Regis, Pamela

First name
Pamela
Last names
Regis

Works

Regis, Pamela
(2003) A Natural History of the Romance Novel Philadelphia: University of Pennsylvania Press
Topic
genre definitions
trash/literary and or intellectual quality
Samuel Richardson
Jane Austen
Older and/or precursor texts (may not be "romance" as now defined)
Charlotte Brontë
Anthony Trollope
E. M. Forster
Georgette Heyer
Mary Stewart
Harlequin Mills & Boon
Janet Dailey
Jayne Ann Krentz/Amanda Quick/Jayne Castle
Nora Roberts/J. D. Robb
rape and/or intimate partner violence/abuse
E. M. Hull
Regis, Pamela
(2011) "Female genre fiction in the twentieth century " The Cambridge History of the American Novel 847-860 DOI:10.1017/CHOL9780521899079.056
Topic
genre definitions
Samuel Richardson
Older and/or precursor texts (may not be "romance" as now defined)
E. D. E. N. Southworth
religion/spirituality
Kathleen Thompson Norris
Faith Baldwin
Claire Morgan/Patricia Highsmith
LGBTQ+ characters, readers and/or authors
Kathleen Woodiwiss
Jennifer Crusie
Beverly Jenkins
Ann Herendeen
Nora Roberts/J. D. Robb
marriage
Regis, Pamela
(2021) "The evolution of the American romance novel " The Routledge Research Companion to Popular Romance Fiction 51-71 DOI:10.4324/9781315613468-2
Topic
United States of America
Older and/or precursor texts (may not be "romance" as now defined)
romance scholarship
Charles Brockden Brown
Sukey Vickery
Catharine Maria Sedgwick
Lydia Maria Child
E. D. E. N. Southworth
Louisa May Alcott
Frances Watkins Harper
race/ethnicity
Onoto Watanna/Winnifred Eaton
Jean Webster
Kathleen Thompson Norris
Viña Delmar
family
Claire Morgan/Patricia Highsmith
LGBTQ+ characters, readers and/or authors