rural romance | Romance Scholarship DB

Blodgett, Jan (1997) Protestant Evangelical Literary Culture and Contemporary Society Westport: Greenwood Press

Topic

Christian romance

religion/spirituality

Cook, Nancy (2009) " Home on the Range: Montana Romances and Geographies of Hope " All Our Stories Are Here: Critical Perspectives on Montana Literature 55-77

Topic

settings

United States of America

rural romance

Tami Hoag

LGBT+ characters, readers and/or authors

work

community

animals

Crane, Ralph Fletcher, Lisa (2016) The Genre of Islands: Popular Fiction and Performative Geographies Island Studies Journal 11.2:637-650

Topic

islands

settings

rural romance

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

Topic

Harlequin Mills & Boon

rape and/or intimate partner violence/abuse

Driscoll, Beth Fletcher, Lisa Wilkins, Kim (2011) " Women, Akubras and Ereaders: Romance Fiction and Australian Publishing " The Return of Print?: Contemporary Australian Publishing 67-87

Topic

Australia

Publishing

rural romance

Harlequin Mills & Boon

Driscoll, Beth Fletcher, Lisa Wilkins, Kim (2011) " Women, Akubras and Ereaders: Romance Fiction and Australian Publishing " The Return of Print?: Contemporary Australian Publishing 67-87

Topic

Australia

Publishing

rural romance

Harlequin Mills & Boon

Crane, Ralph Fletcher, Lisa (2016) The Genre of Islands: Popular Fiction and Performative Geographies Island Studies Journal 11.2:637-650

Topic

islands

settings

rural romance

Fowler, Bridget (1979) "True to Me Always": An Analysis of Women's Magazine Fiction The British Journal of Sociology 30.1:91-119

Topic

romances in magazines and newspapers

social/economic class

readers

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

Graybill, Beth (2010) Chasing the Bonnet: The Premise and Popularity of Writing Amish Women The Journal of Mennonite Writing (CMW) 2.4:

Topic

Christian romance

rural romance

Haynes, Roslynn (2010) Marie Bjelke Petersen’s Romances: Fulfilling the Contract, Subverting the Spirit Southerly 70.2:41-63

Topic

Marie Bjelke Petersen

Australia

rural romance

settings

LGBT+ characters, readers and/or authors

Christian romance

cross-dressing

gender

religion/spirituality

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)

Lancashire, Anne (2020) Venetia: Georgette Heyer’s Pastoral Romance Journal of Popular Romance Studies 9:

Topic

McAlister, Jodi Teo, Hsu-Ming (2017) " Love in Australian Romance Novels " The Popular Culture of Romantic Love in Australia 194-222

Topic

McCafferty, Kate (1994) Palimpsest of Desire: The Re-Emergence of the American Captivity Narrative as Pulp Romance Journal of Popular Culture 27.4:43-56

Topic

historical romance

United States of America

trash/literary and or intellectual quality

Native American romance

Miller, Jessica (2015) Passionate Virtue: Conceptions of Medical Professionalism in Popular Romance Fiction Literature and Medicine 33.1:70-90

Topic

medical romance

health/medical

work

Harlequin Mills & Boon

rape and/or intimate partner violence/abuse

race/ethnicity

rural romance

Mirmohamadi, Kylie (2015) Love on the Land: Australian Rural Romance in Place English Studies 96.2:204-224

Topic

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

social/economic class

rape and/or intimate partner violence/abuse

feminism

gender

Heliodorus

Noone, Kristin (2019) " Succulent Texts: Desire, Outlaws, and Consumption in Popular Romance " Food and Feast in Modern Outlaw Tales 167-187 DOI:10.4324/9780429061301-9

Topic

LGBT+ characters, readers and/or authors

community

religion/spirituality

rural romance

O'Mahony, Lauren (2014) Australian rural romance as feminist romance? Australasian Journal of Popular Culture 3.3:285-298

Topic

O'Mahony, Lauren (2014) Teaching an Old Dog New Tricks?: Romance, Ethics and Human-Dog Relationships in a Rural Australian Novel Journal of Popular Romance Studies 4.2:

Topic

O'Mahony, Lauren (2017) Death and the Australian Rural Romance Novel TEXT: Journal of Writing and Writing Courses 45:

Topic

rural romance

Australia

death

Pérez-Gil, María del Mar (2023) Mass Tourism, Ecocriticism, and Mills & Boon Romances (1970s-1980s) Green Letters: Studies in Ecocriticism ONLINE FIRST:ONLINE FIRST

Topic

Harlequin Mills & Boon

settings

history

Doreen Hornsblow as Sally Wentworth

Ethel Connell as Katrina Britt

Kay Thorpe

Iris Danbury

ecocriticism/environmentalism/climate change

Teo, Hsu-Ming (2016) " Imperial Affairs: The British Empire and the Romantic Novel, 1890-1939 " New Directions in Popular Fiction: Genre, Distribution, Reproduction 87-110 DOI:10.1057/978-1-137-52346-4_5

McAlister, Jodi Teo, Hsu-Ming (2017) " Love in Australian Romance Novels " The Popular Culture of Romantic Love in Australia 194-222

Topic

Weaver-Zercher, Valerie (2012) Tracing the Backstory of Amish Romance Novels Mennonite Quarterly Review 86.4:409-435

Topic

Christian romance

rural romance

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

religion/spirituality

paratext

Helen Reimensnyder Martin

Beverly Lewis

Cora Gottschalk Welty

Weaver-Zercher, Valerie (2013) Thrill of the Chaste: the Allure of Amish Romance Novels Baltimore: The Johns Hopkins University Press

Driscoll, Beth Fletcher, Lisa Wilkins, Kim (2011) " Women, Akubras and Ereaders: Romance Fiction and Australian Publishing " The Return of Print?: Contemporary Australian Publishing 67-87

Topic

Australia

Publishing

rural romance

Harlequin Mills & Boon

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

rape and/or intimate partner violence/abuse

Williamson, Margaret (1986) " The Greek romance " The Progress of Romance: The Politics of Popular Fiction 23-45

Topic

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