sex/sexuality

Alberto, Maria

(2022) "Original Slash, Romance, and C.S. Pacat’s Captive Prince " New Frontiers in Popular Romance: Essays on the Genre in the 21st Century 216-232

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C. S. Pacat

fanfiction

Ali, Kecia

(2018) Romance Fiction in the Archives Journal of Popular Romance Studies 7:

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romance scholarship

(2011) Theorising Male Virginity in Popular Romance Novels Journal of Popular Romance Studies 2.1:

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(2016) Reading from Behind: A Cultural Analysis of the Anus Regina: University of Regina Press

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Anne Tenino

(2020) Men, Masculinities, and Popular Romance Abingdon, Oxon: Routledge

Topic

(2020) “And he absolutely fascinated me”: Masculinity and Virginity in Sherilee Gray’s Breaking Him Journal of Popular Romance Studies 9: DOI: 10.70138/EGUW2220

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(2021) "Gender and sexuality " The Routledge Research Companion to Popular Romance Fiction 428-453 DOI:10.4324/9781315613468-20

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(2022) ‘Impossibly erotic things’: On men’s underwear in Brief Encounters by Suzanne Forster Critical Studies in Men's Fashion 9.2:207-222 DOI: 10.1386/csmf_00060_1

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(2022) "“A Most Unlikely Hero”: Disability, Masculinity, and Sexuality in Harlequin Superromance Novels " The Male Body in Representation: Returning to Matter 215-235 DOI:https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-88604-2_10

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Fay Robinson/Carmel Parsons Thomaston

(2023) Softcore romance: on naked heroes and beefcakes in popular romance novels Porn Studies 10:3: 283-298 DOI: 10.1080/23268743.2023.2189899

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Annabeth Albert

K. C. Wells

(2024) “Condoms Break. Birth Control Fails.” Heroes in the Procreative Realm and Jessica Scott’s “Anything for You” Journal of Popular Romance Studies 13: DOI: 10.70138/AQLE2548

Topic

war/armed forces

Anderton, Gretchen E.

(2009) Excitement, adventure, indifference: Romance readers' perceptions of how romance reading impacts their sex lives Doctor of Education, Widener University

Topic

Andrade, Roberta Manuela Barros de

Silva, Erotilde Honório

(2010) Corpos que falam: erotismo, amor e paixão no romance sentimental Comunicarte 30.41:9-25

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Andreu, Alicia G.

(2011) Corín Tellado y el discurso popular: “Peculiares confidencias” Romance Quarterly 58.1:16-26 DOI: 10.1080/08831157.2011.525139

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Corín Tellado

Anita,

(2020) Shift on Functions of Sexual Euphemisms in English-Indonesian Translation of Duke of Her Own by Eloisa James International Journal of Innovation, Creativity and Change 13.4:92-107

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(2015) Teratophilia: An Inquiry into Monster Erotica and the Feminine Psyche , National Taiwan University

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Ardis, Ann

(1996) E. M. Hull, Mass Market Romance and the New Woman Novel in the Early Twentieth Century Women's Writing 3.3:287-296 DOI: 10.1080/0969908960030307

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Arvanitaki, Eirini

(2019) "Gender in Recent Romance Novels: A Third Wave Feminist Mills and Boon Love Affair? " Re/Presenting Gender and Love 159–170 DOI:10.1163/9781848883437_016

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(1988) "Romance Fiction: Porn for Women? " Perspectives on Pornography: Sexuality in Film and Literature 101-109

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Backman, Nelina Esther

(1999) Evangelism Embarrassed: Christian Literature in a post-Christian Culture PhD, Brown University

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Bagchi, Jayeeta

(2000) Looking for Reality in Romance Social Scientist 28.3/4:30-39

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(2011) Blood Ties: The Vampire Lover in the Popular Romance The Journal of American Culture 34.2:141-148 DOI: 10.1111/j.1542-734X.2011.00770.x

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Balducci, Federica

(2011) Rethinking Romanzo Rosa: The first person narrator and changing gender roles in Brunella Gasperini’s Rosso di sera Italian Studies in Southern Africa/Studi d'Italianistica nell'Africa Australe 24.1:103-126 DOI: 10.4314/ISSA.V24I1.66622

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(2012) Gossip, Liminality, and Erotic Display: Jennifer Crusie’s Links to Eighteenth-Century Amatory Fiction Journal of Popular Romance Studies 2.2:

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(2012) Disabled Sexuality, Incorporated: The Compulsions of Popular Romance Journal of Literary & Cultural Disability Studies 6.2:125-141

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

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Kim Vogel Sawyer

Barta, Orsolya

(2024) Surprise Babies, Bad Mothers & Happily Ever Afters: Pregnancy Narratives and the Concept of Motherhood In Eight Contemporary Romance Novels Masters thesis, University of Uppsala

Topic

(1987) Continuities and Reconstructions in Cross-cultural Literary Transmission: The Case of the Nigerian Romance Novel Poetics 16.3-4:327-351 DOI: 10.1016/0304-422X(87)90010-6

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(1985) Rewriting English: Cultural Politics of Gender and Class London: Methuen

Topic

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

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(1986) La corrida de l'amour: Le Roman Harlequin Montréal: Université du Québec à Montréal

Topic

(2011) Feminism and Sexuality in Ellen Wilkinson's Fiction Parliamentary Affairs 64.2:248–262 DOI: 10.1093/pa/gsq060

Topic

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

Béja, Alice

(2019) La new romance et ses nuances. Marché littéraire, sexualité imaginaire et condition féminine Revue du Crieur 12.1:106-121 DOI: 10.3917/crieu.012.0106

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(1993) Writing About Desire The Glasgow Review 2:

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Belsey, Catherine

(1994) Desire: Love Stories in Western Culture Oxford: Blackwell

Topic

Bereska, Tami M.

(1992) Adolescent Romance Novels: Changes Over Time Master of Arts, University of Alberta

Topic

Bereska, Tami M.

(1994) Adolescent Sexuality and the Changing Romance Novel Market The Canadian Journal of Human Sexuality 3.1:35-44

Topic

Clark, Beverly Lyon

(1996) Reading Romance, Reading Ourselves The Centennial Review 40.2:359-384

Topic

Bettinotti, Julia

(1986) La corrida de l'amour: Le Roman Harlequin Montréal: Université du Québec à Montréal

Topic

(2009) Lesbian Romance Novels: A History and Critical Analysis Jefferson, North Carolina: McFarland & Co

Topic

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

Bhasin, Neeta

(2018) Romancing the 'Illegal' Immigrant Journal of Literature and Art Studies 8.10:1459-1474 DOI: 10.17265/2159-5836/2018.10.004

Topic

Serena Bell

(2021) “Are You Clean?” Encouraging STI Communication in Casual Encounters through Narrative Messages in Romance Novels Communication Studies 72.3:333-346 DOI: 10.1080/10510974.2021.1899006

Topic

(2020) "The Good, the Bad, and the Kinky: Erotic Romance Writing in a Post-Fifty Shades of Grey Landscape " Communication in Kink: Understanding the Influence of the Fifty Shades of Grey Phenomenon 53-76

Topic

(2018) The Language of Romance: An Open Vocabulary Analysis of the Highest Rated Words Used in Romance Novels Journal of Language and Social Psychology 37.6:680-691 DOI: 10.1177/0261927X18793976

Topic

(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

war/armed forces

Suzanne Brockmann

Bonelli, María Valentina

(2012) La virgen desollada: la perdida de la virginidad en las novelas de Corín Tellado durante el franquismo Gramma 1.4:

Topic

(1999) "Cavewoman Impulses: The Jungian Shadow Archetype in Popular Romantic Fiction " Romantic Conventions 62-74

Topic

(2001) Romance Novel of One's Own: The Nature and "Failure" of the Lesbian Romance Sub-Genre Master of Arts, West Chester University

Topic

(1994) 'A World of Caribbean Romance': Reformulating the Legend of Love (or: 'Can a Caress Be Culturally Specific?') Caribbean Studies 27.3/4:346–366

Topic

Caribbean

(1997) "Women & Modern African Popular Fiction " Readings in African Popular Culture 118-125

Topic

Africa

Burg, Jacob

(2020) Houses of Genre Fiction: The Shared Estrangement of Postwar American Culture PhD, Brandeis University

Topic

settings

Kathleen Woodiwiss

Helen Hoang

(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

food, drink

war/armed forces

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

Burge, Amy

(2016) Representing Difference in the Medieval and Modern Orientalist Romance Houndmills, Basingstoke: Palgrave Macmillan

Topic

Burge, Amy

(2016) "‘I Will Cut Myself and Smear Blood on the Sheet’: Testing Virginity in Medieval and Modern Orientalist Romance " Virgin Envy: The Cultural Insignificance of the Hymen 17-44

Topic

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

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

Burke, Nicola

(2020) Mills and Fur: Feminism and Femininity in the Supernatural Romance PhD, Western Sydney University

Topic

Sarah Blakley-Cartwright

Maggie Stiefvater

Burley, Stephanie

(2003) "What's a Nice Girl like You Doing in a Book like This?: Homoerotic Reading and Popular Romance " Doubled Plots: Romance and History 127-146

Topic

Ménard, A. Dana

Cabrera, Christine

(2011) ‘Whatever the Approach, Tab B Still Fits into Slot A’: Twenty Years of Sex Scripts in Romance Novels Sexuality & Culture 15.3:240–255 DOI: 10.1007/s12119-011-9092-3

Topic

(2013) 'She Exploded into a Million Pieces': A Qualitative and Quantitative Analysis of Orgasms in Contemporary Romance Novels Sexuality & Culture 17.2:193-212 DOI: 10.1007/s12119-012-9147-0

Topic

Calhoun-French, Diane M.

(1999) "Time-Travel and Related Phenomena in Contemporary Popular Romance Fiction " Romantic Conventions 100-112

Topic

Constance O'Day Flannery

Jo Ann Simon

Heather Graham

Cantor, Muriel G.

(1987) "Popular culture and the portrayal of women: Content and control " Analyzing Gender: A Handbook of Social Science Research 190-214

Topic

Capps, Stephanie Carol

(2017) What You Read and What You Believe: Genre Exposure and Beliefs about Relationships Master of Science, University of Oklahoma

Topic

(2020) Asexual Romance in an Allosexual World: How Ace-Spectrum Characters (and Authors) Create Space for Romantic Love Journal of Popular Romance Studies 9: DOI: 10.70138/HAEQ8192

Topic

Alisa Klever/Tatiana Vedenska

Cassiday, Julie A.

(2020) A World Without Safe Words: Fifty Shades of Russian Grey Journal of Popular Romance Studies 9: DOI: 10.70138/VSFX5408

Topic

Russia

Castagna, JoAnn

Radespiel, Robin L.

(1990) "Making Rape Romantic: A Study of Rosemary Rogers' "Steve and Ginny" Novels " Women and Violence in Literature: An Essay Collection 299-325

Topic

(2019) The Personal and the Political in American Working-Class Literature, 1850-1939: Defining the Radical Romance Lanham, Maryland: Lexington

Topic

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

Chaplin, Sue

(2019) ‘Daddy, I’m falling for a monster’: Women, Sex, and Sacrifice in Contemporary Paranormal Romance Gothic Studies 21.1:10-27 DOI: 10.3366/gothic.2019.0004

Topic

Chappel, Deborah K.

(1997) LaVyrle Spencer and the Anti-Essentialist Argument Para.doxa: Studies in World Literary Genres 3.1-2:107-120

Topic

Chelton, Mary K.

(1991) Unrestricted Body Parts and Predictable Bliss: The Audience Appeal of Formula Romances Library Journal 116.12:44-49

Topic

Cheyne, Ria

(2013) Disability Studies Reads the Romance Journal of Literary & Cultural Disability Studies 7.1:37–52 DOI: 10.3828/jlcds.2013.3

Topic

(2017) "Disability Studies Reads the Romance: Sexuality, Prejudice, and the Happily-Ever-After in the Work of Mary Balogh " Culture - Theory – Disability: Encounters between Disability Studies and Cultural Studies 201-230 DOI:10.14361/9783839425336-012

Topic

(2018) "Disability in Genre Fiction " The Cambridge Companion to Literature and Disability 185-198 DOI:10.1017/9781316104316.014

Topic

Fay Robinson/Carmel Parsons Thomaston

Chow, Karen

(1999) Popular Sexual Knowledges and Women’s Agency in 1920s England: Marie Stopes’s Married Love and E.M. Hull’s The Sheik Feminist Review 63:64-87 DOI: 10.1080/014177899339063

Topic

Christian-Smith, Linda K.

(1994) "Young Women and Their Dream Lovers: Sexuality in Adolescent Fiction " Sexual Cultures and the Construction of Adolescent Identities 206-227

Topic

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 DOI: 10.1177/0957926596007001004

Clark, Beverly Lyon

(1996) Reading Romance, Reading Ourselves The Centennial Review 40.2:359-384

Topic

Clawson, Laura

(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

Coles, Claire D.

Shamp, M. Johnna

(1984) Some Sexual, Personality, and Demographic Characteristics of Women Readers of Erotic Romances Archives of Sexual Behavior 13.3:187-209 DOI: 10.1007/BF01541647

Topic

(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

Constans, Ellen

(1995) "Cri du Coeur, cri du corps, dans les romans de Delly " Guimauve et fleurs d’oranger: Delly 117-136

Topic

Delly

Cook, Jon

(1988) "Fictional Fathers " Sweet Dreams: Sexuality, Gender and Popular Fiction 137-164

Topic

(1994) Romance Novel Readers: in Search of Feminist Change? Women's Studies 23.3:257-269 DOI: 10.1080/00497878.1994.9979026

Topic

Crusie Smith, Jennifer

(1997) Romancing Reality: The Power of Romance to Reinforce and Re-vision the Real Para.doxa: Studies in World Literary Genres 3.1-2:81-93

Topic

Jennifer Crusie

Crusie Smith, Jennifer

(1999) "This Is Not Your Mother's Cinderella: The Romance Novel as Feminist Fairy Tale " Romantic Conventions 51-61

Topic

Damian-Gaillard, Béatrice

(2011) Les romans sentimentaux des collections Harlequin: quelle(s) figure(s) de l’amoureux? Quel(s) modèle(s) de relation(s) amoureuse(s)? Questions de communication 20:317-336 DOI: 10.4000/questionsdecommunication.2130

Topic

Damian-Gaillard, Béatrice

(2012) "Prince charmant. Représentations des ressources et des coûts des masculinités dans les romans sentimentaux des collections Harlequin " Boys Don't Cry! Les coûts de la domination masculine 91-109 DOI:10.4000/books.pur.67095

Topic

Dandridge, Rita B.

(2003) "African American Women's Historical Romances: Race and Gender Revisited " The 2000-2003 Proceedings of the SW/Texas PCA/ACA Conference 42-56

Topic

(2003) "The Race, Gender, Romance Connection: A Black Feminist Reading of African American Women's Historical Romances " Doubled Plots: Romance and History 185-201

Topic

Dandridge, Rita B.

(2004) Black Women's Activism: Reading African American Women's Historical Romances New York: Peter Lang

Topic

Anita Richmond Bunkley

(2016) "Love Prevailed Despite What American History Said: Agape and Eros in Beverly Jenkins's Night Song and Through the Storm " Romance Fiction and American Culture: Love as the Practice of Freedom? 151-166

Topic

wealth/prosperity

Dandridge, Rita B.

(2022) Vivian Lorraine Stephens: Romance Pioneer Journal of Popular Romance Studies 11: DOI: 10.70138/ZFKI9916

Topic

Vivian Stephens

Rosalind Welles - pen name of Elsie B. Washington

Amii Lorin

(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

(1985) Rewriting English: Cultural Politics of Gender and Class London: Methuen

Topic

(1986) Romances and the Modern Ms.: a Study of Contemporary (Line) Romances, 1980-1984 PhD, University of Southern California

Topic

(2023) From private pleasure to erotic spectacle: Adapting Bridgerton to female audience desires Journal of Popular Television 11.1:7-25 DOI: 10.1386/jptv_00090_1

Topic

Julia Quinn

Deal, Clare H.

(2015) Throbb[ing] with a consciousness of a knowledge that appalled her’: Embodiment and Female Subjectivity in the Desert Romance Women: A Cultural Review 26.1-2:75-95 DOI: 10.1080/09574042.2015.1035049

Topic

Deller, Ruth A.

Smith, Clarissa

(2013) Reading the BDSM romance: Reader responses to Fifty Shades Sexualities 16.8:932–950 DOI: 10.1177/1363460713508882

Topic

Reyes, Daisy Verduzco

Speer, Annika C.

Denes, Amanda

(2021) White Women and Latina Readers’ Ambivalence Toward Fifty Shades of Grey Sexuality & Culture 25:852–870 DOI: 10.1007/s12119-020-09797-3

Topic

Dennis, Lesley Erin

(2012) Pornography and Rape Myths in Paranormal Romance Novels Master of Arts, Morehead State University

Topic

(1995) Discipline and passion: meaning, masochism and mythology in popular medical romances Nursing Inquiry 2.4:203-210 DOI: 10.1111/j.1440-1800.1995.tb00147.x

Topic

Diekman, Amanda B.

McDonald, Mary

Gardner, Wendi L.

(2000) Love means never having to be careful: The relationship between reading romance novels and safe sex behavior Psychology of Women Quarterly 24.2:179-188 DOI: 10.1111/j.1471-6402.2000.tb00199.x

Topic

(2007) The Genres Speak; Using Large Corpora to Profile Generic Registers Journal of Literary Semantics 36.2:159-187 DOI: 10.1515/JLS.2007.009

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linguistics

Dixon, jay

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

Topic

Downey, Kristin

(2005) Irony, Ideology, and Resistance: The Amazing Double Life of Harlequin Presents PhD, McMaster University

Topic

Drakulić-Ilić, Slavenka

(1984) Smrtni grijesi feminizma. Ogledi u mudologiji Zagreb: Znanje

Topic

Driscoll, Catherine

(2006) "One True Pairing: The Romance of Pornography and the Pornography of Romance " Fan Fiction and Fan Communities in the Age of the Internet: New Essays 79–96

Topic

(2022) "Tingles and Shivers: First Kisses and Intimate Civility in Eliza Redgold’s Historical Harlequin Romances Pre–and Post-#MeToo " New Frontiers in Popular Romance: Essays on the Genre in the 21st Century 47-61

Topic

(1995) Discipline and passion: meaning, masochism and mythology in popular medical romances Nursing Inquiry 2.4:203-210 DOI: 10.1111/j.1440-1800.1995.tb00147.x

Topic

Dyhouse, Carol

(2017) Hearthrobs: A History of Women and Desire Oxford: Oxford University Press

Topic

(2013) Flogging sexual transgression: Interrogating the costs of the ‘Fifty Shades effect’ Sexualities 16.8:880-895 DOI: 10.1177/1363460713508884

Topic

(1986) Language/Sexuality/Power in Harlequin Romances Indian Journal of American Studies 16.1:71-80

Topic

Edmondson, Belinda

(2007) The Black Romance Women's Studies Quarterly 35.1/2:191-211

Topic

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

Frances Watkins Harper

Caribbean

national identity

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

modernism

Egilsdatter Sleire, Maria

(2021) “Only I shall taste your body’s joys:” The Erotic Function of Female Corporeality in The Flame and the Flower and Fifty Shades of Grey Master's Thesis, University of Bergen

Topic

Ehnenn, Jill

(1998) Desperately Seeking Susan Among the Trash: Reinscription, Subversion and Visibility in the Lesbian Romance Novel Atlantis 23.1:120-127

Topic

fascism/right-wing authoritarianism

Escolar, Marisa

(2015) Marry the Allies? Luciana Peverelli’s ‘True’ Romanzo Rosa in ‘Liberated’ Rome Italian Studies 70.2:228-248 DOI: 10.1179/0075163415Z.00000000097

Topic

Luciana Peverelli

Italy

national identity

(1980) Women, Sex and Pornography London: Melbourne House

Topic

Fernández Rodríguez, Carolina

Fekete, Maleah

(2022) Confluent Love and the Evolution of Ideal Intimacy: Romance Reading in 1980 and 2016 Journal of Popular Romance Studies 11: DOI: 10.70138/OCWW4702

Topic

(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

Fletcher, Lisa

(2008) Historical Romance Fiction: Heterosexuality and Performativity Burlington: Ashgate

Topic

(2014) Writing the Happy Ever After: An Interview with Anne Gracie Journal of Popular Romance Studies 4.2:

Topic

Anne Gracie

(2015) How Exposure to Literary Genres Relates to Attitudes Toward Gender Roles and Sexual Behavior Psychology of Aesthetics, Creativity, and the Arts 9.3:274–285 DOI: 10.1037/a0038864

Topic

(2006) X Press Publications: Pop Culture, “Pop Lit” and Caribbean Literary Criticism: An Essay of Provocation Anthurium: A Caribbean Studies Journal 4.1: DOI: 10.33596/anth.61

Topic

Fortune, Teagan Bailey

(2024) Rape Beyond Fantasy: Exploring the Influence of BookTok's Erotica and Dark Romance Literature on Young Adult Perceptions of Consent and Boundaries Master’s thesis, University of Northern Colorado

Topic

dark romance

Foster, Guy Mark

(2007) "How Dare a Black Woman Make Love to a White Man! Black Women Romance Novelists and the Taboo of Interracial Desire " Empowerment versus Oppression: Twenty-First Century Views of Popular Romance Novels 103-128

Topic

(2015) What To Do If Your Inner Tomboy Is a Homo: Straight Women, Bisexuality, and Pleasure in M/M Gay Romance Fictions Journal of Bisexuality 15.4:509-531 DOI: 10.1080/15299716.2015.1092910

Topic

Fowler, Bridget

(1991) The Alienated Reader: Women and Romantic Literature in the Twentieth Century Hemel Hempstead: Harvester Wheatsheaf

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

(2002) ""Expressing" Herself: The Romance Novel and the Feminine Will to Power " Scorned Literature: Essays on the History and Criticism of Popular Mass-Produced Fiction in America 17-36

Topic

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

(2012) "The History of BDSM Fiction and Romance " Fifty Writers on Fifty Shades of Grey 159-172

Topic

(2016) "Strange Stirrings, Strange Yearnings: The Flame and the Flower, Sweet Savage Love, and the Lost Diversities of Blockbuster Historical Romance " Romance Fiction and American Culture: Love as the Practice of Freedom? 89-110

Topic

Fraysse, Mélie

Garcia, Marie-Carmen

(2019) Les Thug Love : des romans sentimentaux à l'épreuve de la classe et de la race Genre en séries : cinéma, télévision, médias 9:15-37

Topic

France

Frenier, Mariam Darce

(1988) Good-bye Heathcliff: Changing Heroes, Heroines, Roles, and Values in Women’s Category Romances New York: Greenwood Press

Topic

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 DOI: 10.1093/cww/vpaa003

Topic

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

settings

Frost, Laura

(2006) "The Romance of Cliché: E. M. Hull, D. H. Lawrence, and Interwar Erotic Fiction " Bad Modernisms 94-118 DOI:10.2307/j.ctv125jq8v.8

Topic

(2013) The Problem with Pleasure: Modernism and Its Discontents New York: Columbia University Press

Topic

(1987) Et si je t'aime, prends garde à toi : essai d'anthropologie sur la sexualité dans les romans Harlequin Mémoire (M.A.), l’Université Laval

Topic

Bettinotti, Julia

(1986) La corrida de l'amour: Le Roman Harlequin Montréal: Université du Québec à Montréal

Topic

(2021) Novel Approaches to Lesbian History Cham, Switzerland: Palgrave Macmillan

Topic

pirates and outlaws

Fraysse, Mélie

Garcia, Marie-Carmen

(2019) Les Thug Love : des romans sentimentaux à l'épreuve de la classe et de la race Genre en séries : cinéma, télévision, médias 9:15-37

Topic

France

Gardner, Dora Abigail

(2019) Defending the Bodice Ripper MA thesis, Eastern Kentucky University

Topic

Gardner, Jeanne

(2011) 'True-To-Life': Romance Comics and Teen-Age Desire, 1947-1954 Forum for World Literature Studies 3.1:118-128

Topic

comics/manga

Gardner, Jeanne

(2012) "Girls Who Sinned in Secret and Paid in Public: Romance Comics, 1949-1954 " Comic Books and the Cold War, 1946-1962: Essays on Graphic Treatment of Communism, the Code and Social Concerns 92-102

Topic

comics/manga

Gardner, Jeanne Emerson

(2013) She Got Her Man, but Could She Keep Him? Love and Marriage in American Romance Comics, 1947–1954 The Journal of American Culture 36.1:16-24 DOI: 10.1111/jacc.12009

Topic

Topic

(2006) "English Sheiks" and Arab Stereotypes: E. M. Hull, T. E. Lawrence, and the Imperial Masquerade Texas Studies in Literature and Language 48.2:171-186 DOI: 10.1353/tsl.2006.0007

Topic

(2012) "Ornamentalism: Desire, Disavowal, and Displacement in E. M. Hull's The Sheik " Must Read: Rediscovering American Bestsellers from Charlotte Temple to The Da Vinci Code 197-216

Topic

Garton, Stephen

(2008) 'Fit Only for the Scrap Heap': Rebuilding Returned Soldier Manhood in Australia After 1945 Gender & History 20.1:48-67 DOI: 10.1111/j.1468-0424.2007.00501.x

Topic

(2023) Return Fantasies: Martial Masculinity, Misogyny and Homosocial Bonding in the Aftermath of Second World War Gender & History ONLINE FIRST:ONLINE FIRST DOI: 10.1111/1468-0424.12742

Topic

Gates, Sarah

(2016) Feminism, NASCAR and the Italian billionaire's secret baby: Defending the romance genre Voiceworks 103 (Autumn):95-101

Topic

(1986) Changing heroes: depictions of the male sex role in category romance novels, 1976-1983 MA thesis, Ohio State University

Topic

Gill, Rosalind

Herdieckerhoff, Elena

(2006) Rewriting The Romance: New Femininities in Chick Lit? Feminist Media Studies 6.4:487-504 DOI: 10.1080/14680770600989947

Topic

(2015) Sexual Content in Young Adult Literature: Reading between the Sheets Lanham, Maryland: Rowman & Littlefield

Topic

Gillis, Stacy

(2015) The Cross-Dresser, the Thief, His Daughter and Her Lover: Queer Desire and Romance in Georgette Heyer’s These Old Shades Women: A Cultural Review 26.1-2:57-74 DOI: 10.1080/09574042.2015.1035024

Topic

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

Gillis, Stacy

(2018) "Manners, Money, and Marriage: Austen, Heyer, and the Literary Genealogy of the Regency Romance " After Austen: Reinventions, Rewritings, Revisitings 81-101 DOI:10.1007/978-3-319-95894-1_5

Topic

Jane Austen

Georgette Heyer

Gleason, William

(2016) "The Inside Story: Jennifer Crusie and the Architecture of Love " Popular Fiction and Spatiality: Reading Genre Settings 79-93

Topic

(1995) Discipline and passion: meaning, masochism and mythology in popular medical romances Nursing Inquiry 2.4:203-210 DOI: 10.1111/j.1440-1800.1995.tb00147.x

Topic

Goris, An

(2012) Mind, Body, Love: Nora Roberts and the Evolution of Popular Romance Studies Journal of Popular Romance Studies 3.1:

Topic

romance scholarship

(2012) "Sex and the Genre: The Role of Sex in Popular Romance " Romance: The History of a Genre 14-28

Topic

(1970) The Female Eunuch London: MacGibbon & Kee

Topic

(2015) Sneers and Leers: Romance Writers and Gendered Sexual Stigma Gender & Society 29.4:459-483 DOI: 10.1177/0891243215584603

Topic

(1987) Continuities and Reconstructions in Cross-cultural Literary Transmission: The Case of the Nigerian Romance Novel Poetics 16.3-4:327-351 DOI: 10.1016/0304-422X(87)90010-6

Topic

Topic

Guiley, Rosemary

(1983) Love Lines: The Romance Reader's Guide to Printed Pleasures New York: Facts on File

Topic

(2009) The Creators of Women’s Popular Romance Fiction: The Authors Who Gave Women a Genre of Their Own Lewiston: Edwin Mellen Press

Topic

Hall, Glinda Fountain

(2008) Inverting the Southern Belle: Romance Writers Redefine Gender Myths Journal of Popular Culture 41.1:37-55 DOI: 10.1111/j.1540-5931.2008.00491.x

Topic

(2018) The Language of Romance: An Open Vocabulary Analysis of the Highest Rated Words Used in Romance Novels Journal of Language and Social Psychology 37.6:680-691 DOI: 10.1177/0261927X18793976

Topic

(2018) "Really Romantic? Pirates in Romantic Fiction " Pirates in History and Popular Culture 109–119

Topic

pirates and outlaws

Hassencahl, Fran

(1980) Persecutors, Victims and Rescuers in Harlequin Romances Paper presented at the combined Annual Meeting of the Midwest Popular Culture Association and the Midwest American Culture Association (Kalamazoo, MI, October 23-25, 1980). :

Topic

(1999) "Changing Ideologies in Romance Fiction " Romantic Conventions 149-172

Topic

(2020) "Snow White of the (Un)Dead Reading the Anita Blake: Vampire Hunter Series as Tales of Female Desire " And Thereby Hangs a Tale: A Critical Anatomy of (Popular) Tales 141-159 DOI:10.25593/978-3-96147-343-4

Topic

Laurell K. Hamilton

Hemmungs Wirtén, Eva

(1998) "They Seek It Here, They Seek It There, They Seek It Everywhere": Looking for the "Global" Book Canadian Journal of Communication 23.2:

Topic

Doreen Hornsblow as Sally Wentworth

translation

Sweden

Sandra Canfield

(1996) Reading Romance, Reading Ourselves The Centennial Review 40.2:359-384

Topic

Gill, Rosalind

Herdieckerhoff, Elena

(2006) Rewriting The Romance: New Femininities in Chick Lit? Feminist Media Studies 6.4:487-504 DOI: 10.1080/14680770600989947

Topic

(2012) The Upper-Class Bisexual Top as Romantic Hero: (Pre)dominant in the Social Structure and in the Bedroom Journal of Popular Romance Studies 3.1:

Topic

Ann Herendeen

wealth/prosperity

(2024) Exploring Consent: An Analysis of Consent in Dark Romance and Contemporary Romance Books Master of Arts in Writing: Book Publishing., Portland State University

Topic

(2024) “It really got to me [...] The movies where the main characters freaked out about being virgins at the age of sixteen”: Narrative Subversion as a Queer Strategy in Loveless Master of Arts, Ghent University

Topic

Alice Oseman

(2016) Speaking through the flesh: Affective encounters, gazes and desire in Harlequin romances MedieKultur: Journal of media and communication research 32.61:42-57 DOI: 10.7146/mediekultur.v32i61.22382

Topic

Kolmes, Sara

Hoffman, Matthew A.

(2021) Harlequin Resistance? Romance Novels as a Model for Resisting Objectification The Journal of Aesthetics and Art Criticism 79.1:30–41 DOI: 10.1093/jaac/kpaa004

Topic

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

Horgheim, Celina

(2023) From Rape to Romance: Sexual Consent Negotiation in Romantic Retellings of the Myth of Persephone MA Degree Secondary Teacher Programme, University of Oslo

Topic

myth

(1992) "Les chemins de la passion " Actes du colloque "Les mauvais genres" organisé au Centre culturel canadien de Paris les 23, 24 et 25 novembre 1989 137-145

Topic

Houel, Annik

(1997) Le roman d’amour et sa lectrice: une si longue passion: l’exemple Harlequin Paris: L’Harmattan

Topic

(2021) “Are You Clean?” Encouraging STI Communication in Casual Encounters through Narrative Messages in Romance Novels Communication Studies 72.3:333-346 DOI: 10.1080/10510974.2021.1899006

Topic

(2014) Demon Lovers: Embracing the Monster in Paranormal Romance :1-23

Topic

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

gothic romance

(2023) From private pleasure to erotic spectacle: Adapting Bridgerton to female audience desires Journal of Popular Television 11.1:7-25 DOI: 10.1386/jptv_00090_1

Topic

Julia Quinn

Iqbal, Kundan

(2014) The impact of romance novels on women's sexual and reproductive health Journal of Family Planning & Reproductive Health Care 40:300–302 DOI: 10.1136/jfprhc-2014-100995

Topic

(2010) Of Bustles and Breeches: Cross-dressing Romance Novel Heroines and the Performance of Gender Ideology Master of Arts, Bowling Green State University

Topic

(2011) Desiring the Big Bad Blade: Racing the Sheikh in Desert Romances American Quarterly 63.4:895-928 DOI: 10.1353/aq.2011.0061

Topic

Islam

Jarvis, Christine

(1999) Love Changes Everything: The Transformative Potential of Popular Romantic Fiction Studies in the Education of Adults 31.2:109-123 DOI: 10.1080/02660830.1999.11661406

Topic

(2003) Desirable Reading: The Relationship between Women Students' Lives and their Reading Practices Adult Education Quarterly 53.4:261-276 DOI: 10.1177/0741713603254029

Topic

(1996) Reading Romance, Reading Ourselves The Centennial Review 40.2:359-384

Topic

Johnson-Kurek, Rosemary E.

Jensen, Margaret Ann

(1984) Love's $weet Return: The Harlequin Story Toronto: The Women's Educational Press

Johnson, Jacqueline E.

(2024) Lusting out loud: racialized aurality, podcast intimacy, and the uses of thirst Communication, Culture and Critique ONLINE FIRST:ONLINE FIRST DOI: 10.1093/ccc/tcae001

Topic

(2010) Consuming Desires: Consumption, Romance, and Sexuality in Best-Selling Teen Romance Novels Women's Studies in Communication 33.1:54-73 DOI: 10.1080/07491401003669984

Topic

(2007) Consuming Desires: A Feminist Analysis of Bestselling Teen Romance Novels PhD, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill

Topic

(1999) "Leading Us into Temptation: The Language of Sex and the Power of Love " Romantic Conventions 113-148

Topic

(1986) "Mills & Boon meets feminism " The Progress of Romance: The Politics of Popular Fiction 195-218

Topic

Juhasz, Suzanne

(1998) Lesbian Romance Fiction and the Plotting of Desire: Narrative Theory, Lesbian Identity, and Reading Practice Tulsa Studies In Women's Literature 17.1:65-82 DOI: 10.2307/464325

Topic

(1999) "Conventions of Captivity in Romance Novels " Romantic Conventions 86-99

Topic

settings

Kamble, Jayashree

(2007) "Female Enfranchisement and the Popular Romance: Employing an Indian Perspective " Empowerment versus Oppression: Twenty-First Century Views of Popular Romance Novels 148-173

Topic

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

Topic

happy ending

Stephanie Laurens

Kamblé, Jayashree

(2021) "Romance in the media " The Routledge Research Companion to Popular Romance Fiction 269-293 DOI:10.4324/9781315613468-12

Topic

(2023) The origins of U.S. mass-market category romance novels: Black editors and writers in the early 1980s The Journal of American Culture 46.3:252-265 DOI: https://doi.org/10.1111/jacc.13488

Topic

Vivian Stephens

Rosalind Welles - pen name of Elsie B. Washington

Lia Sanders - pen name of Angela Jackson and Sandra Jackson-Opoku

(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 DOI: 10.1080/09612025.2010.509147

Topic

Berta Ruck

Kapell, Matthew

Becker, Suzanne

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

Topic

(2024) The Genre of Rape: Women’s Popular Literature and Contemporary Representations of Sexual Violence PhD, University of Michigan

Topic

health/medical

Khuankaew, Sasinee

(2015) Femininity and masculinity in three selected twentieth-century Thai romance fictions PhD, Cardiff University

Topic

Khuankaew, Sasinee

(2017) Femininity and Masculinity in Twenty-First Century Thai Romantic Fictions The Asian Conference on Literature 2017: Official Conference Proceedings :

Topic

Kinard, Amanda Marette

(1999) Forbidden Pleasures: The Romance and Its Readers PhD, Vanderbilt University

Topic

(2012) Multiculturalism, Sex, and Powerful Women: The New Romance Novel as the Voice of Neofeminism? MA thesis, Dartmouth College

Topic

Kluger, Johanna

(2024) Post-Trump masculinity in popular romance novels Neohelicon ONLINE FIRST:ONLINE FIRST DOI: 10.1007/s11059-024-00731-2

Topic

Kraxenberger, Maria

Knoop, Christine A.

Menninghaus, Winfried

(2021) Who reads contemporary erotic novels and why? Humanities and Social Sciences Communications 8: DOI: 10.1057/s41599-021-00764-3

Topic

(2011) Virtuous Vampires and Voluptuous Vamps: Romance Conventions Reconsidered in Stephenie Meyer’s ‘‘Twilight’’ Series Children's Literature in Education 42.2:165-179 DOI: 10.1007/s10583-010-9125-9

Topic

Twilight

(2021) Harlequin Resistance? Romance Novels as a Model for Resisting Objectification The Journal of Aesthetics and Art Criticism 79.1:30–41 DOI: 10.1093/jaac/kpaa004

Topic

(2001) Family Myths in Romantic Fiction Psychological Reports 88.1:29-41 DOI: 10.2466/pr0.2001.88.1.29

Topic

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

Topic

Kramer, Kyra

(2012) Getting Laid, Getting Old, and Getting Fed: The Cultural Resistance of Jennifer Crusie’s Romance Heroines Journal of Popular Romance Studies 2.2:

Topic

(2018) "Communication, Kink, and Sexual Education: What Young Women Learned from Fifty Shades of Grey " Communication in Kink: Understanding the Influence of the Fifty Shades of Grey Phenomenon 77-96

Topic

Menninghaus, Winfried

(2021) Who reads contemporary erotic novels and why? Humanities and Social Sciences Communications 8: DOI: 10.1057/s41599-021-00764-3

Topic

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

Topic

Laura Kinsale

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

Daphne Clair

Suzanne Simmons Guntrum

Diana Palmer

Kathleen Gilles Seidel

Kustritz, Anne

(2003) Slashing the Romance Narrative The Journal of American Culture 26.3:371-384 DOI: 10.1111/1542-734X.00098

Topic

(1986) "I Won't Grow up"—Yet: Teen Formula Romance Children's Literature Association Quarterly 11.2:90-95 DOI: 10.1353/chq.0.0557

Topic

(1997) La représentation du couple à travers les pages couvertures des romans Harlequin Cahiers de la recherche en éducation 4.2:269–297 DOI: 10.7202/1017331ar

Topic

paratext

Topic

(2008) Guilty Pleasures: Reading Romance Novels as Reworked Fairy Tales Marvels & Tales 22.1:52-66

Topic

Christine Feehan

Lemay, Catherine

(2016) La traduction de la scène de sexe dans le roman sentimental érotique: Analyse descriptive et comparative Mémoire de maîtrise, l’Université Laval

Topic

(2007) Of Modern Dragons and other essays on Genre Fiction Tirril, Penrith: Humanities-Ebooks

Topic

romantic suspense

science fiction/futuristic romance

Lennard, John

(2010) Of Sex and Faerie: Further essays on Genre Fiction Tirril, Penrith: Humanities-Ebooks

Topic

Leonzini, Alexandra

(2018) "“All the Better to Eat You With”: The Eroticization of the Werewolf and the Rise of Monster Porn in the Digital Age " Exploring the Fantastic: Genre, Ideology, and Popular Culture 269-294

Topic

Lienhard, Alissa

(2024) “I’ll Call it Platonic Magic”: Queer Joy, Metafiction, and Aro-Ace Autofictional Selves in Alice Oseman’s Loveless In Progress: A Graduate Journal of North American Studies 2.1:59-72 DOI: 10.15488/17355

Topic

Alice Oseman

(1984) Returning to Manderley – Romance Fiction, Female Sexuality and Class Feminist Review 16:7-25 DOI: 10.1057/fr.1984.2

Topic

Daphne du Maurier

Lois, Jennifer

Gregson, Joanna

(2015) Sneers and Leers: Romance Writers and Gendered Sexual Stigma Gender & Society 29.4:459-483 DOI: 10.1177/0891243215584603

Topic

(2022) L’amour comme un roman. Le roman sentimental au Québec d’hier à aujourd’hui Montréal: Presses de l’Université de Montréal

Topic

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

(2024) Love Stories Now and Then: A History of Les romans d'amour : Baraka

Topic

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

Philippe Aubert de Gaspé Jr.

Joseph Doutre

Pierre-Joseph-Olivier Chauveau

Albertine Laperle-Bernier

dime novels

Marie-Claude Bussières-Tremblay

chick lit

Micheline Perron

Raymond Plante

Bertrand Gauthier

Magenya, Sheena Gimase

(2020) Reading between the lines: A review of Dark Juices and Afrodisiacs: Erotic Diaries Vol 1 Agenda 34.3:137-144 DOI: 10.1080/10130950.2020.1782756

Topic

Africa

(2021) Reading Response in Mary Balogh: A Critical Engagement Journal of Popular Romance Studies 10: DOI: 10.70138/OMMB6082

Topic

(2001) Feminist Popular Fiction Houndmills, Basingstoke: Palgrave

Topic

Malloy, Audrey Miles

(2017) Remnants of the Bodice Ripper: How Consent is Characterized in Heterosexual and Lesbian Erotic Romance Novels Undergraduate, Bard College

Topic

Mann, Peter H.

(1981) The Romantic Novel and its Readers Journal of Popular Culture 15.1:9-18 DOI: 10.1111/j.0022-3840.1981.00009.x

Topic

(2015) How Exposure to Literary Genres Relates to Attitudes Toward Gender Roles and Sexual Behavior Psychology of Aesthetics, Creativity, and the Arts 9.3:274–285 DOI: 10.1037/a0038864

Topic

(1985) Romance Publishing and the Production of Culture Poetics 14.1-2:69-93 DOI: 10.1016/0304-422X(85)90005-1

Topic

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

Topic

(1999) "The Good Provider in Romance Novels " Romantic Conventions 10-22

Topic

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

(2008) Rosemary Rogers Teaching American Literature: A Journal of Theory and Practice 2.2/3:1-8

Topic

Rosemary Rogers

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

Masteller, Jean Carwile

(1996) "Romancing the Reader: From Laura Jean Libbey to Harlequin Romance and Beyond " Pioneers, Passionate Ladies, and Private Eyes: Dime Novels, Series Books, and Paperbacks 263-284

Topic

Laura Jean Libbey

Mayhew, Lilybeth M.

(1994) The series romance: the changing representation of gender relationships within a popular genre Master of Arts (Hons.), University of Wollongong

Topic

(1992) Popular Reading and Publishing in Britain, 1914-1950 Oxford: Clarendon Press

Topic

Mary Burchell, pen name of Ida Cook

Jean S. MacLeod/Catherine Airlie

McAleer, Joseph

(1999) Passion's Fortune: The Story of Mills & Boon Oxford: Oxford University Press

Topic

Mary Burchell, pen name of Ida Cook

Betty Beaty

Elizabeth Carfrae

Fay Chandos/Jan Tempest

Sophie Cole

Lilian Warren as Kathryn Blair/Rosalind Brett/Celine Conway

Iris Danbury

Joyce Dingwell/Kate Starr

Roberta Leigh/Rachel Lindsay

Jean S. MacLeod/Catherine Airlie

Mary Lutyens/Esther Wyndham

Kate Norway/Olive Norton

Denise Robins

Sara Seale

Juliet Shore/Anne Vinton

Ireland

(2014) ‘That complete fusion of spirit as well as body’: Heroines, heroes, desire and compulsory demisexuality in the Harlequin Mills & Boon romance novel Australasian Journal of Popular Culture 3.3:299-310 DOI: 10.1386/ajpc.3.3.299_1

Topic

(2015) Breaking the Hard Limits: Romance, Pornography, and the Question of Genre in the Fifty Shades Trilogy Analyses/Rereadings/Theories 3.2:23-33

Topic

(2016) "Between Pleasure and Pain: The Textual Politics of the Hymen " Virgin Envy: The Cultural Insignificance of the Hymen 45-64

Topic

(2017) "Love in Australian Romance Novels " The Popular Culture of Romantic Love in Australia 194-222

Topic

(2020) #RomanceClass: Genre World, Intimate Public, Found Family Publishing Research Quarterly 36:403–417 DOI: 10.1007/s12109-020-09733-1

Topic

(2020) The Consummate Virgin: Female Virginity Loss and Love in Anglophone Popular Literatures Cham, Switzerland: Palgrave Macmillan

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

(2021) "Erotic romance " The Routledge Research Companion to Popular Romance Fiction 212-228 DOI:10.4324/9781315613468-9

Topic

(2023) Publishing Romance Fiction in the Philippines Cambridge: Cambridge University Press

Topic

Philippines

(2015) Romancing the Virgin: Female Virginity Loss and Love in Popular Literature in the West PhD, Macquarie University

Topic

McCann, Hannah

Roach, Catherine M.

(2021) "Sex and sexuality " The Routledge Research Companion to Popular Romance Fiction 411-427 DOI:10.4324/9781315613468-19

Topic

Topic

(2021) Unspeakable Conventionality: The Perversity of the Kindle American Literary History 33.2:394–415 DOI: 10.1093/alh/ajab004

Topic

(2009) Out of Wedlock: The Consummation and Consumption of Marriage in Contemporary Romance Fiction Genders 50:

Topic

Medrano-González, Claudia

Topic

(2000) "Georgette Heyer: The Historical Romance and the Consumption of the Erotic, 1918-1939 " All the World and Her Husband: Women in Twentieth-Century Consumer Culture 82-96

Topic

(2024) On the Convergence Between Femme Theory and Popular Feminine Fiction: Adolescent Girls’ (Re)territorialisation Of Fem(me)ininity Through Young Adult Erotic Romance Journal of Femininities ONLINE FIRST:ONLINE FIRST DOI: 10.1163/29501229-bja10005

Topic

(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)

(2011) ‘Whatever the Approach, Tab B Still Fits into Slot A’: Twenty Years of Sex Scripts in Romance Novels Sexuality & Culture 15.3:240–255 DOI: 10.1007/s12119-011-9092-3

Topic

Ménard, A. Dana

(2013) Note from the Field: Reflecting on Romance Novel Research: Past, Present and Future Journal of Popular Romance Studies 3.2:

Topic

(2013) 'She Exploded into a Million Pieces': A Qualitative and Quantitative Analysis of Orgasms in Contemporary Romance Novels Sexuality & Culture 17.2:193-212 DOI: 10.1007/s12119-012-9147-0

Topic

Menninghaus, Winfried

(2021) Who reads contemporary erotic novels and why? Humanities and Social Sciences Communications 8: DOI: 10.1057/s41599-021-00764-3

Topic

(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

fascism/right-wing authoritarianism

(2022) Pushing the boundaries: Erotic romance and the symbolic boundary nexus Poetics 94:--- DOI: 10.1016/j.poetic.2022.101729

Topic

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

Topic

Native American romance

Miles, Angela

(1988) Confessions of a Harlequin Reader: Romance and the Myth of Male Mothers Canadian Journal of Political and Social Theory 12. 1-2:1-37

Topic

(1997) My Life as a Romance Reader Para.doxa: Studies in World Literary Genres 3.1-2:15-28

Topic

Brenda Joyce

Modleski, Tania

(1998) My Life as a Romance Writer Para.doxa: Studies in World Literary Genres 4.9:134-144

Topic

romance scholarship

Jennifer Crusie

Linda Howard

Mogin-Martin, Roselyne

(2010) Corín Tellado : ¿de la novela rosa a la novela comprometida? Revista Arbor 186, Anexo 3:327-347

Topic

Mogin-Martin, Roselyne

(2016) "La revolución sexual de Corín Tellado " Miradas sobre una obra polifacética: Homenaje a Jean Louis Guereña 255-270

Topic

Corín Tellado

fascism/right-wing authoritarianism

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

(2016) Identification, Affect, and Escape: Theorizing Popular Romance Reading Pedagogy 16.1:105-123 DOI: 10.1215/15314200-3158669

Topic

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

Gwyneth Bolton/Gwendolyn Pough

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

Moore, Jeania Ree V.

(2025) The Religious Work of Beverly Jenkins’s Black Historical Romance Journal of Popular Romance Studies 14: DOI: 10.70138/KBQG2589

Topic

Beverly Jenkins

(2012) The Heroine as Reader, the Reader as Heroine: Jennifer Crusie’s Welcome to Temptation Journal of Popular Romance Studies 2.2:

Topic

(2019) Sexual Agency, Safe Sex, and Consent Negotiations in Erotic Romance Novels European Journal of Social Sciences 2.2:92-96

Topic

Kramer, Daniela

Moore, Michael

(2001) Family Myths in Romantic Fiction Psychological Reports 88.1:29-41 DOI: 10.2466/pr0.2001.88.1.29

Topic

(1996) Reading Romance, Reading Ourselves The Centennial Review 40.2:359-384

Topic

Morgan, Paula

(2003) “Like Bush Fire in My Arms”: Interrogating the World of Caribbean Romance Journal of Popular Culture 36.4:804-827 DOI: 10.1111/1540-5931.00046

Topic

(2016) Romance Networks: Aspiration & Desire in Today’s Digital Culture PhD, University of Wisconsin, Milwaukee

Topic

Moudileno, Lydie

(2002) Pas de romance sans finance: la construction du couple moderne dans les romans sentimentaux de l'Afrique de l'Ouest Sites: The Journal of Twentieth-Century/Contemporary French Studies revue d'études français 6.1:67-78 DOI: 10.1080/10260210290021789

Topic

(1995) Discipline and passion: meaning, masochism and mythology in popular medical romances Nursing Inquiry 2.4:203-210 DOI: 10.1111/j.1440-1800.1995.tb00147.x

Topic

Muhomah, Catherine

(2002) What do women want?: Versions of masculinity in Kenyan romantic fiction English Studies in Africa 45.2:77-90

Topic

Topic

(1989) Japanese Harlequin Romances as Transcultural Woman's Fiction The Journal of Asian Studies 48.1:50-70 DOI: 10.2307/2057664

Topic

(2015) How Exposure to Literary Genres Relates to Attitudes Toward Gender Roles and Sexual Behavior Psychology of Aesthetics, Creativity, and the Arts 9.3:274–285 DOI: 10.1037/a0038864

Topic

Topic

(1992) Teenage Pregnancy: Dating and Sexual Attitudes Journal of Sex Education and Therapy 18.4:264-276 DOI: 10.1080/01614576.1992.11074059

Topic

(1984) Fantasy and Reconciliation: Contemporary Formulas of Women’s Romance Fiction Westport, Connecticut: Greenwood Press

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

(2020) Shift on Functions of Sexual Euphemisms in English-Indonesian Translation of Duke of Her Own by Eloisa James International Journal of Innovation, Creativity and Change 13.4:92-107

Topic

(2011) Safe Sex with Defanged Vampires: New Vampire Heroes in Twilight and the Southern Vampire Mysteries Journal of Popular Romance Studies 2.1:

Topic

Charlaine Harris

Twilight

(2022) Diversity in Romance Novels: Race, Sexuality, Neurodivergence, Disability, and Fat Representation Publishing Research Quarterly 38:349–363 DOI: 10.1007/s12109-022-09881-6

Topic

fat, fatness

Neal, Lynn S.

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

Topic

Grace Livingston Hill

(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

(2018) Girls Who Like Boys Who Like Boys: Women and Gay Male Pornography and Erotica Cham, Switzerland: Palgrave Macmillan

Topic

Nickel, Eleanor Hersey

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

Topic

(2019) Female Agency in the Harlequin Romance Formula: developments within the timeframe of second wave feminism Bachelor’s thesis, Utrecht University

Topic

Roberta Leigh/Rachel Lindsay

health/medical

Nilson, Maria

(2013) From The Flame and the Flower to Fifty Shades of Grey: Sex, Power and Desire in the Romance Novel Akademisk Kvarter/Academic Quarter 7:119-131 DOI: 10.5278/ojs.academicquarter.v0i7.2824

Topic

Nilson, Maria

(2017) Kärlek i kyligt klimat: Om nordisk romance Tidskrift för Nordisk litteratur 76:22-31

Topic

(2017) Nådens tuttar : Om skönheter, odjur och den frälsande kvinnokroppen i modern romance HumaNetten 39:110-123 DOI: 10.15626/hn.20173911

Topic

(1986) La corrida de l'amour: Le Roman Harlequin Montréal: Université du Québec à Montréal

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(1993) "Romance in the Forbidden Zone " ReImagining Women: Representations of Women in Culture 160-181

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Native American romance

Arlene James

O'Brien, Lee

(2022) Telling Gaps and Domestic Tyranny: Georgette Heyer’s Regency Romances Journal of Popular Romance Studies 11: DOI: 10.70138/QSNM1860

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(1985) Rewriting English: Cultural Politics of Gender and Class London: Methuen

Topic

(2018) The Language of Romance: An Open Vocabulary Analysis of the Highest Rated Words Used in Romance Novels Journal of Language and Social Psychology 37.6:680-691 DOI: 10.1177/0261927X18793976

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(2012) Francophone Perspectives on Romantic Fiction: From the Academic Field to Reader’s Experience Journal of Popular Romance Studies 2.2:

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(2015) Rozbieranie wampira. Erotyczne imaginacje i seksualne fantazje w romansach paranormalnych / metafizycznych (na wybranych przykładach) Orbis Linguarum 43:397-407

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(2021) "Stripping The Vampire. Erotic Imaginations and Sexual Fantasies In Paranormal Romances (A Study Of Selected Examples) " Manifestations of Male Image in the World's Cultures 137-156

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Osborne, Gwendolyn E.

(2004) ""Women Who Look Like Me": Cultural Identity and Reader Responses to African American Romance Novels " Race/Gender/Media: Considering Diversity Across Audiences, Content, and Producers 61-68

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paratext

Owen, Mairead

(1997) Re-inventing romance: Reading popular romantic fiction Women's Studies International Forum 20.4:537-546 DOI: 10.1016/S0277-5395(97)00042-3

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(2013) "Love and the Machine: Technology and Human Relationships in Steampunk Romance and Erotica " Steaming Into a Victorian Future: A Steampunk Anthology 65-87

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Parameswaran, Radhika

(1999) Western Romance Fiction as English-Language Media in Postcolonial India Journal of Communication 49.3:84-105 DOI: 10.1111/j.1460-2466.1999.tb02806.x

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India

Parameswaran, Radhika

(2002) Reading Fictions of Romance: Gender, Sexuality, and Nationalism in Postcolonial India Journal of Communication 52.4:832-851 DOI: 10.1111/j.1460-2466.2002.tb02576.x

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India

Parameswaran, Radhika E.

(1994) "Romance Reading in the Third World: A Postcolonial Intersection of Gender, Ethnicity, and Sexuality " Proceedings of the Annual Meeting of the Association for Education in Journalism and Mass Communication (77th, Atlanta, Georgia, August 10-13, 1994). Part IV: International Media 71-102

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(2023) The Feminist Possibilities of Heteroglossic Spaces in Contemporary Young Adult Romance Novels Journal of Popular Romance Studies 12: DOI: 10.70138/PVPQ4885

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(2018) Models of Publishing and Opportunities for Change: Representations in Harlequin, Montlake and Self-Published Romance Novels Australian Literary Studies 33.4: DOI: 10.20314/als.1cd73e2f68

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(2020) #RomanceClass: Genre World, Intimate Public, Found Family Publishing Research Quarterly 36:403–417 DOI: 10.1007/s12109-020-09733-1

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(2023) Publishing Romance Fiction in the Philippines Cambridge: Cambridge University Press

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Philippines

(2009) Out of Wedlock: The Consummation and Consumption of Marriage in Contemporary Romance Fiction Genders 50:

Topic

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 DOI: 10.1177/0957926596007001004

Peabody, Rebecca

(2016) "Kara Walker: American Romance in Black and White " Romance Fiction and American Culture: Love as the Practice of Freedom? 131-150

Topic

Barbara Ferry Johnson

Pearce, Lynne

(2004) "Popular Romance and Its Readers " A Companion to Romance: From Classical to Contemporary 521-538

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(1999) "Identity by Design: The Corporate Construction of Teen Romance Novels " Growing Up Girls: Popular Culture and the Construction of Identity 49-86

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food, drink

(1992) Teenage Pregnancy: Dating and Sexual Attitudes Journal of Sex Education and Therapy 18.4:264-276 DOI: 10.1080/01614576.1992.11074059

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(1991) La relation amoureuse: analyse sociologique du roman sentimental moderne Paris: L’Harmattan

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(1991) Les femmes dans le roman sentimental moderne L'Homme et la société 99-100:115-125 DOI: 10.3406/homso.1991.2542

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France

Delly

Leonard Noel Barker writing as L. Noel

(2023) Sex, race and power: colonial and interracial sexuality in the French Empire in Morocco, 1912-1956 DPhil, University of Oxford

Topic

(2023) "‘The Machine for Showing Desire’: Desert Romance Fiction and Knowing Sexual Desire " Historical Research, Creative Writing, and the Past: Methods of Knowing DOI:10.4324/9781003252801-4

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(1992) Teenage Pregnancy: Dating and Sexual Attitudes Journal of Sex Education and Therapy 18.4:264-276 DOI: 10.1080/01614576.1992.11074059

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(2015) Temperaturen des Begehrens als konventionelle Metaphern im Hard-Core-Liebesroman 36:159-174 DOI: 10.14746/sgp.2015.36.12

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(2018) Rewriting the Romance: Emotion Work and Consent in Arranged Marriage Fanfiction Journal of Popular Romance Studies 7:

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(2019) Sexual Consent : MIT Press

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Pritchard, Jamee N.

(2022) Reading the Black Romance: Exploring Black Sexual Politics in the Romance Fiction of Rebekah Weatherspoon Journal of Popular Romance Studies 11: DOI: 10.70138/YQAY5668

Topic

Rebekah Weatherspoon

Ann Allen Shockley

Bettinotti, Julia

(1986) La corrida de l'amour: Le Roman Harlequin Montréal: Université du Québec à Montréal

Topic

(1997) Reading Romance Novels in Postcolonial India Gender & Society 11.4:434-452 DOI: 10.1177/089124397011004004

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Quilliam, Susan

(2011) “He seized her in his manly arms and bent his lips to hers…”. The surprising impact that romantic novels have on our work Journal of Family Planning and Reproductive Health Care 37.3:179-181 DOI: 10.1136/jfprhc-2011-100152

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(2021) “Are You Clean?” Encouraging STI Communication in Casual Encounters through Narrative Messages in Romance Novels Communication Studies 72.3:333-346 DOI: 10.1080/10510974.2021.1899006

Topic

(1990) "Making Rape Romantic: A Study of Rosemary Rogers' "Steve and Ginny" Novels " Women and Violence in Literature: An Essay Collection 299-325

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(1995) Shopping Around: Feminine Culture and the Pursuit of Pleasure New York and London: Routledge

Topic

(1981) The Utopian Impulse in Popular Literature: Gothic Romances and "Feminist" Protest American Quarterly 33.2:140-162 DOI: 10.2307/2712313

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gothic romance

Victoria Holt/Jean Plaidy/Eleanor Burford Hibbert

(1994) "Romance and the Work of Fantasy: Struggles over Feminine Sexuality and Subjectivity at Century's End " Viewing, Reading, Listening: Audiences and Cultural Reception 213-231

Topic

(2024) Tall, Dark, and Ideal: #Bookboyfriends in six contemporary romance novels Masters thesis, University of Uppsala

Topic

Elle Kennedy

Colleen Hoover

Krista and Becca Ritchie

(1992) Issues of Passion and Power in E. M. Hull's The Sheik Women's Studies 21:119-128 DOI: 10.1080/00497878.1992.9978930

Topic

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

Topic

Reyes, Daisy Verduzco

Speer, Annika C.

Denes, Amanda

(2021) White Women and Latina Readers’ Ambivalence Toward Fifty Shades of Grey Sexuality & Culture 25:852–870 DOI: 10.1007/s12119-020-09797-3

Topic

Clark, Beverly Lyon

(1996) Reading Romance, Reading Ourselves The Centennial Review 40.2:359-384

Topic

(2018) The Reception of Elinor Glyn's Work in Spain (1926–57) Women: A Cultural Review 29.2:188-215 DOI: 10.1080/09574042.2018.1447040

Topic

Rafael Pérez y Pérez

Roach, Catherine M.

(2010) Getting a Good Man to Love: Popular Romance Fiction and the Problem of Patriarchy Journal of Popular Romance Studies 1.1:

Topic

(2016) Happily Ever After: The Romance Story in Popular Culture Bloomington, Indiana: Indiana University Press

Topic

(2018) "Erotica " The Routledge Companion to Media, Sex and Sexuality 107-116

Topic

(2021) "Sex and sexuality " The Routledge Research Companion to Popular Romance Fiction 411-427 DOI:10.4324/9781315613468-19

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(1978) Sex, Class, and Culture Bloomington, Indiana: Indiana University Press

Topic

Rose, Suzanna

(1985) Is Romance Dysfunctional? International Journal of Women's Studies 8.3:250-265

Topic

(1992) Teenage Pregnancy: Dating and Sexual Attitudes Journal of Sex Education and Therapy 18.4:264-276 DOI: 10.1080/01614576.1992.11074059

Topic

(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

(1985) "Pornography By Women For Women, With Love " Magic Mommas, Trembling Sisters, Puritans & Perverts: Femininst Essays 79–99 DOI:10.2307/j.ctt20p58d6.10

Topic

science fiction/futuristic romance

Russell, Shannon

(2014) Dangerous Young Men: Themes of Female Sexuality and Masculinity in Paranormal Romance Novels for Young Adults Masters, University of Ottawa

Topic

Salmon, Catherine

Symons, Donald

(2003) Warrior Lovers: Erotic Fiction, Evolution and Female Sexuality New Haven, Connecticut: Yale University Press

Topic

Salmon, Catherine

(2005) "Crossing the Abyss: Erotica and the Intersection of Evolutionary Psychology and Literary Studies " The Literary Animal: Evolution and the Nature of Narrative 244-257 DOI:10.2307/j.ctvw1d5h1.19

Topic

Sandbakken, Asta Margrethe

(2016) Feeling Men: Masculinity, Sexuality, and Emotion in the Contemporary Romance MA thesis, University of Oslo

Topic

Riba, Caterina

Sanmartí, Carme

(2018) The Reception of Elinor Glyn's Work in Spain (1926–57) Women: A Cultural Review 29.2:188-215 DOI: 10.1080/09574042.2018.1447040

Topic

Rafael Pérez y Pérez

Anita,

(2020) Shift on Functions of Sexual Euphemisms in English-Indonesian Translation of Duke of Her Own by Eloisa James International Journal of Innovation, Creativity and Change 13.4:92-107

Topic

(2016) Happily Ever After for Whom? Blackness and Disability in Romance Narratives Journal of Popular Culture 49.6:1241–1260 DOI: 10.1111/jpcu.12491

Topic

Schell, Heather

(2011) "The Love Life of a Fact " How Well Do Facts Travel? The Dissemination of Reliable Knowledge 429-453

Topic

Seifert, Christine

(2015) Virginity in Young Adult Literature after Twilight Lanham, Maryland: Rowman & Littlefield

Topic

(2021) Come Out, Come Out, Wherever You Are: Sexuality and Gender Exploration in Contemporary Slash Fanfiction M.A. English, Kutztown University

Topic

(2012) The Heroine as Reader, the Reader as Heroine: Jennifer Crusie’s Welcome to Temptation Journal of Popular Romance Studies 2.2:

Topic

Topic

(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

(2012) "Romancing the Paranormal: A Case Study of J.R. Ward’s The Black Dagger Brotherhood " Romance: The History of a Genre 89-110

Topic

J. R. Ward

Coles, Claire D.

Shamp, M. Johnna

(1984) Some Sexual, Personality, and Demographic Characteristics of Women Readers of Erotic Romances Archives of Sexual Behavior 13.3:187-209 DOI: 10.1007/BF01541647

Topic

Andrade, Roberta Manuela Barros de

Topic

Silva, Erotilde Honório

(2010) Corpos que falam: erotismo, amor e paixão no romance sentimental Comunicarte 30.41:9-25

Topic

(2015) Sexual Content in Young Adult Literature: Reading between the Sheets Lanham, Maryland: Rowman & Littlefield

Topic

Slušná, Zuzana

(2015) Postfeminism, Post-romantic and New Patterns of Feminity [sic] in Popular Culture European Journal of Science and Theology 11.6:229-238

Topic

Deller, Ruth A.

Smith, Clarissa

(2013) Reading the BDSM romance: Reader responses to Fifty Shades Sexualities 16.8:932–950 DOI: 10.1177/1363460713508882

Topic

Snitow, Ann Barr

(1979) Mass Market Romance: Pornography for Women is Different Radical History Review 20:141-161 DOI: 10.1215/01636545-1979-20-141

Topic

(1999) 'Erotic Fiction by Women for Women': The Pleasures of Post-Feminist Heterosexuality Sexualities 2.2:167-187 DOI: 10.1177/136346079900200202

Topic

(2000) "What the Woman Reads: Categorising Contemporary Popular Erotica for Women " 246-267

Topic

Sonnet, Esther

(2002) "'"Just a book", she said ...': Refiguring Ethnography for the Female Readers of Sexual Fiction " The Audience Studies Reader 254-273

Topic

Spears, Jessica D.

(2018) The Romance Novel Cover MA thesis, City University of New York (CUNY), Hunter College

Topic

Reyes, Daisy Verduzco

Speer, Annika C.

Denes, Amanda

(2021) White Women and Latina Readers’ Ambivalence Toward Fifty Shades of Grey Sexuality & Culture 25:852–870 DOI: 10.1007/s12119-020-09797-3

Topic

Speese, Erin K. Johns

(2024) Came for the Smut, Stayed by Consent: Desire and Consent in Sarah J. Maas’s Fictional Worlds Journal of Popular Romance Studies 13: DOI: 10.70138/UJXK7901

Topic

Sarah J. Maas

Stern, Barbara B.

(1991) "Two Pornographies: a Feminist View of Sex in Advertising " NA - Advances in Consumer Research Volume 18 384-391

Topic

(2022) Reconciling Reader Response and Feminism in Late Twentieth-Century Erotic Historical Romances INCITE: Journal of Undergraduate Scholarship 13:

Topic

Stobaugh, Rebecca

(2023) Halfway-Sexual: Exploring Demisexuality in American Literature PhD, Louisiana State University

Topic

Sullivan, Ashleigh Taylor

Jack Byrne

(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

(1995) Discipline and passion: meaning, masochism and mythology in popular medical romances Nursing Inquiry 2.4:203-210 DOI: 10.1111/j.1440-1800.1995.tb00147.x

Topic

Sutton, Roger

(1985) Librarians and the Paperback Romance: Trying to Do the Right Thing School Library Journal 32.3:25-29

Topic

Suwanban, Pauline

(2018) From Exhalation to Transformation: The Female Body in the Orientalist Romance Dandelion: Postgraduate Arts Journal & Research Network 9.1: DOI: 10.16995/ddl.686

Topic

(2003) Warrior Lovers: Erotic Fiction, Evolution and Female Sexuality New Haven, Connecticut: Yale University Press

Topic

Talbot, Mary M.

(1995) Fictions at Work: Language and Social Practice in Fiction London and New York: Longman

Topic

Talbot, Mary M.

(1997) "‘An Explosion Deep inside Her’: Women’s Desire and Popular Romance Fiction " Language and Desire: Encoding Sex, Romance, and Intimacy 106-122

Topic

(2012) ‘The urge towards love is an urge towards (un)death’: Romance, masochistic desire and postfeminism in the Twilight novels International Journal of Cultural Studies 15.1:31-46 DOI: 10.1177/1367877911399204

Topic

Taylor, Jessica

(2020) Garçon Manqué: A Queer Rereading (of) The Sheik Journal of Popular Romance Studies 9: DOI: 10.70138/VBEX3804

Topic

Radclyffe Hall

Teague, Anna Sophia Wester

(2015) “If my hubby ever did half the stuff my book boyfriends did… I’d put him six ft in the ground” : narratives of interpersonal and gendered violence as discussed in romance novel review websites Honors thesis, Whitman College

Topic

(2007) "Orientalism and Mass Market Romance Novels in the Twentieth Century " Edward Said: The Legacy of a Public Intellectual 241-262

Topic

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

Topic

Teo, Hsu-Ming

(2012) Desert Passions: Orientalism and Romance Novels Austin, Texas: University of Texas Press

Topic

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

Teo, Hsu-Ming

(2014) “We have to learn to love imperially”: Love in Late Colonial and Federation Australian Romance Novels Journal of Popular Romance Studies 4.2:

Teo, Hsu-Ming

(2016) "The Romance Novel " Gender: Love 255-270

Topic

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

Jane Austen

Barbara Cartland

Georgette Heyer

(2017) "Love in Australian Romance Novels " The Popular Culture of Romantic Love in Australia 194-222

Topic

(2018) "The Contemporary Anglophone Romance Genre " Oxford Research Encyclopedia of Literature DOI:10.1093/acrefore/9780190201098.013.415

Topic

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

Anya Seton

gothic romance

Thierauf, Doreen

(2016) Forever After: Desire in the 21st-Century Romance Blockbuster Journal of Popular Culture 49.3:604-26 DOI: 10.1111/jpcu.12423

Topic

Thomas, Glen

(2007) "The Best Australian Romance Novelist: Emma Darcy " Beautiful Things in Popular Culture 64–78

Topic

(2008) "And I Deliver": An Interview with Emma Darcy Continuum: Journal of Media and Cultural Studies 22.1:113-126 DOI: 10.1080/10304310701732757

Topic

Emma Darcy

(1987) The Romance Revolution: Erotic Novels for Women and the Quest for a New Sexual Identity Urbana and Chicago: University of Illinois Press

Topic

(1985) Popular Historical Romances: Agent for Social Change? An Exploration of Methodologies Journal of Popular Culture 19.1:35-45 DOI: 10.1111/j.0022-3840.1985.00035.x

Topic

(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

(2016) New Adult Romance: An Emerging Genre Masters, University of Groningen

Topic

(2024) In Search of Utopia: Sylvia Pankhurst, Ethel Mannin, Nancy Cunard, and International Socialist Woman Authors in Interwar Britain PhD, University of the Witwatersrand

Topic

Ethel Mannin

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

(1992) Teenage Pregnancy: Dating and Sexual Attitudes Journal of Sex Education and Therapy 18.4:264-276 DOI: 10.1080/01614576.1992.11074059

Topic

(1988) "What is Life Without My Love?: Desire and Romantic Fiction " Sweet Dreams: Sexuality, Gender and Popular Fiction 73-90

Topic

Doreen Hornsblow as Sally Wentworth

Trevenen, Claire

(2014) Fifty Shades of “Mommy Porn”: A Post-GFC Renegotiation of Paternal Law Journal of Popular Romance Studies 4.1:

Topic

(2020) #RomanceClass: Genre World, Intimate Public, Found Family Publishing Research Quarterly 36:403–417 DOI: 10.1007/s12109-020-09733-1

Topic

(2023) Publishing Romance Fiction in the Philippines Cambridge: Cambridge University Press

Topic

Philippines

(2014) "The Sheik Returns: Imitations and Parodies of the Desert Romance " Hype: Bestsellers and Literary Cultures 185-202

Topic

Turner, Natasha

(2015) Contemporary Erotic Romance: Cunning Linguists or Fifty Shades of Feminist Dismay? BA (Hons), University of Birmingham

Topic

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

Topic

(1995) "Amour, sexe et carnaval: le plaisir du texte Harlequin " Armes, larmes, charmes: sérialité et paralittérature 23-48

Topic

Uszkurat, Carol Ann

(1993) "Mid Twentieth Century Lesbian Romance: Reception and Redress " Outwrite: Lesbianism and Popular Culture 26-47

Topic

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

Valovirta, Elina

(2021) "Repeated Pleasure: Reading the Threesome Ménage Romance as Digital Literature " Powerful Prose: How Textual Features Impact Readers 45-61

Topic

(1985) Sex, Power and Pleasure Toronto: The Women's Press

Topic

van Lent, Peter

(1996) "“Her Beautiful Savage”: The Current Sexual Image of the Native American Male " Dressing in Feathers: The Construction of the Indian in American Popular Culture 211-227

Topic

Native American romance

Veldman-Genz, Carole

(2015) "Selling Gay Sex to Women: The Romance of M/M and M/M/F Romantica " Women and Erotic Fiction: Critical Essays on Genres, Markets & Readers 133-149

Topic

Villar-Argáiz, Pilar

(2018) Ireland and the Popular Genre of Historical Romance: The Novels of Karen Robards ABEI: Brazilian Journal of Irish Studies 20.2:97-109 DOI: 10.37389/abei.v20i2.3204

Topic

Vişan, Nadina

(2024) Untranslatability in Regency Romances: Explicitation or Implicitation? British and American Studies 30:233-241 DOI: 10.35923/BAS.30.21

Topic

(2018) Representation of racial and sexual ‘others’ in Afrikaans popular romantic fiction by Sophia Kapp Tydskrif vir letterkunde 55.1:122-133 DOI: 10.17159/2309-9070/tvl.v.55i1.3480

Topic

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

Topic

Vivanco, Laura

(2012) Jennifer Crusie's Literary Lingerie Journal of Popular Romance Studies 2.2:

Topic

(2012) "One Ring to Bind Them: Ring Symbolism in Popular Romance Fiction " New Approaches to Popular Romance Fiction: Critical Essays 99-107

Topic

(2017) "A Place “We All Dream About”: Greece in Mills & Boon Romances " Greece in British Women’s Literary Imagination, 1913-2013 81-98

Topic

Greece

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

Topic

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

Justine Davis/Justine Dare

Suleikha Snyder

community

happy ending

Vivanco, Laura

(2024) Feeling Judged: Reflections on Pornography and Romance from a Minotaur Milking Farm Journal of Popular Romance Studies 13: DOI: 10.70138/DZWB7360

Topic

(2005) Romance Novels and Female Sexuality: Vicarious Participation? Free Inquiry in Creative Sociology 33.2:105-109

Topic

(2022) L’amour comme un roman. Le roman sentimental au Québec d’hier à aujourd’hui Montréal: Presses de l’Université de Montréal

Topic

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

(2024) Love Stories Now and Then: A History of Les romans d'amour : Baraka

Topic

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

Philippe Aubert de Gaspé Jr.

Joseph Doutre

Pierre-Joseph-Olivier Chauveau

Albertine Laperle-Bernier

dime novels

Marie-Claude Bussières-Tremblay

chick lit

Micheline Perron

Raymond Plante

Bertrand Gauthier

(2022) "I Thought You’d Never Ask: Consent in Contemporary Romance " New Frontiers in Popular Romance: Essays on the Genre in the 21st Century 62-75

Topic

Weaver-Zercher, Valerie

(2013) Thrill of the Chaste: the Allure of Amish Romance Novels Baltimore: The Johns Hopkins University Press

(1985) Rewriting English: Cultural Politics of Gender and Class London: Methuen

Topic

(1992) "The Greyhound Bus Station in the Evolution of Lesbian Popular Culture " New Lesbian Criticism: Literary and Cultural Readings 95-113

Topic

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

Ann Bannon

Valerie Taylor

Claire Morgan/Patricia Highsmith

Weisser, Susan Ostrov

(1994) "The Wonderful-Terrible Bitch Figure in Harlequin Novels " Feminist Nightmares: Women at Odds: Feminism and the Problem of Sisterhood 269-282

Topic

(2022) "Afterword: Sex, Romance, and Representation in Uzma Jalaluddin’s Ayesha at Last " Jane Austen, Sex, and Romance: Engaging with Desire in the Novels and Beyond 243-252 DOI:10.1017/9781800106758.017

Topic

Uzma Jalaluddin

Jane Austen

Islam

Whalen, Kacey

(2017) A Consumption of Gay Men: Navigating the Shifting Boundaries of M/M Romantic Readership MA thesis, DePaul University

Topic

Wherry, Maryan

(2015) "More than a Love Story: The Complexities Of the Popular Romance " The Bloomsbury Introduction to Popular Fiction 53-69

Topic

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

(2008) Genesis Press: Cultural Representation and the Production of African American Romance Novels PhD, University of Iowa

Topic

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

Dyanne Davis

White, Bonnie

(2022) Freedom, Sincerity, and the Modern Woman in the Interwar Romances of Berta Ruck Journal of Popular Romance Studies 11: DOI: 10.70138/JYCA1921

Topic

(2002) Islamic-Hausa Feminism and Kano Market Literature: Qur'anic Reinterpretation in the Novels of Balaraba Yakubu Research in African Literatures 33.2:119-136

Topic

Balaraba Ramat Yakubu

(2020) Shift on Functions of Sexual Euphemisms in English-Indonesian Translation of Duke of Her Own by Eloisa James International Journal of Innovation, Creativity and Change 13.4:92-107

Topic

(2016) “Ravished by Vikings”: The Pre-modern and the Paranormal in Viking Romance Fiction Journal of Popular Romance Studies 5.2:

Topic

Williams, Elizabeth W.

(2019) "Queering Settler Romance: The Reparative Eugenic Landscape in Nora Strange's Kenyan Novels " Archiving Settler Colonialism: Culture, Space and Race 190-204

Topic

Williams, Mary

(2021) Consent Is Sexy: A Look Into the Influence the ‘Me Too.’ Movement Had On the Romance Genre Through Smart Bitches Trashy Books Master of Arts in Book Publishing, Portland State University

Topic

Topic

(1992) "The Greyhound Bus Station in the Evolution of Lesbian Popular Culture " New Lesbian Criticism: Literary and Cultural Readings 95-113

Topic

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

Ann Bannon

Valerie Taylor

Claire Morgan/Patricia Highsmith

(1996) The Sheik: What Can be Made of a Daydream Women: A Cultural Review 7.3:291-302 DOI: 10.1080/09574049608578285

Topic

(2008) Radicalizing Romance: Subculture, Sex, and Media at the Margins PhD, University of Florida

Topic

(2015) Making the Invisible Visible: Lesbian Romance Comics for Women Feminist Studies 41.2:293-334 DOI: 10.15767/feministstudies.41.2.293

Topic

comics/manga

Wood, Christine V.

(2014) Tender Heroes and Twilight Lovers: Re-Reading the Romance in Mass-Market Pulp Novels, 1950–1965 Journal of Lesbian Studies 18.4:372-392 DOI: 10.1080/10894160.2014.901846

Topic

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

(2005) Romance Novels and Female Sexuality: Vicarious Participation? Free Inquiry in Creative Sociology 33.2:105-109

Topic

(2006) Gender, Romance Novels and Plastic Sexuality in the United States: A Focus on Female College Students Journal of International Women’s Studies 8.1:125-134

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