Romance Scholarship DB

Sanders, Lise Shapiro

(2026) Reading for Pleasure: Working Women and the Popular Romance in Early Twentieth-Century Britain : Bloomsbury

Topic

readers

UK

Elinor Glyn

E. M. Hull

Ethel Carnie Holdsworth

film/movies

history

Ingram, Toni

(2026) Romantasy, Virginity and Other Fictions Sexuality & Culture ONLINE FIRST:ONLINE FIRST DOI: 10.1007/s12119-026-10618-2

Topic

sex/sexuality

paranormal/fantasy/time-travel romance

Jennifer L. Armentrout

Sarah J. Maas

A.K. Mulford

Shoemaker, Lilly H.

(2026) Reading Romance Fiction: Associations with Sexual Beliefs and Self-Esteem Masters Thesis, York University, Toronto

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readers

sex/sexuality

Shoemaker, Lilly H.

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Weis, Diana

(2025) Smut. Zur Popularität von New Adult- und Dark Romance-Literatur POP. Kultur und Kritik 14.1:116-122 DOI: 10.14361/pop-2025-140118

Topic

dark romance

sex/sexuality

feminism

Weis, Diana

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Döring, Nicola

(2025) Groschenromane mit Porno-Inhalten? Warum Dark Romance fasziniert und polarisiert mediendiskurs 29.1:64-72

Topic

dark romance

Döring, Nicola

(2025) Dark-Romance-Bücher zwischen Leselust und Moralpanik Eine Orientierungshilfe für die pädagogische Praxis merz 69.3:I-XXII DOI: 10.21240/merz/2025.03.29

Topic

dark romance

rape and/or intimate partner violence/abuse

sex/sexuality

readers

Germany

Döring, Nicola

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He, Yansha

(2026) "(Dis)Pleasures of Domineering Love: A Comparative Study of Chinese Bazong and English Alpha Billionaire Romance Novels and Cross-Cultural Reader Reception " Translating Chinese Internet Literature: Global Dissemination and Adaptation 159-178

Topic

China

Fifty Shades