romantic suspense

(1999) Romance Fiction: A Guide to the Genre Englewood, Colorado: Libraries Unlimited

Topic

Christian romance

YA/young adult/teenage/new adult/NA romance

romance scholarship

Calhoun-French, Diane M.

(2000) Of Love and Death: Murder and Mayhem Meet the Romance Clues: A Journal of Detection 21.1:1-16

Topic

(2000) A Romance Writer Gets Away with Murder Clues: A Journal of Detection 21.1:17–21

Topic

(2000) A Romance Writer Gets Away with Murder Clues: A Journal of Detection 21.1:17–21

Topic

(2000) Dysfunctional Detectives and Romantic P.I.s: Impediments to the Happy Marriage of Mystery and Romance Clues: A Journal of Detection 21.1:61-72

Topic

(2000) A Romance Writer Gets Away with Murder Clues: A Journal of Detection 21.1:17–21

Topic

(2004) Rocked by Romance: A Guide to Teen Romance Fiction Westport, Connecticut: Libraries Unlimited

Topic

contemporary romance

Christian romance

Ebert, Teresa L.

(2006) Romance Novels, Class and Abu Ghraib Against the Current 121:

Topic

capitalism/business

war/armed forces

social/economic class

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

Topic

sex/sexuality

(2007) Core Collections in Genre Studies: Romance Fiction 101 Reference & User Services Quarterly 47.2:120-126

Topic

(2007) Core Collections in Genre Studies: Romance Fiction 101 Reference & User Services Quarterly 47.2:120-126

Topic

(2007) Core Collections in Genre Studies: Romance Fiction 101 Reference & User Services Quarterly 47.2:120-126

Topic

(2007) Core Collections in Genre Studies: Romance Fiction 101 Reference & User Services Quarterly 47.2:120-126

Topic

(2007) Core Collections in Genre Studies: Romance Fiction 101 Reference & User Services Quarterly 47.2:120-126

Topic

Brown, Fahamisha Patricia

(2008) Anita Richmond Bunkley Teaching American Literature: A Journal of Theory and Practice 2.2/3:1-5

Topic

Anita Richmond Bunkley

Brown, Fahamisha Patricia

(2008) Beverly Jenkins Teaching American Literature: A Journal of Theory and Practice 2.2/3:1-6

Topic

Beverly Jenkins

(2008) "Suzanne Brockmann" Teaching American Literature: A Journal of Theory and Practice 2.2/3:1-19

Topic

Suzanne Brockmann

war/armed forces

Islam

Haynsworth, Leslie

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

Topic

(2008) Nora Roberts Teaching American Literature: A Journal of Theory and Practice 2.2/3:1-35

Topic

Wagner, Wendy

(2008) Jennifer Crusie Teaching American Literature: A Journal of Theory and Practice 2.2/3:1-16

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Jayne Ann Krentz/Amanda Quick/Jayne Castle

Young, Erin S.

(2010) Escaping the “Time Bind”: Negotiations of Love and Work in Jayne Ann Krentz's “Corporate Romances” The Journal of American Culture 33.2:92–106 DOI: 10.1111/j.1542-734X.2010.00736.x

Topic

(2011) From Romance to Roberts and Back Again: genre, authorship and the construction of textual identity in contemporary popular romance novels PhD, University of Leuven

Topic

trash/literary and or intellectual quality

authors

paratext

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

Elizabeth Lowell

Ledford-Miller, Linda

(2011) Gender and Genre Bending: The Futuristic Detective Fiction of J.D. Robb Reconstruction: Studies in Contemporary Culture 11.3:

Topic

Chivers, Marian

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

Topic

war/armed forces

Justine Davis/Justine Dare

(2014) The warrior woman in Harlequin’s Bombshell Athena Force series Australasian Journal of Popular Culture 3.3:335-349 DOI: 10.1386/ajpc.3.3.335_1

Topic

(2014) Reading the Genre Codes in Giorgio Scerbanenco's Hybridised Romanzi Rosa PhD, University of Auckland

Topic

(2014) The warrior woman in Harlequin’s Bombshell Athena Force series Australasian Journal of Popular Culture 3.3:335-349 DOI: 10.1386/ajpc.3.3.335_1

Topic

(2014) The warrior woman in Harlequin’s Bombshell Athena Force series Australasian Journal of Popular Culture 3.3:335-349 DOI: 10.1386/ajpc.3.3.335_1

Topic

(2015) Readers' Advisory: There Seem to be More SEALs in Romance Fiction than in the US Navy, and if so, Why Does it Matter? Reference & User Services Quarterly 55.1:21-24 DOI: 10.5860/rusq.55n1.21

Topic

(2015) "Medievalism and the Courtship Plot in Julie Garwood's Popular Romance Novels " The Middle Ages in Popular Culture: Medievalism and Genre

Topic

(2016) Soft metafiction(s) : Mary Stewart and the self-reflective middlebrow PhD, University of Newcastle, UK

Topic

Mary Stewart

trash/literary and or intellectual quality

(2016) Publishing Romance: The History of an Industry, 1940s to the Present Jefferson, North Carolina: McFarland & Company

Topic

Publishing

Avon

Ellora's Cave

BDSM

paratext

Swaminathan, Srividhya

(2016) "J. D. Robb’s Police Procedurals and the Critique of Modernity " New Perspectives on Detective Fiction: Mystery Magnified 141-156

Topic

Young, Erin S.

(2016) "Saving China: The Transformative Power of Whiteness in Elizabeth Lowell's Jade Island and Katherine Stone's Pearl Moon " Romance Fiction and American Culture: Love as the Practice of Freedom? 205-221

Topic

United States of America

(2017) Human in Death: Morality and Mortality in J. D. Robb's Novels Waco, Texas: Baylor University Press

Topic

police officers/police forces

Gifford, James

(2017) "Mary Stewart’s Greek Novels: Hellenism, Orientalism and the Cultural Politics of Pulp Presentation " Greece in British Women’s Literary Imagination, 1913-2013 99-118

Topic

(2017) From Barbarized to Disneyfied: Viewing 1990s New York City Through Eve Dallas, J.D. Robb’s Futuristic Homicide Detective Forum for Interamerican Research 10.1:72-86

Topic

capitalism/business

Keegan, Faye

(2017) ‘Snob Value’: Gender and Literary Value in Mary Stewart Women: A Cultural Review 28.3:240-261 DOI: 10.1080/09574042.2017.1355679

Topic

Mary Stewart

trash/literary and or intellectual quality

authors

Ramsdell, Kristin

(2018) Encyclopedia of Romance Fiction Santa Barbara, California: Greenwood

Topic

Publishing

Elinor Glyn

Margaret Mitchell

Georgette Heyer

E. M. Hull

romance scholarship

Samuel Richardson

(2019) Sacrifices, Sidekicks, and Scapegoats: Black Characters and White Stories in Nora Roberts’s Romances Journal of Asia-Pacific Pop Culture 4.2:149-168 DOI: 10.5325/jasiapacipopcult.4.2.0149

Topic

death

police officers/police forces

authors

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

Alisa Klever/Tatiana Vedenska

Mary Elizabeth Braddon

India

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

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

sex/sexuality

Hirst, Holly

(2020) "Georgette Heyer " The Palgrave Handbook of Contemporary Gothic 373-389 DOI:10.1007/978-3-030-33136-8_23

Topic

(2021) Unforgettably in love: uses of the amnesia trope in contemporary romance Doctor of Philosophy in Creative Writing, Massey University

Topic

(2021) The Romance Novel in English: A Survey in Rare Books, 1769-1999 : Type Punch Matrix

Topic

Publishing

work

YA/young adult/teenage/new adult/NA romance

Onoto Watanna/Winnifred Eaton

religion/spirituality

Judaism

Pauline Hopkins

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

Mary Burchell, pen name of Ida Cook

Juliet Shore/Anne Vinton

Della Field, pseudonym of Fanny Howe

Jayne Ann Krentz/Amanda Quick/Jayne Castle

Marisa de Zavala/Ana Lisa de Leon/Rachel Scott/Celina Rios Mullan

Tracy West/Joyce McGill/Chassie West

(2022) "Varieties of Romance in Contemporary Popular Togolese Literature " Routledge Handbook of African Popular Culture DOI:10.4324/9781003080855-4

Topic

(2022) "Women Policing Whiteness: Deviance and Surveillance in Contemporary Police Procedural Romance " New Frontiers in Popular Romance: Essays on the Genre in the 21st Century 167-186

Topic

social/economic class

(2022) "Plaisirs d'amour: Love and popular fiction in contemporary France " Imagining "We" in the Age of "I": Romance and Social Bonding in Contemporary Culture 175-190 DOI:10.4324/9781003039365-11

Topic

France

love