Jarvis, Christine (1995) Romancing the Curriculum: Empowerment through Popular Culture Convergence 28.3:71-77 Topic teaching romance readers
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 teaching romance readers feminism Harlequin Mills & Boon gender sex/sexuality marriage rape and/or intimate partner violence/abuse social/economic class wealth/prosperity race/ethnicity Charlotte Brontë China UK
Jarvis, Christine (2000) "Hungry Heroines: The Exploration of a "Generative Theme" in Romantic Fiction " Consuming for Pleasure: Selected Essays on Popular Fiction 171-???
Jarvis, Christine (2006) Using Fiction for Transformation New Directions for Adult and Continuing Education 109:69-77 DOI: 10.1002/ace.209 Topic teaching romance feminism gender readers
Jeffers, Asha Bryan, Catherine (2023) The Daughters of Immigrants: A Multidisciplinary Study Lanham, Maryland: Lexington Books
Jeffery, Ella van Loon, Julienne (2025) TEXT Vol. 29, Special Issue 75: Trope Actually – Popular Romance :
Jenkins, Beverly (2022) "A Short History of African American Romance " Black Love Matters: Real Talk on Romance, Being Seen, and Happily Ever After 1-15 Topic Older and/or precursor texts (may not be "romance" as now defined) Frances Watkins Harper romances in magazines and newspapers African American romance Publishing Beverly Jenkins
Jennings, Kathleen (2021) "Heyer … in space! The influence of Georgette Heyer on science fiction " Georgette Heyer, History, and Historical Fiction 119-143 DOI:10.2307/j.ctv15d818n.13 Topic Georgette Heyer war/armed forces Patricia Wrede Tessa Dare
Jensen, Margaret Ann (1980) Women and Romantic Fiction: A Case Study of Harlequin Enterprises, Romances, and Readers PhD, McMaster University Topic Harlequin Mills & Boon readers capitalism/business social/economic class work
Jensen, Margaret Ann (1984) Love's $weet Return: The Harlequin Story Toronto: The Women's Educational Press Topic Harlequin Mills & Boon metafiction readers Publishing virginity sex/sexuality paratext work authors gender happy ending settings race/ethnicity social/economic class rape and/or intimate partner violence/abuse food, drink fashion/clothing love marriage feminism
Jimenez- Cuadros, Laura Katherin Rivas- Robledo, Pablo (2026) "Bridgerton and the Philosophy of Good Sex " Bridgerton and Philosophy: Dukes, Debutantes, and Deep Questions 17-26 DOI:10.1002/9781394304455.ch2 Topic sex/sexuality rape and/or intimate partner violence/abuse Julia Quinn philosophy
Joannou, Maroula (2012) Women's Writing, Englishness and National and Cultural Identity: The Mobile Woman and the Migrant Voice, 1938-1962 Houndmills, Basingstoke: Palgrave Macmillan Topic UK war/armed forces Daphne du Maurier Older and/or precursor texts (may not be "romance" as now defined) Kathleen Winsor Georgette Heyer cross-dressing fashion/clothing
Jocks, Yvonne Annette (1988) Adventure and Virtue: Alternating Emphasis in the Popular Romance Tradition Master of Arts, University of Texas at Arlington Topic Older and/or precursor texts (may not be "romance" as now defined)
Johnson, Valerie B. (2018) "What a Canon Wants: Robin Hood, Romance Novels, and Carrie Lofty’s What a Scoundrel Wants " Robin Hood and the Outlaw/ed Literary Canon 184-204 Topic Carrie Lofty Older and/or precursor texts (may not be "romance" as now defined) historical romance pirates and outlaws
Johnson, Natasha (2025) Computing the Formal and Institutional Boundaries of Contemporary Genre and Literary Fiction Anthology of Computers and the Humanities 1: Topic genre definitions
Johnson, Naomi Ruth (2007) Consuming Desires: A Feminist Analysis of Bestselling Teen Romance Novels PhD, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill Topic YA/young adult/teenage/new adult/NA romance capitalism/business fashion/clothing gender sex/sexuality Publishing
Johnson, Naomi R. (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 YA/young adult/teenage/new adult/NA romance Publishing capitalism/business fashion/clothing gender sex/sexuality
Johnson, Jacqueline Elizabeth (2024) Labors of Love: Black Women, Cultural Production, and the Romance Genre PhD, University of Southern California Topic Rebekah Weatherspoon Nicole M. Jackson/Katrina Jackson/Brandy Bush African American romance race/ethnicity capitalism/business wealth/prosperity work
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 race/ethnicity happy ending sex/sexuality
Johnson, Heather (2017) Yorkshire English in Georgette Heyer's The Unknown Ajax Schwa: Language and Linguistics 14:57-70 Topic languages Georgette Heyer historical romance linguistics
Johnson, Emily D. (2020) Exploring His/Her Library: Reading and Books in Russian Romance Journal of Popular Romance Studies 9: DOI: 10.70138/EVAV6668 Topic Russia metafiction authors Harlequin Mills & Boon Galina Kulikova Natal’ia Mironova Publishing socialism and/or communism trash/literary and or intellectual quality race/ethnicity rape and/or intimate partner violence/abuse
Johnson, Brian (2022) "Weird Bedfellows: H. P. Lovecraft, m/m Romance, and the New Queer Families of Jordan L. Hawk's Whyborne & Griffin Series " Lovecraft in the 21st Century: Dead, But Still Dreaming DOI:10.4324/9780367713065-20 Topic Jordan L. Hawk m/m romance paranormal/fantasy/time-travel romance LGBTQ+ characters, readers and/or authors
Johnson-Kurek, Rosemary E. (1999) ""I Am Not a Bimbo": Persona, Promotion, and the Fabulous Fabio " Romantic Conventions 35-50 Topic Fabio Lanzoni, also known as Fabio paratext
Johnson-Kurek, Rosemary E. (1999) "Leading Us into Temptation: The Language of Sex and the Power of Love " Romantic Conventions 113-148 Topic Harlequin Mills & Boon feminism sex/sexuality erotic romance linguistics gender virginity rape and/or intimate partner violence/abuse Abra Taylor Candace Schuler Lori Foster Jennifer Crusie
Johnson-Woods, Toni (2004) Pulp: A Collector's Book of Australian Pulp Fiction Covers Canberra: National Library of Australia Topic paratext
Johnson-Woods, Toni (2010) 'Adventures of a Squatter': A Colonial Male Romance Southerly 70.2:130-141 Topic LGBTQ+ characters, readers and/or authors romances in magazines and newspapers Older and/or precursor texts (may not be "romance" as now defined) m/m romance Australia
Johnson-Woods, Toni Sarwal, Amit (2012) Sold by the Millions: Australia's Bestsellers Newcastle upon Tyne: Cambridge Scholars Publishing
Jones, Cerys (2026) Romance Readers and the Politics of Literary Taste in Twentieth Century Britain Plurality 4:46-53 DOI: 10.2218/plurality.11828 Topic readers trash/literary and or intellectual quality UK Harlequin Mills & Boon
Jones, Ann Rosalind (1986) "Mills & Boon meets feminism " The Progress of Romance: The Politics of Popular Fiction 195-218 Topic feminism Harlequin Mills & Boon work social/economic class gender sex/sexuality
Jones, Amanda (2019) Madness, Monks and Mutiny: Neo-Victorianism in the Work of Victoria Holt Neo-Victorian Studies 12.1:1-27 DOI: 10.5281/zenodo.3470919 Topic Victoria Holt/Jean Plaidy/Eleanor Burford Hibbert gothic romance romantic suspense feminism Charlotte Brontë gender marriage family Wilkie Collins health/medical Mary Elizabeth Braddon India
Jossart, Deborah A. (2004) Transforming the fairytale: a diachronic study of utopias of popular romance MA thesis, University of North Dakota Topic fairytales/folktales
Joyal, Amanda (2012) From Victorian literature to the romance novel: Disability and the courtship plot MA thesis, University of Wyoming Topic disability Older and/or precursor texts (may not be "romance" as now defined) Charlotte Brontë Dinah Craik gender Teresa Medeiros Brenda Novak Catherine Anderson Erin McCarthy
Juhasz, Suzanne (1988) Texts to Grow On: Reading Women’s Romance Fiction Tulsa Studies in Women’s Literature 7.2:239-259 DOI: 10.2307/463681 Topic genre definitions psychology readers gender love
Juhasz, Suzanne (1994) Reading from the Heart: Women, Literature, and the Search for True Love New York: Viking Topic readers psychology Older and/or precursor texts (may not be "romance" as now defined) Jane Austen Emily Brontë Charlotte Brontë Louisa May Alcott Gloria Naylor Isabel Miller Valerie Taylor lesbian romance
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 lesbian romance LGBTQ+ characters, readers and/or authors Sarah Aldridge readers gender psychology work love sex/sexuality family
Jumelais, Yann (1990) "De Delly à Dailey : les obstacles dans le roman sentimental " Le roman sentimental: actes du colloque des 14-15-16 mars 1989 à la Faculté des lettres de Limoges, volume 1 225-238 Topic Delly Janet Dailey genre definitions
Jurilla, Patricia May Bantug (2006) Tagalog bestsellers and the history of the book in the Philippines PhD thesis, School of Oriental and African Studies Topic Philippines Publishing Older and/or precursor texts (may not be "romance" as now defined)
Jurilla, Patricia May Bantug (2008) Tagalog Bestsellers of the Twentieth Century: A History of the Book in the Philippines Quezon City: Ateneo de Manila University Press Topic Philippines
Jussawalla, Feroza Omran, Doaa (2022) Muslim Women’s Writing from across South and Southeast Asia New York: Routledge
K., Nikohl Lennard, John (2011) A Reader's Companion to A Civil Campaign by Lois McMaster Bujold, Compiled and Presented to Her by Members of the Official LMB Mailing-List to Celebrate the Silver Anniversary of Shards of Honor 1986–2011 Hassadar: Dendarii Free Mercenary Press Topic Lois McMaster Bujold Georgette Heyer science fiction/futuristic romance
Kahn, Laurie (2015) Love Between the Covers : Blueberry Hill Productions Topic authors Jennifer Crusie Eloisa James Beverly Jenkins Radclyffe/Len Barot
Kaler, Anne K. (1999) "Conventions of Captivity in Romance Novels " Romantic Conventions 86-99 Topic sheikh romance religion/spirituality settings E. M. Hull sex/sexuality rape and/or intimate partner violence/abuse
Kaler, Anne K. (1999) "Hero, Heroine, or HERA: A New Name for an Old Problem " Romantic Conventions 187-192 Topic linguistics
Kaler, Anne K. (1999) "Introduction: Conventions of the Romance Genre " Romantic Conventions 1-9 Topic trash/literary and or intellectual quality
Kaler, Anne K. Johnson-Kurek, Rosemary E. (1999) Romantic Conventions Bowling Green, Ohio: Bowling Green State University Popular Press
Kaler, Anne K. (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 romantic suspense gender
Kalisch, Philip A. Kalisch, Beatrice J. (1987) The Changing Image of the Nurse Menlo Park, California: Addison-Wesley Publishing Company Topic medical romance Mary Roberts Rinehart work
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 India readers gender feminism marriage Linda Howard Nora Roberts/J. D. Robb Kim Lawrence Lisa Kleypas fashion/clothing sex/sexuality virginity
Kamble, Jayashree (2008) Uncovering and Recovering the Popular Romance Novel PhD, University of Minnesota Topic capitalism/business war/armed forces sex/sexuality paratext readers India historical romance trash/literary and or intellectual quality happy ending Stephanie Laurens
Kamble, Jayashree (2012) "Patriotism, Passion, and PTSD: The Critique of War in Popular Romance Fiction " New Approaches to Popular Romance Fiction: Critical Essays 153-163 Topic war/armed forces United States of America national identity disability Linda Howard marriage Gaelen Foley Suzanne Brockmann Sherrilyn Kenyon
Kamblé, Jayashree (2014) Making Meaning in Popular Romance Fiction: An Epistemology New York: Palgrave Macmillan Topic war/armed forces capitalism/business gender race/ethnicity Lisa Kleypas Nora Roberts/J. D. Robb genre definitions Suzanne Brockmann Gaelen Foley Diana Gabaldon Linda Howard Sherrilyn Kenyon Johanna Lindsey Anne Mather Lindsay McKenna Judith McNaught historical romance paranormal/fantasy/time-travel romance Susan Elizabeth Phillips Julia Quinn Nalini Singh Violet Winspear rape and/or intimate partner violence/abuse
Kamblé, Jayashree (2016) "Branding a Genre: A Brief Transatlantic History of Romance Novel Cover Art " Romance Fiction and American Culture: Love as the Practice of Freedom? 241-272 Topic paratext Harlequin Mills & Boon historical romance trash/literary and or intellectual quality
Kamble, Jayashree (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 Nora Roberts/J. D. Robb science fiction/futuristic romance capitalism/business romantic suspense
Kamblé, Jayashree (2020) When Wuxia Met Romance: The Pleasures and Politics of Transculturalism in Sherry Thomas’s My Beautiful Enemy Journal of Popular Romance Studies 9: DOI: 10.70138/AWFD7941 Topic Sherry Thomas China war/armed forces race/ethnicity historical romance UK gender national identity family
Kamblé, Jayashree Selinger, Eric Murphy Teo, Hsu-Ming (2021) "Introduction " The Routledge Research Companion to Popular Romance Fiction 1-23 DOI:10.4324/9781315613468-25 Topic romance scholarship
Kamblé, Jayashree (2021) "Romance in the media " The Routledge Research Companion to Popular Romance Fiction 269-293 DOI:10.4324/9781315613468-12 Topic trash/literary and or intellectual quality genre definitions paratext sex/sexuality
Kamblé, Jayashree Selinger, Eric Murphy Teo, Hsu-Ming (2021) The Routledge Research Companion to Popular Romance Fiction Abingdon, Oxon: Routledge Topic romance scholarship
Kamblé, Jayashree (2023) Creating Identity: The Popular Romance Heroine's Journey to Selfhood and Self-Presentation : Indiana University Press Topic gender sex/sexuality work national identity race/ethnicity Susan Napier Nora Roberts/J. D. Robb Karen Marie Moning Lisa Kleypas Beverly Jenkins Linda Howard Kresley Cole Joanna Bourne Sherry Thomas Alyssa Cole metafiction social/economic class community emotions
Kamblé, Jayashree (2023) Romancing the University: BIPOC Scholars in Romance Novels in the 1980s and Now Esferas Literarias 6:39-55 DOI: 10.21071/elrl.vi6.16287 Topic race/ethnicity Sandra Kitt Barbara Stephens Adriana Herrera Nicole M. Jackson/Katrina Jackson/Brandy Bush Talia Hibbert African American romance work romance and, or as, activism
Kamblé, Jayashree (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 race/ethnicity Publishing Vivian Stephens (also wrote as Angela Vivian with co-author Angela Dew) United States of America social/economic class work Rosalind Welles - pen name of Elsie B. Washington Lia Sanders - pen name of Angela Jackson and Sandra Jackson-Opoku Sandra Kitt Barbara Stephens Valerie Flournoy history sex/sexuality Rochelle Alers Donna Hill
Kamblé, Jayashree (2024) "Love in Victorian London: Immigrant Histories and Intersecting Diversities in K. J. Charles’s Sins of the Cities " Conflict and Colonialism in 21st Century Romantic Historical Fiction: Repairing the Past, Repurposing History DOI:10.4324/9781003493792-4 Topic K. J. Charles race/ethnicity historical romance UK
Kamblé, Jayashree (2025) The Women Who Changed the American Mass-Market Romance Genre: BIPOC Editors, Authors, and Category Romance Novels from 1980 to 1988 Contemporary Women's Writing 19: DOI: 10.1093/cww/vpaf005 Topic Publishing race/ethnicity Vivian Stephens (also wrote as Angela Vivian with co-author Angela Dew) United States of America Rosalind Welles - pen name of Elsie B. Washington Barbara Stephens Frances Flores Marisa de Zavala/Ana Lisa de Leon/Rachel Scott/Celina Rios Mullan community settings Jean Hager Lia Sanders - pen name of Angela Jackson and Sandra Jackson-Opoku Sandra Kitt Valerie Flournoy work Rochelle Alers food, drink
Kamblé, Jayashree (2026) Recolouring the romcom: humor, respectability, and race in a 1986 American category romance novel Comedy Studies ONLINE FIRST:ONLINE FIRST DOI: 10.1080/2040610X.2026.2635807 Topic humour Tracy West/Joyce McGill/Chassie West race/ethnicity African American romance rom-com romance metafiction
Kamitsuka, Margaret D. (2020) Prolife Christian Romance Novels: A Sign that the Abortion-as-Murder Center Is Not Holding? Christianity & Literature 69.1:36-52 Topic Christian romance religion/spirituality health/medical rape and/or intimate partner violence/abuse Francine Rivers family United States of America
Kamrath, Kelly (2024) French Interwar Popular Romance and Ideals of Femininity: A Literary and Historical Study of Magali Master of Arts, University of Nebraska Topic France history Older and/or precursor texts (may not be "romance" as now defined) gender Magali, pen name of Jeanne Philbert fairytales/folktales
Kanerick, Caroline (2010) ‘A Jazzed and Patchwork Modern’: ‘future’ girls and modern masculinities in the early popular romances of Berta Ruck Women's History Review 19.5:685-702 DOI: 10.1080/09612025.2010.509147 Topic Berta Ruck gender history trash/literary and or intellectual quality family community fashion/clothing sex/sexuality war/armed forces LGBTQ+ characters, readers and/or authors
Kania, Richard R. E. (2014) Pirates and Piracy in American Popular Culture Romanian Journal of English Studies 11.1:183–194 DOI: 10.2478/rjes-2014-0022 Topic pirates and outlaws historical romance Daphne du Maurier
Kapell, Matthew Becker, Suzanne (2005) Patriarchy, the Christian Romance Novel, and the 'Ecosystem of Sex' Popular Culture Review 16.1:147-155 Topic Christian romance sex/sexuality feminism religion/spirituality Janette Oke Francine Rivers readers Jane Almquist
Kapila, Shuchi (2010) Educating Seeta: The Anglo-Indian Family Romance and the Poetics of Indirect Rule Columbus: Ohio State University Press Topic India Older and/or precursor texts (may not be "romance" as now defined) Flora Annie Steel Maud Diver Bithia Mary Croker Alice Perrin
Kaplan, Deborah (2012) ""Why would any woman want to read such stories?": The Distinctions Between Genre Romances and Slash Fictions " New Approaches to Popular Romance Fiction: Critical Essays 121-132 Topic fanfiction genre definitions LGBTQ+ characters, readers and/or authors Suzanne Brockmann gender
Kapstein, Helen (2021) "Petrofeminism: Love in the Age of Oil " Oil Fictions: World Literature and Our Contemporary Petrosphere 59-79 DOI:10.5325/jj.5233138.9 Topic ecocriticism/environmentalism/climate change Nigeria feminism Chimamanda Adichie Myne Whitman metafiction Balaraba Ramat Yakubu work capitalism/business
Karamat, Yashfa Nawaz, Rukhma Firdos, Zainab (2025) Negotiating Reality and Fantasy through Magical Realism in Suleikha Snyder’s Big Bad Wolf Advance Social Science Archive Journal 4.1:2860-2876 DOI: 10.5281/zenodo.16931341 Topic Suleikha Snyder paranormal/fantasy/time-travel romance United States of America
Karaminas, Vicki Geczy, Adam Gibson, Pamela Church (2022) Fashionable Masculinities: Queers, Pimp Daddies, and Lumbersexuals New Brunswick, New Jersey: Rutgers, the State University of New Jersey
Kaufman, Alexander L. Vlagopoulos, Penny (2019) Food and Feast in Modern Outlaw Tales New York: Routledge
Kaveney, Roz (2012) "Dark fantasy and paranormal romance " The Cambridge Companion to Fantasy Literature 214-223 DOI:https://doi.org/10.1017/CCOL9780521429597.020 Topic paranormal/fantasy/time-travel romance Charlaine Harris Laurell K. Hamilton Twilight
Kaye, Sharon (2026) "Feminist Sex?: It's in His Kiss " Bridgerton and Philosophy: Dukes, Debutantes, and Deep Questions 7-16 DOI:10.1002/9781394304455.ch1 Topic sex/sexuality Julia Quinn feminism
Kaye, Marilyn Janice (1983) The nature of didacticism as related to romance and sexuality in young adult novels 1965-1978 PhD, University of Chicago Topic YA/young adult/teenage/new adult/NA romance
Kebadze, Nino (2007) Fictions of Surrender: Romance and Exemplarity in Post-War Spanish Women's Narratives PhD, University of Kentucky Topic Luisa-María Linares Concha Linares-Becerra Carmen de Icaza Spain fascism/right-wing authoritarianism gender
Kebadze, Nino (2009) Romance and Exemplarity in Post-War Spanish Women's Narratives Woodbridge, Suffolk: Tamesis Topic Luisa-María Linares Concha Linares-Becerra Carmen de Icaza María Mercedes Ortoll gender fascism/right-wing authoritarianism Spain
Keegan, Faye Jessica (2016) Soft metafiction(s) : Mary Stewart and the self-reflective middlebrow PhD, University of Newcastle, UK Topic Mary Stewart romantic suspense trash/literary and or intellectual quality national identity history metafiction fairytales/folktales gothic romance UK
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 romantic suspense trash/literary and or intellectual quality gender authors
Keeler, Janet K. (2025) Romance In The Round: A Content Analysis Of YA Novels About Fat Girls Looking For Love International Journal of Arts, Humanities and Social Sciences 6.10:9-16 DOI: 10.56734/ijahss.v6n10a2 Topic YA/young adult/teenage/new adult/NA romance fat, fatness race/ethnicity LGBTQ+ characters, readers and/or authors Adiba Jaigirdar Rebekah Weatherspoon
Keen, Suzanne (2018) Probable Impossibilities: Historical Romance Readers Talk Back Style: A Quarterly Journal of Aesthetics, Poetics, Stylistics, and Literary Criticism 52.1-2:127-132 DOI: 10.1353/sty.2018.0021 Topic Diana Gabaldon readers history
Kelly, Patricia P. (1991) Transitional Novels for Readers of Teen Romances ALAN Review 19.1:19-21 Topic YA/young adult/teenage/new adult/NA romance
Kelly, Brendan D. (2007) Medical Romance The Lancet 370.9597:1482 DOI: 10.1016/S0140-6736(07)61631-6 Topic medical romance
Kelly, Brendan D. (2016) Medical romance: love never dies The Lancet 388.10063:2989 DOI: 10.1016/S0140-6736(16)32529-6 Topic medical romance
Kelman, Suanne (1995) Heroine addiction Chatelaine 68.9:59-63 Topic Georgette Heyer Harlequin Mills & Boon Jennifer Crusie Margaret Moore Susanna Kearsley
Kelso, Sylvia (1996) Singularities: the interaction of feminism(s) and two strands of popular American fiction, 1968-89 PhD, James Cook University of North Queensland Topic gothic romance Barbara Michaels a.k.a. Elizabeth Peters a.k.a. Barbara Mertz Phyllis A. Whitney feminism
Kelso, Sylvia (1997) Stitching Time: Feminism(s) and Thirty Years of Gothic Romance Para.doxa: Studies in World Literary Genres 3.1-2:164-179 Topic gothic romance Barbara Michaels a.k.a. Elizabeth Peters a.k.a. Barbara Mertz feminism family
Kemppinen, Anne-Mari Katriina (1988) Translating for popular literature with special reference to Harlequin books and their Finnish translations , University of Joensuu Topic translation Harlequin Mills & Boon Finland
Kemppinen, Anne (1989) "Translation for Popular Literature with Special Reference to Harlequin Books and their Finnish Translation " Empirical Studies in Translation and Linguistics 25-36 Topic translation Finland Harlequin Mills & Boon
Kendal, Evie (2019) The use of free indirect discourse in J. R. Ward's Black Dagger Brotherhood series Colloquy: Text, Theory, Critique 38:20-43 DOI: 10.26180/5df1974e1cb20 Topic J. R. Ward close reading linguistics genre definitions paranormal/fantasy/time-travel romance readers
Kendra, April (2007) Silver Forks, Stereotypes, and Regency Romance Studies in the Humanities (Indiana) 34.2:142-163 Topic Older and/or precursor texts (may not be "romance" as now defined) historical romance
Keran, Molly (2024) The Genre of Rape: Women’s Popular Literature and Contemporary Representations of Sexual Violence PhD, University of Michigan Topic rape and/or intimate partner violence/abuse Alyssa Cole Courtney Milan Lorraine Heath historical romance Lisa Kleypas Julia Quinn Margaret Mallory gender race/ethnicity social/economic class sex/sexuality health/medical
Keran, Molly (2025) Generic Guarantees Mid Theory Collective : Topic Colleen Hoover Jennifer Crusie rape and/or intimate partner violence/abuse genre definitions
Kerr, Ashley Elizabeth (2019) Indigenous Lovers and Villainous Scientists: Rewriting Nineteenth-Century Ideas of Race in Argentine Romance Novels Chasqui 48.1:293-310 Topic history race/ethnicity Argentina science/technology national identity historical romance
Khuankaew, Sasinee (2015) Femininity and masculinity in three selected twentieth-century Thai romance fictions PhD, Cardiff University Topic gender Thailand Buddhism marriage sex/sexuality feminism religion/spirituality
Khuankaew, Sasinee (2017) Femininity and Masculinity in Twenty-First Century Thai Romantic Fictions The Asian Conference on Literature 2017: Official Conference Proceedings : Topic gender Thailand sex/sexuality Buddhism
Khumwongdee, Yanisa (2021) Reading and Rewriting Fat Romance: A Study of Twenty-First Century Thai and US Fat Romance Novels PhD thesis, University of York Topic fat, fatness gender LGBTQ+ characters, readers and/or authors
Kies, Bridget (2024) Saying “I Don’t”: Queer Romance in the Post–Marriage Equality World Journal of Popular Romance Studies 13: DOI: 10.70138/YKLZ4173 Topic marriage happy ending LGBTQ+ characters, readers and/or authors film/movies Alexis Hall
Kilian, G. Charles (2025) Gender, Genre, and Pleasure: Eroticism and Its Limits in French and Francophone Literature (1950–2010) PhD, University of Wisconsin - Madison Topic genre definitions pornography feminism
Killeen, Jarlath (2018) "Nora Roberts: the Power of Love " Twenty-First-Century Popular Fiction 53-65 Topic Nora Roberts/J. D. Robb love
Killing, Peter (1978) Harlequin Enterprises Limited: Case Material of the Western School of Business Administration London, Ontario: University of Western Ontario Topic Publishing
Kinard, Amanda Marette (1999) Forbidden Pleasures: The Romance and Its Readers PhD, Vanderbilt University Topic sex/sexuality social/economic class virginity readers capitalism/business wealth/prosperity
Kinder, John M. Murray, Jennifer M. (2026) They Are Dead and Yet They Live: Civil War Memories in a Polarized America Lincoln: University of Nebraska Press
Kindleysides, Alicia (2024) Broken Hearts: Writing The Representation of Trauma and Trauma Recovery in a Post-Trauma Romance Novel PhD, Central Queensland University Topic health/medical psychology A. K. Leigh/Alicia Leigh/Alicia Kindleysides genre definitions feminism romance and, or as, activism myth genre definitions
King, Laura (2015) "The Perfect Man: Fatherhood, Masculinity and Romance in Popular Culture in Mid-Twentieth-Century Britain " Love and Romance in Britain, 1918-1970 41–60 DOI:10.1057/9781137328632_3 Topic family gender marriage history UK
Kingston, Elizabeth (2018) History's Been Hijacked: How To Combat White Supremacy Through Popular Literature Researching the Romance, conference held at Bowling Green State University, on 13 April : Topic historical romance race/ethnicity history Elizabeth Kingston Publishing UK social/economic class
Kinsale, Laura (1992) "The Androgynous Reader: Point of View in the Romance " Dangerous Men and Adventurous Women: Romance Writers on the Appeal of the Romance 31-44 Topic readers gender psychology happy ending feminism paratext
Kirkham, Pat Thoms, David (1995) War Culture: Social Change and Changing Experience in World War Two Britain London: Lawrence and Wishart
Kirkland, Catherine Elisabeth (1984) For The Love Of It: Women Writers And The Popular Romance PhD, University of Pennsylvania Topic authors work Publishing feminism trash/literary and or intellectual quality
Kirtley, William M. Kirtley, Patricia M. (2021) Happily, Ever After: An Analysis of Romance Novels : Topic genre definitions
Kirtley, William M. Kirtley, Patricia M. (2021) How About a Little Romance?: An Analysis of Romance Novels National Social Science Proceedings 75.1:76-95 Topic genre definitions
Kitchen, Veronica (2018) Veterans and Military Masculinity in Popular Romance Fiction Critical Military Studies 4.1:34-51 DOI: 10.1080/23337486.2016.1235761 Topic war/armed forces gender disability
Kiyawa, Haruna Alkasim (2021) Female Readers as Literary Critics: Reading Experiences of Kano Market Romance Fiction International Journal of English and Comparative Literary Studies 2.1:34-45 DOI: 10.47631/ijecls.v2i1.199 Topic Nigeria readers
Klaber, Lara (2014) Taming the Perfect Beast: the Monster as Romantic Hero in Contemporary Fiction Master of Arts, Cleveland State University Topic Twilight paranormal/fantasy/time-travel romance
Klarich, Morgan L. (2012) Multiculturalism, Sex, and Powerful Women: The New Romance Novel as the Voice of Neofeminism? MA thesis, Dartmouth College Topic feminism sex/sexuality gender race/ethnicity United States of America
Klein, Ula Lukszo (2020) "Fifty Shades of Pamela in the Undergraduate Classroom " Adapting the Eighteenth Century: A Handbook of Pedagogies and Practices 158–168 DOI:10.2307/j.ctvrdf1s9.14 Topic teaching romance Older and/or precursor texts (may not be "romance" as now defined) Samuel Richardson Fifty Shades
Kloester, Jennifer V. (2004) Georgette Heyer: writing the Regency. History in fiction from Regency Buck to Lady of Quality 1935-1972 PhD, University of Melbourne Topic Georgette Heyer history historical romance
Kloester, Jennifer V. (2004) "Images of England: Georgette Heyer's Regency World in the Dominions " Exploring the British World: Identity, Cultural Production, Institutions 598-608 Topic Georgette Heyer
Kloester, Jennifer (2005) Georgette Heyer's Regency World: The definitive guide to the people, places and society in Georgette Heyer's Regency novels London: Arrow Books Topic Georgette Heyer
Kloester, Jennifer (2006) Georgette Heyer and the Great Jane Sensibilities 32:101-117 Topic Georgette Heyer Jane Austen
Kloester, Jennifer (2011) Georgette Heyer: Biography of a Bestseller London: William Heinemann Topic Georgette Heyer
Kluger, Johanna (2024) ""On Thursdays We Shoot": Guns and Gender Binaries in Regency Romance Novels " Ladies in Arms: Women, Guns, and Feminisms in Contemporary Popular Culture 163-179 Topic historical romance gender Tessa Dare Julia Quinn
Kluger, Johanna (2024) Post-Trump masculinity in popular romance novels Neohelicon 51:163–184 DOI: 10.1007/s11059-024-00731-2 Topic United States of America gender sex/sexuality Tessa Dare Sarah MacLean romance and, or as, activism
Knowles, Thomas Smith, Christopher (2025) Female Labour at Bletchley Park: reality and (romantic) fiction Intelligence and National Security ONLINE FIRST:ONLINE FIRST DOI: 10.1080/02684527.2025.2506282 Topic war/armed forces UK work historical romance history Margaret Dickinson Molly Green Madalyn Morgan
Kohlman, Marla H. Krieg, Dana B. (2017) Discourses on Gender and Sexual Inequality: The Legacy of Sandra L. Bem Bingley: Emerald Publishing
Kohlman, Marla H. Simpson, Samantha N. (2017) "For the Sake of Hearth and Home: Gender Schematicity in the Romance Novel " Discourses on Gender and Sexual Inequality: The Legacy of Sandra L. Bem 115-128 DOI:10.1108/S1529-212620170000023006 Topic gender Harlequin Mills & Boon race/ethnicity work marriage family
Kokkola, Lydia (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 religion/spirituality YA/young adult/teenage/new adult/NA romance love sex/sexuality family health/medical
Kolko, Beth E. (1994) Writing the Romance: Cultural Studies, Community, and the Teaching of Writing PhD, University of Texas at Austin Topic authors feminism work community capitalism/business Publishing
Kollman, Kathleen W. Taylor (2018) Contemporary Paranormal Romance: Theories and Development of the Genre’s Feminism (Or Lack Thereof) Researching the Romance, conference held at Bowling Green State University, on 14 April : Topic paranormal/fantasy/time-travel romance feminism gender
Kollman, Kathleen W. Taylor (2025) "Coming of Age and Coming Out: The Intersection of New Adult and Queer Romance " Still Reading Romance: Identity and Engagement with Popular Romance Fiction 195-208 DOI:10.5040/9798881847616.ch-011 Topic LGBTQ+ characters, readers and/or authors Casey McQuiston
Kollman, Kathleen W. Taylor (2026) The Fictional Female Presidency in Film, Television, and Literature: Representations from 1932 to 2024 New York: Bloomsbury Topic gender United States of America lesbian romance LGBTQ+ characters, readers and/or authors Casey McQuiston Blayne Cooper T. Novan
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 sex/sexuality genre definitions philosophy Tessa Dare feminism
Konle, Leonard Jannidis, Fotis (2022) Modeling Plots of Narrative Texts as Temporal Graphs CHR 2022: Computational Humanities Research Conference, December 12 – 14, 2022, Antwerp, Belgium :318-336 Topic linguistics
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Koski, Patricia Holyfield, Lori Thompson, Marcella (1997) Romance Novels as Women's Myths Para.doxa: Studies in World Literary Genres 3.1-2:219-232 Topic myth emotions
Koster, Cees (1997) Stuiverromans - vertaald? Filter. Tijdschrift over vertalen 4.1:33-37 Topic translation Harlequin Mills & Boon Netherlands
Kousholt, Moa (2024) A Time, A Place, and A Person: A comparative literary analysis of Red, White & Royal Blue and One Last Stop by Casey McQuiston and how queer representation can be problematized in a classroom context Teacher Education Programme for Upper Secondary School, Linnaeus University Topic Casey McQuiston LGBTQ+ characters, readers and/or authors YA/young adult/teenage/new adult/NA romance teaching romance
Kołodziej, Gaja (2021) Unforgettably in love: uses of the amnesia trope in contemporary romance Doctor of Philosophy in Creative Writing, Massey University Topic contemporary romance romantic suspense health/medical love
Kraaykamp, Gerbert Kalmijn, Matthijs (1995) Een stille liefde. Over de lezeressen van romantische lectuur Mens en maatschappij 70.2:120-137 Topic readers social/economic class Netherlands
Kramer, Kyra (2011) Raising Veils and other Bold Acts: The Heroine's Agency in Female Gothic Novels Studies in Gothic Fiction 1.2:23-36 Topic gothic romance romantic suspense gender Victoria Holt/Jean Plaidy/Eleanor Burford Hibbert Elizabeth Lowell
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 Jennifer Crusie ageism food, drink gender feminism sex/sexuality fat, fatness
Kramer, Devon J. (2010) Truth through the medium of cheerfulness: Romance novels as points of resistance Master of Arts, Kutztown University of Pennsylvania Topic Maria Edgeworth Elizabeth Gaskell Georgette Heyer Lisa Kleypas Older and/or precursor texts (may not be "romance" as now defined)
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 psychology love family marriage myth Harlequin Mills & Boon gender rape and/or intimate partner violence/abuse virginity sex/sexuality work
Kramer, Daniela Moore, Michael (2001) Gender Roles, Romantic Fiction and Family Therapy Psycoloquy 12.24: Topic psychology Harlequin Mills & Boon gender marriage family rape and/or intimate partner violence/abuse
Kramp, Michael (2018) Jane Austen and Masculinity Lewisburg/Lanham, Maryland: Bucknell University Press/Rowman & Littlefield
Kratzer, Jessica M. W. (2020) Communication in Kink: Understanding the Influence of the Fifty Shades of Grey Phenomenon Lanham, Maryland: Lexington
Kratzer, Jessica M. W. (2025) "Love, Romance, Sex, and Happily Ever After: A Feminist Exploration of Women who Read Romance Novels " Still Reading Romance: Identity and Engagement with Popular Romance Fiction 165-190 DOI:10.5040/9798881847616.ch-010 Topic sex/sexuality readers feminism
Kraxenberger, Maria (2019) "Erotic Romances: An Emerging Subgenre Succeeding Fifty Shades " Genre Emergence: Developments in Print, TV and Digital Media 13-28 Topic erotic romance Fifty Shades
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 readers Fifty Shades Sylvia Day erotic romance sex/sexuality Germany
Kray, Susan (1987) Deconstructive Laughter: Romance Author as Subject, The Pleasure of Writing the Text Journal of Communication Inquiry 11.2:26-46 DOI: 10.1177/019685998701100203 Topic authors readers emotions
Krentz, Jayne Ann (1992) Dangerous Men and Adventurous Women: Romance Writers on the Appeal of the Romance Philadelphia: University of Pennsylvania Press Topic Jayne Ann Krentz/Amanda Quick/Jayne Castle readers gender authors emotions myth Cathie Linz Linda Barlow metaphor/symbolism linguistics happy ending rape and/or intimate partner violence/abuse Laura Kinsale psychology Susan Elizabeth Phillips feminism Daphne Clair Older and/or precursor texts (may not be "romance" as now defined) Robyn Donald Anne Stuart love Elizabeth Lowell war/armed forces Mary Jo Putney virginity Doreen Owens Malek Brittany Young sex/sexuality Penelope Williamson trash/literary and or intellectual quality Judith Arnold work Stella Cameron Sandra Brown Suzanne Simmons Guntrum Diana Palmer Kathleen Gilles Seidel
Krentz, Jayne Ann (1997) All the Right Reasons: Romance Fiction in the Public Library Public Libraries 36, May/June:162–166 Topic Jayne Ann Krentz/Amanda Quick/Jayne Castle libraries/librarians
Kress, Gunther (1988) "Textual Matters: The Social Effectiveness of Style " Functions of Style 126-141 Topic linguistics readers medical romance settings
Kroeg, Susan M. (2012) 'Truly Our Contemporary Jane Austen': Thinking Like an Austen Fan about Regency Romances Kentucky Philological Review 27:50-58 Topic historical romance
Krueger, Kate (2017) The Woman at Home in the World: Annie Swan's Lady Doctor and the Problem of the Fin de Siècle Working Woman Victorian Periodicals Review 50.3:517-533 DOI: 10.1353/vpr.2017.0039 Topic Annie S. Swan
Kuchta, Estella Carolye (2021) "Imagining Love: Teen Romance Novels and American Teen Relational Capacity " International Handbook of Love: Transcultural and Transdisciplinary Perspectives 827-842 DOI:10.1007/978-3-030-45996-3_44 Topic YA/young adult/teenage/new adult/NA romance readers psychology love
Kuchta, Estella Carolye (2024) The Epistemological Possibilities of Love: Towards Relational and Ecological Healing PhD, Simon Fraser University Topic YA/young adult/teenage/new adult/NA romance readers psychology love
Küçük, Özlem (2023) Impossible Love in the Hiccup and the Lily of the Valley Novels and the Social Role of the Women Cumhuriyet Üniversitesi Fen-Edebiyat Fakültesi Sosyal Bilimler Dergisi 47.1:109-120 Topic Kerime Nadir Turkey Older and/or precursor texts (may not be "romance" as now defined)
Kuehn, Julia (2014) A Female Poetics of Empire: From Eliot to Woolf New York: Routledge Topic Older and/or precursor texts (may not be "romance" as now defined) India sheikh romance E. M. Hull Bithia Mary Croker Maud Diver Alice Eustace Mrs F. E. Penny Alice Perrin Flora Annie Steel Kathlyn Rhodes
Kundin, Susan G. (1985) Romance versus Reality: A Look at YA Romantic Fiction Top of the News 41.4:361-368 Topic YA/young adult/teenage/new adult/NA romance
Künne, Regina (2015) Eternally Yours - Challenge and Response: Contemporary US American Romance Novels by Jayne Ann Krentz and Barbara Delinsky Zürich: Lit Verlag Topic Jayne Ann Krentz/Amanda Quick/Jayne Castle Barbara Delinsky United States of America religion/spirituality
Kuortti, Joel Ilmonen, Kaisa Valovirta, Elina Korkka, Janne (2019) Thinking with the Familiar in Contemporary Literature and Culture 'Out of the Ordinary' Leiden: Brill Rodopi
Kustritz, Anne (2003) Slashing the Romance Narrative The Journal of American Culture 26.3:371-384 DOI: 10.1111/1542-734X.00098 Topic fanfiction gender emotions sex/sexuality
Kutzer, M. Daphne (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 YA/young adult/teenage/new adult/NA romance family love sex/sexuality readers
Kuznets, Lois Zarin, Eve (1982) Sweet Dreams for Sleeping Beauties: Pre-Teen Romances Children's Literature Association Quarterly 7.1:28-32 DOI: 10.1353/chq.0.0230 Topic YA/young adult/teenage/new adult/NA romance
La Mothe, Jacques (1992) Actes du colloque "Les mauvais genres" organisé au Centre culturel canadien de Paris les 23, 24 et 25 novembre 1989 Liège: Éditions du C.L.P.C.F. Topic trash/literary and or intellectual quality
Labanyi, Jo (2004) Romancing the Early Franco Regime: the Novelas Románticas of Concha Linares-Becerra and Luisa-María Linares UC Berkeley: Institute of European Studies: Occasional Papers Working Paper OP-13: Topic Concha Linares-Becerra Luisa-María Linares fascism/right-wing authoritarianism Spain film/movies war/armed forces work metafiction wealth/prosperity
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Laframboise, Donna (1996) The Princess at the Window: A New Gender Morality Toronto: Penguin Topic rape and/or intimate partner violence/abuse BDSM pornography feminism race/ethnicity Johanna Lindsey Catherine Hart Susan Johnson Kathleen Morgan Heather Graham/Shannon Drake/Heather Graham Pozzessere Katharine Kincaid
Lam, Maylyn (1986) Reading the sweet dream: adolescent girls and romance fiction M.Ed. thesis, University of Melbourne Topic readers
Lam, Maylyn (1994) The romance of feminism: feminism on and as popular romance PhD, University of Melbourne Topic feminism
Lam, Adam McNaughton, Howard D. (2006) The Reinvention of Everyday Life: Culture in the twenty-first century Christchurch, New Zealand: Canterbury University Press
Lambert, Jérémy (2016) Le roman sentimental gay francophone Revue critique de fixxion française contemporaine 12:18-26 Topic LGBTQ+ characters, readers and/or authors Anne Singe et Marine Ange
Lambert Barr, DeAnn M. (1996) Romance-novel genre Master of Arts, California State University, Dominguez Hills Topic readers Danielle Steel Kathleen Eagle Julie Garwood
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Lamprinou, Artemis (2012) A Study on the Cultural Variations in the Verbalisation of Near-Universal Emotions: Translating Emotions from British English into Greek in Popular Bestseller Romances PhD, University of Surrey Topic translation Greece
Lamy, Odile (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 Harlequin Mills & Boon fashion/clothing settings metaphor/symbolism sex/sexuality emotions
Lancashire, Anne (2020) Venetia: Georgette Heyer’s Pastoral Romance Journal of Popular Romance Studies 9: DOI: 10.70138/YUAX4643 Topic Georgette Heyer rural romance Shakespeare settings
Lancaster, Rosemary (2020) "Fact and Fiction: Alice Williamson’s Monte Carlo " Women Writing on the French Riviera: Travellers and Trendsetters, 1870-1970 83–112 DOI:10.1163/9789004433922_005 Topic Alice Williamson/A. M. Williamson/Mrs. C. N. Williamson Older and/or precursor texts (may not be "romance" as now defined)
Lancaster, Rosemary (2020) Women Writing on the French Riviera: Travellers and Trendsetters, 1870-1970 Leiden: Brill Rodopi
Lancaster, Guy (2024) "God loves you nearly as much as I do": Toward a Poetics of Natality in Maureen Bronson's Delta Pearl, a 1989 Harlequin Historical Romance. Arkansas Review: A Journal of Delta Studies 55.1:27–39 Topic trash/literary and or intellectual quality Maureen Bronson death family philosophy
Lancaster, Guy (2025) ‘It had turned them all into voyeurs’: Celebrity as the Antithesis of Community in Molly O’Keefe’s Wild Child Arkansas Review: A Journal of Delta Studies 56.1:25–36 Topic Molly O'Keefe community philosophy
Lang, Miriam (2003) "Taiwanese Romance: San Mao and Qiong Yao " The Columbia Companion to Modern East Asian Literature 515-519 Topic Taiwan Qiongyao/Qiong Yao
Langeveld, Cornelis H. (Kees) (2011) Medische missers in doktersromans Nederlands Tijdschrift voor Geneeskunde 155:A4372:1-5 Topic medical romance health/medical
Laquintano, Timothy (2013) The Legacy of the Vanity Press and Digital Transitions The Journal of Electronic Publishing 16.1: DOI: 10.3998/3336451.0016.104 Topic Publishing Harlequin Mills & Boon
Larcombe, Wendy (2005) Compelling Engagements: Feminism, Rape Law and Romance Fiction Sydney: The Federation Press Topic rape and/or intimate partner violence/abuse feminism gender
Larkin, Brian (1997) Indian Films and Nigerian Lovers: Media and the Creation of Parallel Modernities Africa 67.3:406-440 DOI: 10.2307/1161182 Topic Nigeria film/movies Ado Ahmad Maryam Sahabi Liman
Larrier, Renée (2007) ""Quand la lecture devient passion": Romance Novels and Literacy in Abidjan " African Literatures at the Millennium 315-324 Topic Ivory Coast Africa
Larson, Christine (2017) An Economy of Words: Precarity, Solidarity and Innovation in Digital Book Publishing PhD, Stanford University Topic Publishing authors work
Larson, Christine (2019) Open networks, open books: gender, precarity and solidarity in digital publishing Information, Communication & Society : DOI: 10.1080/1369118X.2019.1621922 Topic authors Publishing
Larson, Christine (2019) "The Color of Romance: Gatekeeping in the Age of Digital Media " Voices: Exploring the Shifting Contours of Communication 99-??? DOI:10.3726/b14771 Topic Publishing race/ethnicity
Larson, Christine Ready, Elspeth (2022) Networking down: Networks, innovation, and relational labor in digital book publishing New Media & Society ONLINE FIRST:ONLINE FIRST DOI: 10.1177/14614448221090195 Topic authors Publishing
Larson, Christine (2022) Streaming books: confluencers, Kindle Unlimited and the platform imaginary Communication, Culture and Critique 15.4:520–530 DOI: 10.1093/ccc/tcac032 Topic Publishing authors
Larson, Christine Carter, Ashley (2023) Love is love: Reverse isomorphism and the rise of LGBTQ+ romance publishing New Media & Society ONLINE FIRST:ONLINE FIRST DOI: 10.1177/14614448231218991 Topic Publishing LGBTQ+ characters, readers and/or authors
Larson, Christine (2024) Love in the Time of Self-Publishing: How Romance Writers Changed the Rules of Writing and Success : Princeton University Press Topic authors Publishing United States of America race/ethnicity LGBTQ+ characters, readers and/or authors Nora Roberts/J. D. Robb Vivian Stephens (also wrote as Angela Vivian with co-author Angela Dew) Rita Clay Estrada readers Harlequin Mills & Boon Brenda Jackson Shirley Hailstock Bella Andre Courtney Milan LaQuette
Larson, Christine (2025) The labor of love: romance authors and platform solidarity Journal of Communication ONLINE FIRST:ONLINE FIRST DOI: 10.1093/joc/jqaf011 Topic authors Publishing
Larsson, Lisbeth (1989) En annan historia: om kvinnors läsning och svensk veckopress , Lund University Topic Sweden romances in magazines and newspapers
Lathifah, Naafiatun Nur Sanjaya, Adjie Aditya (2025) Political And Economic Ideology In The Production, Distribution, And Consumption Process Of Popular Romance Literature On The Wattpad Application International Conference of Humanities and Social Science (ICHSS) 5:516–525 Topic Indonesia Hidayatul Fajriyah/Luluk HF Rahmanida
Latva, Otto Lähdesmäki, Heta Sonck-Rautio, Kirsi Uusitalo, Harri (2024) Arrivals and Departures: The Human Relationship with Changing Biodiversity Berlin/Boston: De Grutyer
Lauritzen, Kiara (2025) Wallpaper Historicism: Chronotopic Regency romance, popular history and British cultural imperialism Master's, Malmö University Topic historical romance history Georgette Heyer
Lawrence, Kelsey (2020) No Happy Ending: Leadership Falls Apart at the Romance Writers of America SAGE Business Cases : DOI: 10.4135/9781529741117 Topic capitalism/business authors race/ethnicity
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Lazere, Donald (1987) American Media and Mass Culture: Left Perspectives Berkeley: University of California Press
Lazzarato, Francesca Moretti, Valeria (1981) La fiaba rosa: itinerari di lettura attraverso i romanzi per signorine Roma: Bulzoni Topic fairytales/folktales Delly Liala, pen name of Amalia Liana Cambiasi Negretti Odescalchi
Leavenworth, Maria Lindgren (2009) Lover Revamped: Sexualities and Romance in the Black Dagger Brotherhood and Slash Fan Fiction Extrapolation: A Journal of Science Fiction and Fantasy 50.3:442-462 DOI: 10.3828/extr.2009.50.3.5 Topic fanfiction J. R. Ward paranormal/fantasy/time-travel romance gender
Lecercle, Jean-Jacques (2022) "Interpellation and Counter-Interpellation in the Novel " The Rhetoric of Literary Communication: From Classical English Novels to Contemporary Digital Fiction DOI:10.4324/9781003094050-7 Topic readers Violet Winspear Jane Austen trash/literary and or intellectual quality
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Lee, Zi-Ying Liao, Min-Hsiu (2018) The “Second” Bride: The Retranslation of Romance Novels Babel 64.2:186-204 DOI: 10.1075/babel.00030.lee Topic translation Publishing Taiwan
Lee, Linda J. (2008) Guilty Pleasures: Reading Romance Novels as Reworked Fairy Tales Marvels & Tales 22.1:52-66 Topic fairytales/folktales paranormal/fantasy/time-travel romance Christine Feehan sex/sexuality
Lee, Amy (2007) "Forming a Local Identity: Romance Novels in Hong Kong " Empowerment versus Oppression: Twenty-First Century Views of Popular Romance Novels 174-197 Topic Hong Kong
Leedy, Helen (1985) The Portrayal of Women in Romance Novels Michigan Sociological Review 1:61-71 Topic Rosemary Rogers Kathleen Woodiwiss
Leenstra, Lisa (2023) Covers of Lovers: A Multimodal Comparison of the Front Covers of Romance Novels in 2011 and 2021 Masters thesis, Universiteit Utrecht Topic paratext
Leetsch, Jennifer (2021) Love and Space in Contemporary African Diasporic Women’s Writing: Making Love, Making Worlds Cham: Palgrave Macmillan Topic Chimamanda Adichie Africa Nigeria
Legallois, Dominique Charnois, Thierry Poibeau, Thierry (2016) Repérer les clichés dans les romans sentimentaux grâce à la méthode des ‘motifs’ Lidil. Revue de linguistique et de didactique des langues 53:95–117 DOI: 10.4000/lidil.3950 Topic trash/literary and or intellectual quality Harlequin Mills & Boon linguistics
Leigh, Alicia (2026) Romancing the Darkness: Understanding Trauma in the Romance Genre Journal of Popular Romance Studies ONLINE FIRST:ONLINE FIRST DOI: 10.70138/ZOGS1161 Topic health/medical psychology genre definitions Jayne Ann Krentz/Amanda Quick/Jayne Castle A. K. Leigh/Alicia Leigh/Alicia Kindleysides Anne Brontë
Leith, Murray Stewart Sim, Duncan (2014) The Modern Scottish Diaspora: Contemporary Debates and Perspectives Edinburgh: Edinburgh University Press
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 translation sex/sexuality erotic romance Sylvia Day
Lencevičienė, Lina (2011) Selected Problems of Translation of the Romance Genre: Analysis of Barbara Cartland's Romance Novel Bewitched Translation into Lithuanian Masters, Vytauto Didžiojo universitetas Topic Barbara Cartland translation paratext linguistics
Lennard, John (2007) Of Modern Dragons and other essays on Genre Fiction Tirril, Penrith: Humanities-Ebooks Topic Nora Roberts/J. D. Robb romantic suspense paranormal/fantasy/time-travel romance genre definitions gender sex/sexuality rape and/or intimate partner violence/abuse science fiction/futuristic romance
Lennard, John (2010) Of Sex and Faerie: Further essays on Genre Fiction Tirril, Penrith: Humanities-Ebooks Topic sex/sexuality paranormal/fantasy/time-travel romance rape and/or intimate partner violence/abuse
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 paranormal/fantasy/time-travel romance sex/sexuality pornography
Lepschy, Anna Laura (2000) "The Popular Novel, 1850-1920 " A History of Women’s Writing in Italy 177-189 Topic Liala, pen name of Amalia Liana Cambiasi Negretti Odescalchi
Lessard, Victoria (2017) Marketing Desire: The "Normative/Other" Male Body and the "Pure" White Female Body on the Cover Art of Cassie Edwards' Savage Dream (1990), Savage Persuasion (1991), and Savage Mists (1992) MA thesis, McGill University Topic Cassie Edwards Native American romance paratext race/ethnicity historical romance
Letourneux, Matthieu (2011) "« La petite pâquerette était morte ». Sérialités éditoriales et réception de l’œuvre de Delly " L’Œuvre de Delly 163-186 Topic Delly
Levi, Antonia McHarry, Mark Pagliassotti, Dru (2010) Boys’ Love Manga: Essays on the Sexual Ambiguity and Cross-Cultural Fandom of the Genre Jefferson, North Carolina: McFarland & Company
Levi, Anna (2013) Delly: la Cenerentola di Versailles : vita di Jeanne Marie Henriette Petitjean de la Rosière Pontedera: Bibliografia e informazione Topic Delly
Levina, Mariia (2003) Readers of Mass Literature, 1994-2000: From Paternalism to Individualism? Russian Studies in Literature 40.1:79-95 DOI: 10.1080/10611975.2003.11062126 Topic Russia Publishing readers
Levy, Bronwen (1987) Up From Under, or On Not Marrying the Racist Aussie Boss: Strategies for Reading Romantic Fiction Hecate 13.1:7-20 Topic feminism social/economic class romance scholarship Australia race/ethnicity Harlequin Mills & Boon Margaret Way
Liang, William Tham Wai (2020) Paper & Text: The Trials and Trade of Malaysian Literature Petaling Jaya, Malaysia: Gerakbudaya Enterprise
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 LGBTQ+ characters, readers and/or authors metafiction YA/young adult/teenage/new adult/NA romance sex/sexuality
Liffen, Jane (2008) "A very Glamorized Picture, that": Images of Scottish Female Herring Workers on Romance Novel Covers Social Semiotics 18.3:349-361 DOI: 10.1080/10350330802217121 Topic paratext psychology work
Light, Alison (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 readers psychology social/economic class sex/sexuality UK
Light, Alison (1994) "Preface (to the third edition) " Twentieth-Century Romance and Historical Writers (3rd edition) xi-xvi Topic history genre definitions gender trash/literary and or intellectual quality
Limond, Verity (2023) ‘The door is open to everyone’: The public libraries of Gozo Omertaa, Journal for applied anthropology :745-754 Topic libraries/librarians Malta Harlequin Mills & Boon
Lin, Pei-yin Kim, Su Yun (2019) East Asian Transwar Popular Culture: Literature and Film from Taiwan and Korea Singapore: Palgrave Macmillan Topic Taiwan Korea Older and/or precursor texts (may not be "romance" as now defined)
Lin, Fang-mei (1992) Social Change and Romantic Ideology: The Impact of the Publishing Industry, Family Organization, and Gender Roles on the Reception and Interpretation of Romance Fiction in Taiwan, 1960-1990 PhD, University of Pennsylvania Topic love family Publishing Taiwan
Lin, Fang-mei (2016) 性別化東方主義 : 女性沙漠羅曼史的重層東方想像 = Gendering orientalism: women's desert romance and the multiplicity of oriental imagination Journal of Modern Literature in Chinese 13.1-2:174-200 Topic sheikh romance translation Taiwan
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Linares, Trinidad (2025) "Getting Love Out of the Margins: Race, Disability, Sexuality, and the Idea of a Happy After for Marginalized People " Still Reading Romance: Identity and Engagement with Popular Romance Fiction 209–232 DOI:10.5040/9798881847616.ch-012 Topic disability race/ethnicity sex/sexuality
Lind, Rebecca Ann (2004) Race/Gender/Media: Considering Diversity Across Audiences, Content, and Producers Boston: Pearson
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Lindqvist, Yvonne (2002) Översättning som social praktik: Toni Morrison och Harlequinserien Passion på svenska Doctoral Thesis, Topic Harlequin Mills & Boon linguistics translation
Lindström Kruse, Miranda (2022) Pinsamma läsningar: En affektteoretisk studie av #SpicyBooks på TikTok Masters thesis, Uppsala universitet Topic readers libraries/librarians
Linke, Gabriele (1997) Contemporary Mass Market Romances as National and International Culture: A Comparative Study of Mills & Boon and Harlequin Romances Para.doxa: Studies in World Literary Genres 3.1-2:195-213 Topic Harlequin Mills & Boon United States of America UK national identity race/ethnicity
Linke, Gabriele (1997) Local Color in Contemporary Harlequin and Silhouette Romances: Popular Imagery of the American South and West Mid-Atlantic Almanack: The Journal of the Mid-Atlantic Popular/American Culture Association 6:15-30 Topic United States of America settings Harlequin Mills & Boon
Linke, Gabriele (2000) Visions and Versions of Parenthood in British and American Series Romances Diegesis: Journal of the Association for Research in Popular Fictions 6:18-29 Topic family