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Bouricius, Ann

Byrnes, Carole

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(1991) Sunfire Historical Romances ALAN Review 19.1:22

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(1991) The Wild West, Floods, Wars and Boys: Sunfire Historical Romances for Young Adults ALAN Review 19.1:22-25

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(1995) Dreams, Guys, Lies, and Occasionally Books: The Young Women of the Freshman Dorm Series ALAN Review 22.2:10 DOI: 10.21061/alan.v22i2.a.4

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Victoria Holt/Jean Plaidy/Eleanor Burford Hibbert

Liu, Su-hsen

(2012) The Translation/Mutation of Romantic Love: An Exploration of the Translation History of Modern Romances in Taiwan after 1960 PhD, National Taiwan Normal University

Topic

translation

Taiwan

Liu, Su-hsen

(2013) Modern Female Gothic and Its Translation in Taiwan: Based on a Case Study of the Chinese Translation of Mistress of Mellyn Spectrum: NCUE Studies in Language, Literature, Translation, and Interpretation 11:121-147

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Taiwan

translation

gothic romance

Livingston, Eric

(2006) The Textuality of Pleasure New Literary History 37.3:655-672

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close reading

Gina Wilkins

Lohmann, Jennifer

(2006) 'Beauty and the Beast' Themes in Romance Novels Master of Science in Library Science, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill

Topic

fairytales/folktales

Lois, Jennifer

Gregson, Joanna

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

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(2019) Aspirational Emotion Work: Calling, Emotional Capital, and Becoming a 'Real' Writer Journal of Contemporary Ethnography 48.1:51-79 DOI: 10.1177/0891241617749011

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(2022) Individuation and the Romance Novel PhD thesis, Pacifica Graduate Institute

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(2021) Modern Love: Reading, Writing, and Publishing the Romance Novel Master's Thesis, Purdue University

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(2006) Romance novels: women's motivation for readership and effects of reading MA, Central Michigan University

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Long, Bridget L.

(2007) "Women's Romance Novel Readership: Motivations, Expectations, and Relationship Satisfaction "

Topic

López, Francisca

(1995) Mito y discurso en la novela femenina de posguerra en España Madrid: Pliegos

Topic

Carmen de Icaza

López-Maestre, María D.

(2015) 'Man the hunter': A critical reading of hunt-based conceptual metaphors of love and sexual desire Journal of Literary Semantics 44.2:89-113 DOI: 10.1515/jls-2015-0009

Topic

Loranger, Caroline

(2022) Parcours amoureux et économiques dans le roman sentimental publié par les éditions Édouard Garand Études françaises 58.1:15–31 DOI: 10.7202/1089739ar

Topic

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

Lorinc, John

(1994) Romance Language: How Harlequin Became Synonymous with Romance and then Translated that Success Around the World Quill & Quire 60.5:1-13, 14-15

Topic

Losano, Antonia

(2015) "Sneaking It In at the End: Teaching Popular Romance in the Liberal Arts Classroom " Teaching Tainted Lit: Popular American Fiction in Today's Classroom 77-88

Topic

Georgette Heyer

E. M. Hull

Nora Roberts/J. D. Robb

Jennifer Crusie

Lovell, Stephen

Menzel, Birgit

(2005) Reading for Entertainment in Contemporary Russia: Post-Soviet Popular Literature in Historical Perspective Munich: Otto Sagner

Lovelock, K

(1995) ""If you're in the mood": femininity and romance in a New Zealand rural town " Communication and Culture in Rural Areas 127-149

Topic

New Zealand

Lövgren, Karin

(1991) "Farlig lockelse - tonårsflickors läsning av romantikböcker " Om unga kvinnor: identitet, kultur och livsvillkor 97-117

Topic

Lowery, Karalyne

(2018) The Militarized Shapeshifter: Authorized Violence and Military Connections as an Antidote to Monstrosity University of Toronto Quarterly 87.1:196-213 DOI: 10.3138/utq.87.1.196

Topic

war/armed forces

(2011) "La réception de Delly en Espagne et en Amérique Latine " L’Œuvre de Delly 209-232

Topic

(2012) La recepción de Delly en España NERTER 17-18:34-36

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

(2014) La culture et le travail de la femme. Une approche comparative entre Delly et Corín Tellado L'Ull crític 17-18:235-248

Topic

(2018) Pour une typologie de la marginalité dans les romans de Delly: la fonction de la femme L'Ull crític 21-22:137-152 DOI: 10.21001/luc.21.22.09

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(2020) " Las clases sociales y el poder económico en la obra de Delly: la mujer y su triunfo sobre la opresión " Voces e identidades exocanónicas (1880-1920): recuperando (auto) narrativas femeninas de los márgenes 137-153

Topic

wealth/prosperity

Lugan-Dardigna, Anne-Marie

(1984) "Presse du cœur et roman rose: la quête de l'amour vrai ou comment se trouver un maître " Le récit amoureux: Colloque de Cerisy-la-Salle 284-296

Topic

(2024) Formula Romance dalam Roman Mes Amis Mes Amours Karya Marc Lévy LE PARIS: Journal de Langue, Litterature, et Culture 5.1:15-33

Topic

Marc Levy

Luneau, Marie-Pier

(2008) « Tant d’amour à donner »: Le biographique, l’œuvre, et la figure de l’auteur Harlequin COnTEXTES 3: DOI: 10.4000/contextes.2413

Topic

(2019) Ce que le roman catholique fait au roman sentimental : le cas de la collection « Amour et aventure » COnTEXTES 23: DOI: 10.4000/contextes.7903

Topic

(2022) D’amour et d’or pur. Les impératifs matérialistes du bonheur amoureux dans le roman sentimental québécois de l’après-guerre Études françaises 58.1:33–53 DOI: 10.7202/1089740ar

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)

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

(2022) Une littérature qui refuse de se laisser parler d’amour ? Les romans québécois et l’expression de la passion avant 1960 Captures 7.1: DOI: 10.7202/1091535ar

Topic

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

Boivin, Karol'Ann

Bérubé, Harold

(2023) Amour à 10 sous: Le roman sentimental québécois de l'après-guerre : Septentrion

Topic

dime novels

Luneau, Marie-Pier

(2023) Le temps des fascicules: Entre pratiques périodiques et pratiques livresques Cahiers de la Société bibliographique du Canada 60: DOI: 10.33137/pbsc.v60i1.34677

Topic

(2024) Affaires et sentiments : la figure de l’homme d’affaires dans le roman sentimental québécois de l’après-guerre Tangence 134:43–70 DOI: https://doi.org/10.7202/1112213ar

Topic

(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

metafiction

Pierre-Joseph-Olivier Chauveau

Albertine Laperle-Bernier

dime novels

Marie-Claude Bussières-Tremblay

chick lit

Micheline Perron

Raymond Plante

Bertrand Gauthier

(2025) Exoticism Without Cosmopolitanism: The Quebec Romance Novel of the 1940s and 1950s Contemporary French and Francophone Studies 29.1:154-166 DOI: 10.1080/17409292.2025.2454174

Topic

settings

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

Luther, Amy Victoria

(2010) Men reading fiction: A study of the relationship between reader, (con)text, consumption and gender identity. PhD, Cardiff University

Topic

(2003) Heidegger, the Erotics of Ontology, and the Mass-Market Romance Comparative Literature and Culture 5.3: DOI: 10.7771/1481-4374.1194

Topic

(2004) The Dangerous Lover and the Erotics of Failure: Nineteenth-century Byronism and the Contemporary Romance PhD, City University of New York

Topic

(2006) The Dangerous Lover: Gothic Villains, Byronism, and the Nineteenth-Century Seduction Narrative Columbus: Ohio State University Press

Topic

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

death

philosophy

Victoria Holt/Jean Plaidy/Eleanor Burford Hibbert

(2007) "The Haunted Space of the Mind: The Revival of the Gothic Romance in the Twenty-First Century " Empowerment versus Oppression: Twenty-First Century Views of Popular Romance Novels 81-92

Topic

(2012) Queering the Romantic Heroine: Where Her Power Lies Journal of Popular Romance Studies 3.1:

Topic

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

lesbian romance

Radclyffe Hall

Mabee, Norma Augusta

(1993) La novela rosa de Corín Tellado: Desorden, conflicto y escape de la ectopia PhD, Arizona State University

Topic

(2000) Shape-shifting: Images of Native Americans in Recent Popular Fiction Westport, Connecticut: Greenwood Press

Topic

Maddox, Lucy

(2011) Beyond Trembling Manhood and Heaving Bosoms Gender and Sexuality in the Historical Romance Novel Bachelors, New College of Florida

Topic

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

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

(2001) Ripping the Bodice: Eating, Reading, and Revolt College Literature 28.1:64-83

Topic

(2016) "‘Breaking away’: Beatrice Grimshaw and the commercial woman writer " 82–99 DOI:10.7228/manchester/9780719097584.003.0006

Topic

Beatrice Grimshaw

Maier, Sarah E.

Ayres, Brenda

(2020) Neo-Victorian Madness: Rediagnosing Nineteenth-Century Mental Illness in Literature and Other Media Cham, Switzerland: Palgrave Macmillan

Majidi, Nikki

(2026) "Fast Fiction": Booktok, Artificial Intelligence, and the Profit-driven Reinvention of the Romance Genre Undergraduate Dissertation, California State University, Long Beach

Topic

Mäkelä, Veera

(2020) ""World Turned Upside Down": The Role of Revolutions in Maya Rodale's Regency-Set Romances " Love Across the Atlantic: US-UK Romance in Popular Culture 38-52

Topic

Maya Rodale

(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

family

Malinowska, Anna

(2017) Paternal Structures of the Romance Romanica Silesiana 12:40-52

Topic

(2021) "Global Popular Culture for Local Infrastructures: Migration of Texts and Problems of Transferability (the Polish Case) " Cultural Change in East-Central European and Eurasian Spaces: Post-1989 Revisions and Re-imaginings 103-114 DOI:10.1007/978-3-030-63197-0_7

Topic

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

Topic

lesbian romance

Mangat, T. K.

(1998) The surgeon in popular fiction - The Mills and Boon doctor-nurse romance Theoretical Surgery 3.2:89-92

Topic

medical romance

(1969) The Romantic Novel: A Survey of Reading Habits London: Mills & Boon

Topic

(1974) A New Survey: The Facts About Romantic Fiction London: Mills & Boon

Topic

(1979) "Romantic Fiction and Its Readers " Entertainment: A Cross-Cultural Examination 34-42

Topic

(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

(1985) Romantic Fiction and Its Readership Poetics 14.1-2:95-105 DOI: 10.1016/0304-422X(85)90006-3

Topic

Manzano Badía, Benjamín

(2000) "Carmen de Icaza, una apología pequeño-burguesa y conservadora de la familia " Mujeres novelistas en el panorama literario del siglo XX: I Congreso de narrativa española (en lengua castellana). 107-121

Topic

Carmen de Icaza

family

wealth/prosperity

Mao, Douglas

Walkowitz, Rebecca L.

(2006) Bad Modernisms Durham, North Carolina: Duke University Press

Maranto Hill, Emily

(2025) Reading the Romance Reader: Booktok, Algorithmic Subjugation, and the Fight for Cultural Legitimacy Master of Arts, Old Dominion University

Topic

(1983) Harlequin et Colombine : l’industrie plafonne, l’amour aussi Études littéraires 16.3:351–362 DOI: 10.7202/500620ar

Topic

(1982) Mills & Boon: guilt without sex Red Letters 14:5-13

Topic

emotions

Margolis, Harriet

(1992) "Feminist Irony or Poisonous FANTASY?: Category Romance and the Conscious Reader " Yearbook of Interdisciplinary Studies in the Fine Arts, Volume 3 165-178

Topic

Margolis, Harriet

(1995) The Lover's Value(s): Women's Romance Novels in an Exchange-Based Society Conference Papers (New Zealand Women's Studies Association Annual Meeting, 1994) :78-82

Topic

Margolis, Harriet

(1997) A Childe in Love, Or Is It Just Fantasy? The Values of Women's Genres Para.doxa: Studies in World Literary Genres 3.1-2:121-144

Topic

(2009) In Defense of Romantic Fiction Master of Science in Publishing, Pace University

Topic

Markasović, Valentina

(2023) Challenging Gender Stereotypes in Holly Black’s The Folk of the Air Trilogy Breaking Stereotypes in American Popular Culture: Proceedings of the 10th Annual Conference of the Croatian Association for American Studies :41-56 DOI: 10.17234/9789533791258.03

Topic

Holly Black

(1984) Beyond Gatekeepers: Romance Publishing and the Production of Culture PhD, Vanderbilt University

Topic

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

Topic

(1987) The publishing decision: Managerial policy and its effect on editorial decision making—The case of romance publishing Book Research Quarterly 3.2:33-59 DOI: 10.1007/BF02683612

Topic

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

Topic

Avon

Ellora's Cave

BDSM

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

Topic

(2021) "Publishing the romance novel " The Routledge Research Companion to Popular Romance Fiction 352-370 DOI:10.4324/9781315613468-16

Topic

(2024) Georgette Heyer, history, and historical fiction. Voprosy literatury 1:198-203 DOI: 10.31425/0042-8795-2024-1-198-203

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)

(1993) Weaving Alliances: Selected Papers Presented For The Canadian Women's Studies Association at the 1991 and 1992 Learned Societies Conferences Ottawa: Canadian Women's Studies Association

Martín, Sara

Santaulària, M. Isabel

(2024) Detoxing Masculinity in Anglophone Literature and Culture: In Search of Good Men Cham: Palgrave Macmillan

Martin, Michèle

(1991) Communication et médias de masse : culture, domination et opposition Québec: Presses de l'Université du Québec

Topic

romance scholarship

Martin, Darcy

(2003) "'Womanhood Reinvented: Eve Dallas, Protagonist in J. D. Robb's "In Death" Series " The 2000-2003 Proceedings of the SW/Texas PCA/ACA Conference 1989-2019

Topic

Nora Roberts/J. D. Robb

science fiction/futuristic romance

marriage

community

Martín Coloma, Ricardo

(2025) On Activist Mothers and Gentrifying Lovers: From the Legacy of the Civil Rights Movement to the Model-Minority Myth in the Caribbean Romance Novel Journal of American Studies ONLINE FIRST:ONLINE FIRST DOI: 10.1017/S0021875825101138

Topic

family

Xochitl González

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

Martínez Garrido, Elisa

(2000) Bildungsroman y crítica de género: Novela rosa y narrativa de mujeres Cuadernos de filología italiana :529-546

Topic

Italy

Martínez-Falquina, Silvia

fairytales/folktales

(2024) "Historical Reparation, Emotional Justice: The Navajo Long Walk in Evangeline Parsons Yazzie’s Her Land, Her Love " Conflict and Colonialism in 21st Century Romantic Historical Fiction: Repairing the Past, Repurposing History DOI:10.4324/9781003493792-8

Topic

Evangeline Parsons Yazzie

Martínez de la Hidalga, Fernando

(2000) La novela popular en España (vol 1.) Madrid: Robel

Martínez de la Hidalga, Fernando

(2001) La novela popular en España (2) Madrid: Robel

Mason, Gillian

(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)

erotic romance

BDSM

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

Jayne Ann Krentz/Amanda Quick/Jayne Castle

metafiction

Matelski, Elizabeth

(2016) ""I'm Not the Only Lesbian Who Wears a Skirt": Lesbian Romance Fiction and Identity in Post-World War II America " Romance Fiction and American Culture: Love as the Practice of Freedom? 71-88

Topic

fashion/clothing

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

Claire Morgan/Patricia Highsmith

metafiction

(1998) Le cliché Toulouse: Presses Universitaires du Mirail

Matter, Laura Sewell

(2007) Pursuing the Great Bad Novelist The Georgia Review 61.3:444-459

Topic

Charles Garvice

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

Matthews, Amy T.

(2016) Entangled: the exegetical process of a romance writer Arts and Humanities as Higher Education :

Topic

ecocriticism/environmentalism/climate change

Matthews, Amy T.

(2016) The hopeful romantic Kill Your Darlings 27:44-56

Topic

(2025) Editorial: Degrees of Love and Trope Actually TEXT 29, Special Issue 75: DOI: 10.52086/001c.142608

Topic

(2025) Happily ever after in the age of climate crisis: The argument for “cli-ro” TEXT 29, Special Issue 75: DOI: 10.52086/001c.142614

Topic

Sally Rooney

Rachel Griffin

Aya de León

Maunder, Andrew

(2016) "Berta Ruck " British Literature of World War I: The Short Story and the Novella 35-39

Topic

Berta Ruck

war/armed forces

Maunder, Andrew

(2016) British Literature of World War I: The Short Story and the Novella Abingdon, Oxon: Routledge

Mayer, Claude-Hélène

Vanderheiden, Elisabeth

(2021) International Handbook of Love: Transcultural and Transdisciplinary Perspectives Cham: Springer

Topic

Mayer, Claude-Hélène

Vanderheiden, Elisabeth

(2025) International Handbook of Love: Transcultural and Transdisciplinary Perspectives (2nd edition) : Springer Cham

Mayfield, Kerrita K.

(2014) Liminal eRoticism: Emerging Forms of Gender Identity and Performance in e-Romances and Their Feminist Electronic Communities Taboo: The Journal of Culture and Education 14.1:53-70 DOI: 10.31390/taboo.14.1.07

Topic

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

Topic

(2008) LaVyrle Spencer Teaching American Literature: A Journal of Theory and Practice 2.2/3:1-17

Topic

(2018) Discursive Vulnerability and Identity Development: A Triangular Model of Bio-Forces in Cultural Ecological Analysis of American Romance Fiction Forum for World Literature Studies 10.3:413–432

Topic

Debbie Macomber

Mazzarella, Sharon R.

Pecora, Norma Odom

(1999) Growing Up Girls: Popular Culture and the Construction of Identity New York: Peter Lang

(1989) Popular Literature and Reading Habits in Britain, 1914-1950 D.Phil. (also referred to as a PhD thesis), St John's College, University of Oxford

Topic

(1990) Scenes from Love and Marriage: Mills and Boon and the Popular Publishing Industry in Britain, 1908-1950 Twentieth Century British History 1.3:264-288 DOI: 10.1093/tcbh/1.3.264

Topic

Mary Burchell, pen name of Ida Cook

Jean S. MacLeod/Catherine Airlie

(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

(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

(2011) "Love, Romance, and the National Health Service " Classes, Cultures, & Politics: Essays on British History for Ross McKibbin 173-191 DOI:10.1093/acprof:osobl/9780199579884.003.0011

McAlister, Jodi Ann

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

Topic

virginity

(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

(2016) "Traveling Through Time and Genre: Are the Outlander Books Romance Novels? " Adoring Outlander: Essays on Fandom, Genre and the Female Audience 94-105

Topic

Diana Gabaldon

(2016) “You and I are humans, and there is something complicated between us”: Untamed and queering the heterosexual historical romance Journal of Popular Romance Studies 5.2:

Topic

Teo, Hsu-Ming

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

Topic

(2018) Defining and Redefining Popular Genres: The Evolution of ‘New Adult’ Fiction Australian Literary Studies 33.4: DOI: 10.20314/als.0fd566d109

Topic

(2018) The literary text as historical artifact: The colonial couple in Australian romantic fiction by women, 1838-1860 Lilith: A Feminist History Journal 24:38-51

Topic

Australia

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

national identity

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

(2018) “Feelings Like the Women in Books”: Declarations of Love in Australian Romance Novels, 1859–1891 Emotions: History, Culture, Society 2.1:91-112 DOI: 10.1163/2208522X-02010005

Topic

Trinidad, Andrea Anne

(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

(2021) New Adult Fiction Cambridge: Cambridge University Press

Topic

(2022) Isn’t It Iconic: Canonical Logics and the Romance Genre Journal of Popular Romance Studies 11: DOI: 10.70138/PSGT6480

Topic

romance scholarship

(2022) "Love and listening: the erotics of talk in the popular romance novel " The Routledge Companion to Romantic Love DOI:10.4324/9781003022343-9

Topic

Trinidad, Andrea Anne

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

Topic

Philippines

(2025) Romantasy: An overview and a history Synergy 23.2:

Topic

McAlpine, Rachel

(1998) The Passionate Pen: New Zealand’s Romance Writers Talk to Rachel McAlpine Christchurch, New Zealand: Hazard Press

Topic

(1994) Palimpsest of Desire: The Re-Emergence of the American Captivity Narrative as Pulp Romance Journal of Popular Culture 27.4:43-56 DOI: 10.1111/j.0022-3840.1994.2704_43.x

Topic

Jayne Ann Krentz/Amanda Quick/Jayne Castle

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

Topic

(2001) Love's Labors Won: Romance Fiction and the Politics of Love New Orleans Review 27.1:171-183

Topic

Laura Kinsale

Mary Jo Putney

McCracken, Scott

(1998) Pulp: Reading Popular Fiction Manchester: Manchester University Press

Topic

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

Penny Jordan/Caroline Courtney

(2023) California Dreams and American Contradictions: Women Writers and the Western Ideal Lincoln: University of Nebraska Press

Topic

Eva Rutland

McDavis-Conway, Shana

(2023) Self-conscious, unapologetic, and straight: fat protagonists in romantic fiction Fat Studies 12.2:233-242 DOI: 10.1080/21604851.2022.2047337

Topic

fat, fatness

(2021) Everything and Less: The Novel in the Age of Amazon London: Verso

Topic

Fifty Shades

McGurl, Mark

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

Topic

fanfiction

McInnis, Lauren

(2024) Filing The Serial Numbers Off: The Role Of The Author In Fanfiction Published As Original FictionFanfiction Published As Original Fiction Master of Arts, University of Alabama at Birmingham

Topic

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

Topic

marriage

(2007) Beautiful Things in Popular Culture Malden, MA: Blackwell

McKinley, Tracey Lynn

(2007) The Female Quest: An Analysis of Archetypal Layering in Harlequin Presents Master of Education, Queen's University

Topic

McKnight-Trontz, Jennifer

(2002) The Look of Love: The Art of the Romance Novel New York: Princeton Architectural Press

Topic

McLennon, Leigh

(2014) Defining Urban Fantasy and Paranormal Romance: Crossing Boundaries of Genre, Media, Self and Other in New Supernatural Worlds Refractory: a Journal of Entertainment Media 23:

Topic

McLennon, Leigh

(2017) Contemporary vampire genre fiction: ethical feeding and the posthuman vampire in urban fantasy and paranormal romance PhD, University of Melbourne

Topic

McNamara, Sallie

(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) Young Adult Contemporary Realistic Romance: Rhetorical and Intersectional Narratologies PhD, Ohio State University

Topic

(1981) She trembled at his touch Quarto May:17-18

Topic

McWilliam, Kelly

(2009) Romance in foreign accents: Harlequin-Mills & Boon in Australia Continuum: Journal of Media & Cultural Studies 23.2:137-145 DOI: 10.1080/10304310802710488

Topic

Medrano-González, Claudia

Australia

(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

Meirelles, Simone Regina Ferreira

(2002) Das bancas ao coraçao: romances sentimentais e leitura hoje Mestre em Letras, Universidade Federal do Paraná

Topic

(2008) Romances com coração: leitura e edição de romances sentimentais no Brasil PhD, Universidade Federal do Paraná

Topic

Brazil

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

Melman, Billie

(1988) Women and the Popular Imagination in the Twenties: Flappers and Nymphs Houndmills, Basingstoke: Macmillan

Topic

pornography

(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

(1986) The Novels of Corín Tellado Studies in Latin American Popular Culture 5:31-40

Topic

(2025) Babies, Brides, and Billionaires: Computational and Linguistic Analysis of Harlequin Romance Novel Cover Text Evolutionary Behavioral Sciences ONLINE FIRST:ONLINE FIRST DOI: 10.1037/ebs0000390

Topic

linguistics

evolutionary psychology

Meyer, Michaela D. E.

(2015) Living the Romance through Castle: Exploring Autoethnography, Popular Culture and Romantic Television Narratives The Popular Culture Studies Journal 3.1&2:245-269

Topic

Meyer, Michael

(2002) The Bedford Introduction to Literature: Reading, Thinking, Writing (Sixth Edition) Boston: Bedford/St Martin's

Topic

Karen van der Zee

Michel, Anita

(1997) Re-reading the (series) romance: toward a typology of recent series romance novels MA thesis, Bowling Green State University

Micheletti, Ellen

(2010) Wandering the Web - Reviews of Romance Novels: Online Sources for Evaluating Popular Fiction Against the Grain 22.4:48

Topic

Michelson, Anna

(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

sociology

(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

sociology

Michelson, Anna

(2025) "Romance Reading as a Social Activity " Still Reading Romance: Identity and Engagement with Popular Romance Fiction 129-142 DOI:10.5040/9798881847616.ch-008

Topic

Miclea, Adelina-Cerasela

(2024) The Scientification of Love: A Cognitive Literary Approach to Romance Novels PhD, Universitatea de Vest din Timișoara

Topic

(2023) Colleen Hoover’s Formulas for Best-Sellers as Seen in Reminders of Him and it Ends with Us Romanian Journal of English Studies 20.1:72-79 DOI: 10.2478/rjes-2023-0008

Topic

Colleen Hoover

Migozzi, Jacques

(1997) Le Roman Populaire en Question(s): Actes du colloque international de mai 1995 à Limoges Limoges: PULIM (Presses universitaires de Limoges)

Mikals-Adachi, Eileen B.

(2012) Romantic Adventures in Prose: Ren'ai Shõsetsu (Romance Novels) by Yuikawa Kei U.S.-Japan Women's Journal 43:85-105

Topic

(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

(2010) A Little Extra Bite: Dis/Ability and Romance in Tanya Huff and Charlaine Harris’s Vampire Fiction Journal of Popular Romance Studies 1.1:

Topic

disability

(2015) Passionate Virtue: Conceptions of Medical Professionalism in Popular Romance Fiction Literature and Medicine 33.1:70-90 DOI: 10.1353/lm.2015.0010

Topic

medical romance

health/medical

rural romance

Miller, Jessica

(2026) ""I Shall Be Very Happy, Indeed": The Meanings of Happiness in Bridgerton " Bridgerton and Philosophy: Dukes, Debutantes, and Deep Questions 51-61 DOI:10.1002/9781394304455.ch5

Topic

(2026) Bridgerton and Philosophy: Dukes, Debutantes, and Deep Questions Hoboken, New Jersey: Wiley

Topic

Julia Quinn

philosophy

Miller, Jessica

(2026) Vulnerability and Chronic Illness in Three Contemporary Romance Novels The Journal of Medical Humanities ONLINE FIRST:ONLINE FIRST DOI: 10.1007/s10912-026-10016-7

Topic

(2015) Love on the Land: Australian Rural Romance in Place English Studies 96.2:204-224 DOI: 10.1080/0013838X.2014.983786

Topic

(1996) Ever After: Reading the Women Who Read (and Re-Write) Romances Theatre Topics 6.1:51-69 DOI: 10.1353/tt.1996.0005

Topic

Lisa Gregory

Mitchell, Diana

(1995) If You Can't Beat'em, Join 'em: Using the Romance Series to Confront Gender Stereotypes The ALAN Review 22.2: DOI: 10.21061/alan.v22i2.a.3

Topic

Mizzau, Marina

(1987) "Strategie narrative: il non detto e il troppo detto " Intorno al rosa 47-57

Topic

Mocná, Dagmar

(1996) Červená knihovna: studie kulturně a literárně historická : pohled do dějin pokleslého žánru Praha: Paseka

Topic

Czech Republic

(1980) Popular Feminine Narratives: A Study of Romances, Gothics, and Soap Operas PhD, Stanford University

Topic

gothic romance

(1980) The Disappearing Act: A Study of Harlequin Romances Signs: Journal of Women in Culture and Society 5.3:435-448 DOI: 10.1086/493729

Topic

(1982) Loving with a Vengeance: Mass‐Produced Fantasies for Women Hamden, Connecticut: Archon

Topic

(1986) Studies in Entertainment: Critical Approaches to Mass Culture Bloomington: Indiana University Press

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

Topic

Brenda Joyce

Jayne Ann Krentz/Amanda Quick/Jayne Castle

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

Topic

BDSM

romance scholarship

Jennifer Crusie

Linda Howard

evolutionary psychology

Moffitt, Mary Anne Smeltzer

(1990) Understanding Middle-Class Adolescent Leisure: A Cultural Studies Approach to Romance Novel Reading PhD, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign

Topic

emotions

Moffitt, Mary Anne

(1993) Articulating Meaning: Reconceptions of the Meaning Process, Fantasy/Reality, and Identity in Leisure Activities Communication Theory 3.3:231-251 DOI: 10.1111/j.1468-2885.1993.tb00072.x

Topic

Moffitt, Mary Anne

(1993) Leisure Fiction and the Audience: Meaning and Communication Strategies Women's Studies in Communication 16.2:27-61 DOI: 10.1080/07491409.1993.11089773

Topic

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

Monnet, Georges

(2011) "Delly et la Maison de la Bonne Presse " L’Œuvre de Delly 17-44

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

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

(1992) "Sweet and Pleasant Passion: Female and Male Fantasy in Ancient Romance Novels " Pornography and Representation in Greece and Rome 231-249

Topic

Longus

Montebello, Sophie

(2024) The Representation and Self-Representation of Anglo-Indians in Literature from 1885 to the Present Day PhD, The Open University

Topic

Flora Annie Steel

Maud Diver

India

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

Montejo Gurruchaga, Lucía

(2005) "El discurso de la novela rosa de autora en la narrativa española de mediados del siglo XX. La transgresión del canon oficial " Ad amicam amicissime scripta: homenaje a la profesora María José López de Ayala y Genovés (Volumen II) 265-274

Topic

Montejo Gurruchaga, Lucía

(2010) Discurso de autora: género y censura en la narrativa española de posguerra Madrid: UNED

Topic

Carmen de Icaza

Moody, Stephanie Lee

(2013) Affecting Genre: Women's Participation with Popular Romance Fiction PhD, University of Michigan

Topic

Moody, Stephanie

(2010) "Women's Leadership in Romance Fiction Scholarship " Gender and Women's Leadership: A Reference Handbook 941-947 DOI:10.4135/9781412979344.n98

Topic

Samuel Richardson

Jane Austen

Georgette Heyer

(2016) "Building Social Worlds: Examining Women’s Uses of Romance Novels " Literacy in Practice: Writing in Private, Public and Working Lives 32-45

Topic

Moody, Stephanie

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

Topic

(1997) Medical Fictions Liverpool: Liverpool John Moores University and the Association for Research in Popular Fictions

Moody, Nickianne

(1998) "Mills & Boon’s Temptations: Sex and the Single Couple in the 1990s " Fatal Attractions: Rescripting Romance in Contemporary Literature and Film 141-156

Topic

(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

(2021) "African American romance " The Routledge Research Companion to Popular Romance Fiction 229-251 DOI:10.4324/9781315613468-10

Topic

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

Rosalind Welles - pen name of Elsie B. Washington

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

Alyssa Cole

(2022) "Black Cultural Studies and Black Love: Why Black Love Matters " Black Love Matters: Real Talk on Romance, Being Seen, and Happily Ever After 127-141

Topic

(2022) Response to Eric Selinger’s “Cant and Canonicity” Journal of Popular Romance Studies 11: DOI: 10.70138/KUMM2566

Topic

Gwyneth Bolton/Gwendolyn Pough

(2022) Romance, Hip-Hop Feminism, and Black Love: From Theory to Praxis Journal of Popular Romance Studies 11: DOI: 10.70138/MCKL2088

Topic

Moolla, F. Fiona

(2021) Her Heart Lies at the Feet of the Mother: Transformations of the Romance Plot in Leila Aboulela’s Minaret African Journal of Gender and Religion 27.2:1-21

Topic

(1999) SATIR FOR BEGINNERS: Incongruent Communication Patterns in Romantic Fiction ETC: A Review of General Semantics 56.4:429-437

Topic

linguistics

Moore, Maureen

(1973) Romantic love, ecstasy, and deprivation Master of Arts, The University of British Columbia

Topic

Moore, Laura M.

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

Topic

erotic romance

Moore, Kate

Selinger, Eric Murphy

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

Topic

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

Topic

Beverly Jenkins

(1990) "No More Virgins": Writing Romance ‐ an Interview with Emma Darcy Continuum: The Australian Journal of Media & Culture 4.1:37-53 DOI: 10.1080/10304319009388180

Topic

Emma Darcy

(2023) Innovations in Romance Novel Distribution at Harlequin, Sourcebooks, and Raincoast Books Master of Publishing, Simon Fraser University

Topic

Moreau, Charles

(2011) "Influence de l’histoire et de l’exotisme dans l’œuvre de Delly ou la conversion contrariée " L’Œuvre de Delly 123-138

Topic

Moreno-Álvarez, Alejandra

(2020) "India, Heat, Dust, and Tea? Alienness and Marketability in Ruth Prawer Jhabvala and Nicole C. Vosseler " Diasporic Inquiries into South Asian Women’s Narratives: Alien Domiciles 39-51

Topic

India

Moreno-Álvarez, Alejandra

(2021) "Romance Novels in Postcolonial India: From Mills & Boon to Pageturn’s Red Romance Series " Romantic Escapes: Post-Millennial Trends in Contemporary Popular Romance Fiction 223-241

Topic

India

Moretto, Shirley

Weidenburner, Kathleen

(1984) We’ll Take Romance! Library Journal 109.15:1727-1728

Topic

Morey, Ann-Janine

(1990) The Reverend Idol and Other Parsonage Secrets: Women Write Romances about Ministers, 1880-1950 Journal of Feminist Studies in Religion 6.1:87-103

Topic

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

Christian romance

Morey, Ann-Janine

(1992) Religion and Sexuality in American Literature Cambridge: Cambridge University Press

Topic

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

Christian romance

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

(2023) Historical Research, Creative Writing, and the Past: Methods of Knowing New York: Routledge

(2008) Fanning the Flames of Romance: An Exploration of Fan Fiction and the Romance Novel MA thesis, Georgetown University

Topic

fanfiction

(2014) Fifty Shades of Remix: The Intersecting Pleasures of Commercial and Fan Romances Journal of Popular Romance Studies 4.1:

Topic

Fifty Shades

fanfiction

(2015) "Steamy, Spicy, Sensual: Tracing the Cycles of Erotic Romance " Women and Erotic Fiction: Critical Essays on Genres, Markets & Readers 42-58

Topic

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

Topic

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

erotic romance

Morton, Leith

(2015) The reinvention of romance: The rewriting, reception and censorship of 'ninjobon' in modern Japan Journal of the Oriental Society of Australia 47:85-115

Topic

Moruzi, Kristine

Rodgers, Beth

Smith, Michelle J.

(2024) The Edinburgh History of Children's Periodicals Edinburgh: Edinburgh University Press

Mosley, Shelley

Charles, John

Havir, Julie

(1995) The Librarian as Effete Snob: Why Romance? Wilson Library Bulletin 69:

Topic

Ginger Chambers

Moss, Madi Markle

(2020) Review: When Was the Last Time You Read a Romance Novel? Dialogue: A Journal of Mormon Thought 53.1:189-193 DOI: 10.5406/dialjmormthou.53.1.0189

Topic

(1989) Un/Popular Fictions London: Virago

Topic

(1993) "Girls Tell the Teen Romance: Four Reading Histories " Reading Audiences: Young People and the Media 116-134

Topic

Moss, Gemma

(1993) "The Place for Romance in Young People's Writing " Texts of Desire: Essays on Fiction, Femininity and Schooling 106–125 DOI:10.4324/9781315810119

Topic

Mostow, Joshua S.

(2003) The Columbia Companion to Modern East Asian Literature New York: Columbia University Press

Motte, Warren

(2012) A Walk on the Sheikh Side Formes Poétiques Contemporaines 9:119-134

Topic

sheikh romance

Sharon Kendrick

animals

metaphor/symbolism

Motyl, Katya

(2025) Embodied Histories: New Womanhood in Vienna, 1894–1934 Chicago: University of Chicago Press

Topic

Austria

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

E. Marlitt/Eugenie John

Hedwig Courths-Mahler