Jane (2015) " ‘Khaki and Kisses’: Reading the Romance Novel in the Great War " Reading and the First World War: Readers, Texts, Archives 29-44 DOI:10.1057/9781137302717_2

Topic

Potter, Jane Elizabeth (1998) Boys in khaki, girls in print: women's literary responses to the great war, 1914-1918 D.Phil, University of Oxford

Topic

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

happy ending

genre definitions

YA/teenage romance

Regan, Lisa (2017) Women and the 'War Machine' in the Desert Romances of E. M. Hull and Rosita Forbes Women's Writing 24.1:109-122

Topic

E. M. Hull

Riseman, Noah (2020) Intimatopias and the queering of Australian war fiction Continuum ONLINE FIRST:

Topic

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

Saint-Jacques, Denis des Rivières, Marie-José (2011) Le féminisme problématique d’un roman d’amour, Anne Mérival Recherches féministes 24.1:61–76

Topic

Delly

Saxena, Vandana (2021) Afterlives of Colonialism: Nostalgia, Reader’s Response and the Case of Noel Barber’s Tanamera The Journal of Commonwealth Literature ONLINE FIRST:ONLINE FIRST

Topic

Schalk, Sami (2016) Happily Ever After for Whom? Blackness and Disability in Romance Narratives Journal of Popular Culture 49.6:1241–1260

Topic

African American romance

Serafine, Amelia (2016) " "He Filled My Heart with Doubt": The Southern Belle's Love and Duty in the Civil War " Romance Fiction and American Culture: Love as the Practice of Freedom? 41-55

Topic

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

Augusta Jane Evans

death

Edward Bulwer-Lytton

readers

Service, Alexandra (1998) Popular Vikings: Constructions of Viking Identity in Twentieth Century Britain PhD, University of York

Topic

SylviaVisconti/Mercedes Ballesteros Gaibrois

Soler Gallo, Miguel (2017) El ideal de masculinidad en la novela romántica falangista: análisis de Una mujer de veinte años de Mercedes Ballesteros Tonos digital: Revista de estudios filológicos 33:

Topic

Spain

Elena Puerto/Mercedes Formica

Chivers, Marian Speed, Lesley Tasker, Meg (2014) The warrior woman in Harlequin’s Bombshell Athena Force series Australasian Journal of Popular Culture 3.3:335-349

Topic

Holden, Stacy E. Tabol, Charity (2015) In Sickness and In Health: Representations of PTSD in Post-9/11 Romance Novels albeit 2.1:

Topic

health/medical

Chivers, Marian Speed, Lesley Tasker, Meg (2014) The warrior woman in Harlequin’s Bombshell Athena Force series Australasian Journal of Popular Culture 3.3:335-349

Topic

Tatlock, Lynne (2012) German Writing, American Reading: Women and the Import of Fiction, 1866-1917 Columbus: Ohio State University Press

Topic

Germany

Wilhelmine Heimburg/Bertha Behrens

E. Marlitt/Eugenie John

Fanny Lewald

Wilhelmine von Hillern

Claire von Glümer

Ursula Zöge von Manteuffel

E. Werner/Elisabeth Bürstenbinder

Moritz von Reichenbach/Valeska von Reiswitz, Gräfin von Bethusy-Huc

Nataly von Eschstruth

Golo Raimund/Bertha [Heyn] Frederich

Teo, Hsu-Ming (2010) Historicizing The Sheik: Comparisons of the British Novel and the American Film Journal of Popular Romance Studies 1.1:

Topic

E. M. Hull

film/movies

Thompson, Anne B. (2005) Rereading Fifties Teen Romance: Reflections on Janet Lambert The Lion and the Unicorn 29.3:373-396

Topic

Philips, Deborah Tomlinson, Alan (1992) " Homeward Bound: Leisure, popular culture and consumer capitalism " Come on Down?: Popular Media Culture in Post-War Britain 9-45

Topic

capitalism/business

Vivanco, Laura (2020) " Changing Attitudes to Others: Meljean Brook’s Riveted (2012) and its Context " Love, Language, Place, and Identity in Popular Culture: Romancing the Other 113-126

Topic

Zoë Archer