Mussell, Kay Johnson (1973) The World of Modern Gothic Fiction: American Women and Their Social Myths PhD, University of Iowa Topic gothic romance
Russ, Joanna (1973) Somebody's Trying to Kill Me and I Think It's My Husband: The Modern Gothic Journal of Popular Culture 6.4:666-691 DOI: 10.1111/j.0022-3840.1973.00666.x Topic gothic romance genre definitions settings Phyllis A. Whitney Margaret Summerton Helen Arvonen Susan Howatch Anne Maybury Dorothy Eden food, drink fashion/clothing sex/sexuality gender
Mussell, Kay J. (1975) Beautiful and Damned: The Sexual Woman in Gothic Fiction Journal of Popular Culture 9.1:84-89 DOI: 10.1111/j.0022-3840.1975.0901_84.x Topic United States of America sex/sexuality gothic romance gender family
Ruggiero, Josephine A. Weston, Louise C. (1977) Sex-Role Characterization of Women in "Modern Gothic Novels" The Pacific Sociological Review 20.2:279-300 DOI: 10.2307/1388936 Topic gender gothic romance feminism Mary Stewart Victoria Holt/Jean Plaidy/Eleanor Burford Hibbert Phyllis A. Whitney Jane Blackmore Dorothy Eden Susan Howatch Anne Maybury social/economic class work readers
Weibel, Kathryn (1977) Mirror Mirror: Images of Women Reflected in Popular Culture Garden City, New York: Anchor Press/Doubleday Topic Harlequin Mills & Boon gothic romance
Ruggiero, Josephine A. Weston, Louise C. (1977) Sex-Role Characterization of Women in "Modern Gothic Novels" The Pacific Sociological Review 20.2:279-300 DOI: 10.2307/1388936 Topic gender gothic romance feminism Mary Stewart Victoria Holt/Jean Plaidy/Eleanor Burford Hibbert Phyllis A. Whitney Jane Blackmore Dorothy Eden Susan Howatch Anne Maybury social/economic class work readers
Cawelti, John (1978) Romance: The Once and Future Queen The Wilson Quarterly 2.3:102-109 Topic Older and/or precursor texts (may not be "romance" as now defined) gothic romance Harlequin Mills & Boon Roberta Leigh/Rachel Lindsay Phyllis A. Whitney
Weston, Louise C. Ruggiero, Josephine A. (1978) Male-Female Relationships in Best-Selling "Modern Gothic" Novels Sex Roles 4.5:647-655 DOI: 10.1007/BF00287330 Topic gothic romance romantic suspense gender Mary Stewart Victoria Holt/Jean Plaidy/Eleanor Burford Hibbert Phyllis A. Whitney Jane Blackmore Dorothy Eden Susan Howatch Anne Maybury
Weston, Louise C. Ruggiero, Josephine A. (1978) Male-Female Relationships in Best-Selling "Modern Gothic" Novels Sex Roles 4.5:647-655 DOI: 10.1007/BF00287330 Topic gothic romance romantic suspense gender Mary Stewart Victoria Holt/Jean Plaidy/Eleanor Burford Hibbert Phyllis A. Whitney Jane Blackmore Dorothy Eden Susan Howatch Anne Maybury
Abartis, Caesarea (1979) The Ugly-Pretty, Dull-Bright, Weak-Strong Girl in the Gothic Mansion Journal of Popular Culture 13.2:257-263 DOI: 10.1111/j.0022-3840.1979.1302_257.x Topic gothic romance Older and/or precursor texts (may not be "romance" as now defined) Charlotte Brontë Daphne du Maurier Victoria Holt/Jean Plaidy/Eleanor Burford Hibbert Claudette Nicole
Modleski, Tania (1980) Popular Feminine Narratives: A Study of Romances, Gothics, and Soap Operas PhD, Stanford University Topic Harlequin Mills & Boon gothic romance psychology
Mussell, Kay (1981) Women’s Gothic and Romantic Fiction: A Reference Guide Westport, Connecticut: Greenwood Press Topic gothic romance Older and/or precursor texts (may not be "romance" as now defined) United States of America Catharine Maria Sedgwick Augusta Jane Evans E. D. E. N. Southworth Margaret Mitchell Daphne du Maurier Victoria Holt/Jean Plaidy/Eleanor Burford Hibbert Mary Stewart Phyllis A. Whitney Rosemary Rogers Harlequin Mills & Boon Kathleen Thompson Norris Grace Livingston Hill film/movies readers romance scholarship
Radway, Janice (1981) The Utopian Impulse in Popular Literature: Gothic Romances and "Feminist" Protest American Quarterly 33.2:140-162 DOI: 10.2307/2712313 Topic gothic romance readers genre definitions Victoria Holt/Jean Plaidy/Eleanor Burford Hibbert United States of America gender feminism Kathleen Woodiwiss sex/sexuality
Bayer-Berenbaum, Linda (1982) The Gothic Imagination: Expansion in Gothic Literature and Art Rutherford, New Jersey: Fairleigh Dickinson University Press Topic Victoria Holt/Jean Plaidy/Eleanor Burford Hibbert gothic romance
Modleski, Tania (1982) Loving with a Vengeance: Mass‐Produced Fantasies for Women Hamden, Connecticut: Archon Topic Harlequin Mills & Boon gothic romance gender psychology readers rape and/or intimate partner violence/abuse
Mussell, Kay (1982) "Preface " Twentieth Century Romance and Gothic Writers v-ix Topic gothic romance United States of America Publishing
Radway, Janice A. (1982) "The Aesthetic in Mass Culture: Reading the "Popular" Literary Text " The Structure of the Literary Process Studies dedicated to the Memory of Felix Vodička 397-429 DOI:10.1075/llsee.8.19rad Topic gothic romance Victoria Holt/Jean Plaidy/Eleanor Burford Hibbert fashion/clothing
Bowman, Barbara (1983) "Victoria Holt's Gothic Romances: A Structuralist Inquiry " The Female Gothic 69-81 Topic Victoria Holt/Jean Plaidy/Eleanor Burford Hibbert gothic romance
Mussell, Kay J. (1983) ""But Why Do They Read Those Things?": The Female Audience and the Gothic Novel " The Female Gothic 57-68 Topic gothic romance readers
Ruggiero, Josephine A. Weston, Louise C. (1983) Conflicting Images of Women in Romance Novels International Journal of Women's Studies 6.1:18-25 Topic gothic romance historical romance gender readers
Timson, Beth S. (1983) The Drug Store Novel: Popular Romantic Fiction and the Mainstream Tradition Studies in Popular Culture 6:88-96 Topic gothic romance Jane Austen Martha Finley United States of America gender
Ruggiero, Josephine A. Weston, Louise C. (1983) Conflicting Images of Women in Romance Novels International Journal of Women's Studies 6.1:18-25 Topic gothic romance historical romance gender readers
Fallon, Eileen (1984) Words of Love: A Complete Guide to Romance Fiction New York and London: Garland Publishing Topic genre definitions Older and/or precursor texts (may not be "romance" as now defined) trash/literary and or intellectual quality historical romance history authors Publishing Georgette Heyer Kathleen Woodiwiss gothic romance
Mussell, Kay (1984) Fantasy and Reconciliation: Contemporary Formulas of Women’s Romance Fiction Westport, Connecticut: Greenwood Press Topic Mary Stewart Victoria Holt/Jean Plaidy/Eleanor Burford Hibbert Phyllis A. Whitney Roberta Gellis Anya Seton Georgette Heyer Barbara Cartland feminism romantic suspense historical romance gender sex/sexuality marriage Older and/or precursor texts (may not be "romance" as now defined) erotic romance readers romance scholarship Harlequin Mills & Boon gothic romance Jane Austen history settings social/economic class UK United States of America fairytales/folktales family Charlotte Brontë psychology
Woodruff, Juliette (1985) A spate of words, full of sound & fury, signifying nothing: or, How to read in Harlequin Journal of Popular Culture 19.2:25-32 DOI: 10.1111/j.0022-3840.1985.00025.x Topic gothic romance Harlequin Mills & Boon historical romance Barbara Cartland Georgette Heyer marriage
Ellis, Kate (1987) "Gimme Shelter: Feminism, Fantasy, and Women's Popular Fiction " American Media and Mass Culture: Left Perspectives 216-230 Topic feminism gothic romance virginity rape and/or intimate partner violence/abuse Victoria Holt/Jean Plaidy/Eleanor Burford Hibbert Charlotte Brontë settings family work Kathleen Woodiwiss readers
Thurston, Carol (1987) The Romance Revolution: Erotic Novels for Women and the Quest for a New Sexual Identity Urbana and Chicago: University of Illinois Press Topic erotic romance United States of America readers historical romance sex/sexuality Publishing feminism work Harlequin Mills & Boon gender pornography rape and/or intimate partner violence/abuse Rosemary Rogers virginity gothic romance Bertrice Small LaVyrle Spencer Kathleen Woodiwiss
Cannatella, Bonnie M. (1988) The "Demon lover" : female psychology and the alter ego in the romance and gothic novel of the nineteenth and twentieth centuries Masters, University of New Orleans Topic gothic romance
Bettinotti, Julia (1994) "Crime et châtiment dans l'oeuvre de Delly: une lecture "gothique" " Crime et châtiment dans le roman populaire de langue française du XIXe siècle: actes du colloque international de mai 1992 à Limoges 411-??? Topic Delly gothic romance
Sánchez-Palencia Carazo, Carolina (1994) El discurso femenino de la novela rosa en lengua inglesa la mujer como protagonista, autora y lectora del género PhD, Universidad de Sevilla Topic gender authors readers genre definitions Older and/or precursor texts (may not be "romance" as now defined) gothic romance historical romance erotic romance Katherine V. Forrest
Bettinotti, Julia (1995) "Crime et châtiment dans l’oeuvre de Delly: une lecture ‘gothique’ " Guimauve et fleurs d’oranger: Delly 137-156 Topic Delly gothic romance
Kelso, Sylvia (1996) Singularities: the interaction of feminism(s) and two strands of popular American fiction, 1968-89 PhD, James Cook University of North Queensland Topic gothic romance Barbara Michaels a.k.a. Elizabeth Peters a.k.a. Barbara Mertz Phyllis A. Whitney feminism
Kelso, Sylvia (1997) Stitching Time: Feminism(s) and Thirty Years of Gothic Romance Para.doxa: Studies in World Literary Genres 3.1-2:164-179 Topic gothic romance Barbara Michaels a.k.a. Elizabeth Peters a.k.a. Barbara Mertz feminism family
Crusie Smith, Jennifer (1998) "The Romantic Suspense Mystery " Mystery and Suspense Writers: The Literature of Crime, Detection, and Espionage, Volume 2 1183-1197 Topic romantic suspense genre definitions settings Older and/or precursor texts (may not be "romance" as now defined) gothic romance Horace Walpole Ann Radcliffe Jane Austen Emily Brontë Charlotte Brontë Wilkie Collins death Mary Roberts Rinehart Mabel Seeley Dorothy MacCardle Georgette Heyer Vera Caspary Daphne du Maurier Mary Stewart Barbara Michaels a.k.a. Elizabeth Peters a.k.a. Barbara Mertz Victoria Holt/Jean Plaidy/Eleanor Burford Hibbert Mary Higgins Clark family Eileen Dreyer/Kathleen Korbel
Ramsdell, Kristin (1999) Romance Fiction: A Guide to the Genre Englewood, Colorado: Libraries Unlimited Topic libraries/librarians genre definitions contemporary romance romantic suspense gothic romance historical romance paranormal/fantasy/time-travel romance LGBTQ+ characters, readers and/or authors Christian romance race/ethnicity romance scholarship
Lutz, Deborah (2007) "The Haunted Space of the Mind: The Revival of the Gothic Romance in the Twenty-First Century " Empowerment versus Oppression: Twenty-First Century Views of Popular Romance Novels 81-92 Topic gothic romance settings Evelyn Rogers
Kramer, Kyra (2011) Raising Veils and other Bold Acts: The Heroine's Agency in Female Gothic Novels Studies in Gothic Fiction 1.2:23-36 Topic gothic romance romantic suspense gender Victoria Holt/Jean Plaidy/Eleanor Burford Hibbert Elizabeth Lowell
Cordell, Sigrid (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 Christian romance religion/spirituality gothic romance
Crawford, Joseph (2014) The Twilight of the Gothic? Vampire Fiction and the Rise of the Paranormal Romance, 1991-2012 Cardiff: University of Wales Press Topic paranormal/fantasy/time-travel romance genre definitions Twilight gothic romance
Hughes, Bill (2014) Demon Lovers: Embracing the Monster in Paranormal Romance :1-23 Topic paranormal/fantasy/time-travel romance trash/literary and or intellectual quality YA/teenage romance gothic romance Older and/or precursor texts (may not be "romance" as now defined) sex/sexuality Alyxandra Harvey science/technology gender Maggie Stiefvater animals Julie Kagawa rural romance settings death Daniel Waters
Therrien, Kathleen M. (2015) ""One Would Die Rather Than Speak ... about Such Subjects": Exploring Class, Gender, and Hegemony in Anya Seton's Dragonwyck " Teaching Tainted Lit: Popular American Fiction in Today's Classroom 51-76 Topic teaching romance Anya Seton gothic romance social/economic class gender sex/sexuality rape and/or intimate partner violence/abuse
Keegan, Faye Jessica (2016) Soft metafiction(s) : Mary Stewart and the self-reflective middlebrow PhD, University of Newcastle, UK Topic Mary Stewart romantic suspense trash/literary and or intellectual quality national identity history metafiction fairytales/folktales gothic romance UK
Markert, John (2016) Publishing Romance: The History of an Industry, 1940s to the Present Jefferson, North Carolina: McFarland & Company Topic Publishing Harlequin Mills & Boon historical romance erotic romance m/m romance lesbian romance gothic romance romantic suspense African American romance paranormal/fantasy/time-travel romance Avon Ellora's Cave LGBTQ+ characters, readers and/or authors BDSM paratext
Nilson, Maria (2016) Kärlek, passion och begär – om romance Lund: BTJ förlag Topic genre definitions historical romance gothic romance erotic romance
Smith, Michelle J. Moruzi, Kristine (2018) Vampires and Witches Go to School: Contemporary Young Adult Fiction, Gender, and the Gothic Children's Literature in Education 49:6–18 DOI: 10.1007/s10583-018-9343-0 Topic YA/teenage romance gothic romance paranormal/fantasy/time-travel romance
Paige, Lori A. (2018) The Gothic Romance Wave: A Critical History of the Mass Market Novels, 1960-1993 Jefferson, North Carolina: McFarland & Company Topic gothic romance Older and/or precursor texts (may not be "romance" as now defined) historical romance
Smith, Michelle J. Moruzi, Kristine (2018) Vampires and Witches Go to School: Contemporary Young Adult Fiction, Gender, and the Gothic Children's Literature in Education 49:6–18 DOI: 10.1007/s10583-018-9343-0 Topic YA/teenage romance gothic romance paranormal/fantasy/time-travel romance
Jones, Amanda (2019) Madness, Monks and Mutiny: Neo-Victorianism in the Work of Victoria Holt Neo-Victorian Studies 12.1:1-27 DOI: 10.5281/zenodo.3470919 Topic Victoria Holt/Jean Plaidy/Eleanor Burford Hibbert gothic romance romantic suspense feminism Charlotte Brontë gender marriage family Wilkie Collins health/medical Mary Elizabeth Braddon India
Hirst, Holly (2020) "Georgette Heyer " The Palgrave Handbook of Contemporary Gothic 373-389 DOI:10.1007/978-3-030-33136-8_23 Topic Georgette Heyer gothic romance Daphne du Maurier Charlotte Brontë romantic suspense
Hirst, Holly (2020) "The Gothic Romance " The Palgrave Handbook of Contemporary Gothic 357-372 DOI:10.1007/978-3-030-33136-8_22 Topic gothic romance Victoria Holt/Jean Plaidy/Eleanor Burford Hibbert Phyllis A. Whitney rape and/or intimate partner violence/abuse gender readers Daphne du Maurier romance scholarship social/economic class Catherine Cookson Christine Marion Fraser Georgette Heyer
Hirst, Holly (2021) "Georgette Heyer and redefining the Gothic romance " Georgette Heyer, History, and Historical Fiction 105-118 DOI:10.2307/j.ctv15d818n.12 Topic gothic romance Georgette Heyer romance scholarship genre definitions
Hughes, Bill (2021) "Genre Mutation in Young Adult Gothic: The Dialectics of Dystopia and Romance in Holly Black's The Coldest Girl in Coldtown " Young Adult Gothic Fiction: Monstrous Selves/Monstrous Others Topic YA/teenage romance gothic romance paranormal/fantasy/time-travel romance capitalism/business Holly Black
Romney, Rebecca (2021) The Romance Novel in English: A Survey in Rare Books, 1769-1999 : Type Punch Matrix Topic Publishing Older and/or precursor texts (may not be "romance" as now defined) work Harlequin Mills & Boon historical romance Christian romance gothic romance romantic suspense paranormal/fantasy/time-travel romance YA/teenage romance African American romance LGBTQ+ characters, readers and/or authors Frances Brooke Canada Elizabeth Inchbald Frances Burney Sydney Owenson national identity Ireland Ouida May Agnes Fleming Laura Jean Libbey Emma Wolf religion/spirituality Judaism Pauline Hopkins Onoto Watanna/Winnifred Eaton Japan Elinor Glyn Louise Gerard Barbara Cartland Laura Lou Brookman Kathleen Thompson Norris romances in magazines and newspapers Elizabeth Carfrae Frances Shelley Wees Lilian Warren as Kathryn Blair/Rosalind Brett/Celine Conway Jean S. MacLeod/Catherine Airlie Alice Lent Covert Joyce Dingwell/Kate Starr Australia Faith Baldwin Mary Renault medical romance Mary Burchell, pen name of Ida Cook Juliet Shore/Anne Vinton Della Field, pseudonym of Fanny Howe Janet Dailey Lydia Maria Child Charlotte M. Yonge Mary Johnston Susa Young Gates Kathleen Woodiwiss Rosemary Rogers June Lund Shiplett paratext Jayne Ann Krentz/Amanda Quick/Jayne Castle science fiction/futuristic romance Valerie Belgrave Caribbean Beverly Jenkins Jane Austen Susan Ferrier Georgette Heyer Amii Lorin Nora Roberts/J. D. Robb Marisa de Zavala/Ana Lisa de Leon/Rachel Scott/Celina Rios Mullan Sandra Kitt Maureen Wartski Augusta Jane Evans Florence Barclay Ethel M. Dell Janette Oke Beverly Lewis Charlotte Brontë Harriet Lewis Virginia Coffman Victoria Holt/Jean Plaidy/Eleanor Burford Hibbert Phyllis A. Whitney Mary Stewart Daoma Winston Chelsea Quinn Yarbro Rita Clay Estrada Lori Herter Jean Webster Robin McKinley Tracy West/Joyce McGill/Chassie West Marie G. Lee race/ethnicity Paula Christian Isabel Miller Gordon Merrick Ann Allen Shockley Vincent Virga Nancy Garden Katherine V. Forrest Loretta Chase Brenda Jackson
Toscano, Angela (2021) "Gothic romance " The Routledge Research Companion to Popular Romance Fiction 99-117 DOI:10.4324/9781315613468-4 Topic gothic romance Mary Stewart
Ramos-García, María Teresa (2022) "Definiciones transatlánticas de la raza blanca en las novelas góticas de Louise Bergstrom en Canarias (1971-1972) " 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 127-147 Topic Louise Bergstrom gothic romance race/ethnicity
Ramos-García, María Teresa (2022) "Transatlantic definitions of Whiteness in Louise Bergstrom’s Gothic romances in the Canary Islands (1971-1972) " 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 313-331 Topic Louise Bergstrom gothic romance race/ethnicity
Sullivan, Ashleigh Taylor (2022) "From Darcy to Dickheads: Why Do Women Love the Bad Boy? " New Frontiers in Popular Romance: Essays on the Genre in the 21st Century 31-44 Topic rape and/or intimate partner violence/abuse readers gothic romance gender L. J. Shen sex/sexuality BDSM Penelope Douglas Emily Brontë Charlotte Brontë Fifty Shades Jade West
Søndberg Spaabæk, Anne Sofie (2022) The “Infernal” Value of the Gothic: A Reading of Gothicness and Romanceness in Cassandra Clare’s The Infernal Devices Masters, Aalborg University Topic gothic romance paranormal/fantasy/time-travel romance Cassandra Clare genre definitions