Vivanco, Laura

First name

Laura

Last names

Vivanco

Works

(2010) There Are Six Bodies in This Relationship: An Anthropological Approach to the Romance Genre Journal of Popular Romance Studies 1.1:

Topic

Harlequin Mills & Boon

Christian romance

lesbian romance

LGBT+ characters, readers and/or authors

(2011) For Love and Money: The Literary Art of the Harlequin Mills & Boon Romance Tirril, Penrith: Humanities-Ebooks

Topic

Harlequin Mills & Boon

trash/literary and or intellectual quality

fairytales/folktales

metaphor/symbolism

Caroline Anderson

Elizabeth Ashton

Mary Burchell, pen name of Ida Cook

Jennifer Crusie

Polly Forrester

Marcia King-Gamble

Margaret Malcolm

Emilie Richards

Fay Robinson/Carmel Parsons Thomaston

Deborah Simmons

Michelle Styles

Claire Thornton

ecocriticism/environmentalism/climate change

(2012) Feminism and Early Twenty-First Century Harlequin Mills & Boon Romances Journal of Popular Culture 45.5:1060–1089 DOI: 10.1111/j.1540-5931.2012.00973.x

Topic

Harlequin Mills & Boon

(2012) Jennifer Crusie's Literary Lingerie Journal of Popular Romance Studies 2.2:

Topic

Jennifer Crusie

fashion/clothing

metaphor/symbolism

(2012) "One Ring to Bind Them: Ring Symbolism in Popular Romance Fiction " New Approaches to Popular Romance Fiction: Critical Essays 99-107

Topic

fashion/clothing

Jennifer Crusie

Melissa McClone

Jayne Ann Krentz/Amanda Quick/Jayne Castle

Roslyn Hardy Holcomb

metaphor/symbolism

(2013) Georgette Heyer: The Nonesuch of Regency Romance Journal of Popular Romance Studies 3.2: DOI: 10.17613/4nan-1375

Topic

social/economic class

Georgette Heyer

historical romance

(2016) Pursuing Happiness: Reading American Romance as Political Fiction Tirril, Penrith: Humanities-Ebooks

(2017) "A Place “We All Dream About”: Greece in Mills & Boon Romances " Greece in British Women’s Literary Imagination, 1913-2013 81-98

Topic

Harlequin Mills & Boon

science/technology

(2020) "Changing Attitudes to Others: Meljean Brook’s Riveted (2012) and its Context " Love, Language, Place, and Identity in Popular Culture: Romancing the Other 113-126

Topic

LGBT+ characters, readers and/or authors

war/armed forces

(2020) Faith, Love, Hope and Popular Romance Fiction Online:

Topic

religion/spirituality

romance and, or as, activism

romance scholarship

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

LGBT+ characters, readers and/or authors

wealth/prosperity

metaphor/symbolism

Georgette Heyer

Justine Davis/Justine Dare

Suleikha Snyder

Nora Roberts/J. D. Robb

rape and/or intimate partner violence/abuse

Ramos-García, María T.

(2020) "Introduction " Love, Language, Place, and Identity in Popular Culture: Romancing the Other 1-9

Topic

(2020) Let’s Not Get Carried Away by The Sheik Journal of Popular Romance Studies 9:

Topic

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

LGBT+ characters, readers and/or authors

Ramos-García, María T.

(2020) Love, Language, Place, and Identity in Popular Culture: Romancing the Other Lanham, Maryland: Lexington

Selinger, Eric Murphy

(2021) "Romance and/as religion " The Routledge Research Companion to Popular Romance Fiction 485-510 DOI:10.4324/9781315613468-22

Topic

religion/spirituality

Christian romance

Jennifer Crusie

(2022) Historical Accuracy, Racism, Courtney Milan, and The Duke Who Didn’t Conform to Genre Norms Journal of Popular Romance Studies 11:

Topic

historical romance

United States of America

(2024) Feeling Judged: Reflections on Pornography and Romance from a Minotaur Milking Farm Journal of Popular Romance Studies 13:

Topic

trash/literary and or intellectual quality

paranormal/fantasy/time-travel romance